roccoschili Chapter 346 The fastest goal in the League Cup
Chapter 346 The fastest goal in the League Cup
Chapter 346 The fastest goal in the League Cup
After the game against Fulham on September 9, Manchester City finally defeated their opponents 18-3 and completed the five-game winning streak at the beginning of the league.
In this game, after Yang Mo scored twice in the first half, he was replaced by Mancini at the beginning of the second half.
Although Yang Mo performed astonishingly in the first half, Mancini was still worried about the sluggish appearance before the game, so Mancini, who was worried about Yang Mo's condition, decided to rotate and let Yang Mo rest.
Besides, with the start of the Premier League Cup and the Champions League, the early ease of the Premier League will be gone forever.
After the start of the second half, Balotelli replaced Yang Mo. Although he assisted Dzeko to score a goal, Manchester City was also scored by Fulham because of carelessness.
Although Mancini was very angry in the dressing room for this goal after the game, Manchester City, which won the victory, still stabilized their top position in the Premier League standings.
However, although Manchester City won this round and Yang Mo performed well, except for the accidents of the Chinese media, most of the media in the UK still focused on Manchester United.
Because at Old Trafford, Manchester United ushered in Chelsea in this round of the league.
Compared with Manchester City's comfortable schedule at the beginning of the season, Manchester United's first meeting with Arsenal and then Chelsea's schedule can be described as tough.
And Manchester United, which is in hot form this season, after defeating Arsenal 3-0 last time, this game also did not allow Chelsea to retreat at Old Trafford.
3-1, the same score as Manchester City, Manchester United simply won the victory.
In this game, Rooney, who completed a hat-trick on the field, played steadily and scored another goal.
After the game, because of the red-blue duel promoted by the media, Manchester City and Manchester United will naturally be compared again.
In terms of the team's performance, the two teams with five consecutive victories both lead the standings with 15 points. In terms of goal difference, although Manchester United is two goals behind Manchester City, they have not been pulled away by Manchester City.
As for the comparison of leading shooters, relying on two goals in this game, Yang Mo finally tied Rooney in the scorer list, and the two tied for the top scorer list with 9 goals.
After the game, both of them were selected in ESPN's best lineup of the week.
You chase after each other between teams, fierce competition between players, Manchester City and Manchester United, has not only attracted the attention of the British media, but also the attention of the whole world.
As the saying goes, only great opponents can make great games. The rise of Manchester City this season and the fiery state of Manchester United have not only made themselves, but also made their opponents, and made a more exciting Premier League.
And just when the media all over the world began to pay attention to the more and more exciting red-blue duel, Manchester City, who returned to Manchester on a chartered flight, soon ushered in their first domestic cup match in the UK.
As we all know, among the top European leagues, the Premier League schedule is notoriously dense, but at the beginning of the league, the Premier League was relatively easy.
The main reason is that for strong teams, the start time of the domestic cup competition is relatively late, and the time when the team enters the competition is determined according to the ranking of the results of the previous season.
Take the FA Cup as an example. Manchester City, which ranked third in the Premier League last season, will only participate in the third round after the preliminaries. At that time, the winter break of the Premier League is over.
In this regard, the Premier League is not like cup competitions in other leagues, and they must start participating in cup competitions at the beginning of the season.
The English League Cup, which Manchester City will participate in this time, is not as important as the FA Cup, but it starts earlier than the FA Cup.
On September 9th, the third round of the English League Cup, Manchester City, a strong seed team, will officially start participating.
Manchester City's opponent at home in this game is Birmingham, who had just been relegated from the Premier League last season.
For the League Cup, Mancini did not plan to use the main force at the beginning, especially when dealing with a weak team like Birmingham.
In this game, Mancini arranged for all the substitutes to play, but there was one exception, and that was Yang Mo.
When the squad was announced the day before the game, Mancini did not arrange Yang Mo. In his opinion, facing the upcoming intensive schedule, Yang Mo, as the absolute main force of Manchester City's offense, must ensure sufficient physical fitness.
In the Premier League, facing the intensive schedule, rotation is something that every head coach must consider.
However, although Yang Mo appreciated Mancini's kindness, after the roster was announced, he still took the initiative to find Mancini, hoping to play the game.
As the level of the system got higher and higher, Yang Mo found that he gained less and less experience in each game.
So in order to get promoted, he didn't want to miss any games, even against a weak team like Birmingham, even if he had little experience, he still had mosquito legs.
As for physical problems, Yang Mo wasn't worried at all.
Except for the world preliminaries this season, he has no other national team tasks. After increasing the upper limit of endurance talent to 91 last time, it is enough to cope with the intensive Premier League.
Under his insistence, Mancini finally hesitated again and again, and agreed to Yang Mo's request.
After all, Yang Mo has always been self-disciplined and can earnestly fulfill his tactical requirements. He belongs to the kind of player that the coach likes the most. He is occasionally self-willed for the sake of the game. Mancini also feels that he should not be too unkind.
Therefore, in this game, when most of Manchester City's main players were rested, including Dzeko, Yang Mo served as Manchester City's starting center for the first time.
What Mancini didn't know was that after agreeing to Yang Mo's request, he brought a nightmare to their opponents.
At 9:20 pm on September [-]th, at the Etihad Stadium in Manchester, under the witness of more than [-] Blue Moon fans, Yang Mo gave Birmingham an unforgettable massacre.
Just 9 seconds into the game, Yang Mo scored the first goal with a long shot in midfield.
While the goal stunned all the Birmingham players, it also drove the Blue Moon fans at the Etihad Stadium completely crazy. Facing Yang Mo, who made a symbolic celebration in front of the stands, the Blue Moon fans collectively worshiped Action, cheers echoed through Manchester.
And soon, the staff at the Etihad Stadium played on the field monitor that Yang Mo's goal broke the record for the fastest goal in the English League Cup.
This record-setting goal also made the Blue Moon fans cheer wildly again.
And Birmingham, who are still in a daze, don't know that their performance as the backdrop for Yang Mo's fastest goal in the English League Cup in this game is just the beginning of a nightmare.
In the 5th minute of the first half, Yang Mo, who had just set a record, received the ball from Lescott in the frontcourt, broke through with the ball and chose to cross from the right side of the penalty area.
In the penalty area, Nasri, who returned from injury in this game, faced Yang Mo's pass, leaped high and scored the ball with a lion shaking his head, extending the score to 2-0.
After Nasri's goal, Birmingham's kick-off in the middle circle had not brought any progress, but it was intercepted by Barry, who also came back from injury in this game.
After stealing the ball, Barry passed the ball directly to Yang Mo from the backcourt. After the midfielder Yang Mo received the ball, he immediately took advantage of Birmingham's opportunity to return to defense before it was too late, and started a rapid counterattack.
All the way along the middle lane, the Birmingham players who were in charge of defending Yang Mo couldn't stop Yang Mo who was sprinting with all his strength.
Seeing where Yang Mo went, the Birmingham players were unstoppable, all the way turned on their backs, Yang Mo's terrifying impact once again shocked everyone, including the Birmingham fans in the stands.
In the end, Yang Mo's counterattack ended with a push shot after shaking the goalkeeper in the penalty area after breaking through several blocks along the way.
What is solo breakthrough, what is heroism, and what does it mean to decide the outcome of a game by one person? Yang Mo used this goal to demonstrate to everyone.
Looking at the big display screen in the stadium, the game time has just come to the 7th minute.
But the score on the field has reached 3-0.
Seeing this, everyone understands that Birmingham is expected to lose miserably in this game.
But although everyone has seen this, they can't imagine how miserable Birmingham will lose in the end.
When the game reached the final stage of the second half, the referee didn't even arrange any stoppage time, and directly blew the whistle for the end of the game.
Because at this time, the score on the field has reached an exaggerated 10-0.
Moreover, this score was completed in No. 80 minutes of the second half.
After 10-0, whether it is Manchester City or Birmingham, they have no idea of continuing the game.
For Birmingham, the opponent scored ten goals in 10 minutes. The whole team was kicked and collapsed, and there was no fighting spirit to resist.
And Manchester City, facing Birmingham who lost their fighting spirit, has no desire to continue scoring goals.
After all, the opponents have been kicked like this, not to mention them, even the cheering of the fans is not so excited. Slaughtering such enemies does not make them feel proud.
In the end, when the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game, amidst the cheers at the Etihad Stadium, many young players in the Birmingham team faced such a score and even shed tears of sadness.
Young No. 1993 defender Fraser Kerr, born in 31, is one of them.
In this game, the young defender who was replaced in the second half will be responsible for defending Yang Mo for the first time in the League Cup.
Although Kerr worked very hard and spared no effort to chase, defend, and press Yang Mo, but because of the difference in strength, he was suddenly sieved by Xiao Yang.
At this point, the game was over, and Kerr stood weakly on the field and cried into tears.
This game was too cruel for the rookie Kerr, enough to leave an unforgettable shadow in his life.
But when Kerr was crying, he felt someone pat on the shoulder. When he looked back, his mouth grew wide in surprise, and he forgot to cry.
"Although the game is regrettable, but you performed very well, can I exchange jerseys with you?"
It was none other than Yang Mo who spoke.
Yang Mo had a good impression of this crying player. In the second half, when all the players in Birmingham gave up, only this player kept chasing after him and did not give up.
Although in his opinion, this player's talent is average and his potential for development is not great, but Yang Mo decided that it was worth his encouragement just because of the opponent's attitude of not giving up.
He didn't want this young man to sink because of this game and his crushing of the opponent in the game.
"Do you really think I'm doing well?"
Kerr still couldn't believe it. He looked at Yang Mo, as if he wanted to get an answer, and even forgot to exchange jerseys with Yang Mo.
Yang Mo: "Of course, you are the only one who didn't give up from the beginning to the end of this game."
Hearing Yang Mo's words, Kerr's expression changed, it seemed that Yang Mo's approval was something that made him very excited.
But after the excitement, Kerr found the jersey handed over by Yang Mo, and hurriedly took off his own jersey.
"sorry Sorry……"
Apologizing, Kerr handed the jersey to Yang Mo.
After taking over Yang Mo's jersey, Kerr looked cautious and obviously would cherish the jersey.
Seeing Kerr's appearance, Yang Mo smiled and left the arena, and the match was officially over.
After the game, not surprisingly, Manchester City's 10-0 massacre of Birmingham City, of course, made the headlines of most of the British media's sports section.
The 10-0 massacre created the widest point difference in the history of the English League Cup.
Among the 10 goals in this game, Yang Mo, who completed 7 shots and 1 pass by himself, has undoubtedly become the focus of everyone's attention.
With seven goals in a single game, Yang Mo, who has been fully fired in the Premier League, finally aimed the butcher's knife at the English League Cup.
At this moment, no one doubted how terrifying Yang Mo's attack power was.
And after this game, all the teams that are about to face Yang Mo are also doomed to have a headache on how to deal with Yang Mo's offense.
However, for Manchester City, after eliminating Birmingham, although it caused a lot of repercussions, what they need to pay attention to now is the upcoming game.
On the day of the end of the game with Birmingham, the League Cup draw, Manchester City's opponent in the League Cup quarter-finals is the Premier League Wolves.
However, this game will not start until October. Before that, Manchester City will have a headache for the league and the first game of the Champions League group stage that will start soon.
Two days later, on September 9, the first match of Group A of the UEFA Champions League group stage this season will start, and Manchester City will face Naples at home.
And just two days later, on September 9, Manchester City was still at home, and they were about to start the sixth round of the Premier League against Everton.
But then, on September 9, the second match of Group A of the Champions League group stage started.
This time, Manchester City will face their first strong opponent this season, and Yang Mo will also meet his former owner for the first time. They will rush to an away game against the Bundesliga giant Bayern Munich.
From September 9 to September 18, in just ten days, Manchester City played five consecutive games.
Cups, leagues, Champions League, there are weak and strong, no wonder Mancini has to rotate in the League Cup.
It's not that Mancini is too cautious, but that this intensive game is too exaggerated, so Mancini had to do so.
After all, for any player, such an intensive game is a severe test.
(End of this chapter)