Chapter 419 The fifty-ninth round of the league
At the end of the game, Manchester City players hugged and celebrated, and everyone on the coach's bench rushed into the stadium excitedly, and the fans in the audience were also cheering wildly.
It felt like Manchester City won some championship.
Actually, it's just a league game.
But this league has special significance - after the match against Chelsea, Manchester City has tied the football history of AC Milan, which has set a record of 58 unbeaten in the league.
Sky Sports commentator George Woodgate was excitedly saying, "After the game, Manchester City won Chelsea 2-0. They won the 20th round of the season and the 58th league unbeaten since the first round of last season's match against Chelsea!"
"This is a key game, because the 58 rounds of unbeaten in the future will no longer be exclusive to AC Milan. They will share this honor with AC Milan!"
"For Manchester City, this moment is extremely brilliant because they are still moving forward. Every step they take in the future will be a brand new history!"
“It’s a great moment!”
"A great moment for Manchester City! A great moment for English football!"
“…”
A large group of reporters flocked to the stadium to interview Manchester City players, many of whom surrounded Wan Sheng.
Wansheng looked at the reporters around him with a smile on his face.
Everyone was waiting for him to speak.
Finally, Wan Sheng waved his hand and said, "I think you are so excited."
"This is just a league game, we didn't win any championship. To say that the league is unbeaten, it just tied the record of AC Milan, rather than setting a new record. I think your excitement should be brought to the next game, and then we will become unique..."
"If you were going to a press conference, I would like to say something about the competition."
Wan Sheng walked away after saying that, and he didn't care at all.
He hopes to downplay the impact of the game and does not want to talk more about tying records at this point in time.
As the words said, they just tied the records, not created new records, and even created new records, it was just a kind of data. There is no need to celebrate like this, otherwise, after every unbeaten league game in the future, wouldn’t they have to celebrate it?
But obviously the media's ideas, especially the British media's ideas, are completely opposite to Wansheng.
There has always been a competitive relationship between the Premier League and the Serie A. Now Manchester City has created a Premier League honor, and the record of Serie A giant AC Milan has naturally needed to be reported.
So no matter what Wan Sheng said at the stadium or at the press conference, few British media reported on the content of Manchester City and Chelsea matches, and they were all talking about Manchester City tying the record.
At the same time, Italian media are also reporting.
But their report content is different from that of the British media. They have no good impression of Manchester City tying up their 'own record', so they all use this incident to illustrate that "the level of the Premier League is declining."
"...Manchester City's unbeaten in the league for 58 consecutive times means that the Premier League has been dominated by Manchester City..."
"In the Champions League last season, Manchester City was just AC Milan's defeat, but they were able to win consecutively in the Premier League, which shows that the Premier League..."
In short, the Italian media meant that Manchester City tied the record just showed that the level of the Premier League has declined. They also talked about the current Premier League standings. Manchester City is the first in the league, but Manchester United, the second-placed, has already opened 6 points gaps with them. Chelsea, the third-placed, is even worse. They are already more than 10 points away from Manchester City and are unable to compete for the league championship in the second half schedule.
"Just halfway through the season, Manchester City has shown an absolute advantage in competing for the championship. They have won the Premier League championship for two consecutive seasons. Now the Premier League is completely ruled by a defeated player from AC Milan..."
The Italian media's statements annoyed the British media.
The British media will not admit that the level of the Premier League has declined. In fact, from the perspective of "UEFA Points" indicators and club strength, transfers, income, etc., the Premier League has surpassed Serie A in all. Take the Champions League this season for example. Three of the Premier League teams qualify with the absolute advantage of being the first in the group. The remaining one is Liverpool, or the Champions League champion from 2004 to 2005. From any perspective, the level of the Premier League has not declined.
But the Italian media seized the argument that "Manchester City lost to AC Milan last season's Champions League", constantly explaining the decline in the Premier League level, which made the British media grit their teeth and helpless.
They couldn't help but start looking forward to the Champions League this season, and the Italian team was defeated by the English team.
Just as the British media and Italian media were scrambling together, Manchester City had already welcomed the next round of league games.
This round of Manchester City's away challenge to Newcastle United, and only two days apart from the last round of Chelsea, so Manchester City didn't even have time to reminisce about the afterglow of the record.
Perhaps the British media has "helped" Manchester City to reminisce, and at the same time, they also "helped" Manchester City to report on the 21st round of the league in advance, analyzing various situations to judge one thing - whether Manchester City can defeat Newcastle United and create a new history of unbeaten records in the five major European leagues!
It is rare that many large media such as Manchester Sports, Guardian, Daily Mirror, Times, and Sun reached an agreement on issues. After analyzing the lineups and recent situations of both sides, they came to a conclusion, "It is not difficult for Manchester City to continue to be unbeaten away", or "no suspense."
Newcastle United is by no means a team that can threaten Manchester City, even if they sit at St James Park.
Newcastle United added the lineup in the summer, but their league results are not good so far, but they are in a mid- and lower-level ranking, which is naturally incomparable to Manchester City's results.
"As long as Manchester City pays attention to the game, they won't fall here..." The Guardian said.
Will Manchester City pay attention to the game?
Obviously it will!
Before the game, Wan Sheng had been doing ideological work with the players. He used his majesty or personal charm in the team to constantly tell the whole team something, "As long as we go to the game seriously, we will definitely win!"
If other coaches say this, the team will definitely feel that it is just to inspire fighting spirit, but many players in Manchester City have a very high respect for Wan Sheng. Therefore, when Wan Sheng said this, everyone thinks he is expressing the facts.
Therefore, the psychological pressure of every player is much less, and they appear with confidence in winning.
Newcastle United is definitely unwilling to be a stepping stone for Manchester City to break the record. Before the game, head coach Allardyce did a lot of preparation work and said seriously in the media, "Newcastle United is not a soft persimmon, we will definitely do our best to stop them from breaking the record!"
Allardyce is still a bit authoritative, and his words are at least half fulfilled - all efforts.
Newcastle United tried their best from the first minute of the game, and every player who played was working hard to play, which led to them even suppressing Manchester City for a while.
In the 13th minute, Michael Irving received a pass from Gremy and shot 15 meters in front of the goal, helping Newcastle United lead the score.
"Irving Irving Irving Irving!!"
"Irving helped Newcastle United take the lead! 1:0, this goal is to prove that it is not that easy for Manchester City to set records while stepping on Newcastle United!"
The broadcast of St James Park Stadium was inspiring and every Newcastle fan was trying to cheer.
They were very bored before the game.
The match between Newcastle United and Manchester City has not yet begun, but most British media have supported Manchester City. Many reports say the meaning of it is as if Manchester City has defeated Newcastle United.
Now that Newcastle United fans are very happy to see the team lead Manchester City.
However, their happiness lasted for less than ten minutes.
Although Newcastle United took the lead and scored first, it does not mean that they can win. Manchester City players came with confidence in winning this game. Even if they lost a goal, their mentality was not affected. Instead, they played more.
After the two teams re-charged, Manchester City hit Newcastle United for more than 8 minutes.
Finally, in the 21st minute, Manchester City's offense gained. After Silva and Martin Petrov passed three consecutive passes on the left, Martin Petrov passed a long pass and jumped straight to the back point. Torres inserted and grabbed the position and kicked the ball into the goal.
“gooal!gooal!”
"Torres! Torres!"
"1:1, in just eight minutes, Manchester City tied the score!"
After Torres scored, Manchester City continued to suppress Newcastle United, but Newcastle United played very tenaciously, and it was not easy to continue scoring. As a result, neither side was able to score again until the 80 minutes of the game.
In the 80th minute, Manchester City got a good chance.
Silva was tackled to the ground by Joey Patton at the front of the penalty area. Joey Patton's defense continued his fierceness when he was at Manchester City. He was about to face his former teammates, and he showed no mercy at all. Fortunately, Silva did not have any major issues. After standing up from the grass, Manchester City organized a free kick.
Ivan Kreu was responsible for the free throw.
Ivan Krue has long been the team's number one free thrower. Usually when he wants to free throws, other teammates will not compete. At the same time, his free kicks have become famous in the Premier League and even in Europe. Therefore, Newcastle United attaches great importance to the organization of defense. They lined up four-person walls, and other players also stood nearby waiting to grab the ball.
Manchester City seemed to be competing for the frontcourt, but Ivan Krew still chose to shoot directly.
The shot made a high arc.
The football flew to the highest point and turned straight to the far corner. Irish goalkeeper Jiwen made a mistake in his judgment. When he jumped up, he found that his hands could no longer reach the ball, so he could only watch the ball fall from the top of his head.
1:2!
Manchester City overtakes the score! (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!