Chapter 101 I'm in a hurry to score a goal!
The media also reacted to Manchester City's elimination by Manchester United in the eighth of the FA Cup, because everyone knows that Manchester City's biggest goal this season is to reach the top four in the league. The FA Cup was eliminated, and it was out in such a 'deteable' way as a penalty. It is not a good thing for Manchester City, so that Manchester City can focus all its energy on the league.
On February 28, 2009, Manchester City welcomed Aston Villa at the Manchester Municipal Stadium.
The match between Manchester City and Aston Villa is also recognized by the media as one of the focus of this round.
Aston Villa now ranks third in the league, and Manchester City ranks fifth. Such a duel can be regarded as a well-deserved focus of a round of league.
After the introduction of Zhang Yang, Modric and other stars, Manchester City has not yet started the season, and the Premier League has set off a wave. For Manchester City to be in the top six, although the media and fans are a little unhappy, it is not too surprised. Manchester City has money, there are people, this is the capital, although the media and some people are one He is criticizing that Manchester City is an upstart, but no one cares that his team has also become an upstart. What is the fight for in modern football? To put it bluntly, the spelling is financial resources!
If Manchester City's performance is quite excellent, then Aston Villa's performance is perfect!
From the 6th place last season to the 26th round of this season's league, it is only a small step for teams in other leagues, but it is a big step in the Premier League. Because in the eyes of many people, the concept of the top four in the Premier League and the four giants is the same. Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool are almost the fixed top four in the Premier League! However, now, Aston Villa has succeeded in breaking people's fixed thinking.
Last season, although Aston Villa ranked 6th in the league, the difference from Liverpool, which ranked 4th, was as high as 16 points. The difference between the giants and the ordinary club is obvious. In the first three seasons, except for the "Big Four Families", no team in the Premier League has been able to appear in the Champions League in recent years. But so far, Aston Villa has accumulated 51 points and ranked third in the Premier League. Not only has Arsenal been far away, but even Chelsea has been trampled under their feet.
Of course, the current 51 points does not mean anything. The stability of the team is the premise of whether a team is called a rich family. Although Aston Villa is not yet able to compete with the "four families" of the Premier League, this season, in addition to losing away to Chelsea, in addition to Manchester United, Arsenal and Liverpool, O'Neal's team has 1 win and 3 draws, and has not fallen behind. Moreover, so far, Aston Villa has been unbeaten in 13 games in the league. Only Manchester United and Manchester City are qualified to compete. It can be said that Aston Villa is slowly attacking the traditional top four.
Now, Aston Villa is the most eye-catching team in the Premier League. Manchester City is more eye-catching than them. The Times wrote a great admiration for Aston Villa, which said that the rise of Aston Villa was not accidental. In addition to the financial support of Chairman Lerner, head coach O'Neal has made great contributions.
Since O'Neal's entry to Villa in the 2006-07 season, the Birmingham team's performance has been getting better and better. In the first year of O'Neal's entry, Villa ranked 11th; the following year, Villa rose five places to 6th, almost reaching the UEFA Cup. After halfway this season, Villa scored 35 points, 5 points more than the same period last season. And now it is in the top three in the Premier League. O'Neill, who coached legendary coach Clough, did succeed in Villa with an unyielding spirit and tough means.
Of course, it is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice. Without a good coach and a strong lineup, Villa will not have the same results as it is now. In the Villa lineup, the most important one is Captain Barry. Last summer, Barry was lured by Liverpool to get a high heart, but O'Neal, who was determined to make a career this season, insisted on leaving the captain and made a fierce recruitment: gouging prices to scare off the Red Army, and did not hesitate to implement three stops on Barry internally to calm the army's hearts. It turns out that O'Neal's hard hand is excellent. So far, Barry has scored 4 goals and 4 assists in the league, which is definitely a treasure of the team.
Except for Gareth. In addition to Barry, an English associate international in O'Neal is also an important contributor to the team's victory: Abon Raho and Ashley. Young has already emerged, and Sidwell, Milner, Luke Young, Curtis Davis, Shorey and other marginal figures are also "stable output" under their **. Coupled with the newly joined Husky in winter, Aston Villa now has a neat lineup and a stable military heart. Especially worth mentioning are Abanglaho and Ashley. Yang's attack combination. So far, Abanglajo has scored 10 goals in the league and tied for third place in the scorer list. And Ashley. With his performance of 5 goals and 7 assists, Yang became the first player to be elected the best of the month three times in a year (well, Zhang Yang was elected as the best of the month three times in seven months). And with such an arrogant combination, why is there any reason why Villa is not successful?
Although Aston Villa lost to Chelsea in the last round of the league, they are still the third place in the league, which also makes the team's morale high from top to bottom!
In this round of the league, against Manchester City away from home, the whole team of Aston Villa can be said to be holding a breath to revenge! Revenge? That's right, it's revenge! In the first round of the league, Manchester City slaughtered Aston Villa -4 to 0 in Villa Park. If Aston Villa did not perform well this season, then the defeat to Manchester City would be nothing. However, the problem is that Aston Villa's performance this season is simply perfect. They are now ranked third in the league. Ming, stepped on both Arsenal and Chelsea. Under such circumstances, in the eyes of the Aston Villa team, the game of losing 4-0 to Manchester City at home became so dazzling!
Therefore, in this game, Aston Villa's whole team is gritting their teeth to revenge. They want to kill Manchester City away. On the one hand, they want to stabilize their third place in the standings. On the other hand, they want revenge! Take revenge for the 0-4 defeat at home in the first round of the season! That fiasco was a thorn in the hearts of the beautiful Aston Villa. They had to kill Manchester City to be happy.
Arsenal's head coach Wenger cheered up O'Neal's team just before the game, saying that Aston Villa is fully hopeful to create a miracle again this season... In other words, is the miracle of Aston Villa going to continue from the Manchester Municipal Stadium?
Now, Aston Villa is in third place, with points of 51 points, Chelsea in fourth place, points of 50 points, Manchester City in fifth place, points of 48, Arsenal in sixth place, and points of 45 points. Obviously, in the eyes of Arsenal, they have to cross first. The closest Manchester City to them can be closer to the top four, and once Manchester City wins Aston Villa, the situation of the top five will be more chaotic. Of course, for Arsenal, if Manchester City and Aston Villa draw, it will be the most perfect result.
The whole team of Aston Villa wants revenge, but Aston Villa coach O'Neal was cautious when talking about the game with Manchester City. He said that his team's goal was to take one point from Manchester Municipal Stadium.
The Manchester Municipal Stadium is full. This game is of great significance to Manchester City's goal of entering the top four in the league. In the eyes of Manchester City fans, although Chelsea is now in the fourth place, the top four will definitely have a position for Chelsea. Then, another top four places will be Aston Villa, Manchester City and Arsenal are born, and now Aston Villa, who has three more points than Manchester City, is obviously Manchester City's biggest opponent at present!
In this game, Manchester City's goal is very clear, that is, to win the game!
Before the start of the game, the starting list of both sides was announced on the big screen of the Manchester Municipal Stadium.
Manchester City (4-4-2): 37-Geven/5-Sabaletta, 22-Dun, 33-Compani, 25-Bridge/8-Wright. Phillips, 7-Mudridge, 34-De Jong, 11-Elano/10-Changyang, 9-Robinho;
Aston Villa (4-3-3): 1-Fridel/2-Luke. Jan, 16-Knight, 15-Kertis. Davis, 24-Cuela/19-Petrov, 6- Gareth. Barry, 7-Ashley. Jan/8-Milner, 18-Husky, 11-Abanglaho;
Although Aston Villa head coach O'Neill said very politely before the game, he was very happy that he could take a point from the Manchester Municipal Stadium. However, looking at his platoon and the formation of three strikers, it can be seen that this person's words are not sincere. He also wants to kill Manchester City on the road. The defeat at home in the first round of the season also consolidates the team's ranking in the table.
O'Neill came to this game with ambition and purpose!
But only 3 minutes after the opening, Zhang Yang gave Aston Villa a blow. This game is the last league of Zhang Yang's "Save Ronaldo" plan and his last chance. For this game, Zhang Yang has not been idle at all these days. He trained crazily in the copy, trying to Fully armed to the teeth!
After the game started, Zhang Yang did not delay for a second, and he immediately entered the game state!
It can be said that in this game, in the first second from the whistle, Zhang Yang went all out, and every minute is precious! He is going to work hard to achieve a feat in this game against Aston Villa!
At the beginning of the game, Zhang Yang looked very excited. Less than a minute after he received a pass from Robinho, a long-range shot forced Aston Villa goalkeeper Fridel to make a save.
After the corner kick, Zhang Yang squeezed out the Knight who was staring at him and made a powerful header. Aston Villa was lucky to save another central defender Davis on the goal line, otherwise, they would have lost the ball.
The two consecutive attacks on the goal sounded the horn of Manchester City's attack.
Friedel's wonderful save and Aston Villa central defender Knight's goal line save only one more minute to protect their goal.
No. In the minute, Elano's long-range shot was pounced by Aston Villa goalkeeper Friedel, and the follow-up shot by Robinho hit Aston Villa central defender Curtis. Davis rolled his leg out of the penalty area...
When Zhang Yang made a long-range shot from Elano, he rushed to the penalty area. When Robinho made a make-up shot, Zhang Yang thought that Robinho must have a shot. However, after Robinho's foot, Zhang Yang knew that it was broken. Robinho's shooting method was wrong, and he might be saved.
Sure enough, Robinho's shot was pounced on by Fridel and rolled to one side. He was already prepared to show off, like a clever fox, rushed to the front of the football. Facing the tackle of Aston Villa defender Knight, he deftly pulled the football horizontally, dodged the tackle, lifted his right foot and kicked it directly. Shoot vigorously!
It is difficult to shoot at this angle to hit the football with a normal foot. Zhang Yang chose to shoot vigorously and shoot the football very high, which is just enough to avoid the second save of Aston Villa goalkeeper Fridel!
After the football was hit, it flew to the goal like a cannonball out of the barrel. Aston Villa goalkeeper Friedel really wanted to get up and save, but Zhang Yang had long prevented him from saving. The height of the shot was high enough that Fridel had not been able to fully climb up, and the football had already roared. Fly in from the upper right corner of the goal and hit the net high!
"GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAL!"
"IT'S...GOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAL!!! ZHANG! ......ZHANG——GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAL!! SUPPER - GOAL!! Manchester City leads 1-0! JUST 3 MINUTES IN THE OPEN, ZHANG SCORES A GOAL. HE IS REALLY IN EXCELLENT STATE TODAY! O'Neal put on an offensive formation. Obviously, he wanted to take three points from the Manchester Municipal Stadium, but he seemed to forget, be careful!" Eddie. Gray shouted loudly and cheered for Manchester City's goal. While cheering for the goal, he did not forget to make fun of Aston Villa's head coach.
When everyone sees O'Neal's starting formation, they know that O'Neal is coming for three points. However, at the Manchester Municipal Stadium, it's not easy to play offensive football and win Manchester City!
Before Zhang Yang came to Manchester City, the most criticized place in Manchester City was their 'away bug' and poor away performance. However, don't forget that the twin brother of the 'away bug' was the 'home dragon'. At that time, Manchester City was difficult to deal with at home. Now, with the publicity of Manchester City, their city Although the political stadium can't be said to be the most horrible home stadium of the Premier League, it is definitely a devil's stadium!
O'Neal didn't want to strengthen his defense. Instead, he wanted to play offensive football. Now, the game has only lasted for three minutes, and he has suffered a blow!
After scoring the goal, Zhang Yang waved his fist hard. To everyone's surprise, Zhang Yang did not start to celebrate the goal, but rushed into Aston Villa's goal, picked up the football, and ran to the middle circle. He wanted to kick off as soon as possible!
This stunned everyone. Some fans subconsciously looked at the time on the big screen. Yes, the game has just begun, and Manchester City is leading 1-0. Zhang Yang is so anxious to kick off in the middle circle, which makes them have the illusion that the game is coming to an end, and Manchester City's score is lagging behind.
Other Manchester City players came to celebrate the goal with Zhang Yang. They were also surprised to see Zhang Yang running to the middle circle with a football in his arms.
"Zhang, what's the matter? Are you in such a hurry?" Wright. Phillips asked.
"Nothing." Zhang Yang said, he thought Wright. Phillips asked inexplicable. This guy hasn't understood why his teammates asked him. He just wants to play quickly and score goals. However, his teammates don't know that Zhang Yang's goal is to score seven goals. His teammates think that to help Manchester City win is to complete the task!
"So what are you?" Modric also came to ask. He pointed to the football held by Zhang Yang.
"Ah--" Only then did Zhang Yang understand what everyone was asking. He casually said, "It's nothing. I'm in a hurry to score a goal."
There were also some inexplicable Aston Villa players. At this time, when they heard Zhang Yang's words, their faces turned green...
Shit, what does this boy mean?!
"Are you in a hurry to score a goal?" Modric was also stunned and asked.
"Yes!" Zhang Yang trotted towards the middle circle and nodded seriously. This expression is very serious...
PS: The second update. Ask for a red ticket.