"With the halfway championship in hand, who can stop Manchester City? 》

"Premier League upstart 16 unbeaten in six rounds, breaking the best start of the Premier League again! 》

"Hat-trick crushes Gunners, Manchester City's No.10 beats Walcott! 》

"Arsene Wenger intends to strengthen the striker, Suarez may join Arsenal! 》

After the end of this round of the league, the major media in the United Kingdom have turned on the touting mode and boasted about Manchester City.

Manchester City have won 14 and drawn two of their first 16 league games, once again setting a new record for their best start to the Premier League.

And after beating Arsenal, they have already secured the halfway title three rounds in advance.

There is still a long way to go before the end of the season, but there is no doubt that City are already in the race for the title.

As long as they don't drop the chain themselves, with such a big advantage in their hands, their hopes of winning the championship are very high.

Blue Moon is very likely to lift their second Premier League trophy!

However, compared to the praise of the outside world, the Manchester City people themselves seem very humble.

"There are still some shortcomings in our team, and we will continue to strengthen during the winter break!"

In an interview with reporters, the club's president Fahim expressed the team's determination to continue to recruit reinforcements.

And manager Manuel Pellegrini has this idea:

"Yes, our squad is not deep enough to cope with multi-front operations, and we need to continue to strengthen it."

In the summer, Manchester City spent a lot of money in the transfer market, buying a large number of players.

Some of these have proven to be very cost-effective deals.

Like Fernandinho and Keylor Navas, they quickly secured the starting XI after entering the team and became the absolute main force of Manchester City.

However, some of the signings up front have been a little less cost-effective, and Negredo is good to say that he is qualified as a substitute for Sergio Aguero and can sometimes play a dozen starters.

Jovetic, on the other hand, has had few opportunities to play since arriving at Manchester City, and the €26 million signing now looks a bit wasted.

Pellegrini doesn't need a striker right now, he wants a playmaker.

David Silva can play as a central midfielder, but if he is played on the wing, he is more threatening, which is a position he is more familiar with.

Therefore, Manchester City need a serious organizational core to liberate Lin Quan.

This is also the opinion of the big boss Mansour, even if Pellegrini does not make a move during the winter break, the club will buy people.

Mansour has been very pleased with City's excellent performances on all fronts this season, and he has never been a money-stinger.

As long as he can make the team stronger and let the team go further on all fronts, then he will not hesitate to spend more money.

As a result, before the winter break arrived, many stars had already had scandals with Manchester City.

According to sources, Manchester City is eyeing the main midfielders of Bayern, Real Madrid, Barcelona and other teams.

When the transfer window opens, they will hand over an offer to these teams that they will find difficult to refuse.

The truth of this news is still unknown, but the major giants who have been rumored to have scandals are a little nervous.

Ordinary teams come to poach people, and they may laugh it off.

But when Manchester City comes to poach people, it's different!

The reason is simple, Manchester City are just too rich.

In the past, Manchester City were just rich nouveau riche, but this year, they have been on a high level in both the league and the Champions League.

After Lin Quan joined Manchester City, anyone can see that Manchester City has the qualifications to attack the Champions League trophy.

This means that other players who join Manchester City will not only receive a very high salary, but also continue to pursue glory.

This undoubtedly dispelled the concerns of many people and greatly lowered the threshold for them to join Manchester City.

At this time, once Manchester City makes an offer that is difficult for the club and the player to refuse, these giants are a little worried that they will not be able to hold on.

No way, Manchester City gave too much!

As a result, after the scandal between their own players and Manchester City, they were full of a sense of crisis and began to look for suitable alternatives in the transfer market in advance.

That way, by the time City do poach people with cheques, they won't be left without a backup option.

……

After the league match with Arsenal, club president Fahim and manager Manuel Pellegrini rushed to UEFA headquarters to participate in the draw for the quarter-finals of the 2013-2014 Champions League.

This is the first time Manchester City have reached the knockout stage, and they are very nervous about it, for fear of a black draw.

However, the strength of the second place in this year's group is not very strong, and Juventus, the Serie A champion who could have become a spoiler, was unexpectedly eliminated by the Turkish Super League team in the group stage and missed the knockout round.

In the remaining group runners-up, except for Arsenal in the Premier League and AC Milan in Serie A, the remaining teams are weak.

Therefore, as long as Manchester City's side is not too unlucky, they can basically draw a good draw.

But for Bayern, who finished second in the group, this season will be tough in the Champions League.

The top teams in the other groups are either the top clubs in the major leagues or the strong teams.

No matter who they meet, it's going to be a tough battle.

Of course, the same is true for other teams.

No one wants to meet last season's defending champions in the first stage of the knockout round!

As a result, the heads of the major giants who came to the scene to participate in the draw ceremony generally had nervous expressions on their faces.

They are all cursing Bayern in their hearts, damn the defending champions are not playing well, and we have to be scared.

At seven o'clock in the evening of December 16, the lottery ceremony officially began.

UEFA Secretary General Gianni Infantino, Competition Director Marchetti and this season's Champions League ambassador Figo will join forces to draw eight teams from the two pools representing the group winners and group runners.

In the group stage, the eight teams that finished first in the group are: Manchester United, Real Madrid, Paris, Manchester City, Chelsea, Borussia Dort, Atletico Madrid and Barcelona.

These eight teams will enjoy the advantage of away and home, which is clearly a reward for their top spot in the group.

Finishing second in the group were: Bayer Leverkusen, Galatasaray, Olympiacos, Bayern Munich, Werder Bremen, Arsenal, Zenit St. Petersburg and AC Milan.

As the second in the group, they need to play home first and then away, and the schedule is not friendly to them, and if they do not play well at home, they will even lose their hope of qualifying.

Under the watchful eye, Figo was the first to pull Manchester City out.

Seeing his team being pulled out, Fahim sat up straight, while Pellegrini couldn't help but clasp his hands together.

Obviously, both of them were a little nervous in their hearts.

"Manchester City have been on a thriving run this season, both in the league and in the Champions League, and are unbeaten so far, so they don't know who they will be against them?"

The host smiled and said, but the second place in each group couldn't laugh at this time, obviously, everyone didn't want to draw Manchester City.

Martiquet pulled a team from the second-place pool in the group and unfolded it to reveal that it was the Arsenal crest.

According to UEFA regulations, in the 1/8 finals of the Champions League, teams from the same league and teams in the same group will be automatically avoided.

So this time the draw didn't count, and after the redraw, a team with a white letter W on a green background was drawn.

If Lin Quan was here, he would have recognized at a glance which team it was - Werder Bremen!

Seeing this draw, Fahim and Pellegrini were stunned for a moment, and then both breathed a sigh of relief.

Werder Bremen are not the weakest group runners-up, but they are not strong either, and with Germany not far from the UK, they won't have too hard to play away.

So for Manchester City, it's a signing!

The broadcast camera was given to Werder Bremen's head coach Schaf, and compared to the relaxation and excitement on Manchester City's side, Coach Schaf's expression was obviously much more serious.

Is Lin on the team?

He couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart: Is this a bad taste of UEFA?

It was a good draw for Manchester City, but for Werder Bremen, it was essentially a death sentence.

"Damn, UEFA will play, and let Manchester City meet Werder Bremen!"

"If it weren't for the script, I would have eaten the computer raw!"

"This draw is very friendly to Manchester City, basically announcing the quarter-finals!"

"Yes, Bremen have dropped a lot this season and it's hard for them to pose a threat to Manchester City!"

"With Bremen's strength, it's hard to play against anyone, relatively speaking, it may be better to meet Manchester City, at least Lin Huang won't kill them!"

"I'm a Bremen fan, welcome Lin Quan home!"

"Welcome home!"

Bremen fans have a lot of affection for Lin Quan, and Werder Bremen's decline has been going on for a long time.

If it weren't for him and Kevin De Bruyne leading Bremen all the way to second place in the league last season, Werder Bremen would not have had a chance to enter the Champions League.

This season, after losing Lin Quan and Kevin De Bruyne, Werder Bremen have been knocked back to their prototype in the league, and they are fifth from bottom in the Bundesliga in league points, just one step away from the relegation zone.

In this case, Werder Bremen simply cannot afford to juggle the Champions League, and they have to fight for the team's relegation.

It is for this reason that fans of the Parrot Army miss their former twin stars even more.

If these two people were still around, the team's record would definitely not have fallen to this point.

……

The second to be drawn is Barcelona, and their opponents are Arsenal Arsenal.

Seeing this draw, Wenger's face changed all of a sudden.

He seriously suspects that this is a UEFA shady, otherwise why does Arsenal always face Barcelona in the knockout rounds?

The third to be drawn is Atletico Madrid, and their opponents are AC Milan.

It was a suspenseful matchup, with AC Milan being the strongest of the remaining six group winners, while Atletico Madrid were the weaker of the group winners.

With two teams facing each other, the outcome of the game can be difficult to predict, and the hopes of both sides to advance should be similar.

Subsequently, the opponents of Paris Saint-Germain, Real Madrid, Manchester United, and Dortmund were also released.

Grand Paris drew Bayer Leverkusen and have great hopes of advancing with their quality.

Real Madrid drew Olympiacos, and there is almost no suspense in this group, and it is almost impossible for the Greek team to pose a threat to Real Madrid.

Manchester United drew Galatasaray, and this draw is not good or bad for Manchester United.

The opponents are not very strong, but it will be a big challenge for Manchester United's players to go to the hellish home stadium of the Turkish Super League.

Dortmund drew Zenit St. Petersburg, the opponent is not strong, and it is the lowest point in the history of the Champions League to advance, so it is widely believed that Dortmund will advance.

There are only the last two teams left in the draw pool, and even if they don't, everyone knows the outcome of this final matchup.

Figo still went through the procedure and pulled the last two teams out.

The final match in the final group is Chelsea vs Bayern Munich!

After the results were released, the director gave two sets of shots, aimed at Bayern Munich manager Pep Guardiola and Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho.

The two are some of the most popular top coaches in football today, and they have been battling it out in the Champions League and La Liga for years.

thought that after they left La Liga one after another, the number of encounters between the two would decrease.

But what people didn't expect was that the fate between the two was so deep, even if they came to two different leagues, they still encountered in the first stage of the knockout round.

The result is not good news for either side, with Jose Mourinho's Chelsea and Pep Guardiola's Bayern Munich winners last season and last season's Champions League winners respectively.

Both teams are also very strong in their own right, and are among the favourites ahead of the group stage.

However, the early encounter between the two teams means that one team is bound to miss out on the quarter-finals.

Mourinho and Pep Guardiola did not look good after seeing this result.

Jose Mourinho's face turned pale, his eyes fixed on UEFA's secretary general, Gianni Infantino.

The madman had long suspected that the Champions League draw was a pre-arranged script, and now he was even more convinced.

He could guess that this game was deliberately arranged by UEFA for the sake of traffic and gimmicks.

In the past, the one-eighth finals, because of the huge disparity in strength between the two sides, were not exciting enough, and there was not much to see.

But Bayern and Chelsea are different, the two teams are not only close in strength, but also have various grievances.

Bayern have avenged Chelsea's defeat in the final two years ago, plus the fateful clash between Mourinho and Pep Guardiola......

What a gimmick and a highlight!

Pep Guardiola's expression is also serious, he has confidence in Bayern, but he does not want to face such a strong team in the first stage of the knockout round.

Chelsea defensively are tough, while Bayern Munich have a bad schedule for them because they have to play home first.

With his understanding of Mourinho, the opponent will definitely put on a strict defensive posture at the Allianz Stadium and play the ultimate defensive counterattack.

If Bayern are unable to beat Chelsea at their own home stadium, Bayern's hopes of victory will be very slim.

The reporters and the audience at the scene were obviously well aware of the grievances between the two, so after the results were released, a heated discussion broke out at the scene.

Other teams, especially those giants, are gloating, sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight, and watching the two giants fight.

For teams aiming to win the title, such as Barcelona and Real Madrid, this is clearly a result they would very much like to see.

Because they didn't need to make a move, one of the two strong teams was eliminated.

And even if it is the winning side, after such a tragic battle, their consumption will definitely be great.

Meeting them in the quarter-finals will give the other giants much more hope of winning.

According to UEFA's official schedule, Manchester City will travel to the Weser Stadium on 19 February 2014 to face Werder Bremen.

The second leg between the two teams will be played at the Etihad Stadium on 13 March.

Judging by the strength of both teams, Manchester City could end the suspense of the game in the first leg.

However, some fans believe that Lin Quan is likely to show mercy when he returns to the Weser Arena for the first time since leaving Werder Bremen.

Lin Quan is the heart of Manchester City's attack, and if he shows mercy at his feet, Werder Bremen may not lose at home.

Manchester City 4:0 Real Madrid, can you believe it?

In the final against Inter, it feels like Manchester City can already open champagne in advance!

The premise is that Guardiola is not alive~~

(End of chapter)