Chapter 631: First win in the Champions League

On September 4, the Premier League continued, with Manchester City beating Nottingham Forest by four goals at home, with Ding Hongxing scoring twice and Quinn and Larsson scoring one each. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

In these four rounds of the league, Manchester City won all four games, scoring eleven goals without conceding a goal, while Ding Hongxing scored six goals personally, and Manchester City's terrifying offensive and defensive strength shocked the entire Premier League.

On the other hand, several of the Premier League's traditional powerhouses have performed very well this season, which may be the aftermath of the European Championships.

Manchester United won one and drew three in the first four rounds, Newcastle won one and lost three, Liverpool performed okay, with two wins and two draws.

Manchester City's invincible performance contrasted sharply with the malaise of these traditional powerhouses, and the English media exclaimed, who can stop Manchester City?

The fifth round of the league is Liverpool's host Manchester City on September 7, which is also a highlight of the fifth round of the league, and the whole of England is watching this game, with almost all the media hoping that Liverpool can snipe Manchester City's winning streak except for the pro-Manchester City media.

In fact, this game did go all over the place, the goals of both sides were like plum blossoms, Ding Hongxing assisted twice to help Larsson and Seedorf each score a goal, twice ahead of Liverpool, and Liverpool also stubbornly equalized twice, when the game went to injury time, Manchester City won a free kick about 25 meters from the front of the penalty area, Ding Hongxing took this free kick, his free kick accurately drilled into the upper left corner of the goal, and beat Liverpool!

When Ding Hongxing scored the free kick, the Liverpool fans were silent all over the venue, while the more than 2,000 Manchester City fans who came with the team celebrated wildly.

3-2, Manchester City has won five consecutive games since the start of the season.

Manchester City host Tottenham Hotspur on 14 September, and with the first group game of the Champions League four days away to Rapid Vienna in the Champions League, Mu Shengli has made some changes in the league.

Although Manchester City have won five consecutive games through full-court pressing tactics, this style of play still has high physical requirements for players, and it is impossible to rely on a set of lineups to complete a season, and some personnel rotation is still necessary before an important Champions League game.

As a result, Zambrotta and Mills both started for the first time this season, while Blanc started for the second time, partnering Stam at centre-back, and the forward line was replaced by a combination of Ruud van Nistelrooy and Heskey.

After the start of the game, Tottenham took advantage of the lack of understanding in the Manchester City backline, sneaked to score, scored a point, and then they launched a full-court iron bucket defense, Manchester City's own luck was not good, Ding Hongxing's free kick hit the post, Ruud van Nistelrooy's turning shot in the box hit the crossbar, and Nedved's long-range shot bounced off the outside of the post.

Until the game reached injury time, Ding Hongxing suddenly broke out, he began to break through with the ball from the midfield, connected five people, and brought the ball into the penalty area, just when he was ready to shoot with his feet, Tottenham central defender Campbell hooked Ding Hongxing's foot from behind, hooked him to the ground, at Manchester City's home stadium, 80,000 fans cheering, the referee of course could not let go of this foul, he awarded Manchester City a penalty, Ding Hongxing personally penalized, overnight, for the Manchester City team's thrilling stunner equalizer.

Although the draw at home to Tottenham Hotspur was still embarrassing, Manchester City still topped the Premier League table with an excellent record of five wins and one draw in six games.

On September 17, Manchester City flew to Vienna, the capital of Austria, to prepare for the first round of the Champions League group stage against Rapid Vienna.

Although Rapid Vienna is generally regarded as the weakest team in this group, when it comes to Champions League experience, they are far better than Manchester City, who have been regulars in the Champions League in recent years, and Manchester City have not participated in this competition for decades, so Rapid Vienna are quite eager to compete with Manchester City on their home turf.

However, the Rapid Vienna team clearly overestimated their own quality and underestimated the strength of Manchester City, and they might not have lost badly if they played honestly on the counter-attack, but they tried to play against Manchester City at home, and their goal was beaten into a sieve by Manchester City.

The game just went on for three minutes, Makelele broke the ball successfully in the midfield, he immediately passed it to Ding Hongxing next to him, because the Vienna Rapid team was attacking, the formation was pressed very high, and the number of defenders in the backfield was insufficient, Ding Hongxing keenly captured this, he decisively drove the ball straight in, and kicked a wonderful world wave at the front of the penalty area, opening the scoring for the Manchester City team.

Conceding the goal so early suddenly disrupted the strategic deployment of the Vienna Rapid team, and in desperation, they could only attack hard, but there was a huge gap between their individual ability and the Manchester City players, and the result of the strong attack was a tragedy.

In the following game, Ding Hongxing scored two more goals and scored a hat-trick, Larsson, Quinn and Seedorf scored one goal each, and Manchester City slaughtered Rapid Vienna by a huge score of 6-0 to achieve the biggest victory in the group stage of this round of the Champions League.

The scoreline cheered on the thousands of Manchester City fans who had travelled to Vienna to cheer on the team, and Manchester City were provisionally top of Group C of the Champions League with this victory, finishing second in the group with a 3-0 home win over Fenerbahce in the other game in the same group, and Manchester City will host Juventus in the second round of the group stage on October 1.

Manchester City returned to Manchester with a Champions League victory, and their performance won wide praise from the English media, and although it was only a group stage victory and the opponent was not a strong team, a 6-0 victory was still very convincing.

What's more, since the return of English clubs from banning European competitions, there have never been any convincing results in European competitions, especially in the Champions League, where no English team has ever been able to reach the last four, and has been eliminated in the group stage on several occasions, which has disappointed the English teams that once swept European football, and is seen as evidence that English football is lagging behind the continent.

Manchester City's victory has raised high hopes from the entire English football community to reinvigorate English football by performing well in the Champions League this season.