"No. 47, that kid's name is Foden, right? Doesn't he look too young, is he really 18 years old? ”

On the bench, several of Manchester City's main players were pointing to the young player on the pitch who looked like a child with a baby face on his head.

"I'm almost eighteen years old, I heard that it was in May 00, and I will be eighteen years old in a few months."

"This kid has good skills on his feet, and he can occasionally have eye-catching performances, but he is a little worse in physical confrontation, but he has a positive attitude and a very positive running."

Eighteen-year-old Foden is nowhere near as good as five or six years later.

Now he is still an immature rookie, and he still needs to continue to hone, accumulate more game experience, and then learn lessons from actual combat, find his own shortcomings, clarify his strengths, make up for his shortcomings, and strengthen his strengths, so as to make himself stand out from the fierce competition.

It's not going to happen in a while, especially for a player like him who wants to be the team's midfield commander or the heart of the attack, he still has a long way to go.

"Well, what do you think of this kid?"

Lin Quan touched De Bruyne, who was sitting next to him, with his arm and asked him.

Foden is in a similar position to Kevin De Bruyne on the pitch, but the two have very different styles.

Foden's position is higher, playing more like a false nine, participating in more attacks, taking on fewer organizational tasks, and his role on the field is actually a bit like Lin Quan.

"It's fast, he has a good control of the space on the pitch, he has a good ability to run without the ball, and the physical confrontation is a little bit worse, but for a player of his age and this body, it's already good."

De Bruyne is still more optimistic about Foden, after all, he is a talent that the manager values, and he is definitely not an ordinary person who can get into the eyes of Guardiola.

De Bruyne's point of view Lin Quan basically agrees that Foden is not the core of the organization, he is more like the core of the attack.

Therefore, he is most likely to become his substitute in the future, considering that the age difference between the two is not large, Lin Quan is only four years older than Foden.

So Foden, the prince of Manchester City, if he wants to take the throne, I'm afraid he will have to wait a long time.

……

Pep Guardiola's anger still worked, and after these substitutes on the pitch were awakened by the scolding, they immediately began to give the opponent intensity.

In the 51st minute of the second half, after receiving a direct plug from Gundogan, Seat B cut inside into the penalty area and scored from a small angle, turning the score into 2:1.

But they were quick to get on the scoresheet, and in the 71st minute, Foden made a mistake and Basel broke the ball up front to form a quick counter-attack, with their striker leaning on a City defender on the edge of the box and slotting the ball back to the wing-back, who volleyed home the goal.

The score became 2:2.

This time Guardiola did not curse anymore and directly replaced Foden.

Foden came off the pitch dejected, knowing that he had done something wrong, so he was worried about whether the coach would be disappointed in him because of his mistake.

"Don't worry, coaches don't usually curse!"

Seeing Foden's anxious look, Lin Quan opened his mouth to comfort him.

"Well, unless you make a super big mistake, and the coach can't stop once he scolds!"

Aguero on the side made up for it with a blank face, and the expression on Foden's face collapsed instantly.

That's it!

Foden seemed to see the fate that awaited him.

After Foden went off the field, the score on the field did not change for a long time, and at the end of regular time, the score was still 2:2, and the two sides seemed to be about to shake hands.

However, in the second minute of stoppage time, substitute centre-back Laporte, who had only been transferred from Athletic Bilbao during the winter break, scored his first goal since joining Manchester City during a scramble in the box.

With this goal, Manchester City finally won 3:2, a thrilling victory over the opponent.

As a result, they eliminated Basel with an aggregate score of 7:2 and successfully advanced to the quarterfinals.

The next day, as the final knockout match of the Champions League quarter-finals came to an end, the list of teams that had reached the quarter-finals had been released.

They are Manchester City and Liverpool from the Premier League, and Real Madrid, Barcelona and Sevilla from La Liga.

Juventus and Roma from Serie A, Bayern Munich from the Bundesliga.

While all five Premier League teams made it to the knockout rounds, most of them lost after the first round of knockouts.

Tottenham, whose bench depth is slightly thin, lost 3:4 in a hard-fought battle with Juventus and unfortunately went out.

Chelsea lost 4-1 to Barcelona and were eliminated.

As for Manchester United, Sevilla, which was not very strong, was a good sign for them.

And they also drew away from home in the first round, and the situation seems to be very good.

However, in the second leg at home, Manchester United lost 1-2 to Sevilla and watched in frustration as their opponents stepped on their bodies and reached the quarter-finals.

In this way, the biggest winner in the quarterfinals is La Liga.

All three of their teams made it to the knockout round, and all of them advanced to the next round, with a ridiculously high promotion rate.

On the contrary, it was the huge Premier League side, but the final result was unsatisfactory and a little disappointing.

However, after the list of the top eight was released, everyone no longer cared about feeling sorry for the teams that were eliminated, and everyone was concerned about the next round of matchups.

Will UEFA arrange a match like Manchester City vs. Real Madrid?

In many previous Champions League matches, there were rumors that UEFA was secretly manipulating the matchups.

Many games between teams are, to put it bluntly, actually a script arranged by UEFA in advance.

The aim is to attract attention and get more people involved in the discussion and then watch the Champions League match.

Real Madrid and Manchester City were the two sides in last year's Champions League final, and if they were to meet in the quarter-finals early this year, it would be a classic revenge battle.

This kind of strong dialogue that is close to the level of the Champions League final, coupled with the revenge relationship between the two teams, this game is full of gimmicks!

Even if you are not a fan of these two teams, it may be difficult to refuse to watch such an exciting and exciting matchup, right?

To their disappointment, however, UEFA did not arrange such a script.

They seem to be worried that if these two strongest teams are allowed to meet too early, the excitement of the next semi-finals and even the final and the expectations of the fans may be affected.

This is detrimental to the viewership and commercial value of the competition!

In the end, the matchup in the quarterfinals is as follows:

Real Madrid drew Juventus, the overlord of Serie A, and Real Madrid has a slight advantage in hard power, but Juventus has improved every year in recent years, just slightly inferior to Real Madrid, and the suspense of the game is still very large, and the outside world thinks that it is almost a 64-open situation.

Bundesliga giant Bayern drew the weakest Sevilla in the quarterfinals, and there should be no suspense in this game, and the outside world is unanimously optimistic that Bayern will advance to the semifinals.

Barcelona drew a relatively weak Roma, which is also a very good signing, so it is predicted that Barcelona will advance to the semi-finals.

As for Manchester City and Liverpool, there is a situation that the last thing the two teams and even the entire Premier League fans want to see - the two teams are drawn together.

Seeing this result, Liverpool coach Klopp, who came to participate in the draw ceremony, couldn't help but shake his head and smile.

Liverpool have just played Manchester City in the league, and they have not bargained for anything, and now they are going to meet each other in the Champions League, which is a lot of luck for Liverpool.

Liverpool's luck is also gone, among these eight teams, Liverpool is probably the last one Liverpool wants to meet, I'm afraid Manchester City.

Even if they play Real Madrid, it is better than Manchester City.

At least Real Madrid have played against them less often and don't know their style and quality very well.

However, Manchester City and they are not only regular opponents in the league, but also close neighbours, and they know each other well, so they have no secrets in front of Manchester City.

When encountering such an opponent, even if you want to make a surprise move, it will be difficult to succeed.

Compared with Klopp's wry smile, Guardiola's mood is not very good.

Liverpool is smelly and hard, and it is often prone to explosives, and if you are not careful, you will play with momentum, and then you will be out of control.

Such an opponent, to be honest, they don't want to meet either.

However, the draw to Liverpool is not entirely bad news, at least for Manchester City, it is easy to go to Liverpool, there is no tiring situation, which will be much less physical consumption for the players.

There is also no such thing as going to the away stadium early and then being harassed by the home team's fans and not being able to rest.

After all, Liverpool are only a few dozen kilometres from Manchester, and they can take a bus before the game starts, and the opposing fans can't even make trouble.

You can't let a whole bunch of Liverpool fans come to Manchester to make trouble, right?

Are Manchester City's local fans vegetarians?

With almost a month to go until the Champions League quarter-finals, there is plenty of time for both sides to prepare.

The most important thing for both sides now is to get as many points as possible in the league.

One wants to win the title early, and the other has to keep his place in the top four of the league and keep his Champions League place next season.

……

On March 13, Manchester City, who returned to the Premier League, beat Stoke City 2-0 away, accumulating their winning streak to 7 games again.

Liverpool, on the other hand, were unlucky, losing 2-1 to Manchester United in their away game against Manchester United, not only did not extend their lead over Chelsea, but allowed Chelsea to chase back three points.

Liverpool are now just four points ahead of Chelsea and are in a precarious position with eight league games remaining.

In the 31st round, Manchester City continued to soar, beating Brighton 3-1 at home to win eight in a row.

Manchester United were held back by the Hammers away from home and ended in a 0-0 draw, which widened the gap between the two sides once again.

At the end of 31 rounds, Manchester City won 29 wins, 2 draws and zero losses, accumulating 89 points.

Manchester United, on the other hand, have 20 wins, 6 draws and 5 losses, with only 66 points.

With only seven league games remaining, City's lead extends to 23 points.

This also means that Manchester City has already announced the title seven rounds in advance.

It's a pity that Manchester United played later than Manchester City, otherwise they would have lifted the trophy at home today.

Inside Goodison Park Stadium, Everton, April 1.

Everton's players stood on either side of the entrance tunnel as they lined up to welcome the Premier League's new champions, Manchester City.

It's a Premier League tradition, and when a team wins the title early, the home team needs to line up to welcome the visitors.

Everton's relationship with Manchester City is neither good nor bad, so when their players do this, some genuinely admire Manchester City's feat of winning the title seven rounds early.

There are also those who feel envy and jealousy that Manchester City have won the league title again, after all, it has been more than 30 years since Everton's last league title.

They haven't tasted champions for more than 30 years, and they're going crazy thinking about champions.

Manchester City, on the other hand, has won 4 league titles in the past five years, and it is almost the words 'Manchester City exclusive' engraved on the Premier League championship trophy.

It's really a drought and a waterlog!

If the behaviour of Everton's players is normal, then the fans in the stands are very shameless.

From the moment City entered, they were buzzing and booing almost non-stop.

This made the Manchester City players can't help but raise a nameless fire, and then Everton was unlucky.

Only 20 minutes into the first half, the score on the field was already 0:3, with the home team in front and the away team behind.

Mbappe opened the scoring in the fourth minute, Sergio Aguero scored another goal in the seventh minute, and in the seventeenth minute, Lin Quan's free kick went straight to the goal to extend the score to 3:0.

The boos at Goodison Park finally stopped, and the Everton fans in the stands were dumbfounded.

Oh my God, I'm not dreaming, am I?

I seem to have dreamed that our team was killed as pigs by the other team, and we were beaten and had no power to fight back.

However, this dream was so real that they couldn't help but wonder if it was a dream or reality.

They have no doubt that if they continue to play according to this posture, there will be a tragedy today.

The 33-year-old Rooney crossed his hands on his hips, gasping for air, and looked blankly at the numbers on the scoreboard.

He couldn't understand that when he was running around Manchester United, Manchester City next door was just a small party.

How did it grow to this point in just a few years?

The world is changing so fast, he can't keep up with the rhythm anymore.

Thinking of this, Rooney suddenly had the idea of retiring.

Hollowed out by wine, he is becoming more and more unable to compete with the intensity of the Premier League.

Rather than continue to consume like this, it is better to break a little and retire.

Rooney is also a very proud person, after all, he once stood on the top of a mountain.

Pep Guardiola saw the players performing so well and was worried that they would use too much energy in the game, so he told them to control the tempo and reduce their consumption.

They still have a lot of tough battles to fight in the future, and since the winner of this game has been decided, there is no need to continue to do unnecessary attrition. (End of chapter)