In the last top 20 match against Jordan, Rongguang started and at the Tianhe Stadium in Guangzhou, Rongguang almost enjoyed the treatment of a national leader.

As long as he gets the ball, even if he just passes the ball, it will cause cheers like a tsunami of thunder in the stands.

"Glory is the well-deserved number one star in China..." Even the commentator of CCTV sighed in the face of such a situation.

"No, or it's the number one sports star..."

Glory did not disappoint the fans of the Tower. He showed that in the 28th minute of the game, he assisted his teammates to score, and then in the 39th minute, he scored his own goal, helping the Chinese team lead Jordan 2-0 in the first half.

Then in the second half, the Chinese team won a direct free kick about 33 meters away from the goal.

Of course, Rongguang will take the penalty.

Rongguang kicked the elevator ball with his right foot.

The football flew high over the wall, then fell suddenly, and drilled into the goal between Jordan goalkeeper Shafi and the crossbar.

3:0!

In the stands at the Tianhe Stadium in Guangzhou, there was a red crowd surging, just like surging magma, and the atmosphere had reached its climax.

In the 71st minute, Rongguang was replaced.

Deafening cheers and applause sounded again at Tianhe Stadium.

The TV broadcast gave a shot to the stands, in which all Chinese fans stood up from their seats, applauding for glory and applauding.

Rongguang also thanked the Chinese team fans in the stands by waving his hand.

He rushed back from Manchester to participate in such a meaningless game, mainly for these fans.

He was very happy to be able to satisfy the fans with two goals in the game.

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After Glory was gone, the Chinese team conceded a goal. However, everyone no longer cared about the game itself.

Glory is what they are most interested in.

Even the CCTV commentator began to talk about the top ten games incessantly.

The name "Top Ten Tournament" was once the most familiar to Chinese fans, and even the "World Cup" is still familiar to us. After all, we cannot participate in every World Cup, but before the top ten tournament, the Chinese team played every time and never missed.

But now, the "top ten games" have become an unattainable threshold for Chinese football.

Being able to return to the "Top Ten" has made every Chinese footballer very excited, not only fans, but also commentators.

Because the teams participating in the top ten are not finalized, it is not known which opponents the Chinese team will meet in the top ten. However, there are always rules to follow, such as who can seed teams and which team is the first to be of the top ten teams. These can be guessed. Although the Chinese team won the Asian Cup championship, their performance in the Asian qualifiers in the World Cup was too poor, so their points will not be too high, so it is impossible to become a "seed team".

"...But that doesn't matter. Manchester City is still not a seed team in the Champions League group stage for half a season. They are the second-level team, but they are the strongest second-level team!" CCTV commentator used Manchester City where Glory is used as an analogy. "I believe that if the Chinese team is a second-level team, it will also be the strongest second-level team. Like Manchester City, it is to make all seed teams unwilling to be in the same group as us!"

But in fact, with the Chinese team's performance in previous World Cup qualifiers, they may not even be able to do second-level teams.

But it doesn’t matter. No matter which level of team it is, the CCTV commentator has a very correct saying.

That is - the Chinese team will become the team that all opponents are least willing to be divided into one group!

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After finishing the match with Jordan, Rongguang took a special plane early the next morning to fly back to Manchester.

He returned to his home in Manchester that day.

After resting for one night, the next day, January 31, he appeared normally on the training ground of Manchester City's Carrington Training Base. Before everyone could come to the training base, he started to practice for himself.

On the evening of March 3, Manchester City played against Bolton at home.

This is the 27th round of the league.

Glory appeared in Manchester City's starting lineup in this game.

And not only did he start, but he also performed very well.

In the 51st minute, he used a long shot outside the penalty area to 2:0, and Manchester City led the game with two goals.

John Motterson sighed: "I think even every cell is made of unknown metal from outer space, otherwise it would be difficult to explain why he could still be in such a state after running back and forth like this..."

In the end, Manchester City beat Bolton 2-0 at home.

Although he played one game less, he still led Manchester United by four points.

The middle of the week is the Champions League day.

In the second leg of the Champions League quarterfinals, Manchester City faced Lyon at home.

But because Manchester City defeated Lyon 3-0 away in the first leg of the game, the second leg had basically lost the suspense, so when the game really came, no one paid attention to it.

The English media are more concerned about the domestic league, not the Champions League.

Such things are really rare.

Lyon must have felt all kinds of contempt and malice from England.

So when he came, Lyon's head coach accepted an interview with the French media, who talked about the contempt of the English media for this game.

"We'll try to prove ourselves, we haven't given up on the game. I know it's hard to turn back, but if you don't try, you'll never really win the game."

This is said beautifully.

However, in the football world, saying beautiful words is the most useless.

After all, football is not politics. You can deceive many people by saying good things. Football ends up in real games.

Beautiful words cannot weaken the opponent's strength.

When the game started, Manchester City, who only used half of the main players to face Lyon, broke the deadlock in the 41st minute.

The person who scored the goal was Berbatov, and the person who assisted him was glory.

The entire Lyon team did not try hard to win the game away like their head coach said beautifully.

In fact, Lyon's players have no fighting spirit at all. They are not active enough in running on the court and make many proactive mistakes.

Such performance makes it impossible to tell that they are a team that wants to turn the tables away.

Perhaps their head coach is just saying beautiful words.

Anyway, it was not until fifteen minutes left that Lyon seemed to wake up as if he was dreaming, and began to get anxious and launched a fierce attack on Manchester City's goal.

But this is completely meaningless.

Because there are only fifteen minutes left, they have to score four goals in a row before they can eliminate Manchester City by relying on the advantage of away goals.

But how is this possible?

You know, Rongguang has not been replaced on the court!

Sure enough, in the fifth minute of their large-scale attack, that is, in the 80th minute of the game, Rongguang dribbled the ball and ran for more than 50 meters in the counterattack, and passed the attacking Lyon goalkeeper Loris in front of the goal, pushed the ball into the empty goal, completely ending Lyon's counterattack.

"The game ended early again! Rong killed the suspense again! The total score was 5:0! Manchester City advanced to the quarterfinals of the Champions League! I think Manchester City fans may not care about the result of this game at all, right? What they are considering is who Manchester City will meet in the quarterfinals. This suspense will be revealed in the UEFA draw ceremony..."

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During the weekend league, Benitez continued to adopt a rotation policy. Many players who participated in the Champions League in the middle of the week had the opportunity to rest, so it was naturally impossible for Rongguang to be on the rotation list.

He started.

However, it can still be seen that the whole Manchester City team is in a state of unstable condition.

After all, Manchester City's games are too many and too intensive during this period.

Last December, January and February this year were the rhythm of the weekly match.

The fatigue that Manchester City has accumulated over the past three months has begun to appear, and it is an amplified form.

In the away game against Swansea, Matuidi was injured just six minutes into the opening game.

Matuidi didn't play in the last Champions League quarterfinals and had a rest. But unexpectedly, he was injured just in the first game, and it was not a minor injury - he was carried down on a stretcher, which shows that this injury will not be too light.

"Matuidi's injury to Manchester City is a big impact..." Alan Hansen analyzed. "Manchester City's midfield offensive configuration is very gorgeous, but they are the only one who can defend. Everyone thinks Rong is an indispensable figure in Manchester City. Indeed, Rong is currently playing time in this team, and goalkeeper Joe Hart is second. But Matuidi's third place is Martuidi. These three people can be said to be Manchester City's central axis and are indispensable. Matuidi's injury will inevitably affect Manchester City's defense, and defense is the key to whether Manchester City can win the next three championships... In short, Matuidi's injury at this time may bring immeasurable catastrophic consequences to Manchester City!"

Alan Hansen said something very scary. Although it was a bit exaggerated, what he said was right.

Matuidi is indeed very important to Manchester City, which can be seen from Benitez's frown.

He could only replace Matuidi in his hand with Gareth Barry and let Barry defend specifically.

Matuidi's injury affected the performance and morale of Manchester City players. After Matuidi was injured, everyone's performance declined.

They didn't score in the first half, and of course Swansea didn't score either.

So the score is still 0:0.

During the halftime break, someone analyzed that if Manchester City met not Swansea but Manchester United in this game, they would definitely lose in the first half.

During the break, Benitez got bad news. Matuidi had a torn cruciate ligament in his knee and had to receive surgery. At the same time, he couldn't play all the remaining games this season...
Chapter completed!