The next day, Wu Haibo completed his work and flew back to China, and Wan Sheng also continued to lead Manchester City to the league.

In the fourth round of the Premier League, Manchester City challenged Blackburn away from home.

In the three years under the leadership of Mark Hughes, Blackburn's record showed an upward trend, finishing only 16th in the first season, jumping to 7th a year later, and 10th last season due to injuries and the impact of European competition, but not far behind Tottenham Hotspur in 6th place.

According to the media, "Mark Hughes has gradually built Blackburn into a solid mid-table team. ”

Last summer, Blackburn Rovers were 7 in and 9 out, and this year Mark Hughes has opted for a different approach, with 3 in and 2 out so far, and Blackburn Rovers appear very quiet in the noisy Premier League transfer market.

In the same veins as a year ago, Blackburn Rovers have once again strengthened their forward line, buying Paraguayan striker Santa Cruz from Bayern Munich and Dutch European Youth Championship champion Rigosted.

As can be seen from Blackburn's transfer move, head coach Mark Hughes is still not satisfied with the efficiency of his team's 50 goals in 38 games last season.

In order to strengthen the ability to score goals, it is natural to buy strikers.

Spending 3.5 million pounds to buy Santa Cruz is a bit of a gambling component, Santa Cruz is a star player in Paraguay, and when he came to Bayern Munich before, he was worth more than that, but in Bayern Munich, Santa Cruz's performance was not good, scoring only 31 goals in 155 games, the efficiency is not high, and what is worse is his injury, which has always been a big problem for Santa Cruz.

However, fans are confident in Mark Hughes's vision, and South African striker McCarthy, who was brought in last year, surpassed Cristiano Ronaldo to win the bronze boot, and the number of goals scored is second only to Chelsea striker Drogba.

So there are two players that Blackburn needs to pay attention to, one is McCarthy, the bronze boot winner last season.

He squeezed a spot out of the rivalry between Didier Drogba and Cristiano Ronaldo, with Jose Mourinho narrowly missing him to Stamford Bridge. Unfortunately, Abramovich's "saving" policy prevented the South Africans from entering the big club.

The newly introduced Santa Cruz also needs to pay attention to the fact that in the era of African killers rampant in the Premier League, Santa Cruz's handsome appearance is very eye-catching, and his attack power is good.

Many people believe that Santa Cruz has only been plagued by injuries and has not been able to make the most of it at Bayern Munich.

When Manchester City wants to play Blackburn, it is natural to pay attention to these two strikers, in Wansheng's view, the combination of McCarthy and Santa Cruz is still very powerful. So before the game, he especially told the team's defense not to let the opponent find opportunities easily.

Defending is the only way to win, and Manchester City are very good at playing fast-break football, but they are also afraid of surprise attacks.

But when the game started, Wan Sheng smiled a little bitterly.

A lot of the media said that 'no team in the Premier League can be underestimated', and sure enough, Mark Hughes was not scheduled to compete with Manchester City in attack, and Blackburn Rovers was in the first minute of the start. Just play a tough scramble, and a solid defensive counterattack.

Manchester City struggled for a half and couldn't find the back of the Blackburn Rovers goal.

In the first minute of the second half, Blackburn had a pretty good performance. They continued to cooperate in the Manchester City half, McCarthy blasted a powerful shot from outside the box, Wang Xiaolei's vision was blocked, and he couldn't react immediately. Blackburn took the lead.

"McCarthy—"

“Goal！！”

'McCarthy scored a long-range shot from outside the area and he gave Blackburn Rovers the lead over Manchester City!'

Seeing Blackburn take the lead, the local fans cheered excitedly.

On the pitch of the Premier League. It's rare for a team to get ahead of Manchester City, and the second-half lead gave them hope of winning, and the Blackburn fans were so excited that they cheered on their team from the stands.

Manchester City were not willing to be led by Blackburn, and then they launched a big offensive to completely suppress Blackburn Rovers in the situation.

But it takes not only quality to score, but also a lot of luck, and City failed to score for the next 40 minutes.

It was just as the end of the game that Manchester City finally had a breakthrough.

In one attack, City launched a series of links on the edge of the penalty area, before Morris burst out of the box and Darren Bent swung his leg and fired a powerful shot into the back of the net.

1:1。

In the final minute of the game, Manchester City equalised.

"The ball went in...... 1:1, Manchester City equalized the score in the last minute thanks to a goal from Darren Bent......"

The tone of the Ewood Park stadium commentator was very regrettable, as a stadium commentator, of course, he supported Blackburn, but even after the game started, he saw that Blackburn played well, he never thought that Blackburn had a chance to win.

After Blackburn's goal in the second half, he saw hope and at one point thought Blackburn would win.

But in the end, Manchester City still tied the score.

A draw against Manchester United would have been almost a win, but Blackburn Rovers opened the scoring first and were not scored by Manchester City until the end of the game, which felt completely different.

"Just hold on for a few more minutes and Blackburn will win the game...... It's a shame......"

But Blackburn must come to terms with the result.

All the players of Manchester City are not excited, not winning is a failure for them, although a draw is nothing, but now Manchester City is strong, it can almost be described as a sweep of the Premier League, many Manchester City players think so, and a draw with Blackburn is a bit depressing.

However, as the head coach of the team, Wan Sheng did not have many ideas.

"That's a good thing."

At the end of the game, he told Bergkamp: "We keep winning, everybody is under pressure, and a draw in the last round has alerted us. There are no weak teams in the Premier League, we didn't play well in this game, we didn't play at a normal level, and it's not surprising that we drew or even lost. ”

After returning to the locker room after the game, Wan Sheng did not go to the press conference immediately, but took the opportunity to gather everyone and said, "I hope you can learn from the game." In the Premier League, we are not sure to win, like today's opponent, Blackburn, a team like this is enough to challenge us, if we want to play well, we can't underestimate any opponent! ”

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After the four rounds of the Premier League, there is a break of more than ten days, which is also a headache for many coaches - the international break.

Wansheng also ran into this problem.

Whether he was coaching Derby County or just starting to coach Manchester City, the number of national team players in the team was not large, but after two seasons, it was different, and many players in the team were focused on by various national teams, so they entered the national team one by one.

Wang Xiaolei and Sun Jihai are Chinese national team players.

There are four absolute mainstays in the back line, Dunn is a member of the Irish national team, Lexter is in the England team, Copelle Ferreira is in the Portugal team, and Leto Ziegler has already been in the Belgian national team.

Frontfielders Maurice and Darren Bent are all in the England squad, with David Silva and Fernando Torres belonging to the Spanish squad.

Elano Brummer is also a member of the Brazilian team, but fortunately, in the regular season, the Brazilian team will not call up European players, and Elano Brummer will not have to fly in a round trip in Europe and South America.

Even if there is one 'left' Elano Blumer, Manchester City have 10 'internationals' and can almost put together a team.

So the international break is enough for Wansheng to have a headache, and others are a little better, such as England, Spain and other players, even if they go to the national team, it is not far away.

Wang Xiaolei and Sun Jihai are very special.

The Chinese national team seems to have completely ignored the 'distance problem' of the players, and has to call up European players to return for a warm-up match, and the form of any player will be affected back and forth.

Wan Sheng was quite dissatisfied with this, "If I didn't know, I thought my players were going to the World Cup!" But then I thought that the World Cup was last year, and the Asian Cup had just ended. ”

This sentence made many European reporters completely confused, but Chinese reporters understood, and they understood that Wan Sheng was talking about Sun Jihai and Wang Xiaolei when they thought about it.

The two of them had to fly back to China for eight hours, plus other videos, and it would take a day to train with China, after which they had to rest and reverse the jet lag, and then train and compete, and then return to Manchester in two days...... It's really unbearable.

After experiencing this 'to Teng', how many states can be imagined, and it is no wonder that Wansheng will complain publicly.

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During the international break, Manchester City did not train well and the whole team took two days off.

Taking advantage of the two-day holiday, Wan Sheng went to London.

As early as June, Wan Sheng had applied for a master's degree in 'Sports Medicine' at University College London, and Wan Sheng had been so busy that he didn't have time to go to London.

Originally, the diploma could be mailed in, but Professor Ben-Hokhua told him that he had time to come and rushed over during the holiday.

When he arrived at University College London, Wan Sheng went directly to Professor Ben Hockwaer.

"You're here, Wansheng."

Ben Huo Kehua only glanced up at Wan Sheng, then lowered his head and continued to busy his business.

Wan Sheng knew the old man's work habits, found a place to sit down, and picked up the instant coffee on the table and brewed a cup and waited, and when he was halfway through the drink, Ben Huo Kehua put down the work at hand and walked over with a certificate.

"This is your master's certificate."

Wan Sheng took it, glanced at it twice, and said, "Thank you." ”

"You don't seem to care."

Wan Sheng smiled, "I don't rely on this to find a job." ”

"That's true, but it's been a few years of your success." Ben Ho Kehua also laughed.

"No, Hawk." Wan Sheng said, "My achievements in the past few years are all in my head, or, there are those things in the newspaper, and the certificate is just proof." ”

Ben Huo Kehua said helplessly, "Okay, then I should say that you don't have to care about this at all, but the school should be proud of having a genius student like you?" ”

"Hey......

Wan Sheng smiled, he didn't dare to say that. (To be continued.) )