Three days after playing Manchester United, Manchester City ushered in the third round of the League Cup.
The opponent Manchester City drew this time was Fulham from London.
The team coached by Hodgson had just lost to Wolves 1-2 away from home. When they visited the Etihad Stadium, they turned away and took advantage of the opportunity of the experienced Manchester City to rotate significantly.
scored and took the lead 1-0.
This time everyone saw Fulham's hope of defeating Manchester City.
But in the 52nd minute of the second half, Ireland, Lallana and Hazard connected, and the Belgian winger assisted Ireland to score a goal, equalizing the score for Manchester City.
Afterwards, Manchester City relied on a corner kick opportunity and Kompany scored a goal.
In the end, Manchester City reversed Fulham 2-1.
Although the game was won, it was very dangerous.
Unlike the main lineup, which shines and is overwhelming, Manchester City's bench lineup is obviously still relatively thin.
After the game, the Times and other media also pointed out that the thickness of the lineup is likely to become a big problem for Manchester City.
Gao Shen insisted that Manchester City's lineup has no problems and the players performed very well.
But within the team, both Gary Cahill and Jordan Henderson are responsible for the goals conceded by the team.
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It’s the weekend again, the seventh round of the Premier League.
Liverpool, who have been winning consecutive games recently, took the lead and beat Hull City 6-1 at home.
Torres scored a hat-trick, Babel scored twice, and with Gerrard's goal, Liverpool slaughtered Hull City at home and continued their winning streak in the Premier League.
After Manchester United suffered a 0-8 home defeat to their rivals in the same city in the last round, this time they visited Stoke City. They also played very poorly in the first half, but in the second half, they relied on two goals from Berbatov and O'Shea.
, defeated the opponent two to zero.
Interestingly, the two goalscorers were both the players who performed the most poorly against Manchester City in the previous round, especially O'Shea, who was nailed to the humiliation pillar of the disastrous defeat to Manchester City.
But this time, both of them became the contributors to Manchester United's away victory.
Tottenham Hotspur relied on Robbie Keane's four goals to beat Burnley 5-0 at home.
Arsenal defeated Fulham 1-0 away from home.
Only Chelsea suffered its first defeat of the season in an away game against Wigan Athletic due to the red card of main goalkeeper Petr Cech. They lost 3-1 to Wigan Athletic.
After Manchester City returned to home, with Robben's brace and Gareth Bale's goal, they defeated West Ham United 3-1 and continued to maintain their unbeatable record.
As a result, after seven rounds of games, Manchester City continues to lead the Premier League standings with a complete victory record, followed by Liverpool.
These are also the only two teams left in the Premier League that have maintained a winning record so far this season.
The morning after playing against the Hammers, Manchester City conducted recovery training and then had another day off in the afternoon.
This is the advantage of playing one game a week.
Gao Shen quietly traveled south from Manchester and arrived at London's Heathrow Airport.
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Although Gao Shen wore a mask throughout the whole process, he was still recognized by fans at Heathrow Airport.
The passenger looked at Gao Shen in disbelief with a very exaggerated expression, and almost shouted.
Fortunately, Gao Shen was quick to think and quickly stabilized him, and then started signing autographs and taking photos together.
As a result, this guy is still a thief.
The former one vowed that he would never leak anything. The second one posted a photo of himself and Gao Shen on Twitter as soon as he left the airport. He also liked Gao Shen and said that he had good luck when he first arrived in the UK.
This made Gao Shen very speechless, and he had the urge to rush out and tear him apart.
Damn it, you have redefined the word "leak"!
However, soon, he no longer cared about these things.
Su Qing's flight is coming soon.
He had the housekeeping staff come over a week in advance and take care of the house from top to bottom.
After that, he went to the supermarket himself and prepared a lot of Su Qing's favorite ingredients and snacks, hoping that Su Qing could also show off her cooking skills in Cheshire, and then canceled all non-work appointments during this period.
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Gao Shen originally said that he would arrange for a driver to come to London to pick him up.
But after thinking about it later, he decided to come over in person.
He really couldn't sit still.
It's like right now, he's already standing at Heathrow Airport, but he's still very anxious and excited.
He fantasized over and over in his mind, what would his reaction be when he saw Su Qing? How would she react?
She should still be very reserved.
She has always had this kind of character. Even if Mount Tai collapses, she will probably not be confused.
Growing up, it was really rare to see her lose her temper.
The most I can say is to be excited.
We haven’t seen each other for a few months. Although we call and video chat every day, it’s not as good as being by my side in person.
Wait...wait...
The flight from the capital landed, and Gao Shen's heart became even hotter and more anxious.
It was hard to wait until people came out.
Gao Shen anxiously searched for that familiar figure in the crowd.
When he saw it, he suddenly felt a little dazed again.
Is it her?
He was a little unsure.
It felt different from the Su Qing in his impression, which made him a little stunned.
But soon, Su Qing also found him among the people picking up the plane.
She is very determined.
Even though Gao Shen was wearing a mask, a hat, and thick clothes, she still recognized him at a glance.
Then, after she pushed the suitcase out, she threw the suitcase in her hand away from a distance and rushed towards her.
This was completely beyond Gao Shen's expectation.
The young lady didn’t follow the script at all today, and she didn’t “act” according to her usual persona at all.
During this period, the two of them didn't even want to say a word, they just hugged each other like this.
After a long time, she let go, looked at Gao Shen carefully, and said her first words when she came to England.
"you lost weight."
As she spoke, tears welled up in her eyes, but she held it back, not to mention how touching she looked.
"Let's go, take me home!" She stretched out her hand.
Gao Shen was also moved, held her hand, walked over, grabbed the suitcase and left.
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From London to Manchester, she slept snuggled on Gao Shen's shoulder the whole time, holding Gao Shen's hand with both hands, as if she was afraid that he would disappear from her side.
Gao Shen sat motionless.
According to his original plan, he wanted to accompany her in London until noon tomorrow before returning to Manchester, but Su Qing wanted to go home.
Because she knew that Gao Shen was going to lead the team for training tomorrow afternoon, and she would stay at home alone by then.
So she wanted to go back to that strange yet familiar place as soon as possible.
Strange because it was her first time living there, familiar because Gao Shen had mentioned this home to her countless times.
So when she actually arrived at the door of her house, she didn't feel any excitement at all, she just turned back and smiled sweetly at Gao Shen.
"I didn't expect that we would also live in a large single-family garden villa!" Su Qing said cheerfully.
In the past, Gao Shen also lived in a villa in Naples, but there was no such a big garden.
Of course, Gao Shen basically doesn't have anything to do here. All housework is entrusted to the housekeeping company, and the garden outside is taken care of by a specialized gardening company. All expenses are paid by Manchester City, so Gao Shen doesn't need to worry at all.
At most, I just need to call if I have anything to do.
After Su Qing entered the house, she walked around familiarly.
She had seen the entire house inside and out before during the video with Gao Shen, and even many of the soft furnishings were her suggestions, so she was no stranger to this place.
But after visiting the downstairs, she came to Gao Shen's side gracefully, held his hand, gently scratched the palm of his hand, and asked softly and coquettishly: "Why don't you take me to visit our bedroom?"
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Gao Shen has been holding it back for a long time, how can he still hold it back?
"Now it's just the two of us inside and outside this house. Where is the bedroom?"
After saying that, like a big gray wolf, he eagerly pounced on the beautiful sheep.
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The next afternoon.
At Manchester City's Carrington training base, everyone looked at coach Gao Shen strangely.
Gao Shen stood beside the training ground and watched as usual, but today he held his waist the whole time.
This made everyone on the team feel puzzled and very funny.
The British paparazzi are really powerful. They are so pervasive that they dug up the news that Gao Shen went to Heathrow Airport to pick up his fiancée yesterday. By coincidence, he sprained his waist again today...
Well, it’s really easy to relate.
"Boss, it's understandable that we meet again after a long separation, but our health is important!" David Luiz said pretending to be concerned.
Gao Shen tilted his head and was about to say something.
"Yes, boss, you are the most important person to us. You must pay attention to your health." Suarez also reminded.
"Boss, you have a weak waist, so you should pay more attention to exercising your core strength." Giroud suggested.
"I won't say anything, boss..."
Before Rakitic could finish speaking, Gao Shen directly shouted stop.
"I really twisted my waist, where did you think you were going?" Gao Shen wondered.
I'm serious, I twisted it when I was moving things before going out in the morning.
You bastards, how could one of you think so evilly?
Also, are labor and management so weak?
"Yes, yes, we know it's twisted, so we need to control it." Kompany suppressed a smile.
Everyone else was laughing too hard.
In fact, everyone understands this kind of thing and it is normal.
Not to mention other things, before almost every important game, Gao Shen will tell the players to be restrained the night before the game at home.
It's just that Gao Shen usually asks them, but now they have a rare opportunity to "admonish" Gao Shen in turn. Therefore, the players don't care whether it's true or not, they just give advice anyway.
Gao Shen summoned the team's masseur, but it turned out that he didn't come, and it got darker and darker.
"I can only prove that he did twist his waist, but it was very slight. I'm sorry, I'm not Sherlock Holmes, so I can't find out the truth."
After saying that, the guy smiled shamelessly and walked away.
Gao Shen suddenly discovered that the world was full of malice.
However, soon, these guys stopped laughing.
Originally, Antonio Pintus would come over to take them on a long run after every training session, but today, this training was personally supervised by Gao Shen, which made each of them feel ecstatic, so unhappy!
