After playing the second round of the game, Dick waited for the draw ceremony for the Champions Cup, did not play European games last season, Dick also missed that atmosphere, although Manchester City won three titles in one breath last season, and there is no European competition involved in energy has a lot to do with it, but if you just play domestic games, it is never enjoyable enough.

However, this draw, Manchester City is destined not to be too lucky, they have not played much European games before, which makes their European competition points quite low, and there is no suspense that they are divided into the fourth bracket, this season's second-tier strong teams are Juventus and Eindhoven, and the third-tier strong teams are Fiorentina and Celtic, that is to say, theoretically there may be Real Madrid, Juventus, Celtic and Manchester City such a group of death, if not to say that Atletico Madrid, who returned to the Champions Cup this season, is also divided into the fourth bracket, then the possibility of the group of death will become even greater......

But even so, with Manchester City's fourth place, it is very likely that they will meet at least two top teams in the group stage.

"It's normal to be in Pot 4 because our results in the last five years in Europe have been almost blank...... Atletico are back in the Champions League? I'm happy about that, after all, a team as good as Atletico shouldn't always stay away from the Champions League and not play against Atletico, which I'm happy about. ”

Dick is really happy, he is even glad that Manchester City is not in the third tier at this time, this is not because there are more strong teams in the fourth tier, but because if they are in the third tier, with UEFA's urine, most of them will put Atletico Madrid and Manchester City in a group, not only because of the old relationship between Dick and Atletico Madrid, but also the existence of Torres......

Fortunately, none of this will happen anymore.

However, UEFA will not let Manchester City go for granted, and in the following draw ceremony, Manchester City met a veritable group of death.

Pot 1, Bayern, Pot 2, PSV Eindhoven, Pot 3, Fiorentina, Pot 4, Manchester City.

Bundesliga champions, Eredivisie champions, third in Serie A, Premier League champions, this is the sixth group of champions this season......

Everyone's face is not very good-looking, such a group, although it is not particularly exaggerated, but it must be difficult, especially Manchester City is a new team, if it is in a relatively easy group to deal with, as long as the group can appear, I am afraid that it will be a little uncontrollable to play the knockout round after the exercise, and now, it is very likely to be drowned in the group stage of the Champions Cup!

"It's going to be a big challenge...... But it's not that lacking in Champions League experience. Dick said lightly after the draw ceremony.

When he said this, people remembered that the current Manchester City players are not too bad in the Champions Cup, at least Samuel, Alves, Deco, Yaya Toure, Ribery, Torres, Di Natale and Benzema are all players with a lot of experience in the Champions Cup, especially the three new players who have signed this season, including veterans, mesozoic, and rookies, but they all have a common characteristic, that is, they do not lack experience in the Champions Cup - six years in Dortmund, Alves has played in the Champions League for three seasons as a regular player, not to mention Deco, who won the Champions League at Porto, even the youngest Benzema, who also had experience in the knockout stage of the Champions League with Lyon last year, plus Torres had previously won the Champions League under Dick, Yaya Toure and Di Natale have won two trophies at Inter Milan, and Samuel has played in both Roma and Real Madrid...... Manchester City's Champions League experience is not as lacking as it seems.

And in the time that followed, they seemed to prove that they do have a lot of quality.

August 31, the third round of the Premier League.

Following a 3-0 home win over West Ham United in the previous round, City won 3-0 again, this time away from home, with Deco opening the scoring again for City and Di Natale netting his own brace to help City win easily.

After the defeat in the first round, Manchester City quickly won two 3-0 consecutive victories, such a victory, but also Manchester City regained self-confidence, the next time is a national team match day, until September 14 will usher in the fourth round of the Premier League, and after that, the Champions Cup, is about to rekindle the fire!

"It's a rhythm I haven't felt in a long time...... I feel like my fighting spirit is starting to burn up to the fullest! Dick said to Charlotte.

Charlotte glanced at him: "That's ...... Do you think you're still the protagonist of a hot-blooded manga? You're almost thirty years old, uncle! ”

"What's wrong with being almost thirty? A hot-blooded teenager, he will always be invincible! Dick made a muscle-flexing motion.

The national team's training camp is over soon, and the good news for Dick is that Deco has now been selected for the Portuguese national team, which allows him to take a good rest, but Manchester City still has a lot of internationals, Yaya Toure and Kompany have not practiced with other teammates until now, and the next league is indeed a bit of a headache.

On September 14, in the fourth round of the Premier League, Manchester City hosted Chelsea!

If it were a normal opponent, Dick might have confined the internationals to play this league game as a substitute and then let the main players prepare for the Champions Cup, but against Chelsea...... Especially Chelsea, who have changed their new manager and gradually begun to stabilize, if they don't give Chelsea a little color at the beginning, then if Chelsea play their level next, it will be difficult to deal with.

Chelsea also had a lot of changes this summer, Scolari also carried out drastic reforms after taking office - after all, Mourinho's influence is too great, Scolari does not want to be like Grant, isolated in the dressing room, the old Deco was snatched away by Dick first, but the introduction of the Portuguese national team's right-back Bosingwa, and at the last moment at the 35 million pounds of the real Madrid Brazilian winger Robinho, It also gave him a certain say in the locker room.

Some people are in and some people are out, many players left Chelsea this summer, such as Shepchenko was loaned back to AC Milan, Adriano, who was completely abandoned in the second half of last season, was thrown back to Inter Milan by Chelsea for a low price of 10 million euros, Makelele was transferred back to France on a free transfer, Bora Luz, Sidwell and Wright Phillips were all disposed of at a low price, and a new Chelsea is taking shape. In the face of such an opponent, Dick naturally will not take it lightly, although the win or loss at the beginning of the season is not too important, but in the face of such a competitor, naturally it cannot play too badly.

So after the players returned, Dick began to prepare for the next game, although Chelsea's main force has not changed much, there are also several key positions have changed, and Manchester City is the same, both sides have a lot of main players in two national team games, in terms of form, the two sides can be regarded as half a catty.

'Scolari is a fantastic manager and Chelsea have had a fantastic start to the year...... It's just that Chelsea are still a little bit less and we will win this game, no matter what the situation is. Dick said in an interview before the game.

"Coaching a club is not the same as coaching the national team, the national team only has a maximum of ten or twenty official matches a year, as long as you can pinch together a strong whole, it is enough, but in the club, there are more things to consider. Scolari's results at international level have been very good, but he still needs to do more when it comes to managing the club. ”

Dick commented on Scolari's work in an old-fashioned manner, but he is now qualified to comment, who made him the best and most comprehensive manager who has ever coached the club, even if it is Ferguson, even if he is better than him in terms of overall honors, but not like Dick, who has played almost all over Europe.

Did Dick say that? Thanks to him for his advice, but I don't think I lack experience as a coach at the club. Scolari dodged the question in an interview.

In fact, he was also very annoyed to hear Dick's words, after all, Scolari is also a world champion coach, won the World Cup in Brazil, and led the team to the semi-finals of the tournament in Portugal in a row, otherwise Abu would not have hired him with a high salary to coach Chelsea, which is already a top giant, and now he is being instructed like this by a young man who is twenty years younger than him, and he can bear it, then it is called hell.

And Chelsea started the first three rounds with three consecutive wins, although they beat not the top teams such as Portsmouth, Wigan Athletic and Tottenham, but they beat last season's FA Cup runners-up Portsmouth 4-0 in the first round, scoring seven goals in three league games without conceding a single goal, which is enough to prove that they are in good form.

And what about Manchester City? Although the last two games have been swept 3-0, but the first round of the defeat to Aston Villa is so bad, at least it proves that their form is not particularly good, right......

And Chelsea's group group situation is much better than Manchester City, after Mourinho left, UEFA does not seem to target Chelsea, Mourinho's first three years, Chelsea's knockout rounds are either Barcelona or Dick's team, or Liverpool, the bitter master, and last season they met a weaker team before entering the semi-finals, this season's group Chelsea's luck is also good, and Roma, Bordeaux and Romania's Cluj are in a group, There shouldn't be much of a problem with qualifying.

Manchester City are going to be distracted by the Champions League, can they really give it their all to Chelsea? Taking advantage of Manchester City's distraction, he took out Manchester City away from home and broke Dick's unbeaten home record in the Premier League, so that his Scolari's position will become more secure!

Thinking like this, Scolari began to feel happy, and he was already looking forward to the press conference after the game, and he had to thank Dick after the win, and thank him for making him more aware of how to coach the club - Dick's expression at that time must have been very exciting......