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Chapter 774 Why did you go to Manchester City?

Manchester City beat Liverpool [-]-[-] at home, which not only caused a strong earthquake in the entire English football world, but also shocked the European football world, and the major media and fans all over the world also looked sideways.

This once again confirmed a rule: Wherever Su Dong went, there was the focus!
Back to the game itself, Liverpool coach Hodgson received a lot of criticism after the game, especially the [-] formation he played against Manchester City, which made him the focus of everyone's criticism.

In this contest between the coaches, Hodgson was completely defeated by the rookie Guardiola.

More importantly, in this highly anticipated battle of centers, Torres performed very sluggishly, like sleepwalking.

Even Liverpool's local Echo was extremely disappointed with Torres' performance.

"Instead of coming forward when the team needed him most, Torres was lost in the forest of Manchester City's possession and lost his way."

This is also the outside world's evaluation of Hodgson's game. They believe that Liverpool failed to find a way to threaten their opponents in Manchester City's pass-and-control style of play, and could only passively resist again and again.

Sky Sports scored the players of the two teams after the game, and Torres scored the lowest five points in the game.

Liverpool have a total of six players with five points, which is already a bad score.

Interestingly, Glenn Johnson, Skrtel, Carragher and Agger all scored five points. These four players just made up a defensive line, and their evaluations were basically the same, that is, the game was very difficult.

The lowest score in the game is Liverpool's left winger Jovanovic. His performance on the left can no longer be described in terms of sleepwalking. He basically has no sense of presence.

Su Dong scored the highest nine points in the game. Sanchez, Marcelo, Di Maria, Toni Kroos, David Silva and others all scored eight points, and Busquets scored seven points.

It is not difficult to see from this that Manchester City's overall performance in this game is indeed better.

Sky Sports said in the analysis that Su Dong made 48 passes, 46 of which were successful, and 36 of them were completed in the frontcourt. The success rate was amazing, and even topped the team.

"Even in Pep Guardiola's team, these are staggering numbers."

Sky Sports compared the data between Su Dong and Manchester City's main center Santa Cruz last season, and believed that the changes brought by Su Dong were not only his goals and assists, but also his connection and support in the frontcourt.

This is reflected in the passing data. Su Dong's success rate is close to [-]%, which is quite scary.

"The 48 passes in the game are basically the pass data of the midfielders or even the core midfielders in other teams, and the 46 successful passes, such a success rate, even among the top giants in the Premier League, are very, very rare, but Su Dong is a center with the tightest defense."

Sky Sports believes that the reason why Manchester City's frontcourt attack has been able to have a reborn performance this season is Su Dong.

He can not only score goals, but also assists, pass the ball, support, and stretch the defense, which makes all the players playing next to Su Dong obviously feel relaxed.

"The core of Manchester City's tactics must be in the midfield. After Guardiola's summer training, he gradually found a midfield combination of David Silva, Toni Kroos and Busquets. These three players can help Manchester City firmly grasp the possession of the ball."

"But at the same time, in the frontcourt, Su Dong is also the most important core player of Manchester City, and even the connection between him and the midfielders is more frequent and tighter than anyone else. This makes Manchester City's entire midfield and frontcourt form an orderly pass and control mechanism."

Sky Sports analysis believes that Su Dong has almost seamlessly integrated into Manchester City's pass and control system, and even led to the improvement of Guardiola's tactical system, which in turn gives people a feeling that Manchester City has been reborn this season.

"He created a constant threat in Manchester City's frontcourt, making defenders such as Carragher, Skrtel and Agger daunting!"

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With the opening of the new season, the popularity of the Premier League is not only in the local area, but even the whole world.

The day after Manchester City's [-]-[-] victory over Liverpool, the Premier League also announced the sale of the Premier League's overseas broadcast rights for the next three years.

Starting from this season, the Premier League will earn [-] million pounds from overseas copyrights each season in the next three years, and will broadcast live simultaneously in [-] countries and regions around the world. Among all professional sports leagues in the world, overseas copyright income is the highest.

In addition to overseas copyrights, the three-year local copyright contracts currently implemented by the Premier League have a total income of up to 20 billion pounds, which translates to more than 7 million pounds per season.

In other words, the Premier League's broadcast copyright income per season is as high as 12 billion pounds, including domestic and overseas markets.

This is definitely an astronomical sum.

Based on the current two contracts, it is estimated that the winning team of the Premier League this season will have at least more than 6000 million pounds in terms of broadcast fees alone. This is quite amazing in the four major European leagues.

For example, Serie A has been deeply affected by Telephone Gate. Serie A’s overseas copyright income is not high, only 400 million pounds, which is only 1000 million pounds more than the share of the Premier League champions this season.

The Bundesliga and Ligue [-] are even worse.

Su Dong has played in the Bundesliga for three and a half years. Although the German team has vigorously developed overseas markets in the past few years, the annual overseas copyright income of the Bundesliga is only about 4000 million pounds.

In other words, the annual overseas copyright income of the entire Bundesliga is not as good as the copyright income share of the Premier League champions.

Ligue 500 is even more pitiful, only [-] million pounds.

The situation in La Liga is the most special. Because the copyright sales are fought by the clubs individually, the two giants Real Madrid and Barcelona have made a lot of money. The overseas copyright income of the two teams has reached more than 3000 million pounds, which is quite amazing.

It is not difficult to reflect from this point that the Western Super League duo is quite special even in the entire European football world.

In professional football, although money cannot represent everything, it is really difficult to move forward without money.

The Premier League is obviously gradually becoming the richest professional league in Europe and even in world football.

Su Dong has become a core player for the Premier League to play an international brand and vigorously develop the international market.

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On the evening of August 26, the second round of the Europa League qualifiers.

Manchester City host Timi Suara of Romania.

After defeating their opponents [-]-[-] in the away game, Manchester City's situation will be more relaxed after returning to the home court.

In this game, Guardiola adopted a rotation strategy and carried out a large-scale rotation of the team's starting lineup, including Santa Cruz, Wright Phillips, Adam Johnson and others who have all obtained starting qualifications.

But in the course of the game, Manchester City has never been able to break through the opponent's goal.

Folado still has a certain level. In the away game, he deployed a four-five-one tactic with five midfielders. It was clear that the chariots and horses wanted to defend and counterattack. Facing Manchester City's pass and possession, Timi Suarra was completely unmoved and strictly guarded against defense.

It wasn't until 8 minutes into the second half that Manchester City's German central defender Jerome Boateng, who replaced Kompany as the starter, opened the scoring for Manchester City with a corner kick.

Then in the No. 703 minute, Wright Phillips made another move to help the team win [-]-[-].

In the end, Manchester City beat Timi Suara with two goals at home.

With a total score of [-]-[-], Manchester City successfully advanced to the Europa League group stage.

This made Manchester City fans at the Etihad Stadium extremely satisfied with the team's performance.

For Manchester City, being able to participate in the European war is already very, very difficult.

And the momentum shown this season is so gratifying, which naturally makes the fans have deeper expectations for the team.

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In the game against Timi Suara, Su Dong sat on the bench throughout the game and did not play the game.

But on the second day after playing Timi Suara, Su Dong asked for leave from the coaching staff and rushed to Monaco without stopping.

The annual UEFA Champions League group stage draw and UEFA awards ceremony are still held at the Grimaldi Convention Center in Monaco.

After joining Manchester City, Su Dong encountered a very embarrassing thing.

That is, he was shortlisted for UEFA's best striker of the year, and he is also the number one favorite for the best player of the year. However, he missed the UEFA Champions League this season. This is an extremely rare situation, and it also embarrasses Su Dong.

If he attends, he has to sit in the venue and watch the 32 Champions League teams draw, which has nothing to do with him.

At first, Su Dong was reluctant to go, but from UEFA President Michel Platini, to Secretary-General Infantino, to Beckenbauer and other celebrities, they called Su Dong one after another, thinking that he should go to the scene to participate in the award ceremony.

Especially Platini, who made several phone calls in a row, made Su Dong really unable to evade.

I have no choice but to go.

As long as you are not embarrassed, it is others who are embarrassed!

As the media said before, it is a loss of his career that other people can't play the World Cup, but Su Dong can't play the World Cup, which is the loss of the World Cup.

In the same way, if others can't play the Champions League, it is a loss of his career, but Su Dong can't play the Champions League, which is also a huge loss for the Champions League.

So that Su Dong came to Monaco with great difficulty. After entering the Grimaldi Conference Center, he was immediately followed by Platini and Infantino. The two surrounded Su Dong at the same time, as if they were afraid that he would turn around and leave.

"To be honest, I haven't figured it out yet, why did you go to Manchester City?" Platini was very puzzled.

Without Su Dong in the Champions League, it really lost a lot of color.

At least lose a lot of highlights.

"No reason." Su Dong shook his head with a smile, stared at Platini, and said word by word, "I just hope that there will be more suspense in the Champions League."

Don't ask, asking is the brilliance of human nature!

(End of this chapter)