Chapter 791 Unfortunately, they met Su Dong!
Crazy Manchester City!
After Manchester City defeated Chelsea 3-0 at home thanks to Su Dong's hat-trick, Sky Sports reported the game as soon as possible and gave high praise to Manchester City, especially Su Dong's performance.
As is customary, Sky Sports will rate all players participating in the game after the game.
Sudong ranked the highest among the two teams with a well-deserved nine points.
Sky Sports' comment on Su Dong is: Manchester City's leader, extraordinary goal-scoring efficiency, seizes almost all opportunities to create threats.
This is the highest rating and evaluation that Sky Sports can give.
In Manchester City, Kompany ranks second after Su Dong.
The young Belgian central defender ranked second with eight points and was also highly rated.
“The defense was rock solid and didn’t miss any steal opportunities.”
This can be said to be the supreme honor for Kompany, who faced Drogba in this game.
Over the past few years, let alone the Premier League, even in the European arena, who would not be afraid of Drogba? The Ivorian elephant king can almost be said to have swept across Europe and is the nightmare of all defenders.
However, Kompany was not at all inferior to Drogba when facing him and did not give Drogba any chance, which led to Drogba being substituted early by Ancelotti in the second half due to poor performance.
This is the best affirmation for Kompany!
According to Sky Sports' evaluation, if Sudon was the core of Manchester City's attack in the front, then Kompany was the defensive pillar that helped Manchester City keep the goal. He completely froze Drogba and accomplished this almost impossible task.
Sky Sports believes that when Vidic has begun to decline, Kompany will become the best among the new generation of defenders in the Premier League, and people can see his bright future.
In addition, on Manchester City's defense line, except for goalkeeper Joe Hart, Zabaleta, Marcelo and Pepe all scored seven points. Although the evaluation of Pepe was slightly lower than Kompany, it was also very high, and it was believed that he did not give Chelsea any chances.
Kompany went for the ball and Pepe assisted in defense, which was originally quite disadvantageous for Pepe because he has always been a central defender who goes for the ball.
But in the match against Chelsea, Pepe performed quite well.
In Manchester City's tactical system, even if they are falling behind, they are always quite forward, because the team's overall tactics are to press forward, and sometimes even the back line is pressed near the center line.
This season, with the joining of Pepe, the central defender combination of him and Kompany has performed better and better, and their cooperation has become more and more tacit. On the contrary, the goalkeeper position has frequently made some worrying mistakes.
But no matter what, Manchester City's defense has already developed a main lineup that is capable of taking on major tasks.
In midfield, Busquets, David Silva and Toni Kroos all scored seven points.
This is actually not the point. The real point is that Manchester City's possession rate in this game reached 68%, which means that Chelsea only had 32% possession rate. The key lies in the midfield triangle.
It is hard to tell from the lineup that Ancelotti did not think about competing with Manchester City for the ball, but he did not give up completely. Moreover, the midfield combination of Ramires, Essien and Mikel has very strong defensive and stealing abilities.
As the media said before, Chelsea's three midfielders are like a sniper team. When put together, they are a crazy meat grinder. Ramires and Essien are known for their defensive and running abilities.
But when facing Manchester City, these three players did not perform well, and Mikel even exposed his problems in defending under high intensity, such as the foul on Su Dong, which should not have been done.
After the game, Mikel believed that Su Dong deliberately "framed" him.
But as Sky Sports said, this is very common in football matches. Mikel's complaints make people feel that his mentality when defending and his timidity when facing Su Dong.
In comparison, Manchester City's iron triangle has a very high number of passes and pass success rate.
Even David Silva's pass success rate reached 91 percent.
You know, he makes a lot of forward passes.
Busquets and Toni Kroos' pass success rates reached 94% and 92% respectively.
Even Pepe and Kompany have a pass success rate very close to 90 percent.
Sky Sports believes that in the game against Chelsea, Guardiola and his Manchester City withstood the test of a strong opponent, while also honing their own true level, allowing everyone to see Manchester City's competitiveness.
In the ratings, Di Maria and Sanchez's performances were slightly worse, both with only six points, but both were restricted by Chelsea's defensive players. The comments were basically that they had a strong desire to play, but were not their best selves.
Compared to Manchester City, Chelsea's defense line basically scored around seven points and performed relatively normally, while other players all scored six points, only Drogba scored five points and was substituted off early.
The reason is: he actually has no way to deal with Kompany!
Finally, Sky Sports believes that Manchester City's overall tactics have now basically been perfected.
"Strong competition is the best time to test a team, and Guardiola's team used a hearty 3-0 victory in this top battle to let everyone see Manchester City's strength and potential."
Sky Sports said that it was Su Dong's joining that brought about huge changes in Manchester City.
"In the first six games, Su Dong scored 12 goals and made seven assists. He scored most of Manchester City's goals by himself. This is unimaginable."
"The sixth round of matches has been played. So far, Manchester United has only scored 16 goals in the league, and Arsenal has also scored 16 goals. Aston Villa, ranked fifth in the league, has only scored 8 goals, and Liverpool has only scored 6 goals."
"Su Dong has ranked third in the Premier League goal list, only behind Chelsea and Manchester City. What an incredible feat!"
Sky Sports believes that as the number one player in world football, Su Dong has maintained a very high level after joining Manchester City, allowing everyone to see his strength and forcing all doubters to admit their mistakes.
He can not only score goals, but also lead the team to win, especially as the team captain, he has played an increasingly important role in Manchester City.
"According to the information obtained by reporters inside Manchester City, it was Su Dong's suggestion to let Kompany mark Drogba. Su Dong gave speeches to the team before the game and at halftime, and the effect was even better than that of the head coach Guardiola."
"From all the data and phenomena, it can be seen that Su Dong is the most indispensable soul figure of Manchester City at present!"
In fact, in the post-match fan ratings, within an hour after the game, the fans who came to the scene gave Su Dong a full score of 10, which is a very high affirmation and is enough to prove the recognition of Su Dong by Manchester City fans at the Etihad Stadium.
Even though he calmed down later and countless fans who watched the game live got involved, Su Dong's score remained above nine in the fan ratings on the Sky Sports official website, which was higher than the score given by Sky Sports.
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At the post-match press conference, although Ancelotti suffered his first defeat of the season as an opponent, he still spoke highly of Manchester City's performance and believed that this was a team with enough strength to compete for the championship.
“They are so underrated.”
Ancelotti believes that Chelsea's defeat was because they did not play to their level and the game was dominated by Manchester City, especially in the midfield.
"Manchester City is growing very fast. Their midfield is excellent and they basically play what the head coach requires. This allows them to play a very strong style of football. They are already one of the strongest contenders for the league title."
Ancelotti also praised the team's defense, believing that they basically performed at their expected level.
"But unfortunately, the opponent they met tonight is Su Dong!"
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Compared to Ancelotti, although Guardiola won the game, he praised Ancelotti in return.
At the post-match press conference, Manchester City coach believed that the team's greatest success lies in grasping three lines.
The back line was very solid in defense, the midfield had excellent ball control, and Su Dong in the frontcourt was unstoppable.
These three are the key factors for Manchester City to defeat the powerful Chelsea and get three points.
As for the championship, Guardiola does not think that Manchester City should set their sights on the championship too early, but should play every game down to earth.
"We won't think about the long term. I don't even think it's appropriate for us to think about the championship right now. I hope to completely forget about the game that just ended and focus all our energy on Thursday's game against Juventus and the weekend's game against Newcastle."
"We all know that these two teams are very good and we have to give our all."
This is also part of Manchester City's devilish schedule in recent times.
Of course, as a strong team, we must adapt to the intensity of multi-line operations.
This is the case for Manchester City and Chelsea as well. They also have to play in the Champions League in the middle of the week, which is also difficult.
Regarding the championship situation, Guardiola believes that Chelsea and Manchester United are the teams with the best chance of winning the championship.
"Chelsea is still the best and strongest team in the Premier League, no doubt about it. Ancelotti is also one of the best coaches in the world, as is Ferguson of Manchester United. Moreover, Ferguson is very familiar with the Premier League. He can always lead the team to burst out amazing fighting power in adversity, which is very scary."
"So I think the favorites to win the Premier League title this season should be Chelsea and Manchester United."
Regarding Manchester City, Guardiola said the team's season goals have not changed.
"We still want to secure a top four finish and participate in the Champions League next season."
This is not just Guardiola's statement. From Soriano and Begiristain to the players themselves, they all basically spoke with one voice when interviewed by the media.
The league has just begun!
(End of this chapter)
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