The FA Cup is the oldest competition in the world, and for a long time it was a bigger place for Premier League teams than the Champions Cup – and of course this is unlikely to happen as the rewards of participating in the trophy become more and more profitable, but even in this case, the FA Cup has a special meaning.

The FA Cup is a cup that all teams in England are eligible to participate in, in the previous games, basically amateur teams are participating, the Premier League teams participate from the third round of the main competition, and all the teams are mixed draws, luck often accounts for a lot of factors in such games, if they meet the weaker teams, the Championship League One teams may be able to go far, and if they meet the Premier League teams in the third round, then the Premier League teams may stop in the third round, So the FA Cup is often a hotbed of upsets, and although it's becoming less and less common for underdogs to slay dragons at this time, it would be more likely if Premier League teams and Premier League teams meet in the third round of the FA Cup.

In this season's League Cup, Manchester City's luck is not bad, they didn't meet a strong team until they met Tottenham, and the previous encounters were basically low-level teams, which made Manchester City easily enter the semi-finals, and Manchester City's luck began to decline in the FA Cup, in the third round, the first time they participated in the FA Cup, Manchester City met West Ham United, also from the Premier League.

This team was the first team Dick beat in the Premier League, but Dick was unlikely to be as important in the FA Cup as he was in the league, so he fielded the vast majority of his substitutes in this game, and in the end Manchester City failed to win the game, as they drew 0-0 away at West Ham United and the second leg of the replay was set to take place two weeks later.

For the FA Cup, Dick doesn't particularly care, mainly because this game is very dragging, and there is no League Cup to play, so although he has to play one more make-up match, Dick doesn't care, it's a big deal to let the substitutes continue to play, if they can win, they can win, and if they can't win, forget it, the League Cup and the league are what he values more.

In this game, Dick let Torres play for 45 minutes, and it can be seen that Torres's game form is gradually recovering.

The FA Cup is not followed by the league, but the first leg of the League Cup semi-finals – the Premier League schedule tends to be chaotic because the FA Cup is always played on weekends, so there are often two cup competitions in turn.

In the next Carabao Cup semi-finals, Manchester City's opponent is Arsenal, and the first leg will be played at the Emirates Stadium, and the second leg will be the turn of the City Stadium.

Although Arsenal is now ranked first in the league, the position is not too secure, but Wenger also attaches great importance to the League Cup, after all, since the undefeated league championship in the 0304 season, Arsenal has never won a championship, there has been no championship for three years, and Wenger has begun to feel great pressure, leaving Henry this season, but Arsenal ushered in an explosive period, taking advantage of this momentum to win the League Cup first, which can also increase the morale of the team.

Arsene Wenger fielded all his squad in this game, and the two sides met for the first time this season with Arsenal winning at home, which was also City's first defeat of the season, and it is interesting to note that City's two defeats so far this season have been in London, one to Arsenal and one to Tottenham.

Dick also sent all his main forces, Torres started for the first time after recovering from injury and partnered with Ribery Di Natale, there is no home and away goals in the League Cup, and more goals must be scored in two legs than the opponent to win, so Dick did not use any reserved tactics in the game, but vigorously attacked Arsenal.

Arsenal's attack has always been gorgeous, and after Thierry Henry left this season, they began to play more openly, with Cesc Fabregas as the core, and launched an attack through fast passing, which made them quite good in this season, but Arsenal has always had a characteristic, that is, they performed well at the beginning of the season, gradually fell out of the team during the Christmas schedule, and then could even fall outside the fourth, and then turned into a four-four maniac in the last two months......

In the final analysis, the reason is that Arsenal's substitutes have always been not very powerful, and Wenger's tactics have changed relatively little, and it is easy to be touched by the opponent, so it is naturally easy to decline at the beginning of the second half of the season because the opponent is more familiar with Arsenal's tactics, the main state declines, and the substitutes cannot keep up, resulting in a decline in performance.

At this time, the state of the Arsenal players has begun to decline, playing three consecutive league games in the previous week, Arsenal's main players have also been dragged hard, in the first half they were able to occupy some advantages, and in the 37th minute relied on Van Persie's beautiful volley to open the scoring, but in the second half of the game was Manchester City in their own home dominance!

The frantic movement of the three midfielders caused Arsenal's passes to start to make mistakes frequently, while Franck Ribery's forced break down the flanks left Arsenal's two full-backs exhausted, plus Torres' confrontation in the box and Di Natale's wandering...... Arsenal's defence began to slowly become loose, and there were constant openings......

In the 78th minute, Torres announced his return with such a goal!

Ribery forced a cross from the flank, Di Natale and Yaya Toure pressed forward for Arsenal's defence to recover a bit, but the ball drew an arc in the air and flew to the back post, and Torres, who followed up, jumped up on the run, then picked up his right foot in the air and accurately volleyed the falling ball!

The ball suddenly changed direction and flew into the net against the near post! Manchester City equalised in the second half!

It was the last goal of the game, and Torres shook his fist hard before snarling loudly.

Although Sturridge has performed well in previous games, and although Di Natale is City's current top scorer, Torres proved with such a crucial goal in a crucial game that he is still the most reliable striker under Dick!

The value of a top star lies in this! Their fame is created by such a highlight performance one after another!

'Fernando Torres is the best striker, at least in my opinion.

Dick commented in the post-game press conference that although this is a bit big, it is normal for a manager to support his players like this, and everyone will not take it seriously, even the players themselves will only be grateful rather than feel that they are really the top players......

However, after saying this, Torres's previously somewhat bleak fame was hyped up again, and the media began to talk about the return of the standard king, ignoring the existence of other strikers for a while.

Most strikers don't care about this, but there is one person who is not happy, that is, Arsenal's current striker Adebayor, this striker has been with Arsenal for several years, but he was used as a substitute before, and after being the main player this season, he began to score a series of goals, which also made Arsenal's results better than before, and many media are praising his performance, thinking that he has begun to replace Henry's role......

In such a situation, Adebayo's self-confidence is inevitably a little inflated, while enjoying the media touting, he also feels that he is now the Premier League's number one striker, but after this game, people began to praise Torres, Adebayo suddenly felt unhappy, so he decided to find a way to make himself the focus again.

'Arsenal are the strongest this season and we will definitely win the league title and I'm going to go for the top scorer this season.'

In an interview, Adebayo said with confidence that such words are not a big deal, after all, this is also a good way to boost morale, especially now that Arsenal is ranked first in the league and does not have too many advantages, this can undoubtedly boost the morale of the whole team.

But the mistake is the mistake, and the reporter asked casually: "What if you can't win the league championship?" Manchester United and Manchester City have been in excellent form this season, and Chelsea and Liverpool have recently started to return to form, and the competition for the league title this season has never been more intense......

"If Arsenal don't win the league title, then I'll be retiring at the end of the season!" Adebayo replied loudly.

These words immediately shocked the reporter, and repeatedly asked Adebayo, who said that this is the emotion I want to express! So the reporter published this interview in the newspaper......

Sure enough, the entire Premier League was a sensation, and countless reporters came to interview Adebayo, which made Adebayo shine a bit.

"This idiot." Dick couldn't help but laugh dumbly when he heard the news, this guy really did it, Dick vaguely remembers that after Arsenal didn't win the league championship this season in history, Adebayo directly took this oath as a fart, and in order to divert his attention, he also said that he wanted to transfer to a team that could win the league championship......

"If Arsenal don't win the title, will he really retire?" Marriner asked, confused.

"Hell it would be hellish for him to retire and Wenger would indulge such a player." Dick said casually.

In Dick's view, sometimes Wenger is too soft, Adebayo threatened, he really increased Adebayo's salary, to 80,000 pounds a week, but Adebayo was still not satisfied, and finally joined Manchester City, and after scoring a goal in the game against Arsenal, he directly knelt under the stands occupied by Arsenal fans to celebrate the provocation......

If Dick is replaced, he will be directly sent to the reserve team, let him be honest, and then throw himself into the transfer market at the end of the season, and if he is not worth enough, he will not let go, and he will just wait until the end of the contract and let him go......

However, since Adebayor is not his player, he naturally doesn't bother to care, and he has won two consecutive cup games, which has not had much impact on Manchester City's preparations, and then Manchester City's short-term goal is the League Cup, the long-term goal is the league title, as for the FA Cup, it is not the most important game yet.

Next, Manchester City will usher in the 22nd round of the game, going to Liverpool to challenge Liverpool's other team, Everton, now the top three points are more entangled, for Manchester City, any league game is not to be lost, Dick does not want to have his record of winning the league every season, in the Premier League.