Chapter 188 The Champions League officially kicks off with crazy performances from major giants!

On September 14, the fourth round of the league kicked off.

There were no major highlights in this round of matches, but there were quite a few upsets.

Manchester United, who took the lead, defeated Crystal Palace 2:0 at home, finally stopping their decline.

However, the Blues in the BIG4 unexpectedly lost to Everton away.

This result is shocking!

Mourinho's team continued with the same old problem: their forwards couldn't score no matter what they did.

In this game, Everton also performed extremely well. They defeated Chelsea with tenacious defense and sharp counterattacks, giving the opponent their first defeat of the season and breaking Chelsea's unbeaten streak.

The outside world thought that Everton's record would decline after Moyes left this season.

Unexpectedly, they not only continued their excellent performance in the previous few seasons, but even went one step further! Everton has one win and three draws in four rounds, remaining unbeaten.

It is one of only three teams in the Premier League that have not lost a game.

The other two are Liverpool and Manchester City.

After the unexpected loss to Everton, Chelsea's points dropped to sixth place in the standings. Although Manchester United had the same points as them, they were just one point ahead of them thanks to the advantage of goal difference.

This gave the Red Devils fans, who had been ridiculed by the Blues fans before, another opportunity to fight back and they began to ridicule Chelsea.

"Haha, I love seeing Chelsea people get humiliated!"

"Everton did a great job. I wonder what the fans have to say now!"

"Hehe, I will always remember the way Chelsea fans got mad at us when Manchester United lost in the last round!"

"Haha, they don't even think about who we lost to!"

In the eyes of Manchester United fans, the Reds are a wealthy club and it is not easy to play at their home ground, so it is not shameful to lose to them.

But who did you lose to at Chelsea? Everton?

This is our Manchester United's little brother. The Blues can't even beat our Red Devils' little brother. Isn't it shameful? "Tsk, it's just a game. What's there to worry about? You Manchester United should worry about the next derby against Manchester City!"

"That's right. If Manchester United loses again, Moyes's position as coach may be in jeopardy. Then we might be able to see a good show!"

Chelsea fans seized on the weakness of Manchester United fans and launched sarcastic remarks at them.

This further angered the Red Devils fans, who also began to attack Chelsea.

"You talk as if you, Chelsea, don't have to face Liverpool and Manchester City. In your current state where you can't even score a goal, you'll be lucky to get a point in every game. Even if Manchester United wins or loses every game, our points will be higher than yours!"

Manchester United's sore spot is the unstable position of their head coach, while Chelsea's Achilles' heel is that their forwards can't score goals.

Both teams are in big trouble and neither seems easy to solve.

If this continues, both the Red and Blue teams may not have a chance to win the Premier League title this season.

The Gunners fans who were forgotten in the corner made a fortune in silence.

The Red Devils' record is unstable, the Blues' forward line is weak, and the Reds have been in decline for a long time.

Judging from this, can our Arsenal end their championship-less history this season and successfully win the Premier League championship trophy?

Then in the away game against Sunderland, Arsenal won three consecutive games with a score of 3:1, temporarily topping the list with nine points, which made Arsenal fans more certain of this view.

Arsenal's good times have arrived! Chelsea just had an upset, and Liverpool was not to be outdone.

In the away game against Swansea, the Reds scored two goals in the first half and thought they had secured victory.

Unexpectedly, the opponent launched a counterattack in the second half, scoring two goals in a row and knocking away the three points they had obtained.

However, despite the draw, Liverpool still relied on the accumulated advantages of the previous three consecutive victories to surpass Arsenal by 10 points and temporarily ranked first in the Premier League.

In this round of the game, Manchester City was almost tied by their opponents.

Manchester City has too many stars, so they are greatly affected by the FIFA virus.

After participating in the national team games, most players rush back to the club to participate in league games.

This made them out of form throughout the game, and some players from South America were unable to even play the entire game due to excessive physical exhaustion.

The score remained 0:0 until injury time.

Just when everyone thought it would be a draw, in the last minute of injury time, Lin Quan made an extremely deadly pass, assisting Negredo to score a goal, helping the team to win the opponent with difficulty 1:0.

Although the win was very embarrassing, Manchester City still "curled up three points" and maintained its top position in the standings with four consecutive wins.

After the league game, the entire Manchester City team flew to the Czech Republic without stopping to prepare for the first game of the Champions League group stage.

Viktoria Plzen is a team in the Czech First League and is not well-known in Europe.

But as the opponent in the opening game, no one in Manchester City dares to underestimate them.

They have failed so many times in the Champions League group stage that they are almost scared of it.

"Vista Plzen is the weakest opponent in our group. We must beat them tomorrow and score as many goals as possible to accumulate enough goal difference advantages. This way, we can take the initiative in the following games!"

Pellegrini also knows that Manchester City's boss attaches great importance to the Champions League. His predecessor Mancini was fired because of two consecutive group stage eliminations.

If he doesn't want to follow in Mancini's footsteps, there can't be any surprises in this group match.

Leaving Bayern aside, Manchester City's hard power is far behind their opponents.

However, the other two opponents in the group are weaker than them, so they must win this game steadily! Perhaps Pellegrini's pre-match instructions had the opposite effect. After the game started, Manchester City played very tightly and the players were very nervous.

After 30 minutes of the first half, the score was still 0:0, and Manchester City players received two yellow cards for excessive actions.

Pellegrini was originally quite relieved, but when he saw the team's situation, he started to get nervous again.

No way? Manchester City won't lose away from home, right?

The players of Plzen Viktoria were a little scared when they heard the name of the opposing Premier League powerhouse. They were already three points inferior in momentum.

After playing for 30 minutes, they found that the opponent's level was just so-so. So, they began to grow bolder, no longer playing conservatively, but trying to attack more and more, trying to change the score.

Lin Quan felt relieved as soon as the opponent attacked.

My teammates were too nervous before, and there were too many players inside and outside the opponent's penalty area, so many combinations could not be made.

Now, the other party is not honest and actually wants to fight against them.

Suddenly, there were more gaps in the opponent's penalty area! Lin Quan gestured to his teammates to speed up the game and took the lead in pressing the players of Plzen in the midfield.

Under his leadership, Garcia, Navas, Aguero and others also took action and joined the pressing team.

Plzen's players rarely play against teams from the top five leagues, and they are not used to the pace of games in the top five leagues, especially the Premier League.

As soon as Manchester City speeded up a bit, they immediately found themselves unable to hold on.

The battle between the two sides in the midfield soon decided the winner.

Manchester City's players overwhelmed their opponents with their better skills and stronger physical confrontation.

After taking control of the midfield, the quality of their attack also improved rapidly.

In the 48th minute of the game, Manchester City midfielder intercepted the ball and quickly passed it to Lin Quan on the wing.

Lin Quan dribbled the ball through the opponent's interception and cut inside. After attracting the opponent's attention, he made a fake shot and passed the ball to Aguero who was in a better position.

The Argentine didn't waste his wonderful pass and shot the ball into the goal! "Beautiful!"

On the sidelines, after seeing this goal, Pellegrini excitedly waved his arms and celebrated with his assistants!

He had waited too long for this goal! If the team couldn't score again, the opponent would soon return to their previous conservative state, and then they might not be able to defeat their opponent.

After scoring the first goal, the rest of the game became much easier.

There is no point in parking the bus when the score is behind.

Bilson had to attack.

Once they attacked, their defense was completely no match for Manchester City's forwards.

In the 53rd minute, Lin Quan received a pass from Garcia, withstood the push from the opponent's defender in a physical confrontation with the defender, leaned against the defender and shot the ball into the goal.

Manchester City scored another goal! Under Manchester City's fierce attack, Bjergsen was already unable to withstand it!

However, Manchester City's players kept the coach's instructions in mind and did not give up the attack even though they were two goals ahead.

They also want to score more goals against Bjergsen!

In the 65th minute, Manchester City launched another quick attack.

After Lin Quan dribbled the ball down the line, he slipped around the defender and shot at a small angle in the penalty area.

The goalkeeper focused, stretched out his hand and blocked the ball.

But the ball he saved did not fly too far and landed in the penalty area, causing a melee between players from both sides.

In the chaos, the defender of Plzen tried to clear the ball with a long kick, but it bounced off the leg of a Manchester City player and was reflected.

The goalkeeper had just completed a save and before he had time to get up from the ground, he saw the football flying towards him.

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The ball came too fast, and he could only instinctively wave his hand to block it, but of course he failed to block it.

3:0!

The goal was scored by Javi García.

The latter himself didn't expect the ball to go in, he originally wanted to rush for a shot.

But the opponent's defender was one step faster than him and he failed to get the ball.

Seeing the opponent kicking to clear the ball, Garcia raised his leg to block it symbolically. Unexpectedly, a goal was scored by accident.

This is really a case of searching for something without any effort! In the end, Manchester City scored three goals in the second half, winning the first game of the Champions League group stage and getting three valuable points.

Because Bayern also defeated CSKA Moscow 3-0 at home in the same group, Manchester City and Bayern are currently ranked first in the group with 3 points and 3 goals difference.

Because the eight games of the first four groups all started at the same time.

After Manchester City's game ended, the results of other groups' games were also announced.

In Group A, Moyes' Manchester United repelled the challenge of Bundesliga powerhouse Leverkusen with a score of 4-2 at Old Trafford.

Rooney, who returned to the starting lineup in this game, performed bravely and scored twice to help the team break the deadlock.

Ever since Van Persie came to the team and took away his starting position, Lukaku hasn't felt so proud for a long time.

Although he was Ferguson's favorite disciple, it was Ferguson who abandoned him in the last year of Ferguson's coaching.

Now, Moyes is here and he has given Rooney more opportunities, which makes Rooney very grateful and he wants to respond by scoring goals in every game.

In addition to Rooney, Van Persie and Valencia also scored a goal each to help the team secure the victory.

Although Leverkusen lost the game, they still attacked tenaciously despite being behind in the score and scored two goals against Manchester United, allowing fans from all over the world to witness the resilience of the Bundesliga team.

In Group B, Real Madrid will visit Türkiye's devilish home ground.

It was thought to be a tough game, but Ancelotti's team defeated Galatasaray 6:1, which shocked the world.

Real Madrid does have an advantage in terms of hard power, so no one is surprised that they won.

However, it is really shocking that they can achieve such a huge score difference in the Turks' devilish home field!

In this game, although Gareth Bale, who Real Madrid spent 100 million to buy in the summer, did not score a goal, his breakthrough on the wing made the Turks miserable and provided a great help for the team's victory.

However, Bale still cannot overshadow Ronaldo.

The Portuguese was in great form in this game, and I don't know if it was to announce his status in Real Madrid to the world.

Still wanting to show his strength in front of the newcomers and make them face reality, Ronaldo completed a hat trick in just 30 minutes in the second half.

After Bale came on the field, he and Bale's "200 million flying together" made people realize the power of money.

If you have money, you can really do whatever you want!

In a corner where no one was paying attention, Benzemao, who had been practicing shooting for more than half a year, completed two shots and one pass in this game in a low-key manner.

Although he cannot steal the limelight from his teammates, he also does not have the aura of Mr. Billionaire.

But his presence is an important guarantee for Real Madrid to win.

In Group C, Paris Saint-Germain defeated Greek team Olympiacos 4:1 away.

In this game, Paris Saint-Germain scored in many areas and defeated their opponents.

Although he did not score a goal, Ibrahimovic made headlines for missing a penalty and became the most depressed person.

The next day, the competition among the remaining four groups began.

Werder Bremen defeated Steaua Bucharest 3-0 at home, with Peterson, Felkerkrug, Arnautovic and others scoring their first Champions League goals.

After getting three points, Werder Bremen's qualifying situation is very good.

But in another match, Chelsea, playing at home, caused a big upset.

Facing the challenge from the Swiss team Basel, everyone thought it would be a game without suspense, but Mourinho messed it up.

In this game, Chelsea scored first, but was reversed by the opponent and eventually lost the game with a score of 1:2.

When the score was behind in the second half, Mourinho replaced almost all the forwards he could.

But he just couldn't score a goal and could only watch his opponent take three points from him.

After the game, Basel fans celebrated wildly at Stamford Bridge. They themselves did not expect to defeat the powerful Blues.

The Chelsea players could only shed tears in secret and swallow the bitter fruit of failure helplessly.

If the recent loss in the league is included, Chelsea has suffered two consecutive defeats in all competitions.

De Bruyne sat on the bench for the entire game, and when the team was trailing, Mourinho replaced players from the bench three times.

But every time she never thought about him, she never even looked at him straight in the eye.

This made De Bruyne feel extremely disappointed...

Group F is facing a grim situation of being the group of death.

Wenger's Arsenal played steadily and defeated Marseille 2-1 away from home, getting valuable three points.

Last season's Champions League runner-up Dortmund was defeated by Napoli away from home.

Dortmund seems to have passed its peak and is firmly on the downward path.

In Group G, Atletico Madrid beat Zenit 3:1 at home, and Porto also defeated their opponent away.

In Group H, where Barcelona and AC Milan are located, the two teams easily defeated their opponents at home with scores of 4:0 and 2:0 respectively.

As if to respond to Ronaldo from a distance, Messi also performed a hat trick in the match against Ajax.

The first round of games is over, and all Premier League teams have won except Chelsea, which suffered a setback.

La Liga also had three wins and one loss, with the loser being the weakest team, Real Sociedad.

Serie A had 2 wins and 1 draw. Apart from the wins by AC Milan and Napoli, the Old Lady was tied by the weak Copenhagen away from home, which was a big upset.

On the other hand, the Bundesliga had two wins and two losses, while Ligue 1 and the Portuguese Super League had one win and one loss each.

Judging from the respective records of the five major leagues, the Premier League and La Liga are worthy of being the top two leagues.

Serie A is slightly better than Bundesliga, while Ligue 1 has fallen to the level of the Portuguese Super League.

However, the Portuguese Super League has two seeded teams, but Ligue 1 has none, which is very heartbreaking.

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