Time does not wait for anyone.

The start of the new Premier League season will not wait for all the teams to be ready, buy good people to adjust their condition, and it is impossible to bang gongs and drums to declare that today is a good day.

Manchester City, who have been in a mess after a series of warm-up games, picked an opponent at the beginning of the new season who is not a sign, although this team did not take much advantage of Manchester City last season.

This summer's Tottenham Hotspur still maintained their "thrifty housekeeping" strategy in the transfer market, signing French central defender Gallas for free from Arsenal, and then buying a piece of the "green" stone Sandro from Brazil's International, and then signing Croatian goalkeeper Pletikosa on loan from Spartak Moscow to make up for the goal-line position that has lost blood due to the expiration of two goalkeepers' contracts, which is all the current Tottenham Hotspur recruitment.

Judging from the personnel changes alone, Tottenham and Manchester City are half a catty. But in terms of form, Tottenham, which won all five games in the warm-up game, is undoubtedly more than one step better than Manchester City.

However, the warm-up game was not accurate.

On 14 August, the 2010/2011 Premier League season kicked off with Manchester City visiting London's White Hart Lane.

Unlike his "moderate" attitude in the Community Shield, Linson made it clear in this game that he wanted to take all three points. A good start is half the battle, and this applies to any football game, the team that scores first always has an advantage, but this sentence is not so applicable throughout the season, of course, everyone wants to get off to a good start.

Lin Sen is no exception.

But there are many factors that determine the game, tactics, players, form...... The manager's desire is probably the least influential of them. Who doesn't want to be victorious in the end? But there is only one winner, or rather, no winner, as in this one.

For more than a month, Linson has not been demanding on his team in terms of results. Because he knows that after a busy season and the World Cup, the players not only need to recover physically, but also mentally, and Linsen has been using his "plug-in" to adjust his team from time to time unconsciously.

Everyone knows the truth that it is easy to break and easy to break, but how to keep your team nervous enough and not overly nervous, this degree is not so easy to master.

A first-round win against Tottenham was not good news for Manchester City, but they faced the defending champions in the first round. It's unmistakably bad news for Tottenham. Redknapp, who squinted slightly and seemed to be in a state of insomnia all the time, had some of the conceit characteristic of the British, but by no means so conceited that he thought Tottenham could beat Manchester City lightly.

It is said that it is easy to go from thrift to luxury, and it is difficult to go from luxury to thrift. This year, Manchester City's performance in the transfer market is not only greater than the expectations of the English media, but also the expectations of many Premier League managers, including Redknapp, but this is definitely not a bad thing, and it can even be said that this is a mature team, and any team that has to bring in ten players every season is an immature team. Because this is tantamount to tearing down and rebuilding.

Therefore, Manchester City this season can only theoretically be more difficult to deal with than last season.

Just theoretically.

Facing the damn 442 that has made Linsen frown since last season, Linsen's Manchester City is still in huge trouble this game. It was mainly offensive trouble, and in the end we had to shake hands with the opponent, and the score was a dull 0-0.

It's not a good start, but it's not a black start either. It's not a big deal. But it's not a lose-lose situation. Liverpool and Arsenal, who were in the same troubles as Manchester City in the first round, also shook hands and other than that. Both Manchester United and Chelsea got off to a good start and won beautifully, 4-0 and 6-0......

The defending champions got off to a bad start, but no one thought there was anything wrong with City, with ups and downs in form, as is the case.

Sure enough, in the second round of the league a week later, Manchester City welcomed Liverpool's challenge at home, and as a result, Manchester City defeated Liverpool with a score of 3-0 in the bursting city stadium.

A big victory seems to have made Manchester City suddenly find the confidence of the defending champions again.

Manchester City fans who leave the city stadium can start the new week with a good mood, and the media in England have also begun to use "familiar Manchester City" to praise Manchester City's cousin in this game, especially the protagonist of this game, Suarez, who scored two goals and is in absolute pole position in the competition for strikers. The icing on the cake is Yaya Toure's only wish this season.

It was a perfect win.

Even Lin Sen thinks so-

On August 26, in Monte Carlo, Monaco, a draw was taking place that caught the attention of the entire European football world: the draw for the group stage of the Champions League for the 10/11 season.

Linsen did not appear on the scene, and the manager Gary Cook and football director Marwood were present on behalf of Manchester City, because this year's Champions League final was held at Wembley Stadium in England, so England legend Lineker assisted in the draw ceremony as a guest, and the person in charge of the draw was the best players in last season's Champions League selected between the various grades, of course, these selections have nothing to do with Manchester City.

The 32 teams drawn for the Champions League group stage are made up of 22 teams that qualify directly for the group stage and 10 teams that have passed the qualifying round. All teams are divided into four tiers according to European points, and the avoidance principle is no longer in detail, and the order of home and away games is determined after the draw. Pot 1 is seeded and includes Inter Milan, Barcelona, Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal, Bayern Munich, AC Milan and Lyon. In the second pot, there are Bremen, Real Madrid, Roma, Shakhtar Donetsk, Benfica, Valencia, Marseille and Panathinaikos. The third pot of Manchester City also includes Glasgow Rangers, Ajax, Schalke, Basel, Braga, Copenhagen, Spartak Moscow, and the fourth pot is basically cannon fodder, such as Harpoel Tel Aviv, a team whose name is not even familiar to many fans.

As in last season, Linson sat in the conference room to watch the draw ceremony with Tang Hua and Dina, and there was one more person, Brian Kidd.

Inter goalkeeper Cesar, who won the best goalkeeper, was the first to deal the cards to the seeded team, and this round was destined to be nothing to look forward to, and when McConn, who won the best defender, started to draw the second pot, the interesting things began to happen. First of all, Valencia was first drawn out of Group C with Manchester United, and then Real Madrid, which was "unfortunately" relegated to Pot 2, crashed into Serie A giants AC Milan, and after Roma was drawn to Group E and Bayern Munich in the Bundesliga, the draw for Pot 2 was nothing to watch. Because, without a doubt, Group C with Manchester United and Valencia, Group E with Roma and Bayern, Group G with Real Madrid and AC Milan are not groups that any team in Pot 3 wants to be drawn into.

"Nervous, isn't it?" Watching Sneijder on the screen accept the award for best midfielder, Dina's eyes were withdrawn from the screen, and she glanced at Lin Sen, whose face was sinking like water, and smiled.

Lin Sen rolled his eyes.

Nervous? Of course nervous, how can you not be nervous.

Although Manchester City is unlikely to be drawn from Group C with Manchester United due to the principle of avoidance by the same country, it is still possible that Manchester City will be drawn from Group E and Group G, especially Group G. The name Death Group is not enough to describe the cruelty of this group, it can be called a hell group.

Of course, probability is probability, if it is really probability, Lin Sen also admits it, the problem is afraid that it is not probability.

After the Champions League draw every year, there will be some "noise", most of these "noises" come from some "coincidences", such as Chelsea and Barcelona can always coincidentally collide together in previous years, the draw seems fair, but if you look at it from the standpoint of UEFA, you will find that every draw result is the result that UEFA wants to see the most.

Manchester City, which spent 200 million last year, is undoubtedly a "thorn" in the eyes of UEFA, although Manchester City has "learned" this summer and temporarily made a profit in the transfer market, but don't forget that Manchester City's overall financial situation is still in UEFA's "blacklist".

Manchester City FC did not give Linsen any burden in the Champions League this season, did not ask to enter the semi-finals, quarterfinals, or even group qualification, the only goal is to take out a good table in the Champions League, and replace it with a more familiar statement for domestic fans, that is, to play with spirit, a bit similar to the so-called 02 World Cup Chinese team to score a goal and win a game. Of course, Lin Sen never wanted Manchester City to repeat the mistakes of the Chinese team back then.

He is determined to make a difference in the Champions League, and he does not have a lofty goal to win the championship, but qualifying is a must, but Lin Sen does not think that Manchester City can be like last season in the Europa League, meet the gods and kill the demons, the group has not yet drawn lots to focus on the championship, the Champions League and the Europa League are two levels of competition, if you want to qualify, Lin Sen of course hopes that Manchester City can draw a good draw, it is best to avoid all the strong teams......

At this time, Sneijder took out the first ball, Glasgow Rangers were first drawn to Group C, together with Manchester United and Valencia, and then the Nordic powerhouse Copenhagen, it still went to the Group D and Barcelona team, the third goal, when Sneijder opened the ball and unfolded the note, whether it was Lin Sen, who seemed calm, or Dina, who seemed to care, couldn't help but hold his breath.

Manchester city. (To be continued......)