The match against Everton will soon come.

Everton's head coach is still David Moyes, who is Wan Sheng's old opponent, but now he is no longer the Derby coach, and David Moyes is still coaching Everton.

David Moyes's performance at Everton was indeed good. After he took over Everton's feet in 2002, Everton was like a god-supported and even stabilized in the top four for a while. Unfortunately, he did not perform well in the second half of the season and could only rank seventh. However, this was Everton's best result in 10 years. Moyes also won the Best Coach of the Year Award by the English Football Association.

In the next two years, Everton's performance has had a great ups and downs, but neither the decline of last season nor the beginning of last season affected David Moyes's coaching position. He has established prestige among Everton clubs and fans and made everyone trust him, so he still stayed in Everton.

Now Wan Sheng is coaching Manchester City, and the two have become opponents again.

David Moyes is still a headache for the opponent of Wan Sheng, because he has not yet gained a advantage on Wan Sheng. Even if Wan Sheng goes to Manchester City, he is no longer the powerful Derby team. However, Manchester City's results cannot be underestimated, at least they are much better than Everton. So before the game, David Moyes talked about the game and said, "For us, this game will be very difficult. They are not an easy opponent to win."

This is still tactful.

In fact, until now, two teams have not been defeated, namely Chelsea and Manchester City. Manchester City has a worse result than Chelsea, but no team will say they can defeat Manchester City.

In this "big environment", Wan Sheng doesn't have to be humble anymore.

The previous modesty was just to make media reporters not put Manchester City and Chelsea together. It was very dangerous. Chelsea has become a "public enemy of the people". As long as it is not Chelsea fans and media, they all hope that they will lose. Wan Sheng does not want the team to enter that situation. The most important thing is that Manchester City does not have that kind of strength yet, and the best way to develop slowly is to do it. But now the opponent is only Everton. If it is too low-key, David Moyes will not believe it, so he doesn't have to make that attitude.

"We will try our best to win!"

At the pre-match press conference, Wan Sheng was full of confidence, which made the reporters who had previously been confused about Wan Sheng's weakness and were finally seeing the Chinese who was full of confidence and even a little "arrogant" came back.

"At our home court, we will fight for every victory. We have made a lot of preparations for the game. So I believe that victory will belong to us..."

David Moyes is not outdone, "We will do our best! Everyone in the team is very motivated, and they all hope to win..."

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What the two head coaches said was somewhat confrontational, but in fact, many people could hear it. The two were still calm. One said "do their best" and the other said "struggle", and neither talked about winning or something. They still left room for each other for their opponents.

This is also why Wansheng and David Moyes are very familiar with each other.

Just because I am very familiar with it, I don’t have to say anything. After all, I don’t look down when I see you in the league. My personal relationship is also very good. There is no need to talk about “must win” in a game.

However, Manchester City and Everton have to play, and they are direct competitors, so there is no room for 'leeway' on the court. Both teams are doing their best to play. From the first minute, the game seems very intense.

David Moyes has a lot of preparations for the game. He has studied Manchester City's tactics and found that the best way to deal with such "control and transmission flow" football is to defend as hard as Bolton. This is actually the same as dealing with Derby County last season. As long as the defense is strong, the offense is not very meaningful. A direct quick counterattack can handle everything. After all, the purpose of tactics is ultimately defense and goals, so direct tactics can sometimes play a very good role. Everton cannot play a more beautiful and technical football than Manchester City, so David Moyes can only make the team play more directly.

Before the game, he specifically explained the defense.

As long as you keep the defensive formation stable, don't easily be pulled out of the defense line by Manchester City. At the same time, you need to press hard. If you have the chance, try your best to counterattack. With such a direct tactic, Everton can play very well, and David Moyes also thinks it will be very effective.

Of course, whether it will be effective or not depends on the competition.

From the beginning, the effect was still very obvious. Manchester City's midfield pass was intercepted several times by Everton, and Everton took advantage of the opportunity to complete the counterattack and almost broke the Manchester City goal.

Morris and Anelka have become the objects of special care for Everton. Everton is already familiar with Morris, the core midfielder, so they know that when they play against Wansheng's team, they must "take care of" Morris, and Anelka is a sidekick. Anelka did not perform at all last season, but he scored too many goals this season, so he became a player who needs special attention, and then he was also taken care of.

This kind of special care is not only for defensive attention, but Everton players will not mind fouls. As long as they can stop the two, they will have all the means.

Everton pays special attention to Moyes and Anelka's defense, which requires two people to pass more balls to their teammates. After all, this kind of "special care" can only be found by the players themselves. Tactical arrangements are not very useful. The opponent is special defense, so the others can only get more balls. However, Morris is still very experienced in this regard. In the second half of last season, he will become the target of "special care" of his opponent in every game. Anelka is completely okay. As a forward, he doesn't feel like he doesn't get the ball for more than ten minutes. He has been used to being tightly defended. What's more, many times he is at the forefront of the team. Everton players should check the position if they want to foul, otherwise it will be a penalty kick or a free kick with a good position.

In dealing with Everton, Wan Sheng had a long time ago, which was to constantly attack their middle lane, use running to pull the cart, and compete with the opponent for physical fitness, so that the team's physical advantage could be maximized.

Everton definitely didn't expect Manchester City to play like this!

The game started a little better, and many players seemed to have not entered the game quickly, and several mistakes gave Everton a chance. But as time passed, Manchester City's tactics had been played, and targeted offensives against the middle also appeared. So Everton players found that the defense became difficult because Manchester City players in the frontcourt were running. If they wanted to defend, they had to keep up. But keep up... they had to keep running, which was very physically consuming.

Some people think that Manchester City frontcourt players are a little stupid because many of the running they do are meaningless, and then they are a little lazy and stop following, but soon they find that this is almost equivalent to giving Manchester City a chance, and they are a slack. The opponent can easily find a chance to find a shot.

"Follow up! Don't let them run around!" the field was yelling against Simon Davis.

Head coach David Moyes also stood on the sidelines and began to worry about the game. He did not expect that Manchester City's running in the frontcourt would be so "active". More importantly, the opponent's running was very targeted. If you go to defend, you have to keep following, otherwise if you don't care, you may become the opponent's opportunity.

Soon David Moyes discovered another trouble... The opponent's midfielder Morris did not seem to be the only core of the organization. His partner Joey Patton could also organize the offense, but the team's targeted defensive effect was greatly reduced.

Before the game, he didn't care about Joey Barton at all.

Although Joey Patton has always been the main player of Manchester City, he is a very ordinary player and is a fringe player in the England team - sometimes he can be on the roster and sometimes he will be eliminated. There are many such players in the middle of England, so Patton is not worthy of much attention. Compared with, Morris, as the core, is definitely more threatening.

But David Moyes suddenly thought that when Keegan coached Manchester City, Joey Patton was Manchester City's core midfielder!

If you want this, Moyes feels a little dangerous.

On the other side, Wan Sheng had already raised his lips. In fact, Manchester City played the "dual core" tactics on the field. When he was in Derby County, his "dual core" tactics were always imperfect because everyone habitually played around Morris. Peter Kennedy was not very capable enough, but after arriving at Manchester City, this problem was greatly alleviated - the core of Manchester City was originally Joey Barton!

Morris' ability is much better than Patton. His tactics revolve around him. Other players adapted to it over a long period of time, but it does not mean that they forgot the feeling of cooperating with Patton. Patton's ability is not much worse. When the team experimented with the "dual core", they did not encounter many problems.

Now Manchester City on the field, the "dual core" tactics are not perfect, but when it comes to appearance, Morris and Patton are midfielders with parallel positions, so Everton's defense is troubled. When they defend Morris, Manchester City will play with Patton as the core point. On the contrary, Morris organizes an offensive threat.

Their targeted defensive role has been greatly weakened!

However, Everton was lucky. Manchester City got a lot of opportunities throughout the first half, but did not score. Then in the second half, they discovered new problems - when they were a little unable to run, the Manchester City players on the opposite side were still running in full spirit.

They are a little unable to keep up.

In this way, their performance was getting worse and less and less likely, and the performance gap between the two teams widened. Finally, when the game was 73 minutes, Sinclair, who was inserted on the wing, helped Manchester City score the leading goal.

This is also the only goal in the game.

Although he only scored one goal, anyone who has watched the game knows that Manchester City won at all. They suppressed Everton in all aspects, allowing the latter to have no chance except at the opening.

There are few goals just because of bad luck. After all, luck is still very important in football games.

After the game, David Moyes took the initiative to find Wan Sheng to shake hands and said with a wry smile, "I didn't expect that if you went to Manchester City, your team was still so difficult to deal with!"

Wan Sheng smiled, "Is this a compliment!"

"You just treat it as irony."

"Thank you then." Wan Sheng didn't care at all.

Next, at the post-match press conference, David Moyes also sighed, "Now this Manchester City is very strong. After playing against them, I finally know why they have only tied one game so far. If there were no stronger Chelsea, they would definitely be the first in the league!"

"I just want to say now that we are convinced by the loss!"

"They completely suppressed us. It was just 1:0, but I think this is no different from 10:0, and we have no hope of winning in the whole game." (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!