Wan Sheng is well aware of Prince Waddell's energy, so he is not worried about the situation of domestic public opinion.

As long as Prince Waddell is willing to help, with his current cooperation between the Saudi military and the Chinese side, public opinion is only a trivial matter.

After learning what happened at the Football Association's banquet, Wan Sheng also exhaled, he didn't sympathize with the so-called vice chairman at all, since the other party wanted to deal with him, then he couldn't sit still.

After this incident, Wansheng put his mind on work again.

For him, business and politics are far away, and he doesn't want to be involved, and as the manager of Manchester City, he has to do his coaching job first.

On September 24, the seventh round of the league began, Manchester City hosted Newcastle United, and the game ended 3-1, and Manchester City won another round of victories.

With this round of victory, Manchester City also moved to the top of the league table again.

However, Manchester City is not interested in this 'top of the league', mainly because they have always been the first in the league in points, and there is nothing to celebrate when they return to the top of the league, and Wan Sheng's thoughts are the same as those of the players, and they don't think it's a big deal to be honored, just symbolically saying something in the media, "I'm happy to see the team back to the first place", "We will stick to the first place" and something like that.

The next day, the English League Cup kicked off, and Manchester City beat Gillingham 3-0 with a substitute line-up to advance to the next round of the League Cup.

After that, Wan Sheng continued to lead the team in training, preparing to face the eighth round of the league and Manchester United's Manchester derby.

Just when Manchester City were immersed in training. What Wan Sheng didn't expect was that the speed of public opinion change in China would be so fast, and on the third day after Xie was taken away by the National Security Bureau. The domestic media began to report on him wildly.

In the past, many small media couldn't see the situation clearly, and they didn't want to report Wansheng-related things, for fear of provoking any figures, but now it's different, when they heard that Xie Zhulong was taken away, no matter how much shock occurred within the Football Association. It doesn't matter how Xie Zhulong was 'unlucky', but Wan Sheng must be fine.

So they resumed their coverage of Wansheng.

Those big media who know the inside story are constantly touting Wansheng. That seems to be touting back what was left before.

In fact, this is also true.

Before, Xie Jielong used his network to ask his 'friends' to help publish reports that were unfavorable to Wansheng, and many people did so, but now they see that Xie Zhenglong is unlucky. They are 'supernatural'. Naturally, I will inquire about some reasons, and in any case, this matter is inseparable from the 'suppression' of Wansheng.

In order to show that they were not involved, they immediately instructed the following media to carry out various praise reports on Wansheng.

"Wansheng is the first person in the 100-year history of Chinese football!"

"Wan Sheng has just led Hong Kong to win the Asian Cup, and he is likely to lead Manchester City to win the Champions League this season!"

"Wan Sheng is such a genius!"

"Wansheng is the pillar of Chinese football development!"

“……”

All sorts of praise have been reported by the media.

Much of the content is basically true, but compared with the previous report on Wansheng's attack, it feels weird.

However, domestic fans are very happy to hear these contents, especially those who support Wansheng. When they saw so many media praise Wansheng, they felt very proud. "Are you optimistic? Before, you all Wansheng was not good, that was not good, only I insisted that Wansheng was good, see? Wansheng is really ......"

Amid the continuous coverage of the domestic media, many people have also begun to pay attention to the upcoming Manchester derby.

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In the run-up to the Manchester derby, United suffered a humiliating defeat to a small club.

This is not the first time.

In 2006, in the fourth round of the League Cup, Manchester United were beaten 1-0 by League One side Southend, when Rooney and Ronaldo both played, but the result? Southend relied on Eastwood's free-kick to send the Red Devils to the ground.

The previous year, when United drew 0-0 with Exeter City (FA Cup third round), Ferguson probably didn't expect his side to be planted in a team that had broken through the non-professional league system.

But Exeter City showed no signs of self-collapse in front of the giants, and they even almost scored a Manchester United goal through striker Andy Taylor, who had tried out at Manchester United!

Finally, they won a rematch that they were proud of.

Now, in the first round of the 2007 League Cup, United lost again.

They lost in front of their own goal, losing by two goals to Championship side Coventry, which was one of United's rare upsets.

Although Ferguson is basically a reserve team member, after all, he represents Manchester United, and it is also an official game, and Manchester United's defeat has become a topic of conversation in English football for two days after the game.

Manchester United have not done well in recent years, but the support of the fans for them remains high, and some people feel that Manchester United can attract 74,055 spectators to Old Trafford in the Carabao Cup, but what fans see is a subversive game, a Maltese named Mifsood has done Manchester United.

Even if the biggest purpose is to scout young people, such a fiasco is something Ferguson does not want to see, and he was knocked out by Southend United last season, what about this time?

The Sun commented, "The only thing to blame is on this starting Manchester United, there is no quality." ”

Ferguson, who has impassioned the mobilization of teams competing in the League Cup, recently read an autobiography of Bobby Charlton, in which Ferguson said that when Charlton was young, although he could not play, he encouraged himself almost every day: "Believe in yourself Bobby and you will get a chance." ”

In Ferguson's view, Charlton's words are very helpful to young people today, "The principle is the same, first of all, be confident in yourself, and when the opportunity comes, you must seize it." ”

But it is a great pity that after bringing in eight new players, the young 21-year-old Manchester United team did not seize the opportunity to play a close game with such an opponent at home, which was enough to make the 60,000 Manchester United fans in the stands jump in a hurry.

After the game, many people remembered yesterday's Arsenal game, Arsenal's League Cup opponent was Aston Villa, and they played no less than the league, but Arsenal won Newcastle with a group of younger players.

Wenger only cared about the age of his players after the game: "Bendtner, he's only 19 years old! Traore, he's only 18 years old! ”

Even Manchester Sport, which has always supported Manchester United, commented after the game, "The gap between these two teams is extremely obvious, if the competition is matched, if Manchester United loses the same as Liverpool last season, it is absolutely reasonable, although it is not a direct dialogue with the main team of the first team, but it means that in the cultivation of young players, Manchester United is not one or two points behind Arsenal, and there are really no people under the age of 20 in today's squad." The once-proud youth system has actually provided a number of sought-after stars. ”

In fact, the most crucial point is that Manchester United lost, just before the Manchester derby.

As a result, many pro-Manchester City media have something to say, they think that Manchester United cannot beat Manchester City, and said that Manchester City clubs have surpassed Manchester United in terms of both first-team and youth training, "They have a good record in history, but now they are not as good as Manchester City." ”

"There is a gap between the two first teams, including the cultivation of youth training."

"We can expect that this Manchester derby will still end in a Manchester City victory."

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In various media reports, Manchester United and Manchester City are both very low-key.

Wan Sheng didn't say anything before the game, Ferguson didn't say anything quietly, and both teams seemed to be silently preparing for the game.

On September 30, the Manchester derby officially kicked off at Manchester Stadium.

At the start of the game, United opted for a solid defence, which also made the game quite ugly. Manchester United's quality is undeniable, and their defensive ability is definitely among the best in Europe, but when they choose to defend wholeheartedly, even Manchester City will hardly have a good solution.

As a result, the game remained dull until the 80th minute of the second half.

With both teams scoreless for 80 minutes, City had some advantage in terms of situation and stats, but those advantages were difficult to translate into real goals.

But in the 81st minute, United still couldn't hold the goal.

This time Ivan Crewe has made a meritorious service!

Wan Sheng was replaced by Ivan Crewe in the second half, the purpose was to increase the team's goalscoring means, but Ivan Crewe lived up to expectations, taking advantage of a free-kick opportunity in front of the field in the 81st minute of the game, and kicked the ball directly into the Manchester United goal.

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When the football flew into the goal, the Manchester Stadium cheered in the sky!

Wan Sheng also got up from his seat with a smile, walked to the sideline and celebrated wildly with others, at the same time, Ferguson on the other side, looking at the rewritten score, his eyes were very complicated, he didn't expect this to be the case, Manchester City was still able to score.

Relying on this goal, Manchester City won the Manchester derby again.

At the post-match press conference, many reporters flocked to the venue to interview Wan Sheng, but Wan Sheng did not seem too happy about the Manchester derby win, and the first thing he said was to criticize Manchester United's conservatism, "We had a terrible game and the opponent defended for 90 minutes. Luckily our players played well and scored a goal, otherwise I would have doubted that the game would have had a psychological shadow on my players......"

After satirizing Manchester United's style of play, Wan Sheng looked at the reporter and asked, "Do you want to know, am I happy to win the Manchester derby?" That's probably the problem, right? ”

Wan Sheng shook his head to himself and sighed, "I don't think there's anything to be happy about. ”

"I dare say Manchester City's win over Manchester United is no longer news." (To be continued.) )