The strongest blade in football

Chapter 133 The Descendant of the Dragon
To be honest, Wang Nuo thinks that Ibrahimovic's playing style is quite similar to his own.

In his mind, that guy has never been a strong center forward who fights hand-to-hand with defenders.

In Mancini's three discs, Ibrahimovic went from retreating to take the ball, to organizing the ball and then completing assists or goals. A set of services was properly arranged for Inter Milan.

He has a high center of gravity when dribbling the ball, but his skills under his feet are really good, and he can use various strange postures to send the ball into the goal.

At Inter Milan that year, Mancini relied heavily on Ibrahimovic. One league championship was also thanks to Ibrahimovic's brace, so Wang Nuo could understand what the boss meant.

The boss didn't want him to be a "self-contained system" player, but wanted him to find a balance between personal skills and team football, just like Ibrahimovic in Inter Milan.

Wang Nuo felt that as long as he worked hard, he could do it, even in the face of Manchester United.

Manchester United is an incredible opponent.

Counting last season, they have not lost in 24 official games.

In the Premier League this season, they are the only undefeated team after the first 11 rounds.

Originally there was Chelsea, who were undefeated in the league, but Chelsea lost one game, to Manchester City.

In the standings, Chelsea ranked first with 25 points, followed by Manchester United with 23 points, Arsenal ranked third with 20 points and Manchester City ranked fourth with 20 points.

After training on November 11th, Mancini announced the roster and starters for tomorrow's game.

Everyone is used to Mancini's accent, although sometimes many people still don't understand what he speaks before the game. He doesn't use electronic charts as assistants when announcing the roster like many coaches do.

Even if it’s a simple form——

As soon as the big screen is displayed, you can see the entire lineup, with the starters at the top, the substitutes at the bottom, and finally the players who have not entered the squad.

Mancini always likes to take out a piece of paper to read to everyone, or on a half-height blank court paper, holding a signature pen, write the names of the players one by one on it according to their positions.

Whenever this time, the teammates will secretly get nervous, who is the starter?Who is the substitute?
The fate of all people is in Mancini's hands, and then revealed little by little. Wang Nuo guessed that Mancini enjoyed this feeling of being in charge.

Wang Nuo had known for a long time that he would play for about 30 minutes, so he didn't have to experience this kind of worrying moment today. He took advantage of his spare time to silently count the current team's forwards.

On the front line, Tevez firmly occupies the starting lineup. This time against his old club, he is Manchester City's battering ram, and his position is quite stable.

Adebayor has recovered and scored two goals recently, but he has had trouble with Mancini again. There are rumors that he will leave in the winter transfer window, and Mancini will firmly press him on the bench. For concern.

If the Brazilian is really weak now, he spent close to 2000 million euros to come to Manchester City from the Russian Super League, but now it has basically become a cup rotation, and he has already fallen behind in the competition with Wang Nuo.

Finally, there is Balotelli, who makes people love and hate.

In the last round of the away game against West Brom, Balotelli scored two goals in six minutes in the first half, which made people call him a good guy. As a result, he received two yellow cards in three minutes in the second half and was sent off the field.

This time in the same city derby, he was unable to play again due to suspension.

Wang Nuo thought about it carefully, and realized that the right time, place and people, if Mancini wants to replace Tevez, he is indeed the first choice.

On November 11th, Manchester was cloudless and the sky was very blue. Manchester City fans thought this was a good sign.

The game starts at nine o'clock in the evening, and from two or three o'clock in the afternoon, the bar is full of fans wearing jerseys and chatting.

In a pub on Polyard Street, Emilia Clarke was twirling her beer glass boredly, feeling terrible.

This morning, she flew from London to Manchester to film a movie. She went to the hotel at noon and found out that the date notification was wrong.

Her shots won't start until tomorrow.

The director apologized and gave her a Premier League ticket for Manchester City against Manchester United.

Damn it, Emilia Clarke is so angry, she flew to Manchester to film a movie, not to watch the game!
But there is no way, as a newcomer who has just graduated from the London Drama Center, her film career has just begun to pick up.

She's only been in two TV shows and one bad movie so far, and the first season of Game of Thrones hasn't even aired yet.

So, bored Emilia Clarke wandered into this bar and stayed there for a whole afternoon.

As a British girl, she is not interested in football, but she has the tickets in her hand, so she can't throw them away, right?

She tried to run to the scalper and asked for the price. A sheet like hers cost 180 pounds. Then she laughed and said that she wanted to sell one, but the scalper offered 60 pounds.

It's so dark, she was so angry that she cursed and left, she decided to watch the game.

She finished her drink at the bar on Polyard Street, then ran to the bar in the diehard stands at Manchester City Stadium for two drinks.

As a British person through and through, Emilia Clarke thinks that on a boring night, it is good to spend an hour and a half sitting in the stands and feeling the passion brought by football.

She held the team magazine in one hand and the pizza she just bought in the other. She ate it without hesitation, and wandered around while waiting for the game to start.

On the wall of the bar in the diehard stand are large photos of all Manchester City players in the 10-11 season and what they want to say.

She just looked at the photos one by one. She had heard the names of most of the players but didn't recognize them, and what they said was meaningless, ha, they were all serious words.

Suddenly, she was attracted by a picture.

It was a guy with an ordinary cropped head. At first glance, he looked very energetic, giving off a very gentle and boy-like temperament, but if you look closely at his facial features, you can see an unstoppable aura from between his brows.

With his hands on his waist, his strong muscles and broad shoulders fill the jersey. Even in a photo, one can instantly feel a sense of strength and youthfulness.

Of course, what attracted Emilia Clarke was not his appearance, but the inner monologue next to him, which turned out to be bilingual in Chinese and English.

Emilia Clarke always thought Chinese was cool, so she got tattoos in Chinese when she had friends.

She couldn't understand the meaning of those Chinese, so she glanced at the translation——

"There is a dragon in the ancient East. Its name is China. I grew up under the feet of the dragon. When I grow up, I will be the descendant of the dragon. Today I come to Great Britain, and I will climb to the top in Manchester."

This string of conversations is a few lines of lyrics from a song adapted by Wang Nuo that he sang at the talent show organized by Mancini during his training in the United States, which was quietly recorded by the club staff and placed here.

Maybe for others, this passage is only in Chinese, which is a bit peculiar, but for Emilia Clarke, it is different.

In the drama she filmed last year, the character she played has an inseparable relationship with "Dragon"!
And this boy, oh no, this player, actually called himself "Descendant of the Dragon", haha, that's funny.

Emilia Clarke smiled with her eyebrows twitched. The originally stunning pretty face suddenly showed a naive look, looking silly.

Her gaze stayed on the photo for a while, and she wrote down his name—Wang Nuo.

She didn't know if the man in the photo would appear in a while, but there was no doubt that Emilia Clarke was a little curious about him.

After eight o'clock in the evening, she entered the stadium, followed the seat on the ticket, and came to the stands behind the goal.

Her position is very good, she is actually in the fourth row of the grandstand on the first floor, only ten meters away from the goal!

She came in a little early, the stadium was sprinkled, the players were warming up, and Emilia Clarke looked around, but didn't see the descendant of the dragon.

After a while, the audience in the stands gradually increased. Although there were seats, everyone around stood up. Emilia Clarke also stood up in order not to be blocked.

The big screen was reporting the start of Manchester United, and there was a lot of boos at the scene. Emilia Clarke and the big brother next to him learned to whistle with their index fingers and thumbs, and they were very happy.

Then, there is the introduction of the home team. Manchester City's introduction will have more lines. It is no longer just typing names on the screen. Along with the introduction, a dynamic close-up of the players will also be played.

The atmosphere at the scene gradually became lively with the cheers of the audience, and the stands were almost full.

Emilia Clarke stared at the screen until the end of the intro and didn't see Descendants of the Dragon either.

Oh, it seems that guy is not famous, Emilia Clarke thought.

At this moment, a huge Manchester City flag suddenly appeared from the front, starting from the first row, unfolding continuously from bottom to top, and then everyone in the audience began to sing loudly——

"La la, la la la, la la la."

Emilia Clarke was caught off guard, and the whole person was covered under the banner with the Manchester City team logo.

Accompanied by the singing that made goosebumps all over her body, she looked up, her eyes were blue.

(End of this chapter)