Chapter 135: Singing and Progressing (Part 2)

On October 5, 2009, the eighth round of the 2009/2010 Premier League season, Manchester City played away against Aston Villa.

This game is not a heavyweight showdown, but because Manchester City slaughtered Aston Villa 8-3 at home last season, today's game, Manchester City's away from Aston Villa is also particularly eye-catching.

Considering the "injury" that Aston Villa fans have suffered and are worried that the home team fans will have any extreme actions, so in today's game, Aston Villa's home security is particularly strict. Before the game, Aston Villa's fans also exaggerated the tension of the game. They criticized Zhang Yang, saying that they would make Zhang Yang, the "executioner" who "slaughtered" Aston Villa's "executioner" looks good.

Zhang Yang was not afraid of some criticisms and insults from Aston Villa fans. He said that he was very eager to help the team defeat Aston Villa again with a big score.

Zhang Yang's statement also made the temperature of this game continue to heat up.

However, in the end, the final score of this particularly eye-catching game was 2-2. Manchester City was tied by Aston Villa away, while the focus character Zhang Yang simply did not play.

According to Manchester City's post-match, Zhang Yang felt unwell after the game against Alkmaar, so Manchester City head coach Mark Hughes chose to let Zhang Yang rest in the game against Aston Villa.

However, the TV broadcast footage captured Zhang Yang, who had been sitting on the bench during the game against Aston Villa, when the team and Aston Villa were still tied 2-2 in more than 80 minutes, Zhang Yang was very excited and seemed to have an argument with Mark Hughes. Then Zhang Yang sat on the bench with a gloomy face. When the whistle sounded from the 2-2 final game, Zhang Yang was the first to walk towards the player corridor without looking back.

After the game, the Sun broke the news that Zhang Yang believed that he had no problem with his body and could play against Aston Villa. However, Mark Hughes believed that Zhang Yang's behavior before the game angered Aston Villa's fans, which would make the game develop in a certain unstable aspect. Zhang Yang's behavior made Mark Hughes very dissatisfied and simply did not give Zhang Yang a chance to play.

For Zhang Yang, it was quite uncomfortable to watch the team tied by Aston Villa on the court. Obviously, it was unforgivable to lose points on Aston Villa's "like a team".

The Sun immediately hyped up the mismatch of Manchester City's generals, which quickly aroused the response of many English media.

Even the Times, which has always been known for its rigor, believes that the conflict between the Manchester City head coach and the Manchester City captain is definitely not groundless. It not only exists for sure, but also seems inevitable.

The Times believes that the biggest root of the problem is that Zhang Yang has made too great contribution to Manchester City. This young man is the absolute soul of Manchester City. People know that Zhang Yang's importance to Manchester City. Whenever he talks about Manchester City, he must talk about Zhang Yang. Even if Manchester City has achieved what kind of achievements, people are more talking about Zhang Yang's contribution to Manchester City. When talking about Zhang Yang's greatness, this is obviously different from the situation of the other nineteen teams in the Premier League. The importance and influence of players in the team are far greater than the head coach. On the one hand, head coach Mark Hughes is very dissatisfied with this. On the other hand, Mark Hughes will inevitably try every means to make his voice. He wants to prove that he is the boss of this team. In this case, there is nothing better than "cheating" Zhang Yang who is "disobedient".

In the view of The Times, now, although Manchester City cannot say the word "crisis", to avoid the expansion of the problem affecting the team's record, then for this team, there are two options. One is for Manchester City to change coaches and invite a world-class coach and a top coach who can suppress the show. The Times even gave the candidates for the head coach, such as Mourinho, Ancelotti, Capello, etc. In addition to this solution, it is that Mark Hughes can swallow his anger and no longer have too many resentful thoughts.

Obviously, the latter possibility is almost the smallest. A person's personality determines everything. The Welshman Mark Hughes will never allow a player's influence or even importance to overtake him.

Therefore, the Guardian also issued a prophecy post, which believed that although Manchester City's record is good now, Mark Hughes is one of the most likely head coaches to be dismissed from the Premier League. Why do you say so? Obviously, if Manchester City chooses between Zhang Yang and Mark Hughes, it is definitely the former!

However, in the face of the overwhelming hype by the media, both the Manchester City coach and their captain denied that there was any conflict.

On October 17, 2009, Manchester City defeated Vigan Athletics 2-1 away in the ninth round of the Premier League. Zhang Yang passed and shot in the game, helping the team get three points.

In this way, in the ninth round of the Premier League, Manchester City scored 19 points. They had the same points as Tottenham Hotspur in the standings, but they were able to rank fourth because of their goal difference. Manchester United, which had a bad start at the beginning of the season, has already been on track, leading the standings with 22 points, while Arsenal and Chelsea scored 21 points, ranking second and third in the league.

In the scorer list, Torres leads the scorer list with 8 goals, Drogba ranked second with 7 goals, while Zhang Yang is also ranked third in the scorer list with 6 goals.

This also made some media cheer. This is a season where shooters are growing together, which prevents them from worrying that Zhang Yang will dominate the scorer list at the beginning of the season.

You should know that last season, when the league reached the ninth round of the league, Zhang Yang scored 11 goals, almost twice the number of goals this season.

Of course, the Manchester City Evening News defended Zhang Yang, pointing out that this season, Manchester City's two-line battles have been harder, as Manchester City's offensive core, and can score six goals in the league and three goals in the Champions League, which is also a perfect answer. What's more, in the league, Manchester City still plays one round less.

Other media ignored the Manchester media's defense of Zhang Yang. For them, what a wonderful thing it is to be a chaotic situation on the league scorer list, especially Zhang Yang, who can be suppressed. They reported it extensively.

The Mirror even used four pages to analyze why Zhang Yang's number of goals decreased this season. Moreover, he was very clear about his words.

What about Zhang Yang? He ignored the media's remarks and doubts at all. He didn't think he was in crisis at all. This season, Manchester City fought on two fronts. His task was to lead the team to maintain competitiveness on both fronts. Now it seems that Manchester City is currently ranked fourth in the league, only three points behind Manchester United, the top Manchester United. In the Champions League, Manchester City won all two games and ranked first in the group. Such a double-front battle is quite perfect for Manchester City, which has entered the Champions League again after decades.

Three days later, Manchester City defeated Alkmaar 1-0 away in the third day of the Champions League group stage in the 2009/2010 season, and Zhang Yang assisted Ronaldo to score the only goal in the game. In this case, after three group matches, Manchester City won all three games and continued to rank first in the group.

Just the day after the game, French Football magazine announced the nomination list for the 2009 European Golden Globe Awards on its official website.

In the selection of the European Golden Ball Awards last year, Cristiano Ronaldo, who helped Manchester United achieve the "double champion" of the Premier League and the Champions League, finally won the award with a slight advantage over AC Milan who won the double champions of the Serie A and Italian Cup.

This year's favorite candidate is undoubtedly Messi, who is currently playing for Barcelona. Last season, he helped Barcelona win the La Liga, UEFA Champions League and Spanish Cup del Rey, making him the first team in Spain to win the "triple crown". Especially his decisive goal in the Champions League final is even more engraved in the memories of fans. Therefore, although Messi is in poor form in the recent World Cup qualifiers, in the eyes of many people, the Argentinian will be the most favorable contender for the Golden Globe of the year.

Barcelona has 6 people selected on this list of 30 people, ranking first among major clubs.

In this nomination list, Spanish players occupy 6 seats, including Premier League Arsenal midfielder Fabregas, La Liga Real Madrid goalkeeper Casillas and Premier League Liverpool scorer Torres. Brazilian players won 5 seats, while France and the United Kingdom each had 4 shortlisted. However, it is worth mentioning that there was no Italian player in the list of Golden Globes this year.

In everyone's opinion, if Messi wants to win the 2009 Golden Ball Award, his biggest competitor is not Cristiano Ronaldo, who he once defeated in the Champions League final, but Zhang Yang, who has never played in European competitions in a season.

Although Zhang Yang missed the European game for a whole season after transferring to Manchester City, Zhang Yang created one history after another in the Premier League, scoring 36 goals in the league, which is the latest single-season goal record in the Premier League. In the match against Aston Villa, Zhang Yang even scored seven goals in one game, setting a single-game goal record for Premier League goals!

"Even if you have never played a Champions League match, facing such a Zhang Yang, even Messi, who won the UEFA Champions League championship, dare not say that he can ignore Zhang Yang's threat..." said Milan Sports.

PS: First update. I still got home very late today. Although the third update that I promised today is past midnight, no matter what, I have to stay up late to write.

There are two more updates, which will be posted at 7 o'clock this morning.

Then there are two more updates.
Chapter completed!