Manchester City's big win over Chelsea at Stamford Bridge is indeed worth writing about, but the first round of the Premier League was more than that, and Manchester United's game also attracted a lot of attention, because in the first round, Manchester United performed very strongly, they beat the 'farmer' Fulham 5-1.

Manchester United were in great form, and after the game, the media commented, "Among the favourites, Manchester United have been very successful in warm-up and personnel changes. ”

In the past, United were characterised by a second-half play, as was the case a few years ago when Manchester United and Arsenal dominated English football, and they were always able to perform quite well in the second half of the season, and have recently gained an advantage in the league competition with Arsenal.

However, due to the intervention of Derby County, Manchester City and Chelsea in the past two seasons, the Premier League is no longer as slow as a marathon, and the 38-round endurance race has become a rush-spur race.

Obviously, after two seasons of sinking, Manchester United is holding back their energy, and they have made full preparations for the pre-season warm-up in the Absterdam Four Nations in the Netherlands, and they are considered to be the best in the current team in terms of personal form adjustment and overall team cooperation, and public opinion believes that it is even better than Manchester City and Chelsea.

There have been two standout highlights of Manchester United this season, one is that veterans are in good form and close to the best professional form, such as Ryan Giggs, who is the captain of the field. Scholes' attacking planning in midfield is very important, he has a strong ability to read the game, has a wide field of vision, passes the ball well, and although the defense is still a little old, the Manchester United attack with Scholes has greatly improved. Paul Scholes' recovery from an eye ailment will be important for United, with the two veterans coming close to their peak.

The second point has to do with the new star, after Vanney left. Manchester City has no internal spear-shield, Rooney and C-Ronaldo cooperate quite tacitly, the two sides have wonderful passes, and both have goal contributions, and fans also give C-Ronaldo the greatest encouragement and support, sweeping away his worries.

The biggest test for the Portuguese will be away from home, and it is certain that all the away fans will be a big distraction for his performances.

Don't worry at home, Manchester United's two stars will work together in the future.

Arsenal's situation was the most worrying of the champions, the first game. Arsene Wenger's tactical thinking went awry, they put too much emphasis on short passes, and they didn't play well when they hit the bucket.

With Bam Adebayo to share the pressure on Thierry, there are no big problems up front.

However, there are big problems at the back, left wing-back Hoyt seems incompetent, central defenders Djoroux and Toure have not worked well together, not particularly ideal, and in general, Arsenal's defence is very worrying.

Several championship-winning teams. Liverpool has the most abundant numbers, and Benitez is still adjusting the most ideal lineup, so the main lineup has been changed in the first round, and from the situation, the three players of Cenden, Fowler and Kronkamp are not in good shape. These three positions will continue to be adjusted.

Injuries to Reese and Carragher have also added to the team's defence solidity, but it can't be overly worrying as Benitez has plenty of players to rotate at centre-back and left-back, so it won't be too much of a problem.

That's after the first round. A summary of the winning team in the media.

There was a slight difference in media commentary as a result of Manchester City's big win over Chelsea, as can be seen in the odds adjustment of Bo-Cai. Among the teams with the greatest chance of winning the title, Manchester City is tied for first place with Chelsea and Manchester United, followed by Liverpool and Arsenal, and the chances of other teams are very slim

The analysis of the situation in the Premier League by the media and football-related people from all walks of life, Wan Sheng doesn't care very much, these have actually been in his heart for a long time.

His judgment is also that the most dangerous opponent this season will be Manchester United, and the direct reason is that the Premier League title this season is remembered to be Manchester United.

That's enough.

Especially after the big win over Chelsea, he found that this season's Chelsea is not even as good as last season, because they have internal problems, and no matter how strong the team is, it is easy to be crushed, so the focus of this season is still the sworn enemy in the same city.

And, of course, the Champions League.

Until then, Wan Sheng will be able to lead his side to play in the league with peace of mind until the Champions League draw is still in the next few days, and three days later, Manchester City will face Portsmouth at home.

Ahead of this match, there was a debate in the media about the outcome of the commentary.

Despite City's big win away to Chelsea, they didn't have a mental advantage against Portsmouth, who had a pretty good record against Manchester City last season, with one of the city's rare two defeats, one of which was against Portsmouth.

That's what Portsmouth fans and the media are talking about.

Before the game, they said, "Man City are the reigning Premier League champions, but we beat them", which gave them a high spirit, "Even if they beat Chelsea on the road, they can't beat us easily!" ”

So the Manchester City media took this as a 'revenge' battle.

However, the neutral media still rationally believes that Manchester City has a better chance of winning, because Manchester City is the defending champion and one of the three teams most likely to win the title this season, Manchester City is also in quite good shape, and it is playing at home.

The competition also proved it.

In this game, Manchester City took advantage of their home advantage, followed the tactics of the last game against Chelsea, and used the continuous and frequent cooperation in the middle of the midfield to attack the Portsmouth defense strongly.

Portsmouth couldn't even fight back in the face of such a strong attack, and after just ten minutes of the game, it was as if they had given up on the attack and retreated to their own goal.

So the game was pretty good, of course, for the Manchester City fans.

In the last game against Chelsea, Chelsea's performance was quite tough, and its strength was not weaker than Manchester City, and Manchester City's cooperation advantage was actually difficult to play, especially in the second half, after Chelsea switched to creating offside tactics to limit Manchester City's space, Manchester City's cooperation was even less playing.

This game is different, Portsmouth simply have the ability to limit Manchester City, there is a gap between their player ability and Manchester City players, and there is a huge gap in overall tactics.

Manchester City dominated the pitch. The players are also playing more and more form, coupled with the home game, tens of thousands of Manchester City fans are cheering, and as a result, Manchester City's performance is getting better and better, Portsmouth has no chance at all, and even if they get the ball, they can't attack half the game at all.

But to the credit, Portsmouth's defense.

They were in the back half, with a bunch of players in front of goal, but the defense was not messy, causing a lot of problems for City's attack. As a result, Manchester City have been slow to score.

It wasn't until the 56th minute that City scored from a free-kick.

It was Ivan Crewe who took the free-kick.

A few years ago, Ivan Crewe began to focus on training set-pieces, and he spent a large part of his time on set-pieces for several years, and now Ivan Crewe's set-piece evaluation has reached '95', coupled with the attribute bonus of Wansheng's coaching skills, when Ivan Crewe takes a free kick in an official game, he can even play the ability of nearly '100' evaluation, this ability evaluation is absolutely terrifying!

As long as Ivan Crewe is fit and takes a free-kick from a position where he is good. There's a good chance he'll shoot the ball straight into the net!

Of course, no shot is 100% scored, and whether you can score a goal depends on the temporary performance of the players, as well as the performance of the opposing players and goalkeepers. But the threat that Ivan Crewe can create is absolute, and his threat from free-kicks in good positions is by no means weaker than that of David Beckham.

This is Ivan Crewe now!

A lot of people know that Ivan Crewe has a good free-kick, but he hasn't made much of a name for himself so far. One of the reasons is also related to the 'face', in this world where stars have to look - face, a person looks ordinary. A player with average ability, even if he performs well in a certain aspect, it is difficult to become famous directly.

But Wan Sheng can be sure that as long as Ivan Crewe simply performs like this, he will definitely become more and more famous.

For example, now, almost all the Manchester City fans are cheering for Ivan Crewe, and the on-site commentator Belbart is also praising Ivan Crewe, "It was Ivan Crewe's free kick that scored directly!" At a position of 25 meters, shoot directly, and the football will turn around the wall and hang directly into the dead corner! Portsmouth goalkeeper Westerveld couldn't do anything about it, he could barely watch the ball fly in! ”

"1:0, Ivan Crewe gives Manchester City the lead!"

'We can see that since coming to Manchester City in January, Ivan Crewe has been getting better and better!'

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After Ivan Crewe's goal, Portsmouth had little to do and could only try to counter-attack if they wanted to win, but it was obviously difficult to make much difference.

Although Portsmouth had a good chance in the second half, they failed to capitalise on it, but City used the pass to play open just before the end of the game, and substitute Darren Bent found the opportunity to send the ball straight into the back of the net.

The score was also fixed at 2:0.

At the post-match press conference, Wan Sheng talked about the game and praised Ivan Crewe, "I was optimistic about him a few years ago, he has a strong ability in set-pieces, just like the goal in the game, his shot is beautiful, and the opponent is unguardable!" ”

"He's a genius at that! I'm sure he can score more goals! ”

After that, Wan Sheng didn't talk about the game again, because he thought that there was nothing to say about the game, Portsmouth was just a relegation weak team, even if they said before the game that they said something like 'playing Manchester City has a psychological advantage', it couldn't change the fact that they were a weak team.

Wan Sheng talked about the upcoming Community Shield Cup.

"This is the second time I've led the team to the Community Shield Cup, last time it was against Arsenal and I won, this time against Liverpool and I think I can still win!"

The last time was the season when Derby County were promoted, the previous season, Derby County won the FA Cup, so they played the Community Shield against the Premier League champions Arsenal, this time Manchester City are the league champions, and they will play against last season's FA Cup champions Liverpool.

"I know it's a bit tough, but we're not going to give up a deciding title." Wan Sheng showed his attitude.

Previously, some media believed that Manchester City would not be fully committed to competing for the Community Shield, because their first three rounds of fixtures were a headache, and with three games between seven days, Chelsea, Portsmouth and Arsenal were enough headaches, and the Community Shield would play Liverpool, which was not a friendly match.

However, Wan Sheng still attaches great importance to the game, because this is a rare championship that is a decisive victory.

Although the champion is a bit of a chicken rib, and there is not much bonus to his coaching honor skills, but a champion is a champion, and one more championship is better than nothing.

In fact, the attitudes of the two teams are diametrically opposed to what the media speculated.

Wan Sheng is very important to the title, but Benitez is not, because they are about to face a more important game - the derby against their arch-rivals Everton, which is the most important thing for Liverpool, especially the Community Shield against Manchester City, if there is a big battle with Manchester City, a day later against Everton, it will be really dangerous.

So Benitez's attitude towards the Community Shield is - casual fate.

It's best to win the championship, and it doesn't matter if you don't get it, as long as the whole team plays as hard as possible, so he sent a lot of new players who just joined the team in the game, Pennant and Bellamy both got opportunities, Paletta and Dio, who returned on loan, also started, but obviously, such a lineup is completely equivalent to training the team, Benitez claims to attach great importance to the Community Shield, but as soon as Wan Sheng sees the Liverpool squad list, he knows what the Spaniards are thinking.

Wan Sheng also took a long breath.

In the face of the temptation of the championship, it is really good that the opponent does not compete, of course, at this time, it is a shame to capsize in the gutter, he will never allow this to happen, so in the dressing room before the game, he talked to everyone about the importance of the game, and also emphasized that Liverpool should not be underestimated.

'They're very strong, especially defensively, a couple of new strikers are also outstanding, and I don't want to see any of you careless in the game, otherwise the next game, unfortunately, you'll just have to watch the rest of the guys play from the bench.'

It's an 'old' threat, but it works, Manchester City is still very competitive internally, such as the striker, Darren Bent doesn't want to replace Anelka all the time, David Silva also has to face competition from Joey Barton, Ozil, Ivan Crewe and others, and even the main force of the iron fight, central defender Dunn, there are Sun Jihai, Ricciardo Costa and others in the back.

Nobody wants to be a substitute, all the players who come out will work hard.

So in this game, Manchester City won a 2:1 victory over Liverpool, although it was only 2:1, which seemed dangerous, but in fact, Liverpool's goal appeared in stoppage time before the end of the game, that is, there was no pressure for Manchester City to win.

In this game, many people also saw the stability of Manchester City.

In terms of style of play, in fact, Manchester City's offensive football is very aggressive, but when the game comes, their defense is very stable, and the game is controlled very steadily, so when they have an advantage, they will play very steadily, and it will be difficult for the opponent to beat Manchester City without a surprise performance.

That's stability.

Rafael Benitez was also impressed by City's 'steadyness', which the Spaniard praised in his post-match press conference, "We lost the Community Shield, but it doesn't matter, we got to know our opponents better through the game. Manchester City played solidly throughout the game and they deserved to win. It's hard for me to imagine that they could have played so consistently with their flashy attacking football, and from the second half onwards, we didn't have many chances. They did a great job of passing. ”

In this regard, Wansheng modestly said, "We still have a lot of room for improvement in terms of playing style. ”

Then he said of the championship, "Of course, the most important thing is that we won the championship, the Community Shield, which a lot of people say is chicken ribs, but they didn't even qualify. We won the title, it's something to celebrate, and tomorrow I'll give the team a day off, and they should be rewarded for their hard work and relaxation. (To be continued.) )