Chapter 23 The Champions League is officially unveiled, and the crazy performances of the major giants!
On September 14, the fourth round of the league began.
There was no focus in this round of the game, but there were a lot of upsets.
Manchester United, who took the lead, beat Crystal Palace 2-0 at home and finally stopped their decline.
However, the Blues in BIG4 suffered a surprise defeat away to Everton.
This result is a big surprise!
Jose Mourinho's side continue their old problem, with their strikers unable to score goals no matter what.
In this game, the Toffees Everton also performed extremely well, they defeated Chelsea with tenacious defense and sharp counter-attacks, handed the opponent their first defeat of the season, and broke Chelsea's unbeaten golden body.
The outside world thought that after the departure of Moyes this season, Everton's results would decline.
As a result, they not only continued the great results of previous seasons, but even went further!
At present, Everton is unbeaten with one win and three draws in four rounds.
It is one of only three teams left in the Premier League who have not lost.
The other two are Liverpool and Manchester City.
Chelsea's points dropped to sixth in the table after a surprise defeat to Everton, with United equalling them on points but just one point ahead of them on goal difference.
This gave the Red Devils fans, who had been ridiculed by the Blues fans before, find another opportunity to fight back and ridicule Chelsea.
"Haha, I like to see Chelsea people deflated!"
"Everton did a great job, now I see what the fans have to say!"
"Hehe, I will always remember the way the Chelsea fans jumped in the face when we lost in the last round!"
"Hehe, they don't want to think about who we lost to!"
In the eyes of Manchester United fans, the Reds are giants, their home stadium is not easy to play, and there is no shame in losing to them.
But who did you lose to at Chelsea?
Toffee Everton?
This is our little brother of Manchester United, isn't it a shame that the Blues can't even play my little brother of the Red Devils?
"Cut, it's just one game, what's there to worry about, you Manchester United should worry about the next city derby against Manchester City!"
"That's right, if Manchester United loses again, Moyes's position will be lost, and maybe I can watch a good show then!"
Chelsea fans seized on the sore feet of Manchester United fans and sneered at them.
This further angered the Red Devils fans and they began to attack Chelsea.
"It's as if you Chelsea don't have to face Liverpool and Manchester City, just the current state that you can't score a single goal, you can get a point in every game, and even if you win and lose a game, the points are higher than yours!"
Manchester United's sore spot is the manager's instability in his position, while Chelsea's flaw is their striker's inability to score goals.
Both teams are in a lot of trouble and it doesn't look like it's going to be easy to solve.
If this continues, the red and blue sides may not have a chance to win the Premier League title this season.
Forgotten Gunners fans in the corners muffled their fortunes.
The Red Devils' record is shaky, the Blues are weak in attack, and the Reds have been in decline for a long time.
From this point of view, will our arsenal end the history of not winning a championship this season and successfully lift the Premier League trophy?
And then in the away game against Sunderland, Arsenal won three consecutive wins 3:1, accumulating nine points to temporarily top the table, which made Arsenal fans firmly believe in this view.
The good times for Arsenal have come!
Chelsea have just pulled out an upset, and Liverpool are not to be outdone.
In the away game against Swansea, the Reds scored twice in the first half and thought the victory was in doubt.
As a result, I didn't expect the opponent to launch a counterattack in the second half, chasing two goals in a row, and kicking away the three points they had got.
However, although it was a draw, Liverpool still relied on the advantage accumulated by the previous three consecutive wins, and beat Arsenal with 10 points, temporarily ranking first in the Premier League.
Manchester City were also almost held to a draw by their opponents in this round.
There are too many stars in Manchester City's squad, so they have been greatly affected by the FIFA virus.
After playing for the national team, most of the players rush back to their clubs to play in the league.
As a result, they were out of form for the whole game, with some players from South America unable to even play the whole game due to their physical exertion.
The score was 0-0 until stoppage time.
Just when everyone thought it was going to be a draw, in the last minute of stoppage time, Lin Quan sent a deadly pass and assisted Negredo to score a goal to help the team win 1-0.
Despite the awkward win, Manchester City still 'curled up three points' and retained their top spot with a four-game winning streak.
After the league game, the whole Manchester City team flew non-stop to the Czech Republic to prepare for the first game of the Champions League group stage.
Viktoria plzen is a team in the Czech First Division and is not well-known in Europe.
But as opponents in the opening game, Manchester City did not dare to take them lightly.
The number of times they overturned in the Champions League group stage was too much, and they were afraid of overturning.
"Plzen are the weakest opponents in our group, so we have to win them in tomorrow's game no matter what, and we have to score as many goals as possible and accumulate enough goal difference so that we can take the initiative in the next games!"
Manuel Pellegrini also knows that City's owners take the Champions League game more seriously, and his predecessor Mancini was sacked after two consecutive group stage exits.
If he doesn't want to follow in Mancini's footsteps, there can be no surprises in the group stage this time.
Bayern aside, Manchester City's hard power is behind the opponent.
But the other two opponents in the group are weaker than them, and they must win this game steadily!
Perhaps it was Manuel Pellegrini's pre-match advice that had the opposite effect, as City played very tightly and the players were very nervous when the game started.
After 30 minutes of play in the first half, the score was still 0:0, and the Manchester City players received two yellow cards for excessive action.
Pellegrini was still relatively relieved, but as soon as he saw the team's posture, he began to get nervous again.
No way?
Manchester City won't lose away from home, right?
Plzen's players were a little scared when they heard the name of the opponent's Premier League powerhouse, and they were already three points short from the momentum.
As a result, after 30 minutes of play, you find that the opponent's level seems to be no more than that?
As a result, they began to grow bolder, no longer conservatively playing the bus, but trying more and more to attack, trying to rewrite the score.
As soon as the other party attacked, Lin Quan was relieved.
The teammates were too nervous before, and there were too many players inside and outside the opponent's penalty area, so many of the cooperation could not be played.
Now it's okay, the other party is not honest and wants to fight against them.
The gaps in the opponent's penalty area suddenly increased!
Lin Quan then made gestures, signaling his teammates to speed up the pace of the game, and took the lead in pressing for Plzen's players in the midfield.
Under his leadership, Garcia, Navas, Aguero and others also took action and joined the team.
Viktoria Plzen's players rarely play against teams from the top five leagues, and they are not comfortable with the pace of the big five leagues, especially the Premier League.
As soon as Manchester City picked up a little speed, they immediately became a little overwhelmed.
The battle between the two sides in the midfield quickly decided the winner.
City's players overwhelmed their opponents with better technique and stronger physical duels.
After taking control of the midfield, their attacking quality has also improved rapidly.
In the 48th minute of the game, the Manchester City midfielder quickly passed to Lin Quan on the side after breaking the ball.
Lin Quan broke through the opponent's interception with the ball and cut inside, and after attracting the opponent's attention, he faked a real pass and passed the ball to Aguero, who was in a better position.
The Argentine didn't waste his brilliant pass and scored with a blast!
"Beautiful!"
On the sidelines, after Pellegrini saw this goal, he waved his arms excitedly and celebrated with the assistant coaches!
He's been waiting for this ball for too long!
If the team can't score again, then the opponent will soon return to the previous conservative mode, and then they may not be able to win the opponent.
After scoring the first goal, the rest of the game was much easier.
With the score behind, there is no point in putting a bus.
Plzen had to come out.
And once they attack, their backline is completely inadequate in front of a few of City's strikers.
In the 53rd minute, Lin Quan received Garcia's pass, withstood the push of the opponent's defender in the physical confrontation with the defender, leaned on the defender and swept the ball into the goal.
Manchester City is on the next level!
Under the stormy attack of Manchester City, Plzen was already a little overwhelmed!
However, City's players heeded the manager's advice and did not give up despite leading by two goals.
They also want to get more clean sheets on Viktoria Plzen!
In the 65th minute, Manchester City played a fast attack again.
After Lin Quan dribbled the ball to the bottom, he slipped to the bottom line to bypass the defender and hit the goal at a small angle in the penalty area.
The goalkeeper focused, reached out and pounced to keep the ball out.
But the ball he saved didn't fly far and landed in the box, causing a scuffle between players from both sides.
In the confusion, Plzen's defenders tried to clear the ball with a big kick, but it bounced on the legs of the Manchester City players.
The goalkeeper had just made a save and before he could get up from the ground, he saw the ball flying towards him.
The ball came too fast, and he could only instinctively wave his hand to block it, but naturally he didn't block it.
3:0!
It was Javi Garcia who scored the goal.
The latter didn't expect the goal to score, he originally wanted to grab a shot.
But the opposing defender was a step ahead of him, and he didn't steal the opponent.
Seeing that the opponent picked up his feet and was ready to clear the siege, Garcia raised his leg to symbolically block it, but he didn't expect to form a goal by mistake.
This is really nowhere to find the iron shoes, and it takes no effort to get it!
In the end, Manchester City blossomed and won the Champions League group stage with three goals in the second half, earning three valuable points.
Because Bayern also beat CSKA Moscow 3-0 at home in the same group, Manchester City and Bayern are both top of the group with three points and three goal difference.
Because all eight matches in the first four groups were played at the same time.
After the game on Manchester City's side, the results of the other groups were also released.
In Group A, David Moyes' Manchester United repelled the challenge of Bundesliga giants Bayer Leverkusen 4-2 at Old Trafford.
Wayne Rooney, who returned to the starting line-up for the game, was brave and scored twice to help the team break the deadlock.
Since Van Persie came to the team to steal his main position, Lu Xiaopang has not been so proud for a long time.
Although he was Ferguson's beloved apprentice, in the last year of Ferguson's leadership, it was Ferguson who abandoned him.
Now, David Moyes has arrived, and he has given Rooney more chances, which has made Rooney very grateful and eager to respond with a performance that scores every game.
In addition to Wayne Rooney, Robin van Persie and Valencia also scored a goal each to seal the win.
Although Bayer Leverkusen lost, they still attacked tenaciously when the score was behind, scoring two goals against Manchester United, and also let fans from all over the world see the resilience of the Bundesliga team.
In Group B, Real Madrid are at Turkey's home stadium.
It was expected to be a tough game, but Carlo Ancelotti's side swept Galatasaray with a score of 6-1, leaving the world's jaws dropping.
Real Madrid do have an advantage in hard power, so it is not surprising that they won.
However, it is shocking that they can play such a disparity in the score on the home ground of the Turks' devils!
In this game, Real Madrid spent 100 million to buy Gareth Bell in the summer, although he did not score, but his breakthrough on the side made the Turks miserable and provided a great help for the team's victory.
However, Bale still can't hide Ronaldo's limelight.
The Portuguese was in great form this game, and he didn't know that it was to declare his status in the Real Madrid team to the world.
Still wanting to show his strength in front of the newcomers and let the other party recognize the reality, Ronaldo completed a hat-trick in just 30 minutes in the second half.
After Bale came on the court, he and Bale's '200 million flew together', which made people see the power of money.
With money, you can really do whatever you want!
In the corner where no one paid attention, Ben Zemeow, who had been practicing archery for more than half a year, completed two shots and one pass in a low-key manner in this game.
Although he can't steal the limelight from his teammates, he doesn't have the aura of Mr. 100 million.
But his presence is an important guarantee for Real Madrid to win.
In Group C, Grand Paris won 4-1 away at Greek side Olympiacos.
In this game, the big Paris team blossomed a lot, and the opponent who played was defeated.
Although he didn't score, Ibrahimovic made headlines for missing a penalty and became the most depressed man.
The next day, the remaining four groups of matches began.
Werder Bremen won 3-0 at home to Steaua Bucharest, with Petersen, Phil Kruger, Arnautovic and others all scoring their first Champions League goals.
After getting the three points, Werder Bremen is in a very good position to qualify.
However, in the other game, Chelsea at home caused a big upset.
Faced with the challenge of Swiss side Basel, everyone thought it was a game without suspense, but Mourinho played it badly.
In this game, Chelsea scored first, but were reversed by their opponents and eventually lost the game with a score of 1-2.
When the score fell behind in the second half, Mourinho replaced almost all the strikers who could be substituted.
But he just couldn't score a goal, so he could only watch the opponent take three points on his body.
After the game, the Basels celebrated at Stamford Bridge, having neither expected to be able to beat the mighty Blues.
The Chelsea people could only cry secretly, helplessly swallowing the bitter fruit of defeat.
If you count the recent league defeat, Chelsea have lost two in a row in all competitions.
Kevin De Bruyne sat on the bench for the entire game, and when his team was behind, Mourinho brought on players from the bench three times.
But every time I didn't think about him, and I didn't even look at him directly.
This left De Bruyne feeling extremely disappointed......
Group F, on its side, is facing the grim situation of the Group of Death.
Arsene Wenger's Arsenal held on to secure a 2-1 win at Marseille and pick up a valuable three points.
Last season's Champions League runners-up, Borussia Dortmund, were beaten away from home by Napoli.
Borussia Dortmund seem to have passed their prime, and are firmly on the downhill side.
In Group G, Atletico Madrid won 3-1 at home to Zenit, while Porto also won away from home.
Barcelona and AC Milan are in Group H, with the two teams comfortably winning 4-0 and 2-0 at home respectively.
As if to respond to Ronaldo from afar, Messi also scored a hat-trick against Ajax.
At the end of the first round of matches, the Premier League side won all but Chelsea, which overturned.
La Liga also has three wins and one loss, and the loser is Real Sociedad, the weakest team.
Serie A has 2 wins and one draw, in addition to AC Milan and Napoli winning, the old lady was forced to draw by the weak Copenhagen away from home, which can be regarded as a big upset.
On the other side, the Bundesliga has two wins and two losses, and the French Ligue 1 and the Portuguese Super League are both one win and one loss.
Judging from the respective records of the five major leagues, the Premier League and La Liga are worthy of the top two leagues.
Serie A is slightly better than the Bundesliga, and Ligue 1 has been relegated to the level of the Portuguese Super League.
However, there are two seeded teams in the Portuguese Super League, and none in Ligue 1, which is very heart-wrenching.
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