After returning to Manchester from London, Manchester City took a short rest and then headed north without stopping to challenge Newcastle away from home.
This is the thirty-seventh round of the Premier League.
Since Manchester City was playing in the FA Cup final last weekend, the game was postponed to midweek.
Newcastle is currently ranked fifth in the Premier League, only one point behind Tottenham Hotspur, which is fourth in the Premier League. This has caused the Magpies to invest a lot of energy in trying to overthrow Manchester City at home and then grab a precious Champions League spot.
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This is undoubtedly a sign of revival for Newcastle, a traditional Premier League team.
It is precisely because of this that Newcastle performed very tenaciously at home.
Everyone knows that Manchester City has been fighting on multiple fronts for a long time, and they just lost to Liverpool in the FA Cup final. It is when they are exhausted after a long battle. Even if they rotate significantly, the team's running-in will become a serious problem, so Newcastle is still
There is a chance of an upset at home.
The game was indeed as expected by the outside world. Although Manchester City controlled the ball advantage, they were unable to open up the situation in the game. Especially the double forwards composed of Dzeko and Aguero were never able to score against Newcastle.
one strike.
However, Newcastle failed to take advantage of Manchester City.
The game was stalemate from the first half to the second half. Manchester City also made continuous substitutions, but none of them replaced Su Dong.
This has led many people to speculate that Guardiola is probably asking Su Dong to rest.
But in the 70th minute of the game, Su Dong suddenly walked to the sidelines and replaced Portuguese midfielder Moutinho.
Moutinho injured his right foot while fighting with Newcastle midfielder Tiote and asked to be taken off the field.
When Su Dong came on the court, Manchester City just got a throw-in opportunity from the left side of the frontcourt.
Leighton Bynes raised the ball high above his head, and when he saw Su Dong running over to catch the ball, he immediately threw it.
Su Dong stopped the ball with his chest, blocked Tiote with his body, picked up the ball and turned around, leaving the Newcastle midfielder behind him. He quickly passed the ball to Aguero who was retreating in front, and he inserted himself diagonally into the penalty area.
Arc top.
Aguero understood the situation, stopped the ball, and then returned and passed the ball to Su Dong's running route.
After Su Dong got rid of Tiote, he caught up with Aguero's pass. He stopped, adjusted, and shot straight away.
The ball flew out quickly like a cannonball, crossed an arc, and landed and bounced at the front of the small penalty area.
Newcastle goalkeeper Krul was stationed on the left. Although he tried his best to dive from the side, he did not expect that the ball would bounce off the ground and directly missed it, allowing the ball to go directly into his own goal.
One to zero!
"GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!"
"Within less than a minute of playing time, Su Dong opened the scoring for Manchester City with a long shot."
"This is the strength of a superstar, no matter how hard you disapprove of it."
"Aguero and Dzeko are indeed very good, but in front of Newcastle's defense, they have been attacking for 70 minutes, but they have never been able to break through Newcastle's defense. As soon as Su Dong came on the court, he directly shot a long shot.
It penetrated Krul's goal and opened the scoring for Manchester City."
"I have to say, this is the gap!"
"Su Dong's strength has even exceeded the limits of human beings. He is the current king of the ball!"
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After scoring the first goal, Manchester City played more steadily and were not in a hurry to fight their opponents.
Su Dong played the entire game in the FA Cup final, so he also reserved his energy in this game. He did not run much, but sauntered more in the frontcourt. On the contrary, it was Dzeko and Aguero who took the initiative.
Takes on the burden of running and pressing.
There was no other way, they could only aggrieve themselves in front of Su Dong.
Besides, they were not convinced by Su Dong's strength. After all, Newcastle's defense really made them feel powerless. As soon as Su Dong came on the field, he shot through Newcastle's goal with a long shot. What else could they say?
Besides being convinced, I can only be convinced.
This stalemate situation lasted until the end of the competition bonus.
Perhaps seeing that Manchester City was a little lazy, Newcastle took the initiative and launched a wave of attacks at the last moment of the game, trying to equalize the score and save a point at home.
Unexpectedly, when they took the initiative to press out and play, Gareth Barry's long pass from the backcourt was accurately passed to the left. Di Maria dribbled the ball along the left.
, after getting rid of everyone, he passed two opposing players on the left side of the penalty area and passed the ball into the penalty area.
Su Dong rushed over and easily got ahead of Coloccini and stopped the ball with his foot.
As soon as the right foot stops, as soon as he stands firm, he strikes directly with the left foot.
The ball passed Coloccini and went straight into the lower right corner of the goal.
Goalkeeper Krul stood in front of Su Dong and was helpless against this easy shot. He didn't even have time to make a save. As for Coloccini, he was blocked by Su Dong the whole time and was unable to resist at all.
Two Newcastle players just watched the ball go into the net.
Two to zero!
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It is also another match that has been postponed to mid-week, and it is also a match that Manchester City is extremely concerned about. Guardiola even specially arranged for Estiarte to bring scouts to the scene to watch and spy on the game. Liverpool plays Chelsea at home.
One is the opponent in the just-concluded FA Cup final, and the other is the opponent in the upcoming Champions League final. The former is still impressive, while the latter is preparing for the next decisive battle. Manchester City has enough reasons to pay attention to this game.
The media has given this game many nicknames, such as brothers in distress, because the two teams are currently ranked sixth and eighth respectively. The media also jokingly called it a parallel import war to determine who is the parallel import king of the Premier League.
Why do you say that?
Chelsea spent 50 million pounds to introduce Torres from Liverpool, but the Spanish forward's performance at Stamford Bridge was a disaster. In order to make up for the vacancy left by Torres' departure, Liverpool also spent huge sums of money to recruit Andy Carroll, a local
The performance of the center is also unsatisfactory, even if it has performed well recently.
These two major parallel imports have been ridiculed by the fans and the media of the team in the past period. Now that they meet, they naturally have a different style, which is very exciting.
But no one expected that from the beginning of the game, the most eye-catching person was not the two parallel strikers, but Suarez.
From the first minute of the game, Suarez has been constantly creating opportunities and threats, making Chelsea's defense in chaos, but this is also related to Chelsea's rotation.
The Blues have no chance of making the top four. Di Matteo is obviously still training for the upcoming Champions League final. For this game at Anfield Stadium, he even arranged for a full substitute defense to play.
As a result, Suarez wreaked havoc in front of the defense led by Ivanovic, and in the 19th minute, through a wonderful personal attack, he created Essien's own goal.
In the first twenty minutes, Suarez made two crotch passes, one solo and one assist. His performance was quite impressive.
Chelsea's defense was full of mistakes, and problems continued to arise under Liverpool's home attack.
In the end, Liverpool, who had just lost the FA Cup final and was suffocating, defeated Chelsea 4-1 at home.
Ramires scored the only goal for Chelsea.
Substantial rotation was the key to Chelsea losing this game. Di Matteo obviously also intended to use this game to confuse Manchester City, making it difficult for Manchester City to figure out what kind of tactics he wanted to adopt.
You know, there is a saying in professional football that every Italian head coach is a master of tactics.
Di Matteo is no exception.
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Over the weekend, the Premier League ushered in its final game, with Manchester City hosting Queens Park Rangers.
This should have been a game without much suspense, because Manchester City is far stronger than Queens Park Rangers, but Queens Park Rangers are currently ranked 17th, only lower than 18th, which is the relegation zone.
Bolton Wanderers have two more points.
Bolton's opponent is Stoke City, who play at home, and their strength is not very strong. With Bolton's strength, it may not be impossible to defeat the opponent away from home and score three points.
In other words, if Queens Park Rangers does not want to be relegated and wants to securely avoid relegation, then the best result is to defeat Manchester City at the Etihad Stadium. If they take a step back, they should also maintain a tie.
Since the final round involves ten games being played at the same time, no one knows what the result will be.
Because of this, Queens Park Rangers directly fought with Manchester City.
The whole world knows that at the end of the season, the most difficult problems are three types of teams, one is to compete for the championship, the other is to compete in the Champions League, and the most terrible thing is the relegation zone.
All teams in the relegation zone will really risk their lives against you at the final stage of the league.
Precisely because of this, out of consideration for protecting the players, Guardiola did not arrange the main starting lineup, but carried out a large-scale rotation. Firstly, it was also to give the main players more rest time to prepare for the Champions League final a week later. Secondly,
It is also to prevent players from getting injured.
Everyone knows that Queens Park Rangers will definitely go crazy in this game.
As expected, the game was full of upsetting scenes. Even though Manchester City was playing at home, they were still violated by the visiting team. Before the end of the first half, Thiago was tackled in the leg by his opponent and had to be replaced.
But five minutes before he was injured, he had just assisted Trippier to score a goal.
Then the game entered a stalemate stage until the 80th minute of the game, when Guardiola changed two players at once, replacing Su Dong and David Silva to familiarize themselves with the rhythm of the game.
It was these two substitutions that allowed Manchester City to score again.
Su Dong first took a direct free kick and penetrated the Queen's Park Rangers goal. Then he received a through ball from David Silva, broke into the right side of the penalty area with the ball, and scored with a volley, sealing the victory for Manchester City.
In the end, with Su Dong scoring twice after coming off the bench and Trippier's goal, Manchester City defeated Queens Park Rangers 3-0 at home, and finally won the Premier League championship this season with an unbeaten record.
In fact, the team's unbeaten record is even better than Arsenal's back then.
The entire Etihad Stadium was already in a state of carnival before the referee blew the whistle to end the game.
