After returning from Lyon, Manchester City will usher in their likely most critical game in the league.

Challenge Chelsea away.

This is a showdown between League One and League Two.

Because in the last round of the league, Manchester City shook hands with Liverpool at home and made a 00-0. At the same time, Chelsea beat Wolves 20 away, so the gap between the two teams narrowed to one point.

In such a situation, this direct conversation is very important.

If Chelsea can beat Manchester City at home, they will overtake Manchester City by two points and take the top deal in the league standings.

And if Manchester City beat Chelsea away, they will open the gap between them again.

So this is a game that is related to six points.

With ten rounds left in the league, leading Chelsea by four points undoubtedly gave Manchester City the lead in the league championship.

This game is so important that both sides attach great importance to it.

Although Chelsea's Champions League knockout match will be the middle of next week, Ancelotti does not have the idea of ​​maintaining strength in this league. Judging from the starting list and roster announced by Chelsea before the game, Chelsea's main players have all been sent, sending all the strongest players they can send.

You should know that in the Champions League quarterfinal next week, Chelsea will challenge Inter Milan away.

It was also a very difficult game.

Inter Milan led by Mourinho faces its old club again, and there are many stories to tell.

Manchester City is relatively relaxed. They have played in the Champions League and won relatively easily in the game. After Glory scored, Lyon did not cause much trouble for Manchester City.

In this game, Benitez made substitutions from 60 minutes, using up all three substitutions, allowing the main players to get more rest time. He has been preparing for this league since that time.

One good news for Manchester City is that their midfield core, Sneider, returned from injury before this game.

You should know that in the Champions League knockout match against Lyon three days ago, Sneijder didn't even make the roster.

The return of the game against Chelsea has made many Manchester City fans feel relieved.

On the front line, Manchester City has glory and Sneider in the midfield. The tacit cooperation between these two people is also an important reason for Manchester City's outstanding performance this season.

Sneider controls Manchester City's offensive rhythm and direction, while Glory is an excellent finisher and can also give teammates a nanny assist.

The two of them are the key to the smooth operation of the entire Manchester City offense.

Sneijder's return has made Manchester City more confident in challenging Chelsea away.

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"There are two Blues who have performed very well this season. One is Manchester City. They continued their outstanding state in the second half of last season. They have only lost one game so far and ranked first. The other is Chelsea, who has just changed coach in the summer. Under the leadership of Ancelotti, Chelsea has become Manchester City's biggest enemy in the league. Manchester United and Liverpool and Arsenal's performance this season is not satisfactory. Just when everyone thought Manchester City would stand out, Chelsea stood up and made the league championship this season still stand out..."

Before the game began, commentator John Motterson, who was already in place, was chatting with Alan Hansen about the highly anticipated two-man showdown.

"Yes, many people hope that Chelsea can play the role of blocking Manchester City, because now only Chelsea has a chance. It's not that we don't want Manchester City to win the championship. If Manchester City must win the championship, then we hope that the process will be more tortuous... Why is the Premier League the best league in the world? It's because of our fierce competition."

Alan Hansen said.

Manchester City fans in front of the TV were cursing these two people.

They don't want the process of winning the championship tortuously, and it's best to lock in the league championship a few rounds in advance. As Manchester City fans, they have been waiting for this league championship for too long.

Manchester City won the top league title in England back to 196 forty-two years ago, which was the only two top league titles in their history. With that league title as a milestone, Manchester City subsequently created the most brilliant period in club history.

They won the FA Cup in their second year of the league. Another year later, Manchester City won the European Cup Winners and League Cup titles in one season.

This is also the most glorious past that Manchester City has never been since its establishment.

But now, no matter how glorious it is, under the leadership of Sneijder, David Silva, Berbatov, Benitez and others, Manchester City fans have reason to look forward to greater glory.

So now they hear that someone wants their championship manager to make more twists and turns, so they want to scold their mother.

Isn’t our championship experience twists and turns?

Is it not enough to wait for forty-two years?

Isn't it a tortuous enough to change the league level ten times from 1983 to 2 years?

Now, we don't have any twists and turns. What we want is the champion

However, John Motson and Alan Hansen were criticized for being a little bit unfair, because the views they talked about were only the more popular views in the media now.

That is, I hope the league champion will not make a decision so early, otherwise it will be too boring.

As neutrals, they naturally want to see the final minute of injury time in the last round of the league to decide the championship.

But as Manchester City fans, this is a huge torture for their hearts.

If they could choose, I'm afraid no one would choose such an experience. But they couldn't choose, so they only said with lingering fear after this happened: "This is football..."

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The first climax of the game happened when the players on both sides appeared, and the Chelsea players who played at home received cheers like tsunamis.

Chelsea fans did not boo Manchester City players, but they were actually the same. Such cheers would also put pressure on Manchester City players.

Players from both sides appeared, lined up, and shook hands with each other.

When Barack held Glory's hand, he said to Glory: "I won't give it to you the league championship."

Rong Guang smiled: "But we are the first now, you are the runner-up."

Barack rolled his eyes.

Rongguang is right. They are second now, so there is no problem of giving in or not. Only by getting what you have in your hands can you have the right to choose whether to give in or not.

"See you in the game" Barack patted the glory.

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When Rongguang won the right to pick the side, the players on both sides quickly stood in their respective positions and the game was about to begin.

The TV broadcast footage gave a close-up of several major players on both sides.

Manchester City is naturally Glory and Sneijder.

Especially Sneider, who just returned from injury, is a question of how his condition is.

Some media even thought Benitez was a bit too hasty. Three days ago, Sneijder couldn't even enter the roster and started the game.

So how did Sneider recover from his injury? Is he really capable of performing well in such an important game?

You should know that this game is different from other games. Chelsea will definitely not give Manchester City players too much space and time. They will also have bigger home moves, and the referee will definitely grasp their movement standards differently than away games.

As Manchester City's midfielder core, Sneijder will inevitably be given priority care by Chelsea players during the game.

Whether Sneder, who has just returned from injury, will have a shadow on the fierce physical confrontation, and will also affect his performance in this game.

Some media believe that letting Sneider come back from the front also shows Benitez's importance to this game and his concerns about Chelsea.

Facing a team that is determined to win the championship, it is still at their home court. Even a team like Manchester City feels tremendous pressure and threats.

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Amid the deafening cheers and singing of Chelsea fans, Drogba knocked the football out. The game officially began

After the game started, as everyone thought, Chelsea played very actively at home. They took advantage of their home game to launch a fierce offensive against Manchester City's goal.

Without temptation or handling, Chelsea entered the game very quickly.

It can be seen that Ancelotti has made very sufficient preparations for this game.

Faced with Chelsea's fierce offensive, Liverpool chose a very safe and wise tactic on the road, and this is also their good style of play, which is defensive counterattack.

Manchester City's formation looks like - I Matuidi and Gareth Barry are the "2" in the midfield, and Rong Guang, Sneider and David Silva are the "-", but in fact, Rong Guang is more like a frontcourt libero. He has no clear fixed position and he can freely appear in the middle, right and side of the court.

And when he appears in these places, everyone in the corresponding position has to give way to him.

At the same time, he has no defensive tasks yet, so he can let go of his hands during the game and exert his terrifying attack power to the extreme.

This lineup includes Sneider and David Silva in defense, and even Berbatov has to retreat to defense. When they retreat, the person who is at the forefront becomes glory.

However, with Rongguang's super personal ability, he can cause trouble for the other party's backward direction without any support.

As long as Manchester City does not concede the ball from behind and with glory ability, he will score sooner or later.

Manchester City's tactics are basically like this. They rely on tight team defense to ensure that the ball is not conceded, and then the frontcourt is based on the cooperation of a few people or the personal ability of one person to score.

Everyone knows that the key to winning is to score first and not let Manchester City lead.

Manchester City basically conceded the goal first in the few games that they tied and lost this season.

So it makes sense that Chelsea made a scramble at the beginning of this game.
Chapter completed!