Chapter 649: Chapter 648: Wenger’s Cunning Plan to Capture Cesc
"Desailly’s continuous mistakes have left Manchester City quite passive."
"Bolton sees the hope for an equalizer or even a win."
"To be honest, Desailly should have been subbed off by now, even putting Feng Te on would be a better option. At least Feng Te is stable!"
Feng Te: Are you sure?
"Stable at making mistakes, that’s also a kind of stability! At the very least, it can make Cech concentrate more!"
Feng Te: 666!
Sure enough, on the sidelines, Deschamps showed the substitution card.
Deschamps: So all the good stuff is for Guardiola to do, and I’m the scapegoat, right?
Guardiola: Can’t help it, who told you to be familiar with Desailly.
Subsequently, Thiago Silva was subbed on in place of Desailly.
Changing him at this time was already showing a lot of face for Desailly.
Desailly knew this as well.
Additionally, there was a change in the forward position, with Torres replacing Baggio.
The 68th minute.
Just after coming on, Torres created a crisis.
He fell in the penalty box, and the Manchester City players quickly surrounded the referee.
However, the referee shook his head repeatedly, signaling that Torres’ fall did not constitute a foul but was a normal confrontation.
The Manchester City players were quite dissatisfied.
The 75th minute.
Deng Kai passed the ball through with a direct through-ball, sending the football out through the ribs.
Torres broke forward, hitting fifth gear, and his speed maxed out in an instant.
He managed to stop the ball before the baseline and then made a back pass.
Adriano completed a violent, aesthetic shot on goal from near the penalty spot.
Batistuta goal!
"Wow! Adriano has scored in three consecutive games!"
"He really can do it!"
"Adriano has become a forward that Manchester City fans can rely on!"
"Four to two! Manchester City has once again widened the gap to two goals!"
"Of course, Torres, who provided the assist, also had a very eye-catching performance. Since coming on, he has used his speed to frequently attack the opposing defense, producing a very clear effect."
"On Manchester City’s forward line, whether it’s the new addition David Villa or the young player Torres, both are performing better and better, creating a virtuous cycle, and their attacking group will surely be enviable in the future."
"Torres has great potential, as long as he stays injury-free, there’s no problem with him becoming a top-class forward!"
The commentator’s mouth shone as if illuminated.
Merely five minutes later.
Deng Kai delivered another through-ball.
Torres received the ball and accelerated, dribbling past his opponents, but was taken down by a flying tackle.
His opponent was shown a red card and sent off the field right away.
But after being checked by the team doctor, Torres couldn’t continue the game due to his injury.
David Villa came on as a substitute.
Torres’s expression on the bench was heavy with concern.
Originally, his competition with Villa was fairly even.
But with Villa playing well in the past few games, Torres had started to fall behind a bit.
Today, he finally had a chance to play, but ended up injured.
In this way... Baggio’s spot might just belong to Villa now!
That’s fate.
The 83rd minute.
Just after coming on, Villa with his vigorous energy gave the opposition a show of force, receiving the ball on the left flank, cutting into the penalty area, and taking a shot from a narrow angle.
The football hit the side netting.
The eighty-eighth minute.
Thiago Silva sent a pass to Tu Lei on the right.
Tu Lei passed the ball to Ribery.
After successfully cutting inside and taking a couple of dribbles, Ribery shot from just outside the right of the penalty area, aiming for the far post and scoring.
He curved a superb shot with his left foot.
That’s the advantage of being able to shoot with both feet.
Eventually, the game ended with a score of five to two.
Ribery, with two assists and two goals, was chosen as the man of the match.
Deng Kai scored a king’s goal twice over.
Adriano contributed an assist and a goal, tallying five goals in four games, making a name for himself on the scorer’s leaderboard.
After a draw in their opening game, Manchester City secured three consecutive Premier League victories!
Their points soared to third in the league, trailing only Arsenal and Manchester United.
Both of these teams had maintained a perfect record in the league so far.
And after this game, their next opponent would be... Arsenal!
This was destined to be a spotlight battle.
It was a clash of "challengers."
Last season, Manchester City sniped Arsenal, snatching away the title of "Manchester United’s challenger" from them, and helping Manchester United make a comeback to lift the Premier League Championship Trophy.
This season, both teams had been champing at the bit early on.
Wenger said that this was the most important game for them so far this season, and they had to win it.
Maxa was equally bullish, believing that Manchester City had reached their prime form and had the full strength to defeat Arsenal once again!
On September 13th, the fifth round of the Premier League, the Challengers’ Derby kicked off with passion!
Henry, the king of Highbury, put Arsenal ahead, helping the Gunners take the lead.
The next Ronaldo, Adriano, received a pass from Deng Kai and blasted the ball into the net, continuing his scoring streak and helping his team equalize.
In the final moments of the first half, Arsenal played a beautiful piece of football, practically passing the ball into Manchester City’s goal with the effort of the entire team.
Pires scored a goal so easy that even his grandmother could have scored it.
In the second half, Manchester City strengthened their offense.
However, "London’s Chengji Sihan," Wu Xudong, taking a pass from Pires, went on a remarkable solo counter-attack and rewrote the score to three to one!
On the Manchester City side, a substitution was made with Fabregas and David Villa entering the game.
As a result, the game took an unexpected turn.
In just ten minutes, Fabregas scored two goals, helping his team equalize once again and dazzling the whole of London.
In the end, both sides drew three to three.
Manchester City failed to defeat Arsenal.
Nor did Arsenal leave with three points from Manchester City.
Instead, Manchester United took advantage of the situation to top the table.
After the game, Wenger praised Fabregas: "We came close to signing Fabregas! I have always thought that not signing him was our biggest loss, and this game proved it."
"I truly hope that Fabregas could join Arsenal. Barcelona’s sports department wasted too much of our time, allowing Manchester City to take advantage. I am very angry about this."
"Once I saw Fabregas’s performance at La Masia Film and Television Academy, I knew he was the type of central midfielder I had always been looking for!"
"He belongs to Arsenal by birth!"
Listening to Wenger’s interview, Guardiola’s expression turned quite ugly alongside him.
"What’s wrong, Guardiola?" Feng Te asked.
Guardiola snorted coldly, "Wenger is using this method to stoke Fabregas’s ambition, trying to create problems in Manchester City’s dressing room."
"Given Manchester City’s current midfield lineup, Fabregas’s role is actually as Deng’s backup, or when the team needs to fully unleash their attacking power by replacing Tu Lei, driving the game alongside Deng in a dual-core."
"But no matter what, he’s not likely to have an absolute starting position in the team, let alone being the core."
Maxa: "So what’s there to fear? Fabregas signed with us for five years. I see in the team’s plans that they intend to give him a starting position in three years."
