Golden Greenery

The person who shook hands with Zhuo Yang today to change the team flag and take the side was Gareth Barry, the famous English midfielder who has played for Manchester City for four years. This guy is 36 years old this year.

During the two years when Yaya Toure was most prosperous and dominant in Manchester City, his iron partner in the midfield was Barry. His solid defensive midfielder provided a solid foundation for Toure to let himself go.

During Koeman's adjustments, Jagielka faded out of the main defense line, and veteran Barry became Everton's captain on the field.

In the locker room of Manchester City's training base two days ago, Guardiola officially announced Zhuo Yang as the team's acting captain. No one, including the Indian captain Kompany, who was still recovering from injury, raised any objections.

This year is Barry's fourth season at Everton, and today is the fifth month since Zhuoyang joined Manchester City. This is a handshake between veterans of the two teams who are both young.

Barry, the oldest player in the game, gave his old club a Marvelous reminder just four minutes after the game started.

‘Little Monster’ Lukaku passed the ball diagonally from the right. Belgian forward Kevin Miralas got the ball and knocked it across the middle of the penalty area. Barry easily pushed the ball into the net in front of the empty goal.

Although the second linesman Simon Bennett raised the flag in time to indicate that Mirallas was already in an offside position when receiving Lukaku's pass, and the goal was invalid, Manchester City's defense was able to let Barry open to This really shouldn't be the case.

The emergence of this dangerous situation made both Guardiola and Zhuoyang feel that Stones and Otamendi were a little unreliable today. But the game has just begun, so we can only continue to play.

It is disrespectful to come and go without reciprocating, so Zhuo Yang also knocked the mountain and shocked the tiger with his wonderful pass at the end.

The ball was passed down by Aguero from the side. Zhuo Yang also ran down the sideline, shook off Ramiro Mori and then passed the ball with his left foot.

Sterling was in place in the middle of the penalty area, and Simmons Coleman's sliding tackle chasing him failed to touch the football.

Sterling picked up the ball with his right foot and dodged to the left, successfully dodging Everton goalkeeper Robles, but Coleman, who had just slipped and tackled, relied on the inertia like a sled and slid over again. Sterling then took the ball away. The football was carried into his lap.

Sterling was tripped so much that he almost lost his tooth, and the football was confiscated by Robles in his second reaction.

Sterling is right-footed, but although his back-foot ability is not very strong, it is not impossible. What's more, even with his right foot, he could pass to the right. He had to throw himself into the net to the left. It was obvious that there was something wrong with his condition.

In the first half hour of the game, Manchester City took the absolute initiative. Zhuo Yang and all the offensive generals had extremely threatening shots, but they were either blocked by Robles or missed by a hair.

Half an hour later, Manchester City's mistakes began, starting from the back line.

Everton's quick counterattack was intercepted by Zabaleta, and after adjustment, the ball was distributed to Clichy. The 32-year-old experienced French full-back was stupid. He pushed forward and pushed directly to Everton's 18-year-old midfield rookie Tom Davis.

1 Davies was born in Liverpool on the day Michael Owen scored Argentina's immortal goal in France's World Cup final of 18. On that day, Irving was 18 years and 197 days old.

Three years after Owen retired, he became famous in the 11th round match against Manchester City at the age of 18.

Davis dribbled the ball away. Toure, Stones, and Clichy on the left side of the Manchester City backcourt hesitated whether to attack or retreat. Davis passed the ball decisively, and the ball accurately passed through the middle of the three. Lalas and the others held the ball firmly behind them.

Speaking of 30-year-old Kevin Miralas, many Chinese fans are not impressed.

Back in 2008, in the men's football group stage of the Beijing Olympic Games, the host Chinese National Olympics faced the Belgian National Olympics, which was the game where Tan Wangsong "cut off his children and grandchildren". Belgium defeated China 2:0, with goals scored by Moussa Dembélé and Miralas.

In the subsequent quarter-finals, it was their goals that allowed Belgium to eliminate Italy 3:2.

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Miralas hit the center from the inverted triangle on the left side of Manchester City's penalty area.

Lukaku appeared there, just as empty as when Barry sounded the alarm just now. The difference is that this time Everton was not offside.

Lukaku pushed the ball with his ankle, which was not too tricky, but the ball was very fast. The ball was less than 5 centimeters away from Bravo's fingertips. Manchester City fell behind 0:1.

The defensive cluster worth over 100 million looks like a piece of paper.

As a forward, Zhuoyang cannot always return to the penalty area to assist in defense. He should perform his duties on the court. Falling behind, all he needs to do is score goals on the offensive end to open things up for Manchester City as early as possible.

But the atypical Dutch coach Ronald Koeman is more aggressive than Mourinho once he plays defensive counterattack. Just looking at 201, no one with any imagination would have guessed that he would coach Barcelona in the future.

Everton completely gave up the iron barrel formation of controlling the ball, leaving Zhuoyang and Aguero with stars in their eyes but still standing still.

Ashley Williams, Mason Holgate, Leighton Baines, Seamus Coleman..., including the old Barry, the midfielder and backfielder whose combined worth is less than 20 million, were Koeman's training was enough to shame Stones to death, and he was also able to see the skills of Koeman.

John Stones was sold to Manchester City by Everton for 47.5 million pounds. Who can you argue with?

The score of 0:1 remained until the midfield. Just looking at the first half, it was a complete replica of the game in the 8th round. Manchester City's ball possession rate once again reached more than 70%, and Fulton shot twice, one unintelligible and one Lukaku 1:0.

Fortunately, last November when the team made a comeback, the Manchester City people were always faced with conceding a goal first, so there was no panic from top to bottom.

Guardiola, on the other hand, looked at his subordinates with a sullen expression, who were in a miraculous state today, feeling a bit like a rat dragging the bastard with nowhere to talk. Especially the weaklings in the midfield and backcourt should be jealous and smelly. They don't know who to replace even if they want to make adjustments.

There was no other way. Guardiola could only shout in the locker room and use his strange English with a rural southern European accent to cheer up the players. This state was like Zha Zhahui standing on the podium and reciting "***" passionately.

Guardiola's management of the team is meticulous in every aspect, including what language must be used for internal conversations.

When he was at Barcelona, ​​he stipulated that everyone on the team must speak Spanish or Catalan when entering the Gamber Sports City. No one can be exempted. Otherwise, he will be fined or suspended.

You can imagine the embarrassment of Henry and Abidal, two fellow Frenchmen, chatting in Spanish words while peeing together.

The German language is stipulated at Bayern, and it is the same when coming to Manchester City. Everyone must speak English, including himself and the coaching staff.

As a die-hard player of Lao Gua, Zhuo Yang, who is proficient in many languages, certainly doesn't care, but he is looking forward to what will happen if Guardiola goes to China to coach.