Football's No. 1 Prodigal Son

The new season is coming.

After defeating Queens Park Rangers in the League Cup, Manchester City will challenge Southampton away again.

For Manchester City, which has just won three consecutive victories in various competitions, this is not a very difficult opponent to overcome.

Sure enough, Manchester City defeated Southampton 2-0 away.

And Manchester City also climbed to fourth place in the standings.

If this trend continues, Manchester City is likely to enter the Champions League next season.

And Manchester City also beat Leicester City 2-0 in the next round of the game, achieving five consecutive victories in various competitions.

Yang Luo is very satisfied with Manchester City's recent state. He believes that the team has gradually got on the right track.

After playing Leicester City, it will enter an international match day.

Manchester City still has almost all the main lineups called up.

Especially the Dutch team will face a two-round European qualifiers play-off. This level of competition is undoubtedly a huge burden for a half-old man like Stam.

And Manchester City's next opponent will be the Magpies Newcastle United!

This is the hypothetical opponent for Manchester City to compete for the top four at the beginning of the season, so it is naturally very important.

Newcastle's performance so far this season is very unsatisfactory. Participating in the Champions League has brought them a heavy burden, making them only ranked tenth in the Premier League now.

Especially in the last round, they were beaten 5-0 by Chelsea away, which made the supporters of the Magpies very dissatisfied.

So this game is very important for Newcastle, who is playing at home.

In this game, Newcastle lined up a 442 formation, goalkeeper Given, defenders Hughes, Bramble, Cardwell, Bernard, midfielders Ambrosé, Speed, Bowyer, Robert, forwards Shearer and Ameobi.

It can be said that 442 is still popular in the Premier League today.

And Newcastle still has many strong players, such as Speed, Bowyer, Given and Alan Shearer, who are players who left a deep impression in Yang Luo's memory.

Especially Alan Shearer, the well-deserved first striker in England is now 33 years old and is at the last peak of his career.

Under the simple and unpretentious style of play, it can't hide his toughness and efficiency at all.

In this game, Van Gaal's main defensive focus is on this English striker, and this main responsibility falls on Stam.

At the beginning of the game, Manchester City was still the first to launch the attack.

There is no way, young people can't stand loneliness.

In the tenth minute, Ronaldinho and Ronaldo made a two-on-one cooperation, and Ronaldo broke through to the bottom line and passed a very good quality cross.

Of course, since Eto'o, who is of average size, was in the penalty area, he passed a flat and fast arc ball.

The ball was extremely fast, making it very difficult for the defenders to handle it.

Eto'o got his head between the defenders and gently touched the ball, changing the direction of the ball and flying towards the Newcastle goal!

The ball was very close, and the goalkeeper had no time to react.

But Given's legs were just on the path of the ball, and he subconsciously raised his leg and blocked the ball!

Van Gaal on the sidelines hugged his head with regret.

However, Manchester City's offensive continued, and in the next ten minutes, Manchester City formed several threatening attacks.

Finally, in the 30th minute of the game, Manchester City took the lead!

This was Robben's attack on the left.

He used his speed to get rid of Hughes' defense, but he did not choose to cross the ball directly from the bottom, but directly dribbled into the penalty area.

After attracting the help of central defender Bramble, he suddenly passed the ball to the center of the penalty area!

And Ronaldinho appeared there!

However, the veteran Speed ​​just followed him, leaving him no chance to kick.

But the football wizard is the football wizard. Ronaldinho made a fake shot, shaking the defender's body, but the football slipped directly past his feet!

Behind him, Essien had already inserted from the back row!

The Ghanaian buffalo met the ball and shot it, and goalkeeper Given's vision was blocked. It was too late to react.

The football hit the net heavily, and Manchester City took the lead with one to zero!

This goal silenced the Magpie fans at the scene.

If Newcastle loses this game again, it will be very uncomfortable.

So the head coach waved his hand, and the lagging Newcastle began a massive attack.

Manchester City also did not react at all.

Not afraid, they started to attack against them.

However, the two teams were still greatly affected by the FIFA virus. As the game progressed, the physical problems of both sides gradually emerged.

Ronaldinho had a little muscle tension in the sixth minute of the second half, and Van Gaal quickly replaced him with Kaka.

And Stam was also unable to run in the 65th minute. This kind of heavy defender is prone to physical problems after the age of 30.

So Van Gaal was forced to replace him with Uifalusi.

Van Gaal also had to let the team start to recover appropriately, after all, physical strength is not forgiving.

The next game scene also began to look not so good. Both sides made a lot of passing errors due to the decline in physical strength, which naturally did not have too many high-quality attacks.

As the game time passed, time has come to the injury time of the game.

Van Gaal looked at the three minutes of stoppage time and thought that as long as he persisted, the economical three points would be in hand.

But at this moment, Bowyer's long pass came to Newcastle's frontcourt.

Alan Shearer, who was already a little unable to run, leaned on Uifalusi and stopped the ball steadily in front of him.

He looked up and scanned the situation in the frontcourt, but found that his teammates were a certain distance away from him and it was not easy to form a connection.

So he gritted his teeth, leaned on Uifalusi and turned around to dribble the ball forward!

Uifalusi was also very experienced and kept harassing him.

But just after Alan Shearer took two steps, he suddenly paused, and Uifalusi suddenly felt a strong force coming from his body, which slowed down his movements.

This was obviously an effect that Alan Shearer deliberately created with physical confrontation, and he also won a little shooting space!

He just swung his legs directly at the top of the penalty area and forced a shot!

He was exhausted and couldn't dribble the ball forward.

So, he gambled on this last bit of strength to take a long shot!

Fortunately, the quality of this shot was very high!

The football flew along the grass at high speed, and it seemed that it didn't rotate at all, just heading straight to the lower left corner of the goal!

Van der Sar's eyes fixed, and he quickly made a move to get down to the ground.

But the ball was too fast, and the angle was too sharp!

His fingertips barely touched it, but failed to change the trajectory of the football!

The football rubbed the goal post and flew into the goal!

1 to 1, Newcastle equalized the score!