Glory Greenery

Chapter 421 Difficult Champions League

In Yang Mo's apartment in Manchester, Barbara is busy in the kitchen, carefully preparing a Hungarian breakfast that is said to be delicious for Yang Mo.

And Yang Mo, sitting on the sofa and reading the newspaper, wearing slacks and a cotton plaid shirt, looks like a family man.

His slightly masculine appearance is not a popular look in China now, but it is very popular in Europe.

Today is the second day after the match against Aston Villa.

The continuous games made the players exhausted, and Mancini had to take a day off to let everyone have a good rest.

Although Yang Mo didn't think he was that tired, he thought it would be a good choice to take a break when he thought that he would be away for the sixth round of the league two days later.

After returning to the league, he first beat Arsenal and then helped the team to be active in the Carabao Cup. His performance can be regarded as meeting the expectations of the outside world.

So in today's newspapers, many media did not hesitate to praise him. These British media are all unscrupulous guys, and they are not much worse than domestic ones. Just read some words.

If he performs poorly in the next game, it is estimated that some guys will jump out and point fingers.

When he finished reading the newspaper in his hand, Yang Mo heard his girlfriend calling him for dinner behind his back.

On the dining table, there were some cakes that looked like they were baked, and a red soup with potatoes, meat, etc. in it. It was hot and smelled good.

"How is my dear?" Barbara, who hadn't taken off her apron yet, had the words 'quick compliment me' written on her face.

"Excellent, so much better than Joey's ham and beans."

Yang Mo is not a person who doesn't understand style. Although he hasn't tasted it yet, it doesn't affect him to express his praise first.

And the Joey in his mouth is the chef at Manchester City's training base.

Having been in the UK for more than a year, what he can't accept the most is the food here. As a citizen of the country of foodies, the beans and those black sausages for breakfast make him sneer.

After the pleasant breakfast, Yang Mo, together with Barbara, went to the suburban farm with the Ibrahimovic couple, Silva and his girlfriend.

Originally, he made an appointment with Aguero, but unfortunately, Aguero seemed to have a conflict with the Polo King's daughter, and the short notice could not come.

Pleasant days are always short, after a day of vacation, hastily trained and rushed to London, Manchester City's sixth round of the league began.

In this guest game at Calvin Farm, even though Aguero was unable to play due to injury, with Yang Mo's outstanding performance, Manchester City easily defeated Fulham 0-3 in the away game.

In this game, Yang Mo completed two passes and one shot, winning the best of the game.

And Ibrahimovic, once again proved that as long as Yang Mo is on the court, he will no longer be in a strange state of depression, and scored a goal with Yang Mo's assist.

In addition to Yang Mo and Ibrahimovic, Silva scored twice with assists and successfully increased the number of assists to 4, ranking first in Manchester City's assist list.

After six league rounds, Manchester City has four wins, one draw and one loss with 13 points and returned to the top three in the standings. It is temporarily behind Chelsea with five wins and one draw with 16 points, and ahead of Everton with 13 points by goal difference.

Manchester City's rivals Manchester United, who were originally in the same city before Manchester City, temporarily ranked fourth in the standings with a difference of one point because they were defeated by Tottenham this round.

Although the results at the beginning of the season are not enough to determine the champion of the left back, the fact that Chelsea's unstoppable start and Everton's sudden outbreak still make this season's Premier League a little different from last season.

The rhythm of the Premier League last season was a red-blue duel in Manchester, but this season, it has begun to feel a bit more aggressive.

After the end of the league with Fulham, Manchester City successfully completed a three-game winning streak in domestic competitions.

And this three-game winning streak is also Manchester City's first three-game winning streak this season, because these three games happened after Yang Mo returned to the league, and the outside world also largely attributed the credit to the changes brought about by Yang Mo.

However, Yang Mo has become accustomed to this kind of media praise after the victory. Now the main purpose of him and his teammates is the second UEFA Champions League group match that is coming up in a few days.

This time they have to face the opponent, the Bundesliga champion Dortmund.

In Yang Mo's last season at Bayern, Dortmund had already begun to rise after years of dormancy, driving Bayern off the throne.

Last season, Dortmund once again beat Bayern to win the league title and achieved the defense of the Bundesliga.

However, Dortmund's strength in the league has not been reflected in the Champions League. Last season, Dortmund was eliminated in the group stage with the last result.

This season, Dortmund introduced players such as Royce and Siebel, and their ambitions for the Champions League are self-evident.

However, after the start of this season, Dortmund's performance in both the league and the Champions League has not been satisfactory.

In the Champions League, Dortmund beat Ajax 1-0 at home, and it was a bit difficult to win.

In the league, Bayern, who had three wins, two draws and one loss in the six rounds of the league, spent huge sums of money on signings, and Bayern, who had regained their dominance in the first six consecutive victories, was firmly under the pressure.

Therefore, against Dortmund, Manchester City, whether it is the coaching staff or the players, is somewhat contemptuous.

However, when the game started on October 10, everyone immediately discovered that this Dortmund team was not as "weak" as imagined.

And when Dortmund center Lewandowski scored the first goal in the 7th minute of the first half, Manchester City realized that this Hornet was even more difficult to deal with than Real Madrid in the previous game.

And it's more than a little bit difficult to deal with!

After scoring the goal, Dortmund immediately focused on the midfield. The constant fighting and strangling made it difficult for Manchester City to create threats for a while.

Due to Aguero's absence, Dortmund can put more defensive power on Yang Mo's side.

In the 42nd minute of the first half, Yang Mo received a pass from Silva, and just after taking the ball a few steps away, he was double-teamed by two Dortmund players.

Relying on his physical fitness and skills, Yang Mo, who broke through the siege, was pushed down by Dortmund midfielder Gundogan with a tackle before he had time to observe the surrounding situation.

Yang Mo feels aggrieved by Dortmund's overwhelming defense against him.

The opponent didn't prevent him from passing the ball at all, but they tried their best to prevent him from dribbling the ball close to the penalty area in the backcourt. If only two players defended him, he wouldn't be like this, but it would be a siege of three to four people at every turn, even if he Also difficult to parry.

The most important thing is that Miner, who replaced Aguero, lacks Aguero's speed and breakthrough ability, so it is difficult to pose a threat on the right and give Ibrahimovic support.

The opportunities created when Yang Mo involved Dortmund here are difficult to be caught by his teammates, and even if they are caught, it is difficult to grasp.

However, the most critical reasons are not these, but that there is a problem with Manchester City's positioning of Dortmund!

On the surface, this is the fourth team in Group D, but in fact, it is a more difficult opponent than Real Madrid.

0-1, this is the score of the first half of the game.

Whether it is a fan or a commentator, everyone can see that Manchester City, who is at home, was a little confused by Dortmund's stick.

When the game was passive in the first half, Manchester City's coach Mancini couldn't even take emergency measures. Obviously, this was caused by insufficient preparation before the game.

Entering the locker room, Yang Mo saw that everyone was silent, and even Mancini showed faint panic.

"Coach Mancini, please arrange the tactics for the second half."

As soon as Yang Mo said this, Mancini realized what he should do, and hurriedly stood in front of the tactical board and began to arrange tactics.

Seeing this, Yang Mo couldn't help shaking his head secretly.

After the start of the second half, Mancini replaced Richards with Zabaleta. He wanted to use the full-back's forward ability to enhance Manchester City's attack power on the right, make up for the impact of Aguero's injury, and seize Yang Mo to create defensive weakness.

However, when Zabaleta came on the field, Mancini quickly discovered that due to his ability, it was still difficult for Zabaleta to make up for the impact of Aguero's absence.

Dortmund's desperate defense in the midfield made it difficult for Zabaleta to have a chance to enter the frontcourt. On the contrary, Zabaleta's transition forward caused Manchester City to be almost broken by Dortmund.

However, after Manchester City began to face up to Dortmund, Dortmund's offense became difficult and conservative.

After all, with two players, Yang Mo and Ibrahimovic, in the frontcourt, no team has to worry about it.

In fact, the most important thing is Yang Mo. As an opponent in the Bundesliga, Dortmund is unwilling to face Yang Mo.

It's just a pity that Ibrahimovic's speed is a bit slow. In the fast-paced counterattack, the cooperation with Yang Mo was not as coordinated as Aguero's, which made Manchester City miss several opportunities.

In this way, the game came to the end a little bit when Manchester City couldn't attack for a long time, Dortmund replaced the defensive player and deliberately shrunk.

City paid the price for their arrogance as the referee blew the full-time whistle and looked at the scoreboard at 0-1.

Three consecutive victories in the domestic arena, one draw and one loss in the Champions League, Manchester City's performance surprised the outside world.

In this game, Yang Mo, who was strictly restricted by Dortmund throughout the whole game, as the captain, naturally became the target of losing.

Just like Yang Mo had already arrived at the ceremony, when the game ended, many media immediately jumped out to express his inaction in this game.

Faced with this kind of criticism, Yang Mo was too lazy to refute and had no time to refute.

Because after the Champions League match between Manchester City and Dortmund, they will usher in the seventh round of the league just one day apart.

On October 10, Manchester City sat at home and ushered in the rival Sunderland club.

In this game, Aguero finally returned after a [-]-day truce due to a leg strain.

In fact, even without Aguero, Sunderland would not be Manchester City's opponent in this game, but with Aguero, Sunderland lost more thoroughly.

It seems that to vent the anger of the defeat in the Champions League and the criticism from the media, Yang Mo, who has been abusing food, shows no mercy.

Twelve minutes into the first half, Yang Mo broke through from the left and then cut inside. He scored the first goal with an unexpectedly unconventional left-footed shot.

In the 21st minute of the first half, Silva took a corner kick to the penalty area, and Yang Mo volleyed with his left foot to complete the goal and scored twice.

When the game progressed to the 43rd minute of the first half, Yang Mo broke into the penalty area with the ball and was pushed directly into the penalty area by the Sunderland players. The referee awarded a penalty kick.

From the position of twelve yards, Yang Mo's violent volley shot directly through the goal!

Before the first half was over, Yang Mo completed a hat-trick and completely killed the game.

After entering the second half, Yang Mo assisted Aguero's first goal after returning from injury with a cross from the left in a counterattack.

After that, Mancini found that Yang Mo's excessive performance caused Sunderland to foul frequently. Mancini, who was afraid of Yang Mo's injury, replaced Yang Mo with Nasri.

After Yang Mo left the field, Manchester City once again relied on Ibrahimovic to assist Nasri to score a goal, and finally beat Sunderland 5-0 at home, sweeping away the haze of losing to Dortmund before.

Sure enough, after the game, because of Yang Mo's three-shot and one-pass statistics, the media immediately collectively praised Yang Mo for his previous Champions League losses.

"Hehe, as expected, these newspapers should be used to wipe buttocks!"

After the game, Yang Mo was very disdainful when he saw the media acting like grass on the wall.

After the match against Sunderland, Yang Mo, who has fought repeatedly, finally got a precious rest time, because the FIFA international match day in October is coming again.

During the [-]-day FIFA international competition day, Yang Mo only needs to play one world preliminaries.

On October 10, the Chinese team ushered in the fourth match of the top ten World Preliminaries. The opponent of the national team was the Oman team.

For the Oman team, old Chinese fans have a different feeling when they mention it.

A full ten years ago, at the Wulihe Stadium, in the World Cup preliminaries against Oman, Yu Genwei scored the goal that determined the fate of the Chinese team, allowing the Chinese team to enter the World Cup for the first time.

This time, as long as the Chinese team can beat Oman, the points can reach 12 points.

In this case, in addition to Japan, Oman, Australia, and Iraq want to overtake the Chinese team, which is almost only theoretically possible.

Therefore, the importance of the outcome of this game to the Chinese team is self-evident.

After a day's rest in Manchester, Yang Mo called the plane back to China on October 10. This time, besides his clingy girlfriend, there were also several members of his personal team.

Taking advantage of this FIFA International Match Day, Yang Mo will also take time to complete some commercial activities.

So after returning to China, he did not rush to the national team for training immediately, but went to Shanghai to attend several activities first.

Interestingly, when seeing Yang Mo's girlfriend Barbara traveling with her, many merchants enthusiastically wanted to invite Barbara to promote it. Before that, it was Black Yeh who got the opportunity.

However, as Blackye shifted his work focus to North America and broke up with Yang Mo, Blackye's business influence in China declined sharply and he lost this advantage.

But now, when these advantages came to Yang Mo's new girlfriend, Barbara Palvin, the girl refused without hesitation.

"Oh my god! I have to go to Paris in a while. The company wants me to sign a contract with Victoria's Secret. I haven't decided yet. How can I take the job again!"

Hearing his girlfriend's words, Yang Mo covered his head, thinking that he would not be surprised at all when he heard the news that his girlfriend was terminated by the company one morning.

(End of this chapter)