Arsenal's win over Birmingham City continued their stride in the league, while Arsenal's main league rivals have not been so strong at this time.

Chelsea travel to Aston Villa in this round. After 90 minutes of fierce battle, Chelsea were held to a 0-0 draw away at Aston Villa, with Chelsea unlucky to hit the post twice and now on a three-game winless streak; With five wins, two draws and one defeat, Chelsea now sit five points behind Arsenal in the table with 17 points.

Manchester United, who were at Old Trafford in this round, conceded two goals in five minutes in the second half after leading by two goals, and finally drew 2-2 with West Brom and three consecutive league ties. Manchester United, who have lost three points at home, are still unbeaten in the new season, but their record of only three wins and five draws is believed to be a headache for Ferguson at this time, because at this time, even their city rival Manchester City has overtaken them in the standings to jump to third place in the standings. Manchester United, who have only 14 points, are also tied with Tottenham Hotspur with four wins, two draws and two defeats, and now they are not even guaranteed a place in the top four.

In this round of games, Manchester City won 3-2 away at promoted Blackpool. Although the first half was a 0-0 draw, Tevez scored two controversial goals in the second half, a direct and indirect assist from Silva, who then netted to seal the win. After eight rounds of matches, Manchester City has five wins, two draws and one loss, with 17 points, and now they are even in the second place in the standings!

Liverpool have continued their slump this season, losing to arch-rivals Everton in this round, and the Reds are now on six points after eight games and have fallen to second from bottom in the table. They have completely lost their competitiveness. Although Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester City continue to rise. Although Chelsea and Manchester United seem to be playing relatively well. But Arsenal's momentum is really strong right now, and the Gunners are now even stronger against the backdrop of their opponents.

Xiao Qing and his teammates should be happy that although there are only eight rounds in the league now, they are already five points ahead of the second-placed team in the standings, and the strength of the defending champions is really no joke. Although Arsenal may still have shortcomings of one kind or another, Arsenal are undoubtedly the best performing team since the start of the season, and they have a tendency to dominate the league.

Xiao Qing now feels that the momentum of the team is really good, and they have a good chance of creating a more brilliant result this season. For the Gunners, it's not time to celebrate. But with such an excellent start to the season, they can relax a little bit and they can face the next games more happily.

Although he has very good results, Xiao Qing has no time to celebrate now, and even during this time, his girlfriend Anna does not have enough time to accompany his girlfriend even if he comes to London. Because after the victory over Birmingham, Xiao Qing will participate in the third round of the Champions League group stage with the team non-stop. Fortunately, this is Arsenal's home game, and the Gunners won't be exhausted.

Both teams have won their first two group games, with Arsenal having historically beaten their opponents 3-2 at Highbury Stadium in the Champions League group stage a decade ago. Cesc Fabregas is back and Theo Walcott and Bendtner, who have also recovered from injury, are on the bench, although Almunia, Sagna, Koscielny, Vermaelen, Ramsey and Robin van Persie remain out injured. Croatian striker Eduardo, who moved to Shakhtar Donetsk from Arsenal this summer, has returned to the Emirates Stadium as a substitute. The starting striker was Brazilian striker Luis Adriano.

Although Eduardo did not start the game, he still received applause and blessings from the Gunners fans; Eduardo has never been a top striker. He also didn't give Arsenal enough accolades. But Arsenal will really bless Eduardo, because here Eduardo suffered a major setback in his career injury, and now Eduardo has no choice but to be sold without Arsenal's request.

Arsenal in the game can be said to be strong, goalkeeper Fabianski; Eboue, Squeerage, Giorroud, Klich at the back; In midfield, there are Alexander Song, Rosicky, Cesc Fabregas and Nasri; On the forward line, of course, there are Chamak and Xiao Qing.

Although several of Arsenal's main players in this game were either rested or injured and failed to appear, compared to Shakhtar Netsk, Arsenal's lineup is really luxurious.

Shakhtar goalkeeper Pyatov; Senna, Kuchel, Rakitski, Rattsky on the back line; The midfield duo of Hubusmann and Gay partnered with attackers Mekhetarion, Alex Teixeira and Willemian; Solitary striker Luis Adriano.

This is the battle for the top spot in Group A, although Arsenal are the real giants in this group, and although Shakhtar Donetsk are also the giants of Ukraine, the two teams are not in the same class at all. Arsenal want to comfortably top the group in the group stage, so they won't be welcome against Shakhtar Donetsk, they need to extend their lead, they need to get out of the group easily.

In the fifth minute of the game, William Ann made a mistake in the midfield, and Arsenal had a chance to counterattack, but fortunately, Ukrainian midfielder Gay cleared the ball first, and this time the clearance went straight to the direction of the Arsenal goal and almost formed a shot. It was Shakhtar's first more dangerous attack of the game and a chance for them to pose a threat to Arsenal in this game.

In the seventeenth minute of the game, Chamak pushed Fabregas's pass to Xiao Qing on the right, Xiao Qing attracted the defense and knocked back to hand the ball to the opponent, Chamak was about to turn around and shoot when the soles of his feet stumbled, which should have been a good scoring opportunity, but he could only barely hit the ball on the reacting defender to get a corner.

Arsenal seem to be a little unlucky, but even more unlucky are the Shakhtars; Nasri whipped in a corner from the right, Donetsk goalkeeper Pyatov unexpectedly got off the hook and Swiss centre-back Djoroux fell to the ground to shovel the ball to Alexander Song, who was not far away. Song sends the ball into the net from close range.

One to zero. Alexander Song's leak in front of goal unexpectedly gave Arsenal the lead at home. This goal also helped Arsenal open the door to victory, and Arsenal went on to win the group with ease.

Towards the end of the first half, Alexander Song picked up the ball on the right edge of the penalty area, and the cross bounced off the defender to the feet of Nasri, who deftly flicked the ball past Shakhtar defender Kuchel with his right foot; Xiao Qing, who was plugged in, quickly followed, and Xiao Qing shot into the net with his left foot to help Arsenal extend their lead.

Arsenal easily took a 2-0 lead at home, and Xiao Qing was also temporarily at the top of the Champions League scorer list with four goals; Xiao Qing has only played in two group games, but Xiao Qing is still the biggest favorite for the Champions League Golden Boot in the new season.

With a two-goal lead in the first half. In the second half, Arsenal continued to attack hard, which also caused Shakhtar to completely miss their chances. Perhaps they still have a certain fluke mentality before this game, they are not counting on a win against the reigning Champions League champions Arsenal, but Shakhtar, who lined up in a 4-2-3-1 formation, still hope to secure a draw at the Emirates Stadium to secure the second place in the group standings, but now it seems that the gap between them and Arsenal is really too big, and now they can only accept this defeat with peace of mind and prepare for the next group stage match.

In the 53rd minute, Cesc Fabregas was brought down by Shakhtar defender Hubsmann, who was booked. Cesc Fabregas takes a free-kick and the man in the box flips it over; A sharp whistle blew, and the referee awarded a penalty and gave Shakhtar striker Adriano a yellow card because Adriano had a takedown on Xiao Qing during the battle for the top. This young striker is really powerless when facing Xiao Qing.

Xiao Qing took the penalty kick in one fell swoop, and the ball drilled into the bottom right of the goal. Three to zero! The misjudged Shakhtar goalkeeper could only get the ball out of the goal for the third time in frustration, and he knew that the first striker was not a joke in this game.

Three to zero, Arsenal easily killed the suspense of this game; Xiao Qing also scored twice to further improve his Champions League goals, although Xiao Qing was substituted immediately after scoring twice, but Arsenal's offensive continued.

After the suspense of the game was lost, both sides made substitutions at the same time, Cesc Fabregas and Xiao Qing were replaced by Denilson and Wilshere, while Eduardo replaced Adriano on the other side, and he was also welcomed by the Arsenal fans. Arsenal continued to extend their results in the 66th minute, Denilson went straight at the back, Chamak cleverly split the ball on the left, Wilshere and Rosicky in the middle of the wall to kick the wall and then picked the ball past the goalkeeper with his left foot in the corner of the small penalty area, 4-0. It was Wilshere's first goal of the season and his first European goal for Arsenal.

In the 69th minute, Nasri sent a pass over the top in the middle, the Donetsk player thought that Chamak was offside but the linesman did not raise the flag, Chamak unloaded the ball and turned his head to look at the linesman and scored with his right foot, 5-0!

Arsenal's players erupted en masse, and in this game, Arsenal comfortably defeated Shakhtar; With nine points from all three wins in the group stage, everyone knows at this time that Arsenal have qualified from the group, and now Arsenal may only need one more win to lock up the top spot in the group.

This season's Arsenal Champions League group stage is absolutely easy, Xiao Qing played two group games and scored five goals, in both games Arsenal scored five goals or more big wins, and in the second game of the group when the main rotation rested, Arsenal also passed easily. The strength of the opponents in the group stage is generally weak, which also makes Arsenal more able to accumulate strength for the league at this time, and Arsenal can naturally easily pass the group stage at this time.

Arsenal didn't have much sense of accomplishment in their win over Shakhtar Donetsk, because this game was a deserved victory in their eyes, and this game must be won by Arsenal as well. And the most important thing is that Arsenal needs to focus all their energy on the league immediately after defeating Shakhtar Donetsk, you must know that Arsenal has encountered challenges in the next league, because now Arsenal has once again encountered a challenge from the second-place team in the league standings, and this time the opponent is the rising Manchester City! (To be continued......)