Football: The king of midfield, Guardiola is crying with envy

Chapter 203

December 4, the 14th round of the Premier League.

In just less than three days, Manchester City ushered in another away game in the league.

This time they will go to Vicarage Road to challenge Watford away.

The recent record of the Premier League Hornets is very average. In the past 10 rounds, they have only won two games, one away against Everton, and the other at home.

Although the Red Devils fans don’t want to admit it, in fact, Manchester United, which is now high and low, is indeed at the middle level of the Premier League.

Interestingly, Brentford was the only team that performed well after the top three teams in the Championship were promoted to the Premier League last season. They are currently ranked 13th in the league.

At the end of the year, that is, on December 29, the 20th round, Chen Chen will follow Manchester City to visit his old club and return to Brentford Community Stadium.

The match between Watford and Manchester City attracted a lot of Hornets fans.

If there are many people who expect to watch the game, it will inevitably lead to a rise in ticket prices, which is the case today.

Sky Sports did some interviews outside Vicarage Road, and at least half of the fans interviewed complained about the shortage of individual tickets and the sudden increase in scalper tickets.

Vicarage Road is a small stadium with inexpensive tickets, but today, because of Manchester City's visit, the original price of 30 euros for tickets with a good view was raised to 90 euros by scalpers!

It doesn't look like much, but the fans who come to watch the game are basically fans from the surrounding area. The money that was originally enough to watch three games ended up being enough to watch only one game. Who can bear this?

But Manchester City is really attractive.

It should be pointed out that Watford's performance in the first half of the season was very average, and relegation can be said to be a foregone conclusion.

They are all going to be relegated, and there will definitely be fewer games to watch against strong teams.

There is no way, just spend 90.

For Watford fans, when they wait until the Championship, where can they see the team play against the big six?

Under the cheers and gazes of more than 20,000 people, the starting players of both sides stepped onto the Vicarage Road Stadium.

Today, Guardiola did not relax his vigilance because of the "weakness" of the opponent after the defeat. Although it is difficult to lose unexpectedly, the probability of it happening is definitely not zero!

In addition, Manchester United lost to Watford, which was a reminder for Guardiola.

So at Watford's home court, Guardiola arranged a full lineup!

It is worth mentioning that after this game, the Blue Moon will return to Manchester first, and then some people in the team will fly to Paris, France to attend the Golden Globe Awards Ceremony!

Of course, Chen Chen will also attend.

Although the official Golden Globe Awards claimed that no award would be notified to the players in advance, in fact, they would still reveal a little.

Take the 2024 Golden Globe Awards as an example. Florentino and Real Madrid chose not to go because they knew in advance that Vinicius could not win the Golden Globe Awards.

So this time on the phone, the official staff of the Golden Ball Awards did not say it clearly, but they revealed that Chen Chen was in the "leading position" in the voting rate of the "Kopa Award".

Then Chen Chen understood that the winner of the "Kopa Award" awarded to the best newcomer would be him.

It should be noted that the Kopa Award is different from the Golden Boy Award. The Golden Boy Award is awarded by "Torino Sports Daily" and the Kopa Award is awarded by "France Football".

Because they belong to different institutions, the recipients are also different.

Although Pedri won the Golden Boy Award this year, he was obviously at a disadvantage in the selection scope and rules of the Kopa Award.

So it was expected that he would not be selected.

For example.

The Golden Boy Award in 2018 was Mbappe, but the Kopa Award was De Ligt's.

The Golden Boy Award in 2019 was De Ligt, and the Kopa Award was won by Felix.

However, starting from 2022, the winners of these two awards will become very unique.

In 2022, both awards were won by Barcelona player Gavi, in 2023 by Bellium, and in 2024 by Yamal.

After attending the Ballon d'Or ceremony in Paris, the Manchester City players participating in the award ceremony will fly directly to the Leipzig Halle Stadium and will not return to England.

The Blue Moon players who stayed at the Manchester City Youth Training Base will fly directly to the Leipzig Halle Stadium, and everyone will meet in Leipzig.

In the middle of the week, they will usher in the last round of the group stage with RB Leipzig!

Chen Chen can remember the scene of him being fouled and tackled in the first round. This time, he wants his opponent to die!

Want to qualify? No way!

This also led to Chen Chen's outstanding performance at Vicarage Road!

He hopes to win the game within 45 minutes of the first half, and then go off the court to rest, get enough energy, and prepare for the Champions League!

Of course, the development of things is in line with Chen Chen's expectations.

Watford defeated Manchester United before, but Manchester City is not Manchester United!

At the end of the first half of 45 minutes,Chen Chen scored one goal and one assist, and B-Si, who appeared in the center position, scored two goals.

Manchester City entered the halftime break with a 3-0 advantage.

At the beginning of the second half, in the 47th minute.

Chen Chen made a penalty with a long shot, and Grealish, who appeared in the left winger position, scored the penalty steadily!

After many days, it has been almost a month, Mr. Billionaire, former Villa winger Grealish finally scored again.

During this period, Grealish did not get a chance to play due to tactical arrangements and considerations.

To be precise, it was because Shaker did not perform well in the training match and was not better than Sterling, so Grealish sat on the bench for almost a month.

For Shaker, it was really not easy to start again and score a goal this time!

Except for the center position, Manchester City has suitable substitutes for other positions. Grealish, Mr. Billionaire, said to press the bench and Guardiola is really arrogant.

After 4-0, Guardiola made substitutions.

B席, Chen Chen, Gundogan left the field, Mahrez, Jesus and Fernandinho came on.

As for De Bruyne?

The Belgian recovered well. In this game, Guardiola wanted to let him play to find his feeling.

However, it is not enough for more than 50 minutes. De Bruyne may not play until 75 minutes later.

The temperature is still very low today. After clapping and encouraging his teammates and coaching team members, Chen Chen quickly put on a thick coat.

The game on the field is still going on, but Chen Chen's thoughts have drifted to the next Golden Globe Awards Ceremony.

He can't wait to attend the awards ceremony!

Finally, the game ended, with De Bruyne assisting Mahrez's single-handed lob shot, and the score was fixed at 6-0!

Brutal!

Extremely brutal!

This is the only word in the minds of the majority of fans!

With more than 15 goals scored in the last three rounds, can anyone stop Manchester City?

Can anyone else limit them? !

As soon as the match with Watford ended, all the Blue Moon players returned to Manchester.

After returning to Manchester for a night's rest, the coaching team and some players will stay at the Manchester City Youth Training Base, while others will fly directly from Manchester to Paris.

There are relatively few people coming from Manchester City, only more than a dozen people, while Chelsea is really lively.

Because of winning the Champions League last season, many people from the Blues came, nearly thirty people.

There is a Best Club Award at the Golden Ball Awards Ceremony, and this award is definitely for Chelsea.