Chapter 331: The King of Football plays like a hero, Manchester City wins the fifth championship!

Before the Super Cup began, UEFA announced the list of last year's European Best Player winners.

Unsurprisingly, Lin Quan won this honor.

His competitors are Messi and Ronaldo, but the number of votes for these two is far behind him.

The outside world is not surprised that Lin Quan won the European Best Player award. What everyone is more concerned about is whether Lin Quan can win this year's Golden Ball Award.

If Lin Quan wins the Ballon d'Or this year, he will become the youngest winner in the history of the award.

Considering that Lin Quan just won the European Golden Boy Award last year, if he successfully wins the Golden Ball Award this year, he will make history and become the first player to win the Golden Boy Award and the Golden Ball Award consecutively.

Although Messi is also the double winner of the Golden Boy Award and the Golden Ball Award, it took him four years from the time he won the Golden Boy Award to standing on the podium of the Golden Ball Award.

But for Lin Quan, it only took him one year to do it.

At this rate, the outside world's expectations of Lin Quan are getting higher and higher.

Maybe, this guy can really become the new generation of football king?

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On August 10th, the annual European Super Cup began.

The match was held in Cardiff, Wales, not far from Manchester.

So for Manchester City, this is half a home game.

The champion of the last Europa League was Sevilla, and this is the third time in their team history that they have won the championship.

It was from this year that Sevilla won three consecutive Europa League titles, causing fans to complain that the Europa League should be renamed the Sevilla Cup.

Although the opponent was not strong, Manchester City did not take it lightly and they gave their all in this game.

Serbia was very clear about its own strength and position, so they took the attitude of a weak team and launched a defensive counterattack.

This all-out defensive stance did create some difficulties for Manchester City's offense, causing their attacks to fail many times.

However, Manchester City encountered such situations many times last season, and the players' mentality was relatively stable. They played calmly and without rushing or impatience.

This attitude towards the game made many football experts and celebrities nod their heads:

Manchester City now truly has the demeanor of a strong team. As long as they win a few more championships, their promotion to a top club will be a natural outcome.

Seeing that the opponent's defense within the 30-meter area was very tight, Manchester City began to try to use long shots and set pieces to resolve the battle.

In the 38th minute of the first half, De Bruyne took a high-quality free kick to help the team break the deadlock.

After this goal was scored, the situation suddenly became clear.

Sevilla, unable to continue defending, eagerly launched an attack on Manchester City's goal in the final stage of the first half, trying to equalize the score.

But they seemed to have forgotten why they were able to hold on for more than thirty minutes.

After Sevilla attacked, Manchester City's attack difficulty suddenly decreased.

In the 42nd minute, Kroos made a precise long pass, assisting Aguero to score a goal.

The score became 2:0. Three minutes later, Lin Quan broke through from the wing, cut into the penalty area, and used a world-class shot to penetrate Sevilla's goal for the third time.

All the Sevilla fans who came to watch the game were dumbfounded.

In the first 38 minutes, their defense seemed impregnable, but in the blink of an eye, they fell behind 0:3.

In just 7 minutes, Manchester City scored three goals.

Is this the strength of the Champions League champions? The first half of the game ended quickly. With a huge disadvantage of three goals behind, the Sevilla players returned to the locker room with frustrated faces.

On the other side, Manchester City players were relaxed.

They already see the fourth championship trophy beckoning towards them!

In the second half, Sevilla tried to launch a massive attack on Manchester City.

However, their attacks could hardly threaten Manchester City's goal, and in most cases they were resolved in the midfield.

In this game, Pellegrini arranged a three-man midfield combination of Kroos, De Bruyne and Fernandinho.

In this combination, the three players have clear division of labor, De Bruyne is the main attacker, Fernandinho is the main defender, and Kroos is in the middle to coordinate.

As the three of them spent more time playing football together, their mutual understanding improved rapidly.

The power of this combination began to gradually emerge! In this game, the power of the three midfielders began to emerge, making those giant teams feel threatened.

Sevilla's counterattack not only failed to produce any effect, but also exposed the loopholes in its own defense.

In the 63rd minute of the second half, Manchester City launched a textbook quick counterattack after intercepting the ball in the backcourt.

This goal only took three passes, from Kroos to De Bruyne to Lin Quan, and finally Lin Quan scored the goal.

The entire attack process took only 8 seconds. It was fast, accurate and ruthless, and it made the Sevilla players lose their temper.

The opponent's attack was so fast that most of Sevilla's players had no time to react and were unable to get into position to defend.

This goal dealt a heavy blow to their morale, making them somewhat anxious in the following period. They wanted to attack but were afraid of being counterattacked, so they were faced with the embarrassing situation of being unable to attack and unable to defend.

Seeing that the opponent was in disarray and the outcome of the game was already decided, Pellegrini quickly made substitutions.

In the 69th minute, he replaced Lin Quan, letting him go off the field to rest early, and allowing him to enjoy the cheers and applause of the fans alone.

The fans who came to the scene were very respectful. When they saw Lin Quan leaving the field, they stood up and applauded him.

Lin Quan also applauded the fans in the stands around him, high-fived Jovetic who came on as a substitute, and then sat back down on the bench.

Several substitute players took out iced energy drinks and handed them over attentively.

Van Dijk on the side was stunned, not knowing whether he was shocked by Lin Quan's extremely high status in the hearts of Manchester City players, or regretted that he had not thought of this in advance.

He is still a newcomer. If he wants to gain a foothold in Manchester City, he must pay homage to the team's boss.

Thinking of this, Van Dyke made a decision.

After Lin Quan left the field, De Bruyne was also quickly substituted.

Lin Quan happened to have some extra ice water left, so he took a bottle and handed it to him.

"You kid, you're giving me something that someone else is offering you!"

"Just tell me whether you want to drink or not!"

Lin Quan rolled his eyes and pretended to take them back.

"Drink, why not drink!"

De Bruyne grabbed it first and drank it in big gulps.

Although De Bruyne expressed disgust, his body was very honest.

It was such a hot day in August. After playing on the field for more than 70 minutes, I was almost burning with heat. It was so refreshing to drink a bottle of ice water at this time.

"It's so cruel. It's 4:0, but they're still attacking!"

Seeing his teammates still tirelessly launching wave after wave of attacks on Sevilla's goal, De Bruyne couldn't bear to watch.

"Offense is the best defense. We are not attacking, but actively defending!"

Lin Quan said jokingly.

De Bruyne was amused by his shameless words. He just happened to see Jovetic, who came on as a substitute, receiving a pass from David Silva and helping the team score another goal, so he said, "Is sending the ball into the opponent's goal also considered defense?"

"This doesn't count, this is indeed a bit too much!"

5:0!

Manchester City inadvertently caused another tragedy.

Sevilla is feeling so miserable!

They were invincible in the Europa League and actually had some ideas about this game.

Unexpectedly, they were easily beaten by Manchester City! When other teams in the Europa League meet the Champions League champions, they can occasionally make upsets, but when it comes to them, they are completely reduced to being beaten sandbags?

After winning this game, Manchester City won the team's fourth championship trophy. If the League Cup is included, this is their fifth championship trophy! The media who criticized Manchester City during the summer transfer period and believed that they were playing badly, changed their previous derogatory and slanderous attitude and sang praises for Manchester City.

Before the start of the new Premier League season, Sky Sports made a season prediction as usual.

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The eight football experts and celebrities who participated in the prediction unanimously put Manchester City first, believing that they have the greatest hope of defending the title.

In second place is the Blues Chelsea, although Chelsea finished third last season.

However, the outside world seems to be optimistic about Mourinho's summer signings, believing that the arrival of Diego Costa and Fabregas can effectively replace Chelsea's offensive firepower and help them solve the problem of weak striker.

Ranked third is Manchester United, which has made massive signings this summer and now has many top stars.

Just the names of these top players are enough to make people feel a little wary of them.

If they had not lost to Manchester City again in the International Champions Cup and exposed many problems, Manchester United would definitely be ranked higher in this prediction.

Fourth place is Arsenal, although on paper, Liverpool is stronger than Arsenal.

But as a fanatic about maintaining the fourth place, Arsenal can miraculously maintain the fourth place almost every time.

Therefore, experts are still optimistic that they can continue this tradition and keep their ranking within the top four.

Ranked fifth is Liverpool, although Liverpool has made considerable signings this summer.

But after losing Suarez, none of their new players seems to be able to replace Suarez's role.

This makes the outside world not optimistic about Liverpool's performance in the new season. In the fiercely competitive Premier League, it is really difficult for people to associate Liverpool's lineup with the championship.

After Liverpool, ranked 6th to 10th are Tottenham, Everton, Swansea, Southampton and Newcastle.

These teams are unable to threaten the championship group, but they have the hope of entering the European competition zone and getting a place in the Europa League.

In addition to predicting the team that will win the championship, these experts also predicted the teams that may be relegated this season.

Based on the team's lineup and last season's record, they believe that Queens Park Rangers, Burnley and Crystal Palace are most likely to be relegated.

The new season of the Premier League will officially kick off on August 16.

But before that, Manchester City still has a Community Shield match to play.

As the prelude to the Premier League every year, the champions of the previous league and FA Cup will serve an appetizer to everyone before the official game begins.

The Community Shield was originally called the Charity Shield. As the name suggests, the proceeds from this game will be donated to charities for various charitable causes.

This year the charity is focusing on childhood autism, a disease with a high incidence rate that brings endless pain to children and their families.

Since Lin Quan has a great influence throughout Europe and even the world, the English Football Association invited him to be its image ambassador.

In order to use his influence to promote and popularize knowledge about this disease and attract people's attention.

Let more people realize the harm of autism and provide help to children with the disease.

Lin Quan has always been supportive of such charity activities.

So he not only agreed to serve as an ambassador, but also took the lead in donating 1 million euros to help sick children.

This behavior has won him a lot of praise, and even some fans of his opponents can't find any fault with Lin Quan's character.

Liverpool and Manchester City had just faced off in the International Champions Cup not long ago and knew each other well.

So after the game started, both sides skipped the stage of testing each other and directly started attacking the opponent's goal.

After learning from the previous failure, Liverpool played very targeted in this game.

Since you can't defend Lin Quan, then limit your teammates and prevent them from passing the ball to you.

As long as Lin Quan can't get the ball, no matter how strong he is, it will be useless.

This tactic was used by many teams to deal with Messi. After Lin Quan became famous, many teams used this tactic to deal with him.

Liverpool had a good idea, but when they actually used this tactic they were dumbfounded.

When Lin Quan saw Liverpool targeting him, he immediately changed his strategy, began to move away from the opponent's penalty area, actively retreated and returned to the midfield position.

The Liverpool defenders, who thought they were going to have a tough battle, couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when they saw Lin Quan retreat on his own initiative and move away from his own penalty area.

For defenders, if they have a choice, they least want to meet players like Lin Quan and Messi.

Because in front of these two perverts, their defensive movements were as clumsy as clowns. Not only was it difficult to defend against the opponent, but it was also easy to make a fool of themselves.

For example, there is a player named XX Teng from Bayern. The famous scene in which he tripped over himself is well known to the fans who love to watch the fun.

Even the defenders of all the major teams have enjoyed this hilarious scene.

Playing is playing, no one wants to be like Boateng and become the background board in Lin Quan’s highlights.

They just breathed a sigh of relief, and immediately realized that something was wrong.

Lin Quan's choice made it difficult for Liverpool to implement their tactics.

If Lin Quan moves in the frontcourt, both their midfield and back lines of defense can double-team and press him.

But when his position retreated to midfield, Liverpool's defenders were unable to participate in the pressing and could only hope that the players in the midfield and frontcourt would execute this tactic.

Thanks to his strong dribbling ability and natural sense of the ball, Lin Quan has excellent ball control ability.

It is too difficult for the defensive players to steal the ball from his feet! And unlike in the frontcourt, there are no teammates around to support him.

When Lin Quan retreated to midfield, he had too many options to handle the ball.

He can pass the ball to his teammates or choose to break through on his own.

And once he completes the breakthrough, he can not only create shooting opportunities for himself, but also provide assists to his teammates.

It is extremely difficult to defend against a player who has strong organizational skills and finishing abilities such as breakthroughs and shooting.

The final result of the game was 2:0, and Manchester City completed a total of 18 shots.

Lin Quan was only involved in two shots, one of which was a free kick.

However, with only two shots, his threat did not decrease at all. Instead, he contributed excellent data of one pass and one shot.

After defeating Liverpool, Manchester City won their fifth championship trophy. Now they are only one Club World Cup away from completing the six-time champion achievement! (End of this chapter)