Green Journey

Chapter 430 The Best Christmas Gift!

Boxing Day, which falls on December 12 each year, the day after Christmas or the first working day after Christmas, is a holiday celebrated in all parts of the Commonwealth of Nations.

As a public holiday, England has been used to arranging various sports activities on Boxing Day since ancient times.

Therefore, the Premier League, which has no winter break, also has events on this day. It can even be said that the FA specially arranged the game on this day.

In order to allow fans to watch the game as close as possible during the festival, most of the Premier League matches scheduled on Boxing Day are to choose the two teams closest to each other.

Of course, on such a day of celebration, it is absolutely impossible for the Manchester Derby, the Merseyside Derby, and the North London Derby to be fought if there is a disagreement. The picture is A cheerful and festive atmosphere.

This year's Boxing Day, the FA also prepared 8 games for the public, which will start at the same time in the afternoon of the festival day.

And these 16 teams are almost all from the upper reaches of the Premier League standings against the lower reaches.

Although the 16 teams fighting against each other seem to be strong and weak, it can be said that there are endless unpopular matches on Boxing Day over the years.

This round of Manchester City's opponent is this year's newly promoted Hull City.

Compared with some veteran teams in the Premier League, Hull City is a rising star. The team was established late. It was established in 1904 and its home court is Kingston Communications Stadium.

Because of wearing a yellow and black jersey, he is also called Chaige, Tiger!

This is a team with no honors and no touching legends, ordinary and ordinary.

Generally, Wikipedia and BD Encyclopedia have no information to find.

This summer, after Hull City was promoted to the Premier League, it spent less than 1000 million to buy four players to supplement the lineup.

It is in line with people's perception of newly promoted horses. It looks like they are coming to the Premier League to see the scenery and receive a generous relegation fund next year.

With so little investment in the transfer market, their current miserable record is doomed.

Like the start in the Championship and League One, Hull City brought their tradition of starting like a tiger and then quickly pulling their hips to the Premier League.

Now that the 17 rounds of the Premier League have passed, Hull City's record is 3 wins, 3 draws and 11 losses, with 12 points, ranking second to last in the Premier League standings.

He scored 17 goals in 14 Premier League games, but conceded 39 goals, which is a well-deserved number one in the Premier League.

So playing such a relegation team, Manchester City has almost no possibility of losing.

As for whether it will be an upset, only God knows.

If you want to be upset, you also need a certain amount of strength, but in Hull City, the media and fans did not see this strength factor.

Manchester City and Hull City have a city apart from their names, but other aspects are like a world apart.

At 16:45 London time, there is still half an hour before the game starts.

The players haven't played yet, but the Kingston Communication Sports Stadium is full of people and there is no empty seats in the drizzle.

Although Kingston can only accommodate more than 5000 fans, the atmosphere on the scene today is exceptionally warm.

It's Boxing Day, and fans of Hull City hope that the team can win a victory, which is the best holiday gift for them.

In the dressing room of the visiting team, the pre-match atmosphere of Manchester City was relatively relaxed.

The players sat together in twos, talking and laughing about their respective holidays.

After the 17th round of the Premier League, Guardiola gave Manchester City two days of Christmas holidays, on the 24th and 25th.

Chu Zheng and Zhao Dudu also went to Paris, the romantic capital of France, for a couple of days without shame or waste.

At 17:15, the game officially started.

In this game, although Hull City is recognized as one of the two weakest teams in the Premier League, Guardiola did not underestimate the enemy.

Therefore, Manchester City is all the main players, and the lineup is almost the same as the previous round against Arsenal.

As a result, as expected by the media and fans, Manchester City beat Hull City at the beginning of the game, proving to people that in the face of absolute strength, home court advantage and home atmosphere are all negligible factors.

In the 4th minute of the opening game, Chu Zheng made consecutive breakthroughs in the frontcourt and caused fouls by Hull City players, allowing Manchester City to get a free kick at the top of the arc.

De Bruyne took the penalty and it was done overnight. The beautiful arc and precision of the free kick made Chu Zheng salivate.

During the two days of playing in France, Chu Zheng and Zhao Dudu accidentally bumped into De Bruyne and Michel who lived together in France, and witnessed De Bruyne under the Eiffel Tower in France. A proposal without any surprises at all.

De Bruyne is really refreshed on happy occasions, even in such a hot state.

However, Chu Zheng didn't expect that this was just the beginning.

Just 3 minutes later, Sterling took the ball from the wing and crossed the front of the penalty area. De Bruyne took the ball, cut inward to the left, and then kicked and shot.

As a result, the ball suddenly changed its line when it hit the defensive player, avoided the ten fingers of Hull City goalkeeper David Marshall, and scored again.

In less than 10 minutes, De Bruyne scored twice, and his state was so explosive that Chu Zheng wanted to ask his own lady-in-law to propose a marriage to stimulate his competitive state.

Perhaps it was because they took an absolute lead too early, which caused Manchester City, including Chu Zheng, to relax a little.

As a result, Hull City took the opportunity to steal the chicken and got back a goal through a cross from the wing.

The two sides entered the intermission with a score of 2-1.

During the intermission, Guardiola sprayed all Manchester City players, including Chu Zheng, with an unprecedented tone in the locker room.

In Chu Zheng's words, this Spanish bald man wants to eat people!
In the second half, all the members of Manchester City, who were awakened by Guardiola, once again showed their sharp fangs towards Hull City.

In the 49th minute of the game, Manchester City circled the right rib in the middle of the half. Otamendi took off and headed back to the top. Yaya Toure turned the ball around. On the center line, a precise direct pass was sent forward.

Chu Zheng took the ball and turned around in front of the 30-meter area in the middle, and when he came to the front of the top of the arc, he was directly hit with a heavy artillery.

It's a pity that the angle was too straight and was blocked by the goalkeeper.

But the east side was not bright and the west side was bright, because Chu Zheng shot too hard, David Marshall let go, and De Bruyne, who was right in front of him, picked up a straight shot and directly scored a hat-trick.

Chu Zheng was speechless about De Bruyne's luck after his successful proposal.

3-1!A two-goal lead is not safe enough for Manchester City, which has a poor defense.

Under the yelling of the coaching area on the sidelines, Manchester City continued to attack, and Hull City couldn't pass halftime in the next ten minutes.

Manchester City used practical actions to perfectly interpret what half-court offense and defense are.

In the 62nd minute of the game, Chu Zheng finally opened his mouth.

De Bruyne reciprocated, using his highly concealed through ball to penetrate Hull City's Championship-level defense.

Chu Zheng, who advanced in time in the middle, won a single shot.

Facing the attacking goalkeeper, Chu Zheng caught up with the ball and shot calmly and calmly, scoring his 12th goal of the season.

4-1, the suspense of the game ended, and the spirit of Hull City was kicked away.

Shortly after the end of the game, the results of the remaining seven games were released one after another.

There are no upsets in this year's Boxing Day event, and everything that should be won has been won.

Arsenal played against West Brom at home. Although the process was a bit difficult, they won 1-0 after all.

Chelsea beat Bournemouth 3-0 at home.

Manchester United beat Sunderland 3-1 at home.

Liverpool's 4-1 burst made Stoke City lose its armor and disarm.

Even Tottenham in the away game won Southampton, which is known for its solid defense this season, 4-1.

On Manchester City's side, although they did not regain the top spot in the Premier League from Chelsea, countless Manchester City fans posted on their personal social platforms that this game was the best holiday gift the club gave them.

(End of this chapter)