On September 25, Manchester City visited Sheffield in South Yorkshire, in the north of England, for the third round of the League Cup, which is a match of 32 to 16, and Manchester City, who played as a substitute, finally narrowly defeated Sheffield 1-0 on Wednesday and advanced to the round of 16.

On September 29, in the seventh round of the Premier League, facing West Ham United, which had suffered two consecutive defeats, Bale, who seemed to have regained his form in a game, made two passes and one shot in this game, helping Manchester City send West Ham United three consecutive defeats 3-1.

After this game, Manchester City, who have played one game less, finally have two more goal difference, overpowering Chelsea, who lost unexpectedly 1-3 away to Wigan, and topped the Premier League table for the first time this season.

After seven league games, in addition to Manchester City and Chelsea, Manchester United quickly regained the rhythm of victory after being reversed by Manchester City in the last round, and they beat Stoke City 2-0 to continue to bite the standings, followed by Liverpool, who swept Hull City 6-1 at home in this round, and Tottenham, who also won, followed by Liverpool......

Since then, the top six in the Premier League standings have been completely occupied by several giants of the Premier League, Manchester City and Tottenham have become two temporary surprises, Manchester City, which has greatly expanded its armament in the summer transfer market, has finally gotten a ranking that matches their transfer investment, and Tottenham, who lost Bale, also played a surprising table under the leadership of Redknapp, and the more disappointing is Arsenal, as one of the four traditional giants of the Premier League, the opening table of Wenger's team, which has been a dime a dime in the summer, is a parabola. Back-to-back defeats to two teams in Manchester left them in sixth place in the league table after seven rounds......

Of course, although there is a ranking order, the difference in points between several teams is actually not large. Manchester City and Chelsea are level on points. Then Manchester United, Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur were tied on points, and then Arsenal and Aston Villa were on the same score, and the difference between the teams in the three brackets was only one goal.

Therefore, it can be said that the seven rounds of the Premier League, the shape shì is still a fog -

Manchester City's temporary rise to the top of the table has left many Manchester City fans ecstatic, and this joy is directly reflected in the increasing number of Manchester City fans lying outside the fence to watch Manchester City train.

However, for the team's head coach, Lin Sen, he still welcomes fans to watch the team's training during the time allowed to watch. He even regularly asks his players to sign autographs for fans in training, but when it comes to the standings, he continues the disregard he did during the Malaga period. In his opinion, the standings can only reflect its true meaning at the end of the league, and other times, your position on the top is temporary. You could be better. But it could also be worse.

He cares more about the next game than the standings, and the next game for Manchester City is not the league. It's the Europa League group stage against Athletic Bilbao in midweek.

On October 1, Linson boarded the plane to Bilbao in northern Spain with almost all of his available players, except for one man: Javi Martinez.

Lin Sen knows that facing his old club is a situation that any professional player may encounter, and he also knows that this is the favorite "anti-go" drama of many media. But he kept Xavi Martinez in Manchester, not because he doubted his professionalism, but because he didn't want to cause problems for both sides. Yes, on both sides.

Linsen doesn't want to cause problems for Xavi Martinez, because Bilbao has cultivated him after all, and the way Manchester City took him from Bilbao is not so willing, the atmosphere at the San Mais Stadium Lin Sen has seen it, Xavi Martinez may be able to handle the game, but it is difficult for him to deal with the relationship with this stadium.

Lin Sen also doesn't want to let himself know that trouble, because in this game, he will not retain any strength, so any player who goes to Bilbao must have no distractions.

As soon as the Manchester City team landed at Bilbao Airport, the city let all the Manchester City players see its "friendliness", dozens of Bilbao fans "welcomed" Manchester City at the airport, they held all kinds of insulting slogans, mouths with all kinds of unbearable words, to the Manchester City team that had just walked out of the passage "welcome", the Manchester City players who had been vaccinated by Lin Sen did not squint, but the eyes do not look at it does not mean that they can't hear, it is impossible to do it on their own, There was inevitably some hidden anger on everyone's faces, and Lin Sen, who had become the focus of those people's attention, sneered the whole time.

Okay, good, now I'm not even going to mobilize before the game.

In fact, if it weren't for Linson poaching Xavi Martinez during the summer transfer, Linsen probably wouldn't have made Bilbao fans grit their teeth so much, after all, Linsen's holiday with Bilbao was last season's incident, but after that, Linsen died down, but their chairman took advantage of this to provoke a few times, and after a long time, they gradually forgot.

But Javi Martinez has stirred up their anger, and the Europa League coincidences with Manchester City have brought back memories for them.

Two days ago, the president of Bilbao, who was not willing to be lonely, Marcua, once again fired through the media: they poached Javi Martinez without our consent, but I can sue them that even if they have the money to poach the whole of Europe, they can't poach Bilbao's soul. Here, if I could decide, I wouldn't sell them a single piece of grass!

In the afternoon of the same day, Lin Sen attended the pre-match press conference, but he only said one sentence at the press conference: that is, we will see you after the game. Then he left Bilbao's head coach Caparros alone to sing a one-man show.

After going to England, Lin Sen, who has been very cooperative in the eyes of the English media, seems to have become that unruly thorn in the head as soon as he returns to Spain, which really makes the English media present not know whether to be happy or disappointed, no matter where he goes, the media likes the topic, look at the Spanish colleagues here, Wayne who came to Bilbao with the team smiled bitterly in his heart.

England has never lacked individual managers, Ferguson is an evergreen tree, the old man's laughter and scolding have long become a major feature of the Premier League, but dealing with Ferguson, reporters throughout England know that it depends on Ferguson's mood. When he's in a good mood, he's full of witty words, and when he's in a bad mood, he's sprayed with blood, and you can only consider yourself unlucky anyway. That's why the English media will miss Mourinho, because the Portuguese is more cooperative than Ferguson, but he does not lack Ferguson's ability to create topics.

The next day, when Lin Sen walked out of the passage of the San Mais Stadium, the entire San Mais Stadium immediately reported a piercing boo that lasted for more than a minute, but such boos did not make Lin Sen, who had dared to provoke fans in the stands, flinch, he sat in the coach's seat as usual, so that Tang Hua next to him had to look at him with almost adoring eyes for the first time.

Yes, Tang Hua finally sat in the coach's seat, because he had already passed the coach assessment, although it was not the most advanced kind, but after all, he got one of the four seats next to Lin Sen.

"Don't learn from him, you don't know what he did here last year, he's a madman."

Perhaps noticing Tang Hua's gaze, Dina, who was sitting next to Tang Hua, felt that she couldn't let a five-good young man be misled by Lin Sen like this, so she kindly reminded her. It's just that her reminder made Tang Hua smile a little, because Dina definitely didn't know, just because of what Lin Sen did here last year, Lin Sen didn't know how many more fans there were in China.

Compared with going with the flow, the ripples caused by going against the current are never smaller.

As Linsen had planned, in this game, Linsen sent his main lineup: Robben, Bale, David Silva and Suarez, all four attackers played, and he even replaced Vidal with a more attacking Ireland in midfield, leaving only De Jong as a defender. So much so that the commentator who broadcast the game exclaimed that Lin Sen's formation in this game was 4141, not 4231.

In the face of Manchester City's aggressiveness, Athletic Bilbao is not to be outdone, they are not weakened by Manchester City's strong attacking line, 442, Caparos adopts a formation even further than his previous 4231, he directly added a striker, in addition to Llorente, Diaz from Real Sociedad this season also put on the field.

Never show weakness! This is the determination of the Basque Lion!

In the face of the roar of the Basque Lions, it seems that even God was moved by the momentum of the Basque Lions, because it was not Manchester City that scored the first goal, but Athletic Bilbao.

In the 11th minute, Suarez made a mistake in passing, Athletic Bilbao formed a quick counterattack after breaking the ball, Yester got rid of Ireland on the left side and sent the ball into the Manchester City penalty area with a 45-degree diagonal pass, Llorente, who was tall, grabbed the first nod on the goal, but the ball was blocked by Hart's hands with quick reactions, Bridge cleared not far away, and Olbayz scored from the edge of the penalty area.

The score became 1-0.

After the goal, the San Mais stadium was like a pot of porridge that had been boiled, and Lin Sen, who was sitting in the coach's box, could hear countless shouts with his surname behind him, of course, in front of the surname, there were all kinds of adjectives, but this was not a problem, because even before the goal was scored, these clamours did not stop.

It's just that at this time, another thing happened, which made Dina, who was sitting on the side, feel unbearable.

After sending the ball into the Manchester City goal, Albez shook off his team-mates who kept running up to try to catch him and celebrated with him, and instead rushed straight to the Manchester City coaching box before making a move.

Stretching out his index finger, he pressed his lips tightly.

Naturally, it can only be Lin Sen. (To be continued......)

PS: I really like this kind of crisp writing in this chapter~