One Thousand and Sixteen Active Ball King
After returning to Manchester from London, Manchester City took a short rest and then headed north without stopping to challenge Newcastle away.
This is the thirty-seventh round of the Premier League.
The game was postponed to midweek as Manchester City played in the FA Cup final last weekend.
Newcastle are now fifth in the Premier League, just one point behind Tottenham Hotspur, who are fourth in the Premier League. This has made the Magpies put a lot of energy into trying to overthrow Manchester City at home and grab a precious Champions League spot. .
This is undoubtedly a sign of revival for the traditional Premier League powerhouse Newcastle.
It is because of this that Newcastle are quite tenacious at home.
Everyone knows that Manchester City has been fighting on multiple fronts for a long time, and has just fought against Liverpool in the FA Cup final. It is when they are exhausted from the long-term battle. Even if there is a large rotation, the running-in of the team will become a serious problem, so Newcastle still Have a chance to upset at home.
And the game was indeed as expected by the outside world. Although Manchester City controlled the advantage of the ball, they were unable to open the situation for a long time in the game, especially the double striker composed of Dzeko and Aguero, never scored against Newcastle. one strike.
However, Newcastle also failed to take advantage of Manchester City.
The game was stalemate from the first half to the second half, and Manchester City also made consecutive substitutions, but they did not replace Su Dong.
This has led many people to speculate that Guardiola is probably going to let Sudong rest.
But in the 70th minute of the game, Su Dong suddenly walked to the sidelines and replaced Portuguese midfielder Moutinho.
Moutinho injured his right foot in a fight with Newcastle midfielder Tiote and asked to be taken off the pitch.
When Su Dong came on, Manchester City just got a throw-in opportunity on the left side of the frontcourt.
Leighton Bynes held the ball high above his head and immediately threw it when he saw Su Dong running over to catch it.
Su Dong stopped the ball in his chest and blocked Tiote with his body. He picked the ball and turned around, leaving the Newcastle midfielder behind him. He quickly passed the ball to Aguero, who was retreating in front, and slanted into the penalty area. Arc top.
Aguero understood, stopped the ball and returned to do it, passing the ball to Su Dong's running line.
After Su Dong shook off Tiote, he caught up with Aguero's pass, stopped, adjusted, and shot straight.
Like a cannonball, the ball flew out quickly, crossed an arc, and bounced off the front of the small penalty area.
Newcastle goalkeeper Krul stood on the left. Although he struggled to the side, he did not expect the ball to bounce off the ground.
One to zero!
"GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!"
"In less than a minute of playing, Su Dong used a long shot to open the scoring for Manchester City."
"This is the strength of a superstar, and it's not enough to be dissatisfied."
"Aguero and Dzeko are indeed very good, but in front of Newcastle's defense, they have been madly attacking for 70 minutes, but they have never been able to break through Newcastle's defense. As soon as Su Dong came on the field, he used a long-range shot. Got through Krul's goal and opened the scoring for Manchester City."
"I have to say, this is the gap!"
"Su Dong's strength has even surpassed the limit of human beings, he is the active player!"
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After scoring the first goal, Manchester City played more steadily and did not rush to fight with the opponent.
Su Dong played the full game in the FA Cup final, so he also reserved his strength in this game. He didn't run much, but stalked more in the frontcourt. Instead, Dzeko and Aguero took the initiative to take the initiative. The burden of running and applying pressure is on.
No way, in front of Su Dong, they can only wrong themselves.
Besides, Su Dong's strength made them unconvinced. After all, Newcastle's defense really made them feel powerless. As soon as Su Dong came on the field, he shot through Newcastle's goal with a long shot. What else can they say?
In addition to being convinced, it can only be convinced.
This stalemate continued until the end of the game prize money.
Perhaps seeing that Manchester City was a little lazy, Newcastle took the initiative to attack and launched a wave of attack at the last minute of the game, trying to equalize the score and keep a point at home.
Unexpectedly, when they took the initiative to press out to play, Gareth Barry's long pass in the backcourt was accurately given to the left, and Di Maria dribbled the ball along the left. , After throwing off everyone, he passed two opponents in a row on the left side of the penalty area and passed the ball into the penalty area.
Su Dong rushed to the horse, easily grabbed the ball before Coloccini, and stopped the ball with his foot.
As soon as the right foot stops and just stands firm, the left foot hits directly.
The ball slid past Coloccini and went straight to the bottom right corner of the goal.
The goalkeeper Krul was standing in front of Su Dong, and he was helpless against this easy shot. He didn't even have time to make a save. As for Coloccini, he was blocked by Su Dong the whole time, and was completely powerless to resist.
Two Newcastle players just watched the ball go into the net.
Two to zero!
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It was also another match that was postponed to midweek, and it was also a matter of great concern to Manchester City. Guardiola even arranged for Estiat to bring a scout to the game to watch the game and spy on the military situation. Liverpool played against Chelsea at home.
One is the opponent of the just-concluded FA Cup final, and the other is the opponent of the upcoming Champions League final. The former is still impressed, while the latter is preparing for the next decisive battle. Manchester City has enough reasons to attach importance to this game.
The media has given this game a lot of nicknames, such as brothers and sisters, because the two teams are currently ranked sixth and eighth respectively, and the media jokingly called it a parallel war, which will determine who is the king of parallel imports in the Premier League.
Why do you say that?
Chelsea introduced Torres from Liverpool for 50 million pounds, but the Spanish striker's performance at Stamford Bridge was a disaster. The performance of the center is also unsatisfactory, even if it has been doing well in recent times.
These two parallel imports have been ridiculed by the fans and the media of the team for a period of time in the past. Now that they meet, they naturally have a different style, which is very exciting.
But no one thought that from the beginning of the game, the most striking thing was not the two parallel strikers, but Suarez.
From the first minute of the game, Suarez has been creating opportunities, creating threats, and making Chelsea's defense a storm, but this is also related to Chelsea's rotation.
The Blues no longer have any chance against the top four, and Di Matteo is obviously still training for the upcoming Champions League final. He even arranged for a full-replacement defense to play at Anfield.
As a result, Suarez raged in front of a back line led by Ivanovic and, in the 19th minute, created Essien's own goal through a brilliant individual attack.
In the first 20 minutes, Suarez passed through the crotch twice, once with a single shot and once with an assist, and performed quite brilliantly.
Chelsea's defense was full of mistakes, and under the attack of Liverpool's home ground, problems continued to arise.
In the end, just after the FA Cup final, Liverpool, who was full of anger, beat Chelsea four-to-one at home.
Ramirez scored the only goal for Chelsea.
The large rotation was the key to Chelsea's loss of this game, and Di Matteo was obviously also deliberately using this game to confuse Manchester City, so that Manchester City could not figure out what kind of tactics he wanted to adopt.
You know, there is a saying in professional football that every Italian head coach is a tactician.
Di Matteo is no exception.
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At the weekend, the Premier League ushered in the final game, Manchester City sits at home against Queens Park Rangers.
This should have been a game without much suspense, because Manchester City are far stronger than Queens Park Rangers, but Queens Park Rangers are currently ranked 17th, only 18th, which is the relegation zone Bolton has two more points.
Bolton's opponent is Stoke City, who are playing at home. The strength is not that strong. With Bolton's strength, there may be no possibility of defeating the opponent on the road and winning three points.
That is to say, if QPR does not want to be relegated and wants to stay out of relegation, then the best result is to beat Manchester City at the Etihad Stadium, and if they take a step back, they should also keep it.
Since the final round is ten games at the same time, no one knows what the result will be.
Because of this, Queens Park Rangers are directly fighting Manchester City.
The whole world knows that at the end of the season, the most difficult thing is the three teams, one is the champion, the other is the Champions League, and the most terrible is the relegation zone.
All the teams in the relegation zone, at the end of the league, will really be desperate to fight with you.
Precisely because of this, out of consideration for the protection of the players, Guardiola did not arrange for the main team to start, but carried out a large rotation. First, it was also to give the main team more time to rest and prepare for the Champions League final a week later. Second, Also to avoid injury to players.
Everyone knows that Queens Park Rangers are going to go crazy with this game.
Sure enough, in the game, there were endless scenes of people turning their backs on their horses. Although Manchester City played at home, they were still violated by the visiting team. Before the end of the first half, Thiago was shoveled by his opponent and injured his leg and had to make a substitution.
But five minutes before the injury, he had just assisted Trippier to score a goal.
Then the game entered a stalemate. Until the 80th minute of the game, Guardiola changed two players in one breath, replacing Sudong and David Silva to familiarize himself with the rhythm of the game.
That is, these two substitutions allowed Manchester City to score again.
Su Dong first used a direct free kick to pierce the goal of Queens Park Rangers, then got a through ball from David Silva, dribbled the ball to the right of the penalty area, and scored a volley to seal the victory for Manchester City.
In the end, with Su Dong's brace after coming off the bench and Trippier's goal, Manchester City won the Queen's Park Rangers 3-0 at home, and finally won the Premier League title this season with an unbeaten record.
Even, the team's unbeaten record is better than that of Arsenal.
The entire Etihad Stadium had not waited for the referee to blow the whistle of the end of the game, and it had already fallen into a carnival in advance.