In the eighth round of the league, Manchester City visited London to face the Hammers West Ham United.

Considering that Lily Collins lives on the edge of London, Lin Quan sent a message to the other party before the game, asking if she wanted to come to watch the game.

Lily Collins had never watched a football match before, and was curious about Lin Quan's football, so she gladly accepted the invitation and came to the London Olympic Stadium.

The camera on the scene quickly captured her figure, and the director frequently switched the camera to Lin Quan and Collins.

The Hammers were mediocre and did not cause too much trouble for City on their home turf.

After 90 minutes, Manchester City beat their opponents 3-1 to make it eight wins in a row.

In this game, Lin Quan performed well, contributing two goals and one assist, covering the team's three goals, and won the best player of the game without any suspense.

This record is a record for Manchester City and their best start to the season in more than 100 years since the club's founding.

If they win their next game away from home, they will equal Chelsea's record of nine consecutive Premier League starters set in 05/06.

At the moment, there are only three teams in the top five leagues that have won all of their games.

In addition to Manchester City, there are Barcelona in La Liga and Roma in Serie A.

Although it has been criticized by the outside world, Martino's Barcelona has a very good record in the league.

Neymar fits perfectly into the team and provides Barcelona with strong attacking firepower up front.

As for Roma, they had the best start in the team's history under the leadership of Rudi Garcia, a young coach.

As long as the momentum continues, Roma have a good chance of winning their fourth league trophy in the club's history.

……

After the match against West Ham United, the Manchester City players did not return to Manchester, but flew directly from London to Moscow.

This week, Manchester City will have the devil's schedule.

They travel to West Ham United on the 20th, CSKA Moscow on the 23rd and Chelsea on the 27th when they return to London.

In a week, City play three away games, one of which is 2,500 kilometres away.

After this round of games, Manchester City's players will not die and will shed their skin.

It is precisely because of the long journey and continuous battles that the outside world is not optimistic about whether Manchester City can equal the opening winning streak created by Chelsea that year.

Although Chelsea are also travelling to take on Werder Bremen, Germany are much closer to England than Russia.

Moreover, Werder Bremen is not strong, and there is no extremely cold weather.

Therefore, if it is also a Champions League away game, the physical consumption of Chelsea players will be much less than that of Manchester City.

"Alas, there was a chance to break the record of Chelsea's ungodly start in the first phase, but now I'm afraid it is less than a 30% probability!"

"Yes, if you don't have to go to Moscow, you can change to another away game, Manchester City's winning rate can be greatly improved."

"This schedule is a bit too devilish!"

"Actually, the FA still helped, although they arranged two away games for Manchester City, but at least these two away games are in London, after playing the Champions League away games, you can return to London to prepare, no need to run around!"

"Last season, the Premier League teams all fell outside the quarter-finals, which is really sorry for the name of the world's number one league, and this season the Premier League has taken the Champions League much more seriously!"

……

Lily Collins doesn't usually pay much attention to football, but after learning that Lin Quan is a football player, she pays attention to this kind of news.

Seeing the negative remarks of Manchester City fans on the Internet, she was also worried, so she couldn't help but send a message to Lin Quan:

"I heard you've had a tough schedule lately?"

"yes, so I can't sleep with anxiety now!"

"Really? How do you feel like you're lying to me? ”

Lily Collins was full of doubts about Lin Quan's words, the other party is a professional player, so he won't be in such a bad psychological state, right?

"Well, I'll admit I lied, the reason I can't sleep is because I'm thinking about some pretty girl!"

Lily Collins sent Lin Quan a cheek-holding expression, looking like you go on, I'll see how you perform.

"I checked, Moscow is 2 hours faster than London, and your can't sleep may be affected by jet lag."

Lily Collins glanced at the time, it was almost nine o'clock in London, and eleven o'clock in the evening in Moscow.

For a professional footballer, not falling asleep at 11 p.m. can indeed be regarded as insomnia.

"The female detective is discerning!"

"Come less, tell you a few ways, you try it, and if it works, go to bed quickly!"

"What if it doesn't work?"

"Then I can't save you!"

Lin Quan sent a pouting expression.

Lily Collins gave him a knock back look.

Lin Quan quickly typed out a line of words: "Come on, Miss, I can bear it, don't pity the jade!" And with a struggling expression.

"Can't you be serious?"

Lily Collins replied with two expressions, white eyes and sweat.

"I've always been very serious in front of others!" Lin Quan replied with a smug expression.

Rogue!!

In a house somewhere in Surrey County, seeing the other party's reply, the seventeen-year-old girl couldn't help but hook the corners of her mouth.

Immediately, her expression converged and became serious:

"Alright, don't make a fuss."

"You find a piece of music with a soothing rhythm, play it on a loop, and then lie down in the position that you are most comfortable with.

Lie down and empty your brain, don't think about anything, keep your mind calm, take a deep breath and exhale slowly......"

"How's it going, does it work?"

"Nope!"

Lin Quan replied with a bared tooth expression.

Lily Collins frantically waved her fists and tried to rush to Moscow to beat people.

"Why didn't it work, did you not do what I said?"

Lily Collins sent several questioning expressions.

"I can't find music like this in my phone, why don't you call me and sing it!"

"Think beautifully!"

Although he said that, in the next second, Lin Quan's phone rang.

……

Early the next morning, Lin Quan got up early.

I glanced at my phone, and unexpectedly it ran out of battery.

Charging his mobile phone, humming a little song and singing, Lin Quan went out happily.

Thinking of Lily Collins singing for him last night, Lin Quan's heart felt warm, as if the temperature in Moscow had risen by several degrees.

His teammates, however, thought that Moscow was a terrible place.

Before the game, Manuel Pellegrini asked his assistant about the weather, and the most difficult thing for Manchester City was not the opponent on the pitch, but the weather off the pitch.

"According to the weather forecast, the temperature will drop to around zero degrees Celsius at night!"

"Will it snow?"

"It's hard to say, it's possible, if there is really rain and snow, it's better to pray that it snows, at this temperature, rain is more troublesome than snow, and if the players get wet in the rain, they will definitely get sick!"

The rain is close to zero degrees Celsius, and the heat in the players' bodies will be lost rapidly, and frostbite is possible for a long time.

"Well, we're going to have to change our tactics!"

Manuel Pellegrini made the decision that he would not dare to let his players fight in such temperatures for a long time, so he planned to launch a fast attack at the beginning of the game to try to establish the lead as soon as possible, and then replace the main players with some young players to fight backhand.

Doing so will minimise the physical exertion of the main players and ensure their European results while also saving them for the next game against Chelsea.

However, the opponents think the same as they do!

“GOAL！！！”

"After just thirteen minutes of the game, CSKA Moscow breached the door of Manchester City, and the scorer was their winger Tosic!"

"It's unbelievable that in the face of the mighty Manchester City, CSKA Moscow did not be conservative, but chose to attack Manchester City, and seized the opportunity to score first, and now the pressure is on Manchester City's side!"

In the commentary seat, the guests were very surprised by this result.

Before the start of this game, the outside world was more optimistic about winning ten consecutive games on all fronts, and Manchester City, who had just beaten Bayern Munich in the previous round of the Champions League group stage.

However, they didn't expect that CSKA Moscow would be so strong in combat and actually suppressed Manchester City on their home turf.

'If City loses this one, then there could be three teams in Group D with six points, and they will win and lose each other, and the situation of qualification will become confusing.

"It's good news for Bayern Munich, but it's probably not what the Manchester City fans want to see!"

On the sidelines, Manuel Pellegrini and the assistant coaches were discussing something.

"The temperature is too low, the pre-match warm-up effect is now gone, the players have cooled down and need to warm up again, the opponent is more adaptable to the cold environment than us, we started a bit risky to play against them!"

"That's right, I should have collected it first, and then attacked after the opponent's three-board axe passed!"

"Okay, let's just play like this, wait for 20 minutes and then attack and try to equalize!"

City's coaching staff quickly unanimous their views and then relayed their latest instructions to the players on the pitch to keep them on track.

So, after the restart, the Manchester City players did not rush to attack, but patiently passed, let every player move, and complete the warm-up as soon as possible.

After CSKA Moscow won the opening attack, it planned to retreat and play a defensive counterattack.

But when they settled down, they found that Manchester City was not in a hurry to attack, but fell in the backfield.

This made the CSKA players very puzzled: is this giving up resistance?

The opponent has given up resistance, should we seize the opportunity to play a few more attacks to try to get more goal difference?

The players were a little tangled, and on the sidelines, CSKA Moscow's coach Slutsky was also a little tangled.

After these ten minutes, Manchester City gave him no more than that.

He didn't think the other side was that strong, at least much weaker than Bayern Munich they had met before.

Considering that they had a negative goal difference before this game, if they can't score a few more goals in this game, even if they win against Manchester City, I am afraid that they will fall to the bottom of the table due to goal difference.

So, Slutsky hesitated again and again, but finally decided to step up the offensive and see if he could score another one!

Regardless of Manchester City's true fighting power, they will have to try to score a few more in this game while the opponent is not in good form.

In this way, even if the goal difference is not as good as Bayern, it can at least suppress Manchester City.

The fans at the scene saw the home team attacking aggressively and pressing the top of the Premier League on the field, and they were all excited.

"See, this is the strength of the Russian Premier League champions, the top of the Premier League is not vulnerable to our Russian Premier League champions at all!"

"Hehe, the Premier League has been boasting about what the world's No. 1 league is, and as a result, is their No. 1 league at this level? In my opinion, the strength of the Premier League may not be as good as our Russian Super League! ”

"Not to mention Manchester City, Real Madrid didn't take advantage of our home stadium last season, here we are invincible!"

The score and the advantage on the field made the fans of the Russian Premier League full of confidence and raised their eyebrows.

In recent years, the Russian Premier League has received crazy capital injections from oligarchs, and under the Jinyuan football storm, many teams have changed their guns, introduced a large number of stars, and their strength has made great progress.

However, because of Russia's distance from the center of Europe, they are far from being compared to the top five leagues.

This made the fans of the Russian Premier League very unconvinced, they have long wanted to teach the teams of the five major leagues and prove their strength!

Manchester City are just an appetizer, and when Bayern Munich visit their home stadium next month, they will upset the defending champions and shock fans all over the world!

It's not just CSKA Moscow fans who are arrogant, their players are also feeling a lot of self-confidence.

In the 23rd minute, CSKA Moscow's midfielder Keisuke Honda organized the attack.

Seeing Lin Quan, who was rushing towards him, he did not choose to pass to his teammates, but became competitive, and played tricks in front of Lin Quan, intending to play tricks on the other party.

Keisuke Honda was very unconvinced by Lin Quan, he felt that his strength was not lost to the other party, but because he was not playing for a giant team in the five major leagues, he was far from having as much attention and external evaluation as the other party.

For this reason, the Japanese star intends to make a move to Serie A giants AC Milan to prove himself.

But before the transfer, he had the opportunity to beat Lin Quan in a one-on-one duel to show the world his strength in advance.

"Oh, get past him!"

"Beckham of the East, let this kid know how good you are!"

Seeing that his star was going to single-handedly challenge Lin Quan, the fans of CSKA Moscow at the scene were boiling.

They are very confident in Keisuke Honda's strength, and for Lin Quan, they know that their opponent is very famous.

But after watching it in the first half, I felt that the opponent was nothing remarkable, and he didn't show the strength to match his fame at all.

As a result, they were all full of confidence in Keisuke Honda's heads-up and wanted to see Lin Quan's deflated appearance.

Lin Quan saw that Keisuke Honda didn't pass the ball at the first time, but planned to pass him, and bumped into it directly without saying a word.

Bang, with a loud bang, Lin Quan knocked the Japanese who were playing with flowers to the ground like a bulldozer.

Keisuke Honda was stunned, and the fans at the scene were also stunned.

This script is wrong!

However, before they could react, Lin Quan had already dribbled the ball towards the half of CSKA Moscow!

(End of chapter)