This conversation with Bell did not change Bell's situation. In the following time, what Bell did was not much different from usual, training, additional training, silence, bench...
After the national team match day, Manchester City resumed the next match. After the national team match, Manchester City ushered in the fifth round of matches. After one loss and one draw in the first two rounds, Manchester United's points were ten, and
Aston Villa, Everton and Chelsea have the same points. Because of the goal difference, they surpassed Everton and Chelsea, but because they scored one less goal, they are one place behind Aston Villa, ranking first in the league.
The fourth position - interestingly, their opponent in the next round of the league is Aston Villa.
Aston Villa has always been a decisive force in the Premier League. Although their results are not very good, there is basically no danger of being relegated every season. They can occasionally impact the European competition. They are a team with no ambitions.
Manchester City's overall strength is better than Aston Villa, but Aston Villa does not lack outstanding players, and most of Manchester City's main players are international players, who have played many games in the national team, which also makes Manchester City
The game cast a shadow.
Many media are holding back their energy and waiting to see Dick's joke. If Dick loses...hehe, then they can laugh at this foreign coach and the group of rich Arabs...
I have to say that the English media are boring sometimes. They don’t have any grudge against Mansour or Dick. They just want to see others suffer misfortune. Anyway, they will flatter you when things go well, and step on them when things go badly.
It is rare to target anyone because of personal grudges. Anyway, as long as they can report on the stunt, they will spare no effort to promote it, no matter what the consequences. For example, the time England hosted the World Cup and they disrupted it is an obvious example.
In this game, Dick began to show his toughness.
After not winning in the first two rounds, Dick still started the rotation step by step in this round. None of the main players who had played more games in the national team played. The goalkeeper still sent Hart and four defenders on the defense.
They are Richards, Samuel, Cahill and Barnes. Yaya Toure is hidden in the midfield, and Barton, Parker and Vidal form the midfield, and Ashley is sent up front.
?The combination of Young, Vassell and Di Natale, Torres and Ribery, two heavyweight players, were resolutely not used by him because they played two full games in the national team, and even Ribery was not even included in the squad.
None of them entered and watched the game from the stands. Only Torres entered the bench because there were no other forwards available.
With such a starting lineup, after already losing two rounds and in desperate need of a victory to boost morale, Dick actually dared to field such a half-main and half-substitute lineup. Is he too confident or too arrogant?
?
"With the character of those foreign bosses, if they don't win in three rounds, they may think of firing the head coach... Although Dick's reputation won't make it like this, but if those bosses are suspicious, his next job may not be
It's going too well. I heard that Mourinho has also started to encounter various troubles this season. The foreign owners' patience with the head coach is really getting worse..."
A commentator commented that there is no airtight wall in the world. Although Chelsea's results this season are not bad, after losing a game before, various rumors have begun to blow about the results of last season.
Dissatisfied, Abramovich didn’t buy anyone for Mourinho this summer. Most of them were free signings and sold Mourinho’s favorite Robben. All this is a sign. It is said that there are already people in Chelsea’s dressing room.
It is divided into two factions, one supports Mourinho and the other opposes Mourinho. Under such circumstances, it is normal for Chelsea to be a little precarious.
When Chelsea had this example, people began to wonder whether Manchester City would also have such a situation, which is normal, because in people's impression, such rich people are always eager for quick success and quick profit. No matter how famous Dick is, he will not care about them.
The impact will not be too big, and Manchester City did not play well in the previous two games. If there are problems this time, Dick's position may be greatly shaken!
However, it has to be said that Dick has always been very stubborn in many cases, otherwise he would never have been fired due to performance reasons. Although he changed his employers four times in eight years, everyone knew that
It's not because of performance issues. In fact, except for Atletico Madrid, in Dortmund and Inter Milan, it was Dick who fired the boss, not the boss who fired him.
In this game, Dick unexpectedly adopted a defensive counterattack tactic. Although Aston Villa continued to suppress Manchester City's defense through offense at the City Stadium, Manchester City withstood the opponent's fierce attack and instead won in the first half.
Before the end of the game, he relied on a beautiful counterattack to break through the opponent's door - Vidal received the ball and sent a beautiful diagonal pass, Ashley Young broke through the opponent's defender and passed the ball, and Di Natale ran past
Under the circumstances, he made a clever heel shot and scored the ball into the opponent's goal!
Di Natale's fourth goal in the league this season! If measured by his worth, Di Natale is simply worth it...
In the second half of the game, Manchester City continued to use excellent defense to resist the opponent's offense. Under Samuel's command and dispatch, Manchester City's defense was quite layered, and Dick successively replaced Hamann and Kompany.
Waiting for a strong defensive team, Manchester City successfully maintained their lead until the end, beating their opponents 1-0 and winning their first victory in three league rounds!
Dick expressed satisfaction with the team's performance after the game, but the media felt that Manchester City's win was not good enough...
"Before playing well, the first thing to ensure is that we can win. Don't talk nonsense. This is my job. I am only responsible for the fans and the boss. It is my job to win the trophy after the season.
The value lies in it, not your satisfaction.”
Dick opened his mouth and spat the media back. The reporters angrily began to write articles about how ugly Dick's beating was, but it had no impact on Dick - he rarely read those things...
After winning this game, Dick continued to lead the team to train. At the weekend, he led the team to fly to London. This round's opponent was Fulham.
In this game, Dick sent most of his main players, but in this game, Manchester City's lack of tacit cooperation was once again exposed. The excellent defense in the last round was based on the overall defense.
When they started to attack this round, the defense was constantly being opened...
In the opening thirteen minutes, Simon Davies' goal helped Fulham take the lead. However, ten minutes later, Manchester City equalized the score. Franck Ribery tore open the opponent's defense like a sharp knife. Then
Passing the ball into the penalty area, Torres followed up and easily pushed the ball into the goal to equalize the score.
However, three minutes into the second half, Fulham scored again with a header from a corner kick. However, just two minutes later, Manchester City played exquisite cooperation in the frontcourt. Yaya Toure advanced and then shot. The ball hit the opponent's defender.
The line bounced into the penalty area, and Di Natale followed up with a clean volley to equalize the score for Manchester City again!
But ten minutes later, Samuel and Kompany made a mistake in cooperation. Fulham's Murphy went straight in and faced Hart with a shot into the far corner to exceed the score for the third time. After the third exceedance,
Fulham began to return to defense, striving to maintain the lead at home until the end of the game!
Manchester City launched a crazy attack, but when facing such a dense defense, their cooperation was not good enough and it was difficult to find too many opportunities. Dick frowned and looked at the situation on the field. In the last round
It was to calm down the team with a victory, and defensive counterattack would not be his main tactic, so this round he resumed the previous offensive tactics. Now it seems that the effect is not very good - but even if it is not good,
You have to persevere and stick to the right path, which is more important than anything else.
But even so, Dick doesn't like to lose the game. Now the opponent is intensively defending and there are not many other methods. It seems that they are looking for opportunities from set pieces...
After thinking for a while, Dick called Bell from the bench.
"Gareth, after coming on the field, he made more breakthroughs on the left, but more often he gave the ball to the center for them to break through... If there is a free kick in a good position, you take it, do you understand? Follow the team's tactical training
Come like that when the time comes, let Frank cover you and try to get the ball in for me!"
Listening to Dick's words, Bell nodded vigorously. During this period, he began to learn to be a winger according to the training plan. Although he has not found much feeling yet, he has been practicing free kicks since he was a child. He doesn't
I think my free kicks are worse than anyone else's!
Soon, Bell came on, and he replaced Parker in the midfield. After he came on, Ribery switched to the right, and Manchester City began to fly on both wings...
"The young Bale came on, and he played as a left winger! He had only played once in the League Cup before, and he also played as a left winger, and his performance was mediocre. It seems that Dick pushed his position forward to appear.
It’s a bit taken for granted. The position of young players is indeed not fixed, but it’s not just changing positions that will make the difference... Oh! What a fast pace!”
Amid the startled screams of the commentator, Bell on the field was using his speed to get rid of the opponent's right back on the left wing, and then went to the baseline and made a pass. Torres nodded the ball in front of the goal, but unfortunately it was slightly wide.
A little bit.
Bell's biggest weapon is his speed. When he rushes up, he is really scary. After he rushed several times in a row, Fulham began to pay attention to his breakthrough. At this time, Bell chose to pass the ball!
The ball was passed to the feet of Ribery who came to the center. Ribery dribbled the ball forward and was brought down by the opponent's defender, taking a free kick.
Ribery and Bell stood next to the ball at the same time. No one thought that the young Bell would be the taker. After all, he was only a substitute before. However, in the next moment, Bell used his left foot to prove his excellence!
A perfect curve ball, the ball passed over the head of the wall in the air, and then plunged into the dead center of the goal!
"Beautiful free kick! Seventeen-year-old Gareth Bale showed off his free kick skills! Manchester City equalized the score for the third time! It has to be said that Bale's debut in the Premier League was flawless! Although only two
In ten minutes, he contributed three breakthroughs and one goal! I have to take back what I just said, Dick can always create some magical things!"