November 25th, De Cherorsch, The Netherlands.

Lin Sen, who was standing on the sidelines, looked a little ugly.

The curse of two consecutive wins seems to have haunted his team again, and now the game has reached stoppage time, but the score on the field is not the score he wanted.

Three to three.

If City can't score a fourth goal in the final three minutes, then City's two-game winning streak will come to an end, and it looks like the possibility is infinitely closer.

The opponent is FC Twente, and this is the fifth round of the Champions League group stage.

The last time they came to this stadium, Manchester City lost 1-3, and now it's 3-3, which seems to be a real improvement, but Linsen is not happy, because the situation is fundamentally different, last time, he had to, and this time, he came with confidence. Unfortunately, faith sometimes doesn't come into its own.

Group A's qualifying form has been very clear in the last round, as the second place in the group Manchester City, as long as this game does not lose, they can ignore the result of the other game and qualify, because the other game of Werder Bremen, Manchester City has an advantage in the relationship between victory and defeat, even if Werder Bremen wins the last two games, as long as Manchester City can get another point, in the same point situation, Manchester City is still ranked higher than Werder Bremen.

It's just that Linson doesn't just want to qualify, he also wants to have a final battle with Benitez in the final round to determine who is the top of the group, which means that Manchester City need to win this game to ensure that they have the "qualification" to compete for the top spot in the group, because if Manchester City travels and Inter wins, then the final round will be meaningless.

Now, with the outcome of another game unknown, Manchester City have taken matters into their own hands.

Of course, this qiē is not so much that Manchester City's table is too bad, but that Twente's table is too good.

Manchester City led the game three times. And Twente equalized three times, and even Linsen had to praise his opponent: what a tenacious team.

McLaren has reason to be proud that FC Twente have continued their good form from last season and are unbeaten in the league so far, although the draws have been so numerous that they have temporarily relegated to Ajax in the table. It's just that their luck in the Champions League is a little worse, although Group A is not the group of death, but because of the third pot squeezed into Manchester City, which is said to be the strongest in this category, it is obviously not a good thing for other teams.

Ahead of this match, both FC Twente and Werder Bremen were theoretically hopeful of a Zài appearance. Of course, the premise is harsh and they need to win all of their last two rounds, and City can't win yet. So, for this game, McLaren has no reservations, in the Eredivisie, who doesn't know that De Cherorsch Stadium is a devil's home, not only because of the fans here. It's also because FC Twente can always play at a super level here.

It's like this game.

In the final moments, Manchester City tried their best to fight back, but miracles don't happen every time, in the end. They had to settle for a 3-3 draw away from home to FC Twente.

Back in the locker room, Linson got a piece of good news and bad news.

The good news is that Inter Milan, who have already qualified early, lost 0-3 away to Werder Bremen, giving them their first Champions League victory. At the same time, the first suspense of this group is maintained until the end. The bad news is that David Silva, who went off injured in the game, looks to be in trouble. Because it was a recurrence of an old injury.

David Silva injured his left ankle, this part of the body he has always had chronic injury problems, speaking of this problem, but also back to his playing habits, unlike other players, when David Silva played as a child, he often refused to wrap the strap to protect his feet and ankles, it is said that this is his way to ensure the sense of the ball, but if this is said to be true, this may have created David Silva's superb ball skills, but it also brought troublesome problems.

Back in Manchester, David Silva's injury has also been given an exact recovery period, four weeks, or almost a month, which is still a conservative estimate. In this regard, Lin Sen is also a little helpless, because even if he is open, David Silva looks destined to be destined to make it in time for the final round of the group stage against Inter Milan on December 8.

In the next two rounds of the league, Linson experimented with two candidates in the position of Espanyol, one is the most orthodox plan, directly let Reus replace David Silva's position, but at this stage, the German's individual ability has been trained, but the frontcourt coordination ability has not yet reached the level of David Silva, which is evident in the fourteenth round of the game against Stoke City, normal game, Royce fell into a single battle most of the time, but it was precisely his goal in the opening stage of the second half, Gave Manchester City a victory.

In the 16th round of the game, Manchester City defeated the visiting Bolton Wanderers by three goals at home, and Linson adopted another plan, that is, to directly advance the position of Yaya Toure, which is based on Linsen's judgment of Toure in his memory, Yaya Toure, who has been impregnated in Barcelona's system for several seasons, has a good sense of forward, and the facts have proved that he does have the ability to do so, in this game, The Ivorian, who is still labeled as an orthodox midfielder, has transformed into a standard midfielder, making two passes and one shot in the game, dominating almost the entire game.

Another round of two wins in a row.

At this time, the Premier League's standings were turned upside down again.

First of all, the former leader Chelsea, is now no longer the leader, after two consecutive defeats, they finally stopped the losing streak, but unfortunately they still failed to win, but followed by a two-game draw. Two defeats and two draws against Sunderland, Birmingham, Newcastle and Everton, almost all of whom are currently in the top half of the league table, the price of "warmth" is huge, not only to wipe out the huge advantage they had accumulated at the beginning of the season, but also to hand over the top spot in the league table, when they were surpassed by Manchester City, who finally overtook them last season.

Nine wins, five draws, two losses, 32 points.

Just one point ahead of Chelsea.

However, although Manchester City has overtaken Chelsea, it is not Chelsea that they have replaced the leader, because before that, Manchester United, who beat Blackburn Rovers 7-1 at home in the 15th round, had already surpassed Chelsea to reach the top, only because the match against promoted Blackpool was postponed due to weather conditions, which gave Manchester City a chance to reach the top.

It is worth mentioning that for the sake of Blackpool's game, the old man even rotated the lineup in the previous League Cup quarterfinals, paid the price of losing 0-4 to West Ham United and was eliminated, and I don't know if Ferguson, who went to Blackpool in the northwest of England, cursed the damn weather all the way back to Manchester.

After half a year, Manchester City is back at the top of the table, although there is some element of luck, but thinking about the situation of Manchester City at the beginning of the season, as Martin Taylor jokes in his commentary on every round of the Premier League: Manchester City's hierarchy should be glad now, if they did sack Lin at that time, whether they have a chance to regret the decision I don't know, but Lin will definitely make them regret it.

Martin Taylor's "compliment" made Lin Sen, who watches this show every week, laugh dumbly.

He is not a cautious person, plus his performance in leading the team at that stage is really bad, frankly speaking, if he had to leave at that time, then, he has no reason to blame anyone, the football world does not pay attention to what will make up for the fault, especially the past credit, which is completely different from the situation of him leaving Atletico Madrid. Of course, regret is never something you want or don't want.

Moreover, Lin Sen didn't think that Manchester City, which is now ranked first, really reached the point of talking about "regret", but the situation is indeed much worse than at that time, not only the league, but also the Champions League has been qualified, and the event that is really lost is just a League Cup, but it is precisely because of the exit from the League Cup that Manchester City's response to the competition this season is no longer as hasty as last season, and it can even be said to be at ease.

There was no time left for Linsen to make a difference, and Manchester City welcomed their next opponent, Inter Milan. Since the two teams have already qualified from the group, there are only two suspense unrelated to the qualification of the remaining two games in Group A, one is Werder Bremen and FC Twente, who will play in the Europa League, and the other is Inter Milan and Manchester City, who will qualify as the group leader.

Before the game, Lin Sen deliberately took a look at the situation of the other groups in the entire Champions League group stage, all eight groups, except for Group H, there is still no team in advance, the other groups have already qualified for the team, and the teams that have been determined to be the first team in Group C are Manchester United in Group C, Barcelona in Group D, Bayern in Group E, Chelsea in Group F and Real Madrid in Group G.

Group B is currently Schalke and Lyon have qualified, but the situation is similar to Manchester City's Group A, it will take until the final round to determine who is the first, as for Group H, due to Arsenal's unexpected loss to Braga away in the last round, the group is in chaos, except for the Belgrade Partizan team who has lost five games and five times, the other three teams are likely to become the final group winners.

However, these two groups, no matter what the situation is, have not affected Linsen's judgment, according to the worst plan, if Manchester City loses to Inter Milan at home to qualify for the second place in the group, then, according to the rules of the knockout round, remove Inter Milan in the same group and Manchester United and Chelsea in the same country, Manchester City may meet Barcelona, Bayern, Real Madrid and the two teams in Group B and Group H.

Such a result, no matter how you look at it, Lin Sen can't be optimistic. If Manchester City can emerge as group winners, Manchester City's likely opponents are Valencia, Copenhagen, Roma, Marseille and AC Milan......

Then, and then Lin Sen said to himself, give a reason not to live with Inter Milan in this game? (To be continued......)