"CSKA Moscow is very bold and they chose to play Manchester City at the Etihad Stadium, and it could have worked wonders!"

Before He Wei's words fell, Manchester City scored.

Just three minutes into the opening game, Lin Quan burst into the penalty area and shook past the goalkeeper and completed the goal with his first shot.

He Wei's expression was a little embarrassed, this slap in the face inevitably came too quickly, right?

CSKA Moscow, how about you struggle a little?

Just conceded a goal at the beginning, and this game is directly gone!

Xu Yang on the side said with a smile: "It seems that their choice is not very wise, I think they should not have watched Manchester City's last game before coming." ”

"CSKA Moscow also has no choice, if they still want to keep the hope of qualifying, they can only fight Manchester City, if they lose this game, they can't expect to beat Bayern Munich in the next game, right?"

"Well, yes, it's really too difficult for the Russian Premier League champions to meet Manchester City and Bayern at the same time!"

This is the sadness of the non-big five league teams, who are often placed in the group of the big five league giants when they are grouped.

Against these top teams, their hopes of winning are slim.

At this time, you can only fight against the water!

After falling behind by the score, CSKA Moscow did not give up.

Their players are still fighting tenaciously, but in the face of absolute strength, their struggles seem very futile.

In the 20th minute, City extended their lead with a second goal through Sergio Aguero.

Ten minutes later, Yaya Toure also scored, and City already had a three-goal lead.

The pace of this game was a lot like the last game they played against Norwich, and even the goal was scored earlier than that one!

Seeing the team press the Russian Premier League champion to the ground at home, the Blue Moon fans who came to watch the game were thrilled.

It's 3:0 in thirty minutes, this game should be able to be won, right?

And winning this game means that they have qualified for the group two rounds in advance!

After falling in the group stage for two years in a row, they were finally able to make it out of the group stage!

It's not easy!

In the box, Mansour was also emotional.

At first, when he spent a lot of money to buy Manchester City, he thought that with his deep financial resources, he would soon be able to kill all sides in football.

However, reality soon taught him to be a man!

Manchester City have money, but top stars don't want to come to them.

They had to pay much more than the market price to buy some non-top stars.

This has led them to spend a lot of unjust money.

And the stars who bought it at the beginning, such as Robinho, were later proven to be unsuitable for the team, or simply parallel goods.

In the first three years of the Abu Dhabi consortium's presence at Manchester City, they spent a lot of money, but their results improved slowly.

It wasn't until the fourth year, thanks to Sergio Aguerona's last-minute strike, that they barely snatched a league trophy from Manchester United.

However, at this time, Mansour has invested more than 1 billion pounds in Manchester City!

If you can bring back the championship for a certain amount of money, that's acceptable.

But the team's two defeats in the Champions League group stage made him realize that if you want to win the Champions League, you really can't do it with money.

He needs to buy the best players, match the best coaches, and then choose the most suitable tactical system for the team to have a chance.

And it's just a chance!

There are too many strong teams in Europe, and football is not only about strength on paper, but also about luck and form.

These are uncontrollable factors.

At this time, the effect of spending money is not so ideal.

"I hope I can go a little further in the Champions League this year!"

Mansour is not expecting to win the title all at once this year, and he knows the quality of his team.

Manchester City don't have a championship temperament in them, they have to at least become a big club in the Premier League before they have a chance to win the Champions League.

This year, it is enough to make it out of the group stage and complete the team's historic breakthrough.

If you can make it to the quarterfinals, that's the best.

This winter break, he plans to continue to buy some people.

The team's previous injury to David Silva caused the frontcourt to be organized completely on Lin Quan.

Although Lin Quan did this job well, he took on multiple roles by himself, which would limit his offensive ability.

At a time when Messi and Ronaldo are brushing up on their stats, Mansour doesn't want Lin Quan to be dragged down because of the team's platform.

He hopes to provide Lin Quan with a better platform for him to fully realize his potential.

Therefore, he wanted to buy Lin Quan a better passer, feed him cannonballs, and feed him cakes.

As for the candidates, he has a several, one is Cesc Fabregas who plays for Barcelona, the other is Modric who plays for Real Madrid, and Bayern's Kroos is also an alternative.

Of the three, Mansour likes Cesc Fabregas the most, as he has proven himself by playing in the Premier League.

And he and Lin Quan are both members of the Spanish national team, and the cooperation between the two is more tacit, and they don't need to run in for too long.

In addition, Xiaofa's main position in Barcelona is not stable, resulting in him being the easiest player to buy among the three.

If they can bring the law to the Etihad Stadium, by the time David Silva returns from injury, Manchester City will have four Spaniards in midfield.

The attacking system organized by these four people, not to mention sweeping Europe, at least in the Premier League, is unstoppable.

CSKA Moscow is also really a kind, in the case of three goals behind, not only the team's morale did not collapse, but played more decisive and resolute.

In the last minute of the first half, taking advantage of the Manchester City players' reduced concentration, they sneaked up and scored a goal by Ivory Coast striker Dumbia to make it 3:1.

This goal conceded has little impact on the outcome of the game, but it has a big impact on Manchester City's goal difference.

Manuel Pellegrini was unhappy with the goal he conceded, making a rare flare in the dressing room and pointing the finger at Fernandinho.

The Brazilian's late defensive leakage and lack of enthusiasm in the follow-up were the main reasons for conceding this goal.

If Pellegrini had been privately criticising, Fernandinho might have conceded his mistake.

But he criticized the other party in front of so many players, and Fernandinho couldn't hold his face.

He retorted, which made Pellegrini even more angry, and he felt that the other party was challenging his authority, so he directly replaced Fernandinho and let Milner replace him.

This substitution is a big blow to the players.

Under normal circumstances, unless you are not satisfied with your tactical arrangement, or you are very dissatisfied with the performance of the players, you will choose to make substitutions in midfield.

The outside world didn't know what was going on at Manchester City's side at first, but after seeing Milner on the pitch, he still played the formation and tactics of the first half.

They began to react, this is Chilean dissatisfaction with Brazilians!

'What's going on with Manchester City? Why did you change people so early? ”

"I don't know, I didn't see Fernandinho on the bench at Manchester City, he can't be at odds with Manuel Pellegrini, right?"

"Quite possibly, let's go look outside the stadium, if we can interview Fernandinho, then tomorrow's front page headlines will be ours!"

After discovering the abnormal situation on Manchester City's side, several reporters with a keen sense of smell didn't even watch the game and ran out to find someone.

……

Fernandinho's departure did not have much impact on Manchester City, but it was Milner who came on and helped the team open up the situation on the right with his positive movement.

In the 55th minute, City extended their lead again.

Lin Quan dribbled the ball on the left flank, and Aguero cooperated with him many times, and after seeing that there was only one defender against him, he immediately started to run.

At this time, Lin Quan was still far from the goal, and Sergio Sergio's coquettish movement did not attract the attention of CSKA Moscow, and only one defender guarded him.

Seeing that the opponent's defense was leaky, Lin Quan sent his trademark 45-degree arc pass against the ground.

The ball pressed against the turf and flew a graceful arc on the ground, directly bypassing the opposition full-back and sending the ball to the feet of Sergio Aguero.

"Good shot!"

Seeing Lin Quan send a wonderful pass, He Wei in the commentary seat couldn't help but shout, scaring Xu Yang next to him.

"Here it is, Lin Quan's trademark 45-degree diagonal pass, which he used many times to assist his teammates to score when he was in the Bundesliga.

In the Premier League, teams that are familiar with Lin Quan usually don't give him such a passing space, but CSKA Moscow doesn't seem to know this, they give Lin Quan too much space to handle the ball, which is a huge mistake! ”

Sergio Aguero was very comfortable receiving Lin Quan's pass, because the ball was so weird that the opposing defenders didn't expect Lin Quan to bypass their complete defense.

As a result, at this time, there was no one around Aguero to interfere with him at all!

Sergio Aguero didn't waste Lin Quan's clever pass, he poked the ball into the net with his toes very easily before the goalkeeper could react.

After scoring a brace, Aguero pointed his finger at Lin Quan and ran towards Lin Quan.

Lin Quan thought that the other party was going to hug and celebrate with him, but he didn't expect Aguero to run in front of him and bow to him.

"No, no, no!"

Lin Quan was stunned for a moment, and then pulled Aguero up.

"How did you pass that ball just now, it's too godly, right?"

Aguero put his arm on Lin Quan's shoulder and asked curiously.

"It's like taking a free kick, just keep the ball at a certain height from the ground!"

What Lin Quan said was very simple, but Aguero felt very difficult after listening to it.

Football is subject to gravity and declines, and if it is really like what he said, then when the football is first played, the height must not be low.

But when he watched Lin Quan's pass, the position of the football was not high!

It's something that some people learn very quickly, like Kevin De Bruyne.

Some people are slow learners, such as other teammates in Werder Bremen.

Lin Quan told them the trick of this pass, but no one but Kevin De Bruyne could make such a pass.

This is the problem of talent, the method is handed over to you, you can't kick it out by yourself, then Lin Quan can't help it!

City's attack continued, as they needed to work hard to score more goals in the second half after a sneak attack in the first half.

Now the score is only 4:1, three goal difference is far from enough!

"What's the score on Bayern's side?"

Pellegrini couldn't help but be curious and asked the assistant beside him.

This round of the group stage was played at the same time, and Manchester City basically won the opponent, but I don't know if there are any surprises on Bayern's side.

If Bayern loses, then Manchester City will be able to lock up the top spot in the group in advance!

Of course, it is basically impossible to expect a team that was only recently beaten by Bayern Munich 5-0 to beat them.

"Uh, it's 0:0!"

The assistant coach made a phone call to Manchester City's scouts who were watching the game in the Czech Republic and got the latest information.

“0:0？”

Hearing this score, Pellegrini couldn't believe it for a while.

No way?

What's going on with Bayern?

Although it is an away game, it is not like you can't score a goal for more than 50 minutes, right?

They have a lot of top stars such as Ribery, Robben, Gotze and so on!

"Yes, Pep Guardiola seems to have adopted a very strange formation in the game, and it just so happened that the opponent put up a bucket formation, Bayern can't find a way to score for the time being, and now the score is still deadlocked!"

Hearing the assistant coach's words, Pellegrini was a little speechless for a while.

Feelings: Our Manchester City has worked hard to win the goal here, but Bayern didn't follow at all?

Pep Guardiola, what the hell are you doing?

Do you think Bayern will definitely beat Manchester City in the last game?

But even if the last game can be won, but if this one is forced to draw or even lose by Plzen's victory, then what will Bayern do with Manchester City to compete for the top spot in the group?

"Could it be that Pep Guardiola thinks it doesn't matter if he wins the group or not, so he decided to experiment with new tactics in advance before the knockout rounds?"

Speculation was made, and the conjecture was unanimously agreed.

"Well, it makes sense, let our people probe and report again!"

……

Inside the Plzen City Stadium 1,500 kilometres away, Guardiola scratched his head at the bright red 0:0 score on the scoreboard.

The striker formation looks a bit unaccustomed to Bayern here!

Neither Gotze nor Muller could afford Messi's role at Barcelona, and Bayern's attack was very awkward.

On the bench of Bayern Munich, Mandzukic sat on the bench with a gloomy face.

He couldn't figure out how well he was doing in the league and the Champions League.

Why does Pep Guardiola always like to put himself on the bench?

Bayern don't have a center forward in the squad at the moment!

A team doesn't want a striker, what kind of international joke is this?

Mandzukic feels his status with the team has slipped severely.

He was also a champion for Bayern Munich last season, Heynckes took him very seriously, and Mandzukic felt very good in his first season at Bayern.

It was precisely because of his outstanding performance last season that Mandzukic had the idea of ending his life at the Allianz Arena.

However, after several cold bench games in a row, his idea was shaken.

I really want to play for Bayern, but he doesn't need me!

Do you want me to sit on the bench for the rest of my life and become a famous Bayern man by sitting on the cold bench?

Forget it, after playing this World Cup, let's find a team that can play the main team to transfer!

Mandzukic is not young, and at the age of 27, he is in the prime of his career.

He didn't want to squander his prime on Bayern's cold bench, so he came up with the idea of a transfer.

While Mandzukic was thinking about it, he felt someone push him.

"Mario, the coach is calling you!"

Boateng, who was also placed on the bench, saw that Mandzukic was distracted and quickly pushed him.

"Huh? What's up? ”

Mandzukic heard Boateng's words and subconsciously looked at the other party.

Boateng saw that Guardiola had already looked towards the two of them, and hurriedly signaled to Mandzukic.

"Mario, go warm up, the team needs you!"

It was only then that Mandzukic heard Guardiola calling his name.

Hearing the latter half of the sentence, he stood up from the bench suddenly, quickly took off his coat, and ran to the sidelines to warm up!

It's finally time to play!

It's only 55 minutes, and there's still time!

After asking Mandzukic to warm up, Guardiola called Martinez up again and told him to warm up too.

It seems that he is planning to change two people in a row.

Seeing Pep Guardiola call two players from the bench to warm up, the Bayern players on the pitch felt a little nervous.

Under Pep Guardiola, no one in the team except Neuer has a solid position in the main team.

This guy likes to change formations so much, under him, the positions of the players are changed from one place to another, and even the players themselves don't know where they will be in the next game.

Four minutes later, the results of the substitutions were in.

Mandzukic came on to replace the underperforming Thomas Muller.

Martinez came on to replace Kroos, who was also a little lost.

This substitution made the Bayern fans who came to watch the game very dissatisfied.

Muller and Kroos are both Bayern's own academy players, they came to the team early, played for the team for many years, and are deeply loved by Bayern fans.

Guardiola has no opinion on substitutions, but specifically for Bayern's own academy players, they have an opinion!

Mandzukic didn't care about that, and after high-fives with a frustrated Muller, he ran to the field excitedly, not missing any opportunity to attack, running wildly, pressing and fighting for the top in the front court.

At this time, 60 minutes had passed in the game, and the players who won Plzen were already under the siege of Bayern players, and their physical strength was already a little unbearable.

Mandzukic, on the other hand, is the kind of player who is physical, full of physical energy and very mentally tough.

He plays center, and the impact is much stronger than a pseudo-center like Thomas Muller!

Mandzukic's efforts soon paid off, as he pushed a defender past an opposition defender in the 64th minute of the game and headed the ball into the back of the net.

Less than five minutes after the game, Mandzukic had the back of the net.

The commentators on the scene, Bayern fans and many players on the field felt that Guardiola's substitution was a stroke of genius.

However, Guardiola himself smiled bitterly: his reform at Bayern has failed halfway!

(End of chapter)