Chapter 423: The Premier League starts, and the English media starts talking nonsense

On August 13th, the Premier League begins in full swing.

Manchester City ushered in the challenge of Black Cat Sunderland at home.

Last season, Sunderland finally completed the task of avoiding relegation.

In the first game of the season, they will face the defending champion.

The good news is that Manchester City played two games in the previous week and may have physical problems.

But this is the beginning of the season, and players have sufficient physical reserves and will basically not suffer from fatigue.

On the day of the match, the Etihad Stadium was packed.

Manchester City have already played two games, but one at Wembley and one in Norway.

This is the first time this season that Manchester City is playing at home.

Before the game, Manchester City officials held a brief appearance ceremony for Zhao Yi.

To recognize his contribution to the team last season.

Of course, it also allows him to show the fans some of the personal awards he won last season.

For example, the Premier League Golden Boot and the European Golden Boot.

And the best player in the Premier League.

After more than two months, Zhao Yi once again stood at the Etihad Stadium and accepted the cheers of Manchester City fans at his home stadium.

During the offseason, Zhao Yi talked with Guardiola several times. He and Guardiola had a common view, that is, some playing styles should be appropriately changed this season.

We can no longer rush and hit like we did last season.

On the one hand, you can maintain your physical fitness and be in good condition throughout the season.

On the other hand, it is also beneficial to the entire career.

Guardiola needs a core player that can last for more than ten years.

If we keep playing like last season and lose our form after three or two seasons, the gain will outweigh the loss.

Therefore, Zhao Yi took the initiative to reduce the time he held the ball and the number of breakthroughs.

This time, it’s home court again.

Hear the cheers and shouts of tens of thousands of people.

Look at their expectant eyes and feel their excitement.

Zhao Yi was immersed in the scene and was greatly affected.

These local Manchester City fans certainly support the team unconditionally, but a large part of them are here for Zhao Yilai.

There were even some fans who were not from Manchester City at all and went all the way to Manchester and bought tickets to enter the Etihad.

In order to be able to see Zhao Yi's wonderful performance.

If he just kicked around on the field and beat Sunderland, it would be a bit sorry for these fans.

Zhao Yi looked up at the fans waving flags and shouting excitedly.

Can not be done!

You can't just kick it and be done with it.

He has to work harder and never let down the fans who support him!

You can't be like some football champions who go to the venue and sit on the bench, make money without saying anything, and treat the fans like monkeys.

In your own home court, you must be energetic and charge forward.

Zhao Yi also saw many banners in the stands.

It's a passionate Manchester City fan celebrating his birthday.

It will be his nineteenth birthday in three days, but there will be no game that day, so Manchester City fans will not be able to celebrate him at the scene.

Therefore, I sent him birthday wishes in advance.

Zhao Yi looked at this grand occasion and realized that in his previous life, few people knew about his birthday, let alone sent him blessings on his birthday.

These fans always remember.

Then you can't just play casually, just win the game casually.

"Okay, welcome everyone to watch the first round of the Premier League 2016-2017 season!

Defending champions Manchester City host Sunderland.

Let's take a look at the starting lineups of both sides. Manchester City used the 4231 formation that was more commonly used last season.

Aguero, De Bruyne, Zhao Yi, Sterling.

In this game, Zhao Yi and De Bruyne changed positions.

With double midfielders, there are some changes. Guardiola sent a combination of David Silva and Kanter.

Fernandinho and Gundogan are both on the bench.

Four defenders, Delph, Kompany, Stones, and Kyle Walker.

The goalkeeper position is Ederson who performed very well in the Super Cup!

According to Guardiola in an interview, Zhao Yi played a key role in the joining of Ederson and Kanter.

The Premier League is different from other major leagues. Many head coaches, such as Guardiola and Wenger, actually have very great power and even exercise the power of team managers.

They can completely dominate the team's player transfers.

Guardiola's words are very interesting. His original words were that Zhao Yi bought Kanter and Ederson.

As for whether it was really Zhao Yi's suggestion, or Guardiola was trying to increase Zhao Yi's status in the team, it's hard to say.

Looking at it now, the performance of these two new players is still very good. "

“Manchester City’s recruitment efforts this season are a little worse than last season, but they have strengthened them in key positions.

The cost also reached 1.4 million euros.

Ederson and Bravo at the goalkeeper position, Kyle Walker at the defender position, Kante at the defensive midfielder position, and Nolito at the forward position.

Of course, there is also Jesus, the young Brazilian player whom Guardiola is more optimistic about. The two parties have reached an agreement and Jesus will join Manchester City in the winter window.

This is a reinforcement for the center position.

Another forward player that Guardiola is optimistic about, Sane from the Bundesliga, will not join this season.

Indeed, Manchester City now has enough personnel reserves in the midfield and frontcourt.

Also on the bench are Gundogan, Fernandinho, Navas, and Nolito.

There is also Jesus who will join in the winter window.

Sane cannot be guaranteed to be the team's absolute main player, so joining Manchester City may not be a good thing. "

"Sunderland also have a 4231 formation.

Center Defoe, behind him are Gooch, Borini and Watmore.

Double defensive midfielder O'Shea, Rodwell.

Four defenders, Holt, Kaboul, Cone, Love.

Goalkeeper Mannone.

Sunderland's lineup is star-less. They narrowly avoided relegation last season and are still the favorites to be relegated this season. "

"Manchester City competed in two cup competitions before the start of the season, the Community Shield and the European Super Cup.

Manchester City has added two more championship trophies.

Zhao Yi performed very well in these two games and scored two goals.

But compared with the explosive output last season, it seems to be a lot quieter.

The only surprising thing was that Zhao Yi staged a back-foot shot after consecutive breakthroughs.

It's really amazing.

But it seems like they couldn’t lift up much energy in both games.

The state...how should I put it, is very good, but far from the fans' expectations.

Let's take a look at Zhao Yi's status in today's game. "

"You must know that last season, Zhao Yi joined Manchester City and faced West Bromwich Albion in the away game in the first game. He performed with five goals.

He taught those in the Premier League who were not optimistic about him a hard lesson. "

"The attitude of the English media this season is completely different to what it was at the start of last season.

Last season was really full of pessimism and ridicule.

This season, even if Zhao Yi was in average form in the previous two games, the English media was... anyway... I didn't even notice the boast...

They insisted that Sevilla was too weak for Zhao Yi to be interested.

Zhao Yi eagerly hopes that some powerful opponents will appear.

Even if Zhao Yi had no performance in the second half, they would still say that Zhao Yi has matured, knows how to protect himself, and has begun to think about the team and his teammates.

I really... Sterling, who also had little performance in the second half of that game, was scolded by the English media and was shameless.

It's hard for people to understand.

It’s really a bragging, even the commentators from China are embarrassed to say that..."