In midweek, Arsenal's away game against Manchester City kicked off.

Although both teams played three days ago, they also fielded all the main players they could in this game.

It's a no-play game for both teams.

Glory and this Arsenal team can also be regarded as old rivals.

The feud between him and Arsenal is well known.

Anyway, every time Arsenal fans see glory, their eyes are in a state of fire.

Since Glory arrived at Manchester City, Arsenal have struggled to keep their fourth place in the league every year, let alone the title they dream of.

The record was also broken by Manchester City, and the new record continues to this day.

If Arsenal can bring an end to Manchester City's new record, it will also be able to calm the resentment in the hearts of Arsenal fans a little.

But in fact, except for Arsenal's own fans, the vast majority of people are not optimistic that Arsenal can beat Manchester City away from home.

Even if Manchester City have been a little tired lately.

Arsenal's current strength has dropped a lot from before, and they are not in good form this season due to injuries in their squad.

Otherwise, they wouldn't have finished sixth after the league was halfway through......

When the game began, Manchester City put on a counter-attacking posture on their home turf, while Arsenal continued their attacking football.

These two teams can be regarded as a pair of needles, and the tactics are very targeted.

Arsenal use super ball control ability to prevent Manchester City's counterattack, and try to control the football as much as possible on their side, which can reduce the chances of Manchester City's counterattack.

So in the game, Arsenal's possession rate was as high as 69 percent, and the possession rate was almost 70 percent......

However, it didn't help.

For a team like Manchester City, possession is not a hard indicator for them, and it doesn't matter if the possession rate is high or low.

Anyway, they are also playing defensive counterattacks.

The first half was a draw, Arsenal were fierce in attack and had a high rate of possession, and it was clear that they had prepared seriously and really wanted to win Manchester City away from home.

But the lack of a goal in the first half made all those previous attacks meaningless.

The half-time break gave City a breather and interrupted Arsenal's good rhythm in the first half.

Sure enough, just after the start of the second half, Manchester City took the lead in scoring.

It was Kaka who scored this time.

His long-range shot from outside the box broke Szczesny's 10-finger mark.

The long-range shot came suddenly, and when Kaka received the ball at the edge of the box, he didn't make any preparations to shoot, and he was still looking up and watching, as if he was going to pass the ball out.

As a result, as soon as he lowered his head, he picked up his right foot and shot at goal.

Because of the suddenness of the shot, neither Szczesny nor Arsenal's defenders reacted.

The football just flew in.

"Kaka! Kaka! Nice long shot! This is Kaka's thirteenth league goal of the season! This is already the fourth best result in his career! The 2008-2009 season was Kaka's top league goal in a single season, scoring 16 goals in 31 league appearances for AC Milan, while in 2007-2008 Kaka made 30 league appearances and scored 15 goals, followed by 2005-2006 with 35 league appearances and 14 goals. Now that Kaka is at Manchester City, the league has only played twenty-four rounds, and he has scored thirteen goals! The season is not over yet, he still has a chance to continue scoring goals, and with his current form, he has a good chance of achieving the best result of his career in his first season at Manchester City! ”

"Thirteen goals are also fourth in the current league scorers' charts, tied with Wayne Rooney. And Rooney's thirteen goals had a penalty, but Kaka's thirteen goals at Manchester City were none of them. That's pretty great for Kaka. Because although he scored a lot of goals at AC Milan, many of them were penalties...... Thirteen goals, for a midfielder, it's not easy. You must know that the top scorers in the league are all strikers except for him......"

"Looking at it now, I don't think anyone can deny that Kaka chose to leave Real Madrid and move to Manchester City, which was the right decision. At Manchester City, he has a lot of trust and the chemistry between him and his team-mates makes him feel like he should have come to Manchester City a long time ago......

“…… But I think there will still be many people who wonder why Kaka was suddenly reborn...... Just one summer, why is Kaka so much worse in Real Madrid's table and Manchester City's table...... Of course, we can say that it is because Kaka got rid of the effects of the injury, but why and how did he get rid of it...... Nobody knows. ”

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After Manchester City took the lead, Arsenal didn't give up.

In the 66th minute, they equalised.

The goal was scored by Arsenal's striker and team's top scorer Robin van Persie.

It was his twentieth league goal of the season.

With 20 goals to his name, he is currently the second highest scorer in the league.

There is no suspense in the first place in the scorer list, of course, it is honorable.

Glory has scored twenty-four goals in twenty-four league games, a goal rate of exactly one goal per game.

However, he has yet to score in this game.

He scored goals very quickly.

In the 70th minute, just four minutes after Van Persie's equaliser, after receiving a pass from Kaka outside the penalty area, Rong Guang first made a long-range move, and the deceived Arsenal defender jumped up to block the shot with his back and turned around.

Rongguang buckled the football and rushed into the penalty area.

His entry into the penalty area was like a dragon breaking into a lake, and immediately set off a huge wave and rampaged through the Arsenal penalty area, causing a mess in the Arsenal penalty area.

Glory first broke to the left, faced the Arsenal defenders who were chasing him, he made a sharp stop, then changed to the right, and then accelerated the ball to get the ball away from the fallen goalkeeper Szczesny, jumped past the goalkeeper and caught up with the football.

Then the ball was pushed into the empty net.

The ball is in!

“2：1！ Manchester City are ahead again! Rong tossed and turned in the Arsenal penalty area, it was like entering no man's land! No one can stop him! Twenty-five league goals! Rong continues to top the league's scorer charts. In fact, there is no suspense in the scorer list every year, and even Van Persie has no way to compete with him......"

"Van Persie probably doesn't see Rong as an opponent, does he? Ha! Alan Hansen quipped.

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The game continued, but neither team was able to score again in the following games.

In the end, thanks to goals from Kaka and Glory, Manchester City beat Arsenal 2-1 at home.

The result is bad for Arsenal but they have to accept it.

It's also bad for Manchester United.

In this way, Manchester City are five points ahead of them.

In the next round of the league, Manchester United will challenge Liverpool away, which is a very difficult game to play.

Because it's the "England National Derby".

But whether United want to accept it or not, this is already happening, and now is not the time to complain about Arsenal's lack of performance, but to focus on the next games.

If Manchester United lose to Liverpool and Manchester City win against Aston Villa.

Then the gap between the two sides will be further widened.

In this case, the situation of last season will be repeated.

Last season, Manchester United also took advantage of the glory of going to the Asian Cup in January to close the gap between Manchester City and Manchester City.

It looks promising to overtake Manchester City.

But then, when the glory returned, Manchester City slowly widened the gap between Manchester and Manchester United. In the end, in the direct dialogue between the two teams, Manchester United lost the team and completely lost the hope of competing for the title.

In the 25th round of the league, the first game is Manchester United's home match against Liverpool.

The final game of this round of league games is Manchester City's away game against Aston Villa.

The two teams have one head and one tail.

Manchester United were the first to take on 11 February, hosting Liverpool.

In the end, Manchester United beat Liverpool 2-1 at home thanks to a brace from Wayne Rooney at the start of the second half. Got the vital three points!

Now, with the Manchester City game still in play, Manchester United and Manchester City are only two points apart.

A day later, Manchester City's away game against Aston Villa kicked off.

Only one goal was scored in the game, scored by Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who headed the ball into the net from a corner.

It was also his seventeenth goal in the league.

With his goal, Manchester City beat Aston Villa 1-0 away.

It wasn't pretty, there was some element of luck in winning, but in any case, getting three points is the main goal for City at the moment, with United pressing on the ground.

After this game, Manchester City will have to prepare for the Champions League quarter-final against Lyon.

As the defending champion, it is only from the knockout round that he has officially embarked on the road to defending his title.

The Champions League knockout stage and the group stage are two different competitions entirely, and you will find that teams with a poor group stage table tend to perform well in the knockout stage, while those teams with a very good group stage table and a lot of form may fall in form in the knockout stage.

The two-month time gap between the group stage and the knockout stage also adds a number of variables.

This makes the Champions League knockout rounds look more like an exciting adventure.