Chapter 996: Angels Among Demons
When Webber blew the whistle to end the game, the entire stadium was so quiet that only the cheers of Manchester City fans could be heard.
More Tottenham Hotspur fans seemed very bored.
On the scoreboard, the score was finally locked at 0-4.
According to international practice, the home team is in front and the visiting team is behind.
After scoring two goals in the first half, Manchester City completely controlled the situation on the field, but was unable to score again.
In the second half, just four minutes after the start, Su Dong assisted Sanchez to score a goal.
In the 77th minute, it was another plan from Su Dong. Sanchez dribbled the ball straight into the penalty area and passed it to the left side. Di Maria broke through Tottenham's goal.
The final score was 0-4, and Manchester City won a great victory.
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Su Dong first celebrated with the Manchester City players, and then went over to shake hands politely with the Tottenham Hotspur players.
Many of the players are old acquaintances, including Gallas, who was badly beaten by him shortly after the start of the game, Tottenham Hotspur's current top star Gareth Bale, and Van der Vaart, who competed with him for the Golden Boy Award that year.
Sometimes, things in professional football are really interesting.
Van der Vaart was so high-spirited when he played for Ajax. After joining Hamburg, he continued to perform at an amazing level. But now, he is far from meeting the outside world's expectations of him. Instead, Ibrahimovic, who had conflicts with him, and his former follower Sneijder and others have achieved greater success now.
And Gareth Bale.
He is a classmate of Arsenal's little tiger Walcott. When Walcott was shining at Arsenal and the England national team, Gareth Bale was still an unpopular disaster star. It was said that he would bring bad luck every time he appeared in the game, and he was a left-back at the time.
But who would have thought that with the passage of time, Gareth Bale is now worth a lot of money and has superb strength. His performance has been impressive. Not only as a left winger, but also as a right winger, and even as an attacking midfielder, he can show good strength.
Tottenham Hotspur has even been impatient to offer a sky-high price of over 100 million euros for Gareth Bale, threatening to break the world football transfer fee record set by Cristiano Ronaldo that year.
In fact, if you think about it carefully, it’s not surprising.
The career of every professional player is a long-distance race. Some extremely talented players are ahead at the starting line, but those who can really run to the end are often those who are talented, more perseverant and work harder.
When Su Dong shook hands with Gareth Bale, he also praised his performance.
The Welsh winger is indeed the most threatening and most attacking player in Tottenham.
After shaking hands with the Tottenham players, when Su Dong returned to the team, the Manchester City players were already celebrating.
Manchester City continues to advance this season. They won the League Cup early, and after basically securing victory in the Premier League, they reached the semi-finals of the Champions League. Now they have reached the final of the FA Cup, which makes everyone in Manchester City extremely excited.
If we can win the treble again this season, or even the unprecedented quadruple, it will definitely be the most legendary season in England, European football, and even world football.
Because Manchester City will create too many legends this season.
As the season progresses and as the team defeats strong opponents again and again, more and more Manchester City players begin to believe that the team seems to be getting closer and closer to the peak of this legend.
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Manchester City's opponent in the FA Cup final is Liverpool.
The Reds did not perform well in the league this season, but thanks to their solid defense, they won repeatedly in the FA Cup and finally reached the FA Cup final, meeting Manchester City at Wembley Stadium in London.
After defeating Tottenham Hotspur 4-0 in the semi-finals, Su Dong once again won applause from the audience.
All the British media and fans, and even fans all over the world, once again praised him, especially his first goal.
In the words of Gallas in an interview with the media after the game: "I still don't understand how he did it."
This is also the idea of many media and fans, because they don’t know how Su Dong stopped the ball so well, and the connection between the previous and subsequent technical movements was just right, leaving no chance for the defensive players at all.
The Times’ evaluation is: Su Dong is an angel among devils, a fierce Fauvist artist.
"On the court, he has flashes of genius, extraordinary and delicate skills, unexpected imagination, and a brutal and undefensible power. He always ravages his opponents."
"All the defenders of Su Dong's generation are very sad because each of them has psychological problems to some extent, and the root of the problem lies with Su Dong."
This is undoubtedly the highest evaluation and recognition for a professional player.
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When Manchester City defeated Tottenham Hotspur in the FA Cup and Su Dong's performance sparked heated discussions around the world, the 34th round of La Liga finally came to an end.
Real Madrid beat Sporting Gijon 3-1 at home thanks to a goal from Cristiano Ronaldo.
Two hours later, Barcelona reversed Levante 2-1 away from home with Messi's two goals.
After this game, the points situation of the two giants in the Spanish Super League remains unchanged.
Real Madrid still leads Barcelona by four points.
Yes, 88 points versus 84 points, Real Madrid is four points ahead of Barcelona and seems to have a good chance of winning the championship.
What is most surprising is that Valencia, which ranks third, only got 55 points, which is 33 points behind the top Real Madrid. This is definitely the most shocking gap, which makes people see the strength of the two giants of La Liga.
But the outcome of the La Liga championship is still full of suspense, because in the 35th round of La Liga a week later, Real Madrid will visit Barcelona to challenge Barcelona away.
If Barcelona can snipe Real Madrid at home and get three points, then they still have a great chance of reversing Real Madrid and winning the La Liga championship. But if they lose to Real Madrid at home, then the championship will basically be decided.
It is precisely because of this that this battle at Camp Nou can be said to be a battle that determines the ownership of the La Liga championship.
But unfortunately, the environments of the two teams are obviously different.
Real Madrid has a four-point lead and is under less pressure. They have already been eliminated by Manchester City in the Champions League and only have the La Liga championship to fight for. But Barcelona is different. They will face the first leg of the Champions League semi-finals in the middle of the week, and their opponent is Manchester City, which eliminated Real Madrid.
Barcelona and Manchester City, Mourinho and Guardiola, Messi and Su Dong...
Too many grudges and entanglements have created an unsolvable feud between the two teams, making countless media and fans particularly looking forward to this game, and destined that this is a game in which they must go all out no matter what.
So, after the team fought hard to reverse Levante, the Catalan media interviewed Mourinho at the post-match press conference. Facing two key battles that cannot be lost, are Mourinho and his Barcelona fully prepared?
Mourinho's response was that he believed Barcelona was ready.
"I am in very good shape. Messi, Xavi, Iniesta and others have performed very well. I am confident about the players' condition and the team's overall performance. I believe we will achieve a good result at home."
Mourinho still said that he is very familiar with Su Dong and has watched him grow up with his own eyes.
"I know that almost all teams in the world are now struggling with how to curb Su Dong's offense. This is a global problem. Some people even think that preventing Su Dong from scoring is as difficult as going into space."
"But I want to say that for me, this has never been a problem, because I know Su Dong too well, I know how he plays and how he thinks, so I know how to defend him."
“Why didn’t it succeed in the past?”
"I need to remind you that I am a head coach. I can only give my players some guidance. If they follow my arrangements and requirements, I believe it will not be a problem to stop Su Dong from scoring. But unfortunately, not everyone obeys me unconditionally."
Guardiola's implication was somewhat directed towards the locker room.
This mainly comes from the Super Bowl before the season.
Mourinho's coaching of Barcelona has been questioned from the very beginning, and many people believe that he does not fit in with Barcelona's tradition at all.
In the Barcelona locker room, doubts about Mourinho never stopped from beginning to end, but the players generally recognized him. After all, he led the team to the Champions League final for three consecutive years.
But in the Super Cup this season, Mourinho was conservative when the team was behind, which made many players in the team implicitly criticize him, which made Mourinho very dissatisfied. Now he deliberately brought up the old matter, obviously to remind the players.
"I know that many people still don't believe it, or even doubt it, thinking that I am bragging, but it doesn't matter. My players and I will prove it through the game. We are the strongest team in the world."
"Stronger than any other team, including Manchester City and Real Madrid!"
Mourinho's remarks were not recognized by everyone. Even in the Spanish media, many people questioned him, believing that he was saying some exaggerated words to attract attention and create contradictions and controversies.
"He is always like this, always thinking about how to attract everyone's attention to himself instead of thinking about how to help the team win the game. He doesn't seem to be a qualified head coach," AS said.
But this is indeed how some media and fans view Mourinho.
But the Portuguese don't care.
He never cared about what others thought of him. He only cared about whether he could win and succeed.
In fact, in order to win, he always creates something unexpected.
For example, this time, before the first leg of the Champions League semi-final, he once again shocked the world.
(End of this chapter)
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