Six Hundred and Seventieth Stare at Drogba!

Afternoon of September 19th.

Three days after the first round of the Champions League group stage, Manchester City ushered in the fifth round of the Premier League, away to Wigan Athletic.

Gao Shen carried out a substantial rotation, except for the two central defenders and the goalkeeper, all the other eight players on the field were changed.

Although Wigan Athletic is playing at home, they still have a tactic of strictly guarding against death.

In the 14th minute, Manchester City broke through Wigan Athletic's goal with a shot from outside the penalty area by Van Persie.

In the 44th minute, Neuer made a long pass and passed over the Wigan Athletic defense. Gareth Bale jumped in against offside at a very fast speed, stopped the ball and went into the left rib of the penalty area, and made a single-handed kick Shot to expand the score for Manchester City.

Two to zero!

After changing sides in the second half and fighting again, in the 70th minute, after Gareth Bale completed a steal in the frontcourt, he sent a kick through the left rib of the penalty area. He came up and made a supplementary shot to seal the victory for Manchester City.

In the end, Manchester City beat Wigan Athletic 3-0.

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Manchester United drew 3-3 at home to Liverpool in the same round as Manchester City beat Wigan Athletic 3-0 away.

First, Manchester United scored twice, but Liverpool managed to equalize with Gerrard scoring twice in six minutes.

But Berbatov scored another goal in the 84th minute and overtook the score again, but at the last moment of the game, Torres received an assist from Biglia and successfully equalized the score.

In the end, Manchester City and Liverpool both shook hands and made peace.

Arsenal drew with Sunderland 1-1 away.

The weakness of the Gunners obviously exceeded outside expectations.

You know, this is still in the early part of the season, and it should have belonged to the most active time period for Arsenal.

On the contrary, Tottenham reversed the Wolves 3-1 at home.

The North London team has done a pretty good job of abusing food.

Chelsea is at home, with Malouda scored twice, 4-0 victory over Blackpool.

This battle once again shocked the entire Premier League.

West Bromwich Albion 6-0 at home, Wigan Athletic 6-0 away, Stoke City 2-0 at home, West Ham United 3-1 away, and now Blackpool 4-0 at home.

Chelsea have scored three points in five league games so far this season, and they have performed very eye-catching.

Whether it is Drogba or Malouda, they have shown strong attack power this season.

In the Champions League group stage in midweek, Chelsea defeated Zilina 4-1 away.

In six games, he scored 25 goals and conceded only two goals.

Ancelotti's team has shown super offensive power in the new season, and the team's overall performance is also quite stable.

The Blues are also so far the only two teams in the Premier League to maintain a perfect record.

The other team is the sophisticated Manchester City.

Interestingly, in the sixth round of the Premier League, Manchester City will host Chelsea at home.

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In late September, Manchester City ushered in the first difficult schedule.

On the 21st, in the third round of the League Cup, Manchester City challenged West Bromwich Albion away.

On the 25th, in the sixth round of the Premier League, Manchester City played against Chelsea at home.

On the 29th, in the second round of the UEFA Champions League group stage, Manchester City challenged Schalke 04 away.

Each of the three games is very important, especially the last two games, which can be said to be the two fronts that Gao Shen attaches the most importance to.

more importantly,

Manchester City's signing luck is really unlucky.

In the third round of the League Cup, Manchester City was the only one to draw the Premier League team when others drew the English Championship or League One teams, and it was still away.

After several considerations, Gao Shen and the coaching staff still chose to rotate.

He chose to start Jerome Boateng for this game, resting the two central defenders.

Both David Luiz and Kompany have played back-to-back games.

In the midfield, Gao Shen also played local players such as Ireland and Lallana to give them some opportunities to exercise.

In the first half, Manchester City played very well. Among them, Hazard created an excellent opportunity for Manchester City's offense in the 19th minute, assisting Giroud and breaking through West Bromwich Albion's goal.

But in the second half, in the fifty-fifth and fifty-seventh minutes, in just three minutes, Manchester City conceded two goals in a row.

The first goal was an error by Jerome Boateng, while the second was a set-piece that went straight into the net from a free-kick that Shay Given failed to stop.

Afterwards, Manchester City reacted and launched a fierce counterattack, but to no avail.

In the end, they lost 1-2 away to West Bromwich Albion.

Gao Shen's team suffered its first loss of the new season.

But for this result, Gao Shen expressed that he could accept it.

At the post-match press conference, he once again took responsibility for the loss, saying that Manchester City's players actually performed very well.

"In fact, I value the process more than the result."

Gao Shen said that Boateng did a good job in several defenses, and Adam Lallana had a few good passes, but the England midfielder still needs to further strengthen his physical fitness and running ability.

Not only Lallana, but in private, Gao Shen also told De Bruyne that if you want to be an excellent midfield passer, you must run actively, because only by running, you will not be caught. people imprisoned.

In addition, Gao Shen also named Giroud.

Although he scored a goal, Dajirou still missed several opportunities, which is a pity.

However, the advanced level is more about encouragement.

The battle against Chelsea is imminent, but Manchester City suffered a defeat in the League Cup. This makes people somewhat worried about Manchester City's performance, but Gao Shen is full of confidence in this.

"I don't think the loss in the League Cup will affect our league weekend!"

As for the upcoming top game, Gao Shen said with confidence, "On the weekend, only one team can maintain a complete victory."

"That's us Manchester City!

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This high level of confidence is not unfounded.

After losing the League Cup, after Gao Shen returned to Manchester, he immediately held a meeting with the coaching staff to prepare for the weekend league.

At the meeting, Gao Shen questioned Chelsea's triumphant progress this season.

"West Bromwich Albion, Wigan Athletic, Stoke City, West Ham United and Blackpool, the five Premier League teams Chelsea have faced so far this season are all in the lower ranks."

"Obviously, facing these five teams, Chelsea has an overwhelming advantage in terms of personal ability, player speed and strength, and Ancelotti's tactical system has further developed Chelsea's strengths. Advantage."

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If a team like Chelsea is handed over to Ancelotti, he will basically not cause major problems for this team, and as long as Chelsea plays steadily and beats the lower-ranked teams, there will be no problems at all.

That's why Gao Shen said that Chelsea's five-game winning streak is actually really watery.

Not only Gao Shen said so, but the British media outside basically think so.

They say, for example, that this weekend's game is Chelsea's first test of the season.

What do you mean?

The opponents you met before are all too strong.

Even the opponents in the Champions League group stage are at the level of Zilina, which is not convincing at all.

On the other hand, Manchester City, whether it is Real Madrid, Liverpool or Tottenham Hotspur, the high-level teams have shown very convincing performances, which makes Manchester City lag behind in the league rankings, but their momentum is stronger than Chelsea. more fierce.

Of course, at the level of Manchester City and Chelsea, whoever wins or loses is possible, so don't be careless.

More importantly, this is not just a Premier League game, but also the second round of the UEFA Champions League group stage.

An away game against Schalke 04 will also be a hard battle.

Others don't know it, but Gaoshen knows it very well.

In his previous life, under the coaching of Magath, Schalke 04 reached the semi-finals of the Champions League this season.

More importantly, Schalke's 04 record is not all due to luck. Needless to say in the group stage, teams like Lyon and Benfica are strong, and they even defeated teams like Valencia and Inter Milan in the knockout round , and Inter Milan reached the quarterfinals, and Bayern Munich was eliminated.

From this point, it is not difficult to see that Schalke Zero Four is also very strong.

Many Italian media are complaining about Inter Milan's 0-0 home draw with Schalke 04, but in Gao Shen's previous life, Schalke 04 beat Inter Milan 5-2 away in the first round of the knockout round of the quarterfinals.

In contrast, zero to zero is not bad.

It is precisely because Gao Shen is very aware of the strength of Schalke Zero Four that he wants to set aside some strength in the weekend league and prepare for the UEFA Champions League group stage in the middle of next week.

In the death group, you must go all out in every game, otherwise, if you are not careful, you may lose points again and again.

But rotation and retention, when facing a team like Chelsea, the risk is indeed a bit high.

Especially when the team was in the rotation just now, they lost to West Bromwich Albion and were eliminated.

"space!"

Gao Shen pointed directly at Chelsea's vitals.

"Chelsea's biggest change this season is that the players' running is very active and their ability to create space has improved, so even players like Essien seem to be very good at passing and organizing, but in fact it is because they can always get space. .”

"On the one hand, it's because of tactics, and on the other hand, it's because the opponent's strength is not strong enough."

"So, against Chelsea, we must not give the Chelsea players the slightest space. As long as there is no space, they will not be able to pass the ball like before, and our advantage will be established."

Carlo, Sarri and others all nodded.

"What about Drogba?" Sarri asked, "If Drogba can't be pinched, Chelsea's offense will be difficult to contain."

Gao Shen nodded. After all, Sarri is a famous coach in the future, and his vision is still very sharp.

Drogba is indeed the key.

The Ivorian's physical strength advantage is very obvious, which allows him to always suppress the opponent's central defenders and defenders, and create space for his teammates, especially Lampard and others.

"Then let's arrange for someone to go and keep an eye on Drogba!"

Mark Drogba?

Is this possible?

Over the years, how many Premier League teams have tried to do it, but they have failed.

In the Manchester City team, is there really a strong man who can stare Drogba to death?

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