Football: The king of midfield, Guardiola is crying with envy

Manchester City vs Sporting CP showed Chen Chen's strong offensive organization ability and core position of holding the ball.

Therefore, Chen Chen received a lot of attention!

Countless media and passers-by began to discuss the possibility of Chen Chen's confrontation with Melo in the future!

If everything goes as everyone wishes, Manchester City will stage a Manchester derby with Manchester United in the quarterfinals, and Chen Chen will face Ronaldo again in two rounds.

After that, if Manchester City makes it to the semi-finals, they will most likely meet Paris, and then they will usher in a PK between two top players with 94 points!

All this will be very dreamy!

Of course, for Manchester City, their top priority is not to look forward to the next Champions League, but to play every game seriously.

On February 15, the 25th round of the Premier League arrived as scheduled.

The attention of major media and fans began to shift from the Champions League knockout stage to the league standings.

You don't know until you see it, you will be shocked when you see it.

Manchester City is currently ranked first in the Premier League. Guardiola's team has reached a terrifying 64 points!

Liverpool ranks second with 56 points.

There is now an 8-point gap between the Blue Moon and the Red Army Liverpool. If the two teams lose and win together, then Manchester City has the possibility of winning the championship two rounds in advance.

It is worth noting that Manchester City is now 21 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss, and they have one game against Chelsea that has not been made up.

Liverpool has 17 wins, 5 draws and 2 losses, and has played all 24 rounds.

After Liverpool, the third place is Chelsea, which has 14 wins, 5 draws and 3 losses, with 47 points and two rounds of games that have not been made up.

Then there is Arsenal with 46 points, which has 14 wins, 4 draws and 6 losses and 46 points.

Manchester United and Tottenham are tied for fifth, both with 45 points, and they have no make-up games.

Soon, time came to the day of Norwich vs. Manchester City.

The Blue Moon played away.

Although Carrow Road can only accommodate more than 27,000 people, the noise it creates is no less than other stadiums.

This may be the special feature of small teams, with a small stadium and a large echo.

Currently, the situation of the Canaries Norwich in the Premier League is a bit difficult. Manchester City is the first in the league, and they are the last in the league.

Therefore, this game is also a different kind of battle of the kings.

For Norwich, they definitely want to win this game and give back to the fans with a victory!

To give back to everyone!

But from a practical point of view, facing other teams, Norwich really wants to fight.

But they are facing Manchester City now!

It is Manchester City, which has scored 76 goals in the league offensively!

And they are the team with the most goals conceded in the Premier League!

After 24 rounds, Norwich has been scored 57 goals.

Well, then the question is.

Will Manchester City let them go?

Can Norwich withstand the firepower of Manchester City?

The answer is self-evident.

In this game, Guardiola let Chen Chen start, and De Bruyne was on the bench.

The Blue Moon's formation was 4231, with Gravenberch and Rodri standing behind Chen Chen.

On both sides of him were Mahrez and the long-lost Grealish.

The striker was the winter window newcomer Alvarez.

The back line was Zinchenko, Stones, Laporte and Kyle Walker.

Newcomer Udoki was on the bench.

Manchester City's formation was very violent.

The double defensive midfielders relieved Chen Chen's defensive pressure, allowing him to concentrate on attacking, and then paired up with two fast horses on the wing.

With Norwich's defense, how could it possibly withstand it?

Manchester City scored a goal just less than 7 minutes after the start.

Rodri dribbled the ball across the half court, and after attracting the opponent's defensive attention, the Spanish defensive midfielder chose to pass the ball to Chen Chen.

Seeing the ball coming, Chen Chen first used his heel to lob the ball over the top, then aimed at the goal and shot directly from a distance!

This was a very wonderful scorpion tail swing plus a super long goal action!

Chen Chen once again let everyone see what a midfield master's talent is!

At Carrow Road, many Norwich fans raised their hands and hugged the back of their heads.

The scene of Chen Chen lobbing the ball over the top was simply a fairy tale in front of them!

Then such a fairy tale story, someone really used it!

Slowly, the Carrow Road Stadium rang with loud applause.

The Canaries fans saw clearly that since the team was inevitably relegated, they couldn't resist Chen Chen and Manchester City if they wanted to win...

Well, then just stick your head up and enjoy it!

Chen Chen, who scored a super long goal, did not celebrate too much. Facing the applause from all sides, Chen Chen raised his hands and applauded.

The Norwich fans were saluting him, and he was also saluting themMeaning.

Of course, the goal should be scored.

Although the gap between Manchester City and Liverpool is still quite large, who knows what will happen next?

Without considering the game with Chelsea, as long as Manchester City suddenly loses three games in a row and Liverpool wins three games in a row, the first place in the Premier League will instantly become Liverpool's exclusive!

So, Manchester City stepped up the offensive rhythm.

The 23rd minute of the game.

Although Norwich played the 541 bus formation that gave many people a headache today, Manchester City still found a defensive loophole in the opponent with its excellent conduction technology.

Chen Chen instigated the attack and gave the ball to Alvarez.

The little spider acted as a fulcrum to receive the ball and pushed it to Grealish's feet.

The shaker met the ball and shot it!

The Scottish goalkeeper Gunn in front of the goal had no time to react!

Grealish, who scored the goal, avoided the hug of his teammates and ran to the corner flag area to slide passionately!

The camera was on the sidelines of Norwich coach, 51-year-old Englishman Dean Smith.

At this moment, Smith's face did not fluctuate at all, and he seemed to have expected this result.

As the first team in the English Championship last season, Norwich's experience after promotion was not good.

Of course, Watford is the same.

Only Brentford will be better.

Under Frank's leadership, this season's Little Bees will successfully avoid relegation in the third to last round.

In the 20/21 season, the English Championship promoted three teams-Norwich, Watford, and Brentford. In the end, only the Little Bees stayed in the Premier League.

It is worth mentioning that when Chen Chen was in the Brentford youth team, the head coach of the first team was Dean Smith.

Later, because of the poor record of leading the team, Smith was fired, and his successor was Thomas Frank, the current head coach of Brentford.

In the first half stoppage time.

Manchester City won a penalty kick.

This was created by the little spider himself.

Therefore, Alvarez stood in front of the penalty spot.

In the end, Alvarez deceived the goalkeeper and scored!

The score came to Manchester City 3-0!

Because the victory of the game was established in the first half, before the start of the second half, the fourth official raised the sign and Guardiola quickly chose to make a substitution.