Football's No. 1 Prodigal Son

After playing Blackburn, Eto'o and Essien set off for Africa to participate in the African Cup.

Fortunately, Manchester City has not played in the past ten days, which has minimized their impact.

However, Yang Luo has been lingering on a question in his mind, is the Cheetah really suitable for this team?

He has fallen out with the head coach many times in his career. If he continues to fall out with the stubborn old comrade Fan, it will be very bad.

Of course, even if he is moved, it will not be in the winter transfer window, which will have a certain impact on the team's preparations.

Three days after Dong Fangzhuo joined Manchester United, Sun Jihai organized a gathering with Yang Luo and him.

Also participating in the gathering was his iron son who now plays for Everton.

Liverpool is not far from Manchester, only about 50 to 60 kilometers away, so it only takes him more than an hour to drive here.

As the legend goes, Tiezi really loves to blow his hair, almost every ten minutes, which makes Yang Luo, who does not have any obsessive-compulsive disorder, can't help but shave his head.

Of course, 20 years later, he should also be shaved bald somewhere.

Yang Luo has no good feelings for people like him. No matter what he does, he can't go on the road of breaking the law.

So he didn't communicate much with Tiezi during the meal.

Mainly, he still asked Dong Fangzhuo to learn more English and communicate more with his teammates. After all, communication is the most important thing in a foreign country.

If you don't even know what your teammates say on the field, can you cooperate well?

Unless you have the ability of Messi and Ronaldo, your teammates have to cooperate with you.

But at this time, Dong Fangzhuo still has a bit of the recklessness of "the world is the biggest and I am the second", and I don't know if he can listen to it.

Of course, Yang Luo didn't have any special intention to save his career. As the saying goes, it's hard to persuade a damned ghost with good words. If he didn't listen to his good words, there was nothing he could do.

During the dinner, Sun Jihai also told Dong Fangzhuo that if there was anything, he could tell his brother Sun and he would definitely help him.

At this time, this group of national football players still had a sense of chivalry. Most of the players were very loyal and had some blood.

This alone was much better than the later batch of stuff.

If Chinese football could continue to move forward at this point, how great would it be?

Unfortunately, there is no if.

After having dinner with them, Yang Luo couldn't help feeling a little melancholy, but he was just an ordinary person who knew the ending. He had no way to reverse the entire top-down system of the national football team.

In this case, there was no need to make himself unhappy.

Three days later, Manchester City Club officially announced a news.

They reached a strategic partnership with Givisent Football Club of the Portuguese Super League.

Of course, this is just the official statement. In fact, Givisente Football Club is a satellite club of Manchester City.

Manchester City can send its young players to Givisente Football Club, which has the dual effect of training players and obtaining work permits.

Of course, Manchester City will also have to pay a cost of 500,000 pounds per year for this.

This news is not very eye-catching, but it is an important step for Yang Luo to plan next.

With such a team, those South American geniuses have a springboard and can get EU citizenship faster.

After a quiet transfer window, on February 2, 2004, Manchester City ushered in another heavyweight game.

They are going to challenge the league leader Arsenal at Highbury Stadium.

At present, Arsenal's morale is high. They are already four points ahead of Manchester United and naturally want to continue their winning streak.

The last time the two teams met, Manchester City was defeated by Arsenal at home, which also made them have a flame of revenge in their hearts.

The starting lineups of both teams in this game are familiar. Arsenal still uses the classic 442, and Manchester City also uses 4231, but Eto'o and Essien in Manchester City are replaced by Tony and Dacourt respectively, and Kolo Toure of Arsenal is replaced by veteran Keown.

The national teams represented by Eto'o, Essien and Kolo Toure are still on the African Cup of Nations, and it is estimated that it will take at least a week for them to return to the team.

So Van Gaal promoted Mario Gomez from the youth team to the first team in case of emergency.

After more than half a year of experience in the Premier League, Tony has made great progress compared to before. He has already shown the shadow of the later killing four sides, and what he lacks is continuous playing time.

And Van Gaal also wants to take advantage of these few games to improve his performance.

The game gave him a good experience so that he could grow faster.

As soon as the game started, Arsenal took advantage of the home court to attack Manchester City's goal.

In the eleventh minute, Henry got the ball in the frontcourt. He used his body to withstand Dacourt's harassment, and then passed the ball to Pires who was running at high speed.

Pires took a long step with the ball and cut inside. Sun Jihai interfered on the side, so he could only continue to move to the middle.

At this time, Makelele had already recovered to this position. He was ready to assist with Sun Jihai to intercept the ball from his national team teammate.

But Pires suddenly turned his ankle and passed the ball to the left!

At this time, Ashley Cole had already run forward at high speed, and there was already a huge gap in front of him!

He glanced at the middle. At this time, Henry and Ljungberg on the right had quickly moved into the penalty area, while Bergkamp was cruising to the front of the penalty area.

Since Henry was not good at heading, Ashley Cole did not choose to kick the ball directly into the penalty area, but unexpectedly swept the ball to the front of the penalty area!

At this time, Bergkamp was already stuck by Dacourt, and he had no way to shoot directly.

But the master is the master, he lightly lifted the ball before Dacourt, and the football flew over the head of the defender into the penalty area!

At this time, Henry was double-teamed by Stam and Uifalusi, and there was no way to grab the ball.

So the ball was not passed to him, but to Ljungberg on the right!

The Swede ran to this point very smartly, and he shot the ball!

The ball hit the right spot, the football was fast and flat, and rushed directly to the lower left corner of the goal!

But Van der Sar reacted very quickly, and he directly jumped to the ground and saved the ball!

Wenger shook his hands regretfully on the sidelines.

This ball showed Van der Sar's very fast reaction ability, and he is indeed a world-class goalkeeper!

Although the goal was unsuccessful, Arsenal's attack had almost penetrated Manchester City.

Van Gaal frowned. Arsenal's attack was very three-dimensional. Each of the four players in the frontcourt had the ability to take away two defenders, which made Manchester City's defense very difficult to arrange.

If we rely solely on defense, it is only a matter of time before we lose the ball!

So he waved his hand and said, "Play against me!"

They have a four-man team, and we have one too!

So, in the next game, the two sides played a fast-paced battle!