On August 13, the 2016-2017 Premier League season officially began.

In the opening game, last season's runners-up Leicester City lost away to promoted Mahr City, causing a big upset.

Leicester's squad has not changed much, and at the urging of manager Agnelli, the club's hierarchy did not short-sightedly sell last season's main players.

But after a full season, the outside world has a comprehensive understanding of the dark horse, so Leicester City quickly lost the aura of a dark horse, as evidenced by the defeat to the promoted horse.

As the defending champions, Manchester City's performance in the first round was not good.

In the first round, they host the challenge of the Black Cats Sunderland.

City were unable to extend their lead after winning a penalty just four minutes into the game, but were able to equalise in the 71st minute of the second half.

Although City then laid siege to Sunderland, the opposition defended very stubbornly and the game reached a stalemate.

Just when fans on both sides thought that the game would end in a draw, in the 89th minute, Lin Quan's long-range shot caused a mistake by the opposing defender to clear the siege, and he made an own goal and kicked the ball into his own goal.

In this way, with the goal of the opposing defender, Manchester City was lucky to get off to a good start.

It's just that these 3 points are a bit of a fluke!

Compared to Manchester City, the city rivals Manchester United won very easily.

On the road, it took just over 20 minutes for United to end the battle, with Juan Mata, Wayne Rooney and Ibrahimovic back-to-back in quick succession to give United a thrashing of Bournemouth 3-1.

There is no harm without contrast, and with the introduction of Mkhitaryan and Ibrahimovic, United's attacking firepower has been further enhanced.

On the other hand, Manchester City's departure has significantly weakened their strength.

As soon as the two sides were compared, the fans of the Red Devils immediately became happy.

They feel that this year is the perfect opportunity for the Red Devils to put Manchester City under their feet and regain the Manchester boss!

However, the next game poured cold water on the heads of the United.

On August 14, at the Emirates Stadium, Arsenal and Liverpool teamed up to bring fans a highlight, exhilarating match.

The two teams played offensive football in this game, which made the fans addicted to watching.

In the 30th minute of the first half, Little Tiger Walcott quickly completed the redemption when he missed a penalty and helped the team open the scoring.

But the smile on Arsenal's face didn't last long, and in first-half stoppage time, Liverpool boss Philippe Coutinho equalised!

After the start of the second half, Liverpool attacked like a tide, with Lallana, Coutinho and Mane scoring one after another, quickly expanding the score to 1:4!

When they saw the scoreline, the Arsenal fans at home were almost devastated.

Their backline was completely overwhelmed by the opposition and the performance of the two young centre-backs was nothing short of miserable!

However, the Arsenal players on the pitch did not give up, and goals from Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Chambers in the 65th and 75th minutes gave the Arsenal hope of an equaliser or even a reversal.

However, the back-to-back injuries to Theo Walcott and Aaron Ramsey dashed their hopes.

In the end, in an attacking battle, Liverpool had the last laugh, defeating Arsenal with a score of 4:3 and successfully capturing the Emirates Stadium!

Liverpool's strong rise has made Reds fans look forward to the team's record this season.

Looking at the young players in the team with unlimited potential, such as Mane and Cantiño, I feel that the future is full of hope.

Liverpool's brilliance was so bright that many people didn't notice that the new coach took over West Ham United, the Hammers, who were ranked higher than them last season, 2:1 in the final game of this round.

After a dismal season for Chelsea, owner Ab Abou has decided to hire a big manager for the team.

And the Italian Conte became the target of his pursuit.

Conte has led Juventus to three consecutive Serie A titles and has also been the manager of the Italian national team.

At this year's European Championships, Italy's results might have been better had it not been for their bad luck to meet defending champions Spain early.

Abou has never been a stingy man, and after hiring Conte at a high price, he waved his hand and approved a transfer budget of hundreds of millions of pounds for Conte, supporting Conte to carry out drastic changes to the team.

Conte was not polite, spending 140 million euros before and after to buy several strong players who are urgently needed by Chelsea in various positions, and strengthened the team's squad.

It is worth mentioning that among the players bought is the centre-back David Luiz, who was transferred from Chelsea in the first place.

When he left Chelsea, the transfer fee was 50 million pounds, and now it only cost 34 million pounds to buy it back, and this time, Chelsea actually earned 16 million pounds.

Chelsea have spent so much money and naturally hope to make a difference in the new season.

But last season's Chelsea record was so poor and the attention of the fans was so drawn to the other big clubs that few people paid attention to the current Chelsea team.

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After the first round of fixtures, Liverpool were highly regarded, with Philippe Coutinho and Sadio Mane both named in the Premier League Team of the Week.

The outside world is very optimistic about these two young players, especially Coutinho, who is already seen by many as the best candidates for supergiants such as Lin Quan, Cristiano Ronaldo and Messi.

If he can continue his current excellent form, he will be promoted to a supergiant in the future.

Contrary to Liverpool, although Manchester City won, they were still criticized and even criticized by the outside world.

'Gundogan clearly didn't adapt to the pace of the Premier League game, his Premier League debut looked incredibly bad, and objectively speaking, a rating of 6.5 is a bit too high!'

"After the loss of Kroos, the strength of Manchester City's midfield has been greatly affected, although Lin Quan's form is still excellent, but without the strong support of the midfield, it is difficult for him to fully play his strength in the frontline!"

"Manchester City need to re-examine the strength of their squad and their transfers, and maybe they need to take advantage of the fact that the transfer window is not yet closed, and seize the time to make reinforcements!"

In the first game, Gundogan was put in the starting line-up by Pep Guardiola, but was substituted after only 65 minutes.

Obviously, Pep Guardiola was not very happy with his performance either.

Therefore, the criticism from the outside world is not untargeted, but it is a bit too arbitrary to completely negate Gundogan on the basis of just one game.

In response to criticism from the outside world, Guardiola stood up and said:

'Gundogan is a good player and I fully believe in his quality, but he needs some time to get used to the pace of the Premier League!'

Pep Guardiola's support put Gundogan's hanging heart to ease, and in fact, after the first game, he himself felt uneasy.

Premier League teams are too fond of physical confrontations, and the referees are very large, and many of the actions that are fouls in other leagues are actually ignored here.

Gundogan, who has just arrived, is very uncomfortable with this kind of rhythm and penalty scale, so he plays abnormally.

But the outside world may not understand his distress, so he is worried that he will be abandoned by the fans and coaches.

Fortunately, Guardiola did not give up on him and remained patient with him enough.

But that doesn't mean Gundogan can rest easy, he has to get used to the pace of the Premier League game.

Thinking of this, after the daily training, Gundogan chose to stay and continue to practice, especially in strength training, to improve his physical confrontation ability, so that he could adapt to the rhythm of the Premier League faster.

Gundogan's efforts were seen by Pep Guardiola, so he continued to believe in him in the second game, and once again put him in the starting line-up.

In the second round, Manchester City's opponent is Stoke City.

There are two acquaintances in the Stoke City team, one is the Barcelona old player, Bojan, who was once hailed as Messi's successor, and the other is Lin Quan's old teammate Arnautovic in Werder Bremen.

Bojan was once a legend for Barcelona's youth team, breaking a series of records in the youth team, many of which were set by Messi.

So before he was transferred to the first team, Barcelona fans were expecting a lot from him.

However, the fans' expectations were soon disappointed, and Bojan's performance in the first team fell far short of expectations, and after four years on the bench, he was sold to Roma by Barcelona at a low price.

However, in Serie A, Bojan still failed to regain his form, and returned to Barcelona after a few years, and was finally sold to Stoke City by Barcelona at a humiliating price of 1.8 million.

This painful experience was a nightmare for Bojan, especially when he saw Messi and Lin Quan, who were also from the Barcelona academy, become supergiants one after another, killing all sides on the pitch.

Perhaps to prove that he was no worse than anyone else, Bojan was very positive in this game, and even received a yellow card for a defensive foul at the end of the first half.

In the second half, Bojan continued to work hard and finally paid off when he scored a penalty in the 49th minute.

However, the goal didn't change anything, and before he scored, City's side had already scored three goals.

Sergio Aguero scored twice in the first half, and Lin Quan scored directly with a free kick in the second half, and the defeat of Stoke City, which was behind by a large score, was decided.

Seeing Bojan working so the pitch, Guardiola couldn't help but sigh.

Bojan has played under Pep Guardiola, who has been expecting him a lot.

For the players who came from the La Masia Academy, Guardiola has always been very trusting and loving.

During his time at Barcelona, he was very willing to give young players the opportunity to play, especially those produced in his own academy.

But Bojan's ability really can't meet his requirements, Guardiola gave Bojan a chance, Bojan failed to seize the opportunity, but fell into a strange circle of fighting alone because he was eager to prove himself, so he could only give up on destroying the team's players.

Now it seems that Bojan should still have a trace of hatred for him!

He sighed again, shook his head and decided not to think about it, because the team had scored again.

This time it was the young player Mbappe, who had just come on as a substitute, who scored the goal!

He ate the opposing full-backs with his pace and scored a brilliant goal.

Although Stoke City had basically given up resistance when he scored, Guardiola still gave Mbappe a round of applause.

The young Frenchman has been growing at a very pleasing rate this season.

Guardiola thought that it would take a few more years to train him to play, but he didn't expect Mbappe to give him a big surprise.

In this way, I have to adjust the rotation arrangement for the new season, Mbappe is in a stage of rapid growth, and in this period, he must be given enough game time so that he can accumulate experience in actual combat and accelerate his growth.

But at the same time, it is also necessary to control his playing time so as not to overdraw his physical strength or get injured accidentally.

For young players, injuries are always the biggest enemy, and a single major injury can wipe out all that talent.

Manchester City's away win slightly reversed some of the perceptions of them.

In particular, the performance of the team's new signing Gundogan has improved the outside world's evaluation of him a lot.

Gundogan received a rating of 7.5 in this game, which is a lot better than the previous one.

Although he still suffers a little in physical confrontation, his progress can be clearly seen.

And Gundogan is very smart, after mastering the penalty scale of the Premier League referee, he made reasonable use of these scales on the defensive end, and made a lot of contributions to the team's defense.

Pep Guardiola was pleased with his performance and praised him in his post-match press conference.

This has further boosted Gundogan's confidence, allowing him to train harder and perform more confidently on the pitch.

There were a lot of upsets in the second round, with Liverpool losing to Burnley in the second round after beating the Emirates Stadium in the first round.

And the latter is just a promoted horse!

The result of this game shocked the fans, and for a while they were a little confused whether Liverpool could or couldn't do it?

You say he can do it, he lost to the promoted horse, and he lost 0:2, and he lost completely out of temper.

You can't say he can't, he beat Arsenal in a strong dialogue and he won in a big way.

In short, Liverpool's combat power is in a Schrödinger state, hovering between what does and what doesn't.

Just when fans were doubting Liverpool's fighting power, Arsenal were held to a draw away from Leicester City.

Well......

Is it possible that neither Arsenal nor Liverpool are strong?

In addition to the two difficult brothers of Arsenal and Liverpool, Manchester United, Chelsea, Manchester City, Tottenham Hotspur and other teams have won opponents.

After two rounds, Manchester United is currently at the top of the standings with a goal difference, followed by Manchester City.

Surprisingly, Chelsea have quietly won two in a row and are third in the table.

This result has made the outside world begin to pay attention to the Blues led by Conte.

(End of chapter)