The strongest blade in football

Chapter 129 The Light in the Night

It should have been a great start to the season with two goals against Timišvaeh.

But on the contrary... From then on it was a difficult time.

More than two months later, looking at the cause and effect, Wang Nuo could easily see that the signs of struggle were already in sight.

On the one hand, whether it is competition or training, he has made a lot of efforts, almost doing his best.

But it was this wholehearted devotion to football that caused Wang Nuo to feel a little reconciled.

Adebayor briefly resumed his relationship with Mancini, and would occasionally get a little playing time. In the league, Wang Nuo was still the one who sat on the bench. He competed with Adebayor for posts. Of course, occasionally Will also replace the winger teammates.

Mancini has been using the 451 formation in the first few rounds of the league. Carlos Tevez is like an iron man and a monster, constantly playing and scoring goals. As of the 10th round of the Premier League, he scored 7 goals alone!

Wang Nuo couldn't shake his position at all.

The limited playing time in the league was accidentally obtained because Balotelli was injured for more than a month.

From the third round of the Premier League, Wang Nuo's playing time in the league is as follows:

11 minutes against Sunderland, 16 minutes against Blackburn, 3 minutes against Wigan Athletic, absent against Chelsea, 15 minutes against Newcastle United, seven minutes against Blackpool, absent against Arsenal, 7 minutes against Wolves.

As of the 10th round of the Premier League, Wang Nuo has played only 8 minutes in the past 62 rounds of the league. He has been waiting on the bench for almost every game!
And unfortunately, in the Premier League, he failed to score a single goal.

But can it be said that Wang Nuo's performance is not good?

No, because during this period, he scored 5 goals and 2 assists in a total of 2 games in the Europa League and the English League Cup!
In the UEFA Europa League group stage, facing the "old rival" Salzburg Red Bull, Wang Nuo was sent to the field by Mancini, and he scored the first goal with a strong shot, helping the team win the away game 2-0.

Against Juventus in the Europa League, he assisted Adam Johnson to score the equalizing goal to ensure the team scored a point at home.

In the third and fourth games of the UEFA Europa League group stage against South Lech, Poland, Wang Nuo also made great contributions to the team with one goal and one assist at home and away.

Counting the two Europa League play-off games, Wang Nuo's statistics in the Europa League this season are 6 goals and 4 assists in 3 games. Such statistics can be called luxurious!
He ranks sixth in the Europa League scorer list and fifth in assists.

Therefore, the lack of results in the league has nothing to do with Wang Nuo's level and efficiency, it is purely because of too little playing time!
Wang Nuo felt that the boss was really a stubborn guy. His tactics were conservative, and even after Balotelli returned from injury, he started playing from the bench.

It was not until the end of October that Manchester City lost 10 to 0 at home to Arsenal that Mancini made a change and tried the 3 used in the cup.

Wang Nuo understands that the boss's intention is to balance the contradiction between the players' physical strength and multi-line combat, but the personnel can achieve harmony through flexible changes, not just sitting on a seesaw and fixing his "specialized post" at the same position. Cup.

On major domestic forums, Mancini was scolded by countless fans for not giving Wang Nuo enough playing time in the league, and many fans even jumped over the wall to attack him on foreign forums.

Fortunately, Wang Nuo, the biggest fan club in China, has kept calm enough, and the overall mood in Manchester City's post bar is also good. Many rational fans are also calling on everyone not to go out and do things over the wall, so as not to be self-defeating. To trick Wang Nuo.

Wang Zhongshi has been very busy in the past few months. He has to deal with various domestic media and needs to communicate with the Football Association. It took him a lot of effort to avoid the tasteless cups before his son was forced to return to China to play in the Asian Youth Championship.

From WF Cup training to Sendai Cup training, if Wang Nuo is called back during the critical period of competition for the opportunity to play in the Premier League, Manchester City will basically be cold.

Wang Nuo did not rule out playing any game on behalf of the national youth team, but Wang Zhongshi, as a father, did not want his son to participate out of selfishness.

Because Wang Nuo is 19 years old, and the upper age limit is also pressed in the Asian Youth Championship, he is only willing to let Wang Nuo participate in the Asian Youth Championship group stage and subsequent games.

Of course, if the national youth can enter the World Youth Championship, Wang Nuo will participate next year.

Wang Zhongshi communicated with the Football Association and the head coach of the National Youth Team Su Maozhen many times, and finally agreed that Wang Nuo will not participate in the training camp and joint training. He will only fly back to China overnight after the Premier League game against Newcastle United on October 10 to participate in the Asian Youth Championship. The next two games of the group stage.

For Wang Nuoneng's return, Su Maozhen, the coach of the national youth team, was also very happy. The team under him is very strong in front, middle and back. The fly in the ointment is the front line and midfielder.

And Wang Nuo is at the level of the Premier League. After returning to play in the Asian Youth Championship, it is purely a dimensionality reduction blow.

When Wang Nuo was selected for the National Youth U19 Asian Youth Championship squad and news came out that he would come back to play on the international match day, it was undoubtedly like a nuclear bomb detonated in the national football world.

The fans are almost crazy. Since the beginning of this year, Wang Nuo has gradually become the hope of Chinese football. After half a year, he has accumulated a large number of fans in China!

The tickets for the Asian Youth Championship, which could not be sold in ZB, sold tens of thousands more in a few days as long as there were Wang Nuo's games. There is no doubt that fans came here to see Wang Nuo's skills of!
Handsome appearance, superb golf skills, private life without negative news, age full of expectations, coupled with Wang Zhongshi's public relations team and the guidance of public opinion, Wang Nuo's reputation among domestic athletes is perfect.

Including many media have made some voices, saying that Wang Nuo has the hope of becoming the "Yao Ming of football".

From the beginning of the year to the present, Chinese football has experienced the largest and most powerful crackdown on counterfeiting and crimes in history. A group of former senior officials of the Chinese Football Association have also been sacked because of this. It is the darkest time in history.

For the fans, Wang Nuo is almost the only light in the dark night.

In the anticipation of everyone, Wang Nuo boarded the plane back to China.

He hadn't returned to China for ten years, and the motherland seemed kind and unfamiliar to Wang Nuo. When he saw the land of the motherland through the porthole, Wang Nuo was both nervous and excited.

There was another episode on the plane——

A female flight attendant on this flight was a football fan. She came to ask Wang Nuo to take a photo. At this moment, several people on the plane recognized Wang Nuo's identity, which caused a little commotion.

As soon as the plane landed, Wang Nuo walked out of the exit and was shocked. Hundreds of fans came to the scene, and many media reporters were waiting on the sidelines.

Fans held a large red banner reading "Welcome Wang Nuo home!"

When everyone saw Wang Nuo, who was tall and big in ordinary sportswear, they became restless and screamed like fans.

"Welcome home, Wang Nuo!"

Dong Chao, the president of the "Life for Nuo Fan Club", represented the brothers of the fan club, holding a large bouquet of flowers and handing them to Wang Nuo. It was also the first time he saw Wang Nuo in person, and he couldn't hide his excitement.

Wang Zhongshi, who came with the fan club, gave his son a big hug, and suddenly there was a sound of "clicking" and taking pictures around him.

Not long after, Wang Nuo received several more bouquets of flowers, but in the end Wang Nuo couldn't take them all, so his assistant Jangresh Luya took them.

He patiently chatted with the fans who came to pick him up while signing autographs, without any star airs at all.

After signing, it took a few minutes to accept a simple interview with the media.

Then, Wang Zhongshi led a smiling middle-aged man from the side. He was specially sent by Yu Hongchen, the deputy director of the Football Management Center, to pick up the plane. The car was ready.

In the evening, Yu Hongchen, deputy director of the Football Management Center, hosted a banquet for Wang Nuo and his son. Unfortunately, many of the dishes on the table were not what Wang Nuo usually could eat. He only ate two of them with chopsticks.

Anyway, the intention was in place, and Yu Hongchen conveyed enough kindness, they had never been so kind to a player.

All because, at this time, Wang Nuo is almost the last fig leaf of Chinese football.

(End of this chapter)