Glory Greenery

Chapter 686
The key match for the three consecutive defending champions to qualify for the group stage, the match between Manchester City and CSKA Moscow, deservedly received a lot of attention.

Yang Mo, who was far away in Los Angeles, USA, turned on the TV and watched the game.

In this game, Manchester City went away to compete.

The temperature in Moscow at the end of October is not too cold, which is one of the few good news for Manchester City recently.

But when the game is over, the mood of all the fans who care about Manchester City can be described as mixed.

Fortunately, the 0-1 score allowed Manchester City to use a small victory to keep their chances of qualifying.

Sadly, in this game, Manchester City has an important player injured.

David Silva.

The brain of Manchester City's current midfielder accidentally strained his thigh muscle in a fight. The post-match inspection results showed that Silva will be absent for at least two months.

First, captain and core Yang Mo was reimbursed for the season, followed by midfielder core reimbursement for two months.

Manchester City's bad luck did not seem to end because of this victory.

After Yang Mo left, the already stagnant Manchester City midfielder suffered a fatal blow because of Silva's injury.

Therefore, despite winning the game against CSKA Moscow, Manchester City's next schedule will undoubtedly look particularly gloomy.

But time will not wait for anyone, and the game will not stop because of Manchester City's injury.

The victory against the Moscow Army in the Champions League did not change Manchester City's bad luck. On the contrary, because of Silva's injury, Manchester City's life became even more miserable.

After returning to the UK after the end of the Champions League, Manchester City immediately suffered a three-game losing streak.

On October 10th, the ninth round of the Premier League, the away game against the Hammers West Ham United was beaten 25-0 by the Hammers. The league record came to two wins, two draws and six losses.

On October 10, Manchester City faced Newcastle United in the first round of the league in the English League Cup round of 30.

Manchester City, which could have won the Magpies in the first round, suffered a bloodbath 0-4 at home in this Carabao Cup.

This disastrous defeat not only made Manchester City, who was the Carabao Cup champion, out early, but also completely destroyed the hearts of Manchester City fans.

The consequence was that in the tenth round of the league three days later, Manchester City played against Manchester United at home.

In such a Manchester City Stderby, which had attracted worldwide attention, the attendance rate of Manchester City's side was so dismal that Manchester United fans seized the opportunity to occupy most of the stands at the Etihad Stadium.

Looking around, the stands of the entire Etihad Stadium were in flames, and those who didn't know thought it was Old Trafford.

Yang Mo, who was far away in Los Angeles, was inexplicably moved when he saw the picture captured by the camera.

After he came to Manchester City for the second season, he has never seen Manchester City's home court be so bleak. In his memory, as long as the home court is blue, it should be overwhelming.

Why this is the case, people in the industry basically understand.

This is a team with little heritage.

Brilliant victories, of course, can attract a lot of attention and attract many followers.

But once the team's performance falls into headwinds, those fans who came for victory will easily be lost.

Of course, there is another reason that cannot be denied and ignored, that is, Yang Mo is injured.

Yang Mo's attractiveness to fans can be directly measured by data.

Don't mention those overseas fans, just mention Chinese fans.

Regardless of the away game or the home game, as long as there is a game with Yang Mo, the number of Chinese fans is extremely impressive.

There are sometimes hundreds or thousands of away games.

Once at the home court, the number of Chinese fans in Manchester City's home stands can even exceed 5000 when it is the highest. This is an extremely terrifying number.

You must know that some of the less popular teams in the Premier League do not have so many home fans.

You can't imagine how many Chinese fans travel across the ocean just to watch a live game of Yang Mo.

Perhaps it is this kind of appeal that made Mubarak and Mansour renew Yang Mo's contract at a high price regardless of everyone's opposition.

Now, the most obvious consequence of Yang Mo's injury is that besides the team's performance plummeting, there are almost no Chinese fans left in the stands, which also makes Mubarak sad.

But, this season is not just Manchester City suffering from Yang Mo's injury.

The managers of the Premier League are even more saddened by Yang Mo's injury than Manchester City.

How many people can watch the game in the stands. The Premier League relies on the team to sell tickets to make money.

After Yang Mo was injured, the TV broadcast was undoubtedly the most impacted.

Because of Yang Mo alone, the Chinese region captured Manchester City with an average of [-] million viewers per game last season.

This number is enough to make any sports organization salivate.

This number, and the commercial benefits it brings, are enough to drive any sports organization crazy!
It can be said that the number of viewers brought by Yang Mo alone accounted for more than 60.00% of the number of viewers in Manchester City's live broadcast last season.

These Chinese fans have only one purpose, and that is Yang Mo.

So when Yang Mo was injured, the number of viewers in Manchester City's first nine rounds of the league dropped by 70.00%. Looking at the downward arrows, the managers of the Premier League were almost crying.

Immediately afterwards, due to the sharp drop in the number of viewers and the resignation of major advertising sponsorships, the advertising revenue of the relevant broadcasters plummeted.

Complaints and suggestions were sent to the Premier League one after another, constantly reminding the Premier League how important Yang Mo is!

At this time, the managers of the Premier League realized how unfavorable the protection of Yang Mo was in the past.

And the same feeling as the Premier League, there is also UEFA.

Yang Mo was injured, and the number of Manchester City spectators in the Champions League also plummeted.

Last season, the Champions League final between Manchester City and Real Madrid won the Champions League for three consecutive times. The number of viewers broke the historical record of the Champions League.

Among them, 63% are from China.

Therefore, for Yang Mo's injury, UEFA is heartbroken.

After an internal meeting, a bunch of reasons were given to severely punish the Sevilla player Carrizo who shoveled Yang Mo.

Not only was he punished with a high fine, but he was also given a four-month suspension.

What has happened cannot be changed, but at least we must prepare for the future.

UEFA hopes to use this method to warn those players who are facing Yang Mo that they should be more honest.

After all, it's all about money.

If Yang Mo is just a player from a small country, his injury may be very important to the team, but it will not have much impact on the Premier League or UEFA.

But who let Yang Mo stand behind 13 billion compatriots, that huge market is enough to make anyone bow down.

After talking about things off the field, let us turn our attention back to the field.

This game is said to be a Manchester derby, but it is actually a match between two unlucky guys.

Manchester United spent a lot of money on signings in the new season, but the start record was extremely bad. In the past nine rounds, they only scored three wins, four draws and two losses, ranking tenth in the standings.

Manchester City is even more unlucky, with nine league rounds, two wins, two draws and five losses, ranking 17th in the standings, only half a step away from the relegation zone.

Such a record is completely irrelevant to the league's three consecutive defending champions.

In this war between the unlucky ones, Manchester City was ultimately more unlucky.

Manchester City used a score of 0-2 at home to give Van Gaal a hand in the mud.

It is no wonder that after the game, some media joked that although Yang Mo was not on the court, he still used his injury to help his mentor.

(End of this chapter)