Chapter 183 Competition Within the Team
Returning to the league again, considering that continuous battles will make the team exhausted, Wansheng made a proper rotation for the team in the away game against Blackburn, and the midfielder Morris had a round of rest, and David Silva partnered. Joey Barton started, the formation returned to 442, and Darren Bent started again.
Darren Bent performed very well in this game. He and Bergkamp cooperated very well. The two teamed up in the half to help Manchester City lead by two goals. After that, Bergkamp was substituted in the second half. The young Otzi Er got a chance.
When Ozil played, the media did not forget the German teenager.
"Bergkamp was replaced. After all, he is a little old and it is difficult to stick to the whole game. He was replaced by Ozil, who entered Manchester City in the summer. This is a young man from Germany, it is difficult to determine. His ability, but can be valued by Wansheng and brought to Manchester City, his performance is still worth looking forward to..."
Ozil's performance is also really good.
In the 45 minutes of the second half, Ozil did not perform too amazingly, but in the second forward position, he made several passes through the penalty area and gave Darren Bent another chance to score a goal.
3:0, the outcome has been decided.
More importantly, Darren Bent scored three goals in a game, and he completed a hat-trick.
Many Manchester City fans are very excited at this moment!
Hat trick!
It is very rare to see a hat-trick of a player in a season. After all, this is a top league. It is not easy to score three goals in a single game. It is even more rare for a single player to score three goals. Darren Bent is not very eye-catching at Manchester City. Although he has been performing well, he is not too amazing. The most famous Manchester City striker has always been Nicola Anelka, and now Darren Bent the outbreak. Let the fans feel a little caught off guard.
Not to mention fans, even Wansheng was caught off guard.
He is still looking forward to Darren Bent, but not now, but in the future, at least next season. After all, Darren Bent has a lot of experience. But has been playing in the lower leagues, it is difficult to replace Anelka's position in Manchester City.
But now Darren Bent has completed the explosion, three goals, each wonderful!
Judging from the personal ability data of football training masters, there is still a certain gap between Darren Bent and Anelka, but he did not expect him to play so well on the field, which surprised Wansheng. Want to come to the player's performance on the field. Nor can it be based on data alone. It is really hard to imagine when a genius like Darren Bent is really in shape.
After Darren Bent's hat-trick, everyone applauded him, even Blackburn fans. Football knows no borders, even though Darren Bent is a Manchester City player. But this time his performance was perfect.
Darren Bent ran straight to the coaching bench after completing his hat-trick. And hug Wansheng.
"Thank you! Thank you!" Darren Bent said excitedly.
Wan Sheng smiled and stroked the top of Darren Bent's head. At this moment, he felt that the people in his arms were like his own children. Although he was too young to be Darren Bent's father, these young players Isn't that what you cultivated yourself?
He was relieved for a while.
Not to mention how well the head coach led the team, it is also an achievement to get such thanks and recognition from the players!
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Anelka on the bench was also watching the game. This round Anelka was sidelined, but he still entered the team roster.
Anelka didn't look down on Darren Bent before. Although Darren Bent actually performed well, there is still a certain gap with his performance, so Anelka has always considered himself to be the absolute main force of the team. Striker, now his status is being challenged.
Completed three goals in a single game and scored a hat-trick. Even if you are proud of Anelka, you must admit that Darren Bent's performance is quite good. Even if he is on the court, he can't do it better. More importantly Yes, after five rounds of the league, Darren Bent scored five goals, and he only scored two.
Five rounds of the league, three goals gap, which makes Anelka have a sense of crisis.
Throughout the past five rounds of the league, he has started in three of them. Darren Bent has only started two games, but he only scored two goals against Chelsea in the first round. Reese also scored two, which means that even if he is compared to midfielder Maurice, he has no advantage in the number of goals.
This sense of urgency makes Anelka very dangerous. He feels that he should try his best to play more games and score more goals in the future, so as to ensure his status in the team.
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The game ended with 1:3.
With three goals, Darren Bent became the best player of the game without any suspense, and he was also selected for the best team of the Premier League round selected by Sky Sports and ESPN.
After this round, the English media reported a lot about Darren Bent.
The most influential news was the interview with England coach McLaren. McLaren, who had just taken over the England team, was in high spirits. After hearing Darren Bent scored three goals, he immediately said, "The next England team squad. , I would consider adding Darren Bent's name."
On the one hand, it shows that he is optimistic about Darren Bent, and on the other hand, it is also a signal of goodwill to Manchester City and Wansheng.
There has always been conflict between the national team and the club, but the two are actually mutually beneficial. The club imports talents for the national team, and the national team’s games will make the players more famous. Players who can be selected for the national team will definitely have a high reputation. After those who have not been selected, if they perform well in the national team, the player's worth will also increase a lot.
With the expression of England coach McLaren, the English media is even more sought after by Darren Bent.
More importantly, Darren Bent is an English player. The English media are more willing to tout players from their own country, such as Anelka. As a French player, there are not many English media to pursue. Players from their own countries are still very supportive, and foreign players, unless they perform very well, have a great influence. It's like Henry, they don't want to report, it's hard for other players to get similar treatment.
The next round of the Premier League starts quickly when Darren Bent is on fire with a hat-trick.
Wansheng did not have any special view of Darren Bent because of media reports. This is a home game against West Ham United. The starting striker is still Nicola Anelka.
However, in order to prepare for the Champions League group stage with Bayern Munich, in addition to the striker, Wansheng still performed a certain degree of rotation in the midfield and backfield. David Silva got a break, Dunn and Koppelle Ferreira. There was also a rest, and the starting center backs were Ricardo Costa and Sun Jihai.
This is the first time the pair have started in the league together.
Ricardo Costa and Sun Jihai have a lot of experience, both in terms of personal ability and awareness. Still a little lacking. However, Wan Sheng believes that the two are enough to deal with West Ham at home.
The game is as expected.
Although the partnership between Ricardo Costa and Sun Jihai is not so secure, Manchester City's defensive work has also done a good job. At the end of the 90 minutes of the game, West Ham United failed to score a goal, and Manchester City relied on Anelka. A low shot from the right side of the penalty area made a 1-0 victory.
When Anelka scored a goal, he looked very dull, but his eyes flashed with determination and his spirit relaxed a lot.
Actually. Anelka has been under pressure since Darren Bent scored three goals in the last round. He is the team's main scorer, but has scored three fewer goals than the 'second scorer', Darren Bent as his substitute, which makes him feel that his position in the team is not guaranteed.
How much this goal reassures him.
Although there are still two goals short, Anelka believes that he will catch up in the future. What's more, there are still many UEFA Champions League games. He has many chances to play. He believes that his ability is the strongest. There is also a lot of time, and the game experience is very rich. What he needs to do is to score more goals and consolidate his position in the team.
Wansheng on the sidelines was also satisfied with Anelka's goal.
He has always wanted to build healthy competition within the team, otherwise it would be difficult for all players to treat the game positively by relying on the temptation of the championship. After all, football is a sport for eleven people, and some players will think that everyone is working hard to perform. It’s okay to skip a few steps by yourself, which is a red flag, but when a few players think this way, the team’s performance will definitely be a notch worse.
This can often be the key to deciding the outcome of a game.
The competition in the team's striker is very good now, although there are actually only three strikers in the striker, Anelka, Darren Bent and Bergkamp, Bergkamp is old, there is no competition at all, his The name is big enough and the performance is stable enough. When he can play, no one will fight for the position or have any dissatisfaction.
In other words, the real forwards are two players, Anelka is the absolute main force, Darren Bent is the substitute, everyone thinks so, even Wansheng is the same, so it is not easy for the striker to have competition , Perhaps Anelka's performance was not as good as expected before, which is also related to this.
But it's different now. With Darren Bent doing well, Anelka is under pressure.
In this way, no matter who plays, they will strive for a good performance.
Darren Bent wants to replace Anelka as the starting striker. In other words, he wants to have more performance opportunities and wants to enter the England team with his performance, so he will definitely work hard. Anelka feels the competition Pressure, but also will work hard to stabilize their preferred position.
This is the healthy competition within the team.
As a head coach, Wansheng would like to see every position like this, so he doesn't have to worry about players not playing hard.
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After the match with West Ham United, there is only one match on the 30th in the Premier League in September, and the sixth round of the Premier League is over.
After the end of this round, Manchester City achieved 5 wins and 1 draw, and the opening results were quite gorgeous.
This start is even comparable to Chelsea's winning streak last season.
However, the media did not report much on the Manchester City game. They mainly reported on Manchester United, because Manchester United had a better start. They had maintained a winning streak before, and the end of this round Manchester United attracted attention again, not because they continued to maintain their winning streak, but Manchester United drew.
They were drawn 1-1 by newly-promoted Reading.
Just before the start of this round, "Manchester City Evening News" columnist Sadler also wrote an article predicting that Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney will break out in the game, and the victim is not Reading. It was Benfica who were about to face in the Champions League group stage, or both. After the first 90 minutes, half of his predictions failed. Manchester United's magic boy continued to misfire. They only "drawn a draw" with the goal of the Portuguese genius C-Ronaldo. "Reading.
this game. Gary Neville's rare error caused Manchester United to concede. But this is not the root cause of Manchester United's failure to win the newly-promoted horse. In terms of statistics, Manchester United had 25 shots on goal more than three times more than Reading, and the 71.6% possession rate was also much higher than Reading's 28.4%. , the corner kick is 6 to 2, and the pass completion rate in the frontcourt is 78.9%.
The figures prove that Manchester United have the advantage of the scene, but the strange disease of "going without scoring". This time it was attached to the Red Devil.
Since the scene is dominant. The number of shots is also dominant, so if you don’t score, you can only find the reason for the goal, especially the striker who is responsible for the attack. Rooney has 5 shots, but all of them are useless. Only 2 times hit the goal frame, which did not cause any damage at all. What a threat, another C-Ronaldo, who acts as a second striker, performed slightly better. In addition to scoring the equalizer, there were also 4 key passes. 7 shots and 4 on target.
It can also be seen from the score after the game. Sky Sports gave C-Ronaldo 9 points, which is the highest in the Manchester United team, but Wayne Rooney only got 5 points.
"The bottom of the team", "disappointment", the media's evaluation of Wayne Rooney is concise and clear.
In the summer, before and after Van Nistelrooy's departure, the media discussed whether the Dutchman's departure would spell disaster for Manchester United. Ferguson insists that Manchester United has reached a turning point of "abandoning the old and welcoming the new". With Saha and Rooney, the main pair of guns, Van Nistelrooy, who has passed his peak, is no longer important.
But another voice has not been "drowned out".
"Manchester City Evening News" expert Hans said, "Manchester United will regret the relegation of firepower", he believes that the departure of the prolific hitman Van Nielsen will make the Red Devils suffer.
Hans expressed his point of view, "The Frenchman Saha scored 15 goals for Manchester United last season, but since he moved from Fulham to the Red Devils, he has always been plagued by injuries. Solskjaer is 33 years old. The knee injury was enough to end his career. Although he came back, he has missed the best period of three years. As for Alan Smith, he is still struggling with injuries, and the former Leeds man was not a prolific striker."
Hans’s analysis makes sense. Saha’s scoring rate is indeed objective. After joining Manchester United in the winter of 2004, the French striker’s scoring rate was 7 goals in 10 starts, but injuries became a nightmare he couldn’t get rid of. The two surgeries made him slumped, and the repeated injuries caused news that Manchester United were going to sell him. Now that Saha has just returned to scoring goals, the injury seems to be coming again. Out of training due to injury, Ferguson did not arrange him to start, this is a dangerous signal, Saha's knee is very fragile, this is a fact.
Hans also mentioned Wayne Rooney, but in a positive way, believing that Wayne will be able to fulfill his goals quota. But what is the quota? Can it make up for the black hole left by Van Nistelrooy?
Judging from the last two seasons of Rooney, it is very difficult.
Rooney's style belongs to the assault type, good at quick start to open the gap, shooting is not his strong point. Last season, he scored 16 goals in 34 league games, which is quite different from Ruud van Nistelrooy's 21 goals in 27 games.
"Losing Ruud Ruud is a blow to us, because he can score a lot of goals." Rooney expressed his worries in his autobiography. Manchester United left a prolific killer, and now his worries have become reality.
Rooney's scoring efficiency is low, Saha is often injured, Solskjaer has passed his peak, and it is still unknown how much Smith can play. The league has only started 6 rounds, and the hidden dangers of Manchester United's striker have already emerged.
In another arena, Ruud van Nistelrooy, who joined Real Madrid, has scored 3 goals and won Capello's appreciation...
After the end of this round, the media was full of Manchester United-related reports, and all kinds of news were also very unfavorable to Manchester United. Seeing these reports, Wansheng, who was also in Manchester, was very happy. He remembered that at the end of the 4th round, the media As for the report on Manchester City, many media sang 'elegy' to Manchester City at that time. Speaking of which, Manchester City actually just drew a game. As a result, a group of media stood up and analyzed from various aspects that Manchester United had no hope of winning the championship. They also said that Manchester City only Able to fight for the top four in the league.
Now it's Manchester United's turn.
It was the same Reading team, and it was also a draw. As a result, when it came to the media, they almost came to the conclusion that "Manchester United's striker could not score".
Of course, the more happy may be the Berkshire media in the southeast of England, who are absolutely surrounded by Reading.
Reading came to the Premier League stage for the first time after 135 years of ups and downs. For many Reading fans, they could not imagine that they would play against strong teams such as Manchester United, Arsenal and Manchester City in the top league, but now they have finally achieved it. Dream, boarded the big stage of England's top league.
It is the first time in history that they have entered the top league stage. Their goal is undoubtedly to avoid relegation. They would never have imagined that after six rounds of the league, the team would achieve such a 'brilliant' record--2 wins, 2 draws and 2 losses in 6 rounds. The '2 draw' is still the result of the two strong teams in Manchester.
This "perfect answer sheet" in the six rounds of the league is enough to make all Reading fans proud.
Many other regional media are also analyzing Reading. In the summer, no one took a fancy to this 'first in history' newly promoted horse, but now when they have drawn consecutive draws with Manchester City and Manchester United, they have become the focus of the media.
They get more accolades and attention. (To be continued ~^~)