In the other Champions League games, most of the traditional powerhouses have made it to the quarter-finals, but Juventus had a surprise when they lost 3-1 away to Monaco to 6-6 on aggregate, with Monaco advancing on away goals. Zhao Wenkang and Huang Yu also had to say goodbye to this season's Champions League, and even so, the possibility of Chinese players playing against them in the quarterfinals was not ruled out.

On March 19, the Premier League ushered in a major event, the second-placed Manchester City hosted Liverpool, because the match between Chelsea and Stoke City has been held in advance, Chelsea also won away from Stoke City, Chelsea with a game more temporarily surpassed Manchester City by one point, ranking at the top of the table.

There are some differences in Chelsea's performance in the first half of the season, Li Mu is in full shape in the first half, leading Chelsea to soar, but after he was injured, Chelsea's attacking power has also declined, although Hazard and other players tried their best to save the team, but the shooting ability of these players can not be compared with Li Mu, on the contrary, Manchester City's Xu Ziyi's performance in the second half of the season is far better than the first half, in the first nineteen games he played eighteen games, only five goals and five assists, but in the second half so far he has played all eight league games, scored five goals and assists six times, in the just-concluded Champions League round of 16 He also performed well, two legs Manchester City aggregate score 3: 0 to advance, and these three goals are all from his direct assists.

Tsui Ziyi is the best performer in the Manchester City squad right now and his performance will be crucial in this game against Liverpool.

Both teams have fielded the strongest lineups, and Manchester City, who are playing at home, are better in attack, but Liverpool, who have always been porous in defense, also did a very good job in defense in this game, making Manchester City have been scoreless, whether it is Aguero, Xu Ziyi or De Bruyne, they have never been able to break Liverpool's goal.

Towards the end of the first half, De Bruyne crossed diagonally from the side, Aguero in front of the point led away the Liverpool defenders, and Xu Ziyi in the back inserted at high speed and stabbed his left foot into the net, just as he was about to celebrate the goal, he found that the linesman had raised the flag, and the referee immediately blew him offside.

Although the goal is offside, Liverpool must pay attention to his back row to shoot, so far his fourteen goals this season, except for four long-range shots from outside the penalty area, seven of the remaining ten goals are from the back row. If Liverpool don't find a way to solve this problem, they are likely to concede in the second half. ”

The commentator was not wrong, in the 59th minute of the second half, Sterling used his speed to rush into Liverpool's defense, Aguero, Silva, De Bruyne ran into the penalty area in front, and Liverpool also focused on the three of them, and did not see Xu Ziyi quietly intervening.

Raheem Sterling played the ball to the top of the box, where Liverpool's defence was weak, and Xu Ziyi was there, curling his right foot into the net with his right foot around Mignolet's hands.

Manchester City leads 1-0 at home. It was Xu Ziyi's 11th league goal this season, and 15 goals for Manchester City in all competitions, making him the most goalscoring midfielder in the entire Premier League. In addition, he has a total of 18 assists in all competitions, which is also the most assists of any player in the Premier League.

"Xu Ziyi really relied on this method to give Manchester City the lead, and Liverpool don't seem to pay enough attention to this attacking style, don't they study the Manchester City game video before the game?"

Fans now like Xu Ziyi very much, in the world football world where transfer prices are sky-high, they think that Xu Ziyi's 68 million euros is too worthwhile, judging from his data, it is not too much to say that it is the price of cabbage.

The backward Liverpool gradually began to counterattack, although the other defenders of Manchester City are not very reliable, but Liang Xiran is as steady as a rock, and has resolved Liverpool's attacks again and again, even if Liverpool can pass him, Ma Junqiang in front of the goal has kept out every shot they have taken.

In the end, Manchester City won 1-0 at home to Liverpool with Xu Ziyi's goal, thus surpassing Chelsea and returning to the top of the standings. Tsui Ziyi, who scored the only goal of the game, was named Man of the Match for the seventh time this season that he has been named the best individual in the league, four of which came in the second half.

Beating Liverpool doesn't mean Manchester City will be easy, and they will face Arsenal and Chelsea in the next two league rounds, especially against Chelsea, which has been identified by the media as a game that will decide the league title. At that time, the Premier League championship will stage a "civil war" of Chinese players.

Also on this day, AC Milan defeated ****** 2-0 at home in Serie A, Zhang Shujie temporarily stopped the pace of consecutive goals, Baca and Yan Tao scored a goal each to help Milan win, and Juventus won 1-0 away from home with Cuadrado's goal. The two teams are still level on points, with AC Milan in first place with their extra goal difference.

At the end of this round, the major European leagues will make way for the national team, and the internationals of each team will also return to the national team to compete for the right to qualify for the World Cup.

At present, the Chinese team in the World Preliminary Round of 12 all the way, ranked first in the group, this round they will face the South Korean team in Changsha Stadium, last year the Chinese team defeated South Korea 6:3 away, although won three points, but at that time the South Korean team in the first 45 minutes also put the Chinese team under a lot of pressure, as can be seen from their three goals. But today, the Chinese team will never allow such a situation to happen again, and the national football players must win clean and clean on their own turf!

It is a fact that the South Korean team is worse than the Chinese team in terms of lineup, and it is also a fact that the South Korean team is also worse than the Chinese team in terms of strength. Therefore, on the field, the Chinese team fighting at home went out to completely suppress the South Korean team. And in the 40th minute of the first half, Xu Ziyi, who has been very good recently, opened the scoring and took the lead for the Chinese team.

This is also the only goal of the two sides in the first half, in the second half Li Mu began to exert power, he first received Zhang Shujie's pass in the 61st minute, and swept the goal with his left foot; then four minutes later, received Zhao Wenkang's cross header and then went to the next city; in the 79th minute, Zhang Shujie created a penalty, according to the order of the team's free throws, this penalty should have been Zhang Shujie's penalty, but he gave this opportunity to Li Mu, because Li Mu has already scored two goals, and there is still one goal left to complete the hat trick.

Li Mu did not waste the favor given by Zhang Shujie, and scored his first hat trick in the national team in one fell swoop. The Chinese team also defeated South Korea with a score of 4:0 and further consolidated its position as the first in the group.

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