A week later, the 14th round of the Premier League will be the match of Manchester City. In this game, Manchester City will usher in a strong rival Arsenal at home.

There is still a week before this game, but the media is already hyping up the game.

On November 19, 2008, an article was published on the front page of the Daily Mirror. The title of the article was: Strip Manchester City’s seemingly powerful outerwear!

"...In the transfer market this summer, Manchester City is obviously the craziest team. They have invested nearly £130 million in total, which is almost the sum of the investments of giants like Manchester United in three or four seasons. At present, this team built with money ranks sixth in the standings, which is a seemingly acceptable ranking. Moreover, Manchester City remained unbeaten in the match against Chelsea and Liverpool. However, we stripped the outer cover of Manchester City's results and looked carefully and found that

The team has been so weak in the confrontation with strong teams so far. It is three to three with Chelsea and five to five with Liverpool. Yes, both games have high scores, and Manchester City people are complacent about it, but isn’t it because of the win? If the draw can make Manchester City complacent, then the future of this team will be like this... You know, Zhang Yang’s salary is almost three times that of some Liverpool’s starting players. Shouldn’t he and his team do better?”

Reading this report all over the article, it just expresses one meaning, that is, Manchester City's performance seems to be good now, but this cannot change the essence of Manchester City's ** silk. A team that is determined to become a giant must have the strength to kill the giants' opponents! Obviously, Manchester City has not been able to do this yet!

Objectively speaking, this report by Daily Mirror is suspected of being nitpicking. Manchester City can rank sixth in the thirteenth round and once ranked first in the league. This is a relatively acceptable ranking. As for the media criticizing that Manchester City never won a match against a strong team, this is a bit too harsh. A team that was often slaughtered by Chelsea or Arsenal a season ago can now tie Chelsea and Liverpool and play a high-scoring draw. It can be said that it has made a lot of progress.

As for the accusations against Zhang Yang, it was even more excessive. Zhang Yang missed four games and now scored thirteen goals in the Premier League, ranking first in the scorer list, and behind him was Anelka, who scored eight goals. Zhang Yang left almost all the followers far behind. Such a goal number and report card should not be criticized at all, but should be praised.

The reason is this, but after the "Daily Mirror" fired its first shot, Fleet Street suddenly started to jump around. They all agreed with the "Daily Mirror"'s point of view: Manchester City is still not good, it is not powerful, and when facing a strong team, it shows its essence.

That's what it means anyway.

Don’t these media know that even if Manchester City’s current achievements are not praised, they still cannot be criticized? Of course they know!

However, they still criticized and questioned Manchester City and Zhang Yang. Why? The market needed their public opinion. Since Manchester City started the money storm in the summer market, this team became an annoying team in the Premier League, and criticism and suspicion of Manchester City became mainstream. When Manchester City's performance was pretty good, it is always possible to find reasons to continue criticizing Manchester City. Isn't this what I found?!

Therefore, the current criticism is not caused by some objective reason, but because the media and most fans like to listen to it and need this kind of argument, then there will naturally be such arguments. Moreover, if there are too many people talking about it, it seems that it is really the case.

Most things in the world are like this.

In addition to the disgust of Manchester City fans, many people like to listen to this kind of criticism. The sales of newspapers are good, so everyone will naturally follow the trend.

Before Manchester City is about to play against Arsenal, the sudden burst of this voice is more like building momentum for this game.

It is conceivable that once Manchester City cannot defeat Arsenal or even be slaughtered by Arsenal as always, after the game, this remark and trend will be rampant!

There is no doubt that at that time, Zhang Yang will also bear tremendous pressure! He is the new banner of this team, and he must bear most of the criticism of the team!

Manchester City clubs and players did not respond to such remarks from the media.

Why?

Although the media is suspected of nitpicking, they are telling the truth! How do Manchester City answer this? Did they answer, "You think of us so much, we are very satisfied with our current results. As for what it means to say, "I can't win the ball when I meet a strong team, that's nothing. We are not as strong as them!"

The senior executives of Manchester City clubs cannot say such words. You must know that at the beginning of the season, they shouted that they would compete for the Champions League qualification for next season. Since they dared to shout such a slogan, and the Champions League qualification has always been dominated by the BIG4 of Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea, and Liverpool. Manchester City has declared war on these four big bosses. Since they declared war, it is equivalent to announcing that they have the confidence and strength to put these four teams under their feet. Therefore, there is nothing wrong with the media's accusations now.

As for Manchester City players, they are even more difficult to speak. Now, when facing such a topic, no matter what they say, it is not appropriate. So, let’s just shut up.

News is silent!

I've heard of this word.

Well, Manchester City chose to keep silent about news. Of course, it is just to keep silent about this topic, and it is still possible to answer other topics.

Perhaps everyone knows Zhang Yang's big mouth. In order to prevent problems before they happen, Manchester City Club General Manager Cook also found Zhang Yang and asked him not to talk nonsense.

Zhang Yang did not speak nonsense, because he directly refused all media interviews?

Why? He was afraid that he would be unable to resist his temper and explode!

In fact, deep in Zhang Yang's heart, Zhang Yang really took these words from these media in his heart, and even "really agreed"! Yes, why can't you win those guys in BIG4? Why can't you win?! You have to win anyway! Otherwise, these guys will definitely continue to make noise!

Zhang Yang would not think that Manchester City's current performance is already very good compared to the previous season. He would only think about why it cannot be better and why it cannot beat Chelsea and Liverpool?!

Therefore, Zhang Yang felt that there was nothing to say about the media’s accusations and sarcasm!

He has always been slapped in the face by the media. Now, he is being run over by the media and can't speak. Zhang Yang feels so uncomfortable!

This kind of resentment is accumulated, becoming more and more serious. When it reaches a certain level, you have to vent!

How to vent?

Zhang Yang looked at the schedule in the newspaper and said that the opponent in the next game was Arsenal!

Whether it is a coincidence or whatever, anyway, Zhang Yang attaches great importance to this game with Arsenal, and his repressive emotions must be vented.

That day, after the training, Wright Phillips called Zhang Yang, who was changing his shoes.

"Zhang, let's have a drink together later?" said Wright Phillips.

In England, it is normal for players to drink alcohol. As long as they are not intentionally drunk, the head coach will generally allow players to drink a few glasses of wine. Of course, no matter how good the alcohol content is, you cannot overdo it.

Zhang Yang shook his head, "No, you guys go, I'll have something to do later?"

"What's the matter? Please?" Modridge came over and said, "Date your girlfriend?"

"Get out." Since knowing that Zhang Yang has no girlfriend, Modric, who is now in the 'love, love, passionate' stage with his girlfriend, always comes to stimulate Zhang Yang.

Zhang Yang did not relax with a few teammates, and he returned to his home.

He is busy training in the dungeon.

On weekdays, during the team's training, Zhang Yang still follows the team to train and complete the training tasks arranged by the entire coaching team.

But when he returned home, he entered his own world and did very targeted training. In this world, he was often surrounded by heavy siege. When he dealt with all defensive players alone, he was like a lone hero who was trapped in a heavy siege. The first thing he had to do was to protect his ball and prevent the ball from being snatched away. Then, the next step was to find a way to break through the siege!

He was surrounded by defensive players, in front of him, behind him, on the left and right. He was alone, without teammates in cooperation with the running position, and without teammates to receive the pass. Everything depends on him.

This is a new copy that Zhang Yang specially chose for himself.

Why choose such a copy of difficulty and situational settings? This is because, after coming to the Premier League, Zhang Yang began to discover that unlike the French Ligue 1 and Serie A, the Premier League has his own characteristics, and the confrontation of this league is even stronger!

The Ligue 1 is relatively open and it is relatively easy to score goals.

The Serie A League pays the most attention to defense. The defensive strength mentioned here does not refer to the kind of rough fouls, but tactical awareness. In the Serie A team, they all have the essence of defense at their core. Their defenders have a good sense of defense and are not rude.

A league has a league style.

Now that we are in the Premier League, the level of fighting in the Premier League is even more intense.

For example, there is a common understanding now that South American players rarely succeed in the Premier League. The paradise for South American players is La Liga and Serie A. Why is this so?

South America has not been successful in the Premier League, even in the football kingdom of Brazil, not many players have succeeded. Gilberto is a South American player in the Premier League, but this is not a great achievement in Arsenal... The rhythm of the Premier League is quite serious, so technical players cannot play, and they tackle it as soon as they get the ball. South American players advocate personal skills, and the Premier League requires you to take the ball and rush straight to the side, not to stop, look and see three passes. You can drive the ball and pass one, at most you can pass the second one, but even when you just pass a person's opponent, the opponent rushes up, and the opponent just shovels you directly to the sky.

Therefore, South American players are mostly successful in La Liga and Serie A, because the characteristic of La Liga is gorgeous cooperation in offense; while Serie A is more focused on adjusting its defense system and the confrontation is not bad, the pace is slower than the Premier League.

This style of the Premier League determines the situation of this league.

Zhang Yang scored the most goals after coming to the Premier League, which was the shots after passing two people. He dribbled the ball from the backcourt like in the French Ligue 1 and Serie A. It was rare to see the wonderful shots and goals after too many people. As for the situation where he passed the opponent's entire team alone, it was even rare in the Premier League!

Therefore, Zhang Yang began to realize the style of the Premier League. Although his goals were quite considerable, Zhang Yang knew that this was mainly because his opponent was not very familiar with his technical characteristics. Once the opponent's head coach thoroughly studied himself and formulated effective tactical defense for travel, then, although he was not unable to score the goal, it would be much more difficult to score.

Therefore, Zhang Yang began to train himself in the dungeon, mainly to temper his ability to fight, especially his ability to protect the ball under multiple teams, and how to protect the ball in the encirclement circle to get rid of it.

I fell down again and again, and got up again and again.

Zhang Yang didn't know how many times he had been knocked down in the dungeon. Although he was almost unable to say that he was covered in bruises, his body was sore.

In Zhang Yang's dungeon training today, Galas was specially "drawn" as a French defender to defend himself. Because he was about to meet the Arsenal centre-back in the weekend game. Although he was a little disliked by the character of this weird guy who wore the No. 10 jersey as a central defender, Zhang Yang still had to admit that Galas was still very strong.

The key is that after watching the Arsenal game video, Zhang Yang felt that the cooperation between Galas and veteran Sylvester was becoming increasingly tacit. Once he was trapped by the two, he could not be easily escaped.

In fact, when he was in AC Milan last season, Zhang Yang had a grudge with Arsenal, and there was a fierce conflict between him and Galas. Whether it was the bet before the game or the sensational "massage stick" incident, they all made the two of them mortal enemies. Therefore, it can be imagined that in this game with Arsenal, the two should be enemies, and they were particularly jealous.

Let’s not talk about the game time. It’s during this copy practice. I don’t know if the players’ emotions in reality will be ‘bred’ into the copy. Anyway, when Galas defends Zhang Yang, his foot is not polite at all, and it’s so cruel! Zhang Yang was knocked down by Galas’s flying tackle several times. Once, after Galas threw Zhang Yang to the ground, he looked at Zhang Yang with a sneer, with a smug expression on his face.

I have to say that everything in this copy is too realistic. Even though I know that this is just a training in the copy, Zhang Yang is still tiring at Galas.

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