The League Cup has entered the semi-finals and has also advanced to the group in the Champions League. Manchester City's focus is now only on the league.

Make sure they have enough lead in the league, because they will soon be in the Club World Cup.

At that time, they will have a game postponed, which will give Tottenham a chance to catch up. After all, they are only four points ahead of Tottenham.

In addition, long-distance travel and intensive events will definitely make the team feel tired and will have an impact on the players' condition.

In the next league, Tottenham Hotspur and Bolton played first, but they beat Bolton 3:0 at their home court, and Bel scored twice, performed well and was in great shape.

One day later, Manchester City appeared, and they were not willing to be outdone.

Manchester City beat Norwich 5-1 at his home court.

Continue to lead Tottenham Hotspur four points.

Manchester United faced Aston Villa's tenacious blockade away. Although they played hard, they also won. They beat Aston Villa 1:0.

The gap between the three teams has not been widened.

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The next schedule is like this. First, Manchester City will participate in the last game of the Champions League group stage in the mid-week, and they will challenge the Greeks away.

Then return to the UK and challenge Chelsea away.

Then we set out to participate in the Club World Cup.

The specific itinerary is like this. On December 4, we flew from Manchester to Cyprus, the island country bordering Europe and Asia. Although the Greek Athletics has "Greece" in its name, it is not a Greek team, but a Cyprus team.

After playing the game against the Greeks on December 6, he returned to the UK from the junction of Asia and Europe and returned to Manchester. On the weekend, he flew to London to challenge Chelsea.

After the match against Chelsea on December 10, they will fly directly from London, cross the ocean, cross the Eurasian continent, reach the Japanese archipelago, the easternmost part of Asia, arrive in Yokohama, and participate in the 8th World Club Champions League.

Manchester City's first Club World Cup match will be held on the afternoon of December 15.

If they can make it to the finals - there is almost no suspense, they will definitely make it to the finals - then their finals will be on the afternoon of December 18th.

In the 16th round of the league, Manchester City would play against Arsenal at home, and this game was also December 18, but it was the evening of the 18th.

Manchester City couldn't get back anyway, so the game was pushed back.

The next day, on December 19, the entire Manchester City team set off to return home.

On December 23, they ushered in their seventeenth round of the league at home.

Three days later, on December 26, in the 18th round of the league, Manchester City challenged West Bromvic away.

On December 31, Manchester City challenged Sunderland away to end their last official game of the year.

On January 3, 2012, Manchester City played against Liverpool at home, their first game in 2012.

The schedule is very intensive, and Manchester City still has to fly around. Even if they have a special plane to pick it up, it will be very troublesome.

In such a back and forth, what do you know what will happen?

So for safety, Benitez had to take advantage of the current victory in the league, hoping to get rid of the pursuers behind and get them farther away.

Under such circumstances, in the next 15th round of the league, Manchester City will challenge Chelsea away.

Originally, Manchester City and Chelsea played against each other on December 12, but considering the Club World Cup, the game was advanced and the kick-off will be held on the evening of December 10.

It is one of the earliest games to start in this round of the league.

Manchester United kicked off at the same time as they hosted the Wolves at home.

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Chelsea's head coaches in the first two seasons were Ancelotti, but Ancelotti's coaching at Chelsea was not a success because he never helped Chelsea beat Manchester City, both in a single game and in the competition throughout the season.

Chelsea was eliminated from the Champions League last season when the league champion was not won, which made Chelsea boss Abramovich lose his patience and trust in Ancelotti, so after the last game, he fired Ancelotti.

Now Ancelotti coaches at Paris Saint-Germain, which is also a rich team supported by the capital of the Middle East consortium.

And now Chelsea's head coach has been replaced by Boas.

It is the former Porto head coach who led Porto to win the Portuguese League, Portuguese Cup and UEFA Cup last season.

After Porto's success, European media have called him "Murinho's second" or "Murinho's successor".

Since he is Mourinho's successor, he naturally wants to coach Chelsea.

When Mourinho coached Chelsea, it was Chelsea's most glorious time. Both Mourinho himself and the team, they left a very deep impression on the world.

Now Mourinho has long left Chelsea and has achieved success in Inter Milan. Now he coaches Real Madrid, it is impossible to return to Chelsea to coach. Since he can't find his true identity, he can also find a second life to be Chelsea's head coach.

So Abramovich invited Boas, hoping that Boas can really become Mourinho II at Chelsea as the media said, and replicate Mourinho's glory at Chelsea.

However, the young coach who once worked as an assistant coach at Chelsea with Mourinho has now come to Chelsea for the second time but has a bad start.

After fourteen rounds of the league, Chelsea ranked only fourth. For Abramovich, who is determined to win the league championship, fourth place cannot satisfy him.

Moreover, in terms of points, this fourth place is still far from Manchester City, which is the first in the league.

Manchester City won 12 wins, 2 draws and 0 losses in the 14th round of the league, and accumulated 38 points. What about Chelsea? Nine wins, one draw and four losses in the 14th round of the league, and accumulated 28 points, ranking fourth, which is a 10-tenth difference from Manchester City!

Such performance really cannot satisfy Abramovich.

In fact, Boas's league starts well. Although they tied the away game in the first round of the league, they won consecutive victories until they met Manchester United.

But Boas's Chelsea exposed a problem, that is, they can win when facing weak teams, but when facing strong teams, they can only become losers.

To be honest, this question is fatal. With Chelsea's strength, it is natural to win the weak team, which is the basis for them to compete for the championship. If even the weak team cannot win, they will not have the qualification to compete for the championship.

But if you want to compete for the league championship with a group of strong teams, you must rely on the victory with strong teams to open the gap.

But Chelsea lost the goal this season when facing Manchester United, Arsenal and Liverpool...

In the fifth round of the league, he lost to Manchester United 1:3 away.

In the tenth round of the league, he lost to Arsenal 3:5 at home.

In the 12th round of the league, Chelsea lost to Liverpool 1:2 at home.

Except for not meeting Manchester City, they all lost when facing the traditional top three.

And there are two failures in this game at your home court.

This is so fatal. I didn't win at home, so I had even fewer chances of winning away games.

Now, they finally welcome Manchester City at their home court.

If Boas loses to Manchester City at home, he will probably be in the countdown for his days at Chelsea.

In the League Cup, they were also eliminated by Liverpool in the quarterfinals. If there is no improvement in the league again... Anyway, the media has been rumored that Abramovich is about to fire Boas, and European bookmakers have also offered odds for Boas to be dismissed. Judging from the odds changes, everyone has no confidence that Boas will continue to stay until the end of the season...

It can be said that beating Manchester City is Boas's only hope. If he can lead the team to become the first head coach to beat Manchester City in the new season, then Abramovich may reconsider his decision.

Before the start of this league, the English media began to pay attention. Many media said that the game against Manchester City will be Boas's back-to-back game, and the importance of the game may be greater than that of him leading Porto to the UEFA Cup final.

So can Chelsea give Manchester City a taste of its first loss in the season?

"We have found a way to hit (Manchester City." Boas said confidently in an interview with reporters. "Manchester City is definitely not invincible. Even Achilles has weaknesses, let alone Manchester City? They are the same."

When the reporters in England heard Boas say this, they all looked at each other. From their respective expressions and eyes, they could see that they did not believe Boas's remarks.

Since Boas landed in the UK, he has been staring at by the media. Everyone will compare him to Mourinho, whom he once assisted.

When Boas was in Portugal, the call for "Morinois II" was very high, but to be honest, after observing for a while, the English media felt that Boas was far inferior to Mourinho.

This is far from that, not only refers to his team-leading performance and coaching level, but also his performance when facing the media.

He seemed to have only learned Mourinho's toughness in the face of the media, and then he learned to imitate him.

If you are just tough, you will only be tough, and you will only be annoying.

So there are a lot of negative news about Boas in the media. The media is hyping up the issue of his being fired, but in fact there is no evidence at all, just for the purpose of Boas.

A reporter finally couldn't help but raise his hands and asked, "What's the specific strategy?"

"Nothing to tell." Boas said confidently with a smile.

Many English reporters rolled their eyes - this expression made them almost vomit.
Chapter completed!