Chapter 863 After tonight, I will be famous!
In the 34th round of the Premier League, Manchester City will challenge Blackburn away.
Facing Manchester City, which is fighting on multiple fronts and playing at home, the violent match of one game a week was extremely intense from the start. The home team was in high spirits and seemed determined not to let the away team escape unscathed.
Manchester City encountered a devilish schedule. First, they drew 1-1 with Braga at home in the Europa League and advanced with a total score of 4-1. Then they defeated Arsenal 2-0. Three days ago, they had a hard fight against Tottenham Hotspur at home. It was not until the last minute of the game that they beat the North London powerhouse 1-0 with a header from Su Dong.
Now, at Blackburn's Ewood Park, the violent Ben has no intention of showing mercy.
It’s not that there is any grudge between the two sides, but because Blackburn is now facing a relegation crisis.
When Manchester City formulated its strategy, Blackburn Rovers was ranked 13th. It cannot be said that there was no pressure to avoid relegation, but it was really not that great. So at that time, everyone in Manchester City felt that it would not be too difficult to challenge Blackburn Rovers away.
But man proposes, God disposes. Blackburn has one draw and two losses in the last three rounds, and its ranking has dropped to 16th place. It is only two points away from the relegation zone Blackpool, which is already very dangerous.
It was precisely because of this that Blackburn Rovers gave their all in the home game against Manchester City, trying to fight Manchester City hard. Manchester City's players were exhausted after fighting on multiple fronts, which led to a rather poor performance in the game against Blackburn Rovers.
Except for David Silva, the entire Manchester City team performed poorly.
Guardiola finally couldn't help it and replaced Dzeko with Su Dong in the 70th minute.
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Liverpool legend Dalglish once said that players' fatigue is more psychological.
This may not be unreasonable, but when a player is used to the winter break and suddenly comes to a league without a winter break, and fights on multiple fronts for a long time, after several months of hard fighting, the accumulated physical fatigue is unimaginable to outsiders.
Whether facing Tottenham Hotspur or Blackburn tonight, Su Dong has this feeling.
Especially tonight.
He felt that his brain was working slower than usual and his movements could not always keep up with his brain. He always felt a beat slower when playing football. Many technical moves that he could usually complete very easily now seemed very difficult to perform and he even made mistakes.
He believed that if he was like this, then other players must be like this as well, or even worse.
It was not until April, especially in recent times, that Su Dong suddenly realized that there was a big difference between having a winter break and having one, not only physically but also psychologically.
It's a bit like a corporate assignment.
It was originally agreed that you would be assigned to an overseas assignment for one year, with no holidays throughout the year, and could go home for the Spring Festival to reunite with your family, and have paid vacation. But unexpectedly, the company suddenly cancelled the Spring Festival holiday and told you that you had to stay abroad for another year, and you couldn't go home even for the Spring Festival.
Just imagine, what kind of mental state is one in when one is in the second year of work? Su Dong realized this early on and tried his best to overcome it, but he was still affected.
This made it impossible for him to perform at his usual level.
But for such situations, Su Dong already had his own set of response strategies.
That is to narrow your scope of activities, reduce the tasks you undertake, ambush in the penalty area, and become a full-time scorer.
Passing, advancing, connecting and other various tasks are all left to your teammates to complete.
Guardiola obviously realized this when he fielded the combination of David Silva and Moutinho.
Blackburn's young central defender Phil Jones was very active and was considered a passionate young man.
After Su Dong came on the court, he became more excited and moved around a wider range of activities.
When Su Dong saw this, he couldn't help but admire it.
It’s good to be young!
I always have endless energy and can be full of energy anytime and anywhere.
When seeing him, Su Dong couldn't help but think of the time when he was in Portugal.
In those years, they could fly directly from Lisbon to Madrid to watch a game of Ronaldo without getting tickets, but in the end they couldn't get in!
In those years, they could hike all over Madeira and camp overnight on mountaintops to look at the stars.
During those years, they trained from early morning till late at night every day, and it seemed that they would never get tired and their bodies were as strong as iron.
Those Years…
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"After tonight, I'm going to be famous!"
Just as Su Dong was reminiscing about his youth, Phil Jones said with a laugh.
The young English player played the entire game with a red face, as if he was drunk, but he looked extremely excited.
Looking at Su Dong was like seeing a stunningly beautiful woman.
"Why is he famous?" Su Dong's mind was a little slow tonight and he couldn't figure it out.
"Because you can't score!" laughed Phil Jones.
"So far this season, it seems that no team can stop you from scoring goals, right?"
Phil Jones looked very proud when talking about this.
Confidence is what Su Dong saw in Phil Jones, and it is one of his biggest strengths.
Having a big heart is a must for a professional player.
This young English player is really good, with energy, strength, fighting spirit and overflowing confidence!
"Are you a little tired now?" Phil Jones asked with a grin.
Su Dong smiled. This kid just started playing football and he already learned how to use words to harass his opponents. Who taught him that? "Kid, just focus on playing football. You're talking a lot of nonsense. Didn't anyone tell you that concentration is a necessary quality for a defender?"
Phil Jones was stunned. He didn't expect Su Dong to scold someone.
"I'm focused!" Blackburn's center back replied stubbornly.
"Then you have to keep your eyes on me, I can disappear from your sight at any time." Su Dong threatened.
Phil Jones was stunned. "Are you kidding a three-year-old?"
"Yes, I was lying to you!"
Lie to me?
Shit, are you saying that I'm a three-year-old?
As soon as Phil Jones reacted, he saw Su Dong really "disappear" before his eyes.
The word "disappeared" here must be put in quotation marks, because he did not really disappear. Instead, while Phil Jones was in a trance for a second or two, Su Dong suddenly left his position, making it impossible for Phil Jones to find him.
By the time the Blackburn center back turned around and found Su Dong, Su Dong had already rushed forward from behind him and raised his hand to ask for the ball.
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On the left side of the penalty area, David Silva received a pass from Di Maria. He just adjusted and glanced at the penalty area, then saw Su Dong pointing forward, and immediately sent a diagonal pass with his left foot.
The ball passed over the heads of all the defensive players in the penalty area and fell in front of the right goal post.
Su Dong, who was originally standing in front of Phil Jones, suddenly went around behind Phil Jones and quickly rushed forward.
Phil Jones, who was responsible for marking him, was obviously distracted and couldn't find anyone in a panic.
Su Dong rushed forward quickly, and at the front of the small penalty area, he headed the ball into the near corner in response to David Silva's diagonal pass.
The ball hit the right post and went into Blackburn's goal.
"GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!"
"Su Dong! It's Su Dong again!!!"
"It was a decisive kill at the crucial moment!"
"This is the third consecutive game that Su Dong has contributed a winning goal for Manchester City!"
"Especially in the last two games, first he scored the winning goal against Tottenham Hotspur in the final stage of the game, and now in the 82nd minute, he scored the winning goal against Blackburn. Su Dong played a key role in Manchester City!"
Phil Jones was a little dazed. Looking at Su Dong cheering as he passed by him, he felt like he was being fooled.
"Yes, I was lying to you!"
Phil Jones hadn't reacted just now, but now he suddenly thought, damn, isn't this a double entendre?
He really felt like he was being fooled by Su Dong.
Originally, he wanted to use some words to stimulate Su Dong and show off at the same time. After all, being able to show off in front of Su Dong was something he was proud of in his career.
But who could have thought that Su Dong took advantage of his thinking, created his mistake and scored a goal.
It's really a case of losing the rice while trying to steal the chicken.
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In the end, Manchester City defeated Blackburn 1-0 thanks to a goal scored by Su Dong after he came on as a substitute.
Although Blackburn failed to snipe Manchester City at home, head coach Steven Keane was still satisfied with the result of the game. He believed that Blackburn was able to cause a lot of trouble to Manchester City, hold on until the final stage of the game, and only lost one goal, which in itself was a victory.
What he meant was, at least we didn't lose 9 to 1 or 7 to 0 at home like some teams did. We only scored one goal, how awesome!
The reporters at the press conference all smiled wickedly after hearing this. It was obvious that they had already thought about how to make good use of the meaning of this sentence and expand the scope of attack. It would be best if they could drag both Ferguson and Wenger into the water. That would be exciting.
Stephen Keane is still very satisfied with young player Phil Jones.
Although it was his mistake that led to the goal, Phil Jones' performance in itself was very rare, as he was able to keep Dzeko and Sudon for most of the time.
You know, he is only 19 years old! England is not short of "geniuses", but Phil Jones is the kind of player whose talent can be seen at first glance.
With his outstanding performance, he has also won the favor of Manchester United coach Ferguson and Arsenal coach Wenger. There have been reports that both Manchester United and the Gunners are interested in poaching him.
As for Manchester City, Guardiola is not impressed by this type of defender.
For the defense, he prefers to use full-backs like Marcelo, and central defenders like Pepe and David Luiz who can hold the ball and pass the ball.
Phil Jones is a typical England centre-back who is not outstanding in this regard.
However, in an interview with the media, Su Dong still gave a high evaluation of the young player's performance, and believed that Phil Jones would become a rising star in the Premier League in time.
The outside media also basically agreed with Su Dong's judgment. After all, the standards of the British media towards local players are always relatively low.
(End of this chapter)
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