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"Blue Moon" explores "Hattrick" the "dominant power"
Al Ittihad Newspaper
London (AFP)
Manchester City went silently into the window of summer transfers, recognizing that the Spanish coach team, Josep Guardiola, did not need major adjustments to get back to the Premier League, looking for # 39, a third consecutive title. The race will start tomorrow in Liverpool and Norwich.
The Northern team, which is celebrating its 125th anniversary this year, has accumulated 198 points in the last two seasons of the Premier League and has emerged as the dominant force in 2018-2019, winning the league's triumph. Cup and League Cup, despite the fierce pursuit of the winner of the Champions League, Liverpool. , Which kept the competition in the "Premier" until the last stage, in front of the trophy "Citizen" of only one point.
In fact, critics do not expect City next season to behave much better than in the last two seasons of Guardiola, who has led the team since the summer of 2016.
Once again, the focus will be on the "likely" two-way competition between Liverpool, which is looking to win its first league title since 1990, and City will seek to become the first team to win a third consecutive title in Premier League since Manchester United won it between 2007 and 2009.
City relies on a team that skillfully combines experience and talent in everything from goalkeeper to defense, pivotal midfield, goals and goals. Eleven years of dedication to City, he returned home to take charge of Anderlecht, defending his colors as a player.
The team included defensive midfielder Rodrigo Hernandez, known as Prodre, and the acquisition of Kevin De Bruyne after missing the talented Belgian international last season due to injury.
At the start of last season, English football fans asked the following question: after winning the league title and winning 100 points, 19 points behind the Manchester United finalist, in the 2017-2018 season?
Guardiola and his players on the field fought back on four fronts and closed the season with an unprecedented national trilogy in the history of English football "League, Cup and Cup League". They ended up in favor of the London team on goal difference outside the rules "1-0 in London for Tottenham, 4-3 in Manchester City".
Guardiola is still chasing City, as he has done for three seasons with Bayern Munich, the dream of the Champions League, which he has won twice with Barcelona, but the Catalan coach knows that He has done what he has done in the past three seasons in the Champions League: "the price of the final once and double the quarter-finals" This makes him an excellent candidate at the continental level and the dream of bringing the "big ear cup" to the Al Ittihad stadium in Manchester for the first time is not out of reach.
But the eyes are still on the national competition, which Guardiola expects to be the main rival this season, Liverpool, who has just crowned a sixth continental continent last season, eager for a long-awaited local title.
The Spaniard, who beat Germany's Juergen Klopp and Liverpool on penalties in the Sunday Community Shield match (5-4 after a 1-1 draw), confirmed the existence of his rivals, Liverpool and US , to win the Premier League title, Manchester United, with defender Harry Maguire and others They signed them, Arsenal, Chelsea and Tottenham, also able to attend.
During the summer transfer period, City had more than Brodry, a 23-year-old defensive midfielder, to support 34-year-old Fernandinho of Brazil, who defended the colors of City, a superb team. composed of leading players in all areas of the field. Pep is the best coach in the world.
City's injury deprived De Bruyne of long distances in 2018-2019, a season in which he was supposed to provide a similar performance that made him the team's best player for the 2017-2018 season, or even a higher level, considering what he had done at the 2018 World Cup and his contribution to his third country. The 28-year-old was pleased to play the role of starter in 11 of the 38 Premier League games. His glimpses at each touch of the ball were a reminder of his talent and his role in capturing the City midfielder, including the link between defense and attack. "I hope we can," said Guardiola. "Keep him healthy.He is a young man who loves to play football.This is a formidable competitor."
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