Soccer Card System

Chapter 504 Manchester City's last stand
Chapter 5 and Five: Manchester City's Last Stand
The second round of the UEFA Champions League group stage is over.

The current situation in Group A is very favorable for Atletico Madrid. After two consecutive victories, Atletico Madrid scored six points and ranked first in the group, while Bayern Munich scored three points and ranked second in the group. Naples and Manchester City ranked third and fourth respectively with one point.

"It's too early to talk about qualifying. There are still four games in the group stage. For any team, there are still [-] points to fight for."

After the game, Gao Bo didn't seem too happy.

The continuous away games have put Atletico Madrid players in a period of physical fatigue, especially in the last two games, they have encountered strong enemies in a row, and they are still playing away games, and traveling will consume more energy.

Fortunately, these two difficult games, Atletico Madrid finally gnawed down.

On the fourth day after returning from Italy, Atletico Madrid ushered in a home game.

In the seventh round of the league, Atletico Madrid played against Sevilla at home.

Although Gao Bo made a rotation in this game, the performance of the players on the court was not satisfactory.

Sevilla's defense is very tenacious, while Atletico Madrid's offense seems to have lost their sharpness.

At home, Atletico Madrid endured a dreary draw.

This is Atletico Madrid's first draw of the season, a bit earlier than last season.

After the match was over, Gao Bo shook his head.

A long season, the Champions League, the league and, in the future, the Copa del Rey.Now the impact of the intensive schedule has begun to appear.

Fortunately, after this game, the national team match day will be one and a half months away.

Most of the members of the first team were transferred at once. The main players of Atlético de Madrid's first team are almost all national football teams. On the national team match day, Atletico Madrid's training can only be based on basic training. In terms of tactical training, since most of the first team players have been transferred, it is temporarily difficult for Atletico Madrid to do complex tactical training.

Gao Bo paid close attention to the national team match day for two consecutive weeks.

He was mainly worried about the injury of his players. On October [-], the players returned from various national teams one after another.

The medical department immediately conducted a new inspection on the players to ensure that they would not leave any hidden dangers of injury in the national team's game.

Fortunately, on the match day of the national team this time, Atletico Madrid has no injured players for the time being.

And on October [-], the eighth round of the league, Atletico Madrid challenged Granada away.

At the Carmenez Stadium, a small stadium that can only accommodate more than 2 people, Atletico Madrid ushered in a big victory!
In the 9th minute of the game, Reyes, who returned to the starting lineup, sent an assist. He made a cross from the wing. Diego Costa, who got the chance to start in this game, slightly changed the direction of the football running. The football rolled into the goal from the goalkeeper's feet!
Atlético Madrid got off to a fantastic start.

Atlético Madrid took full control of the situation afterwards.In the 20th minute of the game, Griezmann's inside cut shot helped the team expand its lead.

In the second half, Atletico Madrid's goal has not stopped.

No. In the 60th minute, Diego Costa scored twice and scored a goal in the penalty area, rewriting the score to [-]-[-].

Shortly thereafter, central defender Lucio took advantage of a corner kick and scored a header, making the score [-]-[-]!

In the end, Atletico Madrid beat their opponents [-]-[-] in the away game. Cork, who came off the bench, made the icing on the cake and scored a long-range goal!
After the national team game, Atletico Madrid used a big victory to declare their continued strength in the league.

However, compared to Real Madrid's seven-game winning streak from the beginning of the league to the present, Atletico Madrid is still slightly inferior. Mourinho's team is unstoppable!
In this season's La Liga, the competition between the three super teams has brought the competition for the league championship into a fierce stage early.

Barcelona also won. The current standings are that Real Madrid ranked first with 21 points in seven consecutive victories, Atletico Madrid ranked second with [-] points in six wins and one draw, and Barcelona ranked third with [-] points in six wins and one loss.

This is the first group in La Liga, and behind them is Valencia with [-] points. The gap between Valencia and the top three is very obvious.

The domestic league is over, Atletico Madrid is non-stop, they have to go to England immediately.

On October 21, the third round of the UEFA Champions League group stage, Atletico Madrid will challenge Manchester City away!

Manchester City's summer transfer window this season once again aggressively signed in, with a transfer fee of more than 1 million in one transfer window, which made other teams staggering in their investment in a league with deep pockets like the Premier League.

And this season, Manchester City has performed very strongly in the Premier League. They have seven wins and one tie in the first eight rounds of the Premier League!However, in the Champions League, Manchester City's performance disappointed their fans.

In the first round, they were lucky to draw with Naples at home, and in the second round they lost to Bayern without any fight back. This time they played at home against Atletico Madrid, the group leader. The English media is still very pessimistic about Manchester City's prospects.

"Sky Sports" said when making a preview of this game: "In the first two games of the Champions League, one draw and one loss, Manchester City only scored one point after two rounds. Compared with their luxurious lineup, this kind of points The result is really ironic. After 43 years, they stepped on the Champions League again. In 43 years, world football has completely changed. Manchester City's mercenaries can kill all sides in the league, but when they encounter really difficult opponents in the Champions League, this team lacks unity. Facing the willpower of a strong enemy, they are in a state of disunity, which is especially obvious when they play Bayern Munich away. If Manchester City wants to get rid of the name of "mercenary", they must show some performance in this game. Atletico Madrid, this is probably a stronger opponent than Bayern Munich."

Sky Sports is still being polite, and some other English tabloids simply ridiculed Manchester City as an "upstart"!
Unlike the various teams that are begging for the luck of oil capital, in the eyes of conservative British, not to mention that a team like Manchester City is controlled by oil capital, even Manchester United was acquired by American capital, which caused an uproar. What's more, Manchester City's performance in the transfer market after being acquired is indeed in line with the image of an upstart.

In this game, apart from some of the media that supported Manchester City, other English media generally believed that Manchester City's game may be more or less ominous.In addition to the strength of Atletico Madrid, their head coach Gao Bo also knows English football quite well-Gao Bo became famous from the English arena.

And once Manchester City loses to Atletico Madrid at home, the luxury team built with hundreds of millions of pounds will not qualify in the Champions League group, I am afraid it will become an international joke.

"We will win!! We will prove to the outside world the unity and fighting spirit of Manchester City!" Manchester City captain Kompany obviously disagrees with the English media's statement!
"Gao Bo knows English football very well? There are many changes here. The current Premier League is no longer the Premier League two years ago. Back then, Gao Bo led Luton to defeat Manchester City, but Manchester City at that time was not the current Manchester City!"

"We will win at home! Qualifying from the group is just our lowest goal!!" David Silva said.

"It's a tough game, it's a real test for the team!" Manchester City coach Roberto Mancini said in front of reporters.

Manchester City is expressing their determination for this game!

For Manchester City, in the third round of the group stage, they will fight to the death!
(End of this chapter)