Golden Greenery

The summer transfer window has reached its final stage. Although Manchester City is in desperate need of central defenders, the three full-backs they have acquired are still very attractive to the world. After all, two of them have successively set a record for the value of football defenders.

But from Manchester City's own point of view, Danilo, who has the lowest value, may be at a loss. From pre-season to official games, he has performed mediocre whether as a full-back or a wing-back. Pure personal strength is there, but tactical awareness and brains are a thought-provoking issue.

It seems that Danilo's failure to gain Zidane's favor at Real Madrid is not entirely due to his introverted personality.

Benjamin Mendy, the most valuable player, is still unknown. He came with a minor injury and has not even played in a training match. Whether Manchester City will make a profit or a loss remains to be seen.

Kyle Walker, who is currently only worth 50 million, is recognized by the English media for his worth. Nine days ago, in Manchester City's 4-0 Brighton game in the first round of the Premier League, Walker, who started the game and played the entire game, was rated 7.8 points, tied for second-highest after Zhuo Yang and David Silva.

Made three crosses and won three aerial duels. In that game, it was completely invisible that Walker was Manchester City's new signing. He showed strong adaptability to the Premier League and the right wing-back. In this battle alone, the British media shouted: Kyle Walker returns to England's No. 1 right wing.

Although the British media habitually praise local players, at least there must be a reason worthy of praise. In the preseason, Danilo showed stronger personal ability to brush aside, but once he entered the official Premier League game, he was indeed not as comfortable as Walker.

50 million is not cheap, but if Walker can perform like this all the time, the price will be quite affordable.

In 2014, young Walker missed the World Cup in Brazil due to injury. Fast forward to 2017, and the World Cup in Russia is not far away. The 27-year-old Kyle Walker is going from being the Premier League's number one right back to becoming the world's number one right back.

A new city and a new team can be a new starting point.

But as soon as the road to impact began, he was blocked in front of the old and strong Leighton Baynes. In the first 40 minutes of the game with Everton, Walker had three attempts and two crosses or was blocked by Baynes. Direct interception, or without any threatening effect due to Baynes' interference.

At this time, Manchester City was trailing Everton 0:1 at home.

Koeman's team ended up in seventh place last season, and was 15 points behind eighth-place Southampton, so the Premier League now has the term BIG7.

In the summer, Everton sold Romelu Lukaku, who everyone knew would not stay for a long time, at a sky-high price, but the Toffees were by no means an unenterprising team. They also spent more than 130 million pounds to attract Lukaku. aid.

Sigurdsson, the 'Icelandic sniper', was bought from Swansea for 47 million, England goalkeeper Jordan Pickford was bought from relegated Sunderland for 30 million, and Michael Keane was bought from Burnley for 30 million. These are all quite generous.

In particular, Rooney's return has unified feelings and ambitions.

The cities of Liverpool and Manchester live next to each other, and they don’t want to be too far away from home. Manchester City and Liverpool are mortal enemies of Manchester United. In fact, Everton has always been the first choice for Manchester United players as they age.

Is Xiaopang going home or leaving home? Can't tell clearly. In his 13 years with the Red Devils, he seems to have become a complete Manchester United man. 13 years ago, the boy packed his bags and left home; 13 years later,

It is no longer the young man who is leaving.

The glory and vicissitudes of 13 years cannot be explained in one or two sentences. In the past, he was vaguely known as the "Fifth of the Four Kings" along with Zhuo Yang, Kaká, Messi and Ronaldo. Now he has to make way for the younger Lukaku and the older Ibrahimovic.

More than ten years ago, football geniuses sprung up like mushrooms after a spring rain. Young heroes born after the 1980s launched an all-round challenge to the football hegemons of the 1970s. Among the young heroes who are as bright as the stars, Rooney and Robben are not so "genius boys" in appearance. The two of them are less talented than Scar. Ribery is just ugly, but he has temperament and is not ostentatious.

At that time, if you enthusiastically recommended Rooney and Robben to others, the look in their eyes would make you doubt your life. The world is so chaotic that it’s hard to describe it in one word. Old Man Luo is still playing tricks on Bayern again and again without any solution. Lu Xiaopang has had his hair transplanted and his skin tightened, so he stopped making mistakes, but said farewell first out of respect.

Thirteen years have passed, with the dust all over my body, the blood boiling in my heart, but the years have carved scars. Who cares about the tears of heroes, Lu Xiaopang has gone home, and there is no old friend from 13 years ago at Goodison Stadium.

Rooney was born on the east bank of the Mersey Estuary. He is an all-around offensive player, so he can be called 'Hedong Luneng'. He returned to Everton at the age of 32, but it also forced people to face a cruel reality for all-round offensive players - as they age, all-round players who can do everything but have no outstanding unique skills are often miserable.

Zhuoyang is the same age as Rooney, and he also has all-around offensive attributes. He is even more miserable than Rooney, because Rooney can start today and Zhuoyang is on the bench.

Guardiola arranged a starting lineup similar to that of nine days ago, except that Sane replaced Danilo as the left wing-back. Zhuo Yang's training plan has come to an end, and he is still on standby today.

Last season, Manchester City lost to Everton twice in the league, and the two defeats of Manchester City were the same routine. The Toffees have a bit of Manchester City's nemesis.

With an extremely low ball possession rate, Everton took advantage of the Manchester City players' own mistakes to suddenly launch a counterattack in the midfield and frontcourt, once leading 1:0, and once even 4:0 by a large margin, but Zhuo Yang came on as a substitute. It was tied at 4:2, just to save some face for Manchester City.

Koeman took the same approach in the away game today, handing over possession to Manchester City. The 23% possession rate made Everton look like a disgrace to the BIG7 style.

In the 30th minute, the familiar story happened again. Sane made a passing error in midfield, allowing Tom Davis, who was two years younger than him, to intercept the ball successfully.

Outside the penalty area, Davis used an emergency stop to dodge the chasing Sane. In the penalty area, Calft-Lewin faked a dunk to let go of Kompany, who was 11 years older than him.

Passing the ball in an inverted triangle, Rooney stood still in the middle and shot.

Ederson lowered his body quickly, but he had never made a mistake since joining Manchester City. At this time, he showed a flaw in his hand shape. Rooney's not-so-quick push shot through Ederson's single palm and bounced back into the goal.

0:1, familiar formula, familiar taste, Manchester City is happy again.

This is Rooney's 200th goal in the Premier League and his 17th goal for Everton. The first 15 all occurred 13 years ago.

Nine days ago, in the first round, Everton defeated Stoke City 1:0, with Rooney scoring the only goal of the game. So so far, Everton's two goals in the new season have been scored by Rooney who returned home.

Rooney doesn't age, he just gets fatter.

Next, it’s Kyle Walker’s story. Today is not his game.

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