Green Journey

Chapter 404 Middlesbrough

After the game, Guardiola, who was in an extremely happy mood, answered all questions at the press conference and praised Chu Zheng and many Manchester City players.

Guardiola even said that he has two best in this game.

One is Chu Zheng, the best player of the game, and the other is Aguero.

Although Aguero had only assists and no goals in this game, his performance is obvious to all.

During the 90 minutes of running and fighting in a large area, Aguero showed super efficiency. He even slid Messi all the way back to the front of the penalty area. Chu Zheng scored two goals and Aguero was very effective. Big credit.

When Guardiola returned to the dressing room from the media conference, there was a huge cheer in the Manchester City dressing room not long after.

Half an hour later, Chu Zheng walked out of the locker room with his bag on his back, his face full of joy.

Although the 11th round of the Premier League will be played on November 5, Guardiola just gave all the players a day off as a reward for winning Barcelona.

Half an hour later, Chu Zheng returned home, and was about to go upstairs when he was taken aback by three different barking sounds from the living room.

Curious and came to the living room, Chu Zheng was dumbfounded.

On the carpet in the living room, Laifu was chasing and scratching two little things.

One of the two puppies has a black mouth and a white body, and the other has a brownish red body, small eyes, and a simple appearance. It doesn't look very smart.

Influenced by Zhao Dudu, Chu Zheng also has a certain ability to distinguish between cats and dogs. After careful inspection, he recognized the types of the two small things.

The one with the black mouth and white body should be the Turkish national dog Kangao, which is a super-large mastiff, and the other one seems to be the domestic five-red dog.

Laifu found Chu Zheng approaching, looked up at Chu Zheng, and then continued to chase and pull the two dogs.

Chu Zheng thought it was interesting, and looked at it cheerfully for a while, then walked over and picked up the puppies who were chased by Lai Fu so loudly that they wanted to crawl into the fireplace one by one.

Laifu was not happy anymore, he wagged his tail and circled around Chu Zheng, raised his head and whined.

Chu Zheng pushed away Lai Fu who was about to pounce on him with his feet, and scolded with a smile: "Don't go too far, you bastard, be careful that your parents will beat you out of shit when you grow up."

"Sobbing, ah, woof..." Laifu followed Chu Zheng upstairs, whimpering all the way, and the tone of the curse was quite dirty.

After going up to the second floor, seeing no one in the bedroom, Chu Zheng went to the study and opened the door.

In the study room, Zhao Dudu was sitting at the desk with glasses and was concentrating on typing on the laptop.

Hearing the sound of footsteps, Zhao Dudu raised his head to look at Chu Zheng, then lowered his head and continued typing.

Chu Zheng put down the two little things in his arms, and Laifu, who had been lying in ambush behind Chu Zheng, quickly pounced on him, knocked down one of them with one paw, then lay down on the floor, waiting for the puppy to get up, and then pawed again Shoot it down, I have never seen such a cheap dog.

Chu Zheng couldn't see it, so he flipped Laifu with his foot, and the two little things immediately ran towards Zhao Dudu whimpering with their tails intertwined, circling around their feet, seeking shelter.

Seeing Zhao Dudu put down his work, he immediately picked up the two little things with a smile and put them on the large table. Chu Zheng smiled and said, "Where did these two little things come from?"

Zhao Dudu stroked the Kangao dog's head, and said with a smile, "Chang Wei was bought for me from Turkey by my laboratory colleagues, and the [-] yuan was sent by Niu Benben.

This bastard said some time ago that he was a little lonely and cold by himself, so he found someone to buy this little guy in China. I guess the excitement was over, and now he didn't want to raise it anymore, so he found an excuse and threw it to me. "

"Chang Wei" Chu Zheng stared, looking at Xiao Kangao who was licking Zhao Dudu's palm, and then at Lai Fu who was lying on the edge of the table staring at the two little milk dogs, "You named him Chang Wei? Have you considered coming to Fu's feelings?"

"Do you hope that Laifu will be beaten every day in the future?"

"Haha!" Zhao Dudu couldn't help laughing.

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Three days later, on November 11, the 5th round of the Premier League kicked off.

But the focus of this round of the Premier League is not on Manchester City, but on the North London derby between Arsenal and Tottenham and Chelsea and Everton.

Manchester City will sit at the Etihad this round to face the challenge of this season's newly promoted Middlesbrough.

Middlesbrough's popularity in England is actually no lower than that of Leicester City's newcomers to the Premier League. It can even be said that everyone knows everyone.

Middlesbrough is a football club located in Middlesbrough, England. It was established in 1876 by a group of cricket club members. It was originally just a sport for cricket players to keep in shape during the winter break.

Over the past hundred years, Middlesbrough has had its ups and downs, but their most glorious era was the early 21st century.

At the beginning of the new century, Middlesbrough gathered many famous Premier League players.

In the 2004-05 season, McLaren finally led Middlesbrough to win the League Cup in the Millennium Stadium and Bolton's League Cup final, and won the first cup championship in Middlesbrough's 128-year history.

In the 2005-06 season, McLaren once again led Middlesbrough to challenge the UEFA Cup, eliminated Roma, Bassar and other powerful opponents to reach the final, but finally fell to Sevilla 0-4 and won the runner-up.

This is also the best result in Europe in the history of the Middlesbrough team.

After the end of the 2005-06 season, Middlesbrough's meritorious coach McClaren was appointed as the head coach of the England team.

Then Southgate took over the coach, but Southgate led for two seasons, and Middlesbrough only achieved mid-level results in the Premier League.

In the 2008-09 season, Middlesbrough were relegated with the penultimate result, ending their 11 consecutive years of Premier League career.

Although it was promoted to the Premier League again this year, Middlesbrough, like the other two newly promoted horses, had very average results.

At present, after 10 rounds of the Premier League, Middlesbrough has 2 wins, 4 draws and 4 losses with 10 points, ranking 15th in the Premier League rankings. They are only 3 points away from Hull City in the relegation zone, and they can be relegated to the relegation zone at any time The three teams here were caught up.

But in the past two rounds, Middlesbrough's ranking has shown an upward trend.

英超第9轮，他们在酋长球场0-0闷平了阿森纳，上一轮又在主场2-0战胜了伯恩茅斯。

Judging from the 20 matches between the two sides in the Premier League, Manchester City has 4 wins, 5 draws and 11 losses. Manchester City is at an absolute disadvantage, and Middlesbrough seems to be very strong.

But today is different from the past. Compared with Manchester City now, Middlesbrough is an underdog in the lower reaches of the Premier League who can't make it to the table.

The media and fans feel that today's game will be a very easy game for Manchester City, which has regained its feeling and state in the Champions League in the middle of the week and ended its six-game winning streak.

Because Arsenal, which has the same points as Manchester City, will usher in a North London derby in this round, and will definitely fight Tottenham to the death.

With Tottenham's current state, it is difficult for Arsenal to win.

Although Liverpool also has 23 points with Manchester City, it is difficult for them to catch up with the difference in goal difference between the two sides in a game.

So as long as Manchester City gets 3 points, they can keep their top position in the league and will continue to lead the Premier League teams.

However, although the media and fans guessed the process correctly, they did not guess the result correctly. Middlesbrough slapped everyone in the face with the facts.

Because after this round of competition is the two-week international competition day, there is no need to store energy for the next game, so Manchester City is the main force.

But in this game, Guardiola made some adjustments to the defense. Otamendi sat on the bench, Kolarov took his place and played left center back, while Clichy played left back.

(End of this chapter)