Chapter 906 Already Evenly Matched

Chapter 906 Already Evenly Matched

Chapter 906 Already Evenly Matched
Regardless of whether Alan Hansen is optimistic about the prospect of Rong Guang being the captain, the game has started, and the matter of Rong Guang being the captain has to be put aside for the time being, and everyone's eyes will fall on the game.

The game is based on the score, not who is the captain.

This summer, Manchester United was relatively low-key in the transfer market, mainly selling people.

They lost two offensive players in the transfer market, Cristiano Ronaldo and Carlos Tevez.

In terms of transfer introduction, Manchester United has no exciting news.Although Cristiano Ronaldo and Tevez were sold, Ferguson couldn't find a suitable candidate for a while with the [-] million euros they got in exchange.

In terms of attack, he added Valencia, which was transferred from Wigan Athletic, which cost Manchester United 700 million pounds. This is already the highest cost transfer for Manchester United this summer.

In addition, Michael Owen joined Manchester United freely from Newcastle United, which is somewhat unexpected.

After all, Michael Owen is a player from Liverpool. With the bad relationship between Liverpool and Manchester United, it is hard to imagine that the golden boy Owen, who is deeply loved by Liverpool fans, will choose to join Manchester United...

In addition, Manchester United's investment in the transfer market is pitifully small.

They introduced the French player Obertin from Bordeaux for 300 million pounds, and also freely introduced the young French midfielder Pogba from the French team Loew Arles.

This is really trivial compared to Manchester City's signings.

Manchester City's side is Lucio again, David Silva's again, Gareth Barry and Sneijder.

It's no wonder that now everyone feels that Manchester United's advantage over Manchester City has disappeared...

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After the game started, from the scene, it was indeed like this.

Manchester United is not as able to suppress Manchester City as before, and the two sides launched a fierce competition and fight in the midfield.

They are entangled with each other, and the fight is inextricably linked.

Because of David Silva's injury and the fact that Sneijder just came to the team, Manchester City is not very advantaged in the midfield, but Rong Guang and Robinho will often withdraw from the forward line to the midfield to help them, so Manchester City can be evenly matched with Manchester United in the midfield.

In the first 10 minutes of the game, football was played in the midfield area most of the time, and there were very few opportunities to hit the penalty area.

In 10 minutes, there were only two shots in total. Manchester United and Manchester City had one shot, which shows that neither of the two teams was able to gain the upper hand.

Manchester United learned from last season's experience against Manchester City and strengthened their defense against Rongguang.

At the same time, the back line shrank very far back, leaving no room for Rong Guang to sprint.

It is so that Manchester City can only play positional battles with them, and the defensive counterattack that Benitez is good at cannot be played at all.

Under such circumstances, Rong Guang simply played the front midfielder, letting Berbatov stand alone at the front, and himself and Robinho were behind him. Doesn't it look like two midfielders?

Rong Guang, who is in a retreat position, will still be surrounded by Manchester United players. Anyway, no matter where he goes, there will always be Manchester United players around him, but in different positions, the people around him are also different.

Not to mention Rong Guang broke through with the ball, it was very difficult for him to connect the ball.

As long as other Manchester United players pass the football to Rongguang, a Manchester United player will be posted next to Rongguang.

After 10 minutes, Rong Guang didn't even take a shot.

"It can be seen that Manchester United is still very afraid of glory..."

"Of course, Rong scored five goals in two matches against Manchester United last season! If Ferguson doesn't take Rong seriously, he doesn't deserve to sit in this position..."

In the commentator's commentary, Rong Guang was actively running on the court, looking for his opportunities.

The current situation is that he can hardly stop to catch the ball, so don't catch the ball if that is the case!

Rongguang already has a countermeasure.

He still raised his arms again and again while running, signaling his teammates to pass the ball to him.

However, the teammates passed the football to others more during this time.After all, Rongguang attracted more Manchester United's defensive attention, and it is normal for them to pass the football to other players who are not marked by Manchester United.

But Manchester City's offense will still encounter a problem.That is, when you hit the front of Manchester United's penalty area, you will encounter an iron wall constructed by all Manchester United players.

Regardless of whether they have Manchester United players around them to defend, it is difficult for them to penetrate this wall.

If they can't penetrate this wall, it doesn't matter how much possession and pass success they have outside, and they can't be converted into goals.

With Sneijder sitting in the stands watching the game and David Silva absent due to injury, the core of the current Manchester City team is Elano.

But Elano didn’t have a good solution when facing Manchester United’s iron wall. After all, he is not a real organizer. In the Brazilian national team, his role is more reflected in the offense.

Last season, Manchester City relied almost entirely on Rongguang's own strength, and there are also reasons for this, because in terms of midfield organization, Manchester City is really too weak, relying on a half-baked Elano.

This is why Benitez stepped into three midfielders in one go in this summer's transfer signings.Gareth Barry is the Harvey Alonso when Benitez coached Liverpool. He has both offense and defense and can control the rhythm. His long pass is very good. David Silva is not only an organizer, but also an estimate.

This is to fully replace the original Manchester City midfielder.

After Sneijder adapts to the team and gradually cultivates a tacit understanding with his new teammates, Elano will lose his current main position.

His strength and performance can no longer keep up with the team's requirements.

Elano looked at Manchester United's dense defense, there was nothing he could do, and he was unwilling to take the risk of passing the football directly into the penalty area, as the possibility of conceding the ball would be too great.

So he passed the football back, to Gareth Barry.

Gareth Barry received the ball. His position was relatively low, and no Manchester United players came up to press him. He could control the ball more calmly and then observe the situation.

In fact, for Barry, the transfer to Manchester City was quite embarrassing. He was a little reluctant at first, but he still wanted to go to Liverpool.

But after Liverpool failed to buy him last season, they completely lost interest in him. This summer, Dalglish clearly told Barry's agent that Liverpool would not introduce him.Barry suddenly had nowhere to go. He was naturally unwilling to stay at Aston Villa. He had already agreed with Martin O'Neill to stay for one more year last season. After the end of last season, Martin O'Neill had to agree with him to leave.

Now that Martin O'Neill has agreed to his departure, he has nowhere to go?
The personal contract offered by Manchester City to Barry is still satisfactory to him, and Barry finally agreed to come to Manchester City.

After coming to Manchester City, he was a little embarrassed after seeing the glory.

Because I was the first to jump out to challenge Rongguang last season, clamoring to make Rongguang look good.As a result, Rong Guang slapped him in the face with a hat-trick.

After that, he was always ridiculed by people, as long as he praised the glory, his name would appear as a green leaf.

Now he is actually on the same team as Rong Guang.

However, the first meeting with Rongguang made his embarrassment a lot less, because Rongguang didn't bring up the old incident again, but treated him as if nothing had happened, treating him no differently from other teammates.

Barry thought to himself that it was okay, but he didn't know that Rong Guang didn't remember this at all...

Today, Barry regards himself as a Manchester City player, so let Liverpool go with the wind... Anyway, now his head coach is also the former Liverpool head coach Benitez. When he was in Liverpool, it was Benitez who was interested in Barry.

So he went around in a circle, and he was still playing under Benitez.

Because Barry had such an experience with Rongguang, he was very worried that Manchester City fans would look at him strangely. There are a lot of Rongguang adults, so don't care about it. It doesn't mean that other Manchester City fans don't care.Since he came to Manchester City, he has deeply felt the fanatical worship of Rongguang by Manchester City fans. They really regard Rongguang as a god.

That's why they can't bear anyone who dares to challenge Glory.

In order to avoid being squeezed out by Manchester City fans, Barry had to try his best to express himself in the team, and strive to show a wonderful performance to make Manchester City fans accept him.

How do we do this?

Just when he was thinking about what to do, he saw Rong Guang running from the side to the middle, and at the same time raised his hand.Despite having a Manchester United player at his side at every step, Barry decided to pass the football on to Glory.

This can be regarded as an active gesture...

Thinking of this, Gareth Barry did not hesitate and passed the football directly!
He did not pass the football directly to Rongguang's feet, but passed an advance amount. Rongguang needed to run two steps to receive the ball.

This is the kind of ball that Rong Guang wants!
He accelerated and rushed up, and Park Ji-sung, who was following him, couldn't compare with Rong Guang in terms of speed, and was immediately thrown away by Rong Guang.

However, Park Ji-sung did not panic too much, but continued to follow Rongguang, because he knew that at such a short distance, as long as Rongguang stopped the ball, he could catch up and stick to him again.

But he didn't expect that when the football rolled over, Rong Guang didn't stop the ball, but swung his right foot directly and took a long shot!
"Rong—Shoot!"

Before the commentator finished speaking, the football had already flown in front of the goal, and all the Manchester United fans watched this scene with wide eyes and some horror.

At this moment, a big hand appeared in front of the football, the football slammed into the injury, then bounced upwards and flew out of the crossbar...

corner kick!

Manchester United fans heaved a sigh of relief.

(End of this chapter)