On the evening of March 6, in the Premier League's twenty-ninth round, Man City hosted Wigan Athletic.
After the team had created danger with several consecutive attacks but failed to score, Su Dong received a pass at the top of the penalty arc in the thirty-second minute and turned before sending a brilliant left-footed pass.
David Silva ran past Su Dong, carried the ball straight into the penalty area, and fired a low shot with his left foot. The ball went between goalkeeper Al Habsi's legs, scoring Man City's only goal of the match.
In the end, Man City narrowly defeated Wigan Athletic by one goal.
On the evening of March 10, Kyiv, Ukraine.
Shevchenko sat on the team bus heading to Lobanovsky Stadium, gazing at the drizzly Kyiv beyond the window. He could not help thinking that Britain must be much the same at this time of year.
That country seemed to rain all year round.
Kyiv was different. Shevchenko had lived here since childhood, and he knew that winter was about to give way to summer.
Kyiv rarely saw rain in March, but perhaps because a Premier League team was about to arrive, a fine drizzle had fallen today, adding to the chill in a city where temperatures hovered around freezing.
Still, a team from Britain should have trouble adapting to this, surely.
Britain had already begun to warm up, but Kyiv was still cold.
Just like Shevchenko's state of mind over the past two years—it was still the dead of winter.
Back then, he had left Milan for Chelsea full of ambition, only to suffer the first major setback of his career. He had returned to Milan for a time, but things had not improved there either. In the end, he had chosen to return