Chapter 927 If you have money, you can be willful; if you don’t have money, you have to accept your fate!
Although Manchester City lost the ball in the first four minutes of the game, their morale was not affected much. They still launched a fierce attack on Villarreal and still firmly controlled the situation on the field.
Today's Manchester City is no longer the fledgling mercenary team it was more than a year ago.
The current Manchester City has won the treble and defeated the Champions League champions Barcelona in the European Super Cup.
Even in the Champions League group stage, facing strong teams like Dortmund and Inter Milan, Manchester City was able to defeat the opponents. The team's confidence was greatly boosted, so they were not defeated by the opponents in one blow.
As for the goal conceded just now, it was more of a mistake by David Luiz. Goalkeeper Courtois acted decisively and saved the first shot. He even almost succeeded in the second shot. His performance was also remarkable.
David Luiz's problem was beyond everyone's expectations, but also reasonable.
Guardiola likes his dribbling, passing and back-up abilities, and his slightly rash mistakes are naturally known to the players. In many cases, the players are mentally prepared for them.
In the locker room, his teammates often talked about these things with him.
Of course, this has a prerequisite, that is, the team can make a comeback.
If we can turn the tide, it's a joke. If we lose, it's a different story.
Marcelo has a close relationship with David Luiz, and both of them are main players of the Brazilian national team. When he saw David Luiz's mistake causing the team to lose the ball, Marcelo became extremely excited and performed very aggressively.
In the twelfth minute, Marcelo advanced to the 30-meter area of Villarreal and received a cross pass from Busquets. After stopping the ball and making a slight adjustment, he kicked directly and made a powerful long shot.
This long shot was very sudden and went directly to the right side of the goal.
Goalkeeper Diego Lopez made a flying save, but the ball slipped slightly past the goal.
Just one minute later, Marcelo made another quick run along the left side.
Toni Kroos suddenly sent a long diagonal pass from the middle of the penalty area, directly to the left side of the penalty area.
Marcelo rushed forward at high speed and got the ball just before right-back Zapata, and passed the ball into the penalty area with his left foot.
Di Maria ran into the left side of the penalty area at the fastest speed, and shot without stopping the ball, but he failed to control the momentum of the ball and it went high.
In the 20th minute, after getting the ball on the right side of the frontcourt, Sanchez shook off the defender and cut inside laterally. He was fouled by left-back Catara, winning Manchester City a free kick opportunity nearly 40 meters away from the goal and on the left side.
Su Dong took the penalty kick himself. He kicked the ball in a very strange arc with his left foot and sent it directly to the upper right corner of the goal. Unexpectedly, Diego Lopez jumped up and hit the ball out with one hand.
The subsequent corner kick also failed to create any threat.
Manchester City's continuous attacks created opportunities, but they were never able to break Villarreal's goal.
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As early as when Su Dong was still playing for Valencia, he knew that the president of Villarreal was the younger brother of the president of Valencia, Roig Jr.
Roig Jr. has been running Villarreal for many years and is committed to the South American style. He has spent a lot of money to introduce a group of high-quality and low-priced South American players, such as Fran, Riquelme, Marcos Senna, etc. These players have brought strong strength to Villarreal.
During the coaching period of Chilean engineer Pellegrini, the Yellow Submarine reached its peak. Not only did it achieve remarkable results in La Liga, it also continued to produce amazing results in the Champions League, winning recognition from European football.
After Pellegrini moved to Real Madrid, the Yellow Submarine hired Valverde, but the results soon declined. The reason was simple: Valverde's philosophy could not be integrated into Villarreal, and he even suffered seven consecutive defeats during his coaching tenure.
After firing Valverde, Roig Jr. appointed the second team head coach Garrido as the team's head coach, which stopped Villarreal's decline and finished fourth in La Liga last season, returning to the Champions League.
This seems to show the resurgence of Villarreal.
Garrido can be said to have witnessed the rise of Villarreal and the entire process of Pellegrini's coaching from beginning to end, and he has been cooperating with Pellegrini to train the best youth training camp in La Liga.
Before taking over as head coach of the second team in 2007, he had worked in the youth team for nine years. Many young players of the first team came from his team. The youth team coached by Garrido also surpassed Real Madrid and Barcelona and became the benchmark for Spanish youth training camps.
He has every reason to succeed at Villarreal.
But after achieving outstanding results last season, due to Malaga's strong rise this summer, a crazy buying spree was launched in Spain, resulting in the departure of core player Cazorla, while Villarreal failed to add strong reinforcements in the transfer market in time, resulting in their current unfavorable situation in La Liga.
Is the spending effective? Malaga, which ranked in the lower middle of the league last season, spent 60 million euros and is now ranked sixth, while Villarreal, which sold its core player Cazorla and earned 10 million euros in the transfer market, fell from fourth to eleventh.
Another team, Getafe, which was devastated, was in an even worse situation and was directly approaching the relegation zone.
And behind all this, after all, it's money that's at work.
Villarreal does not have enough financial resources, so they can only make more money, and the Champions League is undoubtedly the key.
According to the strategy formulated by the management and head coach Garrido, they want to break through the Champions League group stage and enter the knockout stage.
But what they didn't expect was that they were so unlucky that they were placed in the death group with Inter Milan, Manchester City and Dortmund.
There is no other way. If you want to complete the season strategy, you can only work hard.
So, they fought Inter Milan, fought Dortmund, and now they are fighting Manchester City.
If you have money, you can do whatever you want; if you don’t have money, you can only accept your fate!
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As the captain on the field, Su Dong is very familiar with La Liga and Villarreal.
He believes that Manchester City has an overwhelming advantage in strength.
Today's Villarreal is no longer the Yellow Submarine during Pellegrini's coaching period. Rossi is far from Fran, Cani is not a tough guy like Riquelme, and the midfield even lacks a player of Marcos Senna's level. The back line has Marchena, an old acquaintance of Su Dong. But there is a fatal weakness, that is, he is too short.
Marchena and his partner Gonzalo Rodriguez are both only 1.82 meters tall, 13 centimeters shorter than Su Dong.
But Manchester City did not take advantage of this.
So, after seeing that the team had been unable to break through the defense for a long time, Su Dong, as the captain on the field, immediately ordered the players to slow down the pace of attack, take it step by step, and penetrate and tear open Villarreal's defense through patient passing and controlling the ball.
The change took effect in less than ten minutes.
First, Su Dong pulled to the right and assisted Sanchez.
At that time, Sanchez was already surrounded. After Su Dong's transition, the Chilean winger immediately dribbled the ball horizontally along the outside of the penalty area, first looking for Toni Kroos to cooperate, and then passed the ball to David Silva.
David Silva passed the ball to Di Maria in the penalty area, but the Argentine didn't get the chance and immediately passed it back to David Silva, who then passed it to the left side and gave it to Marcelo who came up from the back row.
Marcelo stopped the ball and made some adjustments. Without waiting for Zapata to get close, he passed the ball to the back post with his left foot.
Su Dong, who had just received the ball on the right side of the penalty area, quickly inserted into the back point and headed the ball into the far corner from close range.
Diego Lopez was unable to react and the ball went into the net.
"GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!"
"In the 38th minute, Manchester City finally broke through Villarreal's goal, one to one!"
"The game was very difficult and Villarreal showed great tenacity, but Manchester City still relied on their passing, possession and strength to tear open the Yellow Submarine's defense."
"The long-distance connection between Marcelo and Su Dong was very beautiful, and the back-and-forth passing between several Manchester City players was also very exciting. Manchester City successfully tied the score with this goal."
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After the score was tied, Manchester City also tasted the sweetness.
Continue to follow Su Dong’s previous arrangement and pass the ball patiently.
On the contrary, after Villarreal lost the ball, there was some chaos on the field, and Manchester City seized the opportunity and launched another quick counterattack.
Toni Kroos dribbled the ball across the halfway line and quickly passed it to Sanchez.
The Chilean winger dribbled the ball along the right side, advanced to the right side of Villarreal's penalty area, suddenly turned inside and passed the ball to David Silva.
The Spanish winger dribbled past the player defending him and passed the ball diagonally to the right side of the penalty area with his left foot.
Su Dong was originally going to meet David Silva on the left side of the arc top area, but suddenly changed direction and ran to the right side of the penalty area. Just then, David Silva's pass came in front of Su Dong, who inserted himself and received the ball to create a one-on-one situation.
Goalkeeper Diego Lopez guarded the right side of the goal tightly, blocking Su Dong's shooting angle as much as possible.
But Su Dong was too experienced in such situations. He made a fake move to trick Diego Lopez into making a save, and then he kicked the ball.
The ball passed over Diego Lopez's head and slowly fell into the goal behind him.
Two to one!
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After scoring two goals in a row, Manchester City ended the first half with a 2-1 lead.
In the second half, just over a minute later, Manchester City got the ball and launched an attack.
David Silva tried to pass the ball into the penalty area from outside the penalty area, but Marchena blocked it first.
The ball fell to the right side of the penalty area. Sabaletta followed up and stopped the ball, made a slight adjustment, and passed it diagonally to the front of the penalty area.
Su Dong quickly inserted himself into the ball, met Zabaleta's pass, and volleyed the ball directly without stopping. The ball was once again sent into Villarreal's goal by Su Dong.
hat trick!
Three to one!
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Manchester City played better and better, and then Sanchez scored a goal, but it was ruled offside and the goal was invalid.
But Manchester City still launched a fierce attack on Villarreal.
Until the end of the game, Aguero, who came on as a substitute for Su Dong, once again seized the opportunity of a cross from the wing and scored another goal for Manchester City, making it 4-1!
In the end, with Sudon's hat-trick and Aguero's goal, Manchester City reversed Villarreal 4-1 and won three consecutive victories in the group stage!
(End of this chapter)
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