On November 25, the Netherlands, De Gerrorsch Stadium.

Lin Sen, who was standing on the sidelines, looked a little ugly.

The curse of two consecutive victories seemed to have entangled his team again. Now the game has reached stoppage time, but the score on the court is not the score he wants.

Three to three.

If Manchester City cannot score the fourth goal in the last three minutes, then Manchester City's two consecutive wins will be terminated, and it seems that this possibility is infinitely close to reality.

The opponent is Twente, which is the fifth round of the Champions League group stage.

The last time I came to this stadium, Manchester City lost one to three, but now it is three to three. This seems to be a real improvement, but Lin Sen couldn't be happy because the situation was completely different. Last time, he had to, but this time, he came with confidence. Unfortunately, confidence sometimes cannot be eaten.

The situation of qualifying in Group A was very clear in the previous round. As Manchester City, the second in the group, as long as they do not lose in this game, they can ignore the result of another game and qualify smoothly, because in another game, Werder Bremen has an advantage in winning or losing relationship. Even if Werder Bremen wins all the last two games, as long as Manchester City can get another point, under the same score, Manchester City is still ranked higher than Werder Bremen.

However, Lin Sen wants more than just qualifications. He also wants to have a final battle with Benitez in the last round to determine who is the first in the group. This means that Manchester City needs to win this game so that they can ensure that they have the "qualification" to compete for the first in the group, because if Manchester City makes a mistake in this game and Inter Milan wins, the last round will become meaningless.

Now, the result of another game is unknown, but Manchester City fell by itself.

Of course, all of this is not so bad as Manchester City performing too badly, but Twente performing too well.

Manchester City led three times in the game. Twente equalized the score three times, and even Linson had to praise his opponent: It's such a tenacious team.

McLaren has reason to be proud. Twente this season continued their good form last season and has remained unbeaten in the league so far. Although the draw was a little bit too much that they could only temporarily fall below Ajax in the standings. However, their luck in the Champions League was a little bit bad. Although Group A was not a group of death, it was obviously not a good thing for other teams because they squeezed into Manchester City, which is known as the strongest in this level, in the third level, it was obviously not a good thing for other teams.

Before this game, both Twente and Werder Bremen still had hope of appearing. Of course, the premise is very harsh, and they need to win in the last two rounds, and Manchester City cannot win. Therefore, McLaren did not reserve this game. In the Eredivisie, who doesn't know that the de Herrorsch Stadium is a devil's home court, not just because of the fans here, but also because Twente can always give a super level performance here.

Just like the current game.

In the last moment, Manchester City tried their best to counterattack, but miracles did not happen at every moment, and in the end, they had to accept the ending of being tied by Twente 3-3 away.

When returning to the locker room, Linson got good news and bad news.

The good news is that Inter Milan, who has already advanced to advance, lost to Werder Bremen away 0-3, giving the opponent the first victory in the Champions League. At the same time, it also maintained the first suspense of the group until the end. The bad news is that David Silva, who ended up with an injury in the game, looks a bit troublesome because it was an old injury recurring.

David Silva injured his left ankle, and he has always had chronic injuries in this area. Speaking of this problem, it can be traced back to his playing habits. Unlike other players, when David Silva played football, he often refused to wrap his legs and ankle straps. It is said that this is his way to ensure the ball feel. However, if this is said to be true, it may have created David Silva's superb skills, but it also brought troublesome problems.

Back in Manchester, David Silva's injury also gave an exact recovery period, four weeks, or almost a month, which is still a conservative estimate. Lin Sen was helpless in this, because even if he cheated, David Silva seemed destined to not catch up with the last round of group match against Inter Milan on December 8th.

In the next two rounds of the league, Linson tried two candidates in the position of Espanyol. One was the most orthodox plan, which directly allowed Reus to replace David Silva. However, at this stage, the Germans have already developed their individual skills, but their frontcourt coordination skills have not reached David Silva's level. This is clearly reflected in the 14th round of the game against Stoke City. Normally, Reus was involved in individual combat most of the time, but it was his goal at the opening stage of the second half that made Manchester City win.

In the 16th round, Manchester City beat Bolton who was visiting three goals at home. Linson adopted another plan, which was to directly advance the position of Yaya Toure. This is based on Linson's judgment of Toure in memory. Yaya Toure, who has been immersed in Barcelona's system for several seasons, has a good sense of forwarding, and facts have proved that he does have this ability. In this game, the Ivorians, who are still so orthodox that they can't be more orthodox, suddenly transformed into a standard front midfielder. In the game, two passes and one shot, almost dominated the entire game.

Another round of two consecutive victories.

At this time, the Premier League’s points rankings have been upside down again.

The first to be the original leader Chelsea is no longer the leader. After two consecutive losses, they finally stopped the trend of losing streak. Unfortunately, they still failed to win, but then drew two consecutive draws. The two defeats and two draws were Sunderland, Birmingham, Newcastle and Everton. Almost none of them are teams in the top half of the league standings. The price of "sending warmth" is huge. This not only completely wiped out the huge advantages they accumulated in the early stage of the season, but also allowed them to hand over the top of the league. At this time, it was Manchester City, who finally surpassed them last season.

Nine wins, five draws and two losses, thirty-two points.

Just one point past Chelsea.

However, although Manchester City surpassed Chelsea, the leader they replaced was not Chelsea, because before that, Manchester United, who beat Blackburn 7-1 at home in the 15th round, had surpassed Chelsea to the top. It was only because Manchester United's away game against the newly promoted Blackpool team in this round was forced to postpone due to weather reasons, which gave Manchester City the chance to reach the top.

It is worth mentioning that for Blackpool's game, Sir Alex even rotated the lineup in the previous League Cup quarterfinals, paying the price of losing to West Ham to be eliminated by zero to four. I don't know if Ferguson, who went to Blackpool in northwest England, cursing the damn weather all the way back to Manchester.

After half a year, Manchester City returned to the top. Although it was a bit lucky, thinking about the situation of Manchester City at the beginning of this season, just as Martin Taylor joked in his commentary program in each round of the Premier League: Manchester City's senior management should be grateful now. If they really fired Lin at that time, they would not know whether they would have a chance to regret this decision, but Lin would definitely make them regret it.

Martin Taylor's "compliment" made Lin Sen, who watched this show every week, laughed.

He is not a slim person, and his team-leading performance was really bad at that stage. To be honest, if he had to leave at that time, then there was no reason to blame anyone. The football world does not care about making up for the merits, especially the past merits, which is completely different from his situation of leaving Atletico Madrid. Of course, regret is never a result of what you want or don't want it.

Besides, Lin Sen didn't think that Manchester City, which is ranked first now, has really reached the point of "regret", but the situation is indeed much more than that time. Not only the league, but also the UEFA Champions League has also qualified smoothly. The game that is really lost is just a League Cup. However, it is precisely because of the exit from the League Cup that Manchester City's response to the event this season is no longer as hasty as last season, and it can even be said to be at ease.

Without time to leave Lin Sen to give a look, Manchester City welcomed their next opponent, Inter Milan. Since the two teams have already qualified from the group, there are only two suspense that have nothing to do with qualifying in the remaining two games in Group A in this round. One is Werder Bremen and Twente. Who will play in the UEFA Cup, and the other is Inter Milan and Manchester City. Who will qualify as the first in the group?

Before the game, Lin Sen deliberately looked at the situation of other groups in the entire Champions League group stage. In all eight groups, except for Group H, no team qualifying in advance, other groups have already been qualified. The teams in the group have been confirmed to be the first in the group. Manchester United in Group C, Barcelona in Group D, Bayern in Group E, Chelsea in Group F, and Real Madrid in Group G.

Group B Schalke and Lyon have qualified, but the situation is similar to Group A where Manchester City is. They both need to determine who is the first in the last round. As for Group H, Arsenal unexpectedly lost to Braga away in the last round, resulting in chaos in the group situation in this group. Except for the Belgrade guerrillas who lost five games and five games, there is no hope, the other three teams may even become the first in the final group.

However, no matter what the situation in these two groups does not affect Lin Sen's judgment. According to the worst plan, if Manchester City loses to Inter Milan at home to qualify for the second in the group, then according to the rules of the knockout stage, remove Inter Milan in the same group and Manchester United, Chelsea, and Manchester City may encounter Barcelona, ​​Bayern, Real Madrid, and two teams in Group B and H.

No matter how you look at this result, Lin Sen is unwilling to be optimistic. If Manchester City can appear as the first in the group, Manchester City's possible opponents will be Valencia, Copenhagen, Rome, Marseille and AC Milan...

Then, Lin Sen said to himself, give me a reason not to live to the death with Inter Milan in this game? (To be continued, please search Piaotianyi, the novel is better, updated and faster!
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