Green Journey

Chapter 339 Bucharest Star!

At noon on August 8th, London time, the Manchester City team went to Romania, ushered in an important pre-season game, and challenged Steaua Bucharest, their opponents in the first round of the Champions League play-offs, away.

Steaua Bucharest is a football club based in Bucharest, Romania.

This was an amazing team, ever.

The team won the Champions League in 1986.

Back then, Barcelona didn't pay much attention to this Romanian team. As a result, the two sides fought fiercely for 120 minutes but still failed to score.

In the penalty shootout, Bucharest star goalkeeper Helmut Dukadam miraculously saved all four Barcelona penalty kicks, defeated Barcelona with a score of 2-0, and won the Champions League. That is also Bucharest. Star's most glorious period.

But the game against Manchester City was regarded by the European media as a game with no suspense at all.

Manchester City's promotion to the Champions League group stage is a certainty.

Although Steaua Bucharest is the superpower of Romania, it's just the same thing when they leave Romania's borders and enter the European arena. It's a second-rate team to give them face.

On August 8th, at 13:2 a.m. BJ time, the live broadcast signal was connected to the live broadcast room of Xixi Kickway Sports Channel 30 on time.

"...Audience friends, you are watching the 2016-17 UEFA Champions League play-offs, Steaua Bucharest vs. Manchester City in the first round..."

After He Wei's opening remarks, the live broadcast footage appeared in the player tunnel, and Chu Zheng's figure also appeared.

Seeing Chu Zheng, He Wei said with a normal face in the live broadcast room: "Manchester City have played 7 warm-up matches since July, they won 8 games, drew 6 games, and achieved an excellent undefeated match." record."

"It is worth mentioning that Manchester City scored 8 goals in 28 warm-up matches and only conceded 3 goals, showing a strong offensive power."

He Wei briefly talked about the results of Manchester City's warm-up match and then skipped Chu Zheng's mention. This is very inconsistent with He Wei's style of explaining Chu Zheng in the past.

In the past, when He Wei commented on games with Chu Zheng, he would always catch Chu Zheng and praise him fiercely. Sometimes the fans felt a little hot when they heard it.

There is no way, the recent domestic and European media reports on Chu Zheng are not very good.

Because Chu Zheng performed abnormally in the warm-up match.

Chu Zheng played 8 of Manchester City's 7 warm-up matches either as a starter or as a substitute, but neither scored nor assisted, which was the exact opposite of his phenomenal performance in Leicester City.

Therefore, the major European media have a lot of discussions about Chu Zheng, who has set a new transfer record in the summer transfer window this year.

Some tabloids in Europe even publicly mocked Manchester City for being taken advantage of again in their reports, spending [-] million pounds to buy a parallel importer, Meteor.

Also compare Chu Zheng with Pogba of Manchester United to highlight Chu Zheng's mediocrity in the warm-up match.

Pogba performed very eye-catchingly in Manchester United's four warm-up games, scoring 2 goals and 3 assists, showing extraordinary efficiency.

Even some media in China who like bloggers' eyeballs have started to follow suit, directly labeling Chu Zheng's performance in the warm-up match as inaccurate, his status has declined seriously, and the rookie wall came a bit late, not as good as Pogba and other eye-catching Label.

Some toilet tabloids even fabricated news, claiming that Chu Zheng snatched Aguero's No. 10 jersey as soon as he arrived at Manchester City, which aroused Aguero's dissatisfaction.

The key is to add the picture of Chu Zheng shoveling Aguero in Manchester City's offensive and defensive training match, so people really believe it!

In fact, however, this is not the case at all.

The focus of the pre-season warm-up match is not the win or loss of the game, the number of goals scored.

The real purpose of the warm-up match is to help the team reach the best state at the beginning of the season, help the players get familiar with coordination and tactics, restore the competitive state of the players after a holiday, and let the head coach test and experiment with his own tactics and find out the shortcomings place to be improved.

Among the seven warm-up matches, Chu Zheng played the longest one for only 45 minutes, and his position was never fixed.

Guardiola doesn't know why, but let Chu Zheng play as a winger today, as a midfielder the next day, as a full-back the day after tomorrow, and as a central defender and midfielder the day after tomorrow. From the front to the back, Chu Zheng is short of the goalkeeper And the center position has not played.

Therefore, it is actually quite normal that Chu Zheng's performance is not as dazzling as before.

Anyone who knows the ball can see that the starting lineup is constantly changing in the warm-up match, and Guardiola, who is making crazy substitutions, is running in and looking for a set of tactics that is most suitable for Manchester City's current player configuration.

And Chu Zheng wasn't totally inactive.

He actually did a good job in offensive organization and midfield scheduling in the warm-up match. Even David Silva couldn't do better than Chu Zheng in this regard.

It's just that the media with ulterior motives deliberately ignored Chu Zheng's performance in this regard, and some fans were led astray by following others.

In addition, the warm and friendly attitude of Manchester City fans towards Chu Zheng is also evidence that Chu Zheng is doing well.

With the pissing nature of England fans, if Chu Zheng is really in a bad state, he will definitely be booed.

In the player channel, Chu Zheng, who was standing in the Manchester City queue, would jump on the spot from time to time.

He is very excited now.

The Champions League is a brand new stage for Chu Zheng, which gave Chu Zheng the excitement he felt when he first set foot in the Bundesliga two years ago.

It's not that Chu Zheng was unaware of some European media's attacks on him during this period, but he didn't pay much attention to it.

If he cares about every report that says he is bad, he is afraid that he will be too busy.

And it's not like that.

Chu Zheng was quite happy to frequently appear in different positions in the warm-up match.

Behind Chu Zheng, David Silva looked at Chu Zheng with complicated eyes.

After spending this period of time together, he can be considered to have experienced the magical feeling that De Bruyne said.

This kind of magic comes from Chu Zheng's unique vision of the court.

In many cases, David Silva, who is experienced in the game, even has to wait for Chu Zheng to give the ball before he realizes, oh!It turns out that there is still a hidden offensive gap there.

Sometimes when Chu Zheng's performance surprised David Silva, he really wanted to lift Chu Zheng's skull to see if the brain inside looked different from them.

Also on the defensive end, David Silva liked Chu Zheng's attitude and performance even more.

Compared with the lazy Yaya Toure, Chu Zheng is like a hardworking bee on the court.

Sometimes Chu Zheng's running range was so large that David Silva was amazed.

The defensive ability is not inferior to Fernandinho and Yaya Toure at all. David Silva even feels that Chu Zheng is stronger than those two.

Especially in the two aspects of prediction and stealing, Chu Zheng's data is even higher than all Manchester City players.

Having such a teammate is really reassuring and happy, and I can't hate it at all.

And after getting along for this period of time, Chu Zheng's personality is also very pleasing.

Looking at An Jing, I didn't expect that once I got acquainted with him, this would be a crazy person, and I could chat and play with everyone.

Chu Zheng maintains a good relationship with everyone in the Manchester City team to know how popular he is.

At this point, Yaya Toure was killed in seconds again. His nagging and caressing character is really unlikable.

And the delicate relationship between Chu Zheng and Yaya Toure in the team was also exposed in the confrontation between the two, and the Manchester City players knew it well.

Yaya Toure's recent isolation is thus evident.

In Manchester City, Guardiola's love for Chu Zheng is obvious to everyone, and he will hold separate meetings with Chu Zheng before and after each training session.

Guardiola's every move tells everyone that Chu Zheng is the core of his tactics.

Therefore, it is not difficult for Manchester City players to choose. As long as they are human and know how to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, they will automatically lean towards Chu Zheng.

Coupled with Yaya Toure's really bad personality, so his isolation is actually his own fault.

(End of this chapter)