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Chapter 360 Liverpool is not to be underestimated
After this game, it ushered in the national team match day for more than half a month, and the players flew to various places.

With the rise of Manchester City's reputation and good performance in the past two seasons, the team has 25 players in the first team, and the number of international players has reached 18.

This is a terrifying ratio.

This means that on Manchester City's bench, there will always be three or five international players from a certain country.

Of course, at the center of the storm, Manchester City and Duncan themselves are not in such a good mood.

In fact, Duncan did not show too much joy.

From the standpoint of the club, I saw the players flying thousands of miles away to participate in the national team competition.

Then after a game or two, I hurried back by plane.After the assembly, Duncan's mood can be imagined when he was about to participate in the league the next day.

When the players played, Duncan was worried that they would be injured. If the players did not play, Duncan was even more skeptical about the motivation of the national team to let their players fly halfway around the world, blowing cold wind on the bench for 90 minutes, and then fly halfway around the world to come back.

This is a typical calf-protecting mentality.

In Duncan's eyes, every head coach of the national team who recruits his own players is an undercover agent sent by the league opponents.

So Duncan, who was not at ease, even called the head coaches of various national teams, especially the head coaches of teams that had already qualified in the World Cup qualifiers such as Spain, Argentina, and Brazil, and asked them to arrange as few players as possible.

Returning from the national team game, Manchester City's opponent is also a very troublesome opponent, Wigan Athletic.

Although Wigan has only won three games so far this season, these three games include the two strong teams Chelsea and Villa.

So meeting this opponent gave Duncan a headache.

But the necessary rotation must still be made.

Paganini thoughtfully sent Duncan the physical reports of the players, and the players who could not play were listed with a marker.

Very caring and heartwarming.

With the full support of Paganini, Duncan sent a rotation lineup in this game.

Substitutes such as Otamendi, Mido, Petrov and Sturridge played in rotation.

Most of these people are substitutes in the club and also in the national team. Although they have flown, they just go from one drinking fountain to another, and the physical consumption is not great.

In the game against Wigan, Duncan fully learned the lessons of Chelsea, using high-pressure press from the beginning, and using rhythm changes to paralyze Wigan's defense.

In Manchester City's inversion in the middle, from the slow cooperation, it suddenly accelerated to the extreme.

Martinez made a pass from the bottom, Samaras scored a header and Manchester City got off to a fantastic start!

The opening goal not only disrupted the deployment of Wigan coach Martinez, but also brought the game into the rhythm of Manchester City.

In the end, Samaras scored twice, Sneijder came off the bench and contributed a long shot, and Manchester City defeated Wigan Athletic 3-0.

And in another arena, came a good news.

In the last round of the game, Villa, who drew with Manchester City, seemed to have found the trick to play against strong teams.

They sat at home and swept Chelsea 2:1, giving Chelsea their second defeat of the season.

In this game, Villa seized Chelsea's weakness in defending against set-pieces, played a tactic of clearing the field, and frequently relied on set-pieces to threaten Chelsea's goal.

In the end, they relied on two headers from central defenders Dunn and Collins to score and forcibly took away three points. Chelsea had no choice but to accept the result of the loss.

And several other strong teams, Manchester United, Arsenal, and Tottenham have won one after another, continuing the vicious cycle of no draw for strong teams this season.

The league has played 9 rounds so far. Except for a draw between Manchester City and Tottenham, none of the other strong teams have had a draw.

The only strong team to lose this round is Liverpool.

After Aquilani recovered from injury, he came off the bench in the last game, and this game is the starting debut.But Liverpool fans look forward to the stars and the moon, but what they look forward to is a big pit.Aquilani's thin body has become the object of bullying by Premier League players.

The frequent confrontation failures have caused many people to label him as a "parallel importer".

Thanks to Aquilani, Liverpool suffered a two-game losing streak and fell to eighth in the standings.

The league has played nine rounds. In the standings, a situation where the heroes compete for hegemony has basically formed. The teams in the first echelon are all clinging tightly.

Manchester City has 7 wins and 1 draw, with 22 points, ranking first.

Arsenal and Chelsea are both 7 wins and 2 losses, tied for second place.

But the encounters of the two teams are completely different. Chelsea's two defeats always make people feel that they lost by accident and belong to the series of "always lose a few games in the season".

Arsenal's two defeats were both contributed to Manchester's two teams, Manchester City and Manchester United.The weakness against strong teams makes everyone not optimistic about Arsenal.

Although after 9 rounds, Arsenal has scored 31 goals.

Manchester United and Tottenham have a record of 6 wins, 1 draw and 2 losses, with 19 points, ranking fourth and fifth.

Although Manchester United lost to Manchester City, their performance this season is really getting better and better. The team is characterized by its overall style of play and running without the ball, and it has begun to exert strength in the mid-term.

Under the leadership of Lao Lei, Tottenham have full stamina in the mid-term after the stunning early stage, showing strong competitiveness.

Except for the five teams in the first group, the following teams, Villa, Liverpool, Everton and the like, were all opened up by at least three points, and basically opened up the gap with the first group.

After finishing the 9th round of the league, Manchester City moved to the European arena. They will go to the Netherlands to challenge Alkmaar.

Perhaps it was the exhaustion of successive victories, the team did not perform at their best in the away game, and was tied 1:1 by the opponent.

Fortunately, Olympiacos beat Standard Liege.

After the third round of the Champions League, Manchester City led with 7 points, Olympiacos 6 points, and the next two teams scored 1 point.

Therefore, the pressure on Manchester City is not very high. The next round of home defeat to Alkmaar will advance to the knockout round.

There is no difference between first and second in the group. Anyway, in the round of 16, there will be a new draw.

Returning to the Premier League again, relying on Shevchenko's brace and Toure's long-range shot, Manchester City defeated Fulham 10-3 in the 0th round of the Premier League.

Accumulate 25 points and continue to lead the standings.

After Chelsea lost, the game was shameless and courageous, sweeping Blackburn 5:0, ranking second.

As the experts predicted, Arsenal fell behind again. They were tied 2:2 by the tough West Ham United and still ranked third with 22 points.

Because the two teams behind us, Manchester United and Tottenham, both lost.

Manchester United lost to Liverpool and Tottenham lost to Stoke City.

Liverpool, no longer a title contender, played the role of spoiler very well.

Although it is still far from the top of the list, Liverpool's performance made everyone feel cold.

Anyone who underestimates them will suffer big losses.

(End of this chapter)