The teams in Ligue 1 are indeed not strong in the Champions League, but the results of the French national team are not weak at all.

And there are many players from Ligue 1 in the five major leagues, and the reason why Ligue 1 ranks at the bottom of the five major leagues is actually related to their lack of a leader.

In addition to Ligue 1, the five major leagues have their own top giants, such as BIG4 in the English Premier League, Barcelona Real Madrid in La Liga, Milan and Juventus in Serie A, and even the largest Bundesliga, all of which have top giants like Bayern.

With the top giants supporting the façade, they can gather popularity and attract more excellent players to join, and after the addition of excellent players, their strength will be further enhanced, and they can achieve better results in the Champions League and Europa League.

And Ligue 1 lacks such a top giants before Grand Paris.

It is said to be a prosperous scene of a hundred flowers, but the strength of the teams in the entire league is generally not strong, and no one can open the grade with other teams, and giants will not be born.

A league without giants can't retain excellent local players.

In order to pursue better treatment and a higher stage, these excellent players will naturally choose to leave.

This has caused a serious brain drain in Ligue 1, and Arsene Wenger has taken young demons from Ligue 1 many years ago.

After Arsene Wenger, other giants also set their sights on Ligue 1 teams, with Benzema, Griezmann, Giroud, Nasri, Kante and other players poached one after another.

The French are obviously aware of this problem, so when Mbappe wants to transfer to Real Madrid in the future, the French government and even the president himself intervene.

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Upon their return to Manchester, City soon faced the challenge of league rivals Southampton.

The opponent is not strong, the league is in the middle of the table, and most of Manchester City's main players have not participated in the previous Champions League games, and they easily defeated the opponent 3:1 at home.

After this game, City's lead in the table was extended to nine points.

With only a third of the way through the season, they are already close to 10 points behind second place.

Pep Guardiola's team's results in the league are really not stable.

Everyone has long been surprised that Manchester City occupies the top of the table.

After this round of matches, except for a few media reports on the results of Manchester City's game, most of the rest of the media spotlight was on a dark horse - Claudio Ranieri's Leicester City!

At the beginning of the season, Leicester City attracted the attention of many people with a wave of consecutive wins and was called a dark horse.

However, it is widely believed that Leicester City, which has a relatively thin squad and lacks big-name stars, will gradually lose their dark horse status and become a mediocre team in the middle of the season after other opponents find out their characteristics.

Their results will gradually return to the normal range.

However, to everyone's surprise, Claudio Ranieri's Leicester side showed remarkable resilience, not only did not return to mediocrity as everyone predicted, but went from strength to strength.

With the exception of losing to Arsenal in the seventh round of the league, they have a record of 8 wins, 5 draws and 1 defeat so far.

In this round of the league, Leicester City defeated the menacing Manchester United 1:1 at home and consolidated their second position in the league.

Although the gap with Manchester City is very large, and the hope of winning the Premier League is very small, as long as they maintain their current form, then it will be a high probability event for the Foxes to get a place in the Champions League next season.

As a team that has long been in the lower leagues, they have not reached the Champions League in their 132-year history.

As long as Ranieri can lead his group of disciples to accomplish this miracle, their names will surely be etched in the history of Leicester City and forever remembered by Leicester City fans!

The Premier League has always been dominated by traditional giants, and there are few opportunities for ordinary teams to perform.

So this season, when Leicester City burst onto the scene, it immediately attracted a lot of attention from fans and the media.

People seem to be a little tired of the top giants who have been monopolizing the league title landscape and want to see some spoilers step up and challenge them.

A few years ago, Manchester City played this role, but Manchester City is a team that has received investment from Middle Eastern tycoons, and the smell of copper makes many fans not like it very much.

Compared to Manchester City, Leicester City are grassroots and their current record is not based on a large amount of money.

It is said that last summer, Leicester City's transfer budget was only more than 30 million euros, which is not comparable to the cost of buying a star for a big team.

The reason why they have been able to achieve such outstanding results is the result of their three military lives, the unity of the generals, and the concerted efforts of all of them.

Such a grassroots team is obviously more likely to win the favor of fans.

After all, the vast majority of people are just ordinary people, and they all want to see the story of the grassroots counterattacking the rich and handsome.

And Leicester City is playing out such a script.

Manchester City, Manchester United and other giants are naturally the targets of their counterattack.

After Leicester City held Manchester United to a draw, fans can't wait to see them play Manchester City.

And the match between the two teams was scheduled for the last game of the first half of the season, which is also the second game of the Christmas Express!

There is still a full month to go before that game, but the outside world can't wait to start hyping it up in advance.

On December 2, Manchester City beat Hull City 4-1 at the end of the EFL Cup quarter-finals.

The most asked questions by reporters are not about Manchester City and Hull City, but about their game against Leicester City.

"Coach Pep Guardiola, what do you think of Ranieri and his Leicester team?"

'Claudio Ranieri is a good coach, he has a great eye and he always brings out some amazing young players!'

Pep Guardiola has been keeping an eye on Claudio Ranieri's team, and Leicester City has several players in the squad that he is very optimistic about and even wants to bring in.

And these people can achieve such results, which is inseparable from Ranieri's promotion and training.

Ranieri has always had a way of getting the most out of a bunch of not-so-good hands, especially when it comes to building the foundation of a team, and he has his own unique understanding and deep skills.

Even Pep Guardiola sighs at this point, he knows very well that his style of play has extremely high requirements for players, but anyone who is not a giant, or even a super giant, can't play this set.

Let him lead a civilian team like Ranieri, and to be honest, Guardiola feels that he is probably not even relegated!

"Do you think Leicester City would be a threat to Manchester City?" Another reporter saw that Guardiola spoke so highly of Ranieri, so he took the opportunity to ask.

"Of course, any team can pose a threat to Manchester City, after all, we are not invincible!"

"But Manchester City are still unbeaten so far, whether it's in the league or cup, and even in the Champions League!"

Journalists scoffed at Pep Guardiola's words, and Manchester City have not lost on any front this season.

"Hehe, you know, anything can happen on the field, and while we're unbeaten so far, maybe we'll lose the next game?"

Pep Guardiola's words were perfunctory, and City's next opponent is Stoke City.

The opponent is currently ranked 14th in the league, no matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like the existence of being able to beat Manchester City, who believes that Manchester City will lose to them?

However, to everyone's surprise, Stoke City actually won!

On December 5, the 15th round of the Premier League, the first match between Stoke City and Manchester City.

Stoke City, who are playing at home, hit a nonchalant Manchester City in the opening stages, scoring just two minutes into the game.

While Manchester City were attacking in anger, they launched a quick counter-attack in the eighth minute and scored another goal to make it 2-0

The Britannia Stadium was boiling in an instant, let alone Manchester City, and even the Stoke City fans themselves didn't expect their team to get such a dream start!

This scene is very similar to the previous Liverpool and Manchester City games, the difference is that the Stoke City manager is very pragmatic.

After the team took a two-goal lead, they decisively chose to retreat with all their hands and honestly set up a bus in front of their goal.

For the next 80 minutes, City used a variety of tactics to launch one attack after another on the opposing goal, but to no avail.

In the end, Manchester City lost 0-2 away to Stoke City and lost their first game of the season.

This result surprised everyone, and many people thought of what Guardiola said in an interview with reporters before.

I didn't expect that the casual words at the beginning turned into a prophecy.

In the midst of Manchester City's first defeat of the season, Leicester City beat Swansea City 3-0 away in the other game, narrowing the gap between them and Manchester City to six points.

When the two teams were separated by nine points, few thought Leicester had the potential to challenge for Manchester City's league title.

But when Manchester City was broken by a team in the middle and lower reaches, and Leicester City took the opportunity to narrow the gap between the two teams, the outside world's expectations for Leicester City to win the title suddenly increased a lot!

"Are we really going to see a miracle of a dark horse in the Premier League?"

"How many years has this been? How many years has it been since a non-big team won the championship on the stage of the top flight? ”

"If memory serves, the last time a non-big team won the Premier League was Ben Blake in the 94-95 season, and it's been more than 20 years now!"

"I really hope Leicester can beat Manchester City to win the title, I really don't want to see Manchester City and other big teams monopolize the league title!"

"+1 upstairs, I also want to see the dark horse counterattack!"

"Hehe, if Leicester City really succeeds, then we are also fortunate to be witnesses to miracles!"

"Pour cold water first, Manchester City's strength is very strong, although other giants have dropped the chain this season, but Manchester City's foundation still looks very stable, Leicester City wants to counterattack to win the championship, it is very difficult!"

"Yes, after all, the other party is the current top team in the world, the team is star-studded, and has top coaches and top players at the same time, to win them, it really takes very good luck!"

"That's right, if Leicester City really wants to get past Manchester City, then they must win that game on December 28, it is a crucial battle worth six points, whoever wins will have a chance to win the title!"

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The hype did not seem to put any pressure on Pep Guardiola and Manchester City, but the whole team felt relieved because of the loss.

It's good to be undefeated, but every game they want to keep their undefeated body, and it's very tiring to play.

It's not a good thing for the players to continue this form because it will continue to put pressure on them to carry the weight forward.

While the defeat to Stoke City was a bit of a surprise, it still had a big lead and had little impact on City's title winning prospects.

As long as they don't keep dropping the chain themselves!

December 9, the final match of the Champions League group stage.

Manchester City host Borussia Mönchengladbach's challenge.

It's a game that doesn't mean much for City, but for the other three teams, it's about their fate.

Therefore, before the start of the game, Juventus and Sevilla sent people to the Etihad Stadium in advance to report the situation in real time, so that the team could grasp the latest information as soon as possible.

Even, Morata who has a close relationship with Lin Quan also called Lin Quan for help, hoping that he could teach Borussia Mönchengladbach a good lesson at home and try to send them a heavy defeat.

In view of the fact that he did not get the opportunity to play in the last game, Lin Quan is not sure if he can play in this game.

So he just said that if he had the chance, he would do his best, but it all depends on the coach's arrangement.

The head coach of Borussia Mönchengladbach greatly complimented Guardiola before the game, what a young and promising, good coach, outstanding ability and so on.

It seems that he wants to let the other party let himself go in this way!

Manchester City sent substitutes in the last game, so this one should also be on the bench, right?

After all, the Premier League's Christmas Express is just around the corner, and Guardiola doesn't want his team to consume too much energy at this time, right?

Although Borussia Mönchenchen is not City's main opponent, if Manchester City do send a team of substitutes, then he feels they still have some chances.

Borussia Mönchen now have five points on their hands and if they can win this game, they have a very good chance of qualifying.

However, when he saw Manchester City's starting list, the coach of Borussia Mönchen was dumbfounded!

Sergio Aguero, Lin Quan, De Bruyne......

What about the substitute lineup?

It's not about martial arts!