heir to the red devil

Chapter 68 Manchester Derby
When Kintag stepped into the Etihad Stadium, the audience booed everywhere. Tens of thousands of away fans greeted their rivals in the same city with the loudest boos. Field Stadium.

After several Premier League games, Kintiger has gradually become accustomed to the boos in the away game. He curled his lips and said to Scholes next to him: "Is this how these Manchester City fans treat their neighbors? There is a Chinese saying As the old saying goes, distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors. After all, we are all in the same city, so why not be more friendly?"

But Scholes said with a serious face: "Derby in the same city is an important culture in European football. For many teams in the same city, it doesn't matter if they can't win the league championship at the end of the season. As long as they can kill the rivals in the same city, the fans can do it." Have a great season!"

Jin Taige patted Scholes with a smile: "Paul, I was just joking, take it easy, we are too familiar with this opponent, although they bought a lot of new players this summer, but after all, the running-in period It is too short, and the reason why Manchester City won all the first four games is because they did not meet the test of the top six in the Premier League, so I think we should have no problems in this game."

Phelan also said excitedly: "I think Tiger is right, we will definitely win this game!"

Manchester City formed a 4-2-3-1 formation for this game.The goalkeeper is England goalkeeper Joe Hart, the back line from left to right is Kolarov, Nastasic, Kompany, Zabaleta, and the two midfielders are Yaya Toure and Fernando Dinho, the three attacking midfielders are Nasri, Aguero, and Navas, and Negredo is in the center position.And Manchester City's bench is very luxurious, even stronger than the main lineup of many Premier League teams: Milner, Dzeko, Harvey Garcia, Richards, Lescott, Pantilimon, Joviti strange.

This lineup is excellent both offensively and defensively. In terms of strength on paper, it definitely ranks in the top three in the Premier League.

Look at Manchester United's lineup today.It is still a standard 4-4-2 formation, the goalkeeper is De Gea, the defense is Smalling and Ferdinand, and the two full-backs are Evra and Rafael; Jones appeared at the waist position, and the attacking midfielder was Captain Giggs; the left and right midfielders were replaced by Ashley Young and Valencia, and Mahrez and Nani, who were physically exhausted in the previous game, sat in. On the bench, the center forwards were Van Persie and Rooney. The 7 substitute players are Alisson, Alonso, Van Dijk, Mahrez, Nani, Martial and Icardi.

Before the start of the game, the coaches of the two teams shook hands in a friendly manner.

Pellegrini told Kintag: "Today must be a good game."

Jin Taige nodded: "That's for sure, I wish you good luck."

The referee blows the opening whistle and the game begins.

At this time, in the commentary booth of Sky TV, Morris and Raman were explaining the game.

Just after Morris introduced the starting lineup for this game, Raman took the words: "I am still not optimistic about Manchester United in this game. I think Manchester United will suffer a disastrous defeat at the Etihad Stadium."

Morris glanced at him: "Why do you think so? Judging from the strength and recent state of the two teams, at least they are evenly matched. Why do you think Manchester United will lose, and it will be a disastrous defeat?"

"Because they don't have Kante today," Raman expressed his point of view, "In the first four league games, Manchester United scored a total of 9 goals, and then only conceded one goal, and that conceded goal was a free kick. What does that mean? It shows that the defense is doing well. The key to Manchester United's defense this season is Kanter."

Morris laughed: "Before, didn't you say that Kanter was just a small role of a cat and a dog from the second division of France'?"

Raman blushed a little: "I admit that I was a bit misjudged at the time. I didn't expect this French player to have such potential. After these few games, everyone can see that although he has not joined the team for a long time, Kan Kanter's status in this Manchester United team is already indispensable. Take the last Champions League game against Leverkusen as an example. Kanter played with a minor injury and was not in good condition, so Manchester United was scored by the opponent. Two goals. It can be seen that Kanter has become the defensive core of this team. But today the core is gone, and Manchester United is facing Manchester City, which is extremely powerful in the away game, so I said that in this game, Manchester United It will definitely be a disastrous defeat. Morris, although you are a Manchester United fan, do you think what I just said was not objective enough?"

Although these words sounded harsh, Morris frowned and nodded at this time: "Although your words are thorny, they are indeed reasonable. Kanter's absence is indeed a great loss for Manchester United. Putting Phil Jones in place of Kanter in this game was a bit of a risk."

In fact, not only Morris thought it was risky, but even Kintag himself was very worried.But what can he do?Last season, Sir Alex Ferguson seldom set up a single defensive midfielder in his lineup. In fact, Kintag understands that it is not that Mr. Jazz is unwilling to use midfielder tactics, but that Manchester United really does not have a good midfielder.That's why Ferguson uses an aggressive style of play, trying to make up for his lack of defense with a sharp offense.With many strong teams in a downturn, Manchester United was lucky enough to win the league title last season.But this set can't be carried in the European arena, especially when playing against other giants in Europe, Manchester United's disadvantage is very obvious. As a result, they were eliminated by Real Madrid in the quarter-finals and stopped moving forward.

This season, Manchester United lost Scholes, the core of last season's attack, and the Premier League teams have been strengthening. Under this situation, Kintag's emphasis on the midfielder can be seen.And his tactics have also paid off. Kanter's performance in the first few games is enough to impress everyone. Kintag is very confident in him. If there are no accidents such as injuries, he believes in his Triple Crown Goals must be more than dreams!

However, after only four games in the league, Kanter was injured. Fortunately, it was not a serious injury, otherwise Jin Taige would really want to cry without tears.

In this game, Kintag considered again and again, and finally sent Phil Jones to replace Kanter. Under Sir Alex Ferguson last season, Phil Jones also often played defensive midfielders and performed well.Phil Jones' fierce defensive style has won the love of many Manchester United fans.In this game, he replaced the injured Kanter, and he was also full of confidence, ready to do a big job!
(End of this chapter)