The next day, the English media reported all about this peak showdown.
Of course, the one who gets the most attention from fans is still not the one with the best performance on the court, but the most bizarre one!
"Sky Sports" stated that Balotelli's final handball was the key to ruining Manchester City's victory.
If the home team had not lost one player in the last ten minutes, Milner's substitution might have helped Manchester City tie the score before the end of the game, or even take the lead.
In this regard, although Balotelli scored a goal, his rating was only 6.5, which also included his impact on Manchester City's overall strategy.
After Manchester City suffered a dismal two-game losing streak, netizens were not idle either.
They all used Balotelli's emoticons to cut out pictures, such as the one "Yes, it's me again", which combined with the appearance of a panda is even more hilarious.
As for Lei Yu, his goals were cut into the highlight reel, waiting to be released at the right time to attract traffic.
Currently on the scorer list, Robin van Persie ranks first with 15 goals, while Lei Yu, who is second, has already caught up with 14 goals.
Until then, the fans began to realize that Lei Yu might really be able to earn the Premier League Golden Boot this season!
After this battle, more and more fans have become Lei Yu's exclusive fans.
Even fans of other teams in London don't mind that the players they admire are not members of the home team.
Especially for the teams that have not qualified for the Premier League this season, according to rumors, there is even a group of Millwall fans who broke away from the football hooligans and established an underground support group for Lei Yu.
To this end, this group of football hooligans even started a small-scale armed fight.
Less than half a season after Lei Yu returned to Arsenal, he has already proven himself with outstanding performance and has further consolidated his position.
Now Arsenal can even lose their main striker Robin van Persie, but they can't lose their main midfielder Lei Yu!
While the outside world was hyping up this battle for the top spot, Lei Yu was holding his shoulders and standing tremblingly in a large wooden barrel in an empty swimming pool.
"Wow~~~"
A bucket of ice water with ice cubes poured down on him, chilling Lei Yu to the core.
"My dear, how do you feel?" Lilia put down the barrel and clapped her hands, proudly looking down at Lei Yu in the barrel.
"This...where did this go...again, again, again!"
The personal nutritionist snapped his fingers, filled another bucket of ice water, and poured it down.
After the game, Lei Yu went to the hospital to visit Djuru and Van Persie.
Zhu Lu is okay, he just suffered a minor injury and will recover after a period of rest.
But Van Persie is miserable.
The doctor said he would have to rest for at least seven weeks and could not participate in recovery training until early February at the latest.
In other words, Arsenal will lose their main striker in these 50 days.
This is not good news!
Wenger frowned and left the ward. Before leaving, he specifically told Lei Yu, asking Lei Yu to be careful and not to get hurt.
However, with the Gunners' intensive schedule and the high-intensity battles in the Premier League, Lei Yu was a little overwhelmed after a few tough games.
So the Gunners' physical trainer gave Lei Yu an idea and asked him to take a dip in ice water to quickly restore his physical strength.
Lei Yu accepted.
So it developed into what it is today.
Ice water soaked every pore of Lei Yu, and the cold was everywhere.
After a while, Lei Yu's lips turned white and his body trembled involuntarily.
Lilia squatted on the edge of the swimming pool, rubbing the ice water on Lei Yu's back with her hands, and teased in a teasing tone: "My dear, are you really not afraid of the cold? Hehe, or are you carrying it hard?
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"What are you carrying? I, I, I'm not cold to begin with!" Lei Yu gritted his teeth and squeezed out a few words.
"But I saw it all!" Lilia blinked, "It was so scared that it shrank back!"
Everyone knows the principle of thermal expansion and contraction. When the outside temperature is cold, it is difficult for any man to become a man.
Hearing Lilia's teasing, Lei Yu took a deep breath of shame and squatted down suddenly.
In the cold ice water, Lei Yu hugged his knees and looked at the ice cubes floating on the water above and the beautiful shadows floating back and forth on the water.
Is this the same perspective as Jack slowly falling into the Atlantic Ocean in front of the glacier?
Just when Lei Yu was thinking wildly, there was a "crash" and water splashed everywhere.
Lilia, who was wearing a bikini, also jumped down.
"Ah!!! Honey, it's so cold here! Woohoo, please give me a hug~~~"
Looking at the long legs that quickly came over in front of him, Lei Yu snorted softly.
"Pork" will not jump off that door panel!
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Three days after the battle with Manchester City, the Gunners challenged Aston Villa away from home.
In fact, the Gunners have not rested from the last battle, and this time they have to drag their tired bodies to the away game.
There is no way, the FA's schedule depends not only on the Champions League, but also on various holidays and emergencies.
This also leads to the fact that sometimes there is a two-week gap between the two league games, and sometimes there is only a three-day gap.
Fortunately, Villa is not very strong and did not cause any trouble in front of the Gunners, who had just staged a goal battle with Manchester City.
With goals from Lei Yu and Theo Walcott, the Gunners narrowly defeated their opponents 2-1 away from home, extending their unbeaten run in the league to 11 games this season.
Although they won, Arsenal's broken defense still became the focus of media attention after the game.
One little interesting fact is that the goal scored by the opponent Albrighton was the 20,000th goal since the establishment of the Premier League in 1992.
Arsenal's defense made repeated mistakes, thus becoming a footnote to this milestone goal, and it has been permanently recorded in the history of the Premier League in an embarrassing and shameful manner.
According to the "Mirror", in Arsenal's 28 games so far this season (Premier League, Champions League, League Cup), Wenger has deployed a total of 21 different sets of starting four in defense!
Such frequent formation changes did not make Arsenal's defense as strong as the "Transformers", but the "copycat" characteristics of temporary guest appearances became a serious constraint for the Gunners to strive for better results.
If Lei Yu hadn't wiped his defender's butt with goals from the front, I'm afraid Arsenal would have fallen out of the European competition.
So the biggest news about Arsenal in the winter window transfer market these days is - "The Gunners are in desperate need of a full-back!"
At the same time, "Turin Sports News" also announced the latest news on its official website.
Without any surprise, the 2011 Golden Boy Award was finally awarded to Lei Yu, who was in great condition.
As soon as this news came out, nothing happened in England, but the situation in China exploded.
Major websites such as Jiulang, Penguin, NetEase, and Shouhu reposted it one after another. Even the moment the news was announced, all netizens playing games in the Internet cafe received Penguin pop-ups at the same time.
Looking at the picture of Lei Yu holding the cup and celebrating in the center of the picture, many fans burst into tears.
"Asia finally has a football golden boy, and we still have to look at our brother Yu!"
"Brother Yu is mighty, 666!"
"The 18-year-old golden boy, the thunderball king, is the best brother in Asia!"
"King Dong Liuyang has been defeated for six years, and in the end he has to rely on the King of Thunderball to hold up the scene!"
"The King of Thunderball was at the top when he debuted, and he won the Golden Boy Award when he came up!"
"Brother Yu, as long as you are still playing and I am still breathing, I will be your fan for the rest of my life!"
"Brother Yu, try to win a Ballon d'Or next year and break Melo's monopoly!"
"Brother Yu won the Golden Boy Award at the age of 18, and I resumed classes at the age of 18 to prepare for the college entrance examination. We both have a bright future!"
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After returning from attending the award ceremony in Turin, Lei Yu also received a message from Ma Fanshu.
"Brother Yu, congratulations on winning the Golden Boy Award! Come on, my idol! mua~~"
Looking at the expression on the red lips behind the text, Lei Yu clicked his thumbs "hey hey hey" and quickly replied to Ma Fanshu's message.
Just after pressing the send button, my phone vibrated again.
When I opened the text message, I saw that it was a multimedia message sent to me from an unknown number.
Advertising?
Telecom fraud?
Lei Yu muttered, and after opening the MMS and reading the content of the photo carefully, he almost spit out his dinner.
In the photo, the black boy Balotelli wears an orange mohawk, his right arm is holding a half-naked chocolate girl, and his left hand is proudly making hippie gestures at the camera.
"Lei, I saw you right. You do have a lot of talent. Congratulations on becoming my successor! By the way, this is my new girlfriend. Do you think my new hairstyle looks cool?"