Chapter 784: Counterattack

After the end of the series of warm-up matches for the International Champions Cup, Manchester City immediately returned to England.
The new Premier League season is about to begin, and all teams are intensively preparing for the new season.
The transfer period is not over yet, and the news about the transfer follows one by one.
But none of these have much to do with Manchester City. After returning to England, the team is about to prepare for an official game!
A preliminary match before the start of the new season, the England Community Shield.
Since Manchester City won the Premier League and the FA Cup last season, the opponent of the Community Shield in 2013 was Manchester United, which ranked second in the league.
Manchester City and Manchester United, perhaps with a Chelsea, are considered the most powerful contenders for the Premier League title in the new season!
Of course, Arsenal also seems to have ambitions in the transfer window this season, but it is generally believed that compared to these three teams, Arsenal's championship status is still a bit worse.
Wenger's team has not been able to win the league championship for many years, which makes them seem to be excluded from the discussion of the championship in the media discussion.
"This Community Shield Cup game may be a very good opportunity for both sides to test the strength of each other!" This is what the media said before the game.
The Champion of the Community Shield is not a particularly important trophy. He is like the Super Cup before the start of the season in major leagues. Most of the games are played in preliminaries before the start of the season.
Therefore, winning or losing is not particularly important for both parties.
Of course, this is also a championship trophy after all, so everyone will definitely take it seriously.
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Before the game, Wembley Stadium was also full of seats.
The Manchesterians competed against each other at Wembley Stadium. The red and blue sides are distinct.
When the players lined up, cheers rang!
Over two months of offseason, the fans can't wait, they are eagerly looking forward to the start of the new season!
"Good spectators, now the two teams have lined up to enter the stadium. The start of this Community Shield game also means that the new season of the Premier League is about to start the first round of matches!! And this game The opponents are Manchester City and Manchester United. The Manchester Derby played in the Community Shield Cup. The two teams are also considered to be the two teams most likely to win this season!"
At the commentary, Letkinson said very excitedly.
The opening of the new season is always exciting.
"It's true, too. Manchester United's signings this season can be described as generous, and their signings may not be over yet!" Redknapp added.
Indeed, this season's Manchester United is the Premier League summer transfer window so far, the signings are very strong.
They first introduced Brazilian winger Douglas Costa from Shakhtar Donetsk! This cost Manchester United 18 million pounds. Subsequently, Manchester United also introduced Argentine central defender Otamendi from Porto to replace the aging Ferdinand and Vidic.
After that, Manchester City’s signings have not yet ended. In early August, Manchester City announced that it had bought Tottenham full-back Kyle Walker for 30 million pounds! !
After taking in Kyle Walker, Guardiola's action is still not over. At the left back position, Evra is also in his 30s. Therefore, Guardiola bought Atletico Madrid's full-back Alba— -This is the same player Gao Bo brought to Atletico Madrid. And it cost Manchester United 17 million pounds to eat Alba!
After successively introducing Douglas Costa, Kyle Walker, Otamendi and Alba, it is reported that Manchester United also hopes to get a top midfielder in the transfer market.
"Manchester United's transfer is not over. It is still twenty days before the transfer window closes." Letkinson said, "Let's take a look at the starting lists of both sides!
"In Manchester United, the goalkeeper De Gea, the central defender combination is Otamendi replaced veteran Ferdinand, and Hummels played partner, the right back is the newly introduced Kyle Walker, the left back is Evra, The new aid Alba is sitting on the bench. In midfield, Carrick, Thiago and Modric start the field. The three forwards are Pedro on the left and Brazilian winger Douglas Costa on the right. Rooney broke his shoulder in a warm-up match. The striker who started this match was Pea Hernandez!"
"In Manchester City, the starting goalkeeper is Oblak, the central defender is Kompany partner Umtiti, right defender Tripier, left defender Kolarov, and the midfielder is Casemiro partner. Fernandinho, frontcourt, striker Griezmann, Sanchez on the left, David Silva on the right, striker Hazard!"
"Both teams are doing their best!"
At this time, on the court, the players on both sides have stood still and waited until the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game.
The camera has given close-ups of the coaches of both sides.
"Gao Bo and Guardiola! Their La Liga competition continues to the Premier League. Can Guardiola have the upper hand this time? We will wait and see!"
In front of the camera, Guardiola looked serious, and he stood on the edge of the court with his hands in his pants pockets.
Compared to Guardiola, Gao Bo seemed much more relaxed.
He was sitting on the coach's bench, whispering something to the assistant next to him from time to time, and his expression looked relaxed.
This game may be of great significance to Guardiola-until now, he has not won Gao Bo once, so every time Guardiola encounters Gao Bo will always hold back his energy.
Gao Bo is not the case.
The Community Shield game is not an important champion for him. Therefore, Gao Bo did not put pressure on the players before the game, and he even encouraged the players to attack in this game.
Manchester United is his main competitor, so he wants to see if there will be any changes in his opponent this season, whether Guardiola's new staff mix can play some unexpected chemistry and so on.
On the Manchester United side, they also played unconservatively.
So from the beginning of the game, he entered a fierce confrontation state!
In the second minute of the game, Manchester City took the lead!
After receiving a pass from David Silva in the center, Griezmann pushed directly to the ribs!
Sanchez followed up with his right foot and shot!
The football is slightly off the crossbar!
Only a minute later, Manchester United returned to the color!
Douglas Costa flank and Modric made a collision with Modric and then broke into the penalty area and crossed the middle!
Little Pea Hernandez succeeded in grabbing points, and the football was saved by Oblak! !
From the first minute of the game, the rhythm began to accelerate!
In the sixth minute ~EbookFREE.me~ Carrick tripped Griezmann and Manchester City got a free kick!
Griezmann's free kick directly hit the door with his left foot and was hit by the wall, slightly higher than the crossbar and out of the bottom line! !
After Manchester City's corner kick was taken, Otamendi in the center cleared the ball head-on!
Thiago took the ball and gave it to Modric!
Modric turned and sent a long pass!
Pedro chest stopped the ball inside!
Right foot shot! !
"Pedro!!!"
In the exclamation of the commentator, Pedro's shot hit the post! !
Confrontation! !
From the very beginning of the game, the two sides were unambiguous and directly launched a confrontation!