1396 The difficulty of defending the country
The third round of the Premier League is over.
Manchester United and Manchester City have won three in a row to lead the table with nine points.
Chelsea have two wins and one draw to take seven points.
Defending champions Liverpool have 6 points.
Arsenal got off to their worst start in Premier League history, with just one point from a three-game winless run.
After Arsenal conceded 15 goals in two rounds, Arsenal's season goal, which has no Champions League mission, was automatically downgraded by Fleet Street: from the title to the fourth!
The draw for the Champions League for the new season took place in Zurich.
Defending champions Liverpool were placed in a group that was not too challenging.
Liverpool, Marseille, Borussia Dortmund, Olympiacos.
On September 1, the transfer market in European football was officially closed.
The summer transfer operations of the Premier League's major clubs have also settled.
The Red Devils have been in the transfer market since the start of the league campaign, and they are the same as Liverpool, with no further changes to their squad being finalised early.
Manchester City, after bringing in Sergio Aguero, managed to take Arsenal's Nasri, and failed to break the 100 million euro mark for the first time in recent summer signings, but it was only 8 million euros short.
Chelsea were a little late in the transfer market, and after failing to win Modric, the Blues successfully brought in Juan Mata, plus locked in a new generation of monsters, Romelu Lukaku, and the first to bring in Merreles, the Blues have improved the strength of the Chelsea squad a lot.
The worst was Arsenal.
In the summer went Fabregas, Nasri, Klich and other important stars.
Arsene Wenger made frequent strikes the day before the transfer market closed after two heavy defeats in a row, Mikel Arteta. Park Joo-young. Mertesacker. Santos, Arsenal spent almost £30 million on the last day of the transfer market!
With all fronts replenished, Arsenal can at least alleviate the dilemma of being overstretched
Qin Xiong returned to China and recuperated directly at the Xianghe Training Base of the National Men's Football Team.
The Chinese team represented Asia in the last World Cup and directly qualified for the third round of the Asian qualifiers for the World Cup in Brazil, and after the first two rounds, the top 20 of the Asian qualifiers arrived.
China, Jordan. Singapore and Iraq are in the same group, and the top two teams in the group qualify for the last 10.
In the first match against Singapore, the Chinese team was waiting for Singapore's arrival at the home stadium of the Kunming national team.
Qin Xiong did not travel with the team, he waited for the results in Beijing and then packed up for the second game of the group stage in a few days.
The Chinese team led by Gao Hongbo made a big splash at home in Kunming, and Singapore's strength was not worth mentioning, and the Chinese team won easily 3-0 at home.
After winning this game, the Chinese team went to Jordan.
Qin Xiong made a comeback, wore the captain's armband and led the team to a showdown with Jordan away from home.
Qin Xiong joined the team. The combat effectiveness of the Chinese team has skyrocketed.
The Jordanians were not able to resist for long at home, and the Chinese team won 2-0 away thanks to goals from Qin Xiong and Gao Lin.
The Chinese team, which won both games, is in a good situation to advance. As long as you play the next back-to-back games with Iraq, you will basically lock in the qualifying places.
Qin Xiong only played 60 minutes against Jordan, and Gao Hongbo does not want Qin Xiong to be plagued by injuries in recent times.
Qin Xiong, who has recovered his health, has returned to Liverpool.
The fourth round of the Premier League is coming as scheduled.
Defending champions Liverpool travel to Stoke City.
Stoke City, who were in full swing, used foul and lethal tactics to allow Liverpool to walk away from home to a 1-1 draw.
Commenting on the game after the game, Koeman said: "The current situation is a bit frustrating, even at their home stadium, many teams in the Premier League will do their best against Liverpool, they don't care about the feelings of the fans, just to get points from Liverpool, even if it is 1 point, it will make them excited as if they won the championship, we can only express helplessness, who makes Liverpool the strongest team? Too many teams are targeting us. ”
Reporters grabbed the mistake of goalkeeper Reina in the game and gave a big gift to make it difficult for Koeman.
Koeman defended his disciple as soon as possible and defended Reina.
'The goalkeeper has to concentrate in 90 minutes, but our opponents maybe only have one or two in 90 minutes, Stoke had only three shots on goal today and they scored a goal, Reina did make a mistake but I don't think it represents his quality, he could have done better, that's the end of the story, Reina is one of those we absolutely trust."
Koeman's depression didn't come out of nowhere.
In his first season in charge of Liverpool, the game was good!
At least the game is open and there are a lot of opportunities.
Because Liverpool has not won a title for many years, it will not be wary of opponents.
But in the second season, more than half of the Premier League teams have used heavy defence against Liverpool.
But it also depends on the situation.
Once Liverpool knock on the opponent's goal to take the lead, the opponent will change their tactical strategy to try to fight back, and the more they counterattack, the more holes in the opponent's backline will be, and Liverpool will be able to score more goals.
But to this season.
The situation has become very different.
A lot of opponents don't have the ambition to win.
They think that if they can hold Liverpool to a draw, one point will be a victory.
Even if they can't win, they can win with less loss and avoid being slaughtered by Liverpool to make headlines, which also gives them peace of mind.
This leads to the fact that when Liverpool faces middle and lower teams, the opponent not only puts up an iron bucket formation, but also uses lethal tactics to deal with Liverpool whether home or away.
In such a situation, it would be strange if Coman was not depressed!
The rest of the Premier League's fourth round has been sluggish.
Manchester United thrashed Bolton Wanderers 5-0 away from home, and the Red Devils followed up with an 8-2 slaughter of Arsenal in the previous round.
Manchester City beat Wigan Athletic 3-0 at home, and Mancini seems to have shaped Manchester City and gradually showed its terrifying power.
Chelsea beat Black Cats Sunderland 2-1 at the Stadium of Light and Villas-Boas's side won three league games in a row and everything looked so rosy.
Arsenal have finally picked up their first win of the new season after a frenzied rush.
After beating Swansea 1-0 at the Emirates Stadium, Arsene Wenger claimed that things would get better little by little and there were now signs of a recovery.
After four rounds, Manchester United and Manchester City are leading the standings with 12 points from four consecutive wins.
Chelsea are close with 10 points.
With just eight points, Liverpool look to have started to open up the gap between the Manchester City duo.
Arsenal's four points look unusually pitiful.
Just when Liverpool was preparing for the first round of the Champions League group stage, a sensational news was exposed on Fleet Street, which caused Qin Xiong to be affected and questioned by the outside world.
The Sun revealed the shocking news that a top player playing in the Premier League had tested positive in ******, and his identity would be officially revealed on Thursday night. (To be continued.) )