Chapter 349: If you lose, you will become two hundred and five!
Chapter 349 If you lose, it will become two hundred and five!
Author: Thief Cao
Chapter 349 If you lose, it will become two hundred and five!
After defeating Steaua Bucharest and advancing to the Champions League group stage, Manchester City immediately faced West Ham United in the third round of the Premier League just four days later.
This summer, West Ham United has also made frequent moves in the transfer market and is extremely active.
Their biggest signing was to poach Swansea's top scorer, Andre Ayew, who scored 12 Premier League goals last season, for £20.5 million.
Later, they spent 12 million to buy out Lanzini, who joined on loan, and 7.1 million to buy Masuaku from Olympiakos in the Greek Super League. There were also a series of low-priced practical players, and a total of 11 new players were introduced.
Judging from the activity of West Ham United in the summer transfer window, they are ambitious, and entering the European competition is still the ultimate goal of the Hammers this season.
But what is never expected is that after two rounds of the Premier League in the new season, West Ham United has suffered extensive injuries from the front line to the defense. Payet, Carroll, Cresswell and many other players
The main players are collectively injured.
As a result, West Ham United failed in the Europa League second-leg play-offs on August 25.
Hammers fans never expected that the team would be eliminated at their home stadium by an unknown Romanian team like Astra with a total score of 2-1.
At 22:40 BJ time, the LeTV Sports live broadcast room is ready and waiting for the live broadcast signal to come in.
Fan Zhiyi was sitting behind the studio, chatting happily with Zhang Lu.
"Lao Zhang, are you going to Bangzi's place the day after tomorrow?" Fan Zhiyi leaned over and asked with a low voice, "Lao Sun and I are going to watch the game live."
Zhang Lu chuckled and said, "I have to go then! Xiao He invited me to be the on-site commentator!"
Upon hearing this, Fan Zhiyi rolled his eyes and said immediately: "Is there still a place? Why don't you talk to Xiao He and get me to the commentary box too."
"Only three people!" Zhang Lu chuckled, raised three fingers and turned to look at Fan Zhiyi, "How about you tell Xiao He and ask him to push Teacher Song away and replace him with you?"
Hearing this, Fan Zhiyi twitched the corner of his mouth, then put his hands into fists and bowed, and said funnyly: "Farewell!"
"I don't know how prepared Xiao Gao is!" Fan Zhiyi murmured with a smile.
Hearing Fan Zhiyi's muttering, Zhang Lu felt a little nervous.
During the national team's training camp in June, the content of the training was really covered up by Gao Hongbo, and not a single bit of news leaked out.
The four boys from Chu Zheng were also very tight-lipped when interviewed by the media. They only said that they had surprises, which made Zhang Lu very curious in the past few months.
But no matter how good the training is and how effective it is, Zhang Lu believes that the addition of the four Chu Zheng will definitely bring something different to the national team.
At 22:45, the live broadcast signal was connected, and the starting lineups of both sides appeared on the camera screen one by one.
Manchester City:(433)
Goalkeeper: Caballero
Defenders: Zabaleta, Stones, Otamendi, Clichy
Midfielder: De Bruyne, Fernandinho, Chu Zheng
Forwards: Sterling, Aguero, Nolito
"Compared with Manchester City's last round of the Premier League, Guardiola's starting lineup has changed again."
"This time Guardiola created a 4-3-3 formation with parallel midfield positions."
"This is the last game of this Premier League round."
"Yesterday, Manchester United and Chelsea won three consecutive league victories."
"As long as Manchester City wins this game against West Ham, they will be tied with Manchester United and Chelsea on 9 points. By then, they will also be at the top of the Premier League with a goal difference advantage!"
After Zhan Jun finished speaking, Zhang Lu smiled and said: "It was not easy for Manchester City to win the first round of the new season. It can even be said that they won with Chu Zheng's strong personal ability."
"Manchester City players seem a little uncomfortable with the style of playing with two full-backs in the midfielder position, but after running in in recent games, Manchester City's condition is getting better and better."
West Ham United:(352)
Forwards: Ashley Fletcher, Enna Valencia
Midfielder: Masuaku, Kouyate, Noble, Gokhan Tre, Michael Antonio
Defenders: Ogbonna, Winston Reid, James Collins
Goalkeeper: Adrian
"In the first two rounds of the new season, West Ham United has achieved a record of 1 win and 1 loss, and is currently ranked 12th in the Premier League."
"In this game, Bilic had no choice but to form such a 352 formation."
"Just after last season, Bilic confidently sold several defenders, but now he has cheated himself!"
"This is also the strongest lineup that Bilic, who has suffered serious injuries, can field."
"West Ham United has played against Manchester City four times recently and achieved an excellent record of 2 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss, giving them an advantage."
"Last season they defeated Manchester City 2-1 away from home and tied with Manchester City 1-1 at home."
"In this game, West Ham United wants to continue to reproduce the bravery of last season, which may not be easy!"
"In the four official games since Guardiola took charge of Manchester City, Blue Moon has achieved a complete victory record. Except for the thrilling first round of the Premier League, the remaining games have won the opponent without a fight."
"During Guardiola's coaching career, he only lost 8 of the 128 top-flight home games he coached, with the remaining 110 wins and 10 draws, with a winning rate of 86%."
After Zhan Jun finished speaking, Fan Zhiyi suddenly smiled and said: "If Manchester City loses this game, it will be the 250th loss in the history of Manchester City."
"After being beaten to a score of 250 at home, I think Guardiola will definitely not do it!"
"Hahaha!!!!!!!" Zhang Lu and Zhan Junshi burst out laughing after hearing Fan Zhiyi's very personal explanation.
God damn two hundred and five!
At 23:00 BJ time, referee Marina blew the whistle to start the game.
On the field, West Ham United kicked the ball out and Manchester City immediately started pressing.
The ball was quickly intercepted, and the formation immediately pushed West Ham back.
Within the first five minutes, Manchester City received three consecutive corner kicks.
Unfortunately, working at heights is not something Manchester City is good at.
Chu Zheng is Manchester City's best header player off the line.
But West Ham United obviously knew this, so every time Chu Zheng had three players around him to guard him, and in the end, Manchester City failed to threaten West Ham United's goal.
In the 7th minute of the game, Manchester City continued to press high on the right side of the frontcourt and outside the West Ham United penalty area.
De Bruyne went straight from the top of the key to Masuaku who picked up the ball from the wing.
Chu Zheng followed Enna Valencia who ran from the ribs to the wing, trying to establish a forward ball point.
Zabaleta followed Noble,
The tacit running of Chu Zheng and others trapped Masuaku on the outside of the penalty area in an instant. They couldn't even find a ball release point nearby. West Ham United could not even mention a counterattack.
But the new signing Masuaku is very good with his feet.
Facing De Bruyne's attack, he pulled the ball to the right with his left foot, then quickly turned around to stop the ball with his right foot, switched to the right and successfully broke through.
But before he could even take two steps, Chu Zheng pushed forward.
Masuaku's path forward was directly blocked by Chu Zheng and De Bruyne.
Forced to have no choice, Masuaku did not dare to continue to show his footwork. He quickly turned around and passed back to the baseline behind him.
Ogbonna saw Sterling rushing over after the ball. He didn't stop the ball and passed directly to the left side of the midfield.
At the landing point, Stones was right behind Ashley Fletcher.
Originally he was very close.
But when he saw Kouyate running forward along the ribs on the left front, he quickly retreated, opened up the distance between him and Fletcher, and moved two steps to the left, ready to follow Kouyate at any time.
At the same time, Fernandinho and Zabaleta also rushed back along the wing.
Fernandinho took advantage of Fletcher's hesitation and quickly cut off his path to cross Kouyate to the left.
Zabaleta directly attacked Fletcher, and the three had a clear division of labor and a tacit understanding.
Fletcher also knew that he missed the opportunity to counterattack because of his hesitation.
So he passed the ball directly back to Noble, hoping to pass the ball to Kouyate in the ribs through a triangle pass.
Noble also knew Fletcher's intention and passed the ball directly.
But the moment the ball was released, Fernandinho suddenly moved sideways to the left, extended his foot and directly intercepted the ball.
After getting the ball, Fernandio quickly passed the ball to Chu Zheng in the right rib area at the top of the front arc.
Before Chu Zheng even touched the ball, Ogbonna and Winston Reid were approaching quickly in front of him and behind him.
Chu Zheng was more straightforward, stopping the ball directly to the front right side, quickly turned around, and advanced with the ball laterally, avoiding being flanked.
When Winston Reed saw Chu Zheng running away, he quickly retreated to the right position at the top of the arc, maintaining close contact with James Collins behind him in front of the free throw arc.
In the left rib area at the top of the arc, Antonio also returned to defend in place, and the three of them formed a complete defense line.
In front of Antonio, Nolito saw Chu Zheng dribbling the ball laterally, and he quickly started to advance towards the top area of the middle arc.
Antonio had to move into the center to defend.
James Collins, who retreated to the top area of the key, was also attracted by Nolito's running.
Aguero, who was at the top of the arc in the middle, was not slow either. He quickly ran towards the left rib area of the penalty area and formed a cross-running position with Nolito.
When Chu Zheng came to the middle, he originally wanted to take a long shot.
But seeing Aguero running very fast and the passing space on the left rib created by Nolito, he gave up the idea of long-range shooting and took a few more steps.
When Aguero entered the left rib area at the top of the arc, Chu Zheng suddenly made a powerful pass with his left foot in order to prevent the ball from being intercepted due to the slow speed of the ball.
Aguero has been looking at Chu Zheng.
Seeing the ball coming, he turned sideways and dribbled the ball into the left rib area of West Ham United's penalty area. Then he raised his foot and hit it directly to the far lower corner of the goal.
Antonio fell to the ground and stretched out his feet to intercept and destroy the ball, which was a step too late.
In the small penalty area, goalkeeper Adrian was half a beat too slow in his side attack, and could only watch the ball slip away from his fingertips.
"fool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
The next second, more than 50,000 fans at the Etihad Stadium exclaimed in unison!
"Ouch! It was a little missed. Aguero's shot missed the sliding door of the post!"
"Chu Zheng chose the right time to play this ball!"
"Well! No, it's a pity that Aguero pursued the angle too much in this shot!"
On the court, Aguero also looked up at the sky, looking annoyed.
Chu Zheng looked at Aguero and then at Sterling on the other side. He always had an ominous premonition, as if something bad was about to happen!
