Chapter 899： Old man, is it better now?

Community Shield Cup, Premier League outpost.

It is important because it is a duel between the Premier League champion and the FA Cup champion. The level of the participating teams is self-evident.

Judging from the level of participating teams, it is a bit like the Super Cup of other leagues.

But it is not important, because he is different from the Super Cup in other leagues. It can change six people. This is equivalent to a warm-up match, and as we all know, the Community Shield is actually a charity match.

Even, many people generally believe that the Community Shield has a curse.

That's the team that won the Community Shield Cup, often failing to win the Premier League championship in the new season.

This is of course nonsense, and not all of it, but the probability is still quite high.

As a result, there has always been a saying that in order to avoid hurting the team's morale and to better impact the league championship, the so-and-so team strategically abandoned the Community Shield and focused on training.

But it also depends on the situation.

For example, in this year’s Community Shield, the Manchester Derby was staged. This is a game that no one can ignore.

Before the game, the two teams also tightened the atmosphere of the decisive battle, making fans all over the world look forward to seeing a peak matchup in the Community Shield. But at the beginning of the game, when the two teams came up with the starting list, Many people are disappointed.

Why?

No main force!

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I don't know if it is because of participating in the Van der Sar farewell match, Manchester United has adjusted a lot in the lineup.

The goalkeeper is De Gea, the defense is Evra, Evans, Phil Jones and Smallin, the midfield is Ashley Young, Anderson, Cleverly and Nani, and the frontcourt is Welbeck. Partner Rooney.

Not only did Vidic and Ferdinand on the defensive line fail, but midfielders such as Carrick and Giggs also all came off the bench.

In the regular starting lineup, Ferguson ranked Rooney.

Manchester City also did not do the same.

The goalkeeper is Joe Hart, the defense is Leighton Bynes, Xavi Martinez, Kompany and Trippier, the midfielder is Tiago, and the frontcourt is David Silva. With Tony Cross, the frontcourt is a combination of Di Maria, Dzeko and Sanchez.

Su Dong, who went to Amsterdam to participate in the Van der Sar farewell match, also did not appear in the starting lineup. Instead, he sat on the bench. Also sitting on the bench was Aguero.

This gives a feeling that as long as the team is playing smoothly, Guardiola does not even plan to let Su Dong play.

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Although the two teams did not give full play to the main force, but the game is still very fierce.

Relying on the advantage of passing and controlling the ball, Manchester City firmly locked the situation at the beginning, controlled the scene, and frequently launched attacks and infiltrations against Manchester City, especially in the frontcourt, where they played very fiercely.

Whether it is Di Maria, Sanchez, or Dzeko, they have clearly felt the pressure from summer signings.

It's the same for everyone. In one summer, three offensive players were introduced. Apart from Su Dong, who has no pressure?

The three new aids are not small.

Hazard is the best player in Ligue 1, Douglas Costa shined in the Champions League last season, not to mention Aguero, the famous talented striker of Argentina and the son-in-law of Maradona.

Looking at today's world football, except for the top superstars, who can face these three people without pressure?

The frontcourt attacked fiercely, but the back line made mistakes one after another.

After Manchester United's midfielder intercepted the ball, Rooney, who retreated, quickly sent the ball behind him, and Nani quickly intervened.

Kompany made a serious mistake and failed to clear the ball accurately. After being rushed in by Nani, he grabbed the pass and formed a single shot. After passing goalkeeper Joe Hart, he pushed the empty goal successfully and opened for Manchester United. Record.

One to zero!

After losing the ball, Manchester City continued to organize the attack.

In the 38th minute, Evra fouled from the wing. David Silva made a free kick. Kompany, who had just made a serious mistake and caused the team to lose the ball, was in the bag of Phil Jones and Evans. Under the clamp, a header from close range hit the goal, equalizing the score for Manchester City, one to one.

But before the end of the first half, Manchester United got a free kick opportunity from the left. When the pass to the front of the small penalty area, Joe Hart did not make a decisive attack. Smalin seized the opportunity and scored a volley to help. Manchester United once again exceeded the score.

Two to one.

In the second half, Guardiola replaced three players at halftime.

Replaced Thiago with David Luiz, pushed Harvey Martinez to the midfield position, and let David Luiz partner with Kompany as a central defender.

At the same time, Marcelo replaced Leighton Bynes to strengthen the team's offense on the left, and Sabaletta replaced Trippier to strengthen the team's defense on the right, because Nani in the first half Very active on the left side of Manchester United.

This is also the experience that Guardiola and Manchester City players summed up after a few warm-up games in the summer.

For example, on the left, Marcelo and Hazard are both players with strong ball-handling ability. If they are allowed to appear on the left at the same time, the performance of both players will be affected.

The team played together for a relatively short period of time. I haven't thought of a good way to resolve the conflict between Hazard and Marcelo, so for the time being, the two can only be used separately.

So now, Manchester City’s left wing configuration is basically fixed, Marcelo partnered Di Maria, Leyton Bynes partnered Hazard, and even if necessary, Sanchez and Douglas Costa, and even David Xi Alva can play on the left.

There are many generalists in the frontcourt, which is also a major feature of Manchester City.

Manchester City changed three in one breath, and Manchester United also changed.

There are six substitutions in the Community Shield Cup, and no one will be polite.

In the fifty-eighth minute, it was Di Maria and David Silva's wall-to-wall cooperation at the front of the penalty area, which allowed Di Maria to enter the penalty area to the left side and equalize the score for Manchester City, two to two!

After that, no matter how Manchester City attacked, they couldn't break Manchester United's goal again, and the game fell into a stalemate.

In the 75th minute, Guardiola replaced Dzeko with Sudong.

Only nine minutes later, Marcelo instigated the attack on the left side of Manchester City. Just after passing the center line, he passed diagonally to Su Dong who was in response to the retracement.

Sudong pulled the ball outside the 30-meter area of ​​Manchester United and received the ball unguarded.

Stopped the ball and turned to the right. There were no Manchester United defenders around, and Cleverly and Anderson were not in positions.

This is also a characteristic of Manchester United's two midfielders, and it is easy to lose their position.

But just when everyone thought that Su Dong would directly rush the ball towards Manchester United's defense, Su Dong made a little adjustment and suddenly shot out.

The ball was like a shocking arrow that tore through Manchester United's defense.

The ball was pressed fast and flat, and there was a rebound near the small penalty area line, which made De Gea, who flopped sideways, unable to do anything. He could only watch the ball pass through his fingertips and penetrate into it. Got behind the goal.

The unlucky Spanish teenager scored three goals in his first official game on behalf of Manchester United.

After Su Dong scored, he did not run to the sidelines to celebrate, but raised his hands high and let out a shout on the spot.

The cheers of Manchester City fans came across the stadium.

Su Dong quickly turned around and saw Ferguson in front of the coach. They were very close to each other. Ferguson could clearly see the smile on Su Dong's face and the provocation in his eyes.

Old man, now you know how good I am at center, right?

You let me play as a central defender before, right?

Now, isn't it better?

Ferguson couldn't guess what Su Dong was thinking, and angrily took the gum from his mouth and turned to leave him a back.

Isn't it the Community Shield Cup?

I don't know how many seats I have taken, I can't even look down upon it at all!

Besides, this thing has a curse. Whoever wins the Community Shield will lose the Premier League title in the new season.

We, Manchester United, are not rare in the Community Shield. Unlike you, who have not gotten it for decades, we are naturally hungry.

Xiaomen Xiaohu Xiaojiaqi!

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In the end, the game was Manchester City three to two, relying on Su Dong's shocking long-range shot, lore to kill the Red Devils Manchester United.

In the press conference after the game, Ferguson still said that the main thing for Manchester United in this game is to train the players and polish the team's tactics. As for whether he can win the championship, he actually doesn't care about it.

Guardiola also said that the team is committed to training, but it is always a good thing to win the championship.

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In the subsequent scores of players given by Sky Sports, the performance of the players of the two teams was not particularly satisfactory.

The best performer from Manchester City was David Silva, who scored eight points.

Kompany was the culprit of conceding goals, but he also scored a goal, which was regarded as a crime. Goalkeeper Joe Hart scored a very mediocre six points on the grounds that he did not make any contribution to the two goals.

Speaking carefully, these two goals conceded are not Joe Hart's mistakes. He can't be blamed for conceding the ball, but in the tactical framework of Manchester City, no fault is sometimes unacceptable.

Mistakes are sometimes easier to allow.

It was as if the second goal was conceded, Joe Hart did not attack decisively.

It's problematic for defensive players to miss people, but Joe Hart can actually attack so close to the goal, but he doesn't.

If this thing goes by like this, then forget it.

But after playing the Community Shield Cup, Joe Hart said in an interview with the media that after the team took advantage of the scene, it was always too easy to expose the goal to the opponent's counterattack.

"I think some of our players should be more active and brave."

After Guardiola received the news, he quickly rebutted it through the media.

"Joe Hart's job is to keep the goal, not to blame the team's tactics and teammates."

"If anyone in the team is qualified to criticize the players and criticize the team's tactics, then I will bear the brunt, then the captain, not him!"

This was quickly interpreted by the media as Joe Hart dissatisfied with the team's tactics and teammates.

To use the Sun’s saying that the world will not be chaotic, “England’s national team is tired of repeatedly tactics for the team, wiped the **** and backed up the mistakes of teammates, and he hopes that Manchester City’s defense can protect him more stably.”