On September 17, the fifth round of the Premier League began.

Chelsea, who had just been held to a draw in their last game, were beaten by Liverpool at their home stadium in this round.

After two rounds of winless games, they fell to sixth place in the standings, overtaken by Liverpool.

Liverpool have been in good form of late, going three games unbeaten since a shock second-round defeat to Burnley, and have won the last two against opponents.

They beat last season's runners-up Leicester City with a clean 4-1 win in the previous round, and then beat the Blues Chelsea away in this round.

The two victories have raised the outside world's evaluation of Liverpool a lot, and even Liverpool fans have begun to gradually regain their confidence at this time.

Compared with Liverpool, this defeat has lowered the expectations of the Blues a lot, and many people feel that this is the Chelsea they are familiar with!

Chelsea's previous three wins in a row looked like a surprise.

While Conte does look to have two brushes, Chelsea's current quality is still a bit close to winning the title, at least not compared to Manchester City at the top of the table.

The reason why I feel this way is entirely because Manchester City won this round of the league again, and it was a 4-0 victory over the opponent.

If that's not shocking enough, how about a 10-man Manchester City 4-0 thrashing of their opponents?

I don't know if it was deliberately targeted by the referee, Manchester City, who were playing at home in this game, received 5 yellow cards and 1 red card.

The red card was sent off by substitute winger Kylian Mbappe, who fell twice in the box, both times deemed by the referee to be a fake, and received two yellow cards in just 15 minutes and was ejected.

Mbappe was wronged, and he wanted to explain to the referee, but the referee didn't listen at all.

Poor child, almost all the way to the end of the cry.

Guardiola gave Mbappe a big hug on the sidelines, did psychological work on him for half a day, and finally calmed him down.

Although Manchester City were sent off, it did not affect the outcome of the game.

In this game, Manchester City blossomed more, Lin Quan, Aguero, De Bruyne, Van Dijk scored one after another, the team is in hot form, and there is no fatigue at all, you know, they just participated in the Champions League three days ago.

Maybe playing in the Champions League isn't a debuff?

In this round of the Premier League, all four teams participating in the Champions League have won.

Arsenal beat Hull City 4-1 away, Leicester beat Burnley 3-0 at home, and even Tottenham, who lost in the Champions League, beat Sunderland 1-0 at home.

Manchester City has frequent good news, while Manchester United next door is gloomy.

After losing at home to Manchester City in their last game, Manchester United's morale took a big hit.

In this round, he was a guest at the Cavage Road Stadium and lost to Watford in an upset.

And the loss was quite miserable, and the opponent scored three goals.

This made Manchester United fans extremely depressed, and the confidence that had been accumulated in the first three rounds has become shaky at the moment.

Fortunately, Mourinho made timely tactical adjustments, and led the team to a 4-1 victory over Leicester City in the sixth round of the league on September 24, which finally stopped Manchester United's declining morale.

The Reds were in excellent form, with a dizzying array of attacking and exciting combinations, and they had already scored four goals before the end of the first half, leaving Old Trafford fans hooked.

Ranieri's Fox City was defeated, and the camera footage at the scene captured Ranieri's helpless appearance as he was in a hurry on the sidelines.

Leicester City's record this season has been up and down, basically winning one game and losing one game, and all the losses have been strong conversations.

In other words, Claudio Ranieri's side don't have the quality to play hard, and can only bully the weaker teams in the lower middle of the league standings.

It is obviously impossible for such a team to win the championship, and it may not even be able to keep the top four.

Many people feel very sorry that the big dark horse that was full of color last season didn't expect to be beaten back to its original shape so quickly.

It seems to be the same as the old enemy Red Devils, Manchester United won the opponent by three goals, then the Reds will win by four goals!

Liverpool, who are also playing at home, slaughtered the visiting Hull City with a score of 5:1.

After winning this victory, Liverpool's winning streak has reached three, and the points have surpassed Arsenal to third place.

This has made Arsenal feel a huge threat, and the competition for a Champions League place in the Premier League this year is fierce.

With the exception of Manchester City, who are at the top of the table, the difference between the 2nd and 7th places is very small, and if you are not careful, you may fall behind.

Although Arsenal have a wealth of experience in keeping four places, there is no guarantee that they will succeed every time.

So, in the face of the visiting Blues Chelsea, the Gunners showed their strength, clattered, scored three goals in 20 minutes, and directly beat Chelsea stupidly.

With this victory, Arsenal overtook Liverpool by one goal difference and returned to the top three of the league.

But what made them extremely depressed was that Tottenham, the city's arch-rivals, actually won, and they were ahead of them.

Arsenal have 13 points from 4 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss, while Tottenham have 14 points from 4 wins and 2 draws, one more point than them.

What's even more infuriating is that Tottenham is still the only team in the Premier League this season that still remains unbeaten.

As soon as they thought of this, Arsenal fans were angry:

Sometimes it's more uncomfortable to watch your opponent win than when you lose.

Although the competition for places 2-7 is fierce, it is not much of a threat to Manchester City at the top of the table.

They beat Swansea 3-1 away in this round, with Lin Quan, Sergio Aguero and Leroy Sane scoring three goals in a very comfortable victory.

……

After the sixth round of fixtures, Manchester City rested for two days before flying away for the second round of the Champions League group stage.

In this round, their opponent is the Soviet Super League giants Celtic.

Celtic are not very strong, so the mentality of Manchester City is relaxed, and few people take the opponent seriously.

However, they soon paid the price for their light enemies.

On the road, Celtic striker Ousmane Dembele was in a flash, helping his team to break through the door of Manchester City in the third minute.

Then in a scramble, the Manchester City defenders made a mistake and created an own goal.

With less than 20 minutes to go, City were already two goals behind.

This result can be said to be completely beyond everyone's expectations.

Manchester City's players were a little confused and didn't seem to have come to their senses yet.

And Barcelona, who is far away at the Prussian Park Stadium, has already learned the news of another stadium.

"Man City are behind!"

Assistant coach Winsue leaned over and whispered in Enrique's ear.

"Oh? Did Celtic score? ”

"It's not just the goal, Manchester City are stunned, they're two goals behind now!"

Another coach, Moreno, said with a smile.

couldn't help but be excited, what is the strength of the Celtic, Barcelona, who has just played against them, knows it.

This team was just slaughtered 7-0 by them half a month ago!

The fact that such a team that is almost a fish belly can force Manchester City into such a situation really has to make people doubt Manchester City's state.

Enrique raised his eyebrows, forcibly suppressed the excitement in his heart, and quickly calculated in his heart.

Falling behind by 2 goals in less than 20 minutes, if Celtic had the self-knowledge to immediately shrink the formation and play a defensive counterattack, then even if it is as strong as Manchester City, it may be difficult to reverse the game.

If Celtic were in any better form, seizing the opportunity to make a counter-attack and score another goal, the probability of Manchester City losing would be close to 100 per cent.

If Manchester City loses, then Barcelona, as the biggest rivals in the group, can take the lead in the race for the top spot in the group.

Even if Manchester City is lucky enough to equalize the score, as long as Barcelona can win Borussia Mönchengladbach, they can still lead Manchester City by 2 points!

As for whether you can win the Mönchen, then do you need to say?

Borussia Mönchen is just an ordinary team in the Bundesliga, and they have a little experience in playing Bayern, and they are not Barcelona's opponents at all.

Thinking of this, the corners of Enrique's mouth couldn't help but curl.

There is nothing better for him to be able to beat Pep Guardiola's Manchester City.

However, just when Enrique was secretly complacent, an earth-shattering cheer erupted over the stadium.

"What's going on?"

Enrique was shocked and hurriedly looked towards the field.

I saw that the players on the field of Mönchengladbach were celebrating wildly, while the Barcelona players were stunned and looked at their own goals in frustration.

Inside Barcelona's goal, lies a playfully beating football.

Barcelona's goal was also breached.

……

In the stadium of Celtic Park, after falling behind 2-0, Guardiola was very angry, took off his jacket, rolled up his sleeves and began to direct the team to attack.

The reason why this game conceded so quickly, and one after another, is inseparable from coach Pep Guardiola.

Because he felt that the strength of the opponent was relatively weak, and it was only the group stage now, Guardiola was very bold to try his new tactics in the game.

In this game, he arranged a strange formation of 4141, with only one midfielder at the back, and it was not the main defender Kante, but Fernandinho.

Fernandinho can't do his best, but it's a bit difficult to let him do the work of two people by himself.

The biggest fear of a single midfield formation is the opening of the opponent's ribs on both sides, and Celtic did just that.

The opposing striker Dembele is only 20 years old, not only tall and energetic, but also fast.

Once he gets his hands on the ball in the ribs, he's an immediate threat.

Pep Guardiola is very persistent, he stubbornly did not change the formation.

In fact, Gundogan is on the field, let him retreat, and he can change back to the 4231 formation, so that the threat of the ribs can be removed immediately.

But after the melon's bald strength came up, he didn't care about anything.

Lao Tzu is going to kill you with this strange formation, you just say what!

There are a large number of substitutes in Manchester City's starting lineup in this game, and the main players are still sitting on the bench watching the play!

If it really doesn't work, let them play in the second half, I don't believe it won't solve you!

At Pep Guardiola's request, Manchester City quickly attacked.

Son Heung-min and Sane on both sides took turns attacking the opponent's wings.

David Silva and Gundogan in midfield either plugged in or sent a clever pass.

For a time, Manchester City's offensive was like a tide, overwhelming the opponent.

In the 23rd minute, Son Heung-min received a wonderful pass from David Silva and helped the team pull a goal back.

In the 28th minute, Sane cut the goal to rewrite the score to 2:2.

It took City less than 10 minutes to equalise.

As it turned out, the difference in quality between the two teams was indeed a bit big.

When City got serious, it was hard for Celtic to fend off their attacks.

After realizing the huge difference in strength between the two sides, Celtic retreated across the board, guarding their goals like an iron bucket, and did not give them a chance at all.

Although they also want to get 3 points, but looking at it like this, if they don't stick to it comprehensively, let alone 3 points, they can't get 1 point.

Due to Lin Quan's absence on the field, Manchester City lacks a sharp weapon to attack the city, and in the face of the opponent's iron bucket formation, it will not be able to find a good way for a while.

I tried all kinds of methods, besieged for nearly 20 minutes, and finally found nothing.

After the start of the second half, the opponent still looked like a strict defense.

However, Celtic's luck was really good, or their striker Dembele had shit luck in this game.

After the start of the second half, a big clearance by their defenders turned into an assist.

Dembele opened his long legs, exerted his strength, ran wildly, and finally caught up with the football before the defenders, without even looking at the goal, instinctively slashed in the general direction, and then the ball went in again!

The guy scored a hat-trick on Manchester City and also made an own goal.

After this game, this gentleman is afraid that he will become famous by one goal.

Pep Guardiola and Manchester City's players were stunned and looked at each other.

Is that okay?

We tried our best to attack, but we couldn't score.

You kid just ran around and scored again?

Where to reason with this!

Guardiola couldn't hold back, and didn't even wait for the usual substitution time, and directly began to make substitution adjustments.

Kevin De Bruyne comes on for Leroy Sane.

Lin Quan came on the field and replaced Son Xingmin.

N'Golo Kante comes on for Fernandinho.

After all the three main players appeared, anyone with a discerning eye could see that in the next game, Manchester City was going to do its best.

At this time, in another stadium far away in Germany, Barcelona players were celebrating their goals.

In the 65th minute of the second half, Barcelona's attack finally paid off.

Alda, who came on as a substitute, received an assist from Messi and scored the crucial goal of equalizing.

Borussia Mönchengladbach is much more difficult than Barcelona players imagined, and it is not easy to break through the opponent's goal!

Next, it was Barca's turn to counter-attack.

As long as they can score one more goal in the remaining time, then the win is theirs!

(End of chapter)