Green Journey

Chapter 439 Revisiting Goodison Park Stadium!
On January 1th, after nine o'clock in the morning, Manchester City's sky-blue bus drove out of the training base again and headed straight for the neighboring city of Liverpool.

In this round, Manchester City will challenge Toffee Everton as the visiting team at Goodison Stadium.

Everton is one of the most active Premier League clubs in the summer transfer window. Although no big-name stars have been introduced, the transfers of Ashley Williams, Guye and others have proved that coach Koeman has a good vision.

Gaye averaged 4.9 successful tackles per game this season, even surpassing Chelsea Kanter and ranking first in the Premier League.

His worth of more than 700 million pounds can be said to be cheap, and Gaye is still the player with the most passes in the Everton team this season.

And Ashley Williams, who was bought to replace Stones who left the team, is also of good quality and low price. He has played stably in Koeman's tactical system and has become a frequent visitor in Koeman's starting lineup.

But it is a pity that Everton's injuries have followed one after another this season, and frequent injuries to players have affected Everton's impact on the European theater.

The injuries of Bolasie, McCarthy, Besic, Pennington and others have put Koeman's staff deployment in a difficult situation.

In the 20th round of the Premier League, Everton played against Southampton from afar at home. The embarrassed Koeman even sent two Everton youth team players to start.

However, Koeman really has unique insights into the discovery and training of young players. The performance of the two teenagers was remarkable, and finally helped Everton beat Southampton 3-0.

After the opening of the winter transfer window, while Everton continued to seek opportunities to strengthen the lineup in the transfer market, rumors about the transfer of players in the team continued.

Especially this season has scored 11 Premier League goals, ranked 5th in the Premier League scorer Lukaku, Everton's leading striker, and Manchester United, Chelsea, Inter Milan and other giants are even more scandalous.

In addition to Lukaku's 11 Premier League goals, he also has 5 assists, second only to the team's assist king Boracier.

Regarding Lukaku's transfer scandal, Koeman also expressed his attitude, that is, allowing Lukaku to go to a bigger stage to show himself.

But this is somewhat duplicity.

Because if Everton wants to continue to attack the European theater in the second half of the league this season, it is absolutely impossible without Lukaku's fire support.

Once Lukaku leaves, the Toffees' offensive strength will definitely be greatly reduced by then.

At present, after 20 rounds of the Premier League, Everton ranks seventh in the standings with 30 points, 8 wins, 6 draws and 6 losses.

In the past three rounds of the Premier League, Everton has two wins and one tie. They are unbeaten in three rounds, and the momentum of chasing points is extremely obvious.

Although there is an 5-point gap with Arsenal in the No.11 European theater, there is still half a season left, and Everton is not completely without a chance.

On the Manchester City bus, the atmosphere is particularly relaxed and pleasant.

Those who fart and chat, those who wear headphones and go crazy with the music, those who laugh and fight with each other, they do everything.

After the bus got on the highway, Guardiola, who was sitting in the front row, looked back and didn't interfere when he saw the players getting more and more noisy.

He himself is in a good mood.

In the 20th round of the Premier League, Manchester City ushered in the challenge of Burnley, which was hovering outside the relegation zone, at the Etihad.

Although they failed to seal Burnley in 90 minutes, Manchester City still dominated the game and finally defeated Burnley 3-1 easily.

The next day, Manchester City hit the jackpot.

In this round of the league, Premier League leader Chelsea played away at Tottenham at the new White Hart Lane.

As a result, Conte's 343 formation, which was praised by the media, did nothing under the impact of Tottenham's lunatics, and finally surrendered 2-0.

Chelsea and Manchester City have lost and won, and the situation in the standings has been reversed in an instant.

Manchester City returned to the top of the standings with a 1 point advantage.

This good news really made Manchester City ecstatic from top to bottom.

In addition to Chelsea being hit by Tottenham, Arsenal in the away game was also sniped by the Cherries at the Dean Court Stadium in Dorset, southern England.

The two sides finally shook hands 3-3.

Now in the standings, Arsenal is 5 points behind Manchester City, Tottenham is 4 points, Liverpool is 3 points, and Chelsea is 1 point.

Being able to open up one more point is one more point of security for Guardiola.

From the beginning of the season to the present, Guardiola has clearly seen the cruelty of the Premier League.

The pressure he faces in coaching in the Premier League is several times that of when he was at Bayern and Barcelona. In this land, there is no real underdog.

The Premier League can be said to show the cruelty of the professional league to the fullest, so that he dare not relax even a minute.

But while feeling the tremendous pressure, Guardiola is also very excited.

He likes the feeling that there are strong opponents everywhere, and he likes challenges.

On the double seat on the left side of the penultimate row of the bus, Chu Zheng was wearing black headphones and was concentrating on reading a book, turning a deaf ear to the bustle around him.

Not long after, Guardiola got up, clapped his hands, and signaled the players to take time to rest.

Suddenly the bus became quiet.

Aguero, Sterling and others who were in high spirits quickly returned to their seats. No one dared to disobey Guardiola. Otherwise, please refer to what happened to Yaya Toure.

De Bruyne, who was chatting and laughing with the national team captain Kompany in the last row, also quickly returned to his seat.

Seeing De Bruyne come back, Chu Zheng took off his earphones and asked, "Is your house finished?"

De Bruyne nodded and shook his head, and said with a smile: "It's ready, but there is still some smell. Michelle and I are worried that it will affect Mason, so we decided to move here next month."

De Bruyne originally lived near the center of Manchester. Although the space at home is large enough, the outdoor activity space is much worse.

After going to Chu Zheng's new home in the small town of Alderley Edge, this guy has been tempted, so this guy became Chu Zheng's neighbor.

But this guy disliked the old-fashioned decoration of the previous homeowner, so he redecorated the house again.

De Bruyne's new home is next door to Chu Zheng's house. He climbed over the half-person-high low wall in the courtyard of Chu Zheng's house, and then walked through a forest less than [-] meters away.

At around 13:[-], the Goodison Park Stadium in Liverpool was full of voices.

In the double-decker stands on all sides of the scene, Everton fans frantically made noises to cheer for their team and put pressure on Manchester City.

This game happened to be after [-]:[-] p.m. in China, which is the prime time for watching football.

Everton: (352)

Goalkeeper: Robres

Defenders: Holgate, Ashley Williams, Murray
Midfielders: Coleman, Tom Davies, Barry, Ross Barkley, Baines

Forwards: Lukaku, Miralas

Manchester City: (4231)

Forward: Aguero
Front midfielder: De Bruyne, Chu Zheng, Sterling
Defenders: Yaya Toure, Zabaleta
Defenders: Clichy, Stones, Otamendi, Sagna

Goalkeeper: Bravo
Seeing the starting lineups of the two sides, Zhan Jun read through the list and said with a smile: "The two sides have faced each other in 39 Premier League games. Manchester City has 14 wins, 8 draws and 17 losses, which is a slight disadvantage."

"But in the past 7 league games against Everton, Manchester City has achieved an unbeaten record of 4 wins and 3 draws."

"Manchester City has been gaining momentum recently. After defeating Burnley 20-3 in the 1th round of the Premier League, they not only returned to the top of the Premier League standings, but also advanced to the third round of the FA Cup with a 5-0 victory over West Ham United. , the recent situation can be said to be very good!"

"Since Manchester City and Everton have been eliminated early in the Carabao Cup, compared with other Premier League teams, the recent schedule of the two teams can be said to be not so intensive, and they have received sufficient rest time. The situation is extremely favorable.”

"In the winter transfer market, Manchester City, with constant transfer news, has recently finalized two loan signings. Guardiola successfully poached one of Pochettino's giants from Tottenham. Al Walker."

"In addition, Manchester City has also reached a loan agreement with the Portuguese Super League club Benfica, and Manchester City is currently stepping up the registration for Ederson."

"The Brazilian striker Gabriel Jesus, signed by Manchester City in the summer window this year, has also left the team from Palmeiras. Manchester City has helped him complete the registration last Friday. Maybe it won't be long before we can see this Brazilian striker. forward."

"The arrival of three new aids may alleviate Gua Shuai's dilemma of employing people at the center position, and at the same time improve this leaky defense line..."

(End of this chapter)