As the captain, Li Mingyu stands at the front of Manchester City.
Standing next to him is Harry Maguire, the captain and center back of team Manchester United.
Harry Maguire looked at the young player next to him with mixed feelings in his heart.
Li Mingyu's performance in the past six months made Harry Maguire feel like watching a science fiction novel.
Although at the beginning of this season, Charity Shield and the league have been defeated twice by Manchester City, and Li Mingyu has also completed a hat trick in both games.
But Harry Maguire did not put Li Mingyu on the level of players like Messi Cristiano Ronaldo.
However, now, when the two of them stand together again, Li Mingyu has already put on the captain's armband of Manchester City.
It is simply an impossible situation for a player to become the captain of a team just half a year after joining the team, and it is also a Premier League top team.
In Harry Maguire's mind, the scene of Li Mingyu killing everyone on World Cup kept popping up.
He did not expect that Li Mingyu, who participated in World Cup for the first time, would eventually break a series of records and leave his name forever in the history of World Cup. Moreover, it was possible that he would become the dominant player on the World Cup stage for a long time.
Returning to the league, not seen for half a season, Li Mingyu has grown to a terrible point.
During the pre-game tactical deployment, the players of the Manchester United team watched the Manchester City game videos together over the past month.
Seeing the match against the Crystal Palace three days ago, Harry Maguire couldn't help but take a breath after seeing the amazing jumping ability of Li Mingyu.
This kind of jumping ability is simply a disaster for defenders.
The penalty area will become a jumping bed for the opponent.
Players from both sides came to the court.
Today's Manchester is blue.
The entire Etihad Stadium is almost entirely a blue ocean, with a few scattered red jerseys being swallowed up by countless blue moments.
Etihad Stadium has now become one of the most terrifying home stadiums of Europe.
The sufficient confidence brought by the winning streak has made Manchester City fans feel a little arrogant now.
In the entire Premier League, they have no opponents. The Premier League championship for three consecutive years is already within their grasp.
The era of blue rule Premier League has finally arrived, and the Manchester City dynasty is about to be established.
[Congratulations to the host for successfully signing in Etihad Stadium and obtaining the active skill of Manchester United star Cristiano Ronaldo: "Tomahawk Style" Elevator Ball.]
Li Mingyu is a little curious, why do you get the abilities of the opponent's players when you sign into your own stadium?
It turns out that after the system is updated to version 2.0, there is a certain chance that you will get the abilities of the opponent's players at your home court.
Cristiano Ronaldo's elevator ball should be regarded as a unique skill.
As one of the active free kick masters, Cristiano Ronaldo's free kick can be called a model of violent aesthetics.
Before that, Li Mingyu already had Knuckleball of Pirlo, Banana Kick of Beckham, Roberto Carlos's Power Free Kick, coupled with Cristiano Ronaldo's elevator kick, it can be said that Li Mingyu has learned all the classic free kicks.
Elevator ball, Li Mingyu has been tried before, combining Power Free Kick and Knuckleball, but Li Mingyu did not succeed.
However, this time, when Li Mingyu obtained the skill of this elevator ball, it suddenly became clear.
It turns out that the elevator ball is not simply a powerful Knuckleball, but is essentially different from Knuckleball and banana balls.
It specifically refers to an "S-shaped" free kick where the player uses the inside of the instep to shoot a very small spin, but the ball suddenly changes line and falls before reaching the goal.
The standard elevator ball was first invented by Juninho Pernambucano, but the term elevator ball was first proposed by Milan Sports Daily during 2012 UEFA European Championship.
There are many players in football who know this free kick technique, but they all have their own unique kicking skills and different kicking methods.
Cristiano Ronaldo's elevator ball has its own unique personal color.
Cristiano Ronaldo himself named his elevator ball "Tomahawk", and his Tomahawk shots often reach speeds exceeding 100 kilometers per hour.
Having acquired this ability, Li Mingyu can't wait to use it in competitions.
In the fifth minute of the first half, Li Mingyu made a pass to Bernardo Silva. As a result, after Silva received the ball in front of the penalty area and turned around to break through, he was hooked on the foot by Scott McTominay from the side and jumped directly into the street.
The referee blew the whistle unceremoniously and pointed his right hand at the Manchester United team's goal.
Direct free kick.
It's really like hail falling when you want to eat ice!
Li Mingyu ran over very happily, picked up the football, and carefully placed the ball where the referee marked the line.
Li Mingyu took a few steps back, stood with his feet apart, like a compass, looked straight ahead, and let out a gentle breath.
Suddenly, Li Mingyu felt someone next to him looking at him with strange eyes. When he glanced out of the corner of his eye, it turned out to be Bruno Fernandes from team Manchester United.
As the best player of team Manchester United for several consecutive years, Bruno Fernandes is an indispensable backbone of this team.
Bruno Fernandes looked at Li Mingyu's movements, and the more he looked at them, the more familiar they became.
Isn't this the signature move of Cristiano Ronaldo?
Even the movement of exhaling at the end is so similar.
Isn't it said that Li Mingyu is Mei Chui Luo Hei? Why should we learn the movements of Cristiano Ronaldo?
You know, no superstar will learn the signature moves of another superstar unless the two have a master-student relationship.
Li Mingyu also woke up and moved his legs together slightly. However, the feeling of oneness disappeared, and Li Mingyu's confidence in the free kick also declined.
In fact, this is also a small bug in the system's ability to draw skills.
That is to say, if you want to use this skill, or if you want to complete this skill, you need to have similar preparation actions as the user of the original skill.
Just like before Li Mingyu used Banana Kick from Beckham, and Power Free Kick from Roberto Carlos, all of them must be exactly the same as the preparation movements of these two people.
Even if you use Pirlo, Knuckleball, and Li Mingyu, you still have to look like you haven't woken up.
But this time, due to the psychological effect of Li Mingyu, he changed his actions.
The referee blew the whistle, and Li Mingyu started to run. He stepped on the left side of the football with his left foot, swung his right foot quickly, and hit the football hard with the instep of his right foot, giving all the kinetic energy to the forward force of the football.
The football was so fast that after it crossed the wall, it did not drop significantly, but flew directly over the crossbar of the goal.
Although the Manchester City players are a little regretful, whether a free kick is scored or not depends on their appearance.
Sometimes you can get in with just one kick, but sometimes you can't get in even if you kick it very thoroughly.
Metaphysics, everything is metaphysics.
[Active skill: Axe-Style Knuckleball activation failed.]
Li Mingyu frowned. This must be the first time he failed to use a skill.
However, Li Mingyu did not know that he changed his stance before the free kick, thus destroying the integrity of the entire free kick and causing the skill to fail.
The system also did not inform you of the skill failure.
The Manchester United team's attacks also came in like a tidal wave.
Bruno Fernandes, Pogba, these two are also the top midfielders in world football today.
The Manchester United team's offense is not as permeable as Manchester City's, but appears to be open and closed.
With several consecutive passes, the Manchester United team brought the football to the Manchester City frontcourt.
Manchester City's defense in the middle was very tight. Team Manchester United had no choice but to pass the football to the wing again.
Bruno Fernandes pulled to the wing. Facing Li Mingyu's return defense, Bruno Fernandes did not dare to neglect and passed the ball to Greenwood in the middle, and then planned to have a two-on-one with the opponent.
But this idea of cooperation was directly predicted by Li Mingyu. After Bruno Fernandes passed the ball, Li Mingyu directly followed back.
Greenwood's pass was turned back and intercepted by Li Mingyu.
Ball possession transition, opportunity for quick counterattack.
When Li Mingyu was about to start, Bruno Fernandes had no choice but to stretch out his hand and put Li Mingyu on the ground.
The referee ran over and showed Bruno Fernandes a topaz War God card.
Bruno Fernandes shook his head. This topaz War God card is still worth it. If Manchester City is allowed to play fast attack, it will probably be in danger.
However, it has only been less than ten minutes since the game started. Taking cards so quickly will put a lot of pressure on Bruno Fernandes for the rest of the game.
After the kick-off from the backcourt, Manchester City pressed forward, and the Manchester United team began to press Manchester City from a high position in the midfield, hoping to pull the front line farther away from their own penalty area.
However, Manchester City's skillful passing and control made Manchester United team's defense seem meaningless.
Continuous sprints and pressings exhausted the physical strength of several players in the midfield and frontcourt, and the defensive intensity of the Manchester United team dropped.
Li Mingyu saw this very keenly. After receiving the pass from Rodri, he found that Pogba, who had been pressing him, was a little slow.
So Li Mingyu immediately started to move forward and quickly passed the ball past Pogba who was caught off guard.
Pogba's sudden loss of position caused a huge hole in the Manchester United team's midfield defense.
Scott McTominay could only cover up from the middle, but facing Li Mingyu who had already started to speed up, Scott McTominay could only reach out and pull Li Mingyu back.
In the fifteenth minute of the first half, team Manchester United's defensive midfielder Scott McTominay also got a topaz War God card.
The two midfield generals have received yellow cards, which is a very bad signal for the Manchester United team.
The free kick was too far away, so Li Mingyu kicked the ball directly back into the backcourt and reorganized the attack.
Manchester United team learned to be honest this time. Instead of continuing to press high, they retreated back to their own half, preventing the tiger from getting out of the hole.