Football's No. 1 Prodigal Son

The game was a big success, but the team was still in the limelight.

Back in the league, Manchester City will go to the away game to challenge Crystal Palace.

Crystal Palace has performed very poorly this season and is now firmly in the position of vice-captain.

Since it was only three days after the Champions League, Manchester City arranged a rotation lineup for this game. Kompany, Jensen, Barton and Milner all got the chance to start.

But in this game, Manchester City encountered a tenacious resistance from Crystal Palace, and finally relied on Torres' lore to beat the opponent with a score of 2 to 1.

Moreover, Kaka sprained his ankle during the game and will be out for at least half a month.

This gave Van Gaal a headache.

Because Manchester City will face Arsenal at home in the next round of the league!

If Manchester City wants to go further this season, Arsenal and Chelsea will be two mountains that must be climbed.

Especially Arsenal, Manchester City only achieved one draw and one loss in the league last season, which can be regarded as a bitter enemy for them.

Moreover, they are the team least affected by Yang Luo among the traditional top four, so their fighting power is the best preserved.

In Yang Luo's mind, Arsenal this season is more terrible than Chelsea without Cech, Robben and Makelele.

Therefore, the importance of this game is self-evident.

And now they are also ranked first and second in the league respectively, which is also the battle of Tianwang Mountain in the traditional sense.

This game also attracted a lot of attention, and many platforms broadcast the game live.

On the BBC side, in addition to Lineker and Alan Hansen, they also invited Arsenal's legendary striker Ian Wright to the studio.

Interestingly, in addition to being a legendary striker of Arsenal, he is also the adoptive father of Manchester City's youth player Wright-Phillips, so this game is a bit of a hand-in-hand for him.

Lineker smiled wickedly: "Ian, who do you hope will win this game?"

Ian Wright raised his eyebrows: "I hope to see a wonderful game."

Alan Hansen joked: "You can't avoid the problem like this!"

Ian Wright laughed: "Well, I hope Wright can score and Arsenal wins!"

Lineker nodded and smiled: "It's just as I expected. But it's really hard to say who will win this game."

Alan Hansen said: "I am more optimistic about Arsenal. Their lineup is more complete than Manchester City."

Ian Wright also agreed with Alan Hansen's point of view: "I believe in Wenger and Henry."

Lineker shrugged: "Since you support Arsenal, I will support Manchester City!"

The studio was full of laughter.

While they were talking and laughing, the players from both sides had entered the field.

Due to injuries, he sent Wright-Phillips as the right winger in this game, and Ronaldo went to the left.

Yang Luo in the stands touched his nose. This position of Ronaldo is his destiny!

As for the right back position, Van Gaal used Maicon, which means that he still needs to strengthen the offense.

The starting center is Torres. Van Gaal wants to use Torres' impact to mess with Campbell.

Arsenal still has the classic starting lineup of the unbeaten season.

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

Although Manchester City sent Maicon on the right in this game, in fact, their main attack direction is still on the left.

Maicon plays more of a weak side insertion role here.

In the eighth minute, Manchester City, who played at home, took the lead and formed a very threatening attack.

After getting the ball on the left, Ronaldo dribbled inside, and Ronaldinho rushed to the opponent's penalty area at the same time, ready to receive Ronaldo's pass.

At the same time, Evra also inserted from the backcourt at high speed, ready to provide Ronaldo with more outlet points.

Ronaldo observed the situation in the frontcourt, handed the ball to Ronaldinho, and began to move towards the middle of the penalty area.

Ronaldinho withstood Gilberto Silva's harassment, and suddenly turned his ankle and passed the ball to Evra who was inserted.

Evra did not stop the ball and chose to drive it into the penalty area!

The ball was fast and urgent, and it went into the crowd along the grass!

There was a melee in the penalty area, and suddenly Torres stretched out his foot and poked the ball quickly!

The ball was very sudden, and Lehmann subconsciously blocked it with his foot and blocked it out of the baseline!

Manchester City fans sighed with regret.

Yang Luo also felt a little regretful that the ball did not go in.

Arsenal, who escaped a disaster, was not to be outdone.

, and quickly launched a counterattack.

In the 17th minute, Yongberg got the ball on the right, he shook off Ronaldo's defense and started to rush towards Manchester City's front court.

Evra came forward to press, but he did not entangle, but passed the ball to Bergkamp who retreated to respond, and then quickly moved forward into the penalty area.

Bergkamp, ​​who was entangled by Essien, did not choose to force a pass, but controlled the ball with his back, then suddenly flicked to the left, turned around and made a long pass over the top, and accurately sent the ball to Yongberg who was moving forward!

At this time, he was already one body ahead of Evra, so he had enough time to observe the situation in the penalty area, and then suddenly chose to sweep the middle!

Although Henry in the middle was a big man of 1.88 meters, he was not good at heading.

So Yongberg directly passed a low ball.

The football passed through the small penalty area at a very fast speed, and Henry was sandwiched by Stam and Distin, and he didn't get to this point at all.

But a red and white figure suddenly appeared at the back post!

Pires rushed over with big strides and pushed the ball!

But because the angle was too small, the ball hit the side net!

Arsenal also missed a good opportunity!

In the following game of the first half, the two sides started an offensive battle, and the rhythm suddenly became fast.

Since the midfielders on both sides were very strong, both sides chose to bypass the midfield and compete on the wing.

Overall, Manchester City had a certain advantage on the left, but they failed to turn the advantage into a winning advantage.

Arsenal had slightly fewer opportunities, but there were two or three direct threats to Manchester City's goal.

However, the goalkeepers of both sides played very well and failed to let the other side score.

Overall, Manchester City had a slight advantage, but the advantage was not particularly obvious.

With the referee's whistle, the first half of the game ended.

The score was still zero to zero.

Lineker asked Ian Wright: "Ian, what do you think about the first half?"

Ian Wright smiled: "It's a pity that Wright had too few shots!"

Several people started laughing again.

Alan Hansen said: "In general, the two teams are in a balance. It depends on who can break this balance in the second half!"

Lineker also nodded: "Indeed, both sides now have several cards in their hands. Let's see whose cards are more powerful!"