The mid-week period of Arsenal's away challenge to Manchester City kicked off.

Although both teams played three days ago, they also sent all the main players they could send in this game.

For both teams, this is a game that cannot be missed.

Rongguang and this Arsenal team are also considered old opponents.

Many people know the grudges and hatreds between him and Arsenal.

Anyway, every time Arsenal fans see glory, their eyes are in a state of fire.

Since Glory came to Manchester City, Arsenal has had to work hard to keep the fourth place in the league every year, let alone the championship they have always dreamed of.

In addition, the record was broken by Manchester City, and the new record of Manchester City is still continuing until now.

If Arsenal can end Manchester City's new record, it will be able to slightly calm down the resentment in Arsenal fans.

But in fact, except for Arsenal's own fans, most people are not optimistic about Arsenal's ability to beat Manchester City away.

Even if Manchester City is a little tired recently.

Arsenal's current strength has declined a lot compared to before. This season, their team is full of wounded soldiers and their condition is not good.

Otherwise, they wouldn't have been in the league for half to rank sixth...

When the game started, Manchester City took a defensive counterattack at their home court, while Arsenal continued their offensive football.

These two teams are very targeted, and their tactics are very targeted.

Arsenal uses his super ball control ability to prevent Manchester City's counterattack and try to control the football as much as possible, so as to reduce Manchester City's chances of counterattacking.

So in the game, Arsenal's possession rate was as high as 69%, and almost 70% of the possession rate...

However, this is of no use.

For teams like Manchester City, the ball possession rate is not a hard indicator to them, and it doesn’t matter whether the ball possession rate is high or low.

Anyway, they are fighting against the defensively.

The two sides tied in the first half. Arsenal's offensive was very strong and the ball possession rate was very high. It can be seen that they had prepared carefully and really wanted to win Manchester City away.

But no goals were scored in the first half, which made their previous offensives meaningless.

The halftime break was equivalent to giving Manchester City a chance to breathe, and interrupting Arsenal's good pace of game in the first half.

Sure enough, Manchester City scored the first goal just as the second half began.

Kaka scored this time.

His long shot outside the penalty area broke Szczesny's fingers.

This long shot was very sudden. When Kaka received the ball at the front of the penalty area, he did not make any preparations for the goal. He was still looking up at the time, as if he was planning to pass the football out.

As a result, he lowered his head and swung his right foot and shot with a shot.

Because the shot was suddenly shot, neither Szczesny nor Arsenal's defenders could react.

The football flew in like this.

"Kaka! Kaka! Beautiful long shot! This is Kaka's thirteenth league goal this season! This is the fourth best result in his career! The 2008-2009 season was Kaka's most goals in the league in a single season. He played thirty-one games for AC Milan League, scoring sixteen goals, while Kaka's 2007-2008 season played thirty-five games in the league, scoring fourteen goals, and the next is the 2005-2006 season, with thirty-five games in the league and scoring fourteen goals. Now Kaka is in Manchester City, and the league has only been in twenty-four rounds, and he has scored thirteen goals! The season is not over yet, and he still has the opportunity to continue scoring. Judging from his current state, he is likely to create the best data score in his career in his first season at Manchester City!"

"Thirteen goals can also rank fourth in the current league scorer list, tied with Rooney. And Rooney has one penalty in the thirteen goals, but Kaka's thirteen goals at Manchester City has no penalty. This is very great for Kaka. Because in AC Milan, although he scored many goals, many of them were penalty kicks... Thirteen goals are not easy for a midfielder. You should know that except for him, all the strikers are at the top of the league scorer list...

"Now, I think no one can deny this, that is, Kaka chose to leave Madrid and transfer to Manchester City. It was a very correct decision. At Manchester City, he received full trust, and there was also a chemical reaction between him and his teammates, which made him feel like he was in water. It seemed that he should have come to Manchester City long ago..."

"... But I think there are still many people who express doubts and don't understand why Kaka suddenly became reborn... It's just a summer, why Kaka's performance at Real Madrid is so much worse than that at Manchester City... Of course, we can say that this is because Kaka got rid of the impact of injuries, but why did he get rid of it and how... no one knows."

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After Manchester City led, Arsenal did not give up.

In the sixty-sixth minute, they equalized the score.

The goal was Arsenal's striker, the team's top scorer Van Persie.

This is his 20th league goal this season.

Currently, with twenty goals, he ranks second in the league's scorer list.

There is no suspense about the first place in the Scorer List, of course it is glory.

Rongguang scored twenty-four goals in the twenty-four league rounds, and the goal rate was exactly one goal per game.

However, he has not scored in this game yet.

He scored a goal soon.

In the 70th minute, just four minutes after Van Persie equalized the score, Rongguang received a pass from Kaka outside the penalty area, first made a long shot, tricking the Arsenal defensive player to jump up and block the shot with his back, and turned over.

Rongguang dunked the football and rushed into the penalty area.

He entered the penalty area like a dragon breaking into a lake, and suddenly it caused huge waves, rushing straight into Arsenal's penalty area, making Arsenal's penalty area messy.

Rong Guang, who entered the penalty area, first broke through to the left. Facing the Arsenal defenders who were chasing over, he stopped urgently, then changed to the right, and then accelerated to dribble the ball, pushing the ball away from the fallen goalkeeper Szczesny, jumped over the goalkeeper, and caught up with the football.

Then the ball was pushed into the empty goal.

The ball has entered!

"2:1! Manchester City is leading again! Rong is moving around in Arsenal's penalty area, just like he is in a state of no one! No one can stop him! Twenty-five league goals! Rong continues to rank first in the league scorer list. In fact, there is no suspense in the every year, and even Van Persie is completely unable to compete with him..."

"Van Percy may not even regard Rong as an opponent, right? Ha!" Alan Hansen teased.

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The game continued, but in the next game, neither team was able to score another goal.

In the end, with Kaka and Glory's goals, Manchester City defeated Arsenal 2-1 at home.

This result is bad for Arsenal, but they have to accept it.

It's also bad for Manchester United.

In this way, Manchester City will lead them by five points.

In the next round of the league, Manchester United will challenge Liverpool away, which is a very difficult game.

Because this is the "England National Derby".

But whether Manchester United is willing to accept it or not, such a thing has happened. Now it is not a time to complain that Arsenal is not strong enough, but should focus on playing the next game.

If Manchester United loses to Liverpool, Manchester City wins another victory against Aston Villa.

The gap between the two sides will be further widened.

In this way, the situation last season will be repeated.

Last season, Manchester United also took advantage of the opportunity to participate in the Asian Cup in January to shorten the points gap with Manchester City.

It looks promising to surpass Manchester City.

But then, after Glory returned, Manchester City slowly opened up the points gap with Manchester United again. In the end, in the direct dialogue between the two teams, Manchester United lost and completely lost hope of competing for the championship.

In the 25th round of the league, the first game is Manchester United's home match against Liverpool.

The last game of this round of the league was Manchester City's away challenge to Aston Villa.

Two teams are one end.

On February 11, Manchester United took the lead in playing against Liverpool at home.

In the end, Manchester United beat Liverpool 2-1 at home with Rooney's double score in the second half and scored a crucial three-pointer!

Now, before Manchester City plays, Manchester United and Manchester City are only two points away.

One day later, Manchester City's away game against Aston Villa began.

Only one goal was scored in the whole game, and the goal was Ibrahimovic, who pushed the ball into the goal with his head in the corner kick.

This goal is also his seventeenth goal in the league.

With his goal, Manchester City beat Aston Villa 1-0 away.

Winning is not pretty, and it has some luck, but no matter what, being able to score three points with Manchester United pressing step by step is Manchester City's main goal at present.

After playing this game, Manchester City has to prepare for the Champions League quarter-finals with Lyon.

As the defending champion, it was only from the beginning of the knockout stage that he officially embarked on the road to defending the title.

The Champions League knockout and the group stage are completely different. You will find that teams that perform poorly in the group stage often perform well in the knockout stage, while those teams that perform very well in the group stage and are in a big state may plummet in the knockout stage.

The two-month time difference between the group stage and the knockout stage also adds many variables.

This makes the Champions League knockout look more like a wonderful and exciting adventure.

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Chapter completed!