champion light

Chapter 1235 The most powerful second-tier team

Manchester City's record of tying AC Milan is the focus of discussion among the media.

The gold content of Manchester City's record-tying is one of the focuses of everyone's discussion, but after Sacchi speaks, this kind of debate tends to become weaker and weaker.Since Sacchi, the record-maker, has no opinion and highly admires Manchester City, what qualifications do other people have to criticize?Continuing to entangle the gold content is not embarrassing Manchester City, it is slapping AC Milan in the face.

Anyway, Gazzetta dello Sport only praised and congratulated Manchester City after Sacchi spoke, without any doubts.

On the other hand, "Turin Sports News" still had some doubts, but they were quickly drowned out.

Now everyone is more concerned about another thing.

Now that the record has been tied, there is nothing to discuss.

Now it's time to think about it, what will Manchester City do next after tying the record?
They are only one game away from setting their own record.

In the fourth round of the league, returning home they will face Wigan Athletic at Manchester City Stadium.

As long as they can not lose to Wigan Athletic, they will create a new record.

Manchester City should not let go of such an opportunity, but Wigan Athletic may not allow Manchester City to step on their corpses to the top and engrave themselves forever on Manchester City's record-setting list of supporting players.

In addition, Wigan Athletic is a tough and tenacious team. They once created a "tragedy" in the game against Chelsea, causing both Chelsea goalkeepers to be injured.Cech even put on a tank helmet because of his serious injury and coma in this game, and his performance plummeted.Before the injury, Cech was second only to Buffon's goalkeeper in the world, but after the injury, his performance was not stable enough, and he was gradually overtaken by Casillas.

So if the staunch Wigan Athletic is unwilling to play a supporting role and adopts a large number of killing tactics in the game... I am afraid that Manchester City will have to weigh it. Anyway, they have already tied the record, and their motivation will drop a little because of this. As long as they encounter stubborn resistance from their opponents, maybe they will give up?

But before this game, Manchester City has to play a European Super Cup first.

In fact, the game against Tottenham was the first game of the third round, also to make way for the UEFA Super Cup.

After the game against Tottenham Hotspur, the Manchester City team did not celebrate.

I went to Monaco to prepare for the UEFA Super Cup.

At the same time, many players in Manchester City also have to participate in the draw ceremony and awards ceremony of the Champions League.

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Walking the red carpet in Monaco is nothing new for Rongguang.

As the top scorer of the Champions League every season, as long as he participates in the Champions League, he will definitely walk the red carpet once.

Last season, although Messi performed well and scored [-] goals in the Champions League, Rongguang completed the counterattack against Messi with [-] goals by virtue of his hat-trick in the final.And he obviously kept his strength in the final, otherwise he could have completed the big four in the final, and then he would not be ahead of Messi by one goal, but two goals.

Rong Guang even won the top scorer in the Champions League despite his mercy, which shows how strong he is.

Today's glory is used to walking the red carpet again and winning the Champions League podium again.

Although he is the most dazzling star on the red carpet, everyone's eyes are focused on him, when he appears, the flash lights are like the Milky Way in the sky, and the fans are screaming desperately, shouting his name...

Regarding this, Rong Guang just smiled calmly and waved his hand.

In the venue, Rong Guang met Messi.

He smiled and nodded to Messi as a greeting.

Messi was a little embarrassed, and his performance was not very natural.

He doesn't seem to have recovered from his Champions League defeat yet.

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At the UEFA Champions League awards ceremony, Manchester City, which won the UEFA Champions League, became the biggest winner. Except for the best goalkeeper, Barcelona goalkeeper Valdes, the other best awards were all taken by Manchester City.

The best defender was awarded to Lucio, the best midfielder belonged to Sneijder, the best striker and the best shooter are both honors.

The best player is also an honor.

In the best 11-man lineup, Lucio, Zabaleta, Sneijder, Rong Guang, David Silva and Ibrahimovic six Manchester City players were selected, accounting for half of the country.

The best coach in the Champions League was also given to Manchester City's coach Benitez.

When Rong Guang came to the stage to receive the trophy for the best player, he gave a short acceptance speech.

"I am very happy to be honored as the best player. But now is not the time to be happy. I will continue to work hard and move towards a higher goal. I hope that Manchester City can become the first team to defend the Champions League since the restructuring of the Champions League. I will do my best for this, thank you!"

After speaking, there was a little silence in the hall, and then there was thunderous applause.

It is no news that Rong Guang wants to defend the Champions League. The whole of Europe knows about it, but now it seems that he is working hard in this direction seriously.

Seeing him declaring his position so decisively, the others also wanted to see how far he could go.

Some things are impossible in their hearts, if they were replaced by Rong, maybe they could really do it...

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At the same time as the award ceremony, the group draw ceremony of the UEFA Champions League group stage this season was also interspersed at the same time.

Manchester City is the defending champion, but it is not a seeded team, because the standard of the UEFA Champions League's seeded team is calculated based on the European War points in the past few seasons.Although Manchester City won the Champions League last season, which led to a surge in their points, they missed too many seasons before.

They have only played for two seasons recently, and they are at most No among the second-tier teams even if they count the points. 1.

This kind of grading rule certainly makes many Manchester City fans very upset-the dignified defending champion is only a second-tier team, isn't this too contemptuous?

But you know, it's the fans of the eight seeded teams who are even more upset.

Because this division means that the seeded team will be divided with the defending champion... This is what no one wants.

Who wants to be in the same group as Manchester City, which is now in the limelight?

Since Manchester City returned to the Champions League in 40 years, the group they have been in for two consecutive seasons has been called the death group... Whoever is in the same group as them will be unlucky.

In the first season, Real Madrid and Bayern Munich were two big favorites. After being assigned to a group with Manchester City, they went home without even qualifying for the group stage.

In the second season, the defending champion Inter Milan was placed in a group with Manchester City. As a result, they almost failed to qualify for the group...the final qualifying was also bumpy.

Therefore, Manchester City has almost become a curse. Whoever is in a group with them may not be able to get out of the line. The stronger the team, the more so.

Therefore, the seeded teams do not want to be in the same group as Manchester City.

England's seed team is a little bit more relaxed at this time, because it is impossible for teams from the same league to meet in the group stage.

While the managers of the giant teams in other national leagues were drawing lots, although they looked calm and calm on the surface, they were always praying in their hearts, hoping not to be in the same group as Manchester City.

In the end, they were drawn into a group with the Portuguese Super League champion Porto, the Russian Super League team Zenit St. Petersburg, and the Cyprus team APOEL.

This result made all European giants breathe a sigh of relief, except Porto.

But sacrificing Porto alone saved everyone, and it was a worthy death...

When it was announced that Porto and City were in the same group, the TV cameras quickly cut to the Porto manager's face, a wry smile appeared on his face, which, although quickly gone, was caught on the telecast.

Coincidentally, in the European Super Cup the next night, Manchester City's opponent happened to be Porto, the UEFA Cup champion last season.

Under the leadership of their former coach Villas-Boas, Porto won the Portuguese Super League, Portuguese Cup and UEFA Cup last season, becoming the triple crown.

However, the Porto coach that Manchester City played against this time is no longer Boas.

The successful and famous Villas-Boas took over Ancelotti's coaching seal this summer and became the coach of the Blues Chelsea.

Known as "Mourinho II", Boas does have the feeling of Mourinho in his coaching experience. He became famous in Porto and then went to Chelsea.Moreover, Boas did have a relationship with Mourinho and was deeply influenced by Mourinho. When Mourinho coached Porto, he was Porto's assistant coach. Later Mourinho went to Chelsea. He continued to follow Mourinho to coach Chelsea as an assistant coach.

So for him, going to Chelsea this time is not an adventure in a strange place.

However, Manchester City's opponent is not him now, and the two sides will compete in the Premier League.

And now Porto's coach has become Pereira.

For Pereira, the more important meaning of this European Super Cup contest is that through this game, you can experience Manchester City in person, so as to accumulate experience for the next Champions League group stage.

As for the European Super Cup champion... this is secondary instead.

After the results of the draw came out, Pereira expressed a similar view in an interview: "We are very lucky to be able to understand our opponents first through the European Super Cup. Manchester City has always been a very strong team. I am surprised that they turned out to be a second-tier team... Such a team should be a seeded team..."

In the end, he couldn't help but complain about the grouping.

In fact, what he said should be translated like this:

It's a fucking dog!The defending champions like Manchester City turned out to be only a second-tier team!Made us want to be in a group with them!UEFA is ****!Why sacrifice us? !Oh shit!If Manchester City were the seeded team, how could there be so much nonsense!Depend on!
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