I started with Torres, to revive German football

Chapter 274
Although it was an away challenge to Manchester City, whose dominance has declined slightly recently, West Ham United actually pushed last season's Triple Crown winner to the point of despair, which also surprised everyone who paid attention to this game!
This is a dominant team with almost no changes in the overall lineup. Although several players are unable to play, there is definitely a gap in overall strength.

A mid-table team in the Premier League has the opportunity to score points against a dominant European team, which is absolutely incredible in the eyes of most people.

People always say that there are no underdogs in the Premier League, but how many times can upsets of this level happen every year?
Before the game, many people may have thought that West Ham United would cause trouble to Manchester City, but they never thought that the Hammers would push Manchester City to the point where Sterling and Zhao Jinge would have to explode to save the team!

His unbeaten home record after taking charge of the Etihad Stadium almost came to an end at the hands of West Ham United, but Guardiola was not in a bad mood. He took the initiative to compete with the Hammers head coach. Leach walked over.

After all, we played against each other many times last season and naturally knew the Croatian coach Bilic, who later became the head coach of Guoan.

At this time, he sincerely walked over and chatted with Bilic for a few words, praised the performance of the West Ham United players today, and thanked Bilic.

To be honest, after winning the Triple Crown last season, not only the players and fans of Manchester City, but also Guardiola himself said that he was not complacent at all. That is obviously impossible and is just human nature.

Although he was very clear-headed and suppressed this feeling of pride later on, it seems from these games that he still has a lot to respect and learn in the Premier League.

My various choices since the start of this season have actually put me in a superior position, whether it is a small fight in the transfer market or a somewhat arrogant view of my opponents in the first three rounds of the Premier League. They are all local chickens and dogs, which makes De Bruyne and other main players of the team have a truce.

This kind of performance is already a footnote that Guardiola has been a little distracted recently!

If we say that the change in the environment has made Sterling cautious, he no longer dares to express his nature wantonly.

After being dismissed from Bayern Munich, Guardiola, who has achieved endless great achievements in his first year at Manchester City, is a bit too lucky!

Although Guardiola suffered more in his career at Bayern Munich in this time and space, the beginning of his career at Manchester City was too sweet.

Without nearly eight years of hard work, without failing again and again in the Champions League, and without experiencing the pain of missing out on the Big Ear Cup for two consecutive years, these hardships created the Guardiola in history, those who Time makes him shine even brighter.

But in today's time and space, none of this has ever happened. Guardiola seems to have returned to the way he was in Barcelona. He is a darling loved by fate!

After two window periods of spending large sums of money, all championships are won naturally. They come too easily, and sometimes they are just not cherished.

In fact, Guardiola himself sometimes has some happiness worries. Since Manchester City's success last season, many people have said that the reason for his success is that he met Messi in Barcelona and was lucky enough to meet Zhao Jinge in Manchester City. This is a rare occurrence in a century. Meet the genius!

Guardiola has never denied this, and he often puts most of the reasons for his success in interviews on the top players he coaches. He has never minded, and is even somewhat happy to see the results.

However, even if he is willing to attribute the reasons for his success to others, Guardiola, who enjoys a glass of red wine and savors it when no one is interrupting, also likes to read articles and reports that praise himself and those about himself. Football tactics spark praise and discussion that drive and change.

This is human nature, and there always seems to be some contradiction between the reason in his mind and the words in his mouth.

All in all, Guardiola in this time and space is not as pragmatic as the one in history. He is really a little drifting!

Because he has easily proved that he can still achieve unprecedented success after leaving Barcelona!
He is a rare genius in the football world!

His desire for the championship is not as urgent as he once was. Pursuing it hard and winning it easily are two different paths after all.

But now Bilic or the four head coaches with different styles, tactics and status from the beginning of the Community Shield to the present have all invariably taught Guardiola a good lesson!
That means his success at Manchester City is a thing of the past!
That period of success belonged to Guardiola last season, but this season Guardiola is still a blank slate with nothing!

Not only now, after Guardiola's Manchester City has achieved more than one season of success, more and more teams will intensify their research on them and conduct detailed tactical analysis before the game.

Just like West Ham United today, it is completely challenging Manchester City from a lower profile. They have regarded scoring points from the slightly weaker Manchester City as a real and tangible honor!

This is a great attempt that can be boasted for at least three seasons after its success!
Just like La Liga teams are proud to defeat Real Madrid and Barcelona, ​​Manchester City now enjoys this kind of super-standard honorary treatment.

Now unless they can easily defeat their opponents and give them no chance of hope, as long as there is a chance, they will face successive challengers in the entire Premier League!
This sounded the alarm for Guardiola.

If Manchester City's tactics and players' mentality are not adjusted in time, the thickness of the lineup will not be replenished in time.

Then when faced with such a situation in the future, they will still feel uncomfortable, and the possibility of a draw or even a loss will increase.

So Guardiola, who was somewhat alert, was very grateful to the head coaches, including Bilic, who were tired and wanted to do their best to defeat him.
He completely woke up not long after the start of this season.

If he continues to face countless challengers from all over the world in the future, then Guardiola will naturally not be in this floating state.

Bilic was a little surprised when he thanked Guardiola. In his eyes, the two sides were not from the same world.

One is a young coach who is famous all over the world, and the other is an ordinary coach in the five major leagues who is struggling with various mid-to-lower teams and working hard to earn a new job for himself. Apart from meeting in the league, they almost never know each other. There is no other intersection anymore.

Bilic reacted and immediately chatted with Guardiola for a few more words with a smile.

For a head coach like Bilic who was born in his own national league and has been involved in the middle and lower reaches of the Premier League all year round, he has long since passed the fantasy of leading his team to compete for the championship.
Now he is just thinking about whether he can establish some contact with Guardiola. If he can make a friend, that would be even better!
After the game, the Manchester City players on the field looked at the West Ham United players who were lying on the turf so tired that they didn't even want to get up. They all felt some recognition of the football concepts that could push Manchester City to this point. These came from The opponents of the Hammer Gang are still respectable enough!
Zhao Jinge took the lead and communicated with the West Ham United players for a while. Everyone shook hands, hugged, and said, "Your performance today is really good, great!"

The strong oppositional emotions on the playing field disappeared in the simple exchange after the game.

After all, the Premier League is only such a big place, and we will always encounter it twice throughout the year.

Unless it is the kind of rival team, the concept of competition on and off the court is the norm that everyone accepts.And anyway, the game is over, and West Ham United performed very tenaciously today. Zhao Jinge has a good impression of these players.

It doesn't matter if you are weak, the key is to dare to think and fight. Manchester City has been adhering to this style of play since they were rebuilt in the Premier League last season.

It’s enough to be tough, try your best, and sprint towards your goal!

The Manchester City fans at home have not left the stadium yet, because now after every home game, Manchester City players have to circle around to express their gratitude to the fans.

When Zhao Jinge thanked the fans on the sidelines, he also met an old acquaintance, his teammate from last season, Sabaleta.

This meritorious veteran who has played for Manchester City for many years expressed his gratitude to the fans of West Ham United and naturally expressed his blessings to the Blue Moon fans who have supported him for many years.

Although Sabalenka started in this game, she did not get any offensive opportunities and had been helping the team defend. At this time, he approached Zhao Jinge. The two chatted for a few words, and then Zhao Jinge agreed naturally. Request for jersey change.

Zabaleta took Zhao Jinge's jersey, shook it off, waved a red cloth to the matador, and spun it around a few times.

"Zhao, I have wanted to collect one of your Los Angeles jerseys for a long time, but I was too embarrassed to ask for it because I was a teammate in the past. This time I got my wish, and I will keep it!

However, has the team had any problems recently?
Your performance is not good enough!
If it hadn't been for that boy Raheem cooperating with you in the second half, this game would have been really hard to predict!
If it were last season or the previous season when Manchester City won the championship, there wouldn't be so many teams in the middle and lower reaches of the league who would dare to grin at us!
There are no underdogs in the Premier League. You have to be more careful behind you. West Ham United is not strong enough, but it is different for those teams behind that ranked in the league the year before. Don't overturn!
Sergio has just left. If you can't hold on, the good situation you have been slowly saving will be gone! "

As a veteran player who has played for Manchester City for nearly ten years, Manchester City's status in Zabaleta's heart is absolutely unique. Apart from the Argentine national team, there is no other team worthy of his so much attention.

After hearing the good intentions of his old teammates, Zhao Jinge also made a guarantee that he would lead Manchester City to a higher level:
"Don't worry! By the time you come back from retirement, Manchester City's championship showroom will probably have been renovated and expanded several times!"

"I hope so!"

The normal game ended in a friendly atmosphere between Manchester City players and West Ham United players.

After the game, Bilic was full of praise for Manchester City's wonderful performance today, and also expressed West Ham United's small unwillingness to fail to score points at the Etihad Stadium!
Guardiola also praised Bilic's tactical arrangements and modestly stated that he still has a long way to go.

As for the Manchester City players, after thanking the fans and returning to the locker room, they were summoned by Zhao Jinge and Kompany, who had followed the team for rehabilitation training, to hold a players meeting.

Without blaming or expressing dissatisfaction, the players just sat around and exchanged their feelings about each game since the start of the game.

Since the difficult victory over Manchester United at the beginning of the season to win the Community Shield, they have had a vague sense of the team's strength.

Until the end of the last three rounds of the Premier League, they had an idea in their minds: they are a strong team, but they are still far behind last year.

The lack of core players, the continuous aging of the previous generation's central axis, the insufficient integration of new blood and the speed of improvement did not meet expectations.

Finally, after the unparalleled success last season, their mentality began to expand.

No matter how much Zhao Jinge and a few old players emphasized the need to stay calm and cool them down, this inflated mentality could not return to normal in a short period of time.

After all, the success of last season is just around the corner, and in the past few months during the offseason, everyone has been living in the carnival of victory. It is difficult to complete the work of wrapping up after such a carnival.

until the game is over.

As a challenger, West Ham United tried their best and pushed them into a very embarrassing situation. If it weren't for Zhao Jinge and Sterling's another explosion, they might have ushered in the home game and the first game of the new season. Defeated.

They were able to beat Mourinho's crazy Manchester United, but they almost lost to West Ham United, which was quite unfavorable on both fronts at the beginning. This gap made these young Manchester City players wake up instantly.

Fortunately, we have just finished the third round of the league, and it is still too late to correct our mentality.

Zhao Jinge finally said something at the players' meeting, which left his young teammates in deep thought.

"I always firmly believe that we can create the most glorious chapter in the team's history, but the process will be relatively long. At least for now, we are only challengers in the Premier League. When we open the Premier League honors list, it belongs to Liverpool and Manchester United!

In this long list of championships, our Manchester City is just the beginning of a new shoot.

If we want to succeed, we must always maintain a normal mind and take steady steps step by step, so as not to fail halfway.

In the fourth round of the Premier League, we have to play against our city rivals again.

Brothers, this time, will we be as embarrassed as last time? ! "

"Absolutely not!"

"Come on, guys! Fuck Manchester United!"

(End of this chapter)