Manchester City suffered their first defeat of the 16/17 season with a 3-2 defeat away to Barcelona.

Bravo, who made a mistake and received a red card, was undoubtedly the first guilty person to lose, and was criticized by the fans.

Manchester City fans once again mentioned Joe Hart, saying that Bravo's goalmouth performance was simply not as good as Hart's.

The English media have also begun to look for new targets for Manchester City, hyping that Manchester City are about to bring in a new goalkeeper.

But no matter how hyped it is, at least it will have to wait until the winter transfer window.

In the other game in the same group, Borussia Mönchen beat Celtic 2-0 away.

Therefore, in the next round of group stage, if Manchester City loses to Barcelona at home, the points may be equalized by Borussia Mönchen.

In other group games, Arsenal and Leicester City both won comfortably, while Tottenham drew 0-0 away to Bayer Leverkusen.

With three rounds of the Champions League group stage currently played, Leicester City is the only Premier League team to win three in a row, temporarily topping the group, and it is only a matter of time before promotion is confirmed.

No one expected that Leicester City played badly in the Premier League and was about to fall into the relegation zone, but they played well in the Champions League.

Manchester City, Arsenal and Tottenham are all temporarily ranked second in their respective groups, Manchester City has 6 points from 2 wins and 1 loss, Arsenal has 7 points from 2 wins and 1 draw, and Tottenham has 4 points from 1 win, 1 draw and 1 loss.

Overall, all four Premier League teams are expected to qualify for the knockout rounds.

However, Tottenham's group is relatively complicated, although Tottenham are second in the group, but the promotion situation is not optimistic.

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Back in Manchester, City quickly jumped into the game.

On October 23, in the 9th round of the Premier League, Manchester City hosted the challenge of the Saints Southampton.

As a veteran team in the Premier League, Southampton has long been known for its youth training ability.

Alan Shearer, Gareth Bale, Theo Walcott, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Luke Shaw, Lallana, these are all Saints Academy players.

In addition to self-hematopoiesis, Southampton has also started to sell in recent years.

In the summer of 2014, Southampton spent 15 million euros to bring in Senegalese striker Mane from Red Bull Salzburg, and last season he relied on Mane's outstanding performance to finish sixth in the Premier League, refreshing his highest ranking in the Premier League era.

So this summer, Southampton sold Mane to the Reds Liverpool for a whopping €41 million.

Mane was one of the more successful Southampton moves, but not the only one.

Players such as Klein, Lovren, Schneiderlin and others were all good buy-and-sell deals that allowed Southampton to make money.

In addition, the current Southampton Dutch central defender Van Dijk is also a potential stock, only joined Southampton for one season, but has already attracted the attention of many strong teams in the Premier League.

Once Van Dijk enters the transfer market, the transfer fee will definitely be higher than Mane.

When bringing in Virgil van Dijk from Celtic last summer, Southampton spent only €15.7 million.

Overall, Southampton is the most successful black shop in the Premier League today.

At the Etihad Stadium, Manchester City arranged the 433 formation they had been using, intending to secure the three points.

"Welcome back, Captain."

Before the start of the game, Manchester City fans cheered wildly in the stands to send their best wishes to captain Vincent Kompany, who had returned from injury.

Kompany has been recovering from injuries since last season's Champions League semi-finals, and it took him half a year to finally return.

The captain is back from injury, which is a happy event.

Zhang Chaoqiang also stepped forward to bless Kompany, this is the first time the two have competed together.

But when the game officially began, Manchester City's situation was not ideal.

Manchester City launched a fierce attack at the beginning, but they were defended by the opponent.

Van Dijk was very active, not only successfully targeting Sergio Aguero in the middle, but even having the spare energy to make up for Zhang Chaoqiang, who was restricting on the left.

In the face of the famous 3G combination, Van Dijk showed his best form and wanted to put on a good show.

So after the opening onslaught, Manchester City gradually fell into the quagmire.

Kevin De Bruyne, who is at the heart of midfield, has yet to regain his form, which has made Manchester City struggle even more.

In the 32nd minute, Southampton threatened on the counter-attack, Bravo blocked the ball and was still scinded by England striker Nathan Raymond.

Kompany had just returned, and his reaction was a bit sluggish, and he couldn't get back in time to clear the game.

Manchester City conceded first at home and Southampton, who took the lead, were more confident.

Then the game becomes a storming mode, trying to find a way to break the dense defense.

Manchester City attacked until the 75th minute of the second half, when Zhang Chaoqiang changed to the right to form a breakthrough cross, and substitute Iheanacho grabbed the point to push the goal, and finally equalized.

But that's all there is to Southampton for the rest of the day, and although Zhang Chaoqiang relied on a breakthrough to create a stunner chance, he was covered by a foot on the crossbar.

In this way, Manchester City drew 1-1 at home to Southampton and suffered a two-game winless run in all competitions.

'There is no doubt that Virgil van Dijk was the biggest contributor to the Saints' point from the Etihad Stadium and he was the man of the match who deserved to be of the match.

"He's almost everywhere on the defensive end and he's always in the right position at the right time."

'Pep Guardiola was forced to replace Sergio Aguero at the start of the second half because the Argentine was completely lost in Van Dijk's defence and failed to find a shot on goal throughout the first half.

"The only good news for Manchester City is that they are still at the top of the table. After all, they have been winning streak before, and they have accumulated enough advantages......"

At the end of the game, the England commentator had this to say.

In the rest of the Premier League games, Arsenal and Tottenham both drew 0-0 with the underdogs, while Liverpool won West Bromwich Albion 2-1.

The most talked-about was Mourinho's return visit to his old club Chelsea, but the final result was a bit unexpected, and Manchester United suffered a 0-4 defeat at Stamford Bridge.

The Red Devils relied on this fiasco to successfully steal most of the limelight from this round of the Premier League.

In the Premier League standings after nine rounds, Manchester City continues to lead the table with 23 points from 7 wins and 2 draws, followed by Liverpool and Arsenal with 20 points, and Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur with 19 points.

Overall, the gap between the top five in the Premier League is not huge, with only Manchester United left behind.

After this round of heavy defeat, Manchester United still have 14 points, a full nine points behind the leader Manchester City, and it is already a three-game gap.

The British tabloid has prepared a headline - "Manchester United officially withdraw from the Premier League title race".

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Manchester City's draw at home to Southampton was clearly not ideal.

But Pep Guardiola still gave the whole team a day off to rest before preparing for next week's game.

In fact, losing points at home and affecting the state of Barcelona away is not one of the reasons.

City's main players can rest for a week, and now it's the substitutes' turn to perform.

In midweek on October 26, the English League Cup round of 16 match day arrived.

According to the previous draw results, Manchester City will travel to Old Trafford to play Manchester United.

It's a standard city derby, but Pep Guardiola still has an all-out bench to play.

Manchester United attaches more importance to it, and there is also a certain rotation, but it also arranges Ibrahimovic, Pogba, De Gea and other main players to lead the team.

After all, it was their home turf.

The end result was fair, with United winning 1-0 thanks to Juan Mata's goal to knock Manchester City out of the competition.

It was originally just a normal rotation loss, but the English media found the topic, and they all threatened: "Manchester City has reached a bottleneck, and the next is likely to be a series of points or even losses......

Manchester City have played 16 matches since the start of the new season.

The first 11 games have been won all, but the last 5 games have declined significantly, with only 1 win, 2 draws and 2 losses.

Judging by the data, Manchester City does seem to have reached a bottleneck.

If you don't make it, you may lose points in a row.

There is no doubt that Manchester City's Champions League clash with Barcelona at home will be held within a bottleneck.

It was an important competition for the first place in the group.