Carlos' goal, and the last.

6:0, Manchester City slaughtered Rangers at Manchester Stadium with six goals.

After this game, no one questioned Manchester City's status in Group E.

The four teams in Group E of the Champions League, including the Bundesliga, French Ligue 1, Premier League, and the Soviet Super League, after four rounds, Manchester City ranked first in the group with an absolute advantage of 3 wins and 1 draw, and they completely sat in the position of 'boss'.

The British media said happily after the game, "Manchester City's results also prove that the level of the English league far exceeds that of other leagues." ”

When the media says 'other leagues', they naturally mean Ligue 1, Bundesliga and the Soviet Super League, but they are happy to see the scope of the discourse, and they are even happier if everyone thinks that the Premier League has surpassed all the leagues, including Serie A and La Liga.

The 'ambiguity' in the media has nothing to do with Manchester City.

After the game, Wan Sheng came to the press conference with a smile on his face, and he didn't mind sprinkling a handful of salt on the wounds of the 'provocative' Glasgow Rangers.

"After this game, I want them to know that the Champions League is not a ...... for any team to play well"

Smith, who had just arrived at the venue, almost couldn't help but rush up to stage a 'press conference violence' when he heard Wan Sheng's words, but it was probably a measure of his body at the age of the previous year, and in the face of Wan Sheng, who was only 30 years old, he should only take his own humiliation, so he could only clench his fists and sit in his position without saying a word.

After that, when the media asked questions, he just said some 'official words', and he had no attitude of interview cooperation at all.

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In Group E, Manchester City occupy the top spot in the group, which is actually not a big deal.

At the end of the Champions League group stage draw, many thought Manchester City could be top of the group.

Manchester City were last season's Premier League champions, and the only place in Group E is Ligue 1 champions Lyon.

Bundesliga champion Stuttgart. It's not optimistic at all, many people think that Stuttgart can win the championship, more because of Bayern Munich's temporary chaos and decline after Ballack's departure, rather than because of how well Stuttgart performed, in other words, Stuttgart is still Stuttgart, even if they win the Bundesliga championship, the strength has not risen.

Sure enough, it was the same as the media speculated. Stuttgart's performance is ridiculously poor, after four rounds of the Champions League group stage, they have lost four consecutive games and accumulated 0 points, and have been eliminated early.

They became the first team to be eliminated from the Champions League group stage.

The German media expressed their opinion that Stuttgart's Champions League results have brought shame on German football, and the "Kicker" criticized that "the champion of the Bundesliga has reached the Champions League." Defeated in all four group rounds? Is this Stuttgart's bad performance, or is it the decline of German football? ”

The decline of German football is not to be talked about, and the "Bild" newspaper immediately expressed its opinion that the quality of German players is still good. For example, Manchester City has a young German genius Mesut Ozil, and the German national team has a lot of stars and talents in both the old squad and the youth army.

But in any case, Stuttgart's results. It still made the Germans feel very unhappy.

It is not surprising that the competition for Group E of the Champions League has been seen in the media throughout Europe.

The only thing that people didn't expect was the Glasgow Rangers.

Glasgow Rangers' record of 2 wins and 1 draw in the first three rounds is really very conspicuous. They even squeezed Ligue 1 giants Lyon into third place in the group.

However, after the fourth round, Rangers' form is not good again, they are still second in the group, but they are only one point advantage over Lyon.

Stuttgart 'send' two games in a row have already made Lyon's points look good.

Then we have to talk about Manchester City's big victory, in the face of the equally strong Glasgow Rangers, Manchester City played a 6-0 victory, which made the whole of Europe wary of Manchester City.

Everyone knows City are tough to play against, but this win really chilled many potential opponents, who were thinking that it would not be easy for their side to play against Rangers, and Manchester City showed excellent cooperation and technical ability in the game.

Italy's "Milan Sport" issued a vigilant voice, "We must face Manchester City!" ”

'AC Milan beat them head-on last season, but we can think of the San Siro game, where Manchester City were no worse than AC Milan and now they are better than last season.

'If our team meets Manchester City, you have to be careful, careful, and it's not easy to beat this Manchester City team.

"They are probably already the strongest contenders for the Champions League!"

A similar sentiment has been expressed in the Spanish media, who believe that Manchester City will be Barcelona's strongest rivals for the Champions League.

Not only the media, but also the adjustment of the odds of each team by European bookmakers to win the championship also proves this.

After Manchester City's match against Rangers, City's odds to win the title have been adjusted to be on par with Barcelona.

This proves that Manchester City are already favored by more people.

However, Wan Sheng was dismissive of the remarks of other national media, and when a reporter interviewed him, he said something that made the British media very happy, "I am very happy to see those foreign journalists who recognize our strength." But I think our biggest rival in the Champions League this season is from home, not from abroad. ”

This sentence made the British media feel good.

After analyzing Wansheng's words, many people came to a conclusion, that is, Wansheng believes that this season's Champions League will belong to English football, and it is difficult for giants in other countries, such as AC Milan and Barcelona, to achieve good results.

Although the media in other countries felt very unhappy after listening to Wan Sheng's words, they did not refute it immediately, the main reason is that several teams in the Premier League have performed quite well so far.

After four rounds of matches, Manchester United, Chelsea and Manchester City, all three teams are guaranteed a place in the round of 16.

So the British media began to make all kinds of reports, overwhelming the news of praise for their own teams, as if English football had ruled the world.

They have chosen to forget the poor results of the England national team in European Championship qualifying, with McLaren's side on the verge of being eliminated from European Championship qualifying.

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After playing the Champions League group stage against Rangers, it will be followed by the fourth round of the English League Cup, which is equivalent to the round of 16.

Manchester City's opponent is Bolton.

According to the format of the English League Cup, the top eight teams in the Premier League. It was only in the third round that they started to compete, so when it came to the round of 16, they would not face the top eight teams in the league, and Bolton Wanderers was not in the top eight of the league, but they were one of the strongest teams in the league.

Manchester City will meet Bolton Wanderers and it can be said that luck has not been great.

From Bolton's point of view, their luck was outrageously bad.

Now every team in the Premier League doesn't want to meet Manchester City because Manchester City is so strong, as The Sun commented, "If any team can beat Manchester City." That's definitely big news, even in the League Cup! ”

Few expected Bolton to beat Manchester City.

Even Bolton didn't think about it, in fact, they were not in the mood to go head-to-head with Manchester City because of their ridiculously poor results in the league, winning just one of the first 12 league games, drawing four and losing the rest of the games.

Bolton Wanderers are not as strong as they were in the previous two seasons. They are at the bottom of the league and need to work hard for relegation.

So when they meet Manchester City in the Carabao Cup, they don't want to fight for it, it doesn't do them any good.

So the result of the game can be imagined.

This is despite the fact that Wansheng employs a massive rotation. However, in the end, Manchester City won 2-0 away at Bolton Wanderers and successfully qualified for the quarter-finals of the League Cup.

The League Cup is followed by the thirteenth round of the league.

Manchester City's opponent is Portsmouth.

Approaching the start of the game, Wansheng did not do anything to prepare.

As a manager. If you want to lead the team to the championship, you have to have a long-term strategy, and then it will be until Christmas. Manchester City are only playing against smaller clubs, and Manchester City will have to set short-term goals.

"Our goal is to open as many gaps in the league as possible before Christmas!"

After gathering all the team members, Wan Sheng said seriously, "We have a good schedule for the next period of time, so we need to take the league more seriously and try to get more points at this stage, so that we can be relaxed after Christmas." ”

"None of you want us to be overwhelmed by the busy schedule, do you? I think, yes, nobody wants that, the lessons of last year are still fresh in our minds, and I want people to be able to concentrate and try to play every round as well as possible, and I hope that by Christmas the media will say, 'There's no suspense about winning the Premier League'. ”

If the outside media heard Wansheng's words, they would definitely be shocked, this young Chinese actually wanted to open the points gap before Christmas?

But the Manchester City players feel nothing, and after analyzing the next fixtures of Manchester City, they will also know why Wan Sheng said this.

In the thirteenth round of the Premier League, Manchester City's opponent is Portsmouth, and then they will face Reading who are in relegation state.

In the fifteenth round, Manchester City ushered in last season's relegation team Wigan Athletic.

Portsmouth, Reading, Wigan Athletic, all three are difficult to pose a threat to Manchester City.

Then there is Tottenham Hotspur, Tottenham Hotspur is good, but in the past two years, they have lost almost every game to Manchester City, their style of football is completely restrained by Manchester City, the two teams are fighting each other, and Tottenham Hotspur has a low chance of winning.

Tottenham Hotspur will be followed by Bolton Wanderers, who are struggling to avoid relegation, and then the final game before Christmas, against Aston Villa.

Looking at the above teams, except for Aston Villa, who are a little bit of a threat, the other teams are almost all 'points-away' opponents in the game against Manchester City, so it is not surprising that Wan Sheng talked about fighting for more points.

If they can get all the points before Christmas, it is clear that Manchester City will have an advantage in the race for the league title, because other teams, such as Manchester United and Chelsea, have big battles to deal with, and their schedules are much tougher than Manchester City. (To be continued.) )