Chapter 67, Manchester Derby

When King Tiger stepped into the Etihad Stadium, the audience booed everywhere, and tens of thousands of away fans greeted their rivals in the same city with the biggest boos, which even surpassed that of King Tiger who led the team to Liverpool. Field Field.

After a few Premier League games, Jin Taige has gradually become accustomed to the boos in the away game. He pouted, and then said to Scholes beside him: "Do these Manchester City fans treat their neighbors like this? There is a Chinese saying. As the old saying goes, distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors. After all, they are all in the same city, isn't it good to be friendly?"

However, Scholes said with a serious face: "Derby in the same city is an important culture of European football. For many teams in the same city, it doesn't matter if they can't win the league title at the end of the season. As long as they can kill the rivals in the same city, then the fans can Happy all season!"

Jin Taige patted Scholes with a smile: "Paul, I'm just joking, take it easy, this opponent is too familiar to us, although they bought a lot of new players this summer, but after all the running-in period It's too short, and the reason why Manchester City won all of the first four games was because they didn't meet the test of the top six in the Premier League, so I think we should have no problem with this game."

Phelan also said excitedly: "I think Tiger is right, we will definitely win this game!"

Manchester City played in a 4-2-3-1 formation for this game. The goalkeeper is England goalkeeper Joe Hart. From left to right on the back line are Kolarov, Nastasic, Kompany and Sabaleta. The two midfielders are Yaya Toure and Fei. Fernandinho, the three attacking midfielders are Nasri, Aguero, Navas, and the center position is Negredo. And Manchester City's bench is very luxurious, even stronger than the main lineup of many Premier League teams: Milner, Dzeko, Xavi Garcia, Richards, Lescott, Pantilimon, Jovi titch.

This lineup is excellent on offense and defense, and on paper, it definitely ranks in the top three in the Premier League.

Look at Manchester United's lineup today. It is still the standard 4-4-2 formation, the goalkeeper is De Gea, the back line is Smalling and Ferdinand, and the two full-backs are Evra and Rafael; the midfielder is injured because of Kante, so the back At the waist, Jones came on stage, and the attacking midfielder was captain Ryan Giggs; the left and right midfielders were replaced by Ashley Young and Valencia, and Mahrez and Nani, who were exhausted in the last game, sat down. On the bench, the center is still Van Persie and Rooney. The seven substitutes are Alisson, Alonso, Van Dijk, Mahrez, Nani, Martial and Icardi.

Before the start of the game, the coaches of the two teams shook hands amicably.

"It must be a great game today," Pellegrini told Kintag.

Jin Taige nodded: "That's for sure, good luck."

The referee blew the opening whistle and the game began.

At this time, Morris and Raman were explaining the game in the commentary box of Sky TV.

Morris had just introduced the starting lineup for the game, and Raman took over the words: "I'm still not optimistic about Manchester United in this game. I think Manchester United will suffer a fiasco at the Etihad Stadium."

Morris glanced at him: "Why do you think so? Judging from the strength and recent state of the two teams, at least they are evenly matched. Why do you think Manchester United will lose, and it will be a fiasco?"

"Because they didn't have Kante today," Raman said of his point of view, "In the first four league games, Manchester United scored a total of 9 goals, and then conceded only one goal, and that goal was a free kick, what does this mean? It shows that the defense is doing well. The key to Manchester United's defense this season is Kante."

Morris was delighted: "Didn't you say Kante was just a 'little character from Ligue 2'?"

Raman blushed a little: "I admit that I was a little lost at the time, I didn't expect this French player to have such potential. After these few games,

Everyone can see that although he has not joined the team for a long time, Kante's status in this Manchester United team is already indispensable. Take the last Champions League game against Bayer Leverkusen for example, Kante played with minor injuries and was in poor form, so Manchester United were scored two goals by the opponent. It can be seen that Kanter has become the defensive core of this team. But today the core is gone, and Manchester United is facing the extremely powerful Manchester City away from home, so I say that Manchester United will definitely be defeated in this game. Morris, although you are a Manchester United fan, do you think what I just said was not objective enough? "

Although these words sounded harsh, Morris frowned and nodded at this time: "Although your words are thorny, they do make sense. Kante's absence is indeed a great loss for Manchester United. It was a bit of a risk to have Phil Jones in for Kante in this game."

In fact, it wasn't just Morris who felt risky, even Kintiger himself was very worried. But what can he do? Last season, Sir Alex Ferguson's lineup rarely set up a separate defensive midfielder. In fact, King Tiger understands that it is not that Mr. Jazz is unwilling to use a midfielder, but that Manchester United really does not have a good midfielder. That's why Ferguson used an aggressive style of play, wanting to use a sharp offense to make up for the deficiencies in defense. In the case of many strong teams in the downturn, Manchester United was lucky to win the league title last season. However, this set cannot be carried on the European arena, especially when facing other giants in Europe. Manchester United's disadvantage is very obvious. As a result, they were eliminated by Real Madrid in the quarter-finals and stopped moving forward.

This season, Manchester United lost Scholes, the attacking core of last season, and each Premier League team has strengthened one after another. Under this situation, Jintaige's emphasis on the midfielder is evident. And his tactics are beginning to bear fruit. Kante's performance in the first few games is enough to impress everyone. Jin Taige is very confident in him. If there are no accidents such as injuries, he believes in his triple crown. Goals must be more than just dreams!

However, after only four games in the league, Kante was injured. Fortunately, it was not a serious injury, otherwise Jin Taige would really want to cry without tears.

This game King Tiger considered again and again, and finally sent Phil Jones to replace Kante's position. Last season under Sir Alex Ferguson, Phil Jones also often played as a defensive midfielder, and his performance was not bad. Phil Jones' fierce defensive style has won the love of many Manchester United fans. In this game, he replaced the injured Kante, and he is also full of confidence, ready to fight!