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Chapter 250 Make a mistake
The Premier League entered the middle and late part of December, and began an extremely busy schedule cycle. Many teams began to lose the chain during this period called the Christmas schedule. To win the Premier League championship.

The two championship teams, Manchester City and Liverpool, officially started the competition in the latter part of December.

In the final round of the UEFA Champions League group stage, because it has nothing to do with qualifying, nor the competition for the first and second place in the group, so in the last round of the match against Hoffenheim, Wang Yi was replaced after halftime. Injury or poor condition is just because Manchester City will play 4 games in the next two weeks, and many of them will have tough opponents like Leicester City.

Therefore, in order to preserve Wang Yi's strength, Guardiola felt that Wang Yi could understand that he was replaced in advance.

However, Wang Yi, who hadn't been notified in advance, was still a little stunned, but after being replaced, Guardiola saw Wang Yi's astonished expression, and decisively pulled Wang Yi by his side and whispered for a long time.

Wang Yi was allowed to return to the bench when he understood it all the time.

In this Champions League group match, Manchester City won 2-1 without any surprises. The teenager Foden stole the limelight with one pass and one shot.

After the game, Foden was also selected as the best player in the Champions League group stage.

The sudden emergence of Foden actually made the already crowded battle for the main players on the right more complicated and confusing.

Although Foden played as a central midfielder in the youth team, under Guardiola's transformation, Foden was allowed to play as a winger. Since Foden is a left-footed player, he is a smooth winger when he plays on the left. The road is occupied by Wang Yi, and Wang Yi's position is unmovable, so let Foden, a left-footed player, play the right winger. The reverse-footed winger is also a major trend in today's football world, which can better cut inside.

However, Manchester City's right side is overcrowded at this time. Sterling was originally the main candidate for this position, but since Sane was moved to the right by Guardiola at the beginning of the season, Sane and Sterling have competed for a main position. At the beginning of the season, Bernardo can also play right winger. In some games that need to be controlled, Guardiola will also send Bernardo to play right winger.

But now Foden is suddenly emerging again, and one of Foden's biggest advantages is that he has the ability to advance with the ball. He is on De Bruyne's side and can help De Bruyne to the greatest extent. He is active, can go up and down, and he plays more professionally than Sane. Compared with Sterling, his finishing ability is stronger. This season, his playing time is much less than Sterling. In the case of Lin, his 5 goals are already the same as Sterling, but Sterling's playing time is several times that of him.

Therefore, after comprehensive consideration, Foden has gradually risen in the right wing position.

In the last few games, Sane and Foden have often played right wingers in rotation.

In fact, the crux of all problems lies in Wang Yi.

Wang Yi's left wing position is very stable, and Wang Yi's physical fitness is also good. The two domestic cups did not reach the semi-finals, and Guardiola did not let Wang Yi participate. Therefore, Wang Yi basically has every league game and the Champions League. With full play, this directly led to the uselessness of Wang Yi's substitute.

So it's all stacked to the right.

In a few games, Guardiola even let Sane and Sterling play half of the time.

As for letting the younger Foden sit on the bench temporarily, Guardiola has actually considered this matter before. After all, Foden is still young, only 18 years old, and he still lacks experience after all.

80% of Manchester City's games in the league are to break the bus and break the dense defense, so the attack is very important.

Experience is also very important.

But before Manchester City lost a Sancho, such a good player as Foden, Guardiola absolutely does not want to lose.

That's why Foden was given some substitute opportunities.

Although Foden has performed very well recently and his pick has risen to Guardiola, Guardiola still does not intend to let Foden start directly. The starting lineup is undoubtedly between Sterling and Sane. But the substitute will give Foden more opportunities.

But Foden has gradually become ambitious since the beginning of this group match.

"Wang Yi became the main force of the first team when he was 17 years old, and he was the main player on the left side of Manchester City at the age of 18. I don't think I am worse than him. Either this season or next season."

This is what Foden said in a chat with a friend.

Of course, the Manchester City team doesn't know about it, but it's never a bad thing for a professional player to be ambitious.

After the Champions League group stage, Manchester City met Everton in the league.

The focus of this round of the league is the Double Red Club, but it was played after the Manchester City game.

After the Manchester City team successfully won Everton, they all began to look forward to this double red meeting.

Since the game time was good, it was 6 o'clock in the evening, so Wang Yi watched it at De Bruyne's home.

Watching the game together were Sterling and Aguero.

But it turned out to be a pity that Manchester City failed to fulfill their wish.

Liverpool beat Manchester United 3-0 cleanly.

"Manchester United is too weak. After the whole game, they just took one shot!"

"Forget it, how many goals we have won against Manchester United. Liverpool are at the same level as us. It is normal to win Manchester United. It's just that Manchester United did not explode in this game. But Mourinho lost the Manchester derby. After joining the Double Red Club, class must be dismissed."

Sure enough, Mourinho was officially dismissed by Manchester United the next day, and Sochaux, Solskjaer, took over.

"I didn't expect that it was Solskjaer who took office. It must have been chosen a long time ago. You see, Mourinho officially announced Solskjaer after class. But Solskjaer's previous resume is very good. Too bad, no record of success."

"It's just a celebrity. If he wasn't a Manchester United celebrity, he would never have been able to take over the coaching position of Manchester United in his life."

The news of Manchester City's players in the same city as the Eight Monsters.

In the next round of the league, Liverpool played first, against Wolves.

Liverpool ended the battle cleanly and 3-0.

On the following day, Manchester City met Crystal Palace in an away game.

Although the fans joke that it is the king of London.

But the Manchester City team basically didn't take Crystal Palace seriously.

The main reason is that Crystal Palace's performance this season is too poor. So far this season, they have only won 2 games, but they have tied a lot, so they barely rank third in the standings, the bottom of the list.

So the Manchester City team naturally didn't feel that there would be any problems in this game.

However, the problem happened.

The final score was indeed an astonishing 3 to 2, with the home team Crystal Palace ahead and Manchester City behind.

Even though Wang Yi scored twice in this game, Crystal Palace had better luck and scored 3 goals.

In this way, Liverpool is already 5 points ahead of Manchester City.

(End of this chapter)