Chapter 774 Why did you go to Manchester City?
Manchester City's 4-0 home win over Liverpool not only caused a strong earthquake in the entire English football world, but also shocked the European football world. Major media and fans around the world also took notice.
This also once again confirmed a rule: wherever Su Dong goes, there is the focus! Back to the game itself, Liverpool head coach Hodgson received a lot of criticism after the game, especially the 4-4-2 formation he arranged when facing Manchester City, which made him the focus of everyone's criticism.
In this battle between head coaches, Hodgson was completely defeated by rookie Guardiola.
More importantly, in this highly anticipated center battle, Torres performed very poorly, like sleepwalking.
Even Liverpool's local Echo was extremely disappointed with Torres' performance.
"When the team needed him most, Torres did not step up as he had done before, but got lost in Manchester City's ball possession forest and could not find his direction."
This is also the outside world's evaluation of Hodgson's game. They believe that Liverpool could not find a way to threaten the opponent in Manchester City's passing and controlling style of play, and could only passively resist again and again.
Sky Sports rated the players of both teams after the game, with Torres getting the second-lowest score of five.
Liverpool had a total of six players and got five points, which is already a very bad score.
Interestingly, Glen Johnson, Skrtel, Carragher and Agger all scored five points. These four players just formed a defensive line, and their evaluations were basically the same, that is, the game was very difficult.
The lowest scorer of the game was Liverpool's left winger Jovanovic. His performance on the left can no longer be described by words like sleepwalking. He basically had no sense of presence. Before he left the court, it was even difficult to notice his presence.
Su Dong scored the highest nine points in the game. Sanchez, Marcelo, Di Maria, Toni Kroos, David Silva and others all scored eight points, and Busquets scored seven points.
It is not difficult to see from this that Manchester City's overall performance in this game is indeed better.
Sky Sports stated in its analysis that Su Dong made 48 passes in the game, 46 of which were successful, and 36 of them were completed in the frontcourt. His success rate was very amazing, even the highest in the team.
"Even in a Guardiola team, these are staggering numbers."
Sky Sports compared the statistics of Su Dong and Manchester City's main center forward Santa Cruz last season, and believed that the changes brought by Su Dong are not only his goals and assists, but also his connection and support in the frontcourt.
This is reflected in the passing data. Su Dong has a success rate of nearly 100%, which is quite scary.
"Forty-eight passes in the whole game, this is basically the passing data of midfielders or even core midfielders in other teams, and forty-six successful passes, such a success rate is very rare even in the top Premier League teams, but Su Dong is a center forward in the most stringent defense."
Sky Sports believes that the reason why Manchester City's frontcourt attack has been able to undergo a complete transformation this season is because of Su Dong.
He can not only score goals, he can also assist, pass the ball, coordinate, and stretch the defense, which makes all the players who play alongside Su Dong feel obviously relaxed.
"Manchester City's tactical core is definitely in the midfield. After the summer training camp, Guardiola gradually figured out the midfield combination of David Silva, Toni Kroos and Busquets. These three players can help Manchester City firmly grasp the ball possession."
"But at the same time, in the frontcourt, Su Dong is also Manchester City's most important core player. Even his connection with the midfielders is more frequent and close than anyone else. This has formed an orderly passing and controlling mechanism for Manchester City's entire frontcourt."
Sky Sports analysis believes that Su Dong has almost seamlessly integrated into Manchester City's passing and controlling system, and even promoted the improvement of Guardiola's tactical system, giving people a feeling that Manchester City has been reborn this season.
"He created a constant threat in Manchester City's frontcourt, making defenders like Carragher, Skrtel and Agger afraid!"
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With the start of the new season, the popularity of the Premier League has spread not only in the country but also around the world.
The day after Manchester City beat Liverpool 4-0, the Premier League announced the sales of the Premier League's overseas broadcasting rights for the next three years.
Starting from this season, the Premier League will earn 500 million pounds from overseas copyrights every season for the next three years. The games will be broadcast live simultaneously in 200 countries and regions around the world. Among all professional sports leagues in the world, overseas copyright revenues are the highest.
In addition to overseas copyrights, the Premier League is currently executing a three-year domestic copyright contract with total revenue of 2 billion pounds, which translates to more than 700 million pounds per season.
In other words, the Premier League's broadcasting rights revenue for each season, including domestic and overseas markets, is as high as 1.2 billion pounds.
This is absolutely an astronomical figure.
According to the current estimates of the two contracts, the winning team of the Premier League this season will receive at least 60 million pounds in broadcasting fees alone. This is quite astonishing when compared with the four major European leagues.
For example, Serie A was deeply affected by the Calciopoli scandal, and its overseas copyright revenue was not high, only 74 million pounds, which was only 10 million pounds more than the share of the Premier League champions this season.
The Bundesliga and Ligue 1 are even worse.
Su Dong has played in the Bundesliga for three and a half years. Although German teams have vigorously developed overseas markets in the past few years, the Bundesliga's annual overseas copyright revenue is only around 40 million pounds. This is the result of the Bundesliga's active development of overseas markets after Su Dong joined. Before that, it was even less, only more than 10 million pounds.
In other words, the annual overseas copyright income of the entire Bundesliga is not as much as the copyright income share of the Premier League champion team.
Ligue 1 is even more pitiful, with only 25 million pounds.
The situation in La Liga is the most special. Since copyright sales are handled by each club independently, the two giants Real Madrid and Barcelona are making a lot of money. The overseas copyright income of the two teams is as high as more than 130 million pounds, which is a very astonishing figure.
It is not difficult to see from this point that the two giants of La Liga are quite special even in the entire European football.
In professional football, money does not represent everything, but without money it is really difficult to move forward.
The Premier League is clearly gradually becoming the richest professional league in Europe and even the world.
Su Dong has become a core player in the Premier League's efforts to build an international brand and vigorously expand the international market.
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On the evening of August 26th, the second round of the Europa League qualifiers.
Manchester City host Timişoara of Romania at home.
After defeating their opponents 4-0 away from home, Manchester City's situation will be more relaxed after returning home.
In this game, Guardiola adopted a rotation strategy and made a large-scale rotation of the team's starting lineup. Players including Santa Cruz, Wright-Phillips, Adam Johnson and others were qualified to start.
But during the game, Manchester City was never able to break the opponent's goal.
Forlan still has a certain level of ability. In the away game, he deployed a 4-5-1 tactic with five midfielders, which clearly showed that he was going to defend and counterattack. Facing Manchester City's passing and controlling the ball, Timişoara was not moved at all and defended tightly.
It was not until the 58th minute of the second half that Manchester City scored the first goal with a corner kick opportunity by German central defender Jerome Boateng, who replaced Kompany in the starting lineup.
Then in the 73rd minute, Wright-Phillips scored again, helping the team win 2-0.
In the end, Manchester City beat Timişoara 2-0 at home.
With a total score of 6-0, Manchester City successfully advanced to the Europa League group stage.
This made Manchester City fans at the Etihad Stadium extremely satisfied with the team's performance.
For Manchester City, being able to participate in European competitions is itself a very, very difficult thing.
The momentum shown this season is so encouraging that naturally fans have deeper expectations for the team.
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In the match against Timişoara, Su Dong sat on the bench throughout and did not play.
But the day after the game against Timisoara, Sudong asked for leave from the coaching staff and rushed to Monaco without stopping.
The annual UEFA Champions League group stage draw and UEFA awards ceremony are still held at the Grimaldi Conference Center in Monaco.
After joining Manchester City, Su Dong encountered a very embarrassing thing.
That is, he was shortlisted for UEFA's best forward of the year and was also the top favorite for the best player of the year, but unfortunately, he missed this season's Champions League. This is an extremely rare situation and it also made Su Dong quite embarrassed.
If he attended, he would have to sit in the venue and watch the draw for the 32 Champions League teams, which had nothing to do with him.
At first, Su Dong was reluctant to go, but everyone from UEFA President Platini, to Secretary General Infantino, to Beckenbauer and other celebrities called Su Dong and said that he should go to attend the award ceremony.
Platini, in particular, made several consecutive phone calls, making it impossible for Su Dong to refuse.
There was no choice but to go.
As long as you are not embarrassed, then others will be embarrassed!
As the media said before, if other people cannot play in the World Cup, it is a loss in their careers, but if Su Dong cannot play in the World Cup, it is a loss for the World Cup.
By the same token, if others cannot play in the Champions League, it is a loss in their career, but if Su Dong cannot play in the Champions League, it is also a huge loss for the Champions League.
So when Su Dong finally arrived in Monaco and entered the Grimaldi Forum Center, he was immediately spotted by Platini and Infantino. The two surrounded Su Dong at the same time, as if they were afraid that he would turn around and leave.
"To be honest, I still haven't figured out why you went to Manchester City?" Platini felt very puzzled.
Without the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, the Champions League would indeed lose a lot of color.
At least a lot of highlights are lost.
"No reason." Su Dong smiled and shook his head, staring at Platini, and said word by word, "I just hope that the Champions League can have more suspense."
Don’t ask, asking is the glory of human nature!
(End of this chapter)
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