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Chapter 108 Unconvinced Coleman

In the following week, Manchester City ushered in a one-week double match, the third round of the League Cup in the middle of the week, against the third-tier team, Ipswich Town.In the weekend league, they will face Fulham.

Both teams are weak, and Ipswich Town is unknown. Their strength makes it difficult for them to gain a foothold in the third tier.How can there be any intention to play in the League Cup?Fulham has entered the rhythm of relegation ahead of time. They have six games, two draws and five losses, making great strides towards the relegation circle!

Before the game, Vassell and Heinze were already on Manchester City's injury list, so Duncan announced early that this game will send a lineup of substitute players and youth team players.

In the end, in the dilapidated small stadium that can only accommodate 3000 people in the away game of Ipswich Town, there was a wonderful goal battle between Manchester City and Ipswich Town's substitutes. They won 4:0 the home team.

Shevchenko was the only main player on the field. He made no achievements in the first half, but in the second half he contributed 3 goals alone.

Of course, a hat-trick against such a team is really lackluster for the nuclear warheads, and there is nothing to boast about.

Shevchenko didn't even celebrate when he scored the third goal, that is, the overtake goal, but just high-fived his teammates, and then walked back with a lack of interest.

Conceded four goals, the Ipswich Town players had nothing to lose.After the game, the players of Ipswich Town rushed to Shevchenko at the first time, and then took out a pen like a magic trick, asking Shevchenko to sign on the white T-shirts exposed by their jerseys .

Why not sign the jersey or swap jerseys?
Because Ipswich Town is such a small club that they can only afford two kits financially.

If this set of jerseys is exchanged, then in the future games, they can only run naked...

Although it is the Premier League's prosperity, it is only for the big clubs, and the small teams are struggling to survive in the cracks.

After signing, Shevchenko walked down on his own, and even forgot to receive the best award in the audience. It was not until the host reminded him that Shevchenko scratched his head and went to receive the award.

Duncan watched this scene without speaking.

He could feel Shevchenko's depression.

In this game, Duncan used the five-element formation for the first time, but Shevchenko showed a strong discomfort with the five-element formation.It wasn't until Duncan withdrew the five-element formation in the second half that Shevchenko regained his glory!
The strongest player can't adapt to the strongest formation?

This conclusion made Duncan have mixed feelings.

Manchester City's victory over Ipswich Town is not news, but Shevchenko's "wonderful" performance surprised everyone.

0 goals in six league games.

7 goals in two cup matches.

Some media have already awarded the title of "Cup Killer" to Shevchenko.Ridiculous Shevchenko is a player who can break out in the cup and rest in the league.

There are even more media comments that Shevchenko is Manchester City's best-performing foreign aid, because in terms of the number of goals scored, since he joined the team, he has achieved a record of "seven goals in eight games", which is far better than Saxon. Maras' "eight games and five goals"...

"What I hate the most is brushes!" "Manchester Times" reporter, Jonny jumped out again: "Some people obviously have no ability, but they always like to use brushes! They use all kinds of data to show them for themselves! Politicians like to swipe votes, I can bear it! Celebrities like to swipe existence, I can bear it! Writers like to swipe data, I can bear it! But the team spent 1700 million pounds to buy you, just to let you score goals so unscrupulously? This, I can't bear it!"

This time, Johnny stood uprightly from the standpoint of Manchester City fans and criticized a certain star who "scrubbed statistics".Although only one Shevchenko was attacked, it has to make people think of someone who introduced this "data brush emperor".

Although I have long been disgusted with Jonny's "Duncan black", but Jonny's statement expresses the aspirations of many fans.

Especially compared to Tevez next door, who is "specially able to fight" and "specially able to score goals", Shevchenko's performance can be said to be bleak.

Carlos Tevez has scored key goals one after another in recent games. Although the number of goals has not come up, the value of his performance is definitely far more than 1000 million pounds.

The pressure was like a mountain on Shevchenko.

In this case, he can only deal with it by himself.

Before the season, the team prepared four forwards, Vassell, Samaras, Bianchi and Shevchenko. It seems that these four forwards are sufficient.

But the league has only started six rounds, and people discovered that Manchester City's forwards are far from enough.

Vassell was injured, Shevchenko put on the hat of "cup killer", and another Bianchi's performance was also unsatisfactory.

Another reason is that Bianchi was introduced by the general manager of the team, Bassong.

With the lessons of Cordila last season, Duncan's impression of Italian shooters is no longer very good, so there is no Italian striker on the summer signing list.Although Duncan has the right to transfer, he is not his direct descendant after all.

Basong's identity as a Thai determines his power, which is much greater than ordinary people.

As one of the few cronies who followed Thaksin to the UK, Bassong won the trust of Thaksin and was Thaksin's right-hand man.

He believes in the rules of the game, Bassong is not Thaksin.

Bianchi is one of Bassoon's masterpieces.

By the time Duncan knew, Bianchi had already reported for practice.

Then Duncan discovered that Bianchi's formation fit was actually only 80%.

So he hesitated whether to use Bianchi or not.

If it doesn't work, let Andy Cole play a game, Fulham is not a strong team anyway.

On the other side, Fulham, which is "not a strong team", has another voice.

Coleman, the head coach of Fulham, played against Duncan last season.

Before Duncan appeared, Coleman was the youngest head coach in the Premier League, and the aura of "young coach" was Coleman's favorite.

He led Fulham to play very resiliently, which made the critics very optimistic.

However, he met Duncan, who was younger than him and had better grades than him.

In the first "battle of young coaches" between the two sides, Manchester City defeated Fulham 2:0, and Coleman lost.

But Coleman was not convinced. In that game, his Fulham restricted Manchester City to death. He didn't even let Samaras, who was hot with the gun barrel, score a goal.

You know, Samaras scored 12 goals in 13 games last season, including teams like Arsenal and Manchester United.

Achieving a clean sheet for Samaras is definitely not something ordinary teams can do!
That game was also the closest to losing in Manchester City's [-]-game winning streak last season.In the end, only relying on Mido's two long-range shots, Manchester City stole a victory.

That's right, steal it!As we all know, long-range shots are all a matter of probability. Mido can score two goals, it must be luck!
So, in Coleman's view, he was defeated by luck, not strength!
In this game, he is gearing up to get back what he lost last season.

A game is luck, but not every game is luck.

Of course, as a head coach, Coleman will not underestimate any opponent.The confidence to win will only make him concentrate on studying and defeating his opponent.

At the pre-match tactical publicity meeting, Coleman encouraged the players.

"Manchester City are ninth in the league, but so what? That's all! The game is 90 minutes and anything can happen! Last time we were able to push them to luck and score two goals, this time What else can I do to help them?"

"You may say, ah! The opponent invested 8000 million pounds in the summer! The opponent introduced Shevchenko! Bianchi! The lineup is so strong! But you don't think that only by beating such a team can you achieve more Do you feel it?"

As expected of a young coach, Coleman's impassioned speech successfully aroused the fighting spirit of the players!

(End of this chapter)