This is not the first time Manchester City have met Lyon in the Champions League, nor is it the first time that Glory has met Lyon in the Champions League.

Rongguang's first participation in the Champions League was when he was in Werder Bremen, and in the 2004-2005 season, also in the quarterfinals, Werder Bremen met Lyon.

At that time, Werder Bremen was considered a dark horse because of its appearance in the group stage.

At that time, Lyon was already the hegemon in the French league, and they had participated in the Champions League for a long time, which allowed them to accumulate rich experience in the Champions League, and their performance in the Champions League should not be underestimated.

As a result, Glory led Werder Bremen to 3:0 at home, 1:1 away, and eliminated the Ligue 1 hegemon with an aggregate score of 4:1.

Then in the quarter-finals, Rongguang was eliminated by AC Milan along with Werder Bremen.

It was Rongguang's first experience of the Champions League, as well as the knockout rounds of the Champions League.

Since then, he has started his path to domination in the Champions League.

Then, after moving to Manchester City, after helping Manchester City return to the Champions League after 40 years, Manchester City met Lyon again in the quarter-finals.

This time Manchester City beat Lyon 2-0 at home, 1-0 away and 3-0 on aggregate.

Glory has never lost against Lyon.

Four meetings with Lyon, he scored a total of four goals.

For the victory over Lyon, Glory has a lot of experience.

Maybe he didn't really know anything, because he didn't deliberately prepare anything for Leon as an opponent, he treated almost all opponents the same - you are my opponent, then I will defeat you.

Manchester City's first leg is away to Lyon, and for Lyon, they must win this game if they don't want to be knocked out of the tournament by Manchester City or glory.

Of course they know it's going to be difficult, especially with the state of Man City at the moment.

The first time they met Manchester City in the Champions League, they just had to hold on to one glory.

But now, they have to defend not only glory, but Ibrahimovic and Kaka.

This really stretched their defenses a little stretched......

But no matter what, they can only bite the bullet.

In fact, many teams across Europe don't want to meet Manchester City right now, because it's a headache.

In fact, when Lyon was called out to be with Manchester City during the draw for the Champions League last-16 ties, many managers of the other teams breathed a sigh of relief – they finally didn't have to meet them in the round of 16.

As for what to do next, they hadn't thought that much about it.

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In the away game against Lyon, Manchester City sent the strongest lineup, and all the main players, as long as they were not injured or sick, were played.

Lyon take it seriously, Manchester City take this game very seriously.

Maybe even more so than Lyon.

Benitez, of course, knows that City are in a tight competition in the league and have to fight on multiple fronts in the Carabao Cup and FA Cup.

So in order to be able to reduce the burden a little, the best way is to try to use one game to decide the winner in the two-legged home-and-away game, kill the suspense, and make the second leg of the game directly become a "warm-up game".

So in the first leg, even if it was Manchester City's away game, Benitez asked the players to give their all and win this game.

After the start of the game, Lyon launched a fierce attack on Manchester City with home advantage.

It's not that they don't know that City will play counter-attacking, but they have nothing else to do but attack.

If they don't attack, grinding slowly with Manchester City will be a dead end for them - Manchester City can accept a 0-0 draw on the road, but Lyon definitely can't accept being held to a 0-0 draw at home.

In such a situation, it is actually easy for Manchester City to play Lyon's counter-attack.

So in the 23rd minute, Manchester City threatened Lyon's goal again, and if it wasn't for Ibrahimovic's stabbing shot that slid out of the net, City would have taken the lead at that time.

However, Manchester City did not keep their supporters waiting long. Just eight minutes after Ibrahimovic's shot missed, in the thirty-first minute, Manchester City finally scored!

It wasn't the trident who scored, it was centre-back Godin. Taking advantage of a corner, he jumped up and threw the ball into the goal.

Godin's corner goal broke the deadlock for Manchester City and added excitement to the game.

After conceding the goal, Lyon's attack was even more ferocious.

The opposing side have an away goal and if they don't do something about it, it's really the end of it.

It's just that this frantic attack of Lyon did not achieve the effect they wanted.

Instead, before the end of the first half, Manchester City counterattacked and conceded again.

It was glory to score this time.

It was also his eighth goal in the Champions League this season.

Currently, it is temporarily ranked first in the Champions League scorer list.

As in the league scorers' charts, there is hardly anyone who feels that this place of glory can be taken away by someone else.

Last season's Messi threatened Glory, but in the final final, Glory completed the reversal with a hat trick.

Now Glory has long surpassed Raul in the Champions League's all-time scorer list and become the number one.

Judging by his age and form, he could hold the Champions League all-time record for the all-time scorer in the Champions League at a very high number over the course of his career, a record that may never be broken......

Including his goal against Lyon, the current glory is 84 Champions League goals, which is a full 13 goals more than Raul's record of 71 goals.

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After Glory's goal, Lyon looked flustered.

Thankfully, it didn't take long for the first half to end, otherwise they might have conceded three goals in the first half......

But it's about the same as probation.

It was just a fifteen-minute delay.

In the second half, the two sides changed sides and fought again, Manchester City's tactical strategy of defending and counter-attacking remained unchanged, and Lyon, who were two goals behind, had to attack again.

The result...... In the 69th minute, Kaka assisted David Silva to score in a quick counterattack, and Manchester City took a 3-0 lead!

“…… The suspense of this game has been completely lost...... Manchester City lead Lyon 3-0 away from home, and regardless of the win, it is enough to say that Manchester City have scored three away goals, which alone is enough to make the next leg out of suspense......

The commentators have said that there is no suspense in the next game, so Manchester City's attack is much slower than before.

But the slow pace does not mean that Manchester City will not play defensive counterattacks, as long as there is enough space behind the Lyon defense, I believe Manchester City will not be polite.

The slowdown is because Lyon don't dare to attack anymore, and now they are three goals behind, if they attack again, who knows how many goals they will concede by the end of the game?

Conceding too many goals and conceding too many goals will be a demoralizing blow to Lyon.

So Lyon's side decisively abandoned the idea of storming.

Lyon are not in a hurry, and Manchester City is not in a hurry.

They began to slowly maneuver with Leon.

At the same time, Benitez began to make substitutions, and he gradually replaced the main team and brought on the substitutes.

But the glory did not move.

Even if Kaka, David Silva and Zlatan Ibrahimovic all go down, as long as the glory is not moved, then Manchester City can still threaten Lyon with defensive counter-attacks.

This has been proven by the facts.

Compared to the three who went down, Leon was actually more afraid of glory.

So Glory has always stayed on the field, and Lyon has never dared to go to attack.

It wasn't until three minutes of stoppage time that they let go of their worries and launched an onslaught at Manchester City.

But against City's impregnable defence, their comeback was of little use.

In the end, Manchester City beat Lyon 3-0 away to claim their first win over two legs.

At the same time, they have three goal difference on the road.

Such a result led the media to say after the game that Lyon had been kicked out, and Manchester City became the first team to be confirmed to advance to the quarter-finals.

This statement hurt Lyon, but in the face of such a reality, Lyon's fans have nothing to say.

They themselves know in their hearts that with such a state of two teams, it is really difficult to expect Lyon to turn the tables on the road in the second leg......

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The Champions League is over and there is no league at the weekend, but an FA Cup match.

Manchester City, who eliminated Liverpool, met a very weak opponent this time, Brighton from the Championship.

To deal with this opponent, you don't even need to send all the main forces.

That's why Rafa Benitez rotated for this game, replacing most of the players who played in the Champions League in midweek.

Despite this, Manchester City, who were half-main and half-substitutes, beat Brighton 6-1 at home to complete a hat-trick in this game. With only three games in the FA Cup, Glory already has six goals, and with six goals, he is also temporarily the top scorer in the FA Cup.

Six days later, when the 26th round of the Premier League kicks off, the match between Manchester City and Blackburn Rovers will be postponed again because of the Carabao Cup title at Wembley Stadium on 24 February!

In addition, three days after this game, that is, on February 29, Rongguang will appear again in the Chinese team's home match against Jordan.

It was the final match of the World Cup Asian qualifiers round of 20.

Rongguang must finish the League Cup final, fly directly to China that night, and the 27th **** will arrive in China, and then there is no time to reverse jet lag, and it is impossible to adjust the state, so he will play directly in the national team game on the 29th.

After the game, they flew straight back to Manchester, England, for Manchester City's home league game against Bolton Wanderers on March 3.

It's a trapeze ......

Even for a person like Rongguang, such a toss makes people worry about his physical fitness and condition.