Glory Greenery

Chapter 598 Dark Horse Sunderland

In this Carabao Cup held at Wembley Stadium, Manchester City's opponent is Sunderland.

If you don't pay much attention to the Premier League, or fans who only watch Manchester City games, you will feel that this game is nothing to watch.

After all, a team that ranks 14th in the Premier League standings is really difficult to compare with Manchester City, the super overlord sweeping Europe.

However, in the eyes of Premier League fans, Sunderland this season is quite legendary.

At the beginning of the season, under the leadership of Italian coach Di Canio, Sunderland started with one draw, seven losses and eight rounds without a win, and fell directly into the relegation zone.

With such a record, the senior management of the Sunderland club finally announced in October that the Italian Di Canio was dismissed from get out of class and hired firefighting coach Gustavo Puye.

After Gustavo Puye took office, he immediately led Sunderland on a legendary dark horse journey.

In the league, they changed their previous embarrassment and began to exert their strength in October. Not only did they climb out of the relegation zone, but they also brought the points to the 14th position in the league.

Compared with the miraculous relegation in the league, Sunderland's performance in the Carabao Cup can only be described as a dark horse.

In Gustavo Puye's first Carabao Cup game after taking office, he successfully eliminated Annampton and led Sunderland to the quarterfinals.

After entering the quarter-finals, it was the beginning of Sunderland's real dark horse trend.

Because in the quarter-finals, whether Sunderland's opponent is someone else, it is Chelsea led by Mourinho.

This season, Manchester City continues to be strong, Arsenal and Arsenal are playing steadily. Although Mourinho leads Chelsea to surpass Liverpool and reach the third position in the standings, this result obviously does not match Abramovich's expectations.

So after meeting Sunderland in the League Cup, Mourinho also put on a full lineup, trying to create some results in the cup.

But what people never expected was that Sunderland was sitting at home and tenaciously tied the score after falling behind first.

In the end, after 10 and 1 minutes of fierce fighting, Chelsea was dragged into overtime with a 1-[-] force.

In extra time, Sunderland was still tenacious and did not let Chelsea break their goal.

On the contrary, at 119 minutes of extra time and only 1 minute before the penalty shootout, Sunderland's Korean foreign aid Ki Sung-yong shot from inside the penalty area and killed Chelsea.

After knocking out Chelsea, Sunderland entered the semi-finals and met a bigger opponent, Manchester United.

Compared with Chelsea coach Mourinho, who is ranked third in the league, Manchester United coach David Moyes, who is now ranked sixth in the league and has not even made it to the European theater, needs a victory in the cup to prove himself.

However, after two knockout rounds, David Moyes became the second unlucky man to fall under the knife of Sunderland.

In the first round at home, Sunderland beat Manchester United 2-1, which shocked everyone.

In the second round, Manchester City scored a goal for Sunderland in 90 minutes when they were at home with all their main players.

Because there is no away goal winning rule in the English League Cup, although Manchester City scored an extra away goal, they still entered overtime with a total score of 2-2 with Sunderland.

After entering overtime, Sunderland reappeared its tenacious will. After 120 minutes of game time, it just didn't let Manchester City gain any advantage.

So, the most brutal penalty shootout came.

In the penalty shootout, Sunderland goalkeeper Vito Mannone stood up and saved two penalty kicks for Manchester United one after another, and eliminated Manchester United with a brave performance.

In this way, the dark horse Sunderland, under the leadership of the firefighting coach Gustavo Puye, miraculously avoided relegation in the league, eliminated Annampton, Chelsea, Manchester United in the Carabao Cup, and finally joined Manchester City in the final, becoming the Premier League this season. A legendary dark horse.

It's as if the brave who have gone through many difficulties and obstacles will eventually face the final BOSS.

In the League Cup final, Sunderland ushered in their final boss, the nightmare of the entire European team, Manchester City!
"No matter who will win the Carabao Cup in the end, it is very touching that Sunderland can stand here."

"Football, what shocks people is not only winning the championship, but also the spirit of those who create miracles."

"Sunderland's tenacity in the Carabao Cup this season has proved that he is a team worthy of respect..."

Before the start of the game, the commentary of Sky Sports may be the biggest compliment to Sunderland.

Of course, this can be regarded as setting the tone for the game in advance. Even though Sunderland defeated Chelsea and Manchester United, no one thought he could beat Manchester City in this final.

Now that the run-in is over, Manchester City, which has exploded with full combat power, is really terrifying.

Especially Yang Mo, who is constantly growing, is simply a nightmare for all defense lines.

However, unlike the Premier League fans who pay attention to the dark horse of Sunderland, some fans pay different attention to it.

In China, ordinary fans only care about how many goals Yang Mo can score and whether he can win the championship that he has never touched.

In addition to China, there is another country in Asia that is also very concerned about this game, and that is South Korea.

When Ki Sung-yong helped Sunderland beat Chelsea, it caused a heated discussion in South Korea.

Later, after the elimination of Manchester United, even though Ki Sung-yong did not score a goal, he couldn't stand the hype of the South Korean media, so he praised Ji Sung-yong to the sky, and he almost said he was going to compete with Yang Mo.

And when Manchester City eliminated West Ham United and joined Sunderland in the Carabao Cup final, the Korean media was completely blown up.

Asian Derby!

In the past, when Asian players met Yang Mo, this slogan was the favorite of the domestic media.

However, as Yang Mo became more and more powerful, the domestic media found that shouting this slogan was completely using Yang Mo to give money to the other party, so it gradually became unnecessary.

But now, when Ji Sung-yong met Yang Mo in the English League Cup, South Korea couldn't wait to shout this slogan.

Some exaggerated Korean media even chanted the slogan that Ki Sung Yong will defeat Yang Mo to prove who is number one in Asia.

Well, let's not mention the headline that Korean fans blush when they see it, let's focus back on the game.

This game, which was crowned with various titles before the game, the final battle of the dark horse, the start of the seven championships, and the inconspicuous Asian derby game, did not give the fans too many surprises after the game started.

The reason is that Manchester City played too easily and had too much advantage.

Only 5 minutes into the game, Yang Mo received a pass from Silva in the upper right corner of Sunderland's penalty area, then broke into the penalty area with continuous spikes, and scored with a small-angle shot.

Less than 10 minutes after the first goal, Sunderland was counterattacked by Manchester City in the attack. Aguero picked a pass to Ibrahimovic and scored, extending the score to 2-0.

Fifteen points are less than a 2-0 lead. Although Sunderland does not seem to give up the game, everyone understands that the game has lost its suspense.

In the 37th minute, Manchester City used a frontal attack to defeat Sunderland's defense openly.

After some dazzling passes, Sunderland hadn't figured out the situation before they found that the ball had reached Ibrahimovic's feet in the penalty area.

Da Fengxian swung his long legs, scored twice and expanded the score to 3-0!

"The game was not over yet in the first half, and Manchester City sealed the victory with three goals. Sunderland, the dark horse, still failed to make it to the end."

"Facing the unprecedentedly strong Manchester City, Sunderland has no power to resist. Even though Yang Mo's performance in this game is not the best, Manchester City only needs to rely on their overall strength to defeat Sunderland."

Penguin Sports, Huang Jianxiang, who commented on the game, said this, and Director Zhang nodded in agreement.

Obviously, in the eyes of the two commentators, the game is over.

(End of this chapter)