Green Journey

Chapter 386 Insufficient golf skills, use your hands to make up!
In the end, Manchester City failed to maintain the score of 2-2 to the end.

After Chu Zheng was injured, Guardiola quickly adjusted Gundogan to the position of the midfielder and retreated fully because there was no substitution quota.

But unfortunately, in the end, it still failed to hold.

In the 92nd minute of the game, during stoppage time, Manchester City's defense in the middle was once again broken by Tottenham.

David Silva was responsible for the leakage of the defense and had to bring down the dancing Ali in the penalty area. He was sentenced to death by the referee Marina, a set of yellow dots.

Then Lamela made the penalty himself.

Although Bravo guessed the right direction, Lamela's penalty angle was too tricky, and he got into the goal from the lower left corner of the goal against the inside of the post.

After the game, the media rushed over like a shark smelling blood, biting Manchester City and Guardiola frantically.

"Tottenham 3-2 Manchester City, Guardiola ushered in the first defeat of the season!Manchester City's Premier League winning streak ends! - The Times

"Chu's thigh muscle is strained, and it is suspected that he needs to rest for a month!" "——Kicker

"Kolarov, this may be the game he wants to forget the most. For 90 minutes, he struggled in the defense and did nothing offensively!He was robbed of his soul by Tottenham! "——Sun Embrace
In addition to Kolarov, two of Manchester City's four-man defense scored 4 failing points.

In this game, Arsenal star Henry visited Sky Sports as a guest commentator.

After the game, Henry bluntly said that if Manchester City hadn't played well on both offensive and defensive ends, Manchester City would definitely have a zero seal by Tottenham and win a great victory.

Henry's view was echoed by another guest Carragher.

Carragher said to the camera that Chu Zheng's score in this game was low. It should not be 9 points, but a full 10 points.

As for Tottenham's performance in this game, Henry and Carragher also gave a very high evaluation.

Henry claimed Tottenham's victory was a football victory of a different kind.

At present, in the five major European leagues, the possession-based style of play, Tiki-taka style of play is very popular.

The most typical representatives are Barcelona, ​​Bayern and Manchester City. Even Manchester United has a tendency to imitate this tactic.

After Manchester United lost to Manchester City in the 4th round of the Premier League, Mourinho played Herrera and Mata in the midfield for the next three Premier League games, and his intention to control the ball was extremely obvious.

As for Tottenham, it is completely a representative of another team.

Tottenham's players are physically strong, explosive and fast, direct in style of play, with many direct passes, and paired with one or two technical players. Pochettino has proved that his tactical strategy can also be successful.

But in Europe, Pochettino's tactics are not unique.

Tottenham's current style of play is very reminiscent of La Liga's bandit coach Diego Simeone.

Atletico Madrid have adopted this tactic in recent seasons, and it has achieved unprecedented success.

In the Champions League group stage last week, Atletico Madrid also defeated Bayern Munich 1-0.

In the past three seasons, the La Liga gangsters led by Simeone broke into the Champions League final twice, which is enough to prove the success of this style of play.

Therefore, Guardiola's failure was not accidental, and Carragher said that Manchester City's loss in this game was also a certain inevitability.

With the reports of major media, people are talking more and more about this battle for the top of the Premier League.

Among them, what made Manchester City fans hate their teeth was the report of the "Manchester Evening News".

The "Manchester Evening News" claimed in the report that Tottenham have completely smashed Manchester City's attacking style, and Pochettino is Guardiola's nemesis.

And used the word 'blood collapse' to form Manchester City's defense.

Some time ago, when Stones and Kolarov played well, the English media praised Stones as the 'new Ferdinand' and Kolarov as the 'new Bobby Moore'.

But today Kolarov, Stones, Otamendi, including Zabaleta, who was not very present in this game, were all dragged out by the "Manchester Evening News" to whip their corpses, and they were criticized badly.

The Manchester City fans wanted to defend themselves, but they couldn't speak.

Because the Manchester Evening News is telling the truth.

Manchester City's current style of play, when encountering a strong team like Tottenham, the defense is indeed like a paper tiger.

At the post-match interview press conference, Guardiola also frankly admitted that Tottenham performed better than them today in the face of media questions.

"It's a tough game, we all know that, Tottenham have been a very good team for the last 3 years and they've been fighting with a style of play similar to today. "

"We were not as good as Tottenham in all aspects today. They were stronger in the second place. In the Premier League, you have to control the second place. But obviously, we did not do well today. It can even be said to be a bit bad. "

"Losing is part of the game and part of our job. I never think that we will not lose. Sometimes a loss in a game does not have a decisive impact on the team's trend. I believe in my players. This game made me discover a lot of shortcomings in the team, and he believes it will help us improve. "

Facing the reporter's interview, Guardiola had a cold face, but when the reporter asked him if he was satisfied with Chu Zheng's performance today, he smiled for the first time.

"Chu played the best among all our players today. His state is as good and stable as ever. I can hardly imagine how we would play without him on the field. "

After attending the media conference, Guardiola hurried to the locker room.

As soon as I came to the locker room, I bumped into Arteta who came out of the locker room.

"Mikel, is Chu seriously injured?" Guardiola asked quickly, expressing his worries.

"It's not a big problem!" Arteta smiled lightly, "Max and Eduardo have just conducted a detailed inspection on Chu."

"Chu's hamstring muscle in his right thigh is strained, which should be caused by a long pass from the outside of his foot."

At the end of the sentence, seeing Guardiola frowned so that three forehead lines appeared, Arteta continued: "But Max and Eduardo judged that the strain should not be very serious."

After listening to Arteta's words, Guardiola still looked dignified.

Muscle strains are never a minor injury for football players.

The hamstring muscle is located on the back of the thigh and is one of the main knee flexors. It is composed of biceps femoris, semitendinosus and other muscles. It is one of the muscles that are very prone to strain.

Muscle injury may seem like a small problem, but if it is not handled properly, it will cause extremely serious consequences.

After a muscle strain, once the muscle fibers are torn, scars will heal, and it is almost impossible to grow back to the original normal shape. If it is not handled properly, it is very easy to tear again and recur, which is almost fatal to professional athletes.

Half an hour later, the Manchester City team flew back to Manchester on a chartered plane.

After getting off the plane, Chu Zheng was taken to Manchester Medical Center for a detailed examination.

In less than an hour, Chu Zheng's inspection results came out, which was completely consistent with the judgments of Max and Eduardo.

Chu Zheng's hamstring strain is mild and not serious, and it is estimated that it will take more than a week to fully heal.

Guardiola breathed a sigh of relief after learning the result.

Because the next two weeks of international competitions, and the injured Chu Zheng is obviously unable to play for the national team, he has enough time to rest and recuperate.

After Chu Zheng learned of the injury assessment, he didn't take it to heart.

What a joke, when his 'reinforced iron bone' talent is a joke!

That night, countless domestic fans who were concerned about Chu Zheng's injury showed their talents and saw the announcement of Chu Zheng's injury from Manchester City's official website.

When it was learned that Chu Zheng had a strained hamstring and was expected to take a two-week rest, many fans suddenly felt cold.

They are well aware of Chu Zheng's role in the offensive and defensive ends of the national team.

For a while, many fans couldn't help but feel a ray of sadness in their hearts. How can it be so difficult to enter the World Cup.

The only thing that makes domestic fans feel lucky is that the opponents in these two rounds are not very strong, and Hao Xiao's three-player league has returned safely.

And one of them is a home game. Many people think that with the current strength of the Chinese team, winning Syria should not be a big problem.

In this way, even if they lost to Uzbekistan in the fourth round away game, and the Chinese team's ranking in the Group A standings has dropped, it will not be widened too much.

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The next day, Chu Zheng rarely overslept, even the punctual biological clock failed to wake him up.

Near 8 o'clock in the morning, Chu Zheng, who was sleeping soundly on the bed, sneezed and woke up, and saw Zhao Dudu scratching his nostrils with his hair.

Chu Zheng rolled his eyes, pulled Zhao Dudu into his arms, stroked the smooth skin of someone's back, and said with a smile, "Have you figured it out? Where are you going to play?"

"I haven't thought about it yet!" Zhao Dudu, who was sleepy, lay on Chu Zheng's chest, and said lazily.

"Why don't we go to Switzerland?" Chu Zheng's heart moved, "I heard from Kevin that there is a small town under the Alps there, which is very suitable for vacation."

As soon as Chu Zheng mentioned Switzerland, Zhao Dudu raised his head, his face was a little moved, but when he thought that the research project in his hand was at a critical stage, he immediately became discouraged. He leaned back on Chu Zheng's chest again, and said a little discouraged: "Forget it, I only have three days of vacation, and once I go there, I don't have much left. I'll save up!"

"Get out!" Zhao Dudu stared at the charming eyes, and quickly got up and got out of bed to get dressed.

Seeing Zhao Dudu's flawless and perfect figure, Chu Zheng immediately twitched his index finger.

Sitting up, he was about to lean forward to pull the beauty back to have a conversation, but suddenly a sharp pain came from his thigh, and Chu Zheng lost all thoughts of the pain.

In the next few days, because Zhao Dudu had to go to work, the two of them didn't go anywhere.

During the day, Chu Zheng went to the medical center of the base for treatment, and then went home to read books or surf the Internet. At night, he accompanied Zhao Dudu, who was off work, to watch dramas on the sofa.

In a blink of an eye, it will be the match day between the Chinese team and Syria from afar on October 10.

At 19:45 p.m. BJ time, the game started on time.

Due to the absence of Chu Zheng in this game, Gao Hongbo put on a classic 442 formation with a balanced offense and defense.

Hao Xiao, Niu Benben and Jiang Lai all started.

But after the game started, Chu Zheng frowned more and more.

Chu Zheng could see that Gao Hongbo was still the same as in the previous two rounds, emphasizing on one kick, using running to oppress Syria, and hitting the opponent's neutral position.

This tactical idea is correct in Chu Zheng's view.

But the problem is also obvious. Under Syria's high-intensity physical confrontation, the success rate of one kick is not very high, which makes the Chinese team's offense unable to flow smoothly.

On the Syrian side, they also showed limited dissatisfaction. The team defended well, but the offensive end looked like a frowning fly to Chu Zheng.

After watching the first half, Chu Zheng had a premonition in his heart that this should be a draw.

Soon, the second half of the game began. As Chu Zheng expected, the situation was still deadlocked. Neither the Chinese team nor Syria got a good chance.

But soon came the famous scene that made Chu Zheng, Zhao Dudu and countless fans dumbfounded and almost died laughing on the spot.

In the 78th minute of the game, the area in front of the end line of the penalty area to the right of the top of the arc of the Chinese team.

Niu Benben accurately predicted that the ribs on the right side of Syria went through and successfully grabbed.

But he didn't stop the ball well.

The ball hit his feet and continued to roll forward.

Niu Benben also reacted quickly, continued to chase, stretched out his right foot and stepped the ball back from the front of Syrian striker Mubayed.

Immediately afterwards, Niu Benben turned around and leaned against Mubayed with his body, protecting the ball very cleverly.

Then an outrageous scene took place.

Under the watchful eyes of everyone, Niu Benben bent down and pulled the ball to the left with his left hand, completing a manual version of the Marseille roundabout.

After successfully keeping Mubayed behind him, Niu Benben quickly played his strengths and launched an attack directly with a long pass.

In the middle circle, Jiang Lai started at the right time and successfully crushed Syria's defense line that was too high with absolute speed.

Facing the Syrian goalkeeper's attack, Jiang Lai was extremely calm, picked the ball directly over the Syrian goalkeeper's head, and then calmly pushed the empty goal to succeed.

Witnessing the birth of this goal, Chu Zheng's eyes were straightened, and he was in a bad mood!
"Hahahahahaha!!" After witnessing Niu Benben's coquettish operation, Zhao Dudu fell into Chu Zheng's arms and burst into tears with laughter.

After Chu Zheng reacted, he couldn't laugh or cry, and said, "You don't have enough skills, use your hands to make it!"

He was very happy when the team scored a goal, but Chu Zheng felt that it was outrageous that the referee was not far behind Niu Benben when Niu Benben completed the hand-drawn Marseille roundabout, but the referee did not see it.

Soon the Syrian players surrounded the referee to protest.

But after the referee communicated with the line referee who also didn't see it, he insisted that the Chinese team's goal was valid.

However, it is a pity that Niu Benben made them unable to hold the victory in the end. In the 86th minute, Syria used a corner kick to equalize the score.

(End of this chapter)