Green Field Eunuch

Chapter 422 From Away Game to Home Game

The match against Swansea will also be the last match of October.

November has arrived, and from November onwards, European football matches enter a busy period.

However, in the first half of November, Manchester City displayed a very frenzied performance.

Guardiola and Shan Yongzhuo seem to have reached some kind of tacit agreement. Although the two still rarely speak, they both know what the situation is.

Kross communicated with Shan Yongzhuo about his desire to leave in the winter, but it didn't go very smoothly.

Mubarak and his team still hope that Shan Yongzhuo can leave in the summer.

After consultations with various parties, an agreement was finally reached.

Shan Yongzhuo will play the entire season for Manchester City, and Guardiola needs to ensure Shan Yongzhuo's playing time. If Shan Yongzhuo can lead Manchester City to win the Premier League and Champions League titles this season, Manchester City will give Shan Yongzhuo considerable support in the transfer market.

The negotiations were handled entirely by Kross, and Shan Yongzhuo was unaware of the specific details, but he was still very satisfied with the outcome.

He doesn't necessarily need to leave Manchester City. As long as he can get playing time and happily rack up goals, everything is negotiable.

Guardiola was also under a lot of pressure and ultimately had no choice but to accept the agreement.

Then, Shan Yongzhuo led Manchester City into a crazy November.

On November 3, in the tenth round of the Premier League, Manchester City defeated West Ham United 0-4 away.

On November 7th, in the fourth round of the Champions League group stage, Manchester City defeated Ajax 3-1 at home.

On November 9th, in the eleventh round of the Premier League, Manchester City defeated Tottenham Hotspur 6-3 at home.

Manchester City won all three of their opening matches in November, scoring a staggering 13 goals. Nine of those goals came from Shan Yongzhuo, while the remaining four were scored by Aguero, Dzeko, and Silva.

Such a phenomenal performance has amazed the media, and it seems that the invincible Manchester City team from last season has returned.

In the league, Manchester City, thanks to a winning streak, overtook Chelsea by one point to move into second place, just two points behind Manchester United.

In the Champions League, Manchester City won four consecutive matches, earning 12 points.

In another key match, Real Madrid were held to a 2-2 draw by Borussia Dortmund at the Bernabéu Stadium, which secured Manchester City's qualification for the knockout stage with two rounds to spare.

Meanwhile, the situation in Group D became quite clear.

Manchester City have won all four of their matches and are leading the pack with 12 points.

In the third round, Borussia Dortmund defeated Real Madrid at home, winning 2-1 and leaving Real Madrid heartbroken at Iwestfalen Stadium.

Back at the Bernabéu, Dortmund held Real Madrid to a draw.

After four rounds of matches, Borussia Dortmund has two wins, one draw, and one loss, placing them second in the group with 7 points.

Real Madrid only managed 4 points, finishing third in their group.

Ajax suffered four defeats in four rounds and finished at the bottom of their group.

This points total is very advantageous for Manchester City; even if they lose the next two rounds, they can still advance from the group stage.

The three-game winning streak in all competitions has finally satisfied many Manchester City fans who had been harboring grievances, and has also relieved a lot of pressure on Guardiola.

After finishing the match against Tottenham, Shan Yongzhuo boarded the plane again.

The Asian qualifiers for the 20 FIFA World Cup have resumed, and Shan Yongzhuo has boarded a plane to Doha, the capital of Qatar, where the Chinese national football team will face Iraq in an away match.

This match is still very important for the Chinese national football team.

If the Chinese national football team can defeat Iraq again away from home, they will advance directly from the top 20 to the top 10 with two rounds to spare.

Therefore, Gao Hongbo attaches great importance to this match, and Shan Yongzhuo must return to ensure victory. Shan Yongzhuo transited through London to Doha, the capital of Qatar, where he will join the national team before facing Iraq.

Due to the situation in Iraq, FIFA has disqualified matches played in Iraq, so this match can only be held at a neutral venue.

……

This is not Shan Yongzhuo's first time in Doha.

The 2011 AFC Asian Cup was held in Qatar, where Shan Yongzhuo and his team won the Asian Cup title.

Shan Yongzhuo has many fond memories of Qatar.

Qatari fans clearly have a very good impression of Shan Yongzhuo.

Upon disembarking from the plane, he was greeted by a large number of local fans in Doha, Qatar, which made Shan Yongzhu a little nervous.

When Shan Yongzhu arrived at the scene on the day of the match, he found that it was not an away game at all, but a home game!
Besides Chinese fans, there were also many Qatari fans at the scene who came specifically to support Shan Yongzhuo, and they displayed huge banners to show their support.

In contrast, there were not many Iraqi fans at the stadium; they were sparse and looked rather pitiful.

This was originally supposed to be Iraq's home game, but the situation on the ground made it seem like it was China's home game.

"I feel sorry for Iraq for a minute..."

Shan Yongzhuo was also deeply moved by this.

Because the Qatari team is playing an away game this round, many Qatari fans did not travel with the team to Indonesia to watch the match.

They chose to come to the stadium where the Chinese team was playing to support the world's number one star.

The Qatar Football Association has also contributed significantly to this effort.

A few days before the match, they ran a large advertisement: "The match between Iraq and China, featuring the world's number one star Shan Yongzhuo, is worth coming to the stadium."

In order to sell tickets, the Qatar Football Association shamelessly used Shan Yongzhuo's influence.

In fact, Shan Yongzhuo had already amassed a large number of loyal fans in Qatar during the previous Asian Cup, and then the match turned out like this.

The stadium, which can hold more than 20,000 people, was packed to capacity, and the vast majority of them were there to support Shan Yongzhuo.

"This isn't Iraq's home ground, it's Shan Yongzhuo's home ground!"

Even before the match started, many people had already come to this conclusion, because the entire stadium was chanting Shan Yongzhuo's name.

Such shouts made the Chinese team players feel relaxed. Zheng Zhi jokingly said to Shan Yongzhuo, "Little Shan, this is your exhibition match, try to score 12 goals against him!"

"There are plenty of your fans outside."

"If I steal your thunder, I'll get ganged up on by these Qataris."

"Hahaha……"

"..."

"Uh..." Shan Yongzhu gave an awkward, bitter laugh, somewhat helpless.

At the same time, he also wondered if he had been too ruthless against Iraq in the last match, as the Iraqi players looked at him as if he were their mortal enemy.

It probably won't be so easy for them to score a few goals in this match.

Thinking about this, Shan Yongzhuo felt it was necessary to take the initiative.

So he looked at Chen Tao next to him and said with a smile, "Just pass the ball to me."

(End of this chapter)