Five Hundred and Sixty-Nine King of Etihad

"Is your information accurate?"

In the head coach's office at Liverpool's Everton training base, Moyes held the opponent's intelligence that assistant coach Stephen Round had just submitted to him, and asked immediately after reading it.

"It's absolutely true," said Stephen Round with great certainty, "this was submitted by Jim Barron and Clive Middlemass, who went to Carrington to spy on the military, and then went through various Various channels to inquire about the news basically corroborated their intelligence."

Jim Barron is Everton's chief scout, and Clive Middlemass is Everton's opponents analyst. Both scouts are Everton's intelligence gathering on their next game opponents. expert.

Among them, Jim Barron has worked in the team for many years, and Middlemass has worked in many Premier League and British Championship teams before. Everton, who just arrived this summer, both are in their early 60s and have very rich work experience.

Moyes heard that it was corroborated by two scouts, so he basically believed it.

According to this information, Gao Shen specially practiced set-piece attack in Manchester City, and at the same time, he also specially arranged targeted training and offensive routine drills for high center Giroud. This is a very obvious signal.

"Stephen, what do you think?" Moyes closed the document in his hand, turned and put it on the desk.

Stephen Round joined the Moyes team in 2007, but before that, he had a rich coaching experience, assisted many Premier League coaches including Keegan, and had known Moyes for many years.

"I'm guessing they're watching out for us to be on the defensive."

Moyes pouted, this is actually not hard to guess.

Even from Everton's point of view, it is normal for Manchester City to make this preparation.

The 1-6 home defeat to Arsenal in the first round was a tragic blow to Everton, but it was caused by many reasons, and Moyes never thought of it.

The first is that Everton's own lineup is incomplete. Arteta and Jagielka are both missing. This has a great impact on Everton.

There is also the first round of the league. Everton's state is not ideal, and it is a bit slow to enter the game.

On the other hand, because Arsenal want to participate in the Champions League qualifying, Wenger has always attached great importance to the Champions League. After all, this involves more than 10 million euros of revenue, so Arsenal's state has been adjusted very well from the beginning.

Under many factors, Everton was led by Arsenal at the beginning of the game.

The Gunners' passing was too fast and too precise, and Everton was really unprepared.

You could say it was an accident.

But since it is an accident, it cannot be replicated.

Moyes will never let the tragedy of the first round happen again in the second round.

More importantly, the second round of the league was the first home for Gao Shen to land in the Premier League, and his pressure did not lose to Moyes at all.

Therefore, Manchester City pre-judged Everton's game strategy in advance, made a plan for the difficulty of the game, and carried out set-piece tactics and high-center strike tactics in advance, which is indeed a normal thing.

Moyes even felt a little complacent about it. After all, Everton, who he coached, ranked fifth in the Premier League last season, and his strength should not be underestimated. Even Manchester City, who was coached by a high level, could not be indifferent to him.

He still has this confidence and confidence.

Stephen Land saw Moyes pondering silently, and he was also thinking in his heart, and asked, "Don't you want to keep it?"

Moyes looked straight at his right-hand man and smiled, "You know, Ferguson said that in a game like the Premier League, being conservative has no future."

Lande is a little confused, did Ferguson say that?

Well, pretend he said it.

"But in this case, the risk is a bit big." The assistant coach reminded.

"We don't have to say,

Completely reckless to attack, we are just playing our attacking level normally, or we are just not playing conservatively, what's more, Manchester City is now determined that we will defend strictly, so..."

There is still a chance!

Moyes thought to himself.

Stephen Lund had to say that Moyes' idea was enticing.

Manchester City spent more than 200 million euros this summer, which is close to 400 million euros before counting.

Today's high and deep really is 400 million delusions!

In the professional coaching circle, Gao Shen is now worthy of the name of the world's top coach, and he is always in the limelight.

No, even though he has left Serie A, the Corvirciano training base in Italy is still inviting him to teach. Every class of his is overcrowded, which is enough to prove his strength.

However, whether it is said that the peers are inferior, or the competitive pressure of the professional league, the more Gao Shen is recognized, the more he is targeted, and the more people want to beat him.

Everyone knows that defeating Gao Shen is equivalent to establishing one's position in the industry and becoming famous in one battle!

Allardyce's first-round defeat, didn't he think about this layer?

Moyes is now thinking, in fact, there are factors in this regard.

Gao Shen is like a touchstone. Everyone wants to go up and try his gold content. What if he succeeds?

Besides, in the same league, they are all life and death opponents, who doesn't want to win?

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In the middle of the week, the Premier League ushered in the second round of the game.

The first game is Ancelotti's Chelsea away against the black cat Sunderland.

Chelsea was the away king of the Premier League last season. The Blues' away performance was quite amazing. In this game, Ancelotti made a big rotation, and all three lines were rotated.

This is also a surprise to Gao Shen, because Fatty An is famous in the Serie A league [his head can be broken without rotation]. It is also an improvement.

However, the price of the rotation is the instability of the back line.

Sunderland took the lead with a counter-attack from Darren Bent.

But after changing sides and fighting again in the second half, Chelsea continued to play steadily. After continuous adjustment, they finally started to exert force after 50 minutes.

The Blues still adopted a high-pressure midfield tactic, using a diamond-shaped position to contain Sunderland, with Deco at the top.

Drogba and Kalou form a double striker.

This allowed Chelsea's midfield to give full play to Ballack's goal, then Drogba assisted Lampard to score, and finally Bosingwa assisted Deco to score.

Chelsea beat Sunderland 3-1 away.

After two consecutive league reversals, both in the second half, Chelsea's overall strength and the mental outlook of the players have improved significantly compared to last season.

Especially after Carlo Ancelotti was in charge, two consecutive games can clearly see that the Blues have improved in midfield control, and even Essien has begun to serve as a midfield passer.

This is also a major feature of Ancelotti's transformation of Chelsea.

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Manchester United this round is an away challenge to newly-promoted Burnley.

This newly-promoted team has not appeared in the top league for 33 years. They have not beaten Manchester United for 41 years. This makes Manchester United full of confidence before the game. Everyone thinks that the Red Devils won the opponent away. A matter of minutes.

The key is not whether you can win, but how many goals you can win.

Ferguson also rotated the team's lineup, including Valencia, and many of the main players who played in the first round were rested.

As a result, what is surprising is that in the 19th minute, veteran Blake's long-range shot blasted a world wave, and goalkeeper Foster, who replaced the injured Van der Sar, was completely powerless.

What is even more surprising is that after conceding a goal first, the Red Devils launched a fierce attack on Burnley, but both in midfield and in the frontcourt, the players were a little tired, especially in the 44th minute. , Manchester United got a penalty, but Carrick missed the penalty.

This was a huge blow to Manchester United's morale.

After that, no matter how Manchester United attacked, Ferguson replaced Berbatov and Valencia in one breath, but the result still failed to reverse the situation.

In the end, Manchester United lost 0-1 on the road to newly-promoted Burnley, which broke the first big upset of the Premier League of the new season.

Ferguson was so furious that he was going to turn on the hairdryer after the game.

Gao Shen also watched the game, which basically reflected his previous judgment on Manchester United.

If the midfielder can't play the ball, the biggest hidden danger is the unsatisfactory state of the players on the forward line.

Ferguson made a rotation in this game, replacing Berbatov, who had a sluggish performance in the first round, with Owen, but the effect was also very bad. Today's Owen is no longer the chasing teenager of the year, but more of an opportunist.

There is only one Rooney in the frontcourt. Even if it is only a small town team, Manchester United can't come up with a very effective way when the opponent is strictly guarded.

At the same time, this game is still reminding Gao Shen that even a newly-promoted horse like Burnley can overturn Manchester United.

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Tottenham beat Hull City five-to-one, and Redknapp's team finally exhaled.

Benitez's Liverpool also shined in the game, beating Stoke City 4-0 at Anfield.

Obviously, after Benitez reorganized the double midfielder, Liverpool's midfield immediately returned to order.

The biggest routine of the Spanish head coach's coaching is the double midfielder. After Biglia joined, his waist straightened, and Liverpool's results came out.

Arsenal, who beat Everton in the first round, faced Bolton at home and conceded a goal in the seventh minute, but then Arsenal's players made efforts and kept chasing, first tying the score before the end of the first half, Then in the second half, he scored three goals in a row, and finally reversed Bolton by four points.

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Nine games were played in the second round, and a total of five teams won two consecutive victories, namely Arsenal at the top of the table, followed by Liverpool, Fulham, Chelsea and West Ham United.

Manchester City is in eighth place with one game less, while Manchester United is in ninth place.

From the beginning, Manchester United has more problems, Arsenal is as fierce as ever.

The Gunners' start and the first half are always very fierce and amazing. The key is to look at the winter break and the second half.

The second round finale is Manchester City vs. Everton at home.

This is also Manchester City's first home game in the new season, and it is also the first home game for Gao Shen to land in the Premier League.

The entire Etihad Stadium prepared a grand welcome ceremony for Gao Shen.

Responsible for commenting on the game, it is Sky TV's gold medal combination, Andy Gray and Martin Taylor.

After seeing the battle of Manchester City's home fans, the two couldn't help but sigh from the bottom of their hearts.

"Tonight, Gao Shen is the king of Etihad!"

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