Football: Invincible starting from krypton gold

Chapter 174 Manchester City
On September 9th, the fifth round of the Premier League is about to kick off. In this round of the league, there is a game that has attracted the attention of all Xia Guo fans, and that is Chelsea's away game against Manchester City. The reason why Xia Guo fans have paid attention to it is that it will be a real Xia Guo Derby, Chen Xiao VS Sun Jihai.

An overseas player who has been in the UK for many years can have his own position in the Premier League, which shows that Sun Jihai's ability is still good, and Chen Xiao is worth 9000 million, which can be said to be the most expensive player this summer. The collision of the two Xia people must have attracted domestic attention at once.

At 9:9 p.m. on September 7th, in the Etihad Stadium, home of Manchester City, the referee on duty stood near the center circle and was ready to blow the whistle for the start of the game.

The stadium was built for your Commonwealth Games in 2002. After the games, Manchester City's city council handed over the stadium to Manchester City in exchange for the Maine Road Stadium. Since 2003, Manchester City's home stadium has become the Etihad Stadium.

For Chelsea's starting lineup in this game, the frontcourt offensive player is still led by Chen Xiao, but Drogba has become the striker, Thiago has also sat on the bench for the front midfielder, Duff has become the starting midfielder, Lampard has sat on the bench for the midfielder, Makelele and Aixin are the starters, and there is no change in the defender.

Manchester City's starting lineup is: goalkeeper James, Sun Jihai, Distin, Mills, Bischoff on the back line, Sinclair, Croft, Sibielski, Musampa in the midfield, Vassell and Andy Cole in the forwards.Coach Keegan deployed a traditional 442 formation.

前四轮联赛战罢，曼城的成绩并不理想，四轮联赛1胜1平2负仅仅积4分排在了积分榜的第12位。

Finally, the referee blew the whistle for the official start of the game. Under the attention of all Xia Guo fans, the Premier League Xia Guo Derby officially started, and Chelsea won the kick-off.

With the momentum of 4 consecutive victories, after the opening, Chelsea wanted to suppress the opponent in terms of momentum. No one thought that Keegan was really confident in his team, because after the opening, Manchester City actually wanted to compete with Chelsea on the field. Mourinho on the sidelines was even a little surprised after discovering the opponent's intention. Usually the most feared thing in away games is to encounter the defensive tactics of the iron barrel team. The players gestured and asked Lampard and his teammates to retract the formation. This is Chelsea's usual tactic after Mourinho chose the 4213 formation. After the recovery, Chen Xiao and Robben will be closer to the midfield.

No one knows what Keegan is thinking. Judging from the scene, Manchester City launched round after round of attacks against Chelsea's defense at their home court. This is naturally a good thing in the eyes of some ordinary Manchester City fans. In the area, Manchester City's offense seemed to be stuck in a quagmire, with no rules.

In fact, it’s not that Keegan doesn’t know these things. After all, as a senior coach, how could he not understand the situation on the field, but because Keegan hopes to take advantage of the home court at the beginning of the game to see if he can score a goal.

But what he didn't expect was that Chelsea would attack him in his original plan, but he didn't expect the Portuguese on the opposite side to be so insidious and cunning, and he chose to withdraw the formation so recklessly that he was now in trouble.

Although Keegan understood the current situation on the field at this time, he could not adjust it if he wanted to. Even if the offensive momentum was interrupted and the formation was withdrawn, the team's morale would definitely be hit.

While Keegan was hesitating on the sidelines, after Chelsea had been fishing for so long on the court, it was finally time to harvest, which also made Keegan regret it.

In the 23rd minute of the game, Ai Xing cooperated with Terry to steal the ball at Vassell's feet in the backcourt, and then found Robben near the middle circle with a big foot. After Robben got the ball, he suddenly dribbled the ball horizontally, which caught Sun Jihai a little off guard. He quickly adjusted his center of gravity to keep up with Robben.

Chen Xiao faced the ball with his back against the defender. After stopping the ball with his chest, he suddenly kicked with his left foot, and then turned around directly to break through the opponent's defense. Manchester City's left back Bischoff had no choice but to pull Chen Xiao down.

The referee's whistle sounded very timely. Not only did Chelsea get a direct free kick from the wing, but Bischoff received a yellow card.

Chen Xiao's free kick directly found Drogba in the middle. Although Drogba had two defensive players sandwiching him in the crowd, relying on his strong physical condition, he still grabbed the football. A close-range header shot made James helpless.

1-0, Chelsea took a one-goal lead at the Etihad Stadium.

After scoring the goal, Drogba ran to Chen Xiao's side immediately. Since the start of this season, the competition between Drogba and Shevchenko made him cherish every opportunity to attack. He is also very grateful to those who assisted him.

This ball also left Keegan, who was still hesitant, completely without a choice. Now Manchester City can only go offensively. The points for conceding one goal are the same as conceding three goals.

The game restarted. Under Keegan's instructions, Manchester City could only attack forward as usual. However, after the first [-] minutes of adaptation, to be honest, they have fully adapted to the pressure Manchester City's offense put on Chelsea.

(End of this chapter)