Football: The king of midfield, Guardiola is crying with envy

After the warm-up, the players from both sides returned to their respective locker rooms.

Because Group A is a three-way battle between Manchester City, Paris and Leipzig for the top two qualifying places, the Blue Moon cannot afford to lose this game today.

Whoever can get more points will have the advantage of qualifying!

And this home advantage, Manchester City must grasp it well!

For this reason, Guardiola still chose to play with all the main players under the premise of playing the fifth round of the Premier League in two days!

Not to mention Chen Chen and Rodri who continue to start, let's talk about De Bruyne who has recovered from injury.

The Belgian performed very well in individual training and returning to the team training, so after the team doctor confirmed that De Bruyne could catch up with this Champions League game, Guardiola directly pressed Gundogan down and let De Bruyne return to the starting lineup!

This shows the importance of the Blue Moon Manchester City to the Champions League!

It is worth mentioning that they fell at the last step last season.

This season, Guardiola has learned from the lessons of last season, and he is confident that he can win the final championship!

Of course, confidence is a good thing, but it would be ridiculous if the group stage fails to enter the knockout stage.

Therefore, facing Red Bull and Bruges, Manchester City's idea is to strive for more points in two rounds, preferably more than 10 points.

In this way, they can face Paris more calmly.

After all, Paris Saint-Germain, who signed Messi, Ramos, Wijnaldum and others for free, is still not easy to mess with, not to mention that they have two other superstars, Mbappe and Neymar!

At 8 o'clock in the evening, amid the cheers of the fans on the scene, the starting players of both sides stepped onto the court.

"Kick ~ Barcelona! Kick ~ Barcelona! Kick Bayern Munich! My factory has collapsed!"

After the exciting Champions League theme song ends, the game will start soon!

"Welcome everyone to continue to wait in our Migu Sports live broadcast room to watch today's first round of the 2021/22 Champions League Group A!"

"Manchester City will host RB Leipzig at home!"

"I am today's commentator Zhan Jun, and next to me is my partner Zhang Lu, the coach!"

As usual, Zhang Lu greeted the camera in the studio,

"Hehehe! Hello everyone! I am Zhang Lu!"

Zhan Jun nodded and started the advertisement.

After the broadcast, Zhan Jun said,

"The exciting new season of the Champions League has officially begun! I would like to ask Coach Zhang, do you have any favorite team to win the championship?"

Zhang Lu smiled and answered him,

"Most optimistic? Manchester City. The next are Liverpool and Bayern."

"Oh? Coach Zhang, please elaborate."

"Manchester City's strength is naturally needless to say. Liverpool played very tenaciously last season. Klopp has the hope of leading the team to a further step in the new season."

"As for Bayern?"

"My idea is that Bayern will burst out with unimaginable fighting power in the Champions League when they have no worries about winning the domestic league!"

Zhan Jun is a Liverpool fan, and he was quite happy to hear Zhang Lu was so optimistic about Liverpool.

The two chatted for a few more words, and the game happened to start.

So Zhan Jun immediately changed the topic and began to introduce the starting lineups of both sides.

"Now let me introduce the starting lineups of both teams to everyone in front of the screen."

"After Nagelsmann left the coaching position to coach Bayern, Leipzig invited American coach Mashi."

"The 46-year-old Mashi arranged a 4231 formation."

"The goalkeeper is Gulasic."

"The back line is Angelino, Willy Orban, Klostermann and Mujere."

"The double defensive midfielders are Lemer and Tyler Adams."

"The three midfielders are Forsberg, Olmo and Nkunku."

"The center is the Portuguese Andre Silva!"

"Let's look at the home team again . "

"Guardiola arranged a 433 formation."

"De Bruyne, who returned from injury, was directly included in the starting lineup."

"Three forwards, Grealish, Ferran Torres and Mahrez."

"Three midfielders are Chen Chen, Rodri and De Bruyne."

"Four defenders, respectively Zinchenko, Ake, Ruben Dias and Cancelo!"

"The goalkeeper is Ederson!"

"Kyle Walker sat on the bench today, and Benjamin Mendy did not enter the bench due to off-field reasons."

This off-field factor is not a technical reason, but a personal reason.

Before Guardiola announced the big list and the starting lineup this morning, the Cheshire Police Department came to the Manchester City Youth Training Base and took Mendy away.

The Cheshire Police Department has filed multiple charges against Mendy.

One of the charges is suspected of inducing others to have improper relations.

Commonly known as, strong.

It's still 4 strong charges!

In addition, he also has a sexual

Chen Chen, Walker and Mendy had appeared in a bar together before, but not that time.

The police said it happened when he was hosting a party at his house.

Chen Chen was a little shocked by this!

Good guy, secretly holding a silver party!

Chen Chen talked to Yaozi and Sterling about this matter in the afternoon.

Chen Chen was very emotional. He said that it was okay to do some fancy things in hotels and nightclubs.

If you really want to advance a little, you can spend some money.

Football players in top teams are not short of money. Do they have to find excitement in their own homes?

Grealish first reprimanded Mendy for harming minors, and then he said that he liked the excitement of playing with other people's girlfriends or wives, which could not be bought with any money.

Yaozi reiterated several times that the people he dated were all adults.

Sterling said that he would pay the bill immediately after leaving. Although he attended many parties, it would not affect himself and his family.

Chen Chen held his forehead and fell into silence.

. . . . . . .

Let's get back to the point.

On the court, Manchester City was pressing Leipzig. It seemed that Mendy's absence had no impact on Manchester City.

The 4th minute of the game.

Chen Chen and De Bruyne cooperated.

Manchester City's lineup today is 433, but in reality, Ake will partner with Rodri to play as a double defensive midfielder, and Chen Chen and De Bruyne will partner as a double offensive midfielder.

Manchester City's pass organization and offensive instigation today are inseparable from them.

After receiving the pass from Chen Chen, De Bruyne took the opportunity to lift the ball into the penalty area, and Ferran Torres at the front point quickly jumped up to compete for the header!

Unfortunately, the 189 German defender Klostermann headed it out of the baseline first.

Manchester City got the first corner kick of the game.

De Bruyne signaled Chen Chen to take the penalty.

The ball was passed to the back of the penalty area!

Mahrez and Ruben Dias were both in this position!

The polo king and the opponent's defensive midfielder Laimer jumped together. The two were about the same height, so it was really a 50-50 chance.

In the end, Mahrez was more skilled and he grabbed the ball!

Header pass!

Mahrez passed the ball to the middle.

Grealish rushed out from the penalty spot!

A forward but extremely fast forehead header!

Gulacsi's reaction was already very fast. He rushed to the swing at the moment Mahrez headed the ball.

But the ball was too fast!

He did not fully defend!

The ball flew past his fingertips!

The time on the big screen was just the fifth minute, and Manchester City had already taken a one-goal lead at home!