Green Field Eunuch

Chapter 161 The Witty Ferguson

Manchester City ultimately defeated West Bromwich Albion 3-0 away from home, maintaining their strong performance in the league.

Manchester City secured a victory, while Chelsea suffered another defeat, losing 2-4 to Liverpool at Anfield.

After this round, Manchester City finally pulled away from Chelsea by 4 points.

On the other hand, Manchester United also took the opportunity to catch up, defeating Wolves at home and bringing their points to 23, narrowing the gap with Chelsea to 2 points.

Meanwhile, Arsenal have fallen behind, losing at home to Newcastle United and widening the gap between themselves and the top three, now trailing Manchester City by 12 points.

After this round of matches, Chelsea was once again subjected to a barrage of criticism from the media, experiencing the same treatment that Manchester City had received.

The media widely criticizes Chelsea for being good at beating weak teams, but performing poorly against strong teams.

They lost to Manchester City and Liverpool, and only managed a hard-fought victory against Arsenal.

Winning against strong teams is difficult, but losing is easy. Against Manchester City and Liverpool, Chelsea surrendered early on, making their performance far from satisfactory.

Manchester City's victory has once again garnered widespread praise from the English media.

This is somewhat speechless.

“That’s just how they are, you have to get used to it,” Milner explained to Shan Yongzhuo. “You’ve been here for a while now, don’t you know what the English media is like?”

“Uh…” Shan Yongzhuo said with a wry smile, “That makes sense.”

……

In the next round, Manchester City will travel to Old Trafford for their first Manchester derby of the season.

In fact, for a long time, the Manchester derby was a rather meaningless derby, because Manchester City was a weak team for a long time.

Although Manchester City has always had more fans than Manchester United in Manchester, they have been overwhelmed by United's rise in recent years.

In the Premier League, matches like the Merseyside derby and the London derby receive more attention. While the Manchester derby also gets attention, it can't compare to a derby like the Merseyside derby.

However, Manchester City has emerged as a dark horse this year, dominating the top of the Premier League table and achieving a stomp of Chelsea and a resounding victory over Arsenal, reaching the pinnacle of their momentum.

Ferguson was also feeling a headache facing Manchester City.

What gave him the biggest headache was Manchester City's number 10, Shan Yongzhuo.

However, when facing media interviews, Ferguson would not admit this. He even resorted to his old tricks, saying, "I know Shan Yongzhuo has scored a lot of goals, but look at the total goals of Manchester City. Out of 28 goals, Shan Yongzhuo scored 21 of them."

"I simply can't believe that a team like this can be at the top of the Premier League table, with a single player accounting for 75% of the team's goals."

"This is an unhealthy team."

"Shan Yongzhuo is indeed an excellent marksman, but his presence suppresses the others."

"He is not a team player, his role in tactics is even negative, and he is not very active on the field."

“Look at Tevez. I know how good he is, but Shan Yongzhuo’s presence makes him feel lost on the field. He should have performed better.”

"That's why Manchester United didn't compete for Shan Yongzhuo. He's not a good team player. All his running on the field is for his own goal. Manchester United doesn't need such selfish players."

Ferguson spoke fluently to the media, which pleased the English media.

As expected of Ferguson, the king of trash talk in the Premier League. Since Mourinho left, he has become the biggest source of news in the Premier League.

Many media outlets believe that Ferguson is right; Shan Yongzhuo is indeed not a team player. He has almost no coordination with his teammates on the field, and his average number of passes per game is a paltry 4.7, including kickoffs from the center circle.

Moreover, Shan Yongzhuo is widely recognized as a lazy player, averaging only 3300 meters per game, even less than Berbatov. However, many reporters understood that this was a trap set by Ferguson.

Is Tevez really that good?

In fact, Tevez was never Ferguson's first choice when he was working for him. Ferguson did not value him very much, and Tevez's departure was very unpleasant.

But now, Ferguson is praising Tevez to the skies and criticizing Shan Yongzhuo for being selfish.

This is where the problem lies.

In fact, Ferguson's purpose in saying this was to provoke Shan Yongzhuo and make him more of a team player during the game.

He studied Shan Yongzhuo's performance and found that he was a player who could change the game single-handedly.

Not enough team?

Break free, when a player can solve a game on his own, he doesn't need to become a team player.

Teamwork is meant to score goals, but Shan Yongzhuo can score goals all by himself.

Does that still require teamwork?

No need!

The point of a football match is to score goals!
However, no matter how Ferguson arranged his lineup, he did not believe that he could defend against Shan Yongzhuo with Vidic and Ferdinand alone.

Ferdinand is no longer the player he once was, and while Vidic is an excellent center-back, Ferguson still doesn't believe he can do what even the top Italian defenders couldn't.

Look at those defenders who fell to Shan Yongzhuo's blade, from Nesta, Chiellini, and Samuel in Italy to Terry and Koscielny in the Premier League. Ferguson didn't think Vidic could stop Shan Yongzhuo.

With this in mind, Ferguson resorted to his usual strategy.

Verbal tactics.

If Shan Yongzhuo sees this, will he be influenced and seek more teamwork in the game to prove that he is a team player?

If that's the case, it would mean that Shan Yongzhuo would have to give up his most powerful weapon and instead compete in a way that he's not good at.

If that's the case, Manchester United's chances of winning will increase significantly.

On the other hand, Shan Yongzhuo was also a little angry about Ferguson's trash talk, which he heard from his teammates.

Although he himself agreed with Ferguson's words, he admitted that he was not a team player.

However, Shan Yongzhuo was still very angry.

Did I provoke you?

How I compete is none of your business.

Therefore, in an interview, Shan Yongzhuo unusually shed his boastful words: "Against Manchester United, I will definitely give my best performance. My goal is to score more than three goals, or even four..."

After thinking it over, Shan Yongzhuo felt that the goal seemed a bit unrealistic, so he changed his mind again, "Of course, I must score at least two goals. In short, I will use goals to help the team win."

"After all, isn't a football match just a game of scoring goals?"

The surrounding reporters were stunned. Although they were all reporters who supported Manchester City, they also felt that Shan Yongzhuo had suddenly become a bit arrogant.

It seems that Ferguson's words have angered him?
Shan Yongzhuo boldly declared that he would score at least two goals, with a target of three or four.
This is a match at Old Trafford.

This guy completely disregards Manchester United!
(End of this chapter)