On the third day of the League Cup, Manchester City is about to usher in the fourth round of the FA Cup.

This shows how intense Manchester City's schedule is in January.

After the 19th round of the league match against Sunderland on December 31, the match against Liverpool on January 3 will be against Manchester United at home on January 8. This is the FA Cup match. On January 11, the semi-finals of the League Cup, Manchester City will be against Liverpool at home. On January 16, Manchester City will be challenging Wigan Athletic away, and on January 22, Manchester City will be facing Tottenham Hotspur at home. On January 25, the second leg of the League Cup semi-finals, Manchester City will be challenging Liverpool away.

Next is the fourth round of the FA Cup on January 28, Manchester City's opponent... is Liverpool again!

These two teams have really met recently.

Manchester City will play a total of eight games in January and four games against Liverpool, accounting for half of all games in January.

Even the media complained that these two teams met too many times, and they probably had aesthetic fatigue.

Some media also said that Liverpool can take revenge in the FA Cup, after all, they were just eliminated in the League Cup. If Liverpool can kick Manchester City out of the FA Cup, it will be considered a revenge.

However, only Liverpool's local media mentioned this statement, and no one else in England said that.

Because everyone believes that this is absolutely impossible.

With Manchester City's current state, how could they lose to Liverpool?

Liverpool should be careful. They have just been reversed by Liverpool in the League Cup, and the morale of the whole team is low, and Manchester City also knows them that this FA Cup game will definitely not be easy to play.

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Liverpool is still at home in this FA Cup match.

However, when Rongguang led his teammates to Anfield Stadium, he did not see the giant TIFO that "Rongguang has not lost enough".

It seems that Liverpool fans also know that taunting and irritating glory is not good for them.

It must be pointed out that although Liverpool just lost to Manchester City in the League Cup semi-finals, their performance in this FA Cup match is still worthy of respect.

They didn't seem to be in a dilemma because they lost to Manchester City in the League Cup. They prepared for this game seriously and performed very actively and seriously in the game.

The only shame is that this doesn't change anything.

Although Liverpool was scored first by their centre-back Agh in a corner offense in the 21st minute.

But in the 39th minute, David Silva equalized the score for Manchester City.

The two sides then remained in a stalemate, and it can be seen that the impact of the two teams in a week was actually quite big.

Whether it is Manchester City or Liverpool, their physical fitness is a little out of reach.

Liverpool is a little better. After all, they are playing at their home court in these two cup games and do not need to go back and forth.

Manchester City was in a miserable situation. They came to Liverpool from Manchester to play the semi-finals of the League Cup, and after the game, they returned to Manchester. Two days later, they set off to Liverpool and played in this FA Cup game.

So Liverpool's physical strength is better than Manchester City, and they can also struggle for a while in the game...

In the 88th minute, just when everyone thought that the two teams had to choose a day to play, Berbatov, who replaced Ibrahimovic in the second half, received a pass from Rong Guang and shot the ball into the goal with a very casual move.

The goal came so suddenly that no one expected it.

Anfield Stadium fell into a brief silence.

This goal is equivalent to a death sentence for Liverpool.

After conceding the ball in the 88th minute, there was not much time left for the game. How could Liverpool equalize the score in the remaining time?

So Liverpool was unable to change the score until the end of the game.

Manchester City finally defeated Liverpool 2-1 away and eliminated Liverpool from the FA Cup...

The League Cup and the FA Cup have been eliminated one after another. Now Liverpool can only fight hard in the league, hoping to get the top five in the league and qualify for the UEFA Cup.

But this is quite difficult for them.

Because Tottenham Hotspur's sudden emergence, the top five leagues this season are likely to be Manchester City, Manchester United, Tottenham Hotspur, Chelsea and Arsenal. Where can Liverpool live?

For a time, Hodgson's position as coach was in danger.

After losing to Manchester City, local Liverpool media revealed that Liverpool clubs may fire Hodgson in the near future.

The best coach of the Premier League was at the end of his life after only half a season coaching at Liverpool, which is really sad.

But Manchester City doesn't care about Hodgson's fate.

They drove back to Manchester from Liverpool after another victory.

This is January 29th.

But the difficult and hard January is not over.

There is still the last game waiting for them in January - on the evening of January 31, they will come to Liverpool again, this time their opponent is not Liverpool in red jerseys, but Everton in dark blue jerseys.

It has just been a day since they left Liverpool now.

If Liverpool and Manchester are too close from time to time, the whole Manchester City team will definitely live directly at Liverpool for the first half of a month...

"Ah, when I think about coming the day after tomorrow, I'm starting to get bored of the city of Liverpool!" On the way to leave Liverpool, someone in the team complained.

Benitez also frowned. He was not tired of the Liverpool city, he was worried about the team's physical fitness and condition.

In this FA Cup match against Liverpool, he saw that the players were about to run in the second half.

This FA Cup match is only two days apart from the next league, and there is still a back and forth, so there is not enough rest time.

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In the game against Everton, Benitez rotated everyone except Glory and goalkeeper Joe Hart. If he didn't do so, he was worried that his players wouldn't be able to run half an hour after the game began.

Even so, Manchester City is in a bad state.

Benitez once again proved that he was right to let Glory start, because if Glory was not there, City might have lost the game.

In the end, Manchester City shook hands with Everton 1:1 away.

Everton scored the first goal.

And Rong Guang equalized the score for Manchester City in the 70th minute.

So if Rongguang doesn't start, Manchester City will really lose the game.

After the 23rd round of the league, because Manchester City has had too many draws in the league recently, they only led Manchester United by one point after one game.

In this round of the league, Manchester United beat Stoke City 2-0 at home.

Although Manchester City are making great strides in the League Cup and the FA Cup, their advantage is rapidly shrinking in the most important leagues.

This seems to confirm the previous media analysis.

It is not necessarily a bad thing for Manchester United to lose to Manchester City in the FA Cup, and it is not necessarily a good thing for Manchester City to go hand in hand in the League Cup and the FA Cup.

"...The consequences of Manchester City's inability to fight on multiple lines have begun to show. Multi-line battles require not only strength, but also experience. For Manchester City, they rarely have such experience. Their rise is only in these two or three seasons... They are likely to start to collapse in the next league. Because the Champions League is about to start again soon, Manchester City will not be able to get a chance to breathe..."

The first leg of the Champions League eight-point final was held on February 14. Manchester City challenged Lyon away.

The fifth round of the FA Cup was on February 19, with only four days apart between the two games.

In addition, there will be national team competitions on the last day of February. By then, many international players in Manchester City will have to leave the team to participate in national team competitions. For example, Glory will have to fly back to China to participate in the World Cup qualifiers against Jordan.

The impact of national team competitions, the so-called "FIFA virus" will affect Manchester City's next match in March.

Manchester City still has one less game, so they still have to find some free time to intervene in the game against Arsenal, but this time is not easy to find, so it is very likely that there will be another one-week double game in the end.

With so many unfavorable factors, it seems that it is not easy for Manchester City to win three consecutive league titles.

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On February 4, Manchester City will play Fulham at home.

In this game, Benitez brought back the main lineup that had been resting against Evert in the last game back to the starting lineup.

Manchester City, who played all the main players, also beat Fulham 3:0 at home.

The next day, Manchester United tied Chelsea 3:3 away.

The gap between the two sides was widened to two points.

In the following mid-week, no other teams in the Premier League will play, but Manchester City and Arsenal will play a make-up match.

Manchester City faces Arsenal at home.

Although Manchester City only led Manchester United by two points before, they played one game less than Manchester United.

If Manchester City wins Arsenal, they will play the same game as Manchester United, and they will lead Manchester United by five points in points, which is a slightly safe point difference.

But if Manchester City loses to Arsenal, then Manchester United will only be two points behind Manchester City, which will definitely make Manchester City nervous.

Therefore, this game is very important for Manchester United and Manchester City teams.

It is equally important for Arsenal.

The league has been held for twenty-four rounds, and Arsenal also has one less game, with twelve wins, four draws and seven losses in 23 games, and amassing 40, ranking sixth.

Liverpool, seventh, is only one point away from them.

Newcastle United, ranked ahead of Arsenal, had 42 points, Chelsea had 43 points, and Tottenham Hotspur was 50 points.

It is impossible for Arsenal to win the league championship this season. If they want to qualify for the Champions League, they must get the top four in the league.

The difference between them and Chelsea, fourth in the league, is less than three points.

If they can beat Manchester City and rely on the victory of this game, they will tie Chelsea in points, although they can only rank fifth due to goals and other factors.

But it's better than it is now, right?

If you lose this game, it is equivalent to standing still.
Chapter completed!