Self-confidence will burst.

After winning Blackburn 5-0, many Manchester City fans actually had fantasies about the Gambel Cup match against Barcelona, ​​fantasizing that Manchester City could overturn the Champions League championship at the Camp Nou. After all, Linsen has not failed to win Barcelona. However, Manchester City fans miscalculated one thing, that is, Barcelona may accept losing to Manchester City, but they are definitely unwilling to lose to the head coach. It is Linsen's Manchester City.

Barcelona, ​​which is half-main, did not let Manchester City succeed, or to be precise, did not let Lin Sen succeed.

Not many people will take the result of this game seriously, including Barcelona fans who may be happy for a day or two, Manchester City fans who may be upset for a night or two, and Lin Sen, who treats this game as a test field.

Five to zero can indeed cover up a lot of things, making people think that Manchester City is walking on a sunny avenue, with the right time, place, people and everything goes well. Lin Sen really hopes that his team is as true as the commentator of Sky Sports said before. All worries are redundant. He has helped Manchester City solve everything in just a few seconds. However, the fact is that the existing problems will still exist. It may not be discovered for the time being, but if it exists, it will definitely appear, as long as it meets certain conditions.

Barcelona is such a condition.

In the game against Barcelona, ​​Manchester City only shot five times in the whole game, which also included two anti-aircraft guns that almost shot down the plane, and one meaningless long-range shot that was purely wasted, so there were only two shots in the true sense. Once, Manchester City made a quick counterattack, and Wright relied on speed to break through the cross on the wing, and Adriano's header missed 100,000 miles away, but there was no tactical problem in this attack. The other time was Vidal's opportunity in the midfield, and Adriano also shot. This was also the only shot in the goal frame in the whole game.

Shooting is a weather vane for the offense, and the number of shots represents the difficulty of the offense. The quality of the shots represents the efficiency of the offense. So, needless to say, Manchester City lost in this game without any unfairness.

There are many reasons for losing. The best excuse for Manchester City fans is naturally that the main force has not been promoted. However, in Lin Sen's view, the ability gap is one reason, tacit understanding and execution are also problems. Manchester City conceded two goals, one is a long shot at the front of the penalty area, which should have been the defense zone of two midfielders. However, on the left and the other side, Xavi Martinez and Vidal, did not go up to defend closely, which is the tacit understanding issue. The other conceding the ball is corner kick and corner kick defense. This is a set of precise defense plans for everyone. If the ball is lost, someone will definitely lose his job and there is no saying that it is because the head coach obviously cannot arrange a one-meter-6 to guard one-meter-9. Everyone will have someone responsible for the defense. If there is really a gap in strength, another person will definitely be arranged to fill the position, in terms of number of people. The defense always has an absolute advantage, so conceding the ball is a matter of execution.

Fortunately, both of these problems can be solved on the training ground. Moreover, this game is not without highlights in Lin Sen's eyes. For example, Adriano, as a striker, played very hard. Although the effect is not satisfactory, at least, Adriano's attitude is what Lin Sen hopes to see.

When Manchester City returned to Manchester, their position in the league standings with one less round of games declined without any suspense, but they did not fall much, but they fell from second to fourth, because there was an upset in the second round of the league. The defending champion Manchester United lost to Burnley in a 0-1 away game. They won Liverpool in the first round, and swept Holland in the away game five-to-one away game in this round. In addition, Chelsea who beat Sunderland three-to-one and Arsenal, which was also postponed for this round due to the Champions League qualifiers, became three teams currently ranked higher than Manchester City.

After Lin Sen came back, Tang Hua gave three team analysis reports to Lin Sen. The target was Manchester City's three opponents, Wolves, Brighton and Portsmouth in the next ten days. The reason was that Tang Hua would go to coaching again in a few days. He told Lin Sen that he had signed up for the next round of assessment. If he passed, he might be able to sit in the coaching seat of the official game earlier.

In response, Lin Sen just smiled and wished him good luck. Like most exams, coaching training is available every month, and the assessment is held every period of time. Lin Sen took more than half a year to take the exam. So to be honest, Tang Hua was a little "too hurry", but Lin Sen would not stop him. Since he is a genius, he must always be a little different.

The three team reports submitted by Tang Hua, Lin Sen's most surprised was Brighton's. I don't know where Tang Hua found information. Brighton, whose full name should be Brighton and Hoff Football Club, is a team from the southeastern coast of England. It is nicknamed "Seagull". The most distinctive sign on their team logo is also a seagull that spreads its wings. This team has not been promoted to the Premier League in history. It has been promoted to the English Championship in the season when the English League One was renamed to the English Championship, but it has only been one season and has been reduced to the Class A.

There is no intention of slighting it, but for Manchester City, Brighton, who is two levels short of it, is actually not considered an opponent. From this aspect, you can see why the League Cup is called a poor league. It is not Brighton's misfortune to match Manchester City. On the contrary, it is Brighton's luck, because compared with many small teams that have never seen what the Premier League team looks like, the income from this game may make their club's finances much more abundant.

Four days later, on August 23, Manchester City Stadium ushered in its first home game of Manchester City this season. On this day, the stadium that could accommodate nearly 50,000 fans was packed. The sky-blue stands and countless fans wearing sky-blue jerseys set off the entire stadium like a sky-blue ocean.

The distance between the fans and the stadium is so close that it seems that fans may rush into the stadium at any time. This is a feature that distinguishes the Premier League stadium from other major leagues. There is almost no protective belt between the stands and the stadium, and the mutual trust between the fans and the team has become the most effective protection. This move also narrows the distance between the team and the fans, making the fans really the twelfth player on the court. Of course, this is for the home team.

Standing on the coach, the fans are just a few steps behind you. You can even clearly feel the eyes of the fans behind you and clearly hear their shouts.

This is the coach's paradise.

This can also be the coach's hell.

This is the Premier League and Manchester City's home court.

Tang Hua was sitting in the stand not far from the coach's seat. Lin Sen didn't have to look at him, and he knew what color would be above his head at this time. There was no doubt that Tang Hua had a little more determination to pass the next assessment.

Linsen satisfies the wishes of all Manchester City fans. In the first home game of the season, Linsen sent his most powerful lineup: goalkeeper Jiwen, the defense line is lined up from left to right, Dunn, Kompany and Sabaleta, midfielder De Jong is paired with Vidal, three offensive midfielders are from left to right, Bale, David Silva, Robben, and the forward are Robinho who has returned from injury.

Each name was a cheer, especially when David Silva and Robben appeared, the cheers even reached the fixed point.

In just one game, David Silva became the new idol in the minds of Manchester City fans, and Robben will prove in front of their eyes whether he deserves worship.

Eight minutes later, cheers erupted over the city court.

World Wave!

From Alger Robben!

After receiving Vidal's pass, the Dutchman cut in with a signature long-distance wing. After dunking two Wolves' defenders in a row, the left-footed arc ball was directly at the edge of the penalty area, and Matt Murray was out of reach.

After scoring the goal, Robben ran to the corner flag area with his arms wide open. The excited Manchester City fans gave him warm applause, and a harmonious picture appeared in the live broadcast of the game.

Wolves coach Mickey McCarthy was helpless no matter how he saw it. In the last game, they lost to West Ham United, and in this game, they tried their best to lose two consecutive games. McCarthy studied Manchester City's game against Blackburn for a week. Like Allardyce, he also believed that Blackburn lost completely to David Silva. For this reason, he gave up a forward in his 442 formation and added a defensive midfielder Castillo, plus Carl Henry. These were the two "bodyguards" he specially prepared for David Silva. But unexpectedly, before David Silva could even watch, Robben there had already made an unreasonable goal.

The Wolves, who were unwilling to concede the goal, tried to counterattack and played the simplest and most direct long pass rush. This is indeed a good response plan. In the midfield, the Wolves will definitely not be able to gain any advantage, especially the two defensive midfielders were still restrained by David Silva, and even simple pairs could not be enough. Fortunately, they gave up the midfield and used long passes to directly attack Manchester City's penalty area. This is also a way to play to their strengths and avoid their weaknesses.

However, long-term pushing is simple and direct, the problem is that the success rate is really terrible.

As the first half was about to end, Vidal, who replaced Xavi Martinez, scored his first goal at Manchester City, rewrite the score to 2-0. The commentator of Sky Sports Station, who was responsible for broadcasting the game, directly concluded: the game ended.

This conclusion may anger many Wolves fans, but unfortunately, he was right.

In the second half, Wolves conceded another goal and Robben scored twice.

The game ended in three to zero.

Two games, six points, eight goals, conceded goals, zero.

On the afternoon of the end of the game, Lin Sen received an invitation letter.
Chapter completed!