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Chapter 315: A new historical high! What I wished for came true! Yang Cheng's terrifying team is back! [Subscribe]

March 8, 28:17 pm.

When Yang Cheng, dressed in a black suit and white shirt, got out of the welcoming car, the entire square in front of the Grimaldi Forum suddenly became lively!

All the media reporters gathered at the scene were completely excited!

Yang Cheng is here!

Why is he here?

A moment ago, everyone looked at Yang Cheng in surprise.

In their impression, Yang Cheng rarely appeared in such occasions.

The next moment, they all reacted, holding up their cameras and camcorders, and filmed Yang Cheng frantically, shouting non-stop.

"Yang Cheng, here, look at me!"

"I'm from the Times, Yang Cheng, look here."

"Kicker Magazine, Mr. Yang, come over here!"

"Here, here, Yang, I'm here."

All the media reporters, whether they knew him or not, were shouting at him loudly.

Yang Cheng got out of the car, maintaining a polite smile, waved and greeted the fans and media reporters around him, and slowly walked towards the gate of the conference center.

Soon, the Chinese players from Bayswater also arrived one after another.

Long before, UEFA had announced the top three in the first round of voting for this year's best European player.

Not ranked: Cristiano Ronaldo, Gareth Bale and Toni Kroos.

In the top three introduction given by UEFA, Ronaldo won the La Liga top scorer with 31 La Liga goals.

But the most important thing is his 17 Champions League goals, which set the record for the highest number of goals scored in a single season in the history of the Champions League.

Even if Real Madrid failed to reach the final, Ronaldo's performance was obvious to all.

It can be said that the Portuguese really "won"!

There is no need to mention Gareth Bale, the Champions League champion, scored 38 goals in the Premier League, and won the European Golden Boot last season.

It can be said that the Welshman had a big breakthrough last season.

Almost everyone says that Gareth Bale is challenging Ronaldo for the position.

Because the technical characteristics of these two players are really very similar!

Therefore, they are also secretly wrestling with each other!
In addition to winning the Champions League for Bayswater Chinese, Toni Kroos also won the just-concluded World Cup in Brazil with the German national team, and he himself scored the winning goal in the final.

This also made everyone give extremely high praise to Toni Kroos!
The German midfielder can be said to be the number one contributor to Germany's victory in the World Cup!
Over the past few years, the performance of the Chinese in Bayswater has been obvious to all.

But he basically has no chance of winning any major awards.

This also led to Yang Cheng rarely attending grand events like today.

He even rarely attends FIFA award ceremonies.

Many people say that this is a struggle between him and FIFA and UEFA.

But now, he is here!
Among the top three, there are 2 of his players.

He was present at this time, so it was obvious that the answer was about to come out.

Is it Gareth Bale or Toni Kroos?
When the two stars of Bayswater Chinese got out of the car together, it immediately caused a sensation at the scene.

Red energy nourishes people!

If Toni Kroos has always been the typical German handsome guy, then Gareth Bale has completed his image transformation in the past few years.

At the beginning, when he first debuted, he was as thin as a monkey, and even had a bit of a pointed face and monkey cheeks.

So, many people think, how can this guy look like a star player?

But gradually, he became better and better at playing football, gradually began to be promoted, started to pay attention to his image, and started to learn how to dress and look.

Especially in the past few years, as he gradually became stronger and more powerful, everyone was surprised to find that their impression of him had undergone a drastic change unconsciously and imperceptibly.

He still doesn't meet everyone's definition of a handsome guy.

But this does not affect his healthy image in the eyes of countless female fans in Europe, North America and around the world, and he is supported by all fans.

After all, football players still have to speak with their performance on the field!
……

The commotion that Yang Cheng caused outside naturally spread to the venue.

As soon as you walk into the conference center, you immediately become the focus of everyone's attention.

To describe Yang Cheng now in one sentence is: Although he rarely attends events, his stories are told at every event.

As soon as he entered the venue, people kept coming up to him to greet him and shake hands.

All those present today, except for the guests who drew lots and invited guests, are basically club representatives of the 32 teams participating in the Champions League.

Especially the representatives from the teams in the mainstream European leagues, they all took the initiative to walk over and talk to Yang Cheng.

Because they all know very well what kind of status Yang Cheng holds in European football today.

As for the teams from the middle and lower leagues, they had no chance of squeezing into this circle. When they came in front of Yang Cheng, they could only stand on the periphery and look at Yang Cheng under the spotlight with envy.

He is not only the most successful head coach in world football today, but also the most successful boss!

Some even say that he is one of the most influential football bosses in the world today!

There are so many dazzling halos gathered around him that it is hard to tell which one is the real Yang Cheng.

But as the person involved, Yang Cheng actually found it difficult to cope with it.

After finally getting rid of the others, he saw Florentino walking towards him.

"Hey, Florentino, why are you here?" Yang Cheng smiled and shook hands and hugged him.

Given their relationship and common interests, it is no exaggeration to say that they are the best allies.

"I wasn't planning on coming originally, but since I heard you were going to attend, I'm definitely going to come and show my support."

Although I know it's just nice words, it's comfortable to hear.

Yang Cheng thanked him with a smile, and then greeted Real Madrid's general manager Jose Sanchez and chief steward Manuel Redondo who were next to Florentino. They all followed Florentino closely.

"Have you heard about what happened in the past two days?"

After the greetings, Yang Cheng and Florentino walked to a place where there were not many people.

Manuel Redondo and Jose Sanchez stood on the outside, just in time to help them block other people.

This way the two of them can talk.

This is the benefit of having a caring assistant.

"You mean, the National League?" Yang Cheng asked.

Florentino nodded.

Every year, UEFA holds a meeting at a fixed time to discuss things.

If an emergency occurs, an emergency meeting will be held.

Just like UEFA will hold a meeting before the Champions League group stage draw.

At meetings like this, the information that ordinary people can get is actually the information that UEFA intends for everyone to get.

For example, what agreements were reached, what decisions were made, etc.

But in fact, the meeting was more about discussion.

This kind of discussion may not necessarily lead to anything, or it may take several years to come to fruition, but the discussion itself represents a trend.

As heavyweight clubs in European football, both Real Madrid and Bayswater Chinese will definitely get the news.

To put it bluntly, who doesn’t have a few friends?

If you really don't have any friends, then don't get involved in this circle.

"They started discussing it last year, but at the time they just said they wanted to establish a national team competition covering all 54 member countries."

"But now, they are discussing the system of the competition, saying that they want to adopt a league model instead of the previous tournament system."

"In addition, I also received news that FIFA is also discussing some things, such as their plan to cancel friendly matches between national teams and establish a so-called world league."

As for the discussion, it is still a non-existent thing.

But both discussions actually represent a trend.

Both FIFA and UEFA are no longer content with their past roles as industry managers and are beginning to want to get a piece of the pie.

In fact, they want the biggest piece of the cake!
"Whether it is a national league or a world league, it is not something that can be promoted in a short period of time. Countries will definitely have great opinions on this. I think we should wait and see for the time being."

Yang Cheng said this and changed the subject, "Look, the last time UEFA made a decision to give the Europa League champion a place in the Champions League group stage, countries started arguing."

Florentino understood what Yang Cheng meant.

Unequal distribution of benefits!

From UEFA's perspective, giving the Europa League champion a chance to participate in the Champions League group stage will help strengthen competition in the Europa League, improve the level of the event, and thereby increase its influence and viewing value.

What it ultimately brings is commercial income.

But for leagues in various countries, this may not necessarily be a good thing.

The most important thing is not the issue of the quota, but the opening that has been opened.

In the past, there was only one way for clubs to qualify for the Champions League and Europa League, and that was league ranking.

The league is the only ticket.

This is an agreement that has been reached between national football associations and UEFA for many years.

Later, after Liverpool won the championship, they participated in the Champions League as the defending champions. This was a special case and caused some controversy, but everyone reluctantly accepted it.

What now?
You are literally turning the exception into the rule.

The gap is getting bigger and bigger.

The key is that if you win the Europa League, you must qualify for the Champions League.

What does this mean?
For the Premier League, the Europa League championship is more valuable than the fourth place in the Premier League.

Because the 4th place in the Premier League has to participate in the play-offs.

Even if we take a step back, when UEFA's hands are reaching further and further, and it is a foreseeable outcome that UEFA will make a fortune from the expansion of the 2016 European Cup, do you still want to reach out further?

What if one day in the future you continue to loosen this loophole, will the league ranking still have meaning?
Will UEFA be able to play on its own in the future?

The Champions League is the top league, the Europa League is the second-tier league, so why not just reorganize the European Cup Winners' Cup.

UEFA's three-tier cup competition directly covers the top 10 teams in the five major leagues, and they are promoted and relegated themselves!
It’s true, people have been talking about reorganizing the European Cup Winners’ Cup.

Some people may say that these are all imaginary things.

But if we don't come up with countermeasures in the budding stage for things like this, once they take shape, they will be impossible to contain.

When the time comes, people will tell you their cards directly. How will you respond?
So, this matter was fiercely debated.

In addition, there is another obvious change this year.

The European Super Cup has been brought forward.

In the past, the European Super Cup was held at the end of August, the day after the Champions League group stage draw.

But starting this year, it has been brought forward to mid-August, before the league starts.

The venue is also constantly changing. It used to be at the Louis II Stadium in Monaco, last year it was moved to Prague, Czech Republic, and this year it is in Cardiff.

What about next year?

Again, this is not an imminent problem, but a trend.

What exactly does UEFA want to do?
"I heard that someone within UEFA proposed to bring together the four teams in the Champions League final and the Europa League final to play the Super Cup outside of Europe in the summer!" Florentino looked solemn.

"I heard about it too." Yang Cheng nodded.

"They are really crazy now, and are becoming more and more greedy!"

Yang Cheng smiled slightly.

In his previous life, this proposal was not accomplished.

On the contrary, a few years later, FIFA expanded the Club World Cup and held it in the summer.

The FIFA president who accomplished this is the current UEFA Secretary General Infantino!

Many times, everything is connected.

The International Champions Cup is getting bigger and bigger, and everyone is jealous.

To give the simplest example, in Yang Cheng's previous life, after the expansion of the 2016 European Cup, the profit brought to UEFA increased from more than 7 million US dollars before the expansion to 9 million US dollars.

The number of participating teams has doubled, there are so many more competitions, but the value of the event has not increased much.

This is the marginal effect!
Everyone knows that when you expand your army, the quality of the game will decline.

Does it make sense to bring those bottom-ranked teams into the European Cup?

But what about the International Champions Cup?
After several years of mature operation, its annual commercial value has been rising and its influence has been expanding.

In particular, the broadcast covers more and more countries and regions, and the ratings are getting higher and higher.

This has resulted in the value of the event rising exponentially.

The successful hosting of this event every year makes it more and more important.

The most important thing is that the European Cup is held only every four years, while the International Champions Cup is played every year.

All the top teams have seen this clearly, so Florentino is so nervous.

If UEFA really expands the Super Cup and holds it in countries outside Europe, then his meaning will be very clear.

If your International Champions Cup refuses to recruit me, then I will organize a tournament to challenge you.

I am an industry manager and all European clubs listen to me.

No matter how good you are in the International Champions Cup or how fast your income grows, can it be faster than the Champions League?
If UEFA expands the European Super Cup, will the top teams dare not play?
Not going?

Don’t play in the Champions League!
No matter how great the potential of the International Champions Cup is, that is all in the future.

But I got the Champions League right now!
This is UEFA’s confidence!
"Don't worry, football is a highly mature industry. Even if UEFA wants to push for the expansion of the European Super Cup, it won't happen overnight!" Yang Cheng saw it very clearly, but he also knew that this thing would not succeed.

At least it didn’t happen in the previous life.

Not now.

"That being said, they are now constantly testing and trying. They changed the venue last year, and moved up the date this year. Will they start announcing the expansion next year?"

I have to say that Florentino is a born rebellious guy.

Or it should be said that Real Madrid has always been the rebel leader of UEFA.

"It's not that simple. To expand the army, the interests involved are huge. Even if it's just four teams, I won't say anything else. If we don't cooperate, can he really use coercive measures?"

That definitely won't happen.

You must persuade first and then push slowly.

This is also UEFA's consistent practice.

In this way, there will be time.

Yang Cheng is a time traveler and knows what will happen next, but others don’t!

"Did you hear any news?" Florentino guessed.

If you push slowly, it will be pushed forward sooner or later.

But Yang Cheng didn't seem afraid at all.

Yang Cheng thought about it and didn't say too much, especially about the fact that the US government was going to deal with FIFA and UEFA. If the news was leaked in advance, then things might not succeed.

Organizations like FIFA and UEFA have very strong government lobbying and mediation capabilities.

In general, governments are happy to cooperate with them rather than crack down on them.

"There have been a lot of conflicts within FIFA recently." Yang Cheng casually changed the subject.

"It's been many years since the World Cup bid..."

Florentino stopped talking here.

Among the countries that applied to host the World Cup that year, the United Kingdom also had an offer, but lost to Russia.

Subsequently, two consecutive chairmen of the English Football Association stepped down because of this incident.

Could it be that……

"Don't look at me like that, I really don't know." Yang Cheng laughed.

But the more he said this, the more suspicious Florentino became.

This really made him look at him with new eyes.

Unexpectedly, Yang Cheng actually had such a source of information in the British government.

It seems that the background is really not simple!
In just a few years, this young guy has become more and more surprising!

This also made Florentino secretly look up to Yang Cheng a little more, and he also secretly decided that he would advance and retreat together with Yang Cheng in the future!

If a major government really takes action, then FIFA and UEFA are nothing!

……

After talking about the key things, the two began to change the topic tacitly.

When Platini and Infantino came over, Florentino was complaining about Yang Cheng.

"What secrets are you talking about?" Platini asked with a smile.

These were the two rebel leaders that gave him the most headaches, and he had always been worried that the two families would join forces.

"Hello, Michel." Florentino met Platini and Infantino politely.

"I'm warning him to keep quiet in Spain."

"Oh?" Platini was amused. "Have they been making a lot of noise lately?"

"You don't know?" Florentino asked with a smile.

But soon, he spoke for himself.

"Although Malaga is now a Spanish Second Division team, in the past less than two months, it has invested a lot of money to start integrating the youth training clubs in the entire Malaga province, acquiring several of them, adding to the original ones and some cooperative ones."

"Now, the young talents in the whole of Andalusia are basically monopolized by Malaga's youth training."

After Florentino finished speaking, Yang Cheng burst out laughing.

"You are exaggerating. What do you mean by monopoly? Malaga is the largest La Liga team in southern Andalusia, okay?"

"Besides, there are only a little over one million people in the province of Malaga. To the east is Granada, and to the north, through the Sierra Nevado and Sierra Beticos, is Seville. No matter what we do, we can't monopolize it."

"Andalusia as a whole has a population of more than six million people."

Yang Cheng's complaints made both Platini and Infantino laugh.

When it comes to youth training, they will definitely support it.

Malaga attaches great importance to youth training. It is actually beneficial to the whole of Spain to reorganize the youth training clubs in the surrounding areas of Malaga, either by acquisition or cooperation.

In fact, Malaga's youth training still has great potential.

For example, before Yang Cheng traveled through time in his previous life, Juventus of Serie A poached a Dutch central defender named Dean Huissen from the Malaga youth training camp.

This little guy was born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and has dual Dutch and Spanish citizenship.

His father, Donny Huissen, made his debut at Ajax and was a professional player, but his career was not worth mentioning. He played for Ajax and Alkmaar, but both were mediocre.

After retiring at the age of 25, he moved to Marbella to live permanently in 2010 with Dean Huissen, who was only 5 years old.

Many people in Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, and other Nordic regions are just like their family.

Therefore, the potential in this area is still very large.

Yang Cheng paid special attention to it a few days ago and found out that Dean Huissen is currently playing football for a small youth training club called United Coast in Marbella.

This club has a partnership with Malaga.

For Yang Cheng and Malaga, the current task is to rectify the youth training of the entire Malaga province, fully tap more immigrants like Huissen, and comprehensively improve the level of youth training.

Of course Yang Cheng would not tell his plan, he just complained about Florentino instead.

"You, Real Madrid, are rich and powerful, so of course you don't have to worry about anything, but we are different. We have to be careful with everything."

After a pause, Yang Cheng said self-deprecatingly: "If Malaga doesn't improve, I will probably be scolded to death by Malaga fans!"

Everyone smiled when they heard this.

The chaos in Malaga in the past few years has been really outrageous.

Otherwise, UEFA would not have banned Malaga.

Although Malaga later repaid the debt, the ban was only reduced from 4 years to 2 years.

Of course, the team has been relegated now, so the suspension doesn’t matter.

But Platini was very happy about the "dispute" between Yang Cheng and Florentino.

He even hoped that the two gentlemen would fight on the spot.

Real Madrid is the strongest team in history.

The Chinese in Bayswater are the strongest in the world!
How strong is it?
Everyone knew it immediately.

……

As we all know, when the draw is made, UEFA will announce the points rankings for the past five years.

The 5-year period includes this season.

That means going back 4 years.

In the past four seasons, Bayswater Chinese have won three Champions League titles and reached the semi-finals of the Champions League once. The total score has reached 4!

Maybe many people have no idea about this.

Real Madrid, ranked second, is just over 138.

Barcelona is only over 128.

Bayern is just over 122.

In other words, Bayswater Chinese was a standout team, opening up a 20-point gap with the teams behind them.

You know, among the 32 Champions League teams, perhaps less than half of them have more than 20 points in a single season.

The leading advantage of Bayswater Chinese is too obvious!

When announcing this event, UEFA President Michel Platini had to congratulate the Chinese in Bayswater.

"This has created the highest record in our history of Champions League points statistics!"

It's so outrageous!

There was warm applause at the scene.

Yang Cheng was quite indifferent to this.

Because he couldn't tell how many people were truly appreciating him and how many were just pretending.

But when it comes to the draw, the Chinese in Bayswater have never had good luck.

This time is no exception.

The second tier team was drawn to be the Serie A champion Juventus.

But this is really hard to say, because the second-tier teams include Dortmund, Juventus, Paris Saint-Germain, Schalke 04 and Shakhtar Donetsk.

In comparison, Yang Cheng really thinks that drawing Juventus is a good choice.

But the third tier was a bit unlucky as they drew Leverkusen of the Bundesliga.

The fourth tier was drawn to Athletic Bilbao from La Liga.

In other words, the Premier League, Serie A, Bundesliga and La Liga have formed another group.

When the draw results came out, Yang Cheng really didn't know whether to cry or laugh.

The Chinese in Bayswater were not very lucky in the draw, but Nice and Atalanta were lucky.

In fact, it’s normal to think about it.

Whenever this kind of death group appears, it often means that there will be a situation of weak confrontation in other groups.

Atalanta was directly placed in the same group with Benfica of the Portuguese Super League, Zenit St. Petersburg and Galatasaray of the Turkish Super League.

There was an uproar at the scene.

But everyone has gotten used to it.

Since Platini took office, a group like this has appeared in almost every season of the Champions League.

This is not a big deal.

In the qualifiers before the group stage, there are often situations where the four major leagues fight each other, and other small and medium-sized national leagues fight each other. Who would believe that there is no human manipulation involved?

Nice was also lucky, having drawn Porto, Shakhtar Donetsk and Roma.

In terms of strength, the four teams in this group are all of evenly matched strength, and the difference should be minimal.

The key is to see who can perform better in the group.

As for the draw for the Chinese in Bayswater, Yang Cheng actually didn't care.

What you should care about is your opponent!

……

After the draw, the tense second round of voting for the best European player began.

Infantino hosted the award ceremony, invited the three players present to the stage and gave them a brief interview.

Sitting in the audience, Yang Cheng looked at his two players on the stage and felt quite proud.

This year has been a breakthrough year for the Chinese in Bayswater.

At the very least, two players were shortlisted in the top three of Europe's best players.

Moreover, Platini had called him several times before, revealing that the Chinese players from Bayswater would win awards.

So, Yang Cheng was not actually worried.

It’s normal to think about it.

If Gareth Bale and Toni Kroos don't win the award given their achievements, then there's really no need for UEFA to hold this award.

When the voting was over and Platini came on stage to warm applause, everyone knew that the most tense moment had arrived.

The UEFA president received the final voting results.

"Let us congratulate the Chinese from Bayswater..."

When Platini read out the name of the club, Ronaldo's expression on the stage became noticeably gloomy.

He had expected this, but when the moment came, he was still disappointed.

But he soon calmed down.

He has never been someone who is easily defeated.

Such setbacks will only further inspire his fighting spirit and urge him to work harder!

"...Gareth Bale!"

Platini finally called out the name of the final winner!

There was an instant burst of warm applause at the scene.

The Welshman jumped up with excitement.

He finally got what he wanted!

But he quickly turned around and hugged his teammate Toni Kroos vigorously, and then shook hands and hugged Ronaldo.

A promotional video of Gareth Bale winning the award was immediately played on the big screen at the scene.

The Welsh international enjoyed a career-defining breakout last season.

At the age of 25, he is entering the golden period of his career.

Many people say that he looks like Cristiano Ronaldo.

But in fact, everyone knows that he is not as good as Ronaldo.

At the age of 23, the Portuguese had already reached the pinnacle of world football.

But Gareth Bale is only now 25 years old and has only won the European Player of the Year award.

However, everyone also knows that Gareth Bale has a great chance of winning the Ballon d'Or this year.

He beat Ronaldo in the European Best Player vote, but Messi was not at his best in the Premier League last season.

Gareth Bale has beaten Messi in the poll for the best Premier League player.

Originally, the biggest opponent was Brazilian superstar Neymar, who was fighting at home.

But Brazil suffered a series of defeats at home, Neymar lost all face and it was impossible for him to win an award.

As for the German team that eventually won the championship, there were no particularly outstanding superstars in the team.

Toni Kroos scored the winning goal in the final, but for the Bayswater Chinese team, the top star was Gareth Bale.

Therefore, after winning this award, as long as Gareth Bale maintains a high level of performance in the following six months, I believe he should have a good chance of winning the highest individual honor.

The Welsh winger thanked his teammates in his acceptance speech.

“Without the team, I wouldn’t have been able to get this award!”

He also specially thanked head coach Yang Cheng.

"Moving from Southampton to Bayswater Chinese is the best decision I have ever made in my life!"

"I still remember what you said to me when we first met. I will definitely keep working hard!"

When the news that Gareth Bale won the European Player of the Year award at Monaco reached back to the UK, the British media generally sang praises.

The Sun published the headline "Master of Europe" on its front page the next day, praising Gareth Bale for becoming the king of Europe.

The British media believes that Gareth Bale deserves this award.

The Times also believes that Gareth Bale's performance in the past year has been fantastic.

But this authoritative media also believes that if the Welsh want to win the FIFA Ballon d'Or, they will have to work harder.

Because Messi and Ronaldo are extremely popular around the world.

"As we all know, popularity often plays a big role in the selection of FIFA awards."

The Times said that Gareth Bale should score consecutive goals in the second half of the year and show his best form.

Gareth Bale himself seems to think so.

……

October 8th, afternoon, Prudential Arena, London.

In the third round of the Premier League, Bayswater Chinese will face Sunderland at home.

Before this game, the team specially arranged a trophy presentation session.

Gareth Bale walked around the stadium with the award he had just received in Monaco and accepted the warm cheers of the fans.

In the game, the Welsh showed an aggressive momentum from the very beginning.

Sunderland will naturally adopt a defensive stance when visiting the Prudential Stadium.

But Poyet's team's defense only lasted 12 minutes.

In the 12th minute, Gareth Bale made an emergency stop on the right side of the penalty area, shook off the defender, and shot with his left foot to score the first goal for Bayswater Chinese!

1 is better than 0!

The Welsh player has scored in 3 consecutive games!
Just 6 minutes later, Hazard dribbled through the left side of the penalty area and made a wonderful pass. Harry Kane moved smartly in the penalty area and shot into the empty goal from close range with no one guarding him.

2 is better than 0!

In the 37th minute of the first half, Hazard dribbled past three defenders on the left and made a wonderful pass to the unguarded Modric who shot into the goal from the edge of the small penalty area.

3 is better than 0!

After the second half, Sunderland still defended tightly, but in the 63rd minute, Marcelo made a cross from the left, and Harry Kane volleyed near the penalty spot in the penalty area. After the goalkeeper blocked it, Gareth Bale easily followed up with a shot.

4 is better than 0!

Scored twice!

Gareth Bale, who just won the European Player of the Year award, celebrated his award with two goals!

But the Chinese offensive in Bayswater continued.

In the 69th minute, Hazard dribbled the ball inside and made a straight pass, and Harry Kane shot from near the left corner of the small penalty area, scoring his second goal.

5 is better than 0!

In the 78th minute, Hazard finally got a chance and broke through Sunderland's goal with a sudden long-range shot.

This was his first Premier League goal of the season.

6 is better than 0!

Sunderland has completely collapsed at this moment.

Just one minute later, Harry Kane retreated to receive the ball and made a straight pass. Gareth Bale pushed the ball with his right foot from the right side of the penalty area and broke Sunderland's goal again.

7 is better than 0!

hat trick!

The Welsh people were so excited that they ran around the field!

What was even more unexpected was that in the 80th minute, Yang Cheng replaced Gareth Bale with Walcott.

Less than a minute after coming on as a substitute, Walcott scored again against Sunderland with a shot from the edge of the small penalty area.

8 is better than 0!

The assist was by Modric!

This was also the last goal of the game.

Bayswater Chinese celebrated Gareth Bale's win with a thrilling 8-0 victory at the Prudential Arena!
The Welshman also used a hat trick to prove to everyone his determination to strive for the highest personal honor!

In this round, Manchester City beat Stoke City 1-0 at home.

Manchester United drew 0-0 with Burnley away.

Chelsea beat Everton 6-3 away.

Liverpool beat Tottenham Hotspur 3-0 away.

Arsenal beat Leicester City 2-1 away.

After 3 rounds of competition, Bayswater Chinese were leading the way.

In the first three rounds, Yang Cheng's team scored 3 goals and conceded 14 goals!

This immediately shocked the entire Premier League and even the entire European football world.

Just as the Times commented after this round ended.

"The Bayswater Chinese that everyone fears are back!"

……

After the 3th round of the Premier League, the national team started two weeks of training.

Two weeks later, when the Premier League resumed, the Chinese team of Bayswater challenged Manchester United away in the fourth round of the Premier League.

This is the first strong dialogue between the two teams this season.

Unlike the Chinese in Bayswater who are unstoppable, Van Gaal's team has been stumbling this season.

A very important reason is that the Dutchman insisted on playing the three-back system that was so successful in the World Cup.

Despite winning the game, Van Gaal still received a lot of criticism.

Especially in the last round, they were tied 0-0 by Burnley away.

Criticisms of the three-defender system from the outside world also began to become popular.

But Van Gaal still insisted that there was no problem for Manchester United to adopt a three-defender formation.

Even when facing Bayswater Chinese at home, he still used three defenders.

Goalkeeper: David de Gea

Defence: Rojo, Blind and David Luiz;

Midfield: Ashley Young, Pogba, De Rossi, Strootman and Valencia;

Forwards: Rooney and Robben.

Obviously, Van Gaal's so-called 352 formation is not a fixed three-back formation.

It's more like a flexible formation.

However, due to the departure of veterans such as Evra, Vidic and Ferdinand, Manchester United's defense is now seriously empty.

After a series of attempts, especially when it was not very reliable to arrange David Luiz to play as a central defender, Van Gaal chose Blind.

Yang Cheng still adopted the 433 formation in this game.

Goalkeeper: Courtois;
Defence: Luke Shaw, Harry Maguire, Virgil van Dijk and Kyle Walker;
Midfield: Casemiro in the back, with Toni Kroos and Aaron Ramsey in front;

Forwards: Gareth Bale, Harry Kane and Walcott.

Except for goalkeeper Courtois, almost all the international players who have played two full games for the national team, as well as the international players from Eastern Europe and South America, were rotated.

This also reflects Yang Cheng's confidence in the strength of his team.

Just 46 seconds into the game, left-back Luke Shaw made a quick run in and fired a diagonal shot from the left side of the penalty area, intending to hit the far corner, but it slipped slightly out of the goal.

"Manchester United were a little slow to get going today."

"Luke Shaw's shot is more like a reminder to Manchester United players that it's time to wake up and play the game!"

Although playing away from home, Bayswater Chinese gradually took control of the game.

Manchester United did not adopt a defensive strategy, but instead played tough at home.

In terms of strength, the Chinese in Bayswater are still better.

However, Bayswater Chinese's several attacks failed to break through Manchester United's defense.

And most of them are actually achieved through long shots.

What was more threatening was the cross from Luke Shaw on the left in the 17th minute. Harry Kane was closely marked by Blind and was unable to effectively control the ball when he stopped it.

David Luiz, who was returning to defense, took the lead and stole the ball.

The Brazilian centre-back may have been a bit rash and error-prone, but his performance was still full of energy.

However, there was also a very obvious situation in the game.

Manchester United adopted a three-defender formation. Whether it was Ashley Young or Valencia, although they actively retreated to the wing, they were more active in the midfield.

Therefore, after 20 minutes, Yang Cheng decisively adjusted his tactics. After grabbing the ball, he specifically attacked from behind.

This quickly produced results.

In the 24th minute, when Walcott was dribbling through the right side of the frontcourt, he was fouled by De Rossi and Rojo who were returning to defense.

Bayswater Chinese got a free kick opportunity in the frontcourt.

Although this position is a little to the right, the distance is good.

Gareth Bale stood at the penalty spot, positioned the ball, and slowly stepped back, measuring the distance for the run-up.

After Manchester United's human wall was set up, referee Phil Dowd blew the whistle, Gareth Bale took a quick run and kicked a wonderful butterfly ball with his left foot.

The football climbed over the heads of the human wall at an extremely fast speed and then fell rapidly, with a somewhat erratic angle.

This made it difficult for goalkeeper De Gea to make an accurate prediction, and he failed to save the ball when he flew to save the ball.

The football went into the upper right corner of Manchester United's goal.

1 is better than 0!

Gareth Bale scored in 4 consecutive games!
The Welshman is on a pretty good scoring streak this season!

It was a really bad situation for Manchester United to face a strong opponent and lose the ball at home.

So, Van Gaal's team began to counterattack actively.

The Chinese in Bayswater waited for the right moment to launch a counterattack.

In the 31st minute, Toni Kroos created a great chance in a counterattack.

A long diagonal pass caused De Gea to make a mistake, but Walcott's shot was not powerful enough and was cleared by Blind near the goal line.

However, this threatening quick counterattack still failed to scare Manchester United.

Just four minutes later, the Bayswater Chinese once again launched a quick counterattack.

Toni Kroos made a straight pass behind him, Gareth Bale passed the ball directly, used his speed to overtake, left Stroman and De Rossi behind, and headed straight for the penalty area.

Valencia was desperately chasing back on Manchester United's right.

Gareth Bale made a diagonal pass from outside the penalty area with his left foot to the left side of the penalty area.

Harry Kane cut diagonally into the left side of the penalty area and shot directly.

As a result, the ball hit David Luiz who returned to defense in time and bounced out.

But the second wave of attack is coming soon.

Aaron Ramsey followed up quickly and shot directly into Manchester United's goal.

2 is better than 0!

But Manchester United is still very aggressive and is still trying to fight back.

Before the end of the first half, Gareth Bale, Tony Kroos, Aaron Ramsey and Luke Shaw made consecutive passes, and Luke Shaw passed the ball into the penalty area.

Harry Kane was on the left side of the penalty spot in the penalty area, with his back to the direction of attack. He suppressed Blind with his body, stopped the ball, turned around, and shot with his right foot, once again penetrating Manchester United's goal.

3 is better than 0!

The entire Old Trafford stadium was almost silent.

We conceded three goals in the first half, and almost all of them were from the flanks.

After the second half, after the Chinese team of Bayswater withstood Manchester United's opening attack, in the 58th minute, Toni Kroos sent a diagonal pass from the left rib to the right corner of the small penalty area.

This time Walcott arrived in no time, caught up and shot the ball into Manchester United's goal again with his right foot.

4 is better than 0!

In the 78th minute, the Chinese players from Bayswater launched a counterattack in the frontcourt.

Argentine defender Rojo made a mistake in his back pass under the relentless pressure of Harry Kane.

Sterling, who came on as a substitute, suddenly cut into the right side of the penalty area from the outside, stole the ball before Blind, and pushed the ball into the far corner from the front of the small penalty area, breaking Manchester United's goal again.

5 is better than 0!

The whole Old Trafford fell into deathly silence!

Under the fierce offensive of the Chinese in Bayswater, Van Gaal's Manchester United was completely exposed!

Are three defenders really suitable for the Premier League?
(End of this chapter)