Chapter 060 Too bad luck

On November 16, 2008, the thirteenth round of the Premier League.

Manchester City's away game against Hull City.

This game is considered to be a contest between two different dark horses. The two teams currently have 20 points in the Premier League, tied for the fifth place in the league. Manchester City actually ranks more than Hull City because of the number of goal points than Hull City.

Why are there two different dark horses?

Manchester City's typical upstart, if the team's current results are smashed with money, no one will object to this, and even Manchester City's own fans will not deny it.

Manchester City's transfer market this summer hit a total of more than 100 million pounds. Among other things, just to show off a person, Manchester City smashed a total of more than 25 million pounds!

Manchester City's achievements, Zhang Yang has made the greatest contribution, so it is not an exaggeration to say that this 'dark horse' was smashed with money. Of course, judging from the strength of Manchester City, it is too appropriate to say that it is a dark horse.

Manchester City's opponent today, Hull City, is a veritable dark horse. The club has been established for more than 100 years. It entered the top league for the first time, and was promoted to the Premier League through the promotion play-offs. This is a team that was predicted to be relegated by countless experts and the media before the beginning of the season, but Yes, it is this team that once ranked second in the table. You should know that behind Hull City, there are big teams such as Manchester United, Chelsea and Arsenal.

Although the results have begun to decline recently, it can be tied for the fifth place in points after 12 rounds of the league. For this team, which has only made its first top league tour since its founding in 1044, it is already a super legendary performance. It is not an exaggeration to say that Hull City is a dark horse. This team is true. The well-known dark horse! In the summer transfer market, the total cost of this team is less than 10 million pounds, which is a little more than the fraction of Zhang Yang's transfer fee.

This confrontation between a handsome, rich and a loser is also quite eye-attracting.

The home stadium of Hull City, Kingston Communication Stadium.

The players from both sides are still in the player's corridor and have not yet played.

Coaches and substitutes on both sides are already on the coach's bench and bench.

The camera gave Hull City coach Brown a close-up.

"Gary, guess what's in Brown's headphones at this time?" Eddie. Gray smiled and said, "Could it be Xiao Tiantian's new song?"

When Reinker heard this question about his partner, he laughed. He also looked at the head coach's headset and found it interesting.

Before this season, Phil. Brown is an unknown new coach. But now, the promoted Maher City led by Brown has become a dark horse in the Premier League.

The young head coach is very interesting. When he directs the game on the spot, or whenever it is a game, he will wear a headset on his ears to direct the game. And this shape of commanding the competition with a headset has also become more and more popular with Hull City's excellent results, which is also regarded as a model of advanced coaching in the Premier League.

So, I saw Phil this time. The headset on Brown's ear, Reinkel and Eddie. Gray couldn't help but make fun of it.

Manchester City's luck is really bad in this game.

Kampani has been suspended for this game, Mark. Hughes sent Ben Haym as the starting central defender.

However, the gentleman used his 'excellent performance' to explain why Chelsea gave up on him.

In the fourteenth minute of the game, Benhaim received a return pass from Makelele. He took two steps forward and saw Hull City player Giovanni coming up to grab it, so he chose to pass back.

However, a funny scene appeared.

When Benhaim passed back, his foot slipped and fell to the ground, and the football slowly rolled in the direction of the goal.

How can Giovanni miss such a big gift?

The former Manchester City veteran even looked at Ben Haim, who fell to the ground with a sense of humor, and said 'thank you'. Then he shook off his big foot, caught up with the football, and then faced the attacking goalkeeper Joe Hart and scored directly in the lower left corner of the goal.

The Kingston Communication Stadium was cheering, and they were one to zero ahead of their direct rival Manchester City at home.

Hull City fans are looking forward to this game. They want to prove to everyone that they are the real dark horse. As poor jingling losers, they have to make a direct voice and beat up the upstarts.

Giovani was very excited after the goal, and he rushed to the head coach Phil on the sidelines. Brown, he wants to thank this man, this man, for giving him a new life. In addition, his unbridled celebration is also a revenge for the old owner of Manchester City, like an abandoned resentful woman who finally has the opportunity to beat the disheart.

Speaking of Giovani, he is only playing for the promoted Maher City now, but this is a young genius who was a temporary ** and a famous young genius.

In 2001, Barcelona spent 12.5 million pounds to buy a Brazilian player from Cruzeiro. The 21-year-old star named Giovani was once regarded as the future of Barcelona together with the young genius Saviola, nicknamed 'Rabbit' in Argentina. These two people were considered to be Barcelona. The offensive partner in the next ten years.

However, Giovani only scored 1 goal in 26 league games for Barcelona.

Barcelona also quickly sent the sale to Benfica of the Portuguese Super League in 2003.

During Benfica's three and a half years, Giovani has been performing well, but Benfica has always been suppressed by Porto and other teams at home, which forced them to make a big change.

So, in the summer of 2006, the unlucky Giovanni was sold back to Cruzeiro by Benfica for less than 500,000 pounds. Giovanni, who returned to his hometown team, did not have the usual scenery. With 12 games and 2 goals, he joined Manchester City as a free agent in the summer of 2007.

When he first arrived at Manchester City, Giovani was eye-catching. He scored a goal as a substitute in the first game of last season, helping Manchester City beat West Ham United 2-0 away. A week later, in the Manchester derby, Giovanni scored again at a critical moment, and Manchester City beat Manchester United 1-0 at home. This is also an amazing appearance.

However, I don't know if it's because of the psychology of 'cheap but no good goods'. Under the head coach of Manchester City at that time, the Brazilian star who transferred to the team has not been valued, and Giovani has always been difficult to get a stable chance to play. He The positioning is another substitute for Brazilian midfielder Elano, which has also made Giovani depressed.

In the summer, Giovani, who only signed a one-year short-term job last year, was abandoned by Manchester City and could not get the contract again. Although Giovani was willing to reduce his salary, Manchester City did not want him.

At this time, the disheartened Giovanni got the favor of Hull City, Hull City head coach Phil. In order to persuade Giovanni to join, Brown went to Giovanni's home to lobby in person.

This unprecedented attention moved the former Barcelona star, and he resolutely chose to join Hull City.

Although Hull City is just a promoted horse, he has gained an unmatched status in other places here. You know, Giovanni is the first player in Hull City to have experience in the Champions League. Here, he is a well-deserved big-name star! Head coach Phil. Brown also fulfilled his promise to give Giovani the core of the attack.

Giovani is also grateful for his excellent performance since the start of the new season. Hull City's good record is inseparable from Giovani's wonderful performance.

Today, in the face of Manchester City, the old owner who abandoned him, the Brazilian star held his breath and wanted to beat Manchester City.

Zhang Yang looked at Giovanni, who was crazy to celebrate the goal, and jumped angrily.

He is not clear about the feud between this guy and Manchester City. Zhang Yang is just very unhappy about the team's inexplicable loss of the ball.

If he can score a goal, he can't make such a low-level mistake in the defense line.

Moreover, this goal can be imagined to be a big blow to Manchester City.

Manchester City's goal came 21 minutes after the game.

Maclelele and Hull City's midfielder Boateng competed, and the two fell to the ground at the same time. However, the experienced Maclelele poked the ball away while falling to the ground.

At this time, Modric came out of the slash and grabbed the out-of-control football.

The referee who was going to whistle to pause the game immediately raised his hands flat and pointed forward - the attack is favorable, and the game continues!

Modric didn't have much dribble. He saw the clamor on the diagonal line in front of him and decisively pushed a straight pass.

Modric's pass is in place. The goal of his passing is not to Zhang Yang's feet, but to the front of Zhang Yang's running direction, so that he can exert the speed advantage to the extreme.

In fact, this is also Zhang Yang's favorite!

"No offside! Zhang - he got the football!" The commentator shouted.

Zhang Yang caught up with the football, and then, he used his speed to instantly get rid of the Hull City defender, and then inserted the slash behind the Hull City defenders!

Now, no one can keep up with the speed of publicity!

He broke into the penalty area with the ball and faced the attacking Hull City goalkeeper McHil. Zhang Yang was very smart and took a shot. The football flew over McHille's head, fell down and fell into the net.

"GOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAL!"

"One to one! This is Zhang Yang's sixteenth league goal in the league!"

"The Zhang Yang's breakthrough speed with the ball is simply amazing... He equalized the score for Manchester City! Manchester City's counterattack is quite fast! Maclelele still completed the pass after falling to the ground! Modric is also quite clever! He suddenly rushed up to get the football, which surprised the Hull City players, and his pass is also quite beautiful. What we often call a scalpel-like pass is such a pass..."

"It only took Manchester City more than ten seconds to score this goal from the counterattack to the goal. Their attack is a full interpretation of speed." Commentator Eddie. Gray sighed at this lightning-fast goal - from Maclelele's tackle, to Modric's passing, to Zhang Yang's shot to score, the whole process took only 16 seconds!

Zhang Yang, who scored the goal, laughed and ran back to hug Modric, who gave him an assist, and Modrich agreed to be very excited. His tacit understanding with Zhang Yang is getting better and better.

Benhaim is even more excited. If the team loses zero to one because of his mistake just now, his psychological burden will be great. Now that Zhang Yang scored a goal and equalized the score, he finally felt better.

Zhang Yang saw Benhaim running to celebrate the goal. At this time, he scored the goal and was in a good mood. He had already let go of his dissatisfaction with the defender's mistake. Zhang Yang and Benhaim hugged and comforted the man.

I have to say that Manchester City's luck today is really bad.

No, to be precise, it's too bad!

At 31 minutes of the game, Manchester City goalkeeper Johart hit the shot of Hull City striker Kusin. While he saved the football, he was also injured. After the examination, the Manchester City team doctor had to tell Manchester City's head coach Mark. Hughes has a bad news that Johart can't continue to play.

Mark. Hughes' face was gloomy. He could only warm up Schmeichel Jr., the substitute goalkeeper on the bench, and replace the injured Joe Hart with Schmeichel Jr.

At 40 minutes in the first half of the game, Elano fell to the ground after fighting with Giovani and could not hold on to the game.

"For Manchester City, they are really unlucky today. Their own defender Oolong assisted, the starting goalkeeper was injured, and the main team also fought with the opponent for injury. Before the end of the first half of the game, they had to use two substitution places!" Reinkel also shook his head and lamented the bad luck of Manchester City.

Mark. Hughes had to replace Elano with Ireland. At the same time, he also fine-tuned the player's position on the field, with Modric to the middle and Ireland to the side.

I have to say, Mark. Hughes still has some level. His on-the-spot change soon received a miraculous effect.

And this time, he was forced to replace, and Ireland's appearance also had a miraculous effect.

In the injury stoppage time in the first half of the game, Manchester City attacked, and Zhang Yang's dribble attracted the attention of two Hull City players. He suddenly passed the ball directly. Robinho stopped the ball slightly larger, and there was no shooting angle. However, the Brazilian was very smart and suddenly passed the football to the left side of the goal. There, he suddenly inserted There is no one around Ireland to defend him!

"Robinho - he passed the ball, no one around Ireland - shot -"

"GOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAL!"

"It's really unexpected that Manchester City exceeded the score before the end of the first half of the game!"

"And the goal is Ireland, who has just been on the bench! Elano's injury left the field, but it completed the substitute Ireland!"

Ireland, who scored the goal, was quite excited. As the main force of Manchester City last season, he became a substitute this season, and he was naturally unwilling. Being able to seize the opportunity to play as a substitute has an excellent performance, which will add a lot of points to the heart of the head coach for him to regain his main position.

Another thing that was very exciting to see Ireland's goal was Manchester City's head coach Mark. Hughes, although he was replaced by Ireland, this substitution was because of Elano's injury, but his fine-tuning of the player's position on the field is still quite effective. Well, this adjustment, let Mark. Hughes is complazable.

The score of 2 to 1 was maintained until more than 70 minutes of the whole game.

At this time, Mark. Hughes made a substitution adjustment, and he replaced Zhang Yang with Vaseel.

Zhang Yang has no problem with this substitution. He also thinks that it is not a big problem for the team to win the game. Although it is only two to one, leading by one goal, Hull City has no chance. There is still no big problem for Manchester City to keep a goal.

After Wasel came on the field, he got an excellent chance to score in less than three minutes!

Ireland, who came on as a substitute, was in good condition. He passed Robinho on the left edge of the penalty area. Robinho's shot was blocked by Hull City central defender Sayat's eye, and the football reached Wasser's feet. However, the former England international, facing more than half of the empty goal, he hit the air in the face of this excellent opportunity.

He is flawed!

Vassell used his actions to tell everyone why he is getting farther and farther away from the call of the England national team.

"God! Vassell! He didn't kick it out! He missed an easy goal!" Eddie. Gray's eyes are full of incredible.

It's very interesting that after Wasser kicked the ball, the director quickly changed the camera from Wasser's body to Robinho, another Manchester City striker!

Zhang Yang was about to rush out of the bench to celebrate the goal. Seeing that Vasel wasted such an opportunity, Zhang Yang's mouth was wide open. He couldn't imagine that such an opportunity would be missed!

It is said that wasting opportunities is punishable. This seems to be a universal truth!

In the 83rd minute of the game, Hull City got a free kick in the front court.

Giovani came to take the penalty for the set-piece ball. The quality of the set-piece he sent out was very average, but the problem was that the ball hit the shoulder of Manchester City's central defender Benhaim!!!

In the face of this refracted ball, Manchester City goalkeeper Schmeichel Jr. had nothing to do. His body originally wanted to move to the left, but the ball changed direction and flew in the opposite direction and entered the net!

"GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAL!" After shouting loudly, Reinkel also said with some tears and laughter, "Manchester City's luck is too bad. There is nothing the goalkeeper can do about such a refraction."

Eddie. Greg took a look at the unlucky Ben Haym. "After the bad mistake in the first half of the game, Ben Haym's performance was still good, but his luck was too bad. It was Giovani. The former Manchester City player's shot actually hit Ben Khaim's body and changed direction. I really doubt Ben Haim is the lucky star of the Brazilian midfielder!"

Lead Eddie. Gray's snake-like mouth doesn't say anything, and Benhaim on the court is about to cry. What day is it today? This is too unlucky!

The first mistake was a slippery under his own feet, and the own goal was an assist!

This time, I formed a human wall, and the opponent's shot actually hit his own body and changed direction. This is how the goal was scored!

On the sidelines, Zhang Yang hugged his head with some despair and helplessness. He knew that the ball could not be blamed by Ben Khaim, but Zhang Yang really wanted to ask this guy, did you read the almanac before the game today? Or did you meet a black cat when you went out?!

Giovani equalized the score for Hull City!

Two to two!

"Giovani's goal! This is the fifth goal of former Manchester City player Giovanni in the last seven rounds. The commentator Reinkel praised, "He was swept out of the door by Manchester City and came to Hull City, but it seemed to be the second spring."

Edie. Gray agreed with Reinkel's words, "Yes, but maybe Giovanni really doesn't match Manchester City. After he left Manchester City, he not only regained his state, but also his luck became much better.

The word 'eight characters don't fit' is still a classic word that Zhang Yang said in AC Milan last season. This word has also caused a lot of hype in the media, so that this word with a strong oriental metaphysical color has also become popular in Europe.

In this game, Giovani's two goals, one is Manchester City's defender, one is an own goal, and the other is refraction. The luck is not good, it's good.

The final score of this game was 2-0. In a good situation, Manchester City almost got three points into one point.

Even Giovani, who scored the goal, felt that this was too cruel to the guy in the opposite camp!

After the game, Giovanni also came to comfort Ben Khaim, who was very hurt. The man looked quite embarrassed and finally got a starting opportunity, but who would have thought of such a thing.

In this focus match, Manchester City played bis-2 against Hull City away!

In other matches:

Manchester United, which had a bad start to the season, finally started a kill. They created a massacre at home. At the end of the game with Stoke City, the scoreboard at Old Trafford Stadium was 5-0.

And the leader Liverpool beat Bolton zero away.

Chelsea, who tied for the first place with Liverpool's points, also won. They beat West Bromwich Albion three goals away.

Among the teams with higher points than Manchester City, only Arsenal lost again. Arsenal unexpectedly lost 2-2 at home to Aston Villa, which was a big surprise.

After this round of the league, Chelsea and Liverpool continued to rank first in the table with 30 points, Manchester United ranked third, and Arsenal and Aston Villa had the same points and tied for fourth place. Manchester City and Hull City continued to stay in sixth place with the same points.

After the game, when the media reported the match between Manchester City and Hull City, what they said most was: too bad luck!

PS: The second update, 10,000 words have been sent. The pig's head said weakly... Ask for a red ticket.