i want to be king

Chapter 920 It's All Su Dong's Fault

After playing Dortmund for three days, the team went south to London to challenge Fulham away.

This is the fifth round of the Premier League this season.

Although Courtois won unanimous praise for his outstanding performance after playing Dortmund, Guardiola, Begiristan and others decided after research that they still let Joe Hart start this game.

On the one hand, it is for rotation, and on the other hand, it is also to appease players and fans.

In any case, Joe Hart is the national team of England. It is a bit unreasonable to decide that he will lose his main position in a few games, and the emotion of the local fans is also a key consideration for the team.

After communication and coordination, it was finally decided to let Joe Hart start.

After playing the Champions League game against Dortmund, the team consumed a lot, so Guardiola decided to carry out a strong rotation in this game, and even arranged a trident combination of Hazard, Dzeko and Aguero in the frontcourt, allowing Douglas Costa to sit on the bench.

Also on the bench is Su Dong, who performed well against Dortmund and will be rotated this time.

At Craven Farm, Manchester City still insisted on fighting in a four-three-three formation.

The goalkeeper is Joe Hart, the defense is Leighton Baines, Harvey Martinez, David Luiz and Zabaleta, the midfielder is Busquets, Moutinho and Toni Kroos rush forward, and the front trident is a combination of Hazard, Dzeko and Aguero.

Toni Kroos is very much reused by Guardiola and has played many times in a row. This also makes people see Guardiola's reliance on this German midfielder, and Toni Kroos' performance is becoming more and more stable. He has become an indispensable passer in the Manchester City team.

According to media statistics, Toni Kroos and Busquets are the players with the most passes and the highest success rate in the Premier League this season. Even in the five major leagues, they only lost to Barcelona's Harvey, similar to Iniesta and Messi.

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Su Dong sat on the visiting team's bench, watching the game intently, analyzing the situation of the enemy and us.

Manchester City pushed forward aggressively from the beginning, suppressing Fulham. Relying on their skillful pass and control of the ball, they firmly locked the initiative of the game, and frequently created threats, creating several consecutive shots into the penalty area.

The home team Fulham did not complete the first shot by Dempsey until No.15 minutes, a long shot from the left side of the penalty area.

Joe Hart was solid this time around, catching the ball firmly.

Just 2 minutes later, Toni Kroos sent a through kick from the front of the penalty area, and Moutinho pushed it to the right near the penalty spot. Aguero ran out of neutral, and after receiving the ball, he formed a single-handed shot.

One to zero!

Sudong, along with all the bench players, stood up from their seats and applauded Aguero's goal.

Since joining Manchester City, Aguero has still scored a lot of goals, and even his scoring efficiency is higher than when he was at Atletico Madrid, and he has shown stronger strength, which has won him more and more recognition.

His old father-in-law Maradona said that Aguero got more support in Manchester City, but he had to be subdued under Su Dong.

For this matter, Aguero also explained a few words to Su Dong in private, but Su Dong didn't take it to heart.

For Aguero, Su Dong still appreciates it very much.

Who made them both have a mutual best friend?
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After the goal, Fulham once tried to counterattack.

Martin Jol is a Dutch referee, and he is more inclined to attack in his bones.

But Manchester City quickly passed a quick counterattack. After Hazard got the ball on the left side, he forced a breakthrough, which attracted the attention of two defensive players, and then passed it to Leighton Baines who inserted in the back. The latter took a long shot slightly higher than the goal.

There was no goal, but knocking the mountain and shaking the tiger still made Fulham break out in a cold sweat.

Manchester City continued to stabilize the situation, adopted high-pressure tactics against Fulham, frequently exerted pressure, and created threats.

Fulham is under heavy pressure. Although it is quite embarrassing, it is also patiently waiting for the opportunity to launch a counterattack, but more can only threaten Manchester City's goal through long-range shots.

Joe Hart's performance tonight was relatively stable, he didn't give his opponent a chance, and he didn't make any mistakes.

In the first half, Manchester City finally took the lead [-]-[-].

After the intermission, the second half changed sides and fought again. In just 10 minutes, the frontcourt kicked off and passed back to the backcourt. Harvey Martinez was assigned to the left. Leighton Bynes made a long pass.

The shot was fast and urgent. Although the goalkeeper Schwarzer made a save, he couldn't stop it, and the ball crashed into the net.

Two to zero!
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After scoring two goals in a row, everyone basically believed that Manchester City's overall situation was settled.

Even Guardiola is signaling that the players on the field should be a little more stable. On the contrary, Fulham, when two goals behind, are more open, frequently instigated counterattacks, and are more determined to invest in counterattacks.

This is basically in line with the characteristics of the Premier League team.

An away game can be lost, but at home, especially in front of the home fans, one must show aggressiveness and desire to win anyway, otherwise, how to persuade the home fans to continue to buy tickets and enter the stadium to support?
Under Fulham's increasing counterattack, Manchester City lost the goal in 5 minutes.

After a steal in the backcourt, two players, Dembele and Dempsey, passed consecutively and tore apart Manchester City's defense. Zamora blocked Javi Martinez with his body in the penalty area, turned around and kicked the goal forcefully, scoring a goal for Fulham.

One to two!

This goal can be said to have boosted Fulham's morale.

Just 2 minutes later, there was another long pass from the middle circle, and Dempsey entered the penalty area at high speed, intending to hit the goal directly.

At the critical moment, Zabaleta, who was wearing the captain's armband on the field, returned to the defense in time, blocked Dempsey's shot and resolved a crisis.

But then Fulham kicked more and more vigorously, frequently launched counterattacks, and the players were also affected, and their performance became more active. This caused Manchester City to make mistakes in passing and controlling the ball, and Fulham launched counterattacks again and again.

Guardiola made a decisive substitution, replacing Moutinho with Gareth Barry. Obviously, he also wanted to strengthen the defense of the midfield and contain Fulham's counterattack as soon as possible.

But in the No. 608 minute, Sidwell made a pass. Murphy shot directly from the outside of the penalty area. When the ball flew into the penalty area, it hit David Luiz's leg and slammed into Manchester City's goal.

Joe Hart was transfixed at the goal line.

Damn, can you even do this?
The referee immediately blew his whistle, indicating that the goal was valid, but it was not an own goal, but Murphy scored from a long shot.

Now Manchester City is in an embarrassing situation.

Joe Hart was so depressed that he wanted to tear down the goal in front of him.

His performance tonight was not bad, it could even be said to be quite good, but he was still scored, one goal and two goals.

Nima, don't wait for such a bully, okay?
Now is the critical moment for him to compete with Courtois for the main goalkeeper. How can he play this kind of game at this time?

It's as if even God is joking with him!
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Su Dong was on the sidelines, watching with his own eyes that the team went from a [-]-[-] lead to being chased by Fulham for two goals.

These two goals really can not blame Joe Hart.

The problem with the first goal is that Harvey Martinez is not a central defender. When a midfielder is defending, he thinks differently from the central defender, because there are defenders behind him.

But the central defender is different. It is very fatal to be turned around by the opponent and kicked directly to the goal.

Harvey Martinez's defensive habits caused the first goal conceded, which is really to blame, only Guardiola, why let Harvey Martinez play central defender?
As for the second goal conceded, it's purely a matter of luck.

Sometimes football is like that.

Just like Murphy's long-range shot, if David Louis didn't block or touch that shot, he might not be able to score, but it was David Louis who touched it, which caused the ball to change direction, so the ball scored.

Su Dong saw that Guardiola was obviously very depressed, shaking his head angrily on the sidelines, obviously very dissatisfied with the result.

It's the same for everyone, from two to zero to two to two, who can accept it?
I'm afraid the happiest are the tens of thousands of fans at the scene, as well as the people of Fulham.

Even, they played even more vigorously, as if they were going to reverse Manchester City on the spot.

Especially in the No. 704 minute, it was Murphy's back thrust. After feinting a shot outside the penalty area, he suddenly passed directly to the penalty area and assisted Riise to kick the goal in the penalty area, but it was slightly higher.

Fulham really played more and more vigorously, but Manchester City seemed a little flustered.

Guardiola finally lost his composure, and immediately made substitution adjustments.

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"Su, we need you!"

Guardiola came to the bench with a serious face and shouted at Su Dong.

The noise at the scene was too loud. If he didn't shout louder, he was afraid that Su Dong wouldn't be able to hear him.

Su Dong stood up from the bench, nodded and said, "Don't worry, it's fine."

After speaking, Su Dong ran out to warm up for a while, and then ran back to the coach's bench.

At this time, Fulham coach Martin Jol had noticed the movement of Manchester City, especially when he saw Su Dong was warming up, he immediately reminded his players nervously to pay attention, especially Hangeland.

But he still seemed a little worried, and immediately looked at the bench.

At this moment, Swiss central defender Felipe Senderos, who was loaned from Arsenal this summer, was sitting on the bench. He noticed the look in the eyes of the head coach, and his heart trembled for no reason.

Especially when he felt Martin Jol's hot eyes, he couldn't help but look elsewhere.

When Martin Jol saw it, he immediately sighed helplessly in his heart.

What a good central defender back then, how could he be tortured by Su Dong out of his psychological shadow?

What a sad and sad story this is!
(End of this chapter)