Chapter 195: The current situation in the Premier League

Manchester City, on the other hand, are the complete opposite of their arch-rivals, having started the season under the tutelage of the Chilean engineer, although a little unaccustomed to it, but quickly adapted. After the initial period of running-in, Manchester City began to confide in their ambitions.

Among them, Keylor Navas and Negredo, who have been newly signed this summer, have performed eye-catchingly, and the Spanish wing's quick break on the wing has created many opportunities for the center forward, of which Negredo has grasped the vast majority. It is worth mentioning that Negredo and Keylor Navas have worked very well together, as they were teammates of La Liga powerhouses Sevilla before joining Manchester City. And Li Zihan's acquaintance in Serie A, Montenegro striker Jovetic, is a little unsatisfactory, and he has not played a single official game for Manchester City so far due to injury.

When it comes to the situation in the Premier League this year, there are individuals and detachments, and it cannot be left unmentioned. That is the second-time Portuguese world coach Jose Mourinho and his iron-blooded Blues Chelsea, who are currently second in the league under Jose Mourinho, just one point behind Arsenal.

It's just that most of the scores are 1-0, 2-1 and this kind of affordable scoreline, with typical Mourinho style. However, this is not to blame on the Magic Birds, most of whom are embarrassed by the lack of strikers, and most of Chelsea's goals so far have been contributed by midfielders.

The fourth place in the league is Tottenham Hotspur, which has already had a successful trend of running-in, and this summer spent more than 100 million pounds to attract seven gourd babies, which are seven powerful players, including Lamela and Elkeson and other European young players. It's just that the new signing's water and soil adaptation syndrome is beginning to show his power more and more, and Tottenham's seemingly better momentum is actually a lot of hidden dangers.

Fifth in the league is the surprise Saints Southampton, this team is currently performing quite well, whether it is the core of their midfield young Lallana, or the new midfield blender Wanyama and their own academy full-back with knives Luke Shaw have performed quite well, after eight rounds have made many Premier League giants focus their attention on them, as well as local midfielder Ward Prowse, who is half a year younger than Li Zihan.

The Toffees Everton, who followed suit, have loaned Belgian centre-forward Romelu Lukaku, known as the Little Monster, from Chelsea this season, and the Little Monster is in hot form, scoring five goals in eight league games. And Deulopeu, who was produced by the youth academy of La Masia's "film and television" academy on loan from Barcelona, also performed well, as well as Ross Barkley, veteran fullback Baines and others. Of course, the most noteworthy thing is their new manager, Martinez is the manager of Wigan Athletic, who created a "legend" in the Premier League last season, won the FA Cup, and then was relegated. Of course, it was this FA Cup title that led to the immediate dismissal of former Manchester City manager Italian Roberto Mancini, who was forced to leave if he could not bring any of the titles to Manchester City under his contract with the club. Unfortunately, Wigan won the championship in the final, and then Mancini left for Turkey and Wigan was relegated

All in all, this year's Premier League has been exciting and unpredictable. With the retirement of Alex Ferguson, the Red Devils and Manchester United ushering in the post-Ferguson era, will it break or will it sink? Manchester City have brought in engineers, can they show their skills and kick out the evil spirit of European competition? This year's Red Army is a bit unstoppable, and it has only been the first time to see the hideous in eight rounds, can it achieve the dream of the Champions League or even win the championship? Mourinho, who entered the palace for the second time, has brought something to the iron-blooded Blues again, can he dominate Europe? Arsenal's iron rooster has finally plucked, can it break the nightmare of eight years without a crown? And is the "Golden Rooster" who smashed a little bit of 100 million pounds challenging the top four or is the lineup unstable and the military spirit is weak? Can the tafffees who followed him dye the European dream under Martinez's tutelage? And the Academy-winning Saints, can Southampton continue that momentum?

These are all highlights, and after Li Zihan joined the Premier League, he had more understanding of the phrase "there is no weak team in the Premier League", and the unbreakable position of the traditional top four has been shattered.

This weekend, at the end of October, another round of league battles began to burn. Every year, from the draw for the Champions League group stage until the second half of the season and even the end of the season, the Premier League teams are always busy and there are always endless games to play. A week of double league and Champions League, when the Champions League group stage is over, those who should be promoted are promoted, those who should go to the League Cup are promoted, those who should go home are going home. The Premier League teams haven't had time to catch their breath, followed by the Carabao Cup, then the famous Christmas game, the FA Cup and League Cup in January, and the Champions League again in February

So now, the Premier League teams are just starting to enter this new season's high. Tidal season.

In this round, Arsenal is away to Crystal Palace in the same city, and the former Premier League veteran team is now a promoted team. However, the focus of this round is not on this game, but on the derby clash between Black Cats Sunderland and Newcastle and the clash between Chelsea at Stamford Bridge and Manchester City in the Blues.

The old feud between Sunderland and Newcastle has a long history, and they often encounter each other when they are relegated, and they are already mortal enemies in the same city. Last season, he met Newcastle during the Sunderland relegation battle, and Li Zihan did not remember the final result of that game, he only remembered that the game led to the departure of two fans, leaving forever, and there have been two more incomplete families in this world. As for the injured, many of them were hospitalized, including mounted police and riot police. It is conceivable that the meeting of these two teams should be another rhythm of Mars hitting the earth, but not long after the death of fans last season, I think that the Premier League organizing committee, the FA and the city government should have made a lot of effective measures in this game, right? In addition, the league is only eight rounds, and it is far from the time when it is necessary to fight for relegation.

However, Li Zihan thought that these two teams should be natural enemies even if they are not in a city or a large area, one is called "Black Cat" and the other is called "Magpie". Cats and birds are natural enemies, but cats are natural enemies of birds.

The strong dialogue between the Blues Chelsea and the blue moon Manchester City is also a "civil war" between money football, and the Russian financial oligarchy moved to Stamford Bridge and waved a checkbook, but everyone still remembers it, but after the team's results have risen and stabilized, the "money" offensive has been gradually canceled, but there are still a lot of big spending. And the Middle East oil tycoon has come to the Etihad more than Abu, and the money spent over the years has been hundreds of millions, which of the Aguero, David Silva, Yaya Toure, and Nasri are many big names in the team? And this season, because of the change of coach, the cost is almost 100 million pounds again.

So the rivalry between these two teams is entirely a "civil war" between the Premier League's rising stars and money-streaming football, but it has to be said that this match has attracted the attention of almost all fans in the world, whether it is fans of both sides or neutral fans.

The Premier League is the world's largest league, and there are so many things to see here. Unlike La Liga, which is basically aimed at the two teams of Barcelona and Real Madrid, Atletico Madrid is half of them. The Bundesliga is even more dominant for Bayern, and only Dortmund can wrench his wrist slightly. There are very few people who see the first class, and they generally only go in the spirit of Grand Paris. And since the glory of the Little World Cup has faded, the fans who watch Serie A have plummeted, and there used to be two teams in the top three in the north and the capital, and now it is almost Juventus alone, and this team's annual results in European competition are simply miserable

Therefore, encountering such a strong dialogue between Chelsea and Manchester City has almost attracted the attention of football fans all over the world, after all, these two teams are also strong contenders for the Premier League title, although Mourinho has not admitted that his team's goal is to win the title this season, but it does not prevent outsiders from thinking so.

Arsenal's match was placed at the start of the round as the opening match of the ninth round. As a team in the same city, Arsenal don't have to travel very early, and for the midday game, they set off in the morning and then get acquainted with the away game and have lunch after the game begins.

The game officially started at half past one p.m. local time in England and at half past seven p.m. Beijing time.

Selhurst Park is no stranger to Arsenal's players, as Crystal Palace was also a former Premier League team, and it was also the home of former Premier League side Wimbledon for almost a decade from 91 to 2002, so Arsenal have dealt with this stadium in Croydon, south London.

Arsenal didn't really put much thought into this game, first of all, the opponent was not strong in the promotion itself, and secondly, in the Champions League in midweek, the high-intensity game between Arsenal and Dortmund consumed a lot of physical strength for Arsenal, so Wenger was almost a full substitute in this game.

However, the domestic media in China was more interested in this game, and for no other reason, because the team at Crystal Palace has deep roots in China, and the Chinese players Sun Jihai and Fan Zhiyi used to play for this team. Now one of these two players has retired and started his coaching career, and one is still fighting on the field and serving as the captain of the Chinese Super League team Guizhou.

And now the most potential and powerful players of Chinese football are going to play in this field where their predecessors have sweated again, for some Chinese fans who have menstruated, they seem to see the shadow of time, and see the Chinese football they once were.

Some local TV stations even made a special episode of sensational TV programs to recall the Crystal Palace team, to think about Chinese football in the past, and to look forward to the future of Chinese football.