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Chapter 45 Three away games

Manchester United lost the game with a big score, and clubs that compete with Manchester United are happy to watch jokes. This mentality is based on the starting point of "Manchester City is not qualified to compete for the league championship".∮,

Manchester City is just a powerful Premier League team. No matter whether it is funds or personnel, it is impossible to support them to become stronger. Fighting for the league championship is a matter of the whole season. Without strong foundation and strength, it is impossible to have a chance to win the championship.

Last season, Wan Sheng led Derby County to the league championship, which was a miracle.

Miracles were created, but no one thought that this young Chinese could create another miracle.

Therefore, even if Manchester City beat Manchester United with a big score, and even if they show oppressive tactical strength, they are just Manchester City, just a Premier League powerhouse, and it is difficult for the Premier League powerhouse to compete for the league championship.

The above are the ideas of the media and various clubs, and also Volkswagen's view of Manchester City's new season. After Wan Sheng led the team, Manchester City's performance may become better, but it is definitely not as good as competing for the league championship. They are just competing for a place in European competitions.

Manchester City has always aimed at this.

In addition, Wansheng's attitude is supported by this view.

Last summer, when the young Chinese led Derby County to participate in the first game, he emphasized to the media that the team's goal was to compete for a UEFA Champions League place, that is, the semi-finals. But now the young Chinese didn't say much. He specifically targeted Manchester United's young players, but that was just a fight of words. He did not emphasize the team's goals, which means that Manchester City probably has no fixed goals in the new season.

Fight for better results? Maybe.

If they were told that Wansheng's goal was only the champion, they would probably not be so optimistic, but now Volkswagen is unanimously praising Manchester City and Wansheng.

Wansheng has received more attention.

At the same time, this game also attracted the attention of many foreign media, and naturally Wan Sheng also received the attention of many foreign media.

The most worth mentioning is the Chinese media.

In fact, outside Manchester City’s training base, there have always been many eastern perspectives, most of which are Chinese, because Manchester City has two Chinese players and a Chinese head coach. Now in China, many fans regard Manchester City as a ‘Chinese overseas team’.

The ‘China Overseas Team’ is naturally worth interviewing.

After this game, the domestic attention has become more. There were fans who didn’t know what club Manchester City was, but after CCTV broadcast the game live, everyone knew that there were two clubs in Manchester, England, one of which was the famous Manchester United team, but this famous team lost five goals to another team.

This is Manchester City!

The only top league club led by overseas coaches; the only overseas club with two Chinese players!

So there are more Chinese journalists coming to interview. Almost any domestic media that pays attention to European football will be stationed to interview.

Wan Sheng did not give his compatriots any favorable treatment. In fact, he has never been attracted to these media reporters. He can't remember to take care of his compatriots who have been through the storms outside. What's more, reporters are reporters, and interviews are their profession. It is also their own experience if they can't interview now, so they don't need special care at all.

In addition, in recent times, Wan Sheng has never accepted an interview with any media except for appearing in a regular press conference, including Manchester City's cooperative media. Naturally, he cannot think of his fellow media.

In short, more attention has been paid, but Wansheng has appeared in the public eye.

So many domestic media contacted Manchester City Club directly to ask for an interview with Wan Sheng. Manchester City Club was happy to see Chinese media coming to do interviews. The city's rival Manchester United has a good publicity in the East, and there are many Manchester United fans there. They also hope to do some publicity in other continents to expand the club's influence.

But when Wan Sheng informed him, Wan Sheng refused all of them. There were only three words to refuse, "No time!"

Wansheng really has no time.

Just leading the team to train, prepare for games, and deal with team affairs consumed all his working hours. He also had to continue to organize his master's thesis - this work started in the summer, with Anita helping him, and he has only done half of it. Where can he have time to deal with those media reporters?

But his refusal made the media unhappy.

Many domestic media reporters were angry and criticized Wan Sheng for losing the big name, "I won a game and it was soaring to the sky." Some media described it this way. In fact, they all knew that before this game, they could not interview Wan Sheng.

These sounds still have some influence.

Many domestic fans who want to know the news about Wansheng found that there is no report on Wansheng coaching in the media. Instead, there are various criticisms. If you hear too much, you will naturally think that Wansheng is a big shot. However, one advantage of Chinese people is taking everything for granted. For example, when the media reports that Wansheng is a big shot, many people think that Wansheng should be a big shot.

"If you have the ability, you can lead a team to beat Manchester United 5-0!"

"If you can do it, just do whatever you want!"

"Wan Sheng still has to play? He is a big name! He is the head coach of the Premier League's 'Little Triple Crown' team. Now he coaches Manchester City and dares to compete with Manchester United!"

"Looking at the British report, Wan Sheng dares to scold - Ronaldo, Rooney, do you dare?"

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There is constant argument over Wansheng's matter in China, but the public fans basically support Wansheng. In fact, the fans are very satisfied. They think that Wansheng really leads the team to achieve results. They are a practical person, and they are much better than some people in China who frequently appear in the public eye but lose again and again.

Therefore, domestic fans only support Wan Sheng, and no matter what the media says, it is not very useful.

Because of the support trend of domestic fans, even though Wan Sheng refused countless interviews, domestic media still gritted their teeth and came to Manchester City for interviews. Even if they couldn't interview Wan Sheng, they could film Manchester City's training and interview Sun Jihai, Wang Xiaolei or other Manchester City players, and they could still make up a lot of reports.

Soon the reporter thought of a good idea again, and they interviewed players who were more familiar with Wan Sheng, so that Wan Sheng could report some reports from the side.

So Morris and Ziegler became the subject of interviews among Chinese media, because they followed Wan Sheng to Manchester City.

Morris and Ziegler are used to interviewing reporters.

Morris has long been famous. Even when Gregory was coaching, he was also a core player in the team. There are still many local media who hope to interview him. Ziegler has also grown up in two years. As his performance becomes more and more outstanding, he receives more attention. These attentions are not only from the team's support media, but also from Belgium. He has attracted the attention of the Belgian media and has a good chance to join the Belgian national team.

However, the two of them were interviewed by many Chinese media at the same time, which was definitely the first time in history. They were very interested in this. When reporters asked about Wansheng's topic, they would also say something.

With the two of them respected Wansheng for more than 100, you can imagine how convincing Wansheng is in their hearts and how capable the head coach is.

After summarizing their statements, many reporters summarized them together and created a perfect head coach with extraordinary abilities, conscientiousness, hardworking, caring for players, and easy to get along with.

Such a person is a saint, not a human

The reporters all discovered this, but they could not find out the shortcomings of Wan Sheng from Morris and Ziegler. So they could only focus on other players, and their focus also changed to "exploding the shortcomings of Wan Sheng".

Many reporters lamented that it is really a difficult job to do Wansheng’s report.

The Manchester derby has ended for a few days. But the impact of the game has not yet disappeared.

There are often news in Manchester United clubs, such as players in the team having conflicts, and captain Keegan and head coach Ferguson having conflicts. In short, this game has a great impact on Manchester United. After all, it was a five-goal loss to the same-city derby. This experience is really painful.

But one thing is certain. That is, Manchester United coach Ferguson must be very unhappy with Wan Sheng.

On the second day after the game, Ferguson made a statement about the results of the game, "Anything can happen in football games, always full of all kinds of accidents. Yesterday's game was an accident. I didn't expect them to perform so well, nor did I expect the team to be in a state in the first league."

"There are many reasons for losing, but I'm sure if I meet them again, this will definitely not be the case again!"

The old jazz almost gritted his teeth and said the last sentence.

His implication is very direct, that is, you don’t be too proud if you win the game. We will take revenge next time we see you!

Ferguson's voice soon reached Wan Sheng's ears. He smiled disdainfully and said, "I watched a movie yesterday. There were some gangsters in the movie. After they lost a fight, they always said something like 'You wait for me next time', but when they appear again, they will fail and can only be used as supporting roles."

"They are so pitiful. If I were the director, I would definitely give them more salaries."

What Wan Sheng said seemed to have nothing to do with the response, but everyone present understood what he meant, that is, Ferguson was like a gangster, and he even said something harsh after losing the game.

Many people laughed.

Ferguson also quickly knew what Wan Sheng said, so he found that in the bickering, unless he relied on his seniority, it would be difficult for him to beat this young man with his real skills, especially after Manchester United lost the game with a big score.

He was silent.

Wan Sheng didn't say anything else. After all, the game was over, and it would have no other effect except for letting others laugh at it.

Next, the team's focus is to prepare for the second round of the league.

Manchester City's second round of league is quite easy, with their opponents being the newly promoted Sunderland. Sunderland was the champion of the English Championship last season, which makes people think of the miracle of Derby County last season, but the miracle of Derby County is rare in a century. As the champion of the English Championship, after they were promoted to the Premier League, they can only set realistic goals.

Their head coach has always been McCarthy.

Wan Sheng knows McCarthy. The two have met twice in the second division and have had contact in private. Now McCarthy still coaches Sunderland. He did a good job last season, but when he arrived in the Premier League, whether he can relegate as he wishes depends on luck.

The above is Volkswagen's view of Sunderland, and these views are also based on their basis. Mainly in the summer, Sunderland did not make any big moves. They just introduced two young forwards. In other words, they still have to rely on the old lineup to play in the new season. It is difficult for the old lineup to have any prospects in the Premier League.

In the first round, they encountered Waterloo at the Stadium of Light, lost three goals against Charlton, and met Manchester City in the second round, and the media believed that this was also a game with no suspense.

The same is true for the competition.

Although Sunderland performed very tenaciously at home, it is difficult for them to have a chance to create miracles when facing the strong Manchester City. They were suppressed throughout the game, and there was only four shots in the data, and there was no threatening shot at all.

However, they performed well in defense, but they finally lost the game 0:1.

The only goal was at the beginning of the second half, with Sinclair's insertion creating an opportunity for Joey Patton, who shot coldly in front of the penalty area and scored the only goal in the game.

After two rounds of the Premier League, Manchester City won two games and had 6 points and 6 goals, defeating Chelsea, which also won two games and 5 goals, ranked first in the league standings.

Many media were amazed at Manchester City's results.

But many people take it for granted. After all, Manchester City won five Manchester United in the first round, ranking first in the league, and only won one goal in the second round, ranking first in the league by relying entirely on the goal difference advantage in the first round.

Everything depends on the next round.

Soon, the last league game in August, the third round of the league, began. This round was postponed due to the time conflict between the Community Shield and other cups, but Chelsea and Arsenal, who played the game one day in advance, both won four goals, so Manchester City, who played the game the next day, would be under some pressure.

Manchester City's opponent is Birmingham.

The performance of Birmingham has always been high and bad. They have no pressure to relegate and have no ability to improve. The media believes that Manchester City's winning rate is still very high, and they deserve to win Birmingham, but in the end, Manchester City only won 0:0 away.

Neither team scored a goal, and both sides shook hands and made peace.

After the game, many media have complained about Manchester City's performance. The media that have been preparing to object to Wan Sheng can finally jump out proudly because they have obtained favorable evidence to prove that Wan Sheng's performance is declining.

"Did you see it? The first game is 5:0, the second game is 1:0, and the third game can only be 0:0. It seems that this Chinese team has a forward goal that is definitely a problem!"

But Wansheng disdained this.

For him and the team, the results of the first three rounds of the game have reached expectations, and the results of two wins and one loss are very good, not to mention that the team can come up for three consecutive away games!

Three away games!

First there was a Manchester derby battle, then away challenge Sunderland, and then to Birmingham. The three-round league teams almost traveled across the northern part of England, which naturally affected the team's condition. Even if away factors are not taken into account, it would be normal to play.

Of course, those media that are hostile to the point of being hostile to the victory will not consider these things. They are like stray dogs who have been hungry for a few days, and they take a bite when they see something.

They took the opportunity to criticize Wan Sheng, which was already a habit.

The representative of these is the Daily Mirror, a British tabloid that is as famous as the Sun, has been unable to interview Derby County in the past two years, and now they have been removed from the list by Manchester City.

Their hatred with Wan Sheng has reached an unresolvable point. When they find an opportunity to criticize Wan Sheng, they can imagine what they will do. (To be continued...)
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