Vol 5 Chapter 221: Manchester United, Manchester City, Chelsea

The battle for the top spot in the Premier League has only just begun.
Time is coming to the end of November, and the fifteenth round of the Premier League is in full swing.
Among the top three teams, Manchester United ushered in Everton at home, Chelsea challenged Bolton away, and Manchester City's opponent was Aston Villa, which is also an away game.
Aston Villa is not a strong team, but they should not be underestimated.
This summer, Aston Villa made headlines several times in the British press, which was not good news for a team that was on the verge of relegation last season.
In July in the summer, Aston Villa players' collective reprisals caused a great upheaval, and club president Ellis angered coach O'Reilly.
However, Ellis continued to use coaches and players as scapegoats and could no longer pass on the crisis. Fans knew he was the root cause of Vera ’s sluggish performance in recent years. The 82-year-old chairman has long since lost his team ’s development What passion and ambition has been trying to sell the club-Aston Villa has entered the stage of sale on the London Stock Exchange since October last year.
A ‘down Ellis movement’ triggered by the player ’s ‘mutiny’.
In July and August, the slogan of "Ellis Leaving" in Birmingham was everywhere, and Vera's fan group even issued a public statement requesting Ellis to leave decently, so that the sage can give young people with more ability to serve Fresh blood was injected into the management of the team, and former Villa player Gibson also publicly stated that it was time for Ellis to abdicate.
However, in mid-August, after spending up to 15 months caring for his sick wife, last weekend, Irishman Martin O'Neill went out and officially became Aston Villa's new coach.
This is also the 14th head coach appointed by Chairman Ellis.
O'Neal, 54, was also a popular candidate for the new coaches of the England team, Newcastle and Middlesbrough. The British media subsequently also made a high-profile evaluation of O'Neill's entry, "to make Villa, the sleeping giant, awaken again."
Soon there was news of the Aston Villa Club transaction. American sports tycoon and professional baseball brown team owner Randy Lerner "eat" Aston Villa 57% at a price of 547 pence per share Equity, thus becoming the club ’s largest shareholder, with the entire acquisition valued at 62.6 million pounds ($ 119 million).
Lerner is the former chairman of the board of directors of the American credit card company mbna. This successful acquisition also made him the second American sports billionaire to enter the Premier League.
After being acquired by the Americans, Aston Villa did not rush to make a generous transfer.
Everyone knows. Lerner is a wealthy American who is also very good at sports investment, but he has not made a generous transformation of Aston Villa, two newcomers Youngo and D-Bellon freely transferred from the lower league. In the first-line lineup, only De La Cruz left after the termination of the contract. The only transfer worth mentioning is the joining of Petrov, 10 million euros, which is neither too much nor too little. Petrov, who plays for the Celtics, is still worth the price.
The deal was also regarded by the media as "the most valuable transfer of the year in the Premier League."
It is a pity that the Bulgarian striker does not seem to adapt to the Premier League. He completely disappointed the media's 'expectation'. His position in Aston Villa is avant-garde and he will often play as a striker. He played 13 times in the league, but only helped Aston Villa score a goal.
Aston Villa's overall performance is not too bad, so far they are ranked tenth in the league, compared to the past and summer investment. It ’s not bad at all. The headache is that this team is a bit like Middletonsburg of Everton and McLaren this season. Their performance is not fixed and they may lose to the ball directly at home. Yes, it is also possible to beat the big club on the road.
Such opponents are not easy to deal with.
The time before and after Christmas is the best time to compete for the top spot, so everyone in Manchester City, including Wan Sheng, attaches great importance to each round of the league, as does Aston Villa. Before the game, the coaching staff carefully studied Aston Villa's recent games, and then specified some defensive strategies in order to counter Aston Villa's counterattack at the same time. Wan Sheng also pays close attention to the status of each player, and strives to allow the best player to appear in the game.
But it turns out that even relying on the football training master system can not send the best lineup, because the player's state will be affected by outside influences and change.
For example, a player is in very good condition before the game. However, due to the opponent's defensive influence, some changes in body and mentality will affect the state directly, from very good to very poor. The two extremes may be just a small change in mentality.
In the match against Aston Villa, Manchester City encountered this situation.
At the Vera Park stadium, Aston Villa began to do a solid defense and fierce fight in the first minute of the score. Manchester City have long been accustomed to the opponent ’s defensive moves, but even if they are used to it, there will be anger, especially in a few intense After scrambling and the referee showing the yellow cards in succession, the anger of both players was picked up.
The next game is almost turned into a hand-to-hand combat, and it is difficult for both sides to play any cooperative tactics.
This game continued until the end of the midfield.
Intermediate break Wan Sheng told everyone carefully not to be influenced by the opponent's performance, but to show an ordinary heart, but in the first three minutes, Kopelle Ferreira's big tackle action completely changed his statement. It became empty talk, and the referee Kohler showed a yellow card directly to Ferreira, plus the yellow card in the first half, Ferreira accumulated two yellow cards and was sent off.
A red card is still very intimidating, and then the movements of both sides have converged, but Manchester City has had to fight ten players.
Aston Villa thinks this is a good opportunity, because they have one more person than Manchester City, but after a few waves of offensive, and almost disturbed by Manchester City's quick counterattack, Aston Villa has also become a lot more offensive. They paid more attention to the defense, but in the second half of the second half, both sides were very kind, as if they were playing a 'friendly match'.
The game is over.
In the end, the two sides drew 0: 0, Manchester City only took one point at the Villa Park Stadium.
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Manchester City did not win, and the media reporters felt that it was interesting.
As usual, whenever Manchester City performed well, their young coaches would smile and say a lot of things, and many of the hostile Manchester City media felt very uncomfortable. Now that Manchester City is tied, they have reason to gloat. In their imagination, Manchester City failed to get a three-pointer, and the Chinese must be very upset, and they were disappointed again.
Wan Sheng is not in a good mood. But he was still calm.
He was a bit dissatisfied with Aston Villa ’s ‘barbarism’, but he knew that this could not be changed. The style of each team was like this. Aston Villa would not change the style just because he expressed dissatisfaction. In addition. The game is over, and it does n’t make sense to say anything more, so Wan Sheng just said very calmly,
1 point is acceptable to us. I do n’t think 1 point equals defeat because we did n’t lose!

Many media were surprised by this view. During the fierce competition for the championship, they only scored one point against the midstream team. Whatever counts as a failure, what does this Chinese mean?
Soon the media reacted. Wan Sheng refers to Manchester City's overall results-so far, the league has played 15 rounds and Manchester City has been unbeaten for 15 consecutive rounds!
Even if it was a draw and only scored one point, Manchester City did not lose. Undefeated in 15 rounds is definitely not a good one, but Manchester City did.
The 15 unbeaten rounds in the league are enough to satisfy Manchester City fans!
As the league champion last season, this season's defending champion. Manchester City hasn't fallen behind in the results so far, which is a success in itself. What is a draw in comparison?
This game. Manchester City's overall performance is not very good, but can't ask a team to perform well on the field!
In short, as the head coach of Manchester City, this young Chinese has many reasons to be satisfied with the take away, but there is no reason to be disappointed in a draw. Instead, the media reporters who were looking forward to seeing Wan Sheng because of the dissatisfaction of the draw were all disappointed. .
Wan Sheng was indeed not disappointed.
It was a draw. There are so many games in the league, it is impossible to ask the team to win all of them, not to mention, this draw also has a bad luck factor, the team has a good chance in the second half, including three shots from the goal post , Even if there is a goal, the team will win the final victory.
Unfortunately, no.
With play and luck, it was decided that the team can only take one point.
It's as if the God who rules everything decides something, no matter how hard the mortal tries, it doesn't help. . After watching the game, Wan Sheng thought a little bit.
He always hopes that the team can win consecutively, which is also related to the football training master's winning streak task this season. As a result, the team will occasionally encounter unsuccessful situations. Up to now the team has won 12 league games, at most. A five-game winning streak.
This is really helpless!
Wan Sheng smiled bitterly.
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At the same time, the other rounds of the 15th round of the Premier League also ended.
In the focus battle, Manchester United won Everton at 3: 0 at Old Trafford, perhaps it was affected by the last draw of Chelsea. The suffocation of Manchester United players was all vented in Ever. On Dayton's body, in the game, all Manchester United players did not perform very much. C-Ronaldo scored the first goal, Evra scored the first goal after joining Manchester United to expand the score, and finally O'Shea added icing on the cake.
This is the eighth victory of Manchester United's nearly nine league games!
After the game, Ferguson's happy face fully explained Manchester United's performance. Of course, the opposite is David Moyes's sullen expression. Everton can almost be described as 'slaughtered' in the game. Although they are not Premier League 'first-line teams', but Everton is also a strong team, it is still very uncomfortable to be beaten by Manchester United 3: 0.
At the same time, Chelsea also took 3 points with a controversial goal at Reebok Stadium.
1 to 0 is another typical Mourinho victory.
Chelsea still maintain a gap of 3 points, but the Portuguese have seen a bright future. "I think we won't take long to become the leader of the league."
Bolton players accepted the defeat with a reluctant attitude, because they thought Barak's goal was very problematic. In the second half of the first half stoppage time, Lampard took a corner kick on the left side, and Barak grabbed Davis before using a header to score the far corner of the goal.
The controversy over this goal is not Ballag ’s way of scoring, but the time of scoring. The fourth official showed a stoppage time of two minutes before the end of the first half. However, referee Bennett whistled to end the first half of the time but delayed for half a minute.
However, Bolton coach Alledes accepted the fact calmly. He said that the decision of the referee to allow Chelsea to finish the corner kick was fair.
"The referees will never blow the whistle to end the game when a team is about to take a corner. This has cost us, but Chelsea should take the lead in the first half, although we have many opportunities in the second half." Si points out the key.
This is the third league goal scored by Barak, and without exception, these goals are headers.
Since the arrival of the German, he has replaced captain Terry as the Chelsea team's most header-breaking player. Barak also achieved the highest score recently shown by the media after the game. The German may still be a long way from becoming the core of the team. Perhaps in Mourinho ’s tactical system, he has never been scheduled for such a day. But what cannot be ignored is that he has become the man who decides the destiny of the team more and more frequently from the original redundant man on the verge.
Mourinho said before the game that his team will never repeat Arsenal's mistakes and overturn at the Reebok Stadium.
This victory clearly gave him double confidence ~ EbookFREE.me ~ so that the Portuguese shouted the slogan of "will soon become the league first" after the game.
"At Old Trafford and Reebok, we experienced two hard games. We might have dropped 8 points after these two games, but fortunately everything remained the same. Go back, It's time for Manchester United and Manchester City to fight the fierce battle. "Mourinho's tone, with obvious gloating.
The media knows what he is referring to.
Chelsea have experienced many battles, and Manchester United and Manchester United have not played a game, that is, the league's 17 rounds of the two teams played directly.
After this round, Manchester United continue to be the leader to maintain the league first, Manchester City dropped two points to rank second, Chelsea are one point lower than Manchester City and ranked third, and in the seventeenth round, Manchester United and Manchester City play, no matter who wins or loses Almost all Chelsea can move forward.
With this in mind, Mourinho will definitely be happy, he doesn't need to do anything, just look at it. (To be continued.)
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