So after this round of the Champions League group ended, Manchester City focused on the Champions League and the Champions League, while Manchester United focused on the league and the Champions League.

The experts' analysis is clear and clear, and people have to believe it.

But in the next league, everyone saw no sign of that.

Because in the first league game after the Champions League, Manchester City's table is even better than Manchester United......

Manchester United beat Norwich 2-0 at home, while Manchester City swept away Blackburn Rovers 4-0 away!

Both teams are level on points, but this time, Manchester City have overtaken Manchester United on goal difference and moved into the top of the league table.

In seven league games, Manchester City have scored 25 goals and conceded only four, with a goal difference of 21. Manchester United, on the other hand, scored 24 goals and conceded five, with a goal difference of 19.

The experts who had previously sworn that Manchester City did not value the league and the Champions League were slapped in the face in minutes......

Manchester City, who don't pay attention to the league, can still be ranked first in the league, doesn't this in turn show that the competitiveness of the Premier League has decreased now?

So immediately after this game, some experts changed their words, saying that Manchester City must have seen the current public opinion, so they paid attention to the league again......

Such a statement is also enough to forcibly save the sense of zài. It's as if the experts manipulated City's every move, and whatever they say, City will do the same......

But City don't have the time to compete with the experts.

They simply ignored it.

Anyway, if they don't pay attention to the league, they just know it in their own hearts.

If the opposition thinks they really don't take the league seriously, that's a good thing, and they can beat all their league opponents as easily as they did with a 4-0 win over Blackburn.

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After the game against Blackburn, the league is temporarily suspended again.

Because the national team break is here again.

Rong Guang left Manchester and rushed back to China to prepare for the match against Iraq.

This game is very important for the Chinese team. If China wants to qualify from this group and qualify for the top 10, they will have to beat Iraq.

Iraq is the strongest opponent that the Chinese team can face in this group.

But in fact, people are not too worried about the outcome.

Because today's Iraq is no longer the Iraq that won the Asian Cup that year, and today's Chinese team is no longer the Chinese team of the year.

Before the Asian Cup at the beginning of this year, the Chinese team played a warm-up match with Iraq, and the Chinese team won easily.

Later, in the Asian Cup, the two teams were not able to meet. However, the Chinese team went to the end and won the Asian Cup, while Iraq was eliminated early, which can be regarded as a reflection of the difference in strength between the two teams.

Besides, this time it's still a home game.

Chinese fans are not worried that the team will lose the game.

However, the real situation is not what the Chinese fans expected.

Iraq is quite tenacious in the away table xiàn.

After the long journey, Gao Lin's condition was not very good, and the players of the other Chinese teams were not very good.

Under such circumstances, the Chinese team did not break the deadlock until the 68th minute, and it was the glory of the goal.

Subsequently, Rongguang scored another goal in the 86th minute to help the Chinese team defeat Iraq with a score of 2:0 and win the third consecutive game of the top 20.

After three rounds of group play, China is far ahead of its opponents with nine points, and Jordan is in second place with six points.

If this continues, the Chinese team has a very good hope of advancing to the top 10.

This result also made the Chinese fans in China happy.

You must know that since the 2002 World Cup, the level of Chinese football has plummeted, and it has not even been able to enter the top 10 matches in the final stage of the Asian qualifiers for the World Cup.

In the 2006 World Cup qualifiers in Germany, the Chinese team played match-fixing with West Asian teams in the top 20 matches, but in the end, because the number of goals was less, they didn't even win the match-fixing, and they were eliminated and failed to participate in the top 10.

The 2010 World Cup qualifiers were the most chaotic time for Chinese football, and the Chinese team also went home in the round of 20.

For two consecutive World Cups, it was eliminated without even playing in the final stage of the qualifiers, which is really unacceptable for dignified China.

Now, because of the addition of Glory, the Chinese team has also shown strong combat effectiveness, and they finally hope to participate in the top ten. However, Chinese fans have updated their goals, and now they don't just want the team to play in the top 10, they also want the Chinese team to reach the World Cup finals again after 2001.

And this time, it was not because Japan and South Korea were the hosts, but because the Asian region vacated two places, and it was not because Vice Chairman Zhang Jilong drew a good sign to enter the finals.

They hope that the Chinese team can rely on their own strength and undisputed to qualify from the Asian region, so that those with bad intentions can no longer find any excuse to attack Chinese football.

Looking at the current table of the Chinese team, they are full of confidence in this.

With the players in excellent form, the Chinese team as a whole is reassuring. And even if many players of the Chinese team are not in good shape, then they still have a second insurance glory, and as soon as the glory is exerted, all problems are solved.

In this way, the Chinese team is equivalent to having a double insurance of victory.

The fans of the Chinese team have never been so relieved for so many years as they have been this year.

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After the game against Iraq, Glory rushed back to Manchester without stopping, and the league and Champions League group stage were waiting for him.

Like a trapeze, Glory tirelessly flies from place to place, playing ninety minutes of intense competition, and then sets off again for another place.

It was a tough test of his fitness.

The media and fans are also very concerned about his physical condition, and the average player will lose his physical quality in this kind of high-intensity rush.

There are very few people who don't feel tired.

But Glory is the best of the few.

He really didn't feel tired at all.

Back in the league, Manchester City hosted Aston Villa, and many of the players who participated in the national team game were given a chance to rest, and Glory still started.

Of course, in addition to him, Manchester City's attacking trident was also not absent, Ibrahimovic, who participated in the Swedish national team competition, started, and Kaka, who still did not receive a national team call-up, also started.

In any case, as long as City play all three of them at the same time, victory is not too much of a problem.

Glory scored a goal, while Kaka scored a brace and Zlatan Ibrahimovic also had one.

'Kaka seems to be going to take out all his frustration about not being able to play for the national team in the league and the game was in excellent form...... 'John Mortensen said in his commentary on the game.

"yes. Kaka's performance at Manchester City is getting better and better, but Brazil's manager Andreas Pereira doesn't seem to see it...... Never recruit cards to join the team. Although this must be good news for Manchester City. But I guess the main purpose of Kaka's visit to Manchester City is to be able to re-select the Brazilian national team? Alan Hansen was also puzzled by Pereira's decision.

"Indeed...... Pereira's thoughts are really hard to guess, but it can be seen that Kaka was not very happy when he was substituted......

In the 81st minute, Kaka was replaced by James Milner.

Although he scored twice, Kaka did not have any happy expression on his face, and when he shook hands with Benitez and high-fived his opponents on the bench, the expression on his face looked calm and even a little gloomy.

Then he sat alone on the bench, burying his head and not saying a word.

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That night, there were ugly footage in the media of Kaka sitting on the bench without saying a word.

“…… Although he scored twice in the game, Kaka was still in a bad mood. Presumably because he was not selected for the Brazilian national team...... Since his move to Manchester City, Kaka has expressed his desire to return to the Brazilian national team on more than one occasion in public and said he would prove it to Pereira at the club. But now Kaka's performance is already very good, and he seems to be a different person. But Pereira still has no intention of recruiting him to the national team......"

For the media, it is natural to pursue a big news.

What an incredible thing it is that Kaka is doing so well now, but he can't get into the national team. Is there a contradiction between Kaka and Pereira?

Pereira was the head coach of the Brazilian national team at the 2006 World Cup, but the Brazilian national team he led did not do well, failing to reach the semi-finals and stop at the quarter-finals.

Kaka was in the team at the time.

Could it be that there was a conflict between the two people from that time?

But you've never heard of it before, huh?

Or is there a secret we don't know?

The speculation really excited the reporters, who were like bounty hunters who had found a treasure, desperately trying to find out the secret between Kaka and Pereira.

So they began to hype about Kaka's inability to be selected for the Brazilian national team, although this matter actually had nothing to do with the English media, but the English media stood up one after another and reported on it in a tone of grievance for Kaka. The words implied that Pereira had no eyes, and he would regret it sooner or later if he didn't sign the card!

However, in fact, the Brazilian national team led by Perez has already lost in the Copa America this summer. In the Copa America held in Argentina, it was neither the host Argentina nor Brazil that won the event, but Uruguay.

The Brazilian national team didn't even make it to the last four, and they were knocked out by Paraguay in their first game to reach the knockout round. Neither side was able to score in 90 minutes of play, and the extra time was still 0-0, and in the final penalty shootout, Brazil did not score a goal, and Paraguay eliminated Brazil with only two penalties.

It was a fiasco for Brazil.

Some English media took the Copa America as an incident, which meant that Pereira was stubborn, and his rhetoric was full of regret for Kaka and criticism of Pereira.

It's really a rhythm to stir things up, and if Pereira is unhappy with the criticism from the media, he may make some radical remarks against Kaka, and then Kaka will hit back again, and it will be hilarious......