Chapter 223 The Rise of New Forces
The 12th round of the league is a great opportunity for Chelsea to narrow the gap in points between them and Manchester City.
Because in this round of league, Manchester City will welcome their city rivals at home - Manchester United
If Manchester United can draw away or even defeat Manchester City, Chelsea will be able to catch up with Manchester City again after defeating their opponent Fulham.
However, what disappointed the whole team of Chelsea was that Ferguson's Manchester United did not be able to stop Manchester City from continuing to move forward away.
Glory and Ibrahimovic were in good shape, and together with David Silva and Sneider, Manchester City scored three goals in this game.
Glory, Ibrahimovic and Sneider each.
Of course, Manchester United also scored two goals, and Klose scored twice, but unfortunately his outstanding performance did not help Manchester United win away.
Since Rongguang joined Manchester City in the 26269 season, Manchester United has only won one game against Manchester City. That game was due to Rongguang's injury, and Manchester City was in a bad state at that time.
Since then, Manchester United has never been able to beat Manchester City again.
For Ferguson, this is naturally intolerable.
In the past, he only regarded Liverpool, Arsenal and Chelsea as his mortal enemies, and he never cared about his opponents in the same city.
But now he must reexamine his city rivals and raise Manchester City's threat level to the first place.
Liverpool is over. Arsenal has not won the championship for many years. All the people are thinking about are competing for the top four of the league. Chelsea's performance has not been stable enough since Mourinho left. But in general, Chelsea's threat to Manchester United is still the greatest. They once reached the Champions League final and competed for the championship with Manchester United under the leadership of Grint, the acting head coach. If Terry had not finally slipped when he was in the penalty kick, it is hard to say who the Champions League championship would be.
In the league, Chelsea has been able to play against Manchester United in recent years. The league championships are basically only produced between Manchester United and Chelsea.
But when Manchester City emerged, everything changed.
Chelsea had hope of winning the championship last season when Manchester United performed poorly, and their performance was excellent that season. But it was Manchester City who won the championship in the end.
Manchester United started poorly this season, with Chelsea leading the way, but now the first position in the league has changed hands, Manchester City has become the first, with Chelsea and Manchester United ranked second and third respectively.
If Manchester United wants to regain the position of league dominance, the one that should be most wary of is not Chelsea, but Manchester City.
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After defeating Manchester United at home B2, Manchester City still led the league standings with a four-point advantage.
In the next thirteenth round, Manchester City's winning streak was terminated. Perhaps because he fought with Manchester United too fiercely last weekend, the team was overly excited, and now it was a period of slackness after that.
In short, Manchester City was not very excited when facing Birmingham at home.
In the end, they were tied by Birmingham with a score of 00.
However, their luck this time was really good. Without them being able to win, Manchester United, the third in the league, shook hands with Aston Villa 22 away.
Chelsea, the second-placed league team, lost 0 to Sunderland at home. Moreover, Chelsea suffered far more than this. In this game, Chelsea not only lost the ball, but Barack, the absolute core of the midfield, also suffered a serious injury in the game. After the game, Chelsea club announced that Barack would miss the game for at least four months...
On the way to compete with Manchester City for the league championship, the team's absolute midfield core was injured, and Chelsea's combat effectiveness was instantly reduced.
In this way, Manchester City continued to lead the league standings, leading Chelsea by five points, eight points ahead of Manchester United, and seven points ahead of Arsenal - Arsenal had already caught up without knowing it, taking advantage of the opportunity that Manchester United was tied by Aston Villa away, they completed their overtake and became third in the league, while Manchester United became fourth in the league.
Manchester United has not performed very well in more than a season. Since Cristiano Ronaldo left them and went to Real Madrid, Manchester United seemed to have lost their backbone.
There is no core on the field.
Ferguson is spending time building Rooney into a new core, but the entire team still needs time to adapt to Rooney, the new core. In addition, Rooney's performance is not as stable as Cristiano Ronaldo back then.
All of these have caused Manchester United's performance to fluctuate now.
Some media even claimed that the Premier League has completely entered the Manchester City era, and veteran Premier League powerhouses represented by Manchester United, Liverpool and Arsenal will gradually withdraw from the competition stage.
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After playing the league, Rongguang and his teammates left the club one after another. This time he and Sun Hai returned to China together.
He wants to represent the Chinese national team in the warm-up match on November 17, and the Chinese team's opponent is the European team Latvia.
This team was found to simulate the Chinese team's opponent Uzbekistan in the group stage.
Latvia and Uzbekistan are both teams from the former Soviet Union, so they are somewhat similar in style.
This warm-up opponent can be considered targeted.
Because of the successful experiences of the previous two games against Syria and Uruguay, what Chinese fans are most looking forward to now is to represent the Chinese team.
Even in warm-up matches, they will devote a lot of enthusiasm.
After the first two warm-up matches, Chinese media expressed their feelings: "...Don't say that Chinese football is not interested in it, and Chinese football grandma doesn't love my uncle and don't love me. It's just that we haven't found the right way before. Now that we have mastered the correct way to open it, Chinese football will show you in front of you with another completely different face..."
"...The enthusiasm of Chinese fans surprised us, because this is definitely not the Chinese fans in our impression. The Chinese fans in our impression are a group of people who are shy of admitting their national team games while pulling curtains. The Chinese fans in our impression are a group of people who are so embarrassed to admit their feelings. The Chinese fans in our impression are a group of people who are yelling in the stands of the Bird's Nest in Beijing, a group of people who shout "The Football Association has disbanded," and the Chinese fans in our impression are a group of people who are always crying and painful... But now we see a group of people who are excited and proud. What makes them have such a change? The return of glory has reawakened their love for the Chinese football team. I think this is a more valuable result than a 40-game victory over Syria and a draw with the World Cup quarterfinals of 22 in the warm-up match. Uruguay is a more valuable result than a 40-game victory over Syria and a draw with the World Cup quarterfinals of 8 22 in the warm-up match.
"The anti-corruption and anti-gang in the Chinese football world is underway. After a while, we will hear news that some people we are familiar with are being dismissed. Of course, the development of Chinese football depends on these administrative forces. But the achievements of the national team can also comfort everyone's hearts at this time. The return of Rongguang is just right. Although Rongguang said he wanted to win the Asian Cup, I think even if he did not win the championship in the end, just putting on the jersey of the national team again would be a victory..."
Since then, Chinese fans have been waiting for November 17 every day.
This time, tickets for Kunming Tuodong Stadium are still hard to get. The scalpers have made tickets so expensive, and many people are still flocking to them.
Kunming has once again become a place where all Chinese fans gather and a holy place to yearn for.
For Chinese football, which just lost a crushing defeat at the Asian Games, glory may be their only comfort.
Chinese fans' unhappiness at the Asian Games urgently need to be vented.
Even in warm-up matches, they value victory very much.
This time, Glory did not turn around from Beijing because he no longer needed to be interviewed by CCTV in Beijing.
He flew directly from Manchester to Kunming.
Hundreds of fans came to Wujiaba International Airport in Kunming, who came specifically to welcome the glory.
This time their organization was much more orderly than last time. When glory appeared, no dangerous situations occurred, only uniform singing, cheers and applause.
Sun Hai followed Rongguang to report on the national team and also benefited from it.
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In the match against Latvia, Gao Hongbo made some adjustments to the starting lineup. Some of these adjustments are related to the state of the international players in the league, and some are related to Gao Hongbo's tactical considerations.
Gao Hongbo plans to use the warm-up match to experiment with several more tactics, but he still has ideas in his mind.
He wants to find the best solution, that is, how Rongguang integrates with the existing national team...
Although the starting lineup is different, even the formation is different.
However, Rongguang's performance on the court was the same as in the previous two games.
He scored twice in the game, helping the national team beat Latvia 20.
Gao Hongbo discovered that no matter how his tactics were arranged before, when the game started, Rongguang could quickly turn his tactical arrangements into decorations, and the whole game turned into Rongguang's personal performance...
It is still difficult for the team to keep up with the rhythm of glory and organically integrate with glory.
The Chinese fans in the stands cheered hugely every time they took the ball, and they fully enjoyed the wonderful performances of Glory.
However, Gao Hongbo really finds it difficult to be happy because he only sees his own failure and the collapse of his tactics. Even if he wins Latvia, it will be Rong Guang's personal victory. It has nothing to do with the Chinese national team, and has nothing to do with himself.
Gao Hongbo scratched his head, and his calm expression made the TV broadcaster unable to tell what he was thinking deep in his heart even if he gave him a close-up shot...
Chapter completed!