Seeing that the overall situation was decided, Li Chengfeng began to make substitutions, and Coutinho came on to replace Silva. In the 75th minute, Fernandinho made a long pass, and Aguero fired a low left-footed shot into the far corner from 13 yards on the right side of the penalty area, 4-1. He has scored nine times in six games against Tottenham, and the last Manchester City player who played a quadruple was Dzeko, also against Tottenham. Tottenham is truly a tragedy.

City still had chances to score, and in the 88th minute, Coutinho crossed the ball and Milner curled a shot from the edge of the box that hit the post.

However, the score of 4:1 was enough to satisfy Li Chengfeng, and it would have been better if Vidal had not been injured. Vidal's injury is not optimistic, and he will have to rest for at least a month, which makes it even more difficult for Manchester City, who are already facing difficulties.

There is also good news that Suarez has finally lifted the ban. Suarez was fined heavily by FIFA for another bite at the World Cup, and was unable to play in any matches for four months. Soriano also wanted to sell Suarez for this reason, believing that the Uruguayan was too much of an impact on the team's image.

However, Li Chengfeng doesn't care about his image, he only cares about his own results, where can he find a replacement after selling the Uruguayan, and he can wait for Suarez to come back. Now it is finally time for him to lift the ban, and it has also eased the personnel crisis at Manchester City. After resting for four months, he was full of energy, and he was waiting to repay Li Chengfeng for his kindness.

The victory over Tottenham gave City a breather and the gap on Chelsea was reduced to six points, as they drew with Manchester United. The next round is the derby against Manchester United, and if Manchester City want to win the Premier League this season, they will have to win every league game and not continue to widen the gap with Chelsea.

The League Cup game was abandoned by Li Chengfeng, and now Manchester City cannot continue to fight on multiple fronts, and can only focus on the league and the Champions League, he just let Suarez play to find form, after all, he hasn't played for a few months, how can he kill so quickly.

The League Cup was eliminated, Li Chengfeng has nothing to regret, but he just gave up a burden, and the key is the next league with Manchester United.

Li Chengfeng is still confident in this game, and Van Gaal's Manchester United squad has natural flaws. He wanted to play possession-based tactics, but United's player set-up didn't support him to do that.

Van Gaal's possession tactics have three key points, one is that the forward position requires the ability to play the role of a fulcrum, and the ability to carry the ball with his back. And Manchester United's striker Falcao is based on the ability to grab points and seize opportunities, and the fulcrum ability is ordinary.

The other is the ability of defenders to play the ball, Manchester United also lacks such players, and Evans, who has the best ability to play the ball, is a defensive black hole. In addition to the key playmaker, Carrick has been on and off again this season. Van Gaal is a stubborn man again, what kind of performance can such Manchester United play? Isn't that xjbt.

There is nothing to be afraid of such Manchester United, just take advantage of the weaknesses and beat them hard, Manchester City have many players with strong individual ability who can impact Manchester United's defensive black hole.

The game was even easier than Li Chengfeng imagined, as United were sent off in the 39th minute, and Smalling was sent off for two yellow cards for a tackle on Milner. Defense is like this, if there is a problem in one link, the entire defense line needs to bear the consequences.

Milner's free-kick cross was missed by Kompany from close range.

In stoppage time of the half, Yaya Toure went down from 10 yards behind Rojo and the referee refused to award a penalty. For the sake of him sending off Manchester United, Li Chengfeng did not curse behind his back. But this game, he will definitely win.

At half-time, Li Chengfeng arranged for the team to strengthen the attack, and Manchester United also gave up the intention of attacking and concentrated on defense, but it took Manchester City a lot of effort to break their goal.

In the 56th minute, Milner took a corner kick and Aguero nodded the ball into Blind's hand, but referee Oliver missed the penalty again.

Li Chengfeng had the urge to curse again, but fortunately, Manchester City quickly scored a goal that calmed his mood. In the 63rd minute, Klich crossed from the left side of the penalty area, and the unguarded Suarez swept into the top corner of the net from 10 yards.

It wasn't until the 71st minute that United had their first threatening attack, when Robin van Persie cut through two men and fired from a tight angle on the right side of the box that Manuel Neuer blocked with his legs. It was also United's only chance for this game.

City came close to doubling their lead in the 75th minute when Yaya Toure crossed through and Neymar broke away from Luke Shaw into the six-yard box, where his shot from the right edge bounced off the near post. In the 91st minute, Fernandinho crossed from the right and Yaya Toure headed wide from the edge of the six-yard box.

Manchester City once again emerged victorious in the derby and were not left behind by Chelsea. But in the Champions League, Manchester City actually lost at home to CSKA Moscow.

At the beginning of the game, in the 2nd minute, CSKA Moscow won a free kick, and Dumbia took advantage of the free kick opportunity to grab the point and score, 0-1!

City started the game from behind at home, but soon equalised. In the 8th minute, Jovetic was fouled on the edge of the penalty area, Manchester City won a free kick, and Yaya Toure scored directly, 1-1!

The game returned to its familiar rhythm, with Manchester City attacking and the opposition defending on the counter-attack. However, now Manchester City are unable to play the pressing side of last season due to the form of the players, and have been unable to score goals in the face of CSKA Moscow's all-out defence.

In the 34th minute, Manchester City's defense made another mistake, and Nacho assisted Dumbia to grab a point and score, 1-2!

At half-time, Li Chengfeng was the first to make adjustments, and Manchester City were the first to make personnel changes, with Philippe Coutinho and Fernandinho coming on as substitutes for Luka Modric and Klos, and the team changed to 4-2-3-1. In the 54th minute, Yaya Toure burst into the box and fell, but the referee refused to award a penalty. In the 61st minute, Hazarneche took the ball and fired a powerful shot that was blocked by Akinfeev. In the 67th minute, Suarez received the ball and shot hard and was blocked by the defender.

It seemed that it was a matter of time before Manchester City pulled back the score, but the accident happened again, in the 69th minute, Fernandinho received a second yellow card for a defensive foul, two yellows and one red, and it was only more than 20 minutes before he came on the field. Not only that, in the 81st minute, Yaya Toure also got a red card for pushing the opposing player, and Manchester City could only respond with 9 men.

Even so, Manchester City still had a chance to equalize, and in the 89th minute, Suarez fell in the box and the referee considered a fake fall and showed a yellow card.

This is discrimination, it is clearly discrimination against Suarez, isn't it just a bite, why treat him as a bad person, everything is his fault.

When the final whistle blew, Manchester City were unable to salvage the defeat, losing 2-1 at home to CSKA Moscow, and also pushed themselves into a desperate situation. They will need to win their remaining two rounds to have any hope of qualifying, including a group top spot against Bayern Munich who have won all four of their matches. Even so, they still can't fully control their own destiny, and they have to look at the eyes of others, and the situation is very grim.

Not only that, but the defeat also hit Manchester City's morale, and in the next league against Queen's Park Rangers in the relegation zone, the dejected Manchester City also failed to win, and played a draw with the opponent, and the gap in the standings that was finally closed extended to 8 points.

This season's Manchester City is really unfavorable, the impact of the World Cup syndrome is much greater than Li Chengfeng imagined, and it is also because Manchester City's international players are many and strong, and the consumption is also the largest. Li Chengfeng used his prophetic preconception to wantonly poach people, and finally tasted the bitter fruit.

However, Li Chengfeng was still helpless, the national team match day came again, and Li Chengfeng could only watch his players leave, and the rest of the people couldn't even get together in groups. Damn it.

In contrast, Birmingham in the real world is much better, there was neither a World Series nor many internationals in Birmingham this year, and the impact was negligible. Now that Birmingham have qualified for the Europa League group ahead of schedule, and the league points are tightly clinging to the top six, there is still the possibility of going further.

It's that this record is like a roller coaster with ups and downs, and even those with bad hearts are unbearable. In the first 11 rounds of the league, 5 wins, 5 losses and 1 draw, 16 goals scored and 17 goals conceded, both the atypical victory of Manchester City 1:0 away, the classic game of 4:2 victory over Wolves at home, and the 0:3 defeat to Manchester United away, and the 3:5 goal battle with Arsenal at home.

Now that the possession tactics have been chosen, the team will inevitably need to be reformed, and shocks during the reform period will no longer be inevitable. However, to Li Chengfeng's relief, the individual ability of the players ensures the lower limit of the team, at least now it is quite stable. As long as the team is familiar with the new tactics, the team's results will only get better and better. Like Leeds United in the hands of Jokanovic.

After a period in charge, Jokanovic decided to change the formation to 3-5-2 and force the middle. It is no wonder that most of Li Chengfeng's money was spent on the middle players before, whether it is the thickness of the squad or the strength of the players, the players in the middle of Leeds United are stronger than the wings, especially the position of the two fullbacks, which is the weakest link of the team.

Jokanovic was able to make such a change is also a testament to his ability, and the team's results are steadily improving. Up to now, the score of 10 wins, 5 losses, 2 draws and 32 points has approached the upgrade zone, which makes Li Chengfeng very relieved that his money has not been spent in vain.

However, Jokanovic put forward a request to buy people, especially in the position of central defender, the gap between other players and several main players, Maguire, Orban, and Lascelles is relatively large, and once someone is injured, it is not easy to arrange. In addition, the two wing-back positions of the team need to be supplemented. Jerold Bowen and Karam Robinson are just too tender.

(End of chapter)

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