On November 16, 2008, the 13th round of the Premier League.

Manchester City away game against Hull City.

This game is considered a contest between two different dark horses. The two teams currently score 20 points in the Premier League and tied for fifth place in the league. Manchester City has more goals than Hull City, so it actually has more rankings than Hull City.

Why are they two different dark horses?

A typical nouveau riche at Manchester City. If the team's current results were made with money, no one would object to this statement, and even Manchester City's own fans would not refuse to admit this sentence.

Manchester City spent a total of more than 100 million pounds in the transfer market this summer. Not to mention anything else, just Zhang Yang, Manchester City spent 75 million pounds in it!

Manchester City has made the greatest contribution in its current performance, so it is not an exaggeration to say that this "dark horse" was made with money. Of course, judging from Manchester City's strength, it is very appropriate to say that it is a dark horse.

Manchester City's opponent Hull City today is a true dark horse. The club has been established for more than 100 years and has entered the top league for the first time. It was promoted to the Premier League after passing the upgrade play-offs. This is a team that was predicted by countless experts and media to be relegated to the hottest team before the start of the season. However, this team once ranked second in the standings. You should know that behind Hull City are Manchester United, Chelsea and Arsenal.

Although his performance has begun to decline recently, he is able to tie for fifth place with points after twelve rounds of the league. It is already a super legendary performance for this team that has only made his first trip to the top league 104 years after the team was founded. It is not an exaggeration to say that Hull City is a dark horse. This team is a well-deserved dark horse! In the summer transfer market, the total cost of this team is less than 10 million pounds, which is just a fraction of the transfer fee of Zhang Yang.

This showdown between Gao, handsome and rich and **Silk is also quite eye-catching.

Hull City's home court, Kingston Communications Arena.

The players on both sides are still in the players' corridor and have not yet appeared.

Coaches and substitutes from both sides have already been on the coaching and benches.

The camera gives Hull City coach Brown a close-up.

"Gary, guess what's in Brown's headphones at this time?" Eddie Gray said with a smile, "Can it be Little Tiantian's new song?"

When Leinker heard this question from his partner, he laughed. He also looked at the headset of the head coach Hull City, and found it interesting.

Before this season, Phil Brown's unknown new coach. However, now, the newly promoted Hull City led by Brown has become a dark horse in the Premier League.

This young head coach is very interesting. When he directs the game on the spot, or whenever it is a game, he will wear headsets on his ears to command the game. This style of wearing headsets to command the game has also become more and more outstanding as Hull City's performance has become more and more outstanding, and it has begun to be sought after by some media. This is also considered a model for the Premier League to adopt advanced coaching methods.

So, when I saw the big headsets on Phil Brown's ears, Leinker and Eddie Gray couldn't help but make some jokes.

Manchester City's luck in this game was really bad.

Kompany was suspended in this game, and Mark Hughes sent Ben Haim as the starting center back.

However, the gentleman used his "excellent performance" to explain why Chelsea gave up on him.

In the 14th minute of the game, Ben Haim received a return pass from Marklele. He took two steps forward and saw Hull City player Giovani coming up to press, so he chose to pass back.

However, a funny scene appeared.

When Ben Haim was returning, his feet slipped and fell to the ground. The football slowly rolled towards the goal.

How could Giovani miss such a big gift?

The former Manchester City player even looked at Ben Haim who was lying on the ground with a sense of humor and said 'Thank you'. Then he shook his big feet away and caught up with the football. Then he faced the attacking goalkeeper Joe Hart and shot directly at the bottom left corner of the goal.

Kingston Communications Arena was thundering, and they led their direct rival Manchester City one-to-zero at home.

Hull City fans are looking forward to this game. They want to prove to everyone that they are the real dark horses. As poor jingle silk, they want to make direct sounds and beat up the nouveau riche.

Giovani was very excited after scoring the goal. He rushed to the head coach Phil Brown on the sidelines. He wanted to thank this man, which gave him a new life. In addition, his unscrupulous celebration was also a revenge for the old owner of Manchester City, just like an abandoned resentment woman who finally had the opportunity to beat the unfaithful person.

Speaking of Giovani, although he is only playing in the City of Mahull, this person was a coquettish person and a famous young genius in the past.

In 2001, Barcelona spent £12.5 million to buy a Brazilian player from Cruzero. The 21-year-old star named Giovani was once regarded as Barcelona's future with the young genius Saviola, nicknamed "Bunny". The two are considered Barcelona's offensive partners in the next decade.

However, Giovani played in 26 league games for Barcelona and only scored 1 goal.

Barcelona also quickly sold the sell-off to Benfica in the Portuguese Premier League in 2003.

During Benfica's three and a half years, Giovani has always performed well, but Benfica has always been suppressed by Porto and other teams in China, which forces them to undergo a major change.

Therefore, in the summer of 2006, the unlucky Giovani was sold back to Cruzero by Benfica for less than 500,000 pounds. Giovani, who returned to his hometown team, no longer had the glory of the past. With 12 games and 2 goals, he joined Manchester City as a free agent in the summer of 2007.

When he first arrived in Manchester City, Giovani was shocking. He scored a goal when he came on as a substitute in the first game of last season, helping Manchester City beat West Ham United 2-0 away. A week later in the Manchester derby, Giovani scored another goal at a critical moment. Manchester City defeated Manchester United by 1-0 at his home court. This can be regarded as a stunning appearance.

However, I don’t know if it’s because of the mentality of ‘cheap but no good’. Under the then Manchester City coach Eriksson, the Brazilian star who came to the team for free has never been taken seriously. Giovani has always been difficult to get a stable chance to play. His positioning is another Brazilian midfielder Elano’s substitute, which also makes Giovani always depressed.

In the summer, Giovani, who had only signed a short-term worker for one year last year, was abandoned by Manchester City and was unable to get a contract again. Although Giovani was willing to cut his salary, Manchester City did not want him.

At this time, the disheartened Giovani was favored by Hull City. In order to persuade Giovani to join, Hull City coach Phil Brown personally went to Giovani's home to lobby.

This unprecedented attention touched the former Barcelona star, and he resolutely chose to join Hull City.

Although Hull City is just a promoted player, he has gained an incomparable position here that is beyond comparison. You should know that Giovani is the first player in Hull City to have experience in playing the Champions League. Here, he is a well-deserved big-name star! Head coach Phil Brown also fulfilled his promise and gave Giovani's team the core offensive position.

Giovani also reciprocated his gratitude and performed very well after the start of the new season. Hull City's outstanding record is inseparable from Giovani's wonderful performance.

Today, facing Manchester City, who abandoned his old owner, the Brazilian star was holding his breath and wanted to beat Manchester City up.

Zhang Yang looked at Giovani, who was celebrating the goal crazy, and jumped up angryly.

He was not clear about the grudge between this guy and Manchester City, and Zhang Yang was just unhappy with the team's inexplicable goal loss.

No matter how much he can score, he will not be able to make such low-level mistakes in the back line.

Moreover, this goal can be imagined to be a big blow to Manchester City.

Manchester City's goal came when the game was twenty-one minutes.

Marklele fought with Hull City's midfielder Boateng, and the two fell to the ground at the same time, but the experienced Marklele poked the ball open while falling to the ground.

At this time, Modric broke out from the slant and snatched the football that had lost control.

The referee, who was planning to blow the whistle and pause the game, immediately raised his hands and pointed forward - the offense is favorable, and the game continues!

Modric didn't dribble much. He saw Zhang Yang cruising in the diagonal line in front and decisively pushed the ball straight.

Modric's pass was very good. His goal of passing was not under Zhang Yang's feet, but in front of Zhang Yang's running direction. In this way, Zhang Yang's speed advantage can be maximized.

In fact, this is Zhang Yang’s favorite!

"No offside! Zhang - he received the football!" the commentator shouted.

Zhang Yang caught up with the football, and immediately followed, he used his speed to instantly throw away the Hull City defender Rikate who came up to defend, and then inserted the Hull City defenders diagonally behind the Hull City defenders!

Now, no one can keep up with Zhang Yang’s speed!

He dribbled the ball into the penalty area and faced Hull goalkeeper McHill who was attacking. Zhang Yang was very smart and shot. The football flew over McHill's head, fell, and fell into the net.

“GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAL!”

"One to one! This is Zhang Yang's 16th league goal in the league!"

"Zhang Yang's speed of dribbling is simply amazing... He equalized the score for Manchester City! Manchester City's counterattack was quite fast! Marklele's pass still completed the pass after falling to the ground! Modric was also quite agile! He suddenly rushed up and got the football, which was unexpected by Hull City players, and his pass was also quite beautiful. The passing of the scalpel-like pass we often call it, is like this kind of pass..."

"It took Manchester City only ten seconds to score this goal from counterattack to goal. Their attack fully interpreted the speed." Commentator Eddie Gray sighed at this lightning-fast goal - from Marklele's tackle, to Modric's pass, to Zhang Yang's shooting, the whole process took only sixteen seconds!

Zhang Yang, who scored the goal, ran back with a laugh and hugged Modric who assisted him, and Modric also agreed to appear very excited. His tacit understanding with Zhang Yang was getting better and better.

Ben Haim was even more excited. If the team lost zero to one because of his mistake just now, then his psychological burden would be very high. Now that Zhang Yang scored a goal and tied the score, he would finally feel better.

Zhang Yang saw Ben Haim who came to celebrate the goal, and at this time he scored the goal, he was in a great mood. He had already put down his dissatisfaction with the defender's mistake. Zhang Yang and Ben Haim hugged Ben Haim to comfort the man.

I have to say that Manchester City's luck today was really bad.

No, to be exact, it's too bad!

At 31 minutes after the game was held, Manchester City goalkeeper Joe Hart saved the shot from Hull City striker Cusin, and he was injured himself. After the inspection, the Manchester City team doctor had to tell Manchester City head coach Mark Hughes that there was bad news that Joe Hart could not continue to play.

Mark Hughes's face was gloomy. He could only let the substitute goalkeeper Schmeichel on the bench get up to warm up and replace the injured Johart with Schmeichel.

When the first half was forty minutes, Ellano fell to the ground after fighting against Giovani and could not hold on to the game.

"For Manchester City, they were really unlucky today. Their guard had an own assist, the starting goalkeeper was injured in the save, and the main midfielder was also injured in fighting with his opponent. Before the first half was over, they had to use two substitutions!" Leinker also shook his head, sighing at Manchester City's bad luck.

Mark Hughes had to replace Ellano with Ireland, and at the same time, he also fine-tuned the players' position on the court, Modric went to the middle and Ireland went to the wing.

I have to say that Mark Hughes is still of some level, and his on-the-spot change soon received miraculous results.

This time I was forced to substitution, and Ireland's appearance also received miraculous results.

In the injury stoppage time in the first half, Manchester City attacked, Zhang Yang dribbled the ball and attracted the attention of two Hull City players. He suddenly passed the ball directly. Robinho stopped the ball slightly and had no angle to shoot. However, the Brazilian was very smart and suddenly passed the football to the left side of the goal. There, no one around Ireland was defending him!

"Robinho - he passed the ball, no one around Ireland - shot -"

“GOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAL!”

"It's really unexpected that Manchester City actually surpassed the score before the end of the first half!"

"And the goal was Ireland, who had just been on the bench, just now! Ellano's injury left the court, which made Ireland who had come on the bench successful!"

Ireland was very excited when scoring goals. As the main player of Manchester City last season, he became a substitute this season, so he was naturally unwilling to accept it. Being able to seize the opportunity to play on the bench will have excellent performance, which will add a lot of points to the head coach for him to regain his main position.

Another thing I was very excited to see when Ireland scored, that is, Manchester City's head coach Mark Hughes. Although this substitution was replaced by Ireland because Ellano was injured and forced to substitute, he was still quite effective in adjusting the player's position on the field. Well, this adjustment made Mark Hughes very proud.

The score of 2-1 was maintained until the whole game lasted for more than 70 minutes.

At this time, Mark Hughes made a substitution adjustment, and he replaced Zhang Yang with Wassel.

Zhang Yang had no objection to this substitution. He also believed that the team won the game with no big problem. Although it was only two to one and only led by one goal, Hull City had no chance. Manchester City still had no big problem with defending one goal.

After Vassel took the field, he got an excellent goal chance in less than three minutes!

Ireland, who came on the bench, was in good shape. He made a wonderful pass from Robinho on the left edge of the penalty area. Robinho's shot was blocked by Hull's central defender Sayat, and the football reached Vassel's feet. However, the former England international faced most of the empty goal and hit the air in the face of this excellent opportunity to make a comeback.

He flawed!
To be continued...