There was a man and a woman in Manchester who were talking about Manchester City and Wan Sheng, but they were different from other fans because they were Anita and her brother James, and the two were watching the game live, and Anita took Wan Sheng's victory for granted, and James was surprised by Manchester City's victory.

Needless to say, Manchester City showed strength throughout the game, and James was even more surprised by Wansheng's success.

The commentators spent a lot of time talking about him during the game, and after the game, he became the biggest contributor and star to City's victory.

It's weird.

Often after a game, the most noticeable is always the player, this law is broken by Wan Sheng, he is just a coach, standing on the sidelines to direct the game, but he is more attention than the star who plays.

James's impression of Wan Sheng is actually quite good, it was at Waddell's manor, he met Wan Sheng, he did not identify himself at that time, just to see what the person his sister liked was like.

"A very capable football coach." That's James' impression of Wansheng.

The match between Manchester City and Chelsea deepened his impression of Wansheng's ability, but football coaches are always football coaches, and for the Murdoch family, how successful this profession is is nothing, so James actually doesn't value it, and he doesn't think Wansheng has anything special about it.

When he heard his sister constantly praising Wan Sheng, James felt a little awkward, and couldn't help but say, "What is the big deal about a footballer!" ”

Anita immediately frowned and said dissatisfied, "Brother, what are you talking about, he is very good, especially his research"

"Haha?" James felt he understood Anita's mentality. It is said that a woman who is in love has a low IQ, just look at her current appearance, so he laughed and said, "What's so good, tell me?" I don't know what else a football player can do! ”

"He graduated from University College London."

"You too, it's nothing." James shrugged. "If my father hadn't insisted that I go to Cambridge, I would have chosen that university."

Anita blushed and said unwillingly, "He did research, kinematics research, he is a genius!" When he publishes his research, I promise you'll be amazed! ”

Seeing Anita's angry appearance, James hurriedly said, "Okay, okay." Little Annie, don't be angry, I don't look down on him, as long as you like it. He feels sorry for his sister, but because of this, he is always worried about his sister's emotional problems.

And that Chinese, how to say? It's okay to go.

"But just a football coach" is where James hesitates. Finally he shook his head and thought. "Forget it, as long as little Anne likes it."

Wan Sheng didn't know how Anita felt about him, he just felt very close to Anita, and he didn't think so deeply at all, naturally, he didn't know. My own emotional problems have been 'decided'.

In intense training, Manchester City welcomed a new opponent when they took on Middlesbrough on 31 December.

Middlesbrough have been in a bit of a peculiar situation lately, with their league results being a bit poor. However, their focus is on the League Cup, and manager McClaren also hopes to lead the team to play in European competitions, which may also be because Middlesbrough is difficult to make any breakthroughs in the league, and the competition for the top ten in the Premier League this season is very fierce, and they are even seven points away from tenth Derby County, which means that they have little hope of competing for the top few, so the only thing McClaren can pursue is to lead the team to a successful European season.

In domestic competitions, Middlesbrough's principle is to grab points if they can, and give up if they can't, and in the face of the game against Manchester City, they directly regard a draw as the goal.

"All we need to do is get a point and it's a win." That's what McLaren said before the game.

No one is going to laugh at him because not many teams can take a point from Manchester City, especially after City's win over Chelsea, and many people take it for granted.

It is worth mentioning that this is the first time that the two teams have met in the league this season.

The league has reached the 20th round, but due to the conflict between Middlesbrough's League Cup and league schedule, this game is tantamount to being postponed and can only be scheduled for the end of December, so there are many people looking forward to the game, especially Middlesbrough fans, who want the team to do what other teams 'did not do', which is to say to McClaren 'draw Manchester City'.

Manchester City fans are also looking forward to the game.

After watching the game against Chelsea, they felt that the team was very strong and they were expecting the team to beat the other opponents and that kind of game would ignite their enthusiasm.

So on this day, you can imagine how popular the riverside stadium was, the stadium that could only accommodate 35,000 people, and even poured into 40,000 people, with many fans all standing in the back row or aisle, and the stadium attendance exceeded 100%, which was the result of Middlesbrough's restriction on 'standing ticket' sales.

For an ordinary league, such a hot scene is definitely rare.

This is also a reflection of the level of attention that Manchester City is getting at the moment.

Before the game, Wan Sheng seriously did ideological work with the players, so that they could forget the previous game against Chelsea and deal with new opponents with a calm mind, in addition, he emphasized not to be influenced by the fans.

"Look at those people, some of them are here to support us, but more people want us to lose? Why? Because we're number one in the league and it's the riverside fans, it's Middlesbrough's home stadium and they want Middlesbrough to beat us! ”

"It doesn't matter what they do in the game, don't pay attention! Kick your balls seriously! That's what you have to do, nothing else is your business! ”

"Let's get serious, guys! Kill them! ”

After Wan Sheng said it loudly, all the Manchester City players came out of the dressing room, and they all came with the confidence of victory.

They all beat Chelsea comfortably, so what does Middlesbrough count?

But when it came to the green field, the Manchester City players soon found that the game was not as easy as they imagined, and the opponent was not as easy to deal with as they imagined. The important thing is that Middlesbrough were very tightly defended, which led to a difficult attack for them.

Middlesbrough were completely on the defensive, and they executed McLaren's 'draw is victory' declaration to the point that the game was very ugly, but they didn't care. Even at the Riverside Stadium, where they only care about the result – a draw is a win.

And they did, and the defense was very solid and tight.

The Manchester City players felt a little worse.

In the last game against Chelsea, they played with a desperate mentality, and it turned out that the game was not as difficult as they imagined, so they all felt relaxed, but now they are dealing with the game with a relaxed mentality, and they find that Middlesbrough is not as weak as they imagined. It's not easy for them to score goals at all.

This gap in mentality led to Manchester City's poor performance in the first half, and naturally failed to break the Middlesbrough goal.

At half-time, commentator George Woodgate also commented, "Middlesbrough played very steadily in the first half, they seemed to just want to hold until the end of the game, but Manchester City played a bit chaotic, their players seemed to be a little out of shape, and made several mistakes in a row"

This situation. Wan Sheng also had some headaches.

He had been worried about the team's careless mistakes, and now the problem still arises. After the win over Chelsea, it was really hard for those players to adjust their mentality, and of course, the opposition defended too well as a reason, but importantly, it was really not easy to break down the Middlesbrough goal.

Wansheng didn't have a good way. Anyone can have a headache when faced with a dense defense, and this is not just a tactical solution.

He somewhat regretted not bringing Ivan Crewe.

If Ivan Crewe is there, one more good free-kick taker and the chances of the team scoring will be better. But there is no point in regretting, he can only continue to encourage everyone to play hard.

But just the mental encouragement, it is difficult to show much effect, especially the opponent, Middlesbrough, has been using crowd tactics to pile up near the penalty area to defend, football to the front is difficult to cooperate, plus many Manchester City players are not in too good shape, as a result, Manchester City has not scored for a long time.

Halfway through the second half, the problem arose when full-back Sinclair was tackled with the ball and was unable to get back on his feet.

The referee motioned for the team doctor to carry the stretcher onto the pitch, and Sinclair was carried down.

Wan Sheng replaced Sinclair with a teenager Miller, and then went to ask Sinclair's injury, the team doctor gave a conclusion that was not optimistic, "He probably needs to recuperate for a while", but seeing Wan Sheng's face, the team doctor added, "The specific situation will only be known after careful examination", but this comfort is difficult to play.

Wan Sheng then returned to the sidelines and continued to watch the game, but the situation was similar, Manchester City did not have a good way to deal with Middlesbrough's dense defence, and although they kept the ball in control, they broke through the defense very rarely.

At this time, Wansheng is desperate to have a top star.

Anelka and David Silva are also excellent, but they still have some gaps in their abilities with superstars such as Kaka, Cristiano Ronaldo, Ronaldinho, etc., and it is difficult to influence the game alone, even if it is not Kaka and others, such as Rafael van der Vaart, who played for Derby County last season, Van der Vaart is also very good, and he is fully capable of disrupting the opposition defense on his own.

There is no way for Manchester City now.

Their coordination and passing played very well, but the opponent's dense defense is the nemesis of the pass, in the front court, the coordination can not play at all, and the overall performance of Manchester City is even worse under the failure again and again.

In the end, until the end of the game, Manchester City failed to find the back of the net against Middlesbrough.

McLaren's 'draw is win' goal was successfully achieved

The game was not won, and another big general was injured, Wan Sheng was naturally in no mood to deal with reporters, he was more concerned about Sinclair's injury.

In the post-match press conference, in front of the media who were surprised by the result or gloated, Wan Sheng only praised his opponents, "They did a good job defending, but for us, a draw is also an acceptable result." ”

That's the style of Wansheng.

Middlesbrough has no grudge against Manchester City, and he has a good relationship with McClaren in private, so there is no need to be hostile because of the game, and if Mourinho had been temporary, he might have sarcastically said that the opponent was 'like parking a bus in front of the goal', but Wan Sheng will not, because he knows that the team's poor performance is the key.

Wan Sheng felt that the warning effect of the game to the team was still very good, the result of losing two points, the team could bear it, and the most important thing was that with this lesson, the team would not continue to make careless mistakes, so a draw was acceptable.

Of course, no one will be happy about it.

Wan Sheng was most worried about Sinclair's injury, and after the game, he went straight to the hospital, and after more than an hour, the examination had confirmed that Sinclair would be out of action for at least two months.

Hearing this result, Wan Sheng immediately frowned.

In terms of the team, Sinclair's importance is undoubted, from the beginning of the game to the present, he has been the main full-back, even if David Silva has performed well, Ivan Crewe's transfer to Manchester City has not affected Sinclair's appearances, his strength is good, his form is stable, although he is not a star player, but the stable form is very reassuring.

Now Sinclair can't play, and he's going to have another headache for the wings.

Fortunately, Musampa is back from injury, David Silva can also play as a wing-back, and Ivan Crewe is already adapting, but there is no need to worry about being unavailable.

Wan Sheng is still worried about the situation of the team.

The post-Christmas period is something every English team must pay attention to, with cold temperatures and a packed schedule that can easily lead to a large number of injuries in the team, and Sinclair's problem is a wake-up call for Wan Sheng.

His personal recovery training can make the players recover faster, and the personal physical state training can try to keep the players in good physical condition, but these two are not directly preventing injuries, that is to say, his players are still injured when they are on the field, so injuries must still be paid attention to, especially the team's current bench depth and the big ball will not be compared, and several players are injured, which can easily affect the results of the whole team.

After returning to Manchester, Wan Sheng increased his time for individual form training.

At present, the tactical and individual ability has reached a limit, and it is difficult to improve anything in a short period of time if you go to training, but it has become very important to maintain the team's condition, and he requires each player to complete personal physical condition training at least twice a day in order to maintain the physical fitness level above the standard line of '5 points'.

In the Soccer Trainer system, the evaluation value of an individual's physical condition is a comparative data, for example, David Silva is '84/80', that is, his health evaluation standard is 80, and more than 80 indicates that his current physical condition is healthy.

Conducting personal physical state training is to improve the level of fitness, conduct a training, only increase a little, twice a day to have two points, in the case of already healthy, it is still very easy to exceed '5' points.

An increase in this rating can reduce the probability of accidental injury.

But soon reality told Wansheng that the training master system is not omnipotent, even if the probability of injury becomes low, players should still be injured.

In the 21st round of the Premier League, Manchester City's home match against Tottenham Hotspur ended 1:0, and it was good to get three points, but in the middle of the game, David Silva fell.

Like Sinclair, he was shoveled to the ground, and the result was the same, he was taken off the field on a stretcher.

As he was carried off the field, Wan Sheng saw David Silva's expression, which was a little sad and desperate.

The biggest enemy for a professional footballer is injuries, and David Silva hasn't experienced much of an injury yet, he didn't expect his turn so soon.

Wan Sheng was also anxious about Silva's injury, but he knew he had to stay calm and comfort the young man. (To be continued......)