Chapter 310
The first English League championship this season was born.
Even though it was not of high quality, it attracted a lot of media coverage and discussion.
Liverpool was just a little short of its first championship in many years.
With one more player, they were conceded three goals in a row because of carelessness.
They failed at the last hurdle.
Zhao Yi undoubtedly became the traffic leader again.
When Liverpool was leading by one goal and the players were in a state of relaxed vigilance, he made consecutive assists for goals.
He crushed Liverpool in one fell swoop.
"Zhao is still evolving now, he covers almost all positions on the court."
"At the most critical moment, he can even appear in the penalty area to deliver important clearances."
"Yes, if you watch the game, you will know how strong he is. I really wonder how there can be such a strong player?"
"If he is English, he will definitely reach the final of the European Cup."
"Yes, it's a pity that he is from China."
"You don't know the situation, right? Fake fans, Zhao has never played for China or other national teams. As long as he wants, he can play for any national team now."
"???!"
"That's true. Zhao didn't participate in the World Cup qualifiers for the Chinese team, nor was he called up. No one knows what happened."
"Why doesn't England plan for such a player?"
"I don't know. The European Cup will start this year. What are you waiting for?"
"Everyone go and petition the Football Association!!"
On the Internet, a considerable number of English fans have discovered this problem.
In just a few days, more than 10,000 fans went to the English Football Association, and the official website of the English Football Association asked England to recruit Zhao Yi to join the England national football team.
Southgate, who had just accepted the national team, watched Zhao Yi's game live a few months ago.
He certainly knew how powerful this guy was.
He also tried to contact Zhao Yi, but Zhao Yi was very reluctant to join the national team.
It seemed that the World Cup was not as attractive to him as a bottle of salt soda.
But Southgate never gave up.
He has been keeping in touch with Zhao Yi through various means.
Including Gerrard, the middleman.
As an idol-level figure that Zhao Yi had talked about publicly, Southgate felt that Gerrard was most likely to influence Zhao Yi's choice.
Even if it didn't work this time, there would always be opportunities in the future.
In fact, during the two collaborations between Zhao Yi and Ronaldo, the president also mentioned this matter.
After all, the president has been carrying Portugal for more than ten years and is a little tired.
He is very eager for someone to help him share some of the pressure.
This year's European Cup and the World Cup after that may be his last chance.
In a few years, as he gets older, he will no longer have the strength to continue to compete with the young.
Zhao Yi rejected Ronaldo's kindness.
He has no idea about the national team.
As always.
He is obsessed with the issue of nationality.
He never opposes others to change their nationality for any purpose.
But he never will.
If everything goes according to the normal track, Ronaldo will be able to realize his wish in this year's European Cup.
Although the president spent the final on a stretcher, he still realized his dream.
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A few days later, Manchester City continued to challenge Liverpool away.
The second encounter between the two sides this week.
Liverpool players have obviously become more cautious than in the League Cup final.
They did not give Manchester City a particularly good opportunity throughout the game.
Until the second half of the game.
In the 70th minute, De Bruyne assisted Fernandinho to score a goal.
Unfortunately, Manchester City did not maintain the advantage until the end.
Sturridge scored the equalizer in the 85th minute of the game.
Manchester City drew with Liverpool away, giving Leicester City a chance to catch up.
But with only 11 rounds left in the league and no direct confrontation between Manchester City and Leicester City, it was too difficult for Leicester City to catch up.
Three days later, Manchester City's tight schedule continued.
Home game against Aston Villa.
Guardiola moved Zhao Yi back and David Silva, who had returned from injury, started.
Villa's defense was impregnable throughout the first half.
Manchester City did not get too many good opportunities.
In the second half, Manchester City's offense finally improved.
Zhao Yi received a cross pass from Silva in the 60th minute and shot from outside the penalty area to open the scoring.
Then Aguero, with assists from De Bruyne and Sterling, scored a hat trick.
Manchester City beat Villa 4-0 at home.
Afterwards, Manchester City went away to challenge the Canaries Norwich.
Zhao Yi appeared in Gundogan's position again without any surprise.
This made Manchester City's formation more stable, but because Zhao Yi's position was very far back,As a result, his threat to the goal was greatly reduced.
Although the team defeated the opponent 2:0, Zhao Yi did not score any assists.
Even if he could advance with the ball, he also made a great contribution to the team's organization.
Still caused dissatisfaction among a large number of fans.
Guardiola's arrangement was disrespectful to a player full of offensive talent.
A good striker was put in the position of defensive midfielder by Guardiola.
This is a real waste of talent.
Guardiola made a serious explanation in this regard.
The current team's injuries forced Zhao Yi to make sacrifices.
After he observed for a while, he felt that Zhao Yi could perfectly play the No. 8 position and had very strong physical fitness and ball holding ability.
This is the best choice for the team.
Moreover, Zhao Yi's retreat in position is a huge improvement for him.
In that position, he can better read the opponent's defense and his teammates' running and offensive methods.
This is also a very good improvement for Zhao Yi.
"Of course, this is just a stopgap measure. If we can find the right player, Zhao will still be where he should be."
Guardiola explained, but the fans' scolding did not stop.
"Nonsense!"
"The big fool just wants to do something!"
"This old guy also let Messi play the back midfielder, but it was not very successful. Now he finally found another one and started to make a fuss!"
"If I were Zhao Yi, I would just quit!"
"I can score goals and assist. Why do I have to go back to defend when I want to connect the team?"
"But Zhao Qiuwang is making a fuss alone?"
"If he plays like this, he will become Zhao Qiu's donkey!"
Guardiola still did his own thing despite all the abuse.
Of course, he had already made an agreement with Zhao Yi in advance and calmed Zhao Yi's emotions before doing so.
Once he found that Zhao Yi was not happy playing, he would still put Zhao Yi in the front court.
It's just that he found Zhao Yi was quite happy playing in these two games.
He was very active in returning to defense.
He even seemed to enjoy it. Guardiola was relieved and continued his work.
In the second round of the Champions League match against Dynamo Kyiv, Guardiola put Zhao Yi in the defensive midfielder position again.
At the same time, the chemical reaction he envisioned also had an explosive effect for the first time.
These players finally had a real tacit understanding after several league matches and training.
