Manchester City Stadium on August 19, 2009.

In order to make way for the South African World Cup next year, major European leagues have compressed their schedules, and the Premier League in the new season has entered a weekly double match as soon as it opens, bringing heavy game pressure to all participating teams.

Three days after the first round, Manchester City ushered in their first home game of the new season.

The city stadium, which can accommodate more than 47,000 fans, is full. Countless Manchester City fans booked their first home game early, hoping to get the first home game coached by Gao Han.

Before the game, Manchester City held a brief home unveiling ceremony for the new season and held a special event.

That is, before the game, on the big screen on the scene, a edited and exciting shots of Gao Han coached in the past nine years, except for Chelsea, as well as the outstanding performances of many superstar players in the team.

The short film is not long, but it is edited very well. The music that makes the atmosphere on the scene extremely warm.

After playing the video, Manchester City players walked out of the player channel one after another on the radio on the stadium and accepted cheers from all the fans. The biggest brand Cristiano Ronaldo was arranged to the finale.

The fans of the audience gave the most fanatical applause and cheers to every player. Many fans even did not forget Kaka who could not play. The live broadcast footage was specially given to the Brazilian superstar in the chairman's stands, allowing him to enjoy the greeting of all the fans.

The atmosphere in the stadium was extremely strong, especially when Gao Han walked into the stadium from the player passage, more than 40,000 fans in the stadium shouted his name in unison, and countless fans held up cards and formed Gao Han's huge portrait on the huge stands to express their support for the world-famous coach.

Gao Han smiled throughout the whole process, raised his right hand and greeted the fans in the audience, which made him feel more enthusiastic.

Although the first round of the new season was not ideal, he defeated his opponent steadily 2-0 away. All Manchester City fans firmly believed that the team's downturn was only temporary. Give some more time, Gao Han will be able to adjust the team to its best state and play as much as he deserves.

Because in the past decade, Gao Han has never disappointed people.

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In the second round of the game, Manchester City's opponent was Everton.

Moyes's team just lost to Arsenal 1-6 at home and was visiting the city stadium in the second round, which made Moyes complain about the devil's schedule before the game, but the game was obviously ready.

At the beginning of the game, Manchester City still took the initiative, but unlike the away game against Blackburn, Gao Han did not rush to score a goal this time, but instead made a slow attack with the goal of stabilizing the team's pass and control style and controlling the rhythm of the game.

Moyes seemed to be worried about repeating Allardyce's mistakes. After the opening, he did not organize a pressing force, but retreated.

After the test of the first round of the game, and Gao Han has adjusted the problems exposed in the first round in the past three days, the players have a further understanding of Gao Han's technical and tactical playing styles, and the transmission and control organization is more skillful.

Everton is not a fuel-efficient lamp, and the defense is well organized, making it difficult for Manchester City to break into the 30-meter area.

But Manchester City has made a big improvement in this game, that is, the high-intensity pressure and pressing in the midfield and frontcourt, which makes it difficult for Everton to hold the ball, while Manchester City has absolute possession.

Several players in the midfield and backcourt also obviously have more confidence in getting the ball and controlling the ball, and have become more calm.

However, Moyes was in the 451st formation in this game, and the midfielder gathered Premier League stars such as Phil Neville, Arteta, Pinal, and Cahill, and their overall strength should not be underestimated.

Gao Han kept walking to the sidelines and repeatedly reminded the players to stay calm and patient. Even the two sides tied a zero-to-zero draw in the first half. The scene seemed very dull. During the halftime break, Gao Han still reminded the players to continue to stick to the first half style and firmly grasp the ball control and the rhythm of the game.

Because he knew that everything could not be done overnight and needed to follow the steps.

At least based on Manchester City's current situation, if you first master the ball and the rhythm of the game, you can stand in an unbeaten position or be less likely to be defeated. As long as you do this, the offensive players in the frontcourt will seize the opportunity sooner or later.

As for offense, we have to wait until the team gains a foothold first.

After the second half of the game, Everton made efforts to disrupt Manchester City's pass control and rhythm, but Moyes's team soon exposed a flaw and was calmly seized by Manchester City.

David Silva received a straight pass from Kompany from the backcourt, and passed it to Modric who ran over to pick up the match.

The Croatian midfielder accurately grasped the Everton defense line and pushed the ball too hard. He passed the ball over the top and sent the ball behind Everton's defense line. Cristiano Ronaldo intercepted the ball and inserted it. Without anyone defending, he formed a single shot and dribbled the ball into the penalty area. He calmly pushed the ball and shot, one-to-zero!

Afterwards, Everton began to counterattack, Manchester City consciously retreated, stabilized its position, and launched two quite threatening counterattacks, which scared Everton quickly retreated again.

In the end, Manchester City defeated Everton one-to-zero with Cristiano Ronaldo's goal in the 58th minute.

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In the double matches in one week, the Premier League has undergone certain changes.

Liverpool, who had capsized in the gutter in the first round, returned to Anfield Stadium in this round, slaughtering Stoke City 4-0 and playing the most exciting game of this round.

Chelsea beat Sunderland 2-1 away, and Tottenham also beat Birmingham 5-1 away. Arsenal, who won a big victory in the first round, continued to win in this round, winning Bolton 4-2 at home.

Only Manchester United lost to Burnley by zero to one away.

But even if Manchester United loses, the British media scolds the most powerfully after the game, but Manchester City, who wins the ball.

Many media are very dissatisfied with Manchester City's 1-0 home victory over Everton, because except for Cristiano Ronaldo's flash of inspiration, Manchester City did not create many scoring opportunities in the whole game, and even in some offensive data, they are not as good as Everton.

"Gaohan's team is chasing the ball possession as always. In this game, Manchester City's possession rate was as high as 62%, setting the highest possession rate in the 20 Premier League games this season."

"But with a 62% possession rate, with European celebrities such as Cristiano Ronaldo, Benzema, Sanchez, David Silva and Modric, they only scored twelve shots, five shots, and opposite them, Everton scored eleven shots, seven shots."

"You know, the player with the lowest value in Manchester City's frontcourt is enough to match the total value of Everton's offensive players in the entire frontcourt, but the data produced by both sides are exactly the same, which is completely unacceptable."

But Gao Han smiled and said that his team's performance was very satisfied at the post-match press conference.

"I'm very happy because I've seen improvements, I've seen all the players gradually getting into the team, and everyone needs to give us more time and everything will be fine."

As for the fans at the scene, Gao Han said that he was very excited.

"I feel great today. The fans here are amazing. Even when the team is in a bad situation, they are still supporting us. I want to tell all Manchester City fans here, believe me, the team will gradually get on the right track."

However, the outside media obviously did not trust Gao Han's words very much.

Three days later, on Saturday, in the third round of the Premier League, Manchester City still welcomed Wolves at home.

Manchester City started the game very well, with Cristiano Ronaldo scoring a goal in the 17th minute, helping the team lead by 1-0.

But after scoring a goal, Manchester City became a little helpless again when facing Wolves' tenacious sniper, especially in the second half, Wolves replaced a forward and replaced a defender, and changed to the May 41 formation, Manchester City's offense became more difficult.

In the end, Manchester City once again achieved one-to-zero home games.

After the game, everyone once again targeted Manchester City, which had weak offense, especially when Manchester United defeated Wigan Athletics five-to-zero away, Arsenal defeated Portsmouth four-to-one at home, and Chelsea defeated Fulham 2-0 away, Manchester City's small goal victory was inevitably pale in comparison.

In this round, Liverpool lost to Aston Villa 1-3 at home, and once again lost.

But compared with the outside doubts, Gao Han gave a high evaluation of the team's third round game, especially in the locker room after the game, he was even more sure of the team's performance.

Because in this game, the team created a total of twenty-one shots, including fourteen shots and seven shots missed. Whether it was a chance to create goals or efficiency, it was quite good.

As for why he only scored one goal, Gao Han has coached for so many years, of course he knows more than anyone else. Sometimes the feeling of scoring a goal is a little bit worse.

But the media outside obviously don't think so, because judging from the start of the three games this season, Manchester City's performance has been very sluggish.

After playing the third round of the Premier League, the League Cup was ushered in the mid-week.

Gao Han performed appropriate rotation of the team's lineup, including Sturric, Petrov and Ruo, all got the chance to play, and the team also returned to the 433 formation, and as a result, they defeated Crystal Palace 3-0 away without any danger and advanced successfully.

This immediately caused the media to hype again, believing that Gao Han should not hold on to the three, four, and three formations, but instead fight the four, three, and three.

At least, Manchester City players are obviously more adapted to the four-guard style of playing.

But in the weekend, in the fourth round of the Premier League, Manchester City challenged Portsmouth away, but Gao Han once again took three defenders.

As a result, this time he encountered a very tenacious sniper from the home team. Portsmouth received a total of 22 fouls and six yellow cards in this game. This data is the best proof of the game process. With a 60% advantage in possession, Manchester City finally won 1-0 with Cristiano Ronaldo's goal in the 30th minute.

The winning goal was won in four consecutive rounds, which led several British tabloids to post reports of ridicule Gao Han and Manchester City, mocking Gao Han for his conservative one-to-zeroism and dare not invest troops in the offense.

In this round, Arsenal challenged Manchester United when he was away from Old Trafford. As a result, he was equalized by Rooney with Van Persie's goal. After that, midfielder Diaby's own goal made Manchester United reverse 2-1.

This is also Arsenal's first loss this season.

After four rounds, three teams won all four games in the Premier League, Chelsea ranked first, Tottenham ranked second, Manchester City ranked third, followed by Arsenal and Manchester United, and Liverpool ranked eighth, trailing West Ham United and Stoke City.

Cristiano Ronaldo scored four goals, tied for the top scorer list with Manchester United's Rooney and Tottenham's Defoe, and he is also the only scorer to score all four rounds.
Chapter completed!