On the same day as Manchester City's match against Derby County, the Chinese national team challenged Qatar away against the weakest opponent in the group considered by the Chinese Football Association, even away they also gave a death order to win, but it turned out that even against the weakest opponent, the Chinese national team failed to win, they were forced to draw 1-1, and the prospects for qualification were very bleak. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Hearing the news, Ding Hongxing shook his head silently, and then put his mind on the game with Parma.

Serie A in the nineties was worthy of the title of Europe's largest league and the mini-World Cup, especially in the second half of the nineties, Serie A was a group of champions, and there were seven teams that had the ability to compete for good results, they were called the seven sisters of Serie A, and Parma was one of the seven sisters.

The seven sisters of Serie A are very strong, and Parma was able to beat AC Milan, Inter Milan and other giants to win the runner-up in Serie A last season.

Listen to the names, Buffon, Cannavaro, Benarivo, Thuram, Saint-Sini, Dino. Baggio, Crespo, Chiesa, which of these was not the biggest stars of the time? Four or five of them were first-line superstars, and it's no wonder that Serie A teams tended to look down on other league teams at the time.

In the first game of this group, Manchester City won smoothly, while Parma were unfavorable, only a draw, so Parma must strive to win this round of games, otherwise it will be difficult for them to qualify in the group, even if they can't fight for the top spot in the group, they must try to get more points to become one of the two better group runners-up.

Although Manchester City is the defending champion, Parma has only one way to go to Huashan, so they can only attack.

Because it is an away game, the opponent is a strong team, so in this game Mu Shengli used defensive counterattack tactics, there is such a long pass player as Ding Hongxing, the Manchester City team is also handy to play defensive counterattacks, but in this game Parma obviously pays attention to the Manchester City team's defensive counterattack, Ancelotti seems to have studied the Manchester City team's game more deeply, Parma team In any case, their backline will keep at least three people in the backfield, their backline, Thuram and Cannavaro's recovery speed is quite good, therefore, City counter-attacked on several occasions to no avail, with two shots from Larsson and Seedorf also denied by an in-form Gianluigi Buffon.

Of course, although the Parma team is star-studded, Manchester City's defense is also impeccable, Parma's midfield attack is inherently lacking creativity, Manchester City midfielders Ding Hongxing, Makelele and Nedved three midfielders with outstanding sweeping ability make Parma's offensive simply unorganized, Chiesa and Crespo are both capable forwards, but they have no midfield support, and the threat they can create is limited.

The game was so deadlocked, until the end of the 90 minutes of the game, neither side did anything, the game ended 0-0, in fact, Manchester City team had hope to take away the three points, but unfortunately at the last moment Ding Hongxing's free kick straight to the dead corner was barely touched by Buffon after jumping up, and the ball hit the crossbar and bounced off the bottom line.

Ding Hongxing couldn't help but sigh in his heart, Buffon really deserves to be a genius goalkeeper, now he is only 19 years old, he already has such strength, you must know that his free kicks are rarely saved by the opponent's goalkeeper, the quality of the free kicks he took just now is already very high, he thought that he must score, Buffon can save like this, reaction, bounce, and arm span are all first-class.

The draw was perfectly acceptable for Manchester City, but it was not an ideal result for Parma, who had only two points from two games, and in the other game, Sparta Prague drew 1-1 at home to Galatasaray, so Galatasaray also had two points from two games and were ahead of Parma on goals, who were only third in the group.

Back in Manchester, Mu Shengli and Ding Hongxing once again won the honor of the best coach and best player of the month, this month's four games, Manchester City won three wins and one draw, and now Manchester City, after winning two consecutive titles, has been more accepted by the English football circle, so this kind of award can also be judged to them more fairly.

Manchester City returned to Manchester to claim another league win as they thrashed West Ham United 3-0 at home, with goals apieced from Red Star Ding, Mitchell Smitchell and Ruud van Nistelrooy.

This victory was followed by the international break, which had torn apart the Premier League and exhausted the internationals, but no one could stop them from playing.

There was no game for two weeks, and Ding Hongxing took Kong Xiaodong to his home from time to time to give him a tooth sacrifice, of course, in terms of nutritional matching, Ding Hongxing arranged it almost the same as the club, but he tried his best to make the taste as good as possible, so that Kong Xiaodong could eat a good meal, you must know that he could only force himself to eat those meat boiled in white water and raw vegetables in football school, although he had no resistance, but such a diet was too difficult for a child to accept.

In Ding Hongxing's house, thirteen-year-old Kong Xiaodong is more lively than in the football school, in the football school, in addition to training, he also has to take cultural classes every day, and he is so busy that he doesn't even have time to play every day, Ding Hongxing specially invited a Chinese student from the University of Manchester to be Kong Xiaodong's cultural teacher, and gave him lessons every night, which is also his promise to Kong Zhaoqiang and Yang Juan, in addition to letting Kong Xiaodong learn football, he will never waste his cultural classes.

Kong Xiaodong has been in Manchester for more than two months, he is more comfortable with the life in Manchester, his spoken English has improved rapidly, and the football level has begun to improve by leaps and bounds again under the training of a large number of youth team leagues, his talent and level have been highly praised by the youth coaches of Manchester City Football School, and now he has been promoted to Manchester City's U16 youth team to participate in the U16 league.

Although Kong Xiaodong is only thirteen years old, he is already more than 1.75 meters tall, due to his long-term insistence on scientific diet and training, his size is not inferior to sixteen or seventeen-year-old young people, therefore, he will not suffer a loss when he participates in the U16 game, his position on the field is also a midfielder, and his skills are very comprehensive, which is also influenced by Ding Hongxing.