Manchester City's 4-0 victory over Liverpool at home not only caused a strong earthquake in the entire English football world, but also shocked European football. Major media and fans around the world also paid attention.
This once again confirms a rule: wherever Su Dong goes, there will be the focus!
Back to the game itself, Liverpool head coach Hodgson received a lot of criticism after the game, especially the 4-4-2 formation he deployed against Manchester City, which made him the focus of everyone's criticism.
In this battle between coaches, Hodgson was completely defeated by rookie Guardiola.
More importantly, in this highly anticipated center battle, Torres performed very sluggishly, almost like sleepwalking.
Even Liverpool's local newspaper Echo was extremely disappointed with Torres' performance.
"When the team needed him most, Torres did not step forward like before, but was lost in Manchester City's possession forest and could not find his direction."
This is also the outside world's evaluation of Hodgson's game. They believe that Liverpool failed to find a way to threaten their opponents in Manchester City's passing and controlling style, and could only passively resist again and again.
Sky Sports rated the players of both teams after the game, and Torres scored the lowest five points in the game.
A total of six Liverpool players scored five points, which is already a very bad score.
What's interesting is that Glen Johnson, Skrtel, Carragher and Agger all have five points. These four players just make up a back line, and their evaluations are basically the same, that is, the game is very difficult.
The lowest score in the game went to Liverpool's left winger Jovanovic. His performance on the left wing can no longer be described with words like sleepwalking. He basically has no sense of presence. It is difficult to even notice him before he comes off the field.
to his existence.
Sudong scored a game-high nine points, Sanchez, Marcelo, Di Maria, Toni Kroos, David Silva and others all scored eight points, and Busquets scored seven points.
It is not difficult to see from this that Manchester City's overall performance in this game was indeed better.
Sky Sports said in its analysis that Su Dong successfully passed the ball 46 times out of 48 times in the game, and 36 of the successful passes were completed in the frontcourt. The success rate is very amazing, even the highest among the team.
"Even in Guardiola's team, these are very shocking figures."
Sky Sports compared the data between Su Dong and Manchester City's main center Santa Cruz last season, and believed that the changes brought by Su Dong were not only his goals and assists, but also his connection and support in the frontcourt.
This is reflected in the passing data. Su Dong's success rate is close to 100%, which is quite scary.
"There were forty-eight passes in the game, which in other teams is basically the passing data of midfielders or even core midfielders, and forty-six passes were successfully passed. Such a success rate is even the highest in the Premier League.
In top wealthy teams, it is very, very rare, but Su Dong is a center who is in the tightest defense."
Sky Sports believes that the reason why Manchester City's frontcourt offense has been able to perform completely differently this season is because of Su Dong.
Not only can he score goals, he can also assist, pass the ball, support, and open up the defense. This makes all players who play next to Su Dong feel obviously relaxed.
"The core of Manchester City's tactics must be in the midfield. After Guardiola's summer training camp, he gradually figured out the midfield combination of David Silva, Toni Kroos and Busquets. These three players can help Manchester City firmly
Keep possession of the ball."
"But at the same time, in the frontcourt, Su Dong is also the most important core player of Manchester City. He even has closer contact with the midfielders than anyone else. This makes Manchester City's entire midfield and frontcourt form a chain.
A well-organized ball-passing mechanism.”
Sky Sports analysis believes that Su Dong has almost seamlessly integrated into Manchester City's passing and control system, and even led to the improvement of Guardiola's tactical system, thus giving people a feeling that Manchester City has been completely transformed this season.
"He created a constant threat in Manchester City's frontcourt, making defenders such as Carragher, Skrtel and Agger intimidated!"
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With the start of the new season, the popularity of the Premier League is not only local, but even all over the world.
On the day after Manchester City beat Liverpool 4-0, the Premier League announced the sales of overseas broadcast rights for the next three years.
Starting from this season, the Premier League will earn 500 million pounds from overseas copyrights each season for the next three years, and will be broadcast simultaneously in 200 countries and regions around the world. Among all professional sports leagues in the world, overseas copyright income is the highest.
of.
In addition to overseas rights, the three-year local rights contract currently implemented by the Premier League has a total revenue of up to 2 billion pounds, which translates to more than 700 million pounds per season.
In other words, the Premier League’s broadcast copyright revenue per season is as high as 1.2 billion pounds in local and overseas markets.
This is absolutely an astronomical amount of money.
Based on the current estimates of the two contracts, the Premier League championship team this season will receive at least more than 60 million pounds in broadcasting fees alone, which is quite astonishing when compared to the four major European leagues.
For example, Serie A is deeply affected by the Calciopoli scandal. Serie A's overseas copyright income is not high, only 74 million pounds, which is only 10 million pounds more than the share of this season's Premier League champions.
The Bundesliga and Ligue 1 are even worse.
Su Dong has played in the Bundesliga for three and a half years. Although German teams have vigorously developed overseas markets in the past few years, the Bundesliga's annual overseas copyright income is only about 40 million pounds. This is after Su Dong joined the Bundesliga.
The results obtained by the market were even less than before, only more than 10 million pounds.
In other words, the annual overseas copyright income of the entire Bundesliga is not as good as the copyright income share of the Premier League championship team.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Ligue 1 is even more pitiful, with only 25 million pounds.
The situation in La Liga is the most special. Since the copyright sales are carried out by the clubs individually, the two giants Real Madrid and Barcelona make a lot of money. The overseas copyright income of the two teams reaches more than 130 million pounds. This is
Pretty astonishing numbers.
From this point of view, it is not difficult to reflect that the two teams of the Spanish Super League are quite special existences even in the entire European football world.
In professional football, although money does not represent everything, it is really difficult to move forward without money.
The Premier League is clearly becoming the richest professional league in Europe and even the world.
Su Dong has become a core player in the Premier League's efforts to build an international brand and vigorously explore the international market.
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On the evening of August 26th, the second leg of the Europa League qualifiers.
Manchester City plays Romania's Timisoara at home.
After defeating their opponents 4-0 in the away game, Manchester City's situation will be easier when they return to home.
Guardiola adopted a rotation strategy in this game and conducted a wide range of rotations on the team's lineup, including Santa Cruz, Wright Phillips, Adam Johnson and others who have all qualified.
But during the game, Manchester City was never able to break through the opponent's goal.
Folado is still at a certain level. In the away game, he deployed a 4-5-1 tactic with five midfielders, making it clear that the team must defend and counterattack. Facing Manchester City's pass and ball control, Timisoara remained unmoved at all.
Be on guard against death.
It was not until the 58th minute of the second half that German central defender Jerome Boateng, who replaced Kompany, opened the scoring for Manchester City with a corner kick opportunity.
Then in the 73rd minute, Wright-Phillips scored another victory, helping the team win 2-0.
In the end, Manchester City defeated Timisoara with two goals at home.
With a total score of 6-0, Manchester City successfully advanced to the Europa League group stage.
This made Manchester City fans at the Etihad Stadium extremely satisfied with the team's performance.
For Manchester City, being able to participate in the European competition is already very, very difficult.
The momentum shown this season is so gratifying, which naturally makes fans have deeper expectations for the team.
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In the match against Timisoara, Sudong sat on the bench throughout the match and did not play in the game.
But the day after playing against Timisoara, Su Dong asked for leave from the coaching staff and rushed to Monaco without stopping.
The annual Champions League group stage draw and UEFA awards ceremony are still held at the Grimaldi Convention Center in Monaco.
After joining Manchester City, Su Dong encountered a very embarrassing thing.
That is, he was shortlisted for UEFA's Forward of the Year and was also the top favorite for Player of the Year. However, he missed the Champions League this season. This is an extremely rare situation and makes Su Dong quite disappointed.
Awkward.
If he attends, he will have to sit in the venue and watch the 32 Champions League teams draw, which has nothing to do with him.
At first, Su Dong was unwilling to go, but everyone from UEFA President Platini, to Secretary General Infantino, to Beckenbauer and other celebrities called Su Dong and thought that he should go to the scene.
Attend the award ceremony.
Especially Platini, who made several phone calls in a row, made Su Dong really unable to push him away.
I have no choice but to go.
As long as you are not embarrassed, others will be embarrassed!
As the media said before, if others cannot play in the World Cup, it is a loss for his career, but if Su Dong cannot play in the World Cup, that is a loss of the World Cup.
In the same way, if others cannot play in the Champions League, that is a loss for his career, but if Su Dong cannot play in the Champions League, that is also a huge loss for the Champions League.
So much so that Su Dong finally came to Monaco. After entering the Grimaldi Conference Center, he was immediately targeted by Platini and Infantino. The two of them surrounded Su Dong at the same time, as if they were afraid of him.
As if turning around and walking away.
"To be honest, I still haven't figured out why you went to Manchester City?" Platini felt very puzzled.
Without Su Dong, the Champions League has indeed lost a lot of color.
At least a lot of highlights are lost.
"No reason." Su Dong smiled and shook his head, stared at Platini and said word by word, "I just hope there will be more suspense in the Champions League."
