Nine Hundred and Twenty-One Ferguson's Gauntlet

At noon on September 23, in the sixth round of the Premier League, Manchester City faced Everton at home.

Guardiola made the strongest killing squad, waiting for the arrival of Moyes' team.

The goalkeeper is Courtois, the back line is Leyton Baines, Pepe, Kompany and Sabaleta, the midfielder is Busquets, David Silva and Toni Kroos are behind. Previously, the trident in the frontcourt was a combination of Hazard, Sudong and Sanchez.

After the start of the game, Manchester City took advantage of the home court advantage and the overall strength of the team to launch a fierce attack on Everton, especially Leighton Baines on the left, who was extremely excited in the face of his old club, frequently. Create a threat.

First, it assisted Toni Kroos' long-range shot that missed, and then at the front of the penalty area, he received a return pass from Hazard and fired a furious shot, which went wide, giving Manchester City a head start.

In the eighth minute, Leighton Bynes made another pass from the left. The center defender Jagelka grabbed the first spot, but made a mistake when passing back to the goalkeeper Howard, and was quickly inserted by Su Dong. On, after the first step to stab the ball past the attacking goalkeeper, he easily pushed the empty goal and succeeded, one to zero!

After Su Dong scored the goal, his speed did not decrease, he rushed to the sidelines, smiling from ear to ear.

That's right, anyone suddenly picked up such a big bargain, who's not happy?

Everton coach Moyes was furious on the sidelines, and he couldn't accept that his central defender was in the back line, especially when facing Manchester City, so blindly playing with fire.

Okay now, burn your hands!

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After conceding the ball, Everton began to pay more attention to defense, while Manchester City patiently controlled the ball.

In the 35th minute, Hazard forced a breakthrough from the left to create a corner kick.

David Silva took a quick corner kick, created chaos in the penalty area, and was cleared out of the penalty area.

After Zabaleta grabbed the spot on the right side of the penalty area, he made a slight adjustment and passed it back to the penalty area again.

Jagielka grabbed the spot and headed the ball to the left again.

Marcelo followed, grabbed the landing spot again, stopped, glanced at the penalty area, and passed his left foot to the right side of the goal in the penalty area.

I saw that in the chaotic crowd in the penalty area, Su Dong rushed out to get ahead of everyone. Before the goalkeeper Howard struck in place, he stepped out to meet Marcelo's diagonal pass.

The ball was pushed into Everton's goal by Su Dong, 2-0!

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After that, Su Dong still had a sudden shot from 30 meters away, which almost pierced Everton's goal, but Howard performed very well this time. Hit it out and resolve a door-breaking crisis.

Su Dong was unwilling to fail to score a hat-trick in the first half.

After changing sides in the second half, he still performed very bravely, but he was always a little short of scoring.

In the 68th minute, Su Dong was on the right side of the frontcourt. After receiving the pass from Sanchez, he turned and dribbled the ball horizontally and cut inwards. All the way from the right corner of the penalty area to the top of the arc, he saw the opportunity and suddenly cut into the penalty area, completely messing up. Everton's defence.

Unprepared, Everton was in chaos, Su Dong returned the ball, Tony Kroos followed up with a pull rod and shot, the ball went straight to the lower right corner of the goal, 3-0!

Then Su Dong was substituted, because the team had to deal with the second leg of the Champions League group stage in the middle of the week, away to Inter Milan.

After Su Dong came off, Manchester City continued to create opportunities.

Especially in the 89th minute, the former Real Madrid player Drenthe made a mistake in passing, was suddenly stolen by David Silva, and quickly sent a straight pass, Sanchez slanted into the penalty area, calmly seized the opportunity, right footed Pushed and scored, four to zero!

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After this battle, the situation in the Premier League finally changed.

Manchester City won six battles and six victories, leading all the way, so that everyone once again felt the powerful strength of this local tyrant team, which was quickly formed under the influence of gold and dollar checks.

Manchester United drew 1-1 with Stoke City in this round.

Crouch equalised for the home team.

As a result, the Premier League has gone from a Manchester duo to a standout for Manchester City.

It's only two points, but it's still a lead.

Just like Moyes bombarded his two defenders for playing with fire after the game, causing the team to suffer a major rout, Ferguson also accused Manchester United players after the game of lack of initiative and failed to withstand the pressure in the game. Drawn by Stoke City.

Both Scots were dissatisfied with their team's performance this round.

Ferguson even gave a gauntlet to Manchester City, saying that Manchester United would reverse Manchester City to the top in the ninth round.

Because in the ninth round of the league, Manchester City will be a guest at Old Trafford.

The big rout last season is still impressive to this day. Ferguson is determined to make a comeback and counterattack in the standings.

Another interesting thing is that Courtois almost won the game.

Everton only had two shots on target in this game, but they did not pose a threat. Courtois easily resolved it and once again kept the opponent clean.

This made the British media very emotional.

Is Courtois so lucky? Or is Joe Hart just too back?

Otherwise, how to explain this phenomenon?

Su Dong believes that opportunities are reserved for those who are prepared.

Everything in football matches is inevitable.

Courtois seems to be winning, but in fact it is inseparable from the close cooperation between him and the back line.

Joe Hart is certainly not as good as Courtois at this point.

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From his appointment on June 24th to his dismissal on September 21st, he was in charge of only 90 days, which made Gasperini the third short-lived head coach during Moratti's time in charge of Inter Milan.

After firing the underachieving Gasperini, Inter Milan quickly changed coaches and welcomed the famous Italian coach, tinker Ranieri.

The coaching change is like a knife change. After taking the position, Inter Milan immediately defeated Bologna 3-1 away.

In the middle of the week, the second round of the Champions League group stage was ushered in.

After losing to Villarreal in the first round, the home game against Manchester City is particularly important.

There is no need to say much about the strength of Manchester City. Inter Milan is also very clear.

Ranieri said before the game that he would learn from the experience of AC Milan's match against Barcelona. He believes that in the face of ball-handling teams like Barcelona and Manchester City, he must not confront them head-on, but play his own way. strengths.

The tinkerer said he does not think Inter Milan is now capable of fighting Manchester City.

"As we all know, they are one of the strongest teams in Europe, and we have to find their weaknesses and loopholes and attack them, not just try to overwhelm them."

In order to better restrain Manchester City, Ranieri adopted the traditional Italian 442 formation and arranged for the central defender Lucio, who was transferred from Bayern, to team up with Samuel to deal with Sudong.

The tinker adopted a strategy of strict defense and let the two forwards, Pacini and Milito, press and counterattack.

This style of play brought great trouble and pressure to Manchester City at the San Siro.

Neither side could score, especially Manchester City.

The advantage of possession is very obvious, but he has not been able to find an effective way to break the Inter Milan defense.

Sudong also encountered troubles under the joint restrictions of two world-class central defenders, Lucio and Samuel, which made it difficult for Manchester City's offense to be a threat.

Breaking the density is a problem for all teams in the world.

For Manchester City, how to break the crowd is also a big problem when Su Dong is restricted.

In this way, the game was deadlocked for nearly 80 minutes.

Until the 78th minute, when Su Dong retreated to meet Moutinho's pass, he turned around and dribbled the ball to start. Samuel, who was robbed, stumbled to the ground, and the referee gave it to Manchester City. Free kick at the front of the penalty area, 24 meters from the goal.

This made Ranieri on the sidelines very angry, and also made Inter Milan like a big enemy.

Everyone knows how sharp Su Dong's free kick is.

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Su Dong didn't need to discuss with anyone. After getting up from the ground, he took the football to the penalty spot.

At this time, Inter Milan has put up a human wall.

Five people!

And the tallest Lucio in the team is also in it, which shows how nervous Cesar is to Su Dong's penalty.

For any team facing Manchester City, the head coach will definitely tell them before the game to try not to commit fouls on the outside of the penalty area.

In a way, this is an assist for Manchester City.

After setting the ball, Su Dong slowly stepped back, hands on his hips, and waited for his opponent to list the wall.

"He feels very confident to me now, as if looking at the human wall and saying, 'Let's set it up, set it up better, you can set it up as you like, if you don't get in, I'll lose!', which should be what Ranieri is most worried about now. matter."

"All teams that face Sudong will have problems like this."

"When you do everything you can to limit him and defend him, at the end of the day you find that he has some means of scoring goals that you just can't stop, which is quite frustrating and a morale thing."

"Inter defended very well tonight, even though they were only 26 per cent in possession and even had three shots, but at least they managed to keep the score from zero to zero."

"But now, Su Dong still found a very good scoring opportunity for Manchester City, just look at this free kick."

As the referee pushed away, a whistle sounded, indicating that Su Dong could take the penalty.

Su Dong looked at Inter Milan's human wall and had an estimate in his heart. After running forward quickly, he came to the ball and quickly kicked a curve ball with his right foot.

I saw the ball climbed at a very fast speed, passed near Lucio, just over the top of the human wall, and then fell rapidly with an obvious and strange change of direction, which made the goalkeeper Cesar misjudged.

When the Brazilian goalkeeper judged the path of the ball, and the whole person flew out sideways, the ball had already taken the lead and got into the goal of Inter Milan.

Cesar threw himself in the air, and fell heavily on the grass, slamming the grass hard with anger.

Su Dong was already excited and rushed to the sidelines, running all the way, shouting non-stop, celebrating the goal.

Man City were also very excited.

After 80 minutes of attacking, the steel fortress, which has never been broken, was finally captured by Su Dong!