Football's No. 1 Prodigal Son

The time for the Premier League to start is getting closer and closer.

Many experts have also begun to predict the new season, among which Arsenal is still the most optimistic, followed by Chelsea, Manchester United, which was strengthened in the summer, ranked third, and Manchester City ranked fourth.

The same is true for bookmakers. Arsenal has the lowest odds, followed by Chelsea, Manchester United third, and Manchester City fourth.

This made Yang Luo very dissatisfied. He had strengthened his team in the summer, but he still ranked his team fourth?

And Van Gaal was also a little dissatisfied. Although he was a little down in the previous seasons, his coaching level was unambiguous. It was really hard to understand that he was so looked down upon with such a strong lineup.

Maybe for the experts, Eto'o's departure will have a great impact on them?

Van Gaal raised his eyebrows, they don't know how strong Fernando Torres is!

Time quickly came to August 14, 2004.

Today is the first game of the new season.

Manchester City ushered in the challenge of Fulham at home.

Manchester City today can be said to be strong and powerful, and it is not a big problem to play against Fulham.

In this game, except for Sun Jihai who just came back from the Asian Cup, Manchester City sent out the strongest starter.

However, in the goalkeeper position, Van Gaal still chose Van der Sar as the starter of this game.

This season, his original plan was to let Van der Sar and Cech compete in turns to see who is in better condition.

However, this game was because Fulham was Van der Sar's old club, so he started this game.

However, Manchester City's defense did not give him any opportunity to perform. Fulham only got one chance to shoot on target throughout the game. In the end, Manchester City easily defeated the opponent 3-0.

Tony scored two goals in this game. Although Torres, who came on as a substitute, did not score, he completed an assist and helped Ronaldo open his goal account.

Manchester City had an absolute advantage throughout the game. This was a real victory.

Manchester City's performance also made fans full of confidence in the new season.

The day after this game, the Premier League ushered in a focus battle.

That is Chelsea vs. Manchester United!

This is Mourinho's first official game after taking over Chelsea, and the opponent is Manchester United, who was eliminated by him last season. This is indeed enough to attract attention.

It has to be said that the English Football Association is really a dog in arranging the schedule. They don't know how to whet everyone's appetite from the beginning.

Chelsea was beaten by Manchester City. The main goalkeeper, main midfielder and main right winger were all taken away. Mourinho had no choice but to sign a wild boar Davis to save the situation.

Although this guy is not a purebred midfielder, putting him and Lampard together can also make the midfield hard.

As for the goalkeeper, he can only continue to use Cudicini. Although this Italian is not a top goalkeeper, he is now in his prime at the age of 31 and is still a qualified starter.

Manchester United was not much beaten by Manchester City, and only lost one Cristiano Ronaldo.

However, in this game, Rooney, the new signing of Manchester United, and the main striker Van Nistelrooy were both absent due to injuries, which made their lineup a little thin.

This time Yang Luo did not go to London to watch the game, but stayed in front of the TV.

With the referee's whistle, the game officially began.

In this game, Mourinho did not arrange his 433 formation that dominated the Premier League, but chose a 442 formation.

It seems that he is still exploring his team's style of play.

The newly joined Joaquin sat on the bench, and the starting right midfielder was the versatile backfielder Geremi.

Manchester United arranged a 451 formation, stationed troops in the midfield, and prepared to play a midfield battle with Chelsea.

However, the old Sir Alex obviously did not expect that Mourinho would improve Chelsea's defense so much in just two months. They had no chance to deliver the shells to Alan Smith's feet, let alone score.

And their traditional wing attack was slow to come out. Giggs was trapped in the double team of Ferreira and Geremi and had no good chance to break through.

Now Manchester United felt that the opponent was like a copper wall and had no chance to get any offensive opportunities.

Chelsea focused its attack on the left, and the fast winger Madaf began to repeatedly attack Manchester United's right.

Although Gary Neville is a first-class right back in the Premier League, he is really a bit overwhelmed in front of Duff who has not been repeatedly injured.

And Manchester United's

Rio Ferdinand, the back-line god, has not yet been released from the ban and returned to the court. There are also some problems in the defense in the middle, which was messed up by the reckless Drogba.

In the 23rd minute, Chelsea finally seized the opportunity.

Duff successfully broke through on the left and then passed the ball to the middle.

Drogba leaned on Ayala and headed the ball back. His striker partner Gudjohnsen got the ball and dribbled past Wes Brown's rush, then shot directly and knocked on the door guarded by Howard!

One to zero, Chelsea took the lead at home!

The whole Stamford Bridge was boiling, and the fans were excited to celebrate their team's wonderful performance.

But Mourinho was very calm, as if this goal was a natural thing.

Yang Luo in front of the TV curled his lips. This old guy was a little pretentious.

But I have to say, it's really fucking cool to be so pretentious!

Yang Luo couldn't help but think in his mind that if he had the chance in the future, he would also pretend to be so fierce once.

After taking the lead, Chelsea played more and more steadily, and their defense was very tightly organized, so Manchester United could not find any chance at all.

Although this made the process of the game a bit boring, it made the home team fans very relieved.

At the end of the first half, Chelsea led Manchester City by one to zero.

Yang Luo couldn't help but yawn, he knew that Manchester United was hanging in this game.

Sure enough, although the old Sir Alex made adjustments in the second half and replaced Saha to play as a double striker, it still did not change Manchester United's passive situation.

Mourinho calmly made some substitutions, and Smerkin, Joaquin and Mutu all got the opportunity to play.

Chelsea finally kept the score of one to zero until the end.

Although this game only won one to zero, Manchester United did not get any decent opportunities throughout the game, and Chelsea's victory was a matter of course.

Lineker in the studio sighed: "As expected of a European champion coach, he has transformed Chelsea into such a personal style in just two months. According to what this game shows, there are not many teams in the entire Premier League that can stop Chelsea!"

Alan Hansen also nodded: "It is a landmark event to defeat Sir Alex Ferguson's team head-on. And it is very rare to make Manchester United so uncomfortable throughout the game. Is the Premier League going to change?"