Football: My AI System Provides Max-Level Predictions-Chapter 665 - 461: Guardiola Chased After the Match! Surpassing De Bruyne, Tops the Assist Leaderboard!
In this match, Tang Long didn’t score a single goal, but by halftime, he had already completed a hat-trick of assists!
The Bournemouth fans at the scene were all silent, dumbfounded as if they were wooden chickens.
They recalled the comments on Tang Long’s social media before the match, pleading with him not to score.
Out of countless Bournemouth requests to Manchester City players, only Tang Long replied with a smiley face and an "ok" gesture.
At that time, Bournemouth fans were quite delighted!
"Brothers, Tang promised he wouldn’t score. He said it himself. If he goes back on his word, together, we thousands of people will flood his social media afterwards!"
However, when the match started, the proceedings on the field delivered a heavy blow to the Bournemouth fans. Everyone was complaining, but there was little they could say.
Tang Long kept his promise. He didn’t score at all, and he was even substituted out by Guardiola during the halftime break.
I promised not to score, but I never said I wouldn’t assist, did I?
Hehehe~
In the first half, Tang Long handed out a hat-trick of assists, helping three different Manchester City players - Agüero, Bonazzoli, and Kolarov - score in succession, setting the tone for a relentless assault in the second half!
Despite Guardiola shuffling his lineup and intending to slow down the match’s pace by bringing on some substitutes,
with Manchester City’s current squad depth, even substitutes like Sterling, Sane, and Robertson could crush Bournemouth’s defense!
The long-unseen English youngster Sterling scored twice in the second half and assisted Sane once.
In the end, five Manchester City players scored, and Manchester City thrashed Bournemouth 6-0 away.
The players were all beaming with joy~
The feeling of scoring is always so refreshing, who wouldn’t love to rack up goals against such a weak team?
Especially Sterling, who even felt dissatisfied for not having a hat-trick and kept pulling Bonazzoli aside to discuss whether he could have made a better choice with his shot from outside the box.
The players were very happy, but it was tough for Guardiola!
"Eddie, out!" 𝗳𝚛𝚎𝚎𝘄𝕖𝕓𝕟𝕠𝚟𝚎𝕝.𝗰𝕠𝐦
"Eddie, out!"
"Eddie, get out of Bournemouth!"
The angry Bournemouth home fans started to jeer!
So, the moment the whistle blew to end the match, Guardiola was even embarrassed to shake hands with Bournemouth’s coach Eddie and sprinted to the locker room!
He dared not face the youngest manager in the Premier League, fearing the man might unleash a torrent of abuse at him.
After all, before the match started, he promised Eddie to play conservatively, just aiming for three points since they still had the Champions League to consider. They intended not to create a disaster but hadn’t expected the players to go all out from the start and pummel them 6-0!
Sure enough, as Guardiola ran first, Eddie chased right behind him.
While chasing, pointing at Guardiola’s back, he yelled:
"You deceitful Spanish baldy! Why did you lie to me, why did you deceive my feelings?"
Eddie remembered the harsh words from the Seaburn Mouth owner: "Last game was 0-10, this game’s bottom line is 0-5. If you lose by more than five goals this match, pack up and leave!"
As it turned out, they lost by precisely six!
However, Guardiola, being younger than Eddie by a few years, and having played as a defensive midfielder, naturally had better running ability;
He disappeared in a flash, leaving Eddie alone, raging in the players’ tunnel under the curious gaze of the staff.
At this moment, Tang Long was in the advertising area on the side of the field, participating in media interviews.
Seeing the scene of the two managers chasing, he couldn’t help but smile knowingly.
When a reporter asked why he didn’t score today and instead delivered assists, Tang Long simply replied:
"I’ve scored enough goals; it’s time to let my teammates score a few more."
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Bournemouth Official: Coach Eddie Dismissed!
Just two hours after the match ended, news broke of Bournemouth coach Eddie’s dismissive departure!
In the first four rounds of the league, they had one draw and three losses. Even the Bournemouth management, who aimed for survival this season, thought the performance was too risky, and Eddie couldn’t shirk the responsibility.
Moreover, having faced Manchester City in consecutive rounds and being hammered 16-0 by them, averaging a concession of 8 goals per game, it was simply disgraceful!
But the news of Guardiola’s one-match dismissal of Bournemouth’s coach Eddie was soon overshadowed by another wave of headlines.
In the Half-Time with Three Assists, Tang Rose to the Top of the Premier League Assists Leaderboard!
"There are two major news items worth noting in the Premier League Round 4 match between Manchester City and Bournemouth."
"One is that after scoring in three consecutive matches, totaling seven goals, Tang finally halted his scoring spree."
"A forward not scoring is not really news, but for Tang Long, who started the season in such dazzling form, it is indeed a small regret."
"But the second piece of news can completely make up for this regret! That is, although Tang didn’t score, he achieved a hat-trick of assists by halftime!"
"And he assisted three different teammates to score!"
"With this, Tang Long has contributed four assists in four rounds of the Premier League!"
"He even surpassed De Bruyne, who had three assists in four rounds, and now tops the Premier League assist chart!"
"While we are all praising Tang Long for his unmatched talent on the front line, let’s not forget that last season he was the player with the most assists in the top five leagues!"
"Now Tang can score as well as pass; such a versatile player is definitely every coach’s dream and symbolizes the development direction of forwards in modern football!"
While Tang Long is in blistering form, his former Inter Milan teammate Icardi has fallen into an icy hell~
In the 4th round of the Premier League, Manchester United, who were playing a day later, lost 1:3 away to Watford.
Icardi only got 10 minutes of playing time!
Though he played with unusual enthusiasm after coming on and constantly tried to transform himself into an all-round forward by pulling out of the box to participate in passing, acting as a post, and interchanging runs,
Icardi’s performance in these 10 minutes was truly terrible!
He made five passes and surprisingly failed three of them, and the only shot he took in the box—perhaps due to being cold with limited time—saw him receive a pass from Rooney close to goal and send it flying into the stands.
This shot also made Pellegrini on the sidelines furious, throwing the water bottle in his hand onto the ground in anger.
"Can’t even take advantage of a sitter, what on earth can this guy do?"
Pellegrini had intended to bring Icardi on to use his sharp poacher instincts in the box to help the team take the lead, but Icardi wasted the opportunity.
A team that wastes opportunities gets punished, and this saying was fulfilled on Manchester United.
In the final 5 minutes, Watford unexpectedly scored two goals, changing the score from 1:1 to 3:1, defeating Manchester United at home and gaining three points.
When Icardi stepped off the field, his face was full of desolation, and in his ears were the mocking chants of the Watford fans:
"Icardi! What a sad story!"
"Icardi! What a sad story!"
"Icardi! What a sad story!"
Today was indeed a sad story for Icardi.
Because as he headed towards the player tunnel, he unexpectedly overheard Rashford, the young English forward who once idolized him last season, whisper to captain Rooney:
"Captain, when did Mauro become so useless? If I got on the field, I would be much more effective than him."
Icardi stormed home, feeling increasingly irritated!
Since when did even young pups like Rashford start overshadowing him?
They say a tiger down on its luck is bullied by dogs, but I, Mauro Icardi, am far from the ground, and Rashford, you’re not even a dog, only a passing little mouse with just 5 goals last season.
His wife Wanda sat on his lap, trying to ask Icardi for some physical attention;
but the Argentine man, still seething, roughly pushed his wife away.
Wanda shot him a glare, picked up her bag and car keys, and left the house, not forgetting to throw back, "You’ll regret this, Mauro!"
Icardi lay on the couch distressed and unsure what to do.
Suddenly, his phone beeped with a message.
Seeing it was from Chiwo, Icardi’s heart lifted, thinking:
"Could it be that Chiwo knows I’m in trouble and is coming to help me? Haha, that’s great, I knew he has a soft heart and wouldn’t leave me hanging!"
He opened the message and, while reading Chiwo’s words, his joy turned to gloom, a chill running up his spine.
"Mauro, if you’re looking to transform into a more versatile forward, I suggest you watch my edited video on Tang’s performance in the first half against Bournemouth. Watch it carefully, and you will gain something."
Originally, Chiwo was compassionate, feeling guilty after agreeing to become a coach at Manchester United but being poached halfway through by Tang to become an assistant at Manchester City.
Therefore, seeing Icardi in a predicament, he took the trouble to analyze and interpret Tang Long’s three assists in the match against Bournemouth, made an elaborative video, and sent it to Icardi.
Of course, this video wasn’t made specifically for Icardi;
his intent was to demonstrate it to the entire coaching team at the post-match review meeting and sending it to Icardi happened to be a convenient thing to do.
The result was that Icardi, upon seeing the video, flew into a rage, ran to the balcony, flung his phone into the air, and roared at Manchester’s gloomy sky:
"Learn from Tang to play football? Nonsense! Even if I, Mauro, am crippled and can’t play football for life, I don’t need his guidance!"
