Chapter 148 One Hundred Balls!
Congratulations to Manchester City! Congratulations to Zhang Yang and his teammates, congratulations to Manchester City fans, they are the champions of the English League Cup in the 2009/2010 season!! When Zhang Yang raised the championship trophy high, there was such a sound in the radio of the Millennium Stadium.
Zhang Yang handed the championship trophy to the old captain Richard. Dunn. The latter held the trophy high and won great cheers from the fans.
Subsequently, the trophy was passed to more people, and everyone wanted to kiss the trophy and raise it high.
Sun Jihai took the championship trophy from Modric's hand. He shouted, "We are the champions!" He shouted three times in a row and raised the trophy three times. Except for this sentence, he couldn't say anything at this moment.
Sun Jihai felt that he had no regrets about winning a league cup before retiring.
The next day, the front page headline of the Manchester City Evening News, which has just been published for sale. It is a huge photo. Surrounded by countless reporters, Zhang Yang is holding the trophy in one hand and pointing to the trophy in the other. He is talking.
The young Manchester City captain issued a declaration: This is our first trophy! There will be a lot of trophies later!! Wait and see!
Manchester City won the English League Cup in the 2009/2010 season. This is the third time that Manchester City has won the championship trophy again in 33 years. The city of Manchester has fallen into madness. This madness has lasted for three days in the city, and the City Hall Square in the city center is overcrowded.
Especially when Manchester City returned to Manchester from Wales, the whole city was empty. The welcoming crowd extended from Manchester Airport to Town Hall. The streets of the bus were full of Manchester City fans. In Manchester, the vast majority of Manchester City fans are still Manchester City fans, so in the past few days, the color of the whole city belongs to the blue of Manchester City!
Of course, Manchester City fans celebrate, which also makes Manchester United fans very unhappy. Some Manchester United fans sarcasticly say that they only won a trophy of the League Cup, and they parade with floats. It's a little complacent to celebrate. It's worthy of being a hillbilly who has never seen a trophy.
Regarding the sarcastic words of Manchester United fans, Manchester City fans directly said: We are the leader now!
Yes, in the Premier League table, Manchester City is the leader, while Manchester United is only third, and the Red Devils are seven points behind the Blue Moon! This is indeed the most powerful weapon for Manchester City fans to fight back against Manchester United fans!
The trophy of this League Cup is the first championship trophy won by Zhang Yang after he came to Manchester City, so in two or three days after winning the championship. Zhang Yang's busiest thing is to answer the phone. He receives a lot of phone calls, all of which are congratulations and thanks. There are former teammates from Marseille, former teammates from AC Milan, good friends in China, reporters who want to be familiar with, and some famous football players... Mara Dona even called to congratulate Zhang Yang, which was a surprise for Zhang Yang. He also wished Maradona's Argentine team an excellent performance in the World Cup in South Africa.
A week after winning the League Cup, 2010.3.7, Manchester City lost 6-1 to Chelsea in the FA Cup quarter-quarter and was eliminated from the FA Cup.
Some media criticized that Manchester City celebrated too much after winning the League Cup. The players have not yet come out of the joy of winning the League Cup, and losing to Chelsea is expected.
But, in fact?!
The joy of winning the League Cup was soon forgotten by Zhang Yang and his teammates. After all, no one can point to a League Cup champion to live.
In the FA Cup match with Chelsea, Manchester City had a good attitude and played hard. However, Chelsea's performance in this game was indeed better than that of Manchester City.
Lampard set the first record for Chelsea, and Zhang Yang equalized the score for Manchester City. However, in the injury time, Drogba's goal helped Chelsea beat Manchester City and eliminated Manchester City.
Although he was eliminated by Chelsea in the FA Cup, the Manchester City players are not too frustrated, because there are two sides to everything. The FA Cup is out, which is not a 'good thing' for Manchester City.
Before being out of the FA Cup, Manchester City was on the third line in the FA Cup, the league and the Champions Cup. Even Manchester City's bench depth is quite good, but it is quite difficult for Manchester City.
The media analyzed that with the current background and staffing of Manchester City, if they really want to go side by side in the third line, then the most likely situation of waiting for Manchester City will be a bad situation.
Now that Manchester City is out of the FA Cup, Manchester City only needs to play in the league and the Champions League. Although the two-line battle is still a heavy task for this young team, it is a 'burden reduction' anyway.
2010.3.10, in the second round of the eighth quarter-finals of the 2009/2010 Champions League, Manchester City beat Porto 3-0 at home!
In the two rounds, Manchester City eliminated Porto with a total score of 5-0 and reached the quarterfinals with their heads held high.
Zhang Yang scored twice in the game, which was the biggest contributor to Manchester City's victory. He also scored 10 goals in the Champions League this season!
When the whistle at the end of the game sounded, the whole Manchester Municipal Stadium couldn't wait for a huge cheer!
Two seasons ago, this team was still the middle and lower reaches of the Premier League. At the end of last season, they ranked fourth in the league and qualified for the Champions League!
Now, they are the leader of the Premier League, the champion of the League Cup, and have also reached the quarterfinals in the Champions League!
This is a dream-like beauty for Manchester City fans!
After the game, the biggest focus is that Manchester City has reached the quarterfinals of the Champions League!
That is, Zhang Yang's number of goals on behalf of Manchester City!
Not counting the warm-up match, only the official matches, the Premier League, the English League Cup, the FA Cup, the Champions League and the Champions League qualifiers are counted. In this way, after two goals in the match with Porto, Zhang Yang has scored 99 goals for Manchester City!
This is quite a horrible data!
You know, this is only Zhang Yang's second season for Manchester City!
Moreover, Manchester City did not have a European match last season.
Before the end of the second season, Zhang Yang scored 99 goals for Manchester City!
As a cooperative media of Manchester City Club, the Manchester City Evening News is the first to count the number of goals on behalf of Manchester City!
When Zhang Yang's number of goals reached 90 goals, the media was planning to promote the '100-ball memorial' on behalf of Manchester City!
Now, Zhang Yang has scored 99 goals for Manchester City! The 100-goal mark is close at hand!
Now, all Manchester City fans and Zhang Yang's fans are looking forward to the arrival of Zhang Yang's 100th goal for Manchester City!
This is a memorable moment!
Some strikers spend their lives and can't score 100 official goals for the team they work for, but Zhang Yang only needs two seasons to complete all this.
After the match with Porto, the media's hype about Zhang Yang's '100-ball celebration' has intensified. The media and fans are discussing which game Zhang Yang will complete his 100-ball commemoration on behalf of Manchester City!
People are discussing which team will become the unlucky guy of the flamboyant 'Hundred Ball Festival'. Of course, it can't be said to be an unlucky ghost. On the other hand, it's a 'honor'.
With only one goal, you can reach a hundred goals. After the game with Porto, in the following games, any of Manchester City's opponents may become the object of the legend.
The media listed Manchester City's schedule in the following games.
On March 13, 2010, the 30th round of the Premier League, Manchester City away vs Sunderland;
On March 16, 2010, the 29th round of the Premier League, Manchester City home vs Tottenham Hotspur;
On March 21, 2010, the 31st round of the Premier League, Manchester City away vs Fulham;
According to Zhang Yang's goal status, almost all the media believe that if Zhang Yang does not score a goal in three games, it can simply be understood as the 'end of the world'.
So, Sunderland, Tottenham Hotspur and Fulham, these three teams, may become the sacrifices of the flamboyant 'Hundred Ball Festival'!
Moreover, in the view of many media, Manchester City's first opponent, Sunderland, is the team that is most likely to be scored by Zhang Yang. This is not to say that Sunderland is weak, but that Zhang Yang's current state is too good. To be precise, it has always been in a hot state. It is hard to imagine that Sunderland can stop Zhang Yang. Ball.
Almost everyone believes that Zhang Yang will score in the game against Sunderland and complete 100 goals on behalf of Manchester City!
However, what everyone can't imagine is that good things take a long time.
On March 13, 2010, Manchester City played ero to zero in Sunderland! Zhang Yang didn't score, and Manchester City didn't score!
In this game, although Sunderland was at home, their tactics were very clear, that is, to get a point, so Sunderland adopted the strategy of shrinking defense. Not to mention, they really resisted Manchester City's bombardment and did not lose the ball. It successfully tied Manchester City.
The camera can capture that when the whistle at the end of the game blows, the public expression is a little lonely. Obviously, the Manchester City captain also wants to complete his 100th goal on behalf of Manchester City in this game. Unfortunately, although he worked very hard in the game, he missed the goal.
"Sunderland seems to be determined not to make his team a way to become a publicity 'hundredball festival' and will go down in history. Therefore, their purpose in this game seems to have only one, that is, not to let Zhang Yang score goals! Other Manchester City players also seem to deliberately help their captains and pass the ball to Zhang Yang at every opportunity. The result is that Zhang Yang did not score, and Manchester City did not score. They got a zero-to-zero draw! You know, they didn't score in the last game, and it can be traced back to the 11th round of the league away game and Birmingham.
There was no goal in the match with Sunderland, and the flamboyant 'hundball performance' was forced to be postponed.
Under such circumstances, a make-up match three days later, a make-up match in the twenty-ninth round of the Premier League, and a match between Manchester City and Tottenham Hotspur at home have become the focus of people's attention!
In this game, Manchester City is at home, and The Times even joked that Manchester City fans may have to thank Sunderland, who blocked Manchester City, which gave Manchester City fans the opportunity to witness their captain's 'hundred-ball performance' at home.
On March 16, 2010, in the 29th round of the Premier League, Manchester City's home game vs Tottenham Hotspur.
The game has been going on for 79 minutes, and the score on the field is still 1-0!
Manchester City is 1-0 behind at home!
Promo's goal at the beginning of the second half of the game broke the deadlock for Tottenham Hotspur and kept the lead until nearly 80 minutes.
"Now, what Manchester City should consider is not to help Zhang Yang score, but to score quickly, at least to equalize the score. If they lose this game, they will only be one point ahead of Chelsea!"
Just as the commentator said this, Sun Jihai blocked Pavlyuchenko's pass with his body, and Modric grabbed the front of Bentley and passed the football to Tevez.
Tevisla turned around and began to rush in with the ball. Seeing Hexter coming up to defend himself, Tevez passed the football to Elano, who came to receive it. The latter did not stop the ball, but divided the football diagonally, and then people saw Zhang Yang appear on the football line.
Tottenham Hotspur's full-back Bayer fell to the ground and wanted to destroy the football. Unexpectedly, Zhang Yang saw through Bayer's intention. With a beautiful toe, Zhang Yang also jumped up and dodged Bayer's tackle. Then, Zhang Yang fell to the ground and continued to catch up with the football.
Seeing Zhang Yang's beautiful escape and passing, there were cheers in the stands of the municipal stadium.
After Zhang Yang passed Bayer, he began to score with the ball.
Tottenham Hotspur's rear defense pulled a danger alert!
Facing Tottenham Hotspur central defender Dawson who came to intercept, Zhang Yang led the football forward with his right foot. When Dawson stretched out his foot to intercept the ball, Zhang Yang quickly buckled the football back, followed by a change of direction and accelerated from the other side!
Just after breaking through Dawson, Zhang Yang looked at Tottenham Hotspur goalkeeper Gomez, who was hesitating whether to attack!
The blood in Zhang Yang's chest was boiling, and the goalkeeper made no threat to him!
His eyesighted through the goalkeeper, he saw the net and the goal!
Wang your right foot!
"This is..." Zhang Yang roared, and then shot suddenly, "...the hundredth!!"
This is a burst shot, with great power, extremely fast ball speed, and what's more rare is that the angle of the shot is also extremely tricky!
Even two Gomez can't stop this goal!
The football flew into the goal with the intersection of the goal post and the crossbar! This is a dead corner in the absolute sense!!
"GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAL!"
"Goal! Goal!! Goal!!!" When Zhang Yang pulled out this shot and flew the football high, Eddie, the commentator of Sky TV. Gray roared three times, and the commentator raised his arms excitedly and stood up: "The 100th goal! Let's remember this day, remember this game! Remember this goal! This is the 100th goal scored by Zhang Yang on behalf of Manchester City in the official match!! This is only his second season for Manchester City! What a crazy number! It's hard to imagine how many goals he can score for Manchester City! At this moment, Manchester City fans, cheer for your heroes! Cheer for him! Congratulations, Zhang Yang!"
Gomez, the goalkeeper of Tottenham Hotspur, beat his hands on the ground. He didn't want to be the goalkeeper of the flamboyant 'Baiqiu Festival', but he was the poor background goalkeeper.
After scoring the goal, Zhang Yang was so excited that he couldn't take it easy!
The excited Manchester City rushed to the stands, then waved its arms and kept stirring up the fans. His move made the atmosphere of the stadium that was about to explode more hot and crazy.
But as soon as he waved it twice, his body was pushed to the ground by the teammates who rushed behind him and pressed down at the bottom.
Everyone shouted, and they shouted, "Well done, Zhang!"
"Congratulations, captain!"
"You are the best, Zhang!"
At this moment, the cheers of the whole Manchester Municipal Stadium are overwhelming, and the whole stadium is the hottest place in this erupting active volcanic city!
They are shouting:
"Huge! Zhang Yang!!"
"Huge! One hundred balls!"
"Huge of us, our captain!"