Green Journey

Chapter 349 If you lose, you will become two hundred and five!
After killing the Bucharest star and advancing to the Champions League group stage, Manchester City will immediately usher in the third round of the Premier League and West Ham United in just four days.

This summer, West Ham United has also been active in the transfer market.

Their biggest signing was to poach Swansea's leading striker, Andre Ayew, who scored 2050 Premier League goals last season, for 12 million pounds.

Later, it spent 1200 million to buy out Lanzini who joined on loan, 710 million to buy Masuaku from the Greek Super League Olympiakos, and a series of low-priced practical players, and introduced 11 new aids.

Judging from the activity of West Ham United in the summer transfer window, they are ambitious, and hitting the European seats is still the ultimate goal of the Hammers this season.

But what is absolutely unexpected is that after the two rounds of the Premier League in the new season, West Ham United suffered extensive injuries from the striker to the defense. Many players including Payet, Carroll, and Cresswell The main force was collectively injured.

As a result, West Ham United fell into the sand in the second round of the Europa League play-offs on August 8.
Fans of the Hammers never expected that the team would be eliminated by a little-known Romanian team like Astra with a total score of 2-1 at their home court.

At 22:40 BJ time, the live broadcast room of LeTV Sports is ready, waiting for the live broadcast signal to come in.

Fan Zhiyi sat behind the studio, chatting happily with Zhang Lu.

"Old Zhang, do you want to go to Bangzi the day after tomorrow?" Fan Zhiyi leaned over and asked with a low voice and a smile, "Lao Sun and I are going to watch the game."

Zhang Lu chuckled and said, "Then you must go! Xiaohe invited me to be the live commentator!"

Hearing this, Fan Zhiyi rolled his eyes, and immediately said: "Is there still room? Why don't you tell Xiao He and get me to the commentary booth as well."

"Just three people!" Zhang Lu chuckled, raised three fingers and turned to look at Fan Zhiyi, "Why don't you tell Xiao He to push Teacher Song away and get you instead?"

Hearing this, Fan Zhiyi's mouth twitched, and then he clasped his fists together and said strangely, "Farewell!"

"I don't know how Xiao Gao's preparations are going!" Fan Zhiyi muttered with a smile.

Hearing Fan Zhiyi's muttering, Zhang Lu's heart beat a little.

During the training camp of the national team in June, the content of the training was really covered by Gao Hongbo, and no news of it leaked out.

Chu Zheng's four boys were also tight-lipped during the media interview, only saying that there were surprises, which made Zhang Lu very curious these months.

But no matter how good the training is and how effective it is, Zhang Lu believes that the addition of Chu Zheng and the other four 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

Midfielders: 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 formed a 433 formation with parallel positions in the midfield."

"This is the last game of this round of the Premier League."

"Yesterday, Manchester United and Chelsea have won three consecutive league victories."

"As long as Manchester City wins West Ham in this game, they will share 9 points with Manchester United and Chelsea. At that time, they will also reach the top of the Premier League with the advantage of goal difference!"

After Zhan Jun finished speaking, Zhang Lu said with a smile: "It was not easy for Manchester City to win the first round of the opening match of the new season. It can even be said that it relied on Chu Zheng's strong personal ability to win."

"Manchester City players seem a little uncomfortable with the way of playing with two full-backs at the midfielder position, but after the running-in of the last few games, Manchester City's state is getting better and better."

West Ham United: (352)

Forwards: Ashley Fletcher, Enna Valencia

Midfielders: Masuaku, Kouyat, Noble, Gokhan Trey, Michael Antonio

Guards: Obonna, Winston Reed, 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 the end of last season, Bilic confidently sold a few defenders, but now he has cheated himself!"

"This is also the strongest lineup that Bilic, who is suffering from serious injuries, can field."

"West Ham United have an excellent record of 2 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss in their four recent matches against Manchester City, and they have an advantage."

"Last season they beat Manchester City 2-1 away and drew Manchester City 1-1 at home."

"West Ham United wants to continue to replicate last season's bravery in this game. It may not be easy!"

"In the four official games after Guardiola took charge of Manchester City, Blue Moon has won all the games. Except for the thrilling first round of the Premier League, the remaining few games have won the opponent without bloodshed."

"In Guardiola's coaching career, in the 128 home games he coached in the top league, he only lost 8 games in total. The remaining 110 wins and 10 draws, the winning rate is as high as 86%."

After Zhan Jun finished speaking, Fan Zhiyi suddenly laughed and said, "If Manchester City loses this game, it will be the 250th loss in the history of Manchester City."

"The home game was kicked at [-], I think Guardiola will definitely not do it!"

"Hahaha!!!!!!!" Hearing Fan Zhiyi's very personal commentary, Zhang Lu and Zhan Jun were rocked with laughter.

God damn two hundred and five!

At 23:[-] BJ time, the referee Marina blew the whistle to start the game.

On the field, West Ham United kicked the ball, and Manchester City immediately launched a press.

The ball was quickly cut off, and the formation pressed West Ham back.

In the opening 5 minutes, Manchester City won three corner kicks in a row.

It's a pity that working at heights is really not what Manchester City is good at.

Chu Zheng is Manchester City's best offline header player.

But West Ham United obviously knew this, so every time Chu Zheng had three players guarding against him, and in the end, none of Manchester City could threaten West Ham United's goal.

In the 7th minute of the game, Manchester City continued to press on the right side of the front court, and West Ham United made a high press outside the penalty area.

De Bruyne went straight to Masuaku who took the ball from the right side of the arc from the top of the arc.

Chu Zheng followed Enna Valencia who ran from the ribs to the side in an attempt to establish a forward point.

Zabaleta followed Noble,
The tacit running of Chu Zheng and the others trapped Masuaku to death on the road outside the penalty area in an instant. There was no way to find the ball nearby, let alone a counterattack by West Ham United.

But Masuaku's new aid is doing a good job at his feet.

Facing De Bruyne's up grab, he pulled the ball to the right with his left foot, then quickly turned around and stopped the ball with his right foot, then switched to the right and successfully rushed over.

But within two steps, Chu Zheng pushed forward.

Masuaku was directly blocked by Chu Zheng and De Bruyne.

Forced to be helpless, Masuaku didn't dare to continue to show off his footwork. He quickly turned around and passed back to the bottom line behind him.

Obonna saw Sterling rushing over after the ball. He didn't stop the ball and made a long pass directly to the left of the midfielder.

On the spot, Stones was right behind Ashley Fletcher.

Originally he stuck very close.

But seeing Kuyat advancing along the ribs on the left front side, he quickly retreated, opened the distance with Fletcher, and moved two steps to the left, ready to follow up with Kuyat 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 cross to the left for Kouyate.

Zabaleta went directly to grab Fletcher, and the division of labor between the three was clear and tacit.

Fletcher also knew that because of his hesitation he missed the opportunity to fight back.

So he passed back directly to Noble, hoping to pass the ball to the foot of Kuyat in the ribs through a triangle pass.

Noble also knew Fletcher's intentions and passed the ball directly.

But at the moment of the ball, Fernandinho suddenly moved laterally to the left, stretched out his foot and directly intercepted the ball.

After getting the ball, Fernandio quickly pushed a pass to Chu Zheng, who was in the right rib area at the top of the arc in front of him.

Before Chu Zheng touched the ball, Obonna and Winston Reed in front of him and behind him quickly approached.

Chu Zheng was even more straightforward. He stopped the ball directly to the front right, turned around quickly, and pushed the ball laterally, avoiding the end of being pinched.

Winston Reid saw Chu Zheng run away, and he quickly retreated to the right of the top of the arc, maintaining close contact with James Collins in front of the free throw arc behind him.

In the left rib area at the top of the arc, Antonio also returned to the defense, and the three 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 of the arc in the middle.

Antonio had to retreat in the middle to follow up.

James Collins, who retreated to the top of the arc, was also attracted by Nolito's running.

Aguero, who was at the front of the arc in the middle, was not slow, and quickly moved to the left rib area of ​​​​the penalty area, forming a cross run with Nolito.

When Chu Zheng came to the middle, he originally wanted to take a long shot.

But seeing that Aguero was running fast, and Nolito created the space for passing the ball from the left rib, he gave up the idea of ​​​​a long-range shot and took a few more steps.

When Aguero entered the left rib area at the top of the arc, Chu Zheng suddenly made a strong direct pass with his left foot in order to avoid the ball being intercepted too slowly.

Aguero has been watching Chu Zheng.

Seeing the ball coming, he took it sideways and dribbled it into the left rib area of ​​West Ham United's penalty area, then raised his foot and hit it, pushing directly to the lower corner of the far goal.

Antonio fell to the ground and stretched out his feet to intercept the destruction, a step slower.

In the small penalty area, the goalkeeper Adrian was half a beat too late, and he could only watch the ball slip away from his fingertips.

"fool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

In the next second, more than 5 fans at the Etihad Stadium exclaimed in unison!
"Ouch! It was a little short, Aguero's push shot passed the sliding door of the post!"

"The timing of Chu Zheng's throwing the ball is really good!"

"Hmm! No, it's a pity that Aguero pursued the angle too much!"

On the court, Aguero also looked up at the sky with a look of annoyance.

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!
(End of this chapter)