On the evening of July 16th, AT&T Stadium in Los Angeles, USA.
Manchester City ushered in the first warm-up match of the training camp in the United States, and their opponent was the Mexican American team.
It's a coincidence that Gao Shen was thinking about poaching Jackson Martinez from the Mexican American team, but now he happened to do it.
Once the game started, Manchester City took control of the situation and took the lead in the 12th minute.
Then in the 16th and 27th minutes, Manchester City scored two goals.
After a change of sides in the second half, Manchester City made a large number of substitutions, and Yaya Toure scored a goal.
In the end, Manchester City defeated the Mexican American team 4-0.
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On the evening of July 19th, Empire Stadium in Vancouver, Canada.
Manchester City's opponent in the second game is the Vancouver Whitecaps.
In the first fifteen minutes, Robin van Persie opened the scoring for Manchester City with a single shot.
But in the 30th minute, the Vancouver Whitecaps successfully pulled a goal back.
In the 39th minute, Leighton Baines and Hazard passed the ball continuously on the left, allowing Van Persie to score another victory.
After changing sides in the second half, Manchester City scored two goals in a row in the 68th and 84th minutes.
In the end, Blue Moon defeated the Vancouver Whitecaps 4-1 and successfully won two consecutive games.
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On the evening of July 24th, Home Depot Center, Los Angeles, USA.
The opponent in the third challenge match is the Los Angeles Galaxy.
It is worth mentioning that Gao Shen's former disciple Beckham appears in the starting lineup of Los Angeles Bank.
Manchester City launched a series of fierce attacks from the beginning, scoring two goals in the 12th and 20th minutes respectively.
In the 29th minute, Sturridge scored another victory, extending the score to 3-0.
In the second half, Beckham assisted his teammates to score with a free kick opportunity.
In the end, Manchester City defeated the Los Angeles Galaxy 3-1.
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Manchester City won three consecutive games in the North American warm-up match, which made all the media and fans feel very uncomfortable.
This is not profound at all!
You know, Gao Shen has always played very wildly in the past, especially in warm-up matches. He never sticks to the rules and always plays very wildly, so his results have always been very bad.
But this time, Manchester City's results turned out to be extremely impressive.
Not only did they win three consecutive games, but with an excellent record of scoring 11 goals and conceding only two goals in three games, they defeated Real Madrid and Manchester United and won the championship.
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After playing in the World Football Challenge, Manchester City ended nearly a month of training in the United States and flew from Los Angeles to Dublin, the capital of Ireland, to participate in the Dublin Super Cup.
This is a sports company owned by the famous TV production company Endemor, co-founded by the Irish Football Association, hoping to create a traditional event similar to Ajax's Amsterdam Cup and Arsenal's Emirates Cup.
This time, Manchester City, Inter Milan and Celtic were invited for the first time. At the same time, a group of stars were selected from the Irish Premier League to form a star team.
Manchester City's first game was against the Irish Stars.
Since Manchester City traveled a long distance from the United States to Ireland to participate in the competition, the team consumed more energy on the journey. Once they arrived in Ireland, they took a short rest before participating in the game, resulting in a less than ideal performance in the first half.
But in the second half, after the team made adjustments, they quickly made a killing.
Consecutive goals were scored in the 500,000, 59th, 75th and 83rd minutes respectively.
In the end, Manchester City defeated the Irish Stars 4-0.
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The challenge of this event is that the two games are held within two days.
The next day, Manchester City ushered in the most important game of the Super Cup, against Inter Milan.
As a result, only 67 seconds into the game, Leighton Baines cut in from the left and passed the ball. David Silva passed the defender and shot low with his left foot. The ball was slightly deflected, but Robin van Persie in front of the goal took advantage of it.
After a while, he rubbed the ball directly into Cesar's goal.
One to zero!
After that, Manchester City took the lead and Inter Milan adopted a defensive posture.
In the 18th minute, Yaya Toure scored the ball, Leighton Baines made a pass from the left, and Suarez hit the goal with a push shot, 2-0!
Yes, Gao Shen tried a two-forward approach in this game and paired Robin van Persie and Suarez.
Before the end of the first half, Robin van Persie's powerful header nearly scored another goal for Manchester City.
But just thirty-two seconds into the second half, Stankovic made a mistake in passing the ball from the backcourt, David Silva sent a through ball, and Suarez stepped in in time to extend the score for Manchester City, three to zero!
Before the end of the game, Hazard dribbled the ball from the left and passed in. Robinho pushed the ball in front of the goal and scored.
Four to zero!
Manchester City successfully defeated Inter Milan and won the Irish Super Cup.
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While Manchester City is still on its way back to Manchester from Ireland, European football has been shocked by Manchester City's warm-up match performance.
The main reason is not that Manchester City lacks such strength, but that the style of play completely does not match Gao Shen's past performance.
You know, in the past few years, from Naples to Manchester City, Gao Shen has always paid very little attention to warm-up matches, which resulted in his warm-up match results being extremely low.
Some fans even joked before that his warm-up match results were at the amateur level.
This is actually not wrong at all.
But this time, Manchester City won five consecutive games in the warm-up match, which is simply unbelievable.
Does this look like a team led by Gao Shen?
What's more important is that in these five games, Manchester City really played very excitingly and attacked vigorously.
So much so that when Gao Shen got off the plane with the team at Manchester Airport, he was blocked by the media reporters at the scene.
Regarding the team's performance this summer, Gao Shen said that he was also surprised.
"This proves that we are in a very good state and stage!"
Gao Shen's words are true or not.
Manchester City's internal competition keeps the players motivated.
It can be said that every player wants to take advantage of the summer training camp to strive for the main position in the new season.
This has led to many players, even like Yaya Toure, to start their own training before the summer training camp, and they work particularly hard during the training camp. I wonder, can such players perform well?
There are also players such as Van Persie, Suarez, Sturridge and Giroud, and the competition is also fierce.
Gao Shen is well aware of this situation.
He is also happy to use this kind of competition to help players get into better shape.
To put it bluntly, with Manchester City's current lineup configuration, there are really not many teams in European football that Manchester City can take seriously. Even Inter Milan's overall strength is much weaker than Manchester City.
In fact, Gao Shen was still having a lot of fun during this time.
He can play with anything like four-four-two, four-three-three, three-five-two, or even three-three-one-three.
But it may be because the players have a more thorough understanding of his tactical concepts and have a better understanding of each other. Regardless of Gao Shen's continuous adjustments and formation changes, they all played with ease.
Even if I don't get used to it occasionally, I will adjust quickly.
I have to say that after advanced command and adjustment, I became even more confident.
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August is coming soon.
European summer transfers have also begun to enter the final stage.
Although the tycoon Paris Saint-Germain has taken away most of its glory, the spending power of Premier League teams is still quite good.
For example, Manchester United successively introduced Phil Jones, Ashley Young and De Gea. These three players cost Manchester United a total of more than 50 million pounds, which can be regarded as Ferguson's hard work to win from the board of directors.
Arsenal also learned from the painful experience of missing out on the top four in the league in a row. This summer they successively introduced players such as Oxlade-Chamberlain, Per Mertesacker, Santos, Arteta, etc. However, captain Cesc Fabregas was transferred for 25.5 million pounds.
Barcelona has dealt a huge blow to Arsenal's midfield strength.
The Gunners sell their captain every year, and the situation is also sad.
All of this is to prepare for the construction of a new stadium.
Mourinho's right-hand man Villas-Boas returned to Stamford Bridge after a successful coaching career at Porto.
He was an assistant coach before, but now he is the head coach, and his status is completely different. However, in terms of signings, players such as Lukaku, Juan Mata and Romeu are all powerful to Chelsea's overall strength.
Replenish.
Villas-Boas announced as soon as he took office that he would carry out a youthful transformation of Chelsea, and even vaguely targeted many locker room bosses such as Drogba, Lampard and Terry because they were not even young enough.
Smaller.
Sometimes, Gao Shen has to say with emotion that character determines destiny.
Villas-Boas is young and full of energy, and he will attack the veterans as soon as he comes up. If there is no problem with such a person, it would be weird.
It's like a corporate department manager parachuted in and did nothing. He just set fire to it and it's definitely over.
Although the signings of wealthy teams are not small, the overall signings of the Premier League are not large.
Even Tottenham Hotspur brought in Friedel on a free transfer and Parker for 5.5 million, but they also sold O'Hara for 3.5 million and Parra for 8 million.
Theos, and Robbie Keane sold for 3.3 million.
As a result, Tottenham actually made money in the transfer market.
Others like Everton, like Manchester City, were as broke as they were. Instead of signing any players, they even sold them and made money.
So much so that when the media finally conducted statistics on the English transfer market, they discovered something very strange.
That is, Leeds United from the English Championship ranked fifth with a transfer investment of 19 million pounds, only less than Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool.
More importantly, Leeds United has introduced a total of more than 20 players, which can be said to be the most in European football.
This surprised everyone even more.
Of course, this only takes into account signings. If net investment is considered, Leeds United is one of the few profitable teams.
After all, one Jonathan Howson earned Leeds United £10 million.
Queens Park Rangers introduced a total of six players and spent more than 16 million pounds.
Because of the introduction of Jonathan Howson, the introduction of players such as Wright Phillips was still aborted.
Gao Shen really wants to know what Mark Hughes's expression will be like?
