Chapter 925： Contest of new and old captains

After two weeks of national team matches, the players returned to Carrington one after another.

The internationals playing in Europe will be earlier, while the South American internationals will arrive the day before the game.

This is also because Manchester City special charter flights, if they let them fly by themselves, it will take longer.

This is also the biggest problem brought about by the national team game.

There is really nothing to say about the game itself, the most important thing is the distance.

Some internationals even flew back, played a game without rest, and returned directly after the game. Almost all the players' consumption was spent on long distances.

By the afternoon of the day before the game, after the team's training session, Su Dong specially kept the first team players.

At this time, the staff of Mendes Company had sent a gift that Su Dong carefully prepared for his teammates.

With the annual salary of a Manchester City player, even if it is a young teenager in the first team, it is a high-paying class in society. It is not a rare gift at all. The key lies in who gave the gift and why.

What Su Dong presented this time is a three-piece set of Apple’s newly launched. Mobile phones, tablets and laptops are all the highest configuration and the price is not cheap. It is not a big deal for some famous stars, but for special A teenager like Lippier is relatively rare.

One reason everyone values ​​it is that the gift was given by Su Dong.

"Captain, the holiday hasn't arrived yet, why are you suddenly giving us gifts?" David Luiz, who is also a big grin, smiled from ear to ear after receiving the gift, and asked curiously.

Su Dong smiled, not hiding, "I'm getting married!"

"Marriage?" David Louis was taken aback, "Who is it with?"

"Nonsense." Marcelo slapped his head next to him. "Who are you as our captain? Who else can you talk to besides marrying that person?"

David Luiz suddenly realized that he had also seen Wang Chuqing at the party and was shocked by the heavens.

Everyone was also amused for a while, and they thought these two Brazilian live treasures were really interesting.

"When is the time set?" Gareth Barry asked more sophisticatedly.

"The time has not yet been determined. The preliminary estimate is after the end of next year's season."

Everyone immediately understood.

In fact, for professional players, the rest period between the two seasons has always been the peak of marriage. Almost all players get married during this period. Some international players who participate in the national team have encountered the World Cup and the European Cup. In such a competition, you have to sacrifice the training time before the season and ask for leave to get married, otherwise there is no time.

Su Dong is different from other players. He has never had a national team game task, and naturally he does not need to worry about it. As long as the league is closed, he has a lot of time to prepare for the wedding.

He announced now that he was actually telling everyone that, except for the people he invited, he would not give further notice. As for who he would invite, there is no need to say more about the answer.

Such as Pepe, David Silva, Marcelo and Tony Cross, they are all the best friends of Sudong.

Only the person with the strongest relationship can receive the invitation. As for the others, the notice is in place today.

Everyone knew this, so they walked over to Su Dongdao and congratulated him on his marriage in advance.

"Then everyone of us this season will work hard to get a good result, congratulations to Su's newly married!" Pepe suggested.

The two deputy captains, Kompany and Sabaletta, also spoke out in support of Pepe's suggestion.

After receiving this generous gift from Su Dong, the players naturally responded.

More importantly, Manchester City did a very good job this season. So far, he has maintained a record of seven rounds of victory in the Premier League.

However, the next round of the game, that is, the opponent in this game tomorrow night, is not bad.

So far, the Premier League has played seven rounds and four teams have not lost. They are Manchester City at the top, Manchester United at the second place, Newcastle and Aston Villa.

Newcastle is unbeaten with four wins, three draws and is currently ranked fourth in the Premier League. It looks like the Magpies are about to regroup.

As for the sudden emergence of this season, or whether it can really get back to the former Premier League giants, it depends on the next performance of Newcastle.

As for Aston Villa, it is actually quite embarrassing, because in the first seven rounds, they only won two wins, and the remaining five were all draws, ranking seventh in the Premier League standings.

From this point, it is not difficult to see that Aston Villa may not be so good, but it is very difficult.

If you want to say the most eye-shattering team in the first seven rounds, it is definitely Arsenal.

After seven rounds, the Gunners had two wins, one draw and four losses. He is currently ranked 15th, only two points away from the relegation zone.

If it were not for Wenger's respect for the Gunners' status, usually at this time he would have started a coaching change.

No one really thinks that Arsenal will sink, but the Gunners played in a mess in the first seven rounds. This is also a fact. The key depends on whether Wenger can lead the team to reverse the situation in the next few games.

As for Manchester City, the pressure on the next schedule is also particularly high.

After playing Aston Villa, Villarreal ushered in the third round of the Champions League group stage, and the Manchester Derby will be the weekend.

Last season Manchester City bloodbathed Manchester United at Old Trafford, and now Ferguson threatened to take revenge at home.

This battle is considered the most important battle for Manchester City so far this season.

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On the afternoon of October 15th, in the eighth round of the Premier League, Manchester City played against Aston Villa at home.

As the next game is more onerous, so today, Guardiola still has a rotation.

All players who have travelled long distances to return to the country to participate in the game and have played full court in the national team are taking turns in this round of competition.

This has resulted in Manchester City having to lay out a severely crippled lineup.

The goalkeeper is Courtois, the defense is Leighton Bynes, Xavi Martinez, Pepe and Trippier, the midfielder is Tiago, and the forward is Milner and Gareth. Barry, frontcourt are Hazard, Sudong and Douglas Costa.

All the South American internationals have been excluded from the big squad, and Guardiola clearly wants them to keep the strength to play in the Champions League.

Aston Villa coach McLeish played a four-two-three-one double midfielder tactic on the away game to guard against the dead, and did not intend to leave Manchester City with the slightest pass infiltration.

After the start of the game, the situation was basically as expected by the outside world. Although Manchester City is composed of Milner and Gareth Barry in the midfield, they still have a clear advantage in passing and controlling the ball.

The biggest difference is that the operation of Manchester City's midfield is not smooth, especially in terms of creating opportunities.

But even so, Manchester City still seized an opportunity in the fifteenth minute.

Douglas Costa broke through with the ball on the right and passed it to Milner, who broke into the right side of the penalty area and then crossed to the penalty spot. Su Dong, who followed in the middle, rushed to the ball and kicked the ball without stopping. Angry shot.

The ball was almost against the grass and quickly flew into the lower right corner of Aston Villa's goal, one to zero!

After scoring the lead, Manchester City continued to launch waves of attacks on Aston Villa.

In the 28th minute, the left-back Hutton encountered Manchester City's pressure when he got the ball. After the ball was intercepted by Hazard, the Belgian launched a counterattack on the spot and rushed the ball all the way to Aston Villa's. On the left side of the penalty area, he calmly pushed the far corner and succeeded, for Manchester City to make another victory, two to zero!

After scoring two goals in a row, Manchester City's morale boosted.

The first half ended with a two-goal lead, and the second half just started. In just two minutes, Trippier dribbled in on the right. Just past the center line, he caught a chance and sent a diagonal with his right foot. A long pass sent the ball directly to the head of Aston Villa's defense.

Sudong jumped in after the high-speed, and took the first step in front of the former Manchester City captain Dunn. The header headed in front of him. After landing, he quickly caught up and rushed to the ball before the other central defender Clark. Large restricted area.

Before the goalkeeper was in place, Su Dong stabs the ball first and sends the ball into the goal behind him, three to zero!

"Twice a brace!!"

"In the direct contest between the new and old captains of Manchester City, Dunn didn't have any temper with Su Dong. He watched him grab the landing point and left in the dust."

"We have to sigh that Su Dong, whether it is physical fitness, bounce ability, speed and explosiveness, is indeed more outstanding, which is fully reflected in this goal."

"Three to zero, Manchester City has basically won the victory ahead of time!"

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Only five minutes later, Manchester City once again created a threat.

This time it was Milner who sent a through pass from the outside of the penalty area, which was accurately given to the feet of Su Dong in the penalty area.

After Su Dong blocked Dunn with his body, he straightened out his leg and shot angrily.

Aston Villa's goalkeeper reacted swiftly and made a strenuous save to block Su Dong's shot.

But when everyone was about to breathe a sigh of relief, Gareth Barry suddenly appeared in the penalty area, facing the flying football with his left foot, volleyed directly, and drew the ball into Astonville Pull the goal.

After the goal, Gareth Barry did not celebrate.

He is from Aston Villa and was the captain of the team at the time, and he was deeply loved by Aston Villa fans.

Today, he is playing against Aston Villa as a Manchester City player, and his performance is also very excited, but after scoring, he does not intend to celebrate, but walks back silently.

Nevertheless, this move by Gareth Barry also received warm applause from the Manchester City fans.

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With the overall situation set, Su Dong was replaced by Dzeko. UU reading

Interestingly, just five minutes after he was off the field, Dzeko's shot created a corner kick. Pepe received a pass from his teammate and hit the goal with a header in the penalty area. It was another city for Manchester City, 5-0!

This is also the last goal of the game.

Manchester City finally beat Aston Villa 5-0 at home and scored another three-pointer.

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Three days later, in the third round of the Champions League group stage, Manchester City played against Villarreal at home.

Only four minutes into the game, David Luiz broke through with the ball in the backcourt. Italian forward Rossi volleyed at the top of the penalty area. After Courtois was struggling to save, Carney broke into the penalty area and calmly pushed the empty goal. succeed.

Zero to one!

Manchester City fell behind for the first time this season.