I Want to Be the King of Football

Some people say that the eighteenth round of the league was a collective nap for the Premier League teams, and only the Manchester duo remained strong.

But in the nineteenth round, Feng Shui took turns.

First, Liverpool reversed Newcastle 3-1 at home, Bellamy scored twice and Gerrard scored a goal.

Dalglish had a strong rotation of the lineup, but Bellamy's outstanding performance allowed the Reds to take all three points on the Magpies.

Arsenal did not have a large rotation, but still relying on Van Persie's goal, a one-to-zero victory over the Queens Park Rangers.

Regardless of whether it is the Red Army or Arsenal, after the last round of boring, although this round was a bit stumbled, even dangerous, but at least they also got three points.

Only the hapless Chelsea.

After losing to Manchester City at home, Chelsea ushered in three straight draws, all one to one. Boas's team was questioned and the coaching position was shaken again.

In the nineteenth round, Chelsea played at home against Aston Villa, which was originally a very good opportunity.

Drogba scored a goal for Chelsea in the 23rd minute of the game, but no one thought that only five minutes later, Aston Villa equalized the score.

After that, no matter how Chelsea attacked, they had an overwhelming advantage, but they never managed to break Aston Villa's goal.

Instead, in the 83rd and 86th minutes, Petrov and the substitute Darren Bent's two counterattacks, scored two winning goals for Aston Villa and helped the team away. Three to one reversed Chelsea.

After the game, Chelsea coach Boas attributed the loss of the game to an unfair schedule. Because of the four games of Christmas, Chelsea will have to play in 11 days, but Manchester United is 15 days, including two games. It was only forty-eight hours before and after.

For Boas's remarks, the British media responded negatively, thinking that he was looking for reasons and excuses for the loss.

The Premier League’s Christmas schedule is not only this year. It has existed for so many years. This is also regarded as a tradition of English sports. It is not only football, but also other events such as rugby and baseball, but also during Christmas. In games, even playoffs, this is to better please the English fans.

As the head coach of Chelsea, Boas has no reason not to know all this.

As for the schedule, Chelsea’s game pressure is not the greatest. For example, Manchester City, Blue Moon’s pressure is even greater than Chelsea’s.

"Boas has reason to think that the schedule is unfair to them, but if they blame the failure on the schedule, it will only add to the jokes of others, because compared to Manchester City, is Chelsea under pressure?"

"In the last three rounds, Chelsea have two home games and one away game. One of them is away against Tottenham Hotspur. They are also in North London. They don't even need to leave London for these three games."

"What about Manchester City? The seventeenth round is home, the eighteenth and nineteenth rounds are both away games. They headed south to Birmingham early in the morning on Boxing Day and challenged West Bromwich Albion in the away game. After returning to Manchester, they again He went northward without stopping, to Sunderland, more than two hundred kilometers away."

After Chelsea lost to Aston Villa, Manchester City's match against Sunderland has not yet started, but the media believes that even if Manchester City lose, the results of the Christmas schedule are still better than Chelsea.

In other words, in terms of the schedule, Chelsea have an advantage over Manchester City, and the result is not as good as Manchester City. How do you say this?

In fact, Chelsea's ranking this season has not been ideal, and now it is always hovering between fifth and sixth, and there is no significant gap between the top four expected by the fans, and Boas has also been scorned by the outside world.

"The real problem for Chelsea is that Boas has lost control of the locker room!"

The Daily Mail pointed out the biggest problem for Chelsea very sharply.

This media reported in large lengths. From Boas came to power, he had grudges with Drogba, Lampard and Terry, and later had to reuse Drogba and Terry, but now it has always suppressed Lampard. All made Boas lose the support of the locker room.

To throw the pot to the schedule, this is just Boas's strategy to slow down.

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On December 31st, in the 19th round of the Premier League, Manchester City challenged Sunderland away.

Manchester City once again rotated, and this time even Su Dong took the bench.

Guardiola arranged for Dzeko and Aguero to start at the same time, trying to strengthen the team's offense, and strive to win the black cat Sunderland in the away game. At the same time, he also arranged David Silva and Tony in the midfield. Cross sits down.

Obviously, Guardiola still wants to win this game with a total victory.

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After the game started, Sunderland, who played at home, first made a wave of attacks, but was quickly suppressed by Manchester City.

Relying on the skillful passing and controlling of the ball, Blue Moon quickly secured the advantage and frequently created opportunities in the midfield.

It is also a paradox, Dzeko and Aguero even lost their shooting boots in this game.

Since before Christmas, Aguero’s condition has not been very good. Obviously he is adapting to the Premier League’s Christmas schedule. After all, during this time period, other leagues have already ushered in the winter break, but the Premier League has no winter break. On the contrary, it is the most intensive period of the schedule. For many players, it is indeed a need to adapt.

But Zheke's time to join the team was not short, and this time he was not able to adjust his state.

As a result, Manchester City completely controlled the advantage on the field, but they have been unable to score goals for a long time, and have repeatedly missed scoring opportunities.

Sunderland missed an excellent opportunity in the first half. It came from a counterattack. After Bendtner formed a single-handed shot, he was saved by Courtois and failed to form a goal.

In the second half, he fell to the ground and was attacked by Manchester City, unable to fight even a decent counterattack.

Manchester City is in a position to score no points, the thunder is heavy and the rain is small, the possession rate and the number of shots are very high, but they failed to score, which made many people worried.

In the seventy-fifth minute, Guardiola saw that the situation did not turn around, and finally couldn't bear it and replaced Su Dong.

In less than thirteen days, this is Su Dong's fourth game.

The previous three games were all starters, but they were all replaced early. This time, the team originally did not intend to let Su Dong go on. It was Su Dong who actively asked to enter the substitute list, just in case. NS.

Manchester City took the advantage, Guardiola replaced Dzeko with Su Dong, occupying absolute dominance in the penalty area.

Sunderland is tenacious, vowing to keep this point at home.

After a few minutes of fighting between the two sides, in the 86th minute, Su Dong was in the penalty area, leaning against Wes Brown, and gave the ball back to Tony Cross, who was in the top area of ​​the arc. A push shot by Sunderland goalkeeper Mignole gave the crossbar and turned into a corner kick.

Then Manchester City issued a corner kick, David Luiz headed from close range and hit the crossbar and bounced back into the penalty area. This surprised everyone to find that Manchester City really did not have it tonight. Shooting boots.

But when the ball slowly fell, Su Dong in the penalty area squeezed O'Shea away with his body, blocked Wes Brown, turned his back to the attacking direction, and stopped the ball firmly under his feet.

Trying to turn around, but was desperately besieged by Vis Brown and O'Shea, goalkeeper Minholet also followed, ready to save, but Su Dong suddenly slammed his heel.

The ball passed through the gap between the defensive players and slid to the front of the unguarded small penalty area.

David Silva quickly followed and easily pushed his left foot.

The ball hits the net!

In an instant, the stadium of Light, which was full of voices, suddenly became silent.

Everyone couldn't believe it. After more than 80 minutes of hard work, the game was about to end. In this quarter, he actually lost the ball.

Isn't this foolish?

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Manchester City finally relied on Sue Dong to assist David Silva to score, a one-to-zero away victory over Sunderland.

The process was full of advantages, but it was very dangerous. Fortunately, he finally got a valuable three-pointer.

This allowed Manchester City to win nineteen consecutive victories and win the half-time championship of the Premier League this season!

This is the first time in the history of the Premier League, the top English league, and even the top European league that a team has been able to win a full victory record and win a half-time championship, which was unthinkable in the past.

Everyone was also shocked by the rapid rise of Manchester City.

In just three years, backed by the strong financial resources of the Abu Dhabi consortium, Guardiola's passing system, and the superior strength of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, Manchester City has become a unit that cannot be ignored in European football. Powerful.

At the same time that Manchester City beat Sunderland in a 1-0 away game, Manchester United played at home against Blackburn, the deputy squad leader who was at the bottom of the standings.

In this game, everyone thought that Manchester City's victory over the opponent was a certainty.

On the one hand, Blackburn is too weak, on the other hand, Manchester United have beaten their opponents with five goals in the last two rounds. Compared with the two, Manchester United has no reason to lose points.

At the beginning of the game, it seemed that it was also confirming the judgment of the outside world that Manchester United had the advantage and the goal was just around the corner.

Unexpectedly, in a corner kick defense, Berbatov pulled down his opponent in the penalty area and was sentenced to a penalty kick. Yakubu calmly took the penalty and scored a goal for Blackburn.

After changing sides in the second half, Yakubu once again dangled Carrick and Phil Jones from the outside of the penalty area to make another victory for Blackburn, two to zero!

At this point in the game, the atmosphere has completely changed.

Manchester United then launched a fierce attack. Berbatov scored two goals by UU Kanshu www.uukanshu.com and successfully equalized the score.

But in the 80th minute of the game, it was another corner kick. Blackburn defender Hanley scored the winning goal for the violence.

With Hanley's key lore, Blackburn defeated Manchester United 3-2 in the away game and broke the biggest upset in the Premier League this season.

Who would have thought that Manchester United, who ranked second in the standings, would be upset by the deputy squad leader Blackburn at his home court.

After losing these three points, the gap with Manchester City has widened to 12 points, but this is not the point.

The point is, it doesn't matter if you are defeated by Manchester City at home, and now you are even blown up by the deputy squad leader. This is a serious blow to Manchester United's morale.

After the game, Ferguson was even more angry and said that he was very disappointed in the game.

The media also trumpeted Manchester United before, believing that the Premier League champions have lost their suspense.