After the game, Lin Quan made a special trip to the hospital to visit the injured David Silva.

After careful examination by doctors, David Silva suffered a severe ankle sprain and needed to rest for about three months.

He was sidelined by injury at the start of the new Premier League season and will miss at least 15 Premier League games.

This is definitely not good news for David Silva.

Manuel Pellegrini is experimenting with the team's tactical style of play and is likely to fade out of his main squad if he is absent at this time.

Once Manchester City's main squad is decided, even if David Silva returns from injury, he may not be able to regain his place in the team.

Silva himself was well aware of this, so his mood seemed a little low.

But when he saw Lin Quan coming, he was still very happy:

"Thank you for avenging me, but next time you encounter this kind of thing, don't be so impulsive, if you are injured together, it will be too cost-effective!"

Silva watched the previous game on the hospital's television replay, and when he saw Lin Quan being fouled by his opponent in order to stand up for him, he was both moved and worried.

Fortunately, Lin Quan was not injured, otherwise he would have blamed himself to death in his heart.

"Don't be polite to me, we are not only teammates, but also good friends, isn't it a matter of course to stick a knife in the ribs for a good friend?"

As soon as these words were spoken, David Silva's heart was even more moved.

However, he didn't pretend to be a little daughter, but nodded heavily:

"Okay, since you treat me as a friend, then I'm not hypocritical, I can't help in the next game, the team will rely on you, you come on during this time, don't wait for me to come back when the team's points fall to the bottom."

"Hehe, who to look down on, we will definitely be waiting for you at the top of the list!"

"That's the best!"

"Recuperate with peace of mind, my teammates and I are waiting for you to come back and win the cup together, this season's Premier League championship, we have it!!"

"Okay, it's a deal!"

The two high-fived and made a vow to hold the cup.

……

With Manchester City's match scheduled at the end of this round, it didn't take long for them to finish their match against Newcastle that the second round of the Premier League was underway.

On 24 August, Fulham host Arsenal, who lost in the first round.

After a humiliating defeat at home in their last game, Arsene Wenger gave the team a death order to win Fulham.

If they lose again, this season's plan to protect four will only be difficult.

Arsenal, who were holding their breath, had a strong momentum in this game, and Giroud opened the scoring for the team after only six minutes.

Podolski then scored twice to give his team a 3-0 lead.

Darren Bent scored a goal in the second half to save face.

In the end, Arsenal defeated Fulham 3-1 away, with one win and one loss in two league rounds, which can be regarded as stopping the decline.

After Arsenal, Liverpool narrowly beat Aston Villa 1-0 away to make it two wins in a row.

Tottenham's 1-0 win over Swansea also made it two wins in a row.

In this round, there are not many goals scored in the Premier League.

In addition to Liverpool and Tottenham both scoring just one goal, there were also two games in which there were no goals.

Everton drew 0-0 at home to West Bromwich Albion and Newcastle drew 0-0 with West Ham United.

Premier League teams, especially those in the middle and lower reaches, are frequently fouled in matches, with an average of four yellow cards per game.

In the match between Liverpool and Aston Villa, both sides received a total of eight yellow cards, including three for Liverpool and five for Aston Villa.

This is the second consecutive game in which Aston Villa have received five yellow cards.

In the last game against Arsenal, they also received five yellow cards.

This time, if it hadn't been for the Red Army, which was known for its tenacity, their foul tactics would have worked.

Having learned the power of the opponent's foul tactics, Liverpool fans could no longer laugh at Arsenal's loss.

Arsenal play the technical genre, and there is really no way to meet this kind of opponent who keeps using rough fouls to stop the attack.

There were so many yellow cards in this round of the game, which also caused heated discussions among the fans.

This is the Premier League, and the Premier League, which has always been lax in law enforcement, has so many yellow cards.

According to the law enforcement standards of other leagues, the number of yellow cards must not be doubled!

As a result, other fans of the five major leagues have ridiculed the Premier League, saying that the Premier League players are not playing on the field, but in a high-level game - wrestling!

Otherwise, why would there be so many people turning their backs?

Naturally, Premier League fans cannot accept the accusations of other leagues, and they have come out to quibble:

A foul can't be considered savage football, can there be no foul in football?

One after another, there are difficult words, such as "the origin of modern football" and "real man battles", which caused all netizens to laugh.

The network and outside the network are instantly filled with a happy atmosphere......

……

After the first day's fixtures, Manchester City travel to Wales to take on Cardiff City the following day.

Cardiff City have just been promoted from the Championship and are one of three promoted teams in the Premier League this season.

They suffered a clean 2-0 defeat at West Ham United in their first game away to the Hammers and will be looking to pick up points against Manchester City in this game.

More than 30,000 fans came to Cardiff Stadium today, filling the small stadium to the brim.

For Cardiff City fans, it was their first promotion to the top flight in 50 years, so they didn't want to miss their first Premier League home game.

Not only were the fans crazy, but Cardiff City owner Chen Zhiyuan also came to watch the game in person.

Instead of sitting in the box at the top of the pitch like other Premier League owners, he wore a team shirt and sat in the audience like a regular fan.

That earned him the approval of the Cardiff City fans, who were singing and cheering on the team throughout the game.

Maybe it was because I felt the enthusiasm of the fans, or maybe it was because the boss personally supervised the game and made the players full of fighting spirit.

Cardiff City's performance in this game can be described as extraordinary!

Under their tight defense, City's attack felt like hitting a wall, and it was difficult to penetrate their defence.

Not only did Cardiff's players stock up on their backfield, but their players also didn't skimp on their physical strength, running all over the pitch, and defusing the crisis with aggressive scrambling and running time and again.

In the 55th minute of the second half, Manchester City finally scored a goal from a set-piece.

Unexpectedly, Cardiff City then launched a counter-attack and equalised the score in just five minutes.

Manuel Pellegrini was unhappy with his team's performance, and he made three substitutions in quick succession in the 58th minute.

Replace Nasri, replace Navas, who is not doing well.

Negredo was brought on to replace Sergio Aguero, who was also out of sorts.

Brought on James Milner for Fernandinho.

Except for Lin Quan, almost all the players in the front court have been replaced.

In this game, the team's disadvantage in attack made the whole Manchester City team start to miss the small Spanish man who was active on the wing.

With David Silva's absence, the impact on the team is starting to come to the fore.

After the substitutions, City's offensive was in full swing.

The attacking players who came on the field were working very hard to break through the opponent's goal!

As long as they take advantage of this opportunity to make a good impression on the manager, they will be able to take the initiative in the next battle for the main position.

It's just that after these people came on the field, they were not familiar with each other, the tacit understanding was completely insufficient, and the cooperation was sparse, and Manchester City's offensive threat not only did not increase, but also decreased.

As a result, it was not them who broke the deadlock first, but opponents Cardiff City.

In the 79th minute of the game, Cardiff City's winger Fraser Campbell scored a goal to rewrite the score to 2:1.

The score sent the Cardiff City fans almost into a frenzy!

They waved flags in a frenzied manner, chanted Campbell's name, and sang his praises.

Chen Zhiyuan, the owner of the club, didn't know where to get a big drum, and he personally waved the drumstick and beat it with a bang.

Campbell, who scored the goal, saw the boss beat the drums himself, and excitedly staged a slide show with his teammates in response to the warm applause of the home fans.

The morale of the opponent is like a rainbow, but the morale of Manchester City is a little low.

Looking at the opponent who was celebrating wildly, Lin Quan stood in the middle circle with his hands on his hips, his expression was very serious.

After David Silva was absent, it had the biggest impact on Lin Quan.

He didn't work well with these teammates.

Sergio Aguero's form was also sluggish today, leaving him almost alone up front with no support from his team-mates.

At this moment, he missed De Bruyne immensely.

If Tintin was here, he would never have played so hard in this game!

However, Lin Quan is not the kind of person who gives up easily, and as the core of Manchester City's frontcourt, he should stand up at this time.

After the restart of the game, it was found that Lin Quan increased the number of breakthroughs.

Cardiff's players will take advantage of the opportunity to get past defenders, cut inside with the ball and shoot from distance, or go straight into the box to threaten the goal.

In just a few minutes, Lin Quan almost single-handedly made the Cardiff City goal a stir.

"Look at that kid, don't let him go into the forbidden area!"

"If you really can't stop it, use foul tactics, give him a ruthless one, and let him not be so arrogant!"

Cardiff City's players have limited ability, and they really can't prevent Lin Quan one-on-one.

There is also the possibility of a multi-player package that can cause a leak in the defence, so they intend to use foul tactics to contain the opposition's attack, which is also a tradition in the Premier League.

They feel that the other party is a superstar, and if they shovel him a few more times on their side, he will be so frightened that he will restrain his actions and dare not break through like this.

And without his breakthrough dribble, Manchester City's attack simply can't penetrate their defense and pose a threat to them!

Just hold on for these last few minutes and the victory will be for Cardiff City!

However, Lin Quan's tenacity was beyond the expectations of the Cardiff City players.

They fouled again and again, kicked the opponent down again and again, but they did not scare him, but kept giving Manchester City free kicks in front.

Seeing the foul getting closer and closer to their own penalty area, and getting better and better, the Cardiff City players finally realised that something was wrong.

After Lin Quan discovered the opponent's foul tactics, he deliberately lured the opponent to foul in the place he chose, so that he could choose the free kick location.

After squandering two free-kick opportunities, Lin Quan stood at the penalty spot for the third time.

Yaya Toure was eager to take the free-kick on several occasions.

But this opportunity was created by Lin Quan, and if the other party didn't take the initiative to give up the opportunity, it was not easy for him to ask for it.

But seeing that Lin Quan wasted two opportunities in a row, Yaya Toure complained in his heart, and he decided that if the opponent missed this shot again, then next time he would stand up and stop the opponent no matter what.

The fans at the scene thought the same thing as Yaya Toure, although they also felt that the free kick was a little too well placed.

If you give it to those strong free-kick masters, your own goal will be dangerous.

But after seeing Lin Quan's previous two free kicks, they were not too worried.

In the previous two free kicks, Lin Quan kicked high once, and the football was high above the crossbar.

Another time the penalty was low, and the ball hit the wall and was blocked.

Neither of his free-kicks posed a threat to goal, leaving Cardiff City fans distrustful of his free-kick skills.

They admit that this guy is very skilled at his feet, very good at breaking through and passing, and he has hardly seen him lose in one-on-one heads-up.

But free kicks and dribbling are two completely different skills, and being good at dribbling doesn't mean he's good at kicking free kicks.

Seeing Lin Quan step by step back, almost a dozen steps back before stopping, Cardiff City fans were very disdainful.

If you can't score, you can't score, and it's useless to learn Ronaldo!

At this time, in an apartment in London, a guy who looked like Tintin, the protagonist of Tintin's adventures, saw Lin Quan's penalty posture and jumped up from the saff:

"Elevator ball!"

In a mansion in Madrid, Real Madrid's star Cristiano Ronaldo dragged his chin thoughtfully after seeing Lin Quan's penalty posture:

Is this kid learning from me?

This posture, this movement, the more I look at it, the more I think about it.

However, he still has a little bit of a resolute look, but this is the most difficult thing to learn, and ordinary people can't learn it at all!

Thinking of this, Ronaldo is still a little proud!

Lin Quan ignored the boos of the fans at the scene, and after retreating enough distance, he took a deep breath and began to run.

He knows the principle of elevator ball very well, and he taught De Bruyne to play elevator ball before.

The reason why I don't use it myself is entirely because this kind of heavy artillery shot can easily cause self-injury.

But now, after he redeemed his injury immunity talent, he doesn't have to worry about that.

So this kind of powerful volley of the elevator ball, he can also use it!

Lin Quan ran faster and faster, and after the run-up was over, he kicked the football hard!

Bang!

The ball was squeezed and deformed, and with a 'woo' whistle in the air, it flew over the wall like lightning and flew towards the net.

"It's high!"

Seeing the trajectory of the football flying in the air, Yaya Toure snorted coldly, and was very dissatisfied in his heart.

Sure enough, he missed another penalty, this guy wasted three chances!

"Hehe, this ball is not threatening!"

The Cardiff fans at the scene also thought the same as Yaya Toure, and after seeing the trajectory of the ball, they all felt safe.

However, just when they thought they were safe, the soccer ball in mid-air suddenly fell sharply, grazing the lower edge of the crossbar and crashing into the net.

The goalkeeper didn't make a save at all, and watched in amazement as the ball flew into his own net!

Cardiff City's 30,000 fans fell silent, and the stadium fell silent.

"This goal, actually, went in?"

Chen Zhiyuan, who was beating the drum, dropped the drumstick in his hand in shock, and looked at the football rolling in his net in disbelief.

"Hehe, it's really an elevator ball, and the kick is quite beautiful!"

In his apartment in London, a certain cartoon-like player can't help but wave his fist when he sees the ball fly into the net, as if it was kicked into it himself.

However, when he thought of his current situation in the team, his mood gradually fell again.

In the mansion in Madrid, I saw that Lin Quan not only 'imitated' successfully, but also scored such a wonderful free kick.

Ronaldo's eyes widened, looking a little surprised.

The quality of Lin Quan's free kick was somewhat unexpected by him, and if it was him, there was no guarantee that he would be able to kick such a high-quality free kick.

It seems that I have underestimated his elevator ball skills a little!

Ronaldo, who felt the pressure, couldn't sit still anymore, and planned to go to the field to practice with the football in his arms!

(End of chapter)