Chapter 460: Using Guardiola as a rag

"Andy, why do you seem not surprised at all by Manchester City's goal?"

In the Sky Sports commentary booth, after Martin Taylor finished his passionate commentary on Manchester City's goal, he looked back and found that his partner was drinking water calmly, looking nonchalant.

Isn't this guy a Manchester City fan? Why is he so calm when he sees Manchester City score such an important goal? "Haha, of course I'm not surprised, because I knew Brother Lin would take action!"

Andy Gray had an expression that said, "I knew it would be like this," which left Martin Taylor speechless.

Aguero scored the goal, right? But it was Lin Quan who assisted him, and Lin Quan could have shot the ball himself, but he selflessly chose to pass the ball.

"Lin, thank you for the great pass!"

On the field, after scoring this crucial goal, Aguero excitedly rushed towards Lin Quan and gave him a warm hug.

The injury some time ago had a great impact on Aguero's condition. Aguero has struggled in recent games, so this goal is very important for him.

After scoring this goal, he finally regained some of his form and his confidence also recovered a lot.

"Haha, you shot well yourself!"

Aguero is an excellent shooter and rarely misses the ball. This makes him much better than later strikers like Sterling who are known for their happiness.

During De Bruyne's peak years, the players on Manchester City's front line wasted a lot of his assists, frequently performing their unique skill of spitting out the ball during the game, which made De Bruyne very depressed.

Fortunately, his luck turned and he bought a goal-scoring magician who never missed goals, which finally allowed De Bruyne to end this tormenting period. Otherwise, if he had been teammates with Jesus, Sterling and others for a few more years, De Bruyne would have been angered to death.

In fact, during the summer transfer window, Manchester City sent scouts to observe Liverpool's golden boy Sterling, but later gave up the idea of ​​​​signing him.

There are two main reasons for giving up: Liverpool's offer is too high, and the Reds demanded a transfer fee of 50 million pounds.

Manchester City felt that Sterling was not worth the price and bargained it down to 30 million, but Liverpool disagreed.

The second reason is that Manchester City has bought Son Heung-min, and with Aguero and Lin Quan on the front line, they are not short of people for the time being. So when the price could not be agreed upon, they did not force the transfer, which ultimately fell through.

Judging from Sterling's performance at Liverpool this season, it's a good thing Manchester City didn't spend the money, otherwise it would have been a loss.

The Premier League has already played 16 rounds this season, and Sterling has only scored 3 goals in total, averaging less than 0.2 goals per game. His goal efficiency is really too low.

Although he is still very young, only 21 years old, his efficiency is not even as good as that of Manchester City's substitute striker Iheanacho.

This season, Iheanacho has played 13 games for Manchester City in all competitions, scoring 5 goals and providing 2 assists.

Considering that Iheanacho's appearances and playing time are far less than Sterling, his efficiency is obviously much higher than that of the other.

It is precisely for this reason that many teams have recently become interested in Manchester City's substitute striker and want to take him away during the winter break.

The outside world estimates that Iheanacho's value is about 20 million pounds. Considering that he is less than 20 years old, this value is definitely very high.

Iheanacho was sitting on the bench at the time. After seeing Aguero score a goal, he jumped up excitedly with his teammates.

After the celebration, Iheanacho prayed in his heart:

Let’s score one more goal, Boss Lin, Boss A Kun, only if you two work together to kill the suspense of the game, will we, the substitute players, have a chance to play!

When Guardiola saw Aguero's goal, he applauded and smiled with satisfaction.

Although the score was still 1:1, he already had a hunch in his heart: this game was a sure win! As expected, after Manchester City equalized the score, Arsenal seemed to have been beaten back to their original form, and their internal thoughts began to diverge.

Some players felt that they should take the initiative to attack and score another goal like they did in the first half.

Some players feel that Manchester City is in great momentum now, and they should stabilize themselves first, and then wait for an opportunity to attack after Manchester City's momentum dies down.

The situation on the field was unfavorable, the team's thinking was not unified, Arsenal's formation was disjointed, and there were big loopholes on both the offense and defense ends.

Exposing such loopholes in front of a top team like Manchester City should be punished.

In the two minutes from the 71st minute to the 73rd minute, Manchester City completed two consecutive quick counterattacks after steals in the frontcourt, with Lin Quan and Son Heung-min scoring a goal each.

In the blink of an eye, the score became 1:3. Arsenal was leading ten minutes ago, but now they are two goals behind.

Arsenal fans who came to the stadium were all dumbfounded. Some held their heads in disbelief, with questions in their heads:

What happened to our team? Why do we feel so vulnerable? We have already fallen before the opponent even tried hard? "Damn, we shouldn't have trusted Arsenal!"

"Alas, it is unrealistic to rely on Arsenal to stop Manchester City!"

On the Internet, some fans who had hoped that Arsenal would stop Manchester City started cursing in frustration when they saw Arsenal quickly collapse in the second half.

Many of these people are not Arsenal fans, some of them are Manchester United fans, some are Liverpool and Chelsea fans.

The reason why they support Arsenal between Manchester City and Arsenal is simply because they don't want to see Manchester City win! So once Arsenal's performance is not as good as they expected, they will not hold back when scolding.

"That's right, this is the gunman I'm familiar with!"

"Haha, with the current lineup of the Gunners, they can never be a match for us Blue Moon. I wonder what those people are expecting?"

"A-Kun performed well in this game. He had a chance to shoot but he passed the ball to Lin Quan. He really showed teamwork!"

"Yeah, seeing Kun recover makes me happier than winning the game!"

"Haha, you are all praising A Kun and Lin Huang, let me praise the newcomer. Son Heung-min also performed very well in this game. Not only did he score a goal, but he also made several threatening counterattacks on the wing, effectively restraining the opponent's defensive strength!"

"Yes, although this guy's footwork is not as good as Lin Huang and A Kun, it is enough and very practical. His shooting skills in front of the goal are also excellent, and his goal efficiency is very high!"

"I calculated that he has scored 9 goals in all competitions since joining the team. That's an average of 0.65 goals per game. His efficiency is a bit scary!"

Some Manchester City fans counted Son Heung-min's goal efficiency in various competitions since he joined the team, and the results caused a lot of exclamations.

"Tsk tsk, this goal scoring efficiency, the price of 30 million euros is totally worth it!"

"Guardiola is worthy of his name. He always finds treasures!"

"It is said that this player was snatched from Tottenham. Seeing how well Son Heung-min is performing, the Tottenham players should be crying in the toilet now, right?"

As for Tottenham, their chairman Levy was really angry at this time.

After Son Heung-min joined Manchester City, he has been paying attention to their performance.

Although he was once very optimistic about Son Heung-min and wanted to sign him, ever since Son Heung-min joined Manchester City, he has only had one thought in his mind: he hopes that Son Heung-min will not be able to play or score goals in Manchester City, and his value will plummet and no one will want him.

In this case, Manchester City will lose 30 million in transfer fees and a large amount of salary expenses in vain! However, things did not go as he wished, and the development of things was completely opposite to what he expected.

Although Son Heung-min did not get a starting position after joining Manchester City, he has made many substitute appearances and performed well in the limited starting games.

What's even more frightening is that after continuous observation and tracking, Levy keenly discovered that this kid has improved after joining Manchester City.

His dribbling and breakthrough abilities have improved significantly compared to his previous time in the Bundesliga! This shows that he is not in his strongest form yet, he is still improving and growing, and he will become even stronger in the future!

When Levi thought of this result, he was so angry that he wanted to vomit blood!

I can only curse in my heart: Damn Manchester City! ...

"Damn Manchester City!"

"Why don't you just die?"

Arsenal fans also hate Manchester City as much as Levy.

In bars across North London, Arsenal fans were so angry that they started cursing as they watched Manchester City score three goals in ten minutes as easily as cutting melons and vegetables, which stunned Arsenal.

If it weren't for the hope brought by the goal in the first half, their reaction now wouldn't be so strong! They have already seen the dawn of victory, but in the end, victory is still so far away from them! What should Arsenal do to beat Manchester City? Wenger was also thinking about this question. The previous victories made him think that his team was on the right track.

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But after today's game, Wenger clearly realized that there is still a gap between Arsenal and the top teams, and the gap is still very large.

Being reversed once is an accident, but if it happens continuously, it is not an accident!

Arsenal now lacks the ability to convert advantages into victory. A one or two-goal lead cannot guarantee them victory.

It seems that it was indeed too reckless of me not to buy any players during the summer transfer window.

Thinking of this, Wenger began to regret again.

He thought of another world-class striker he had missed - Suarez.

After transferring to Barcelona, ​​Suarez's performance has been witnessed by everyone.

In terms of forward position, he is definitely ranked among the top five in today's football and is one of the top forwards.

But such a player was missed by Arsenal again.

When Suarez was banned by the FA for biting someone during a game, his value dropped a lot.

Arsenal were already negotiating with Liverpool at the time, and had even discussed it with the player himself.

However, in order to lower the price, after learning of Liverpool's psychological price, they offered a price of 40 million pounds and one pound, which made Liverpool feel humiliated and sent the player to Barcelona in anger.

Although the price of 40 million pounds is not cheap, the transfer prices of Ozil and Sanchez bought by Arsenal in recent years are both around 40 million pounds, which is not much more expensive than Suarez.

If he had been so calculative and a little more generous at the beginning, the transfer might have been successful.

By then, Arsenal, with top midfielders such as Ozil, Sanchez and Suarez, will definitely be much stronger than they are now!

What a pity! After taking a big lead, Arsenal had no fighting spirit and could not pose a threat to Manchester City.

Guardiola waved his hand and asked several substitute players to go out for warm-up.

Iheanacho was on the warm-up list! A few minutes later, Manchester City made another personnel adjustment, Iheanacho came on, replacing Aguero who performed well in this game.

Although Aguero has recovered from his injury, Guardiola still doesn't dare to take too many risks. Since there is no suspense in the game, let him come down and rest to avoid any accidents.

After seeing the substitution card on the sidelines, Aguero quickly ran down, high-fived Iheanacho who came on as a substitute, walked to Guardiola and took the initiative to hug him.

Some players feel unhappy when they are substituted, and may even take their anger out on their coaches.

But Aguero will not do this because he knows that Guardiola is really doing this for his own good.

"Good job, Kun, go and take a rest!"

Guardiola was just planning to high-five the other party, but unexpectedly the other party took the initiative to hug him, so he also hugged the other party and patted Aguero on the back.

A few minutes later, Guardiola made another personnel adjustment, replacing Lin Quan with Nasri.

When Lin Quan left the field, he also gave Guardiola a warm hug and rubbed his hands against him a few times.

After Lin Quan left, Guardiola looked down at his coat and was shocked to find that it was covered with a lot of sweat, dirt and grass clippings.

Good boy, it seems you treat me as a rag!

He turned around and glared at Lin Quan, but saw that Lin Quan was chatting with Aguero with an innocent look on his face, as if he had no idea what was going on.

The camera on the scene captured this scene and projected it onto the big screen on the scene.

After seeing this scene, the fans at the scene laughed out loud.

“Haha, Lin and Guardiola have a really good relationship!”

Martin Taylor couldn't help laughing after seeing this scene.

"Of course not. They are father and son. How can they not have a good relationship?"

Andy Gray on the side couldn't help but roll his eyes, thinking that his partner had just said something nonsense.

Guardiola loves Messi, who has no blood relationship with him, so much, let alone his own son? After Lin Quan and Aguero left the field, Manchester City's offensive power declined a lot.

However, Arsenal had already become a frightened bird at this time and did not take advantage of this opportunity to launch a counterattack.

On the contrary, it was still Manchester City that besieged the Gunners' goal in the final moments.

In the final moments, Iheanacho was very active, and his dribbling past the opponent in front of the goal even caused the commentator to exclaim.

It's a pity that this guy's shooting skills were a little lacking. His shot was too straight and was easily resolved by Cech.

In the end, after a fierce battle, Manchester City reversed and defeated their opponent 3:1 at Arsenal's home court.

However, because Leicester City defeated Everton 3:2 in another game, the gap between the two sides remained at 6 points and did not widen.

It seems that the two teams will have to face off in the last direct match of the first half of the season! (End of this chapter)