Chapter 428 Guardiola’s plan: Let Lin Quan be a teacher!

Also in Group D with Juventus is Sevilla, who just played against Manchester City in the European Super Cup. The last team in Group D is from the Bundesliga's Monchengladbach.

Therefore, Group D undoubtedly became this year's death group.

It is also the only group with all four teams coming from the five major leagues.

This grouping result is very unfavorable to the four teams in the group. After all, the teams in the five major leagues are indeed stronger than those in the non-major leagues.

The teams that can reach the Champions League are the top teams in the major leagues.

Regardless of whether these teams are placed in the third or even fourth tier, they may seem weak, but in fact they all have the potential to overthrow the giants. Many of the leaders in major leagues have overturned on these teams. .

Compared with Manchester City's lottery, Manchester United next door simply got a top lottery.

Their other three opponents in the same group are PSV Eindhoven, CSKA Moscow and Wolfsburg.

Two of the four teams are not from the five major leagues, and they are not strong.

As long as Manchester United does not fall behind, it is almost certain that they will be first in the group.

In addition to Manchester United, Chelsea's signings in the Premier League are also very good. Their opponents are Porto, Dynamo Kyiv and Maccabi Tel Aviv.

Although Chelsea's status has been ups and downs this season, after all, the foundation is still there. As long as they seize the opportunity, it is not difficult to be first in the group.

As for the Gunners, Arsene Wenger's team has officially started the battle against Barcelona for three years and Bayern for five years.

This year, they encountered Bundesliga hegemon Bayern Munich in the group stage.

Bayern Munich's terrifying offensive power is obvious to all in Europe. When encountering such a team known for its impact and offensive firepower, I really don't know if Wenger can defend his home court.

However, although they encountered Bayern, this did not affect Arsenal's qualifying for the group.

After all, their other two opponents in the same group are Olympiacos and Dinamo Zagreb. These two teams are not strong. With Arsenal's strength, it should be easy to defeat them.

In fact, compared with the previous Champions League group stage draws, this season's draw results are considered a good draw for major clubs.

Affected by UEFA's policies, there have been many teams from non-major leagues in the Champions League group stages in the past two years.

Half of the 32 teams participating in the Champions League last year were from teams outside the five major leagues. This year there is one less team, but there are also 15 teams that are not from the five major leagues.

It is becoming increasingly obvious that UEFA suppresses the rich and supports the weak.

Although these teams are basically the champions of their respective leagues, their strength is significantly different from the five major leagues. In the Champions League, they are basically just studying with the prince and cannot make any waves.

The advantage of this is that the probability of wealthy teams being eliminated in the group stage is reduced.

The downside is that because of the influx of too many weak teams, the excitement of the Champions League group stages has been greatly reduced, and its appeal to fans has also declined.

Coupled with the influx of these teams, part of the Champions League broadcast share must be allocated to them, which will obviously damage the interests of the wealthy clubs.

As a result, some teams from the five major leagues began to join forces privately, trying to bypass UEFA and create a European Super League on their own, involving more than a dozen established giants.

But this approach is bound to be strongly opposed by UEFA. After all, if these top giants run away, who will watch the Champions League?

Without these top clubs, the Champions League's gold content will be greatly reduced, and its influence and attention will plummet.

The decline in the influence of the Champions League will inevitably greatly affect the interests of UEFA. After all, UEFA makes money from operating the Champions League every year.

Destroying people's financial resources is like killing their parents. UEFA will never sit idly by when something like this harms UEFA's interests.

However, the various policies and reforms implemented by UEFA have really harmed the interests of wealthy clubs.

Coupled with the inflated value of players in the transfer market in recent years, coupled with the rapid increase in player wages, these have greatly affected the team's operating costs, causing many teams to make ends meet or even be in debt.

If this continues, it will be very detrimental to the healthy operations of major leagues.

Therefore, the mutual game between clubs and UEFA will definitely become more and more intense.

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The Champions League games won't start until mid-September. Before that, Manchester City's focus is on the league.

On August 29, Manchester City returned home to face newly promoted Watford.

Although the opponent is only a newly promoted team, one thing is incredible - Watford still maintains its unbeaten golden status so far.

What’s even more incredible is that all three games were draws.

Scoring three points in three rounds and remaining unbeaten seems to be a good result for a newly promoted team.

But when they met Manchester City in this round, Watford's good luck completely ended.

In this game, the Manchester City team was in hot form. Aguero showed off his power in the first half and scored twice in just 20 minutes to help the team take a 2:0 lead.

Lin Quan scored another goal in the second half, extending the score to 3:0.

After the team took a big lead, Guardiola started to make substitutions as usual. Players such as Kimmich, Rudiger and Son Heung-min came on stage one after another.

Son Heung-min's good luck seems to be continuing. In this game, he quickly seized the opponent's offensive opportunity after coming off the bench and scored a goal using a long-distance run.

Although this is just a icing on the cake goal, it has little impact on the overall situation.

But the process of scoring this goal made Guardiola's eyes shine. This kid's dribbling and breakthrough abilities have improved a lot compared to before!

Could it be the effect of sparring with Lin Quan?

If this is really the case, can David Silva, De Bruyne, Kanter and others be trained along this line of thinking?

If there is any difference between the Manchester City under Guardiola and the Barcelona of the Dream Three Dynasty, it is that they lack an Iniesta.

Lin Quan can perfectly replace Messi, even more comprehensive than the original Messi.

Kroos can replace Xavi as the midfield commander and dealer, but who will replace Iniesta?

De Bruyne?

He does not have Iniesta's ball-handling ability and breakthrough ability. Although De Bruyne occasionally makes wonderful passes and breakthroughs, compared with Iniesta, he is a bit far behind.

Barcelona in the Dream Three Dynasty is not just Messi who is strong alone, but his group of teammates are also very strong.

As for Manchester City, although other players are also very strong, Lin Quan is completely ahead of everyone, and even widens the gap in grade.

This makes Guardiola very worried, worried that his opponents will target Lin Quan.

When he was at Barcelona, ​​he often encountered situations where Messi was targeted by opponents. Once Messi was restricted, Barcelona's offensive firepower would drop a lot.

But because of Xiaobai's presence, he can effectively help Messi share the firepower, so that even if Messi is restricted, Barcelona's offensive system can still operate smoothly.

But in Manchester City, if Lin Quan is targeted, who can step forward?

This was originally an unsolvable problem, but now Guardiola seems to have seen a solution to the problem.

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The fourth round of the Premier League is a nightmare for the major clubs.

Except for Manchester City's victory, all other giants lost.

Klopp's Liverpool tasted their first defeat. They suffered a humiliating loss to the Hammers West Ham United at Anfield, and they lost 0:3 to their opponents. It can be said that they lost without temper.

Chelsea, who welcomed a new coach, failed to defend Stamford Bridge. They lost 1:2 at home to Crystal Palace. Their luck, which they had finally reversed, seemed to have taken a turn for the worse again.

Arsenal was not much better. Playing away from home, they suffered an aggrieved loss to Newcastle with the help of an own goal by their own players when their opponent was sent off with a red card at the beginning.

As for Mourinho's Manchester United, despite scoring the first goal, they suffered a reversal from their opponents and lost 1:2 to Swansea in the away game, which also shattered their undefeated streak.

Therefore, after the end of this round, among the major giants, only Manchester City, the only one, maintained a winning streak and undefeated status.

And the gap between them and other teams has further widened to 3 points.

The media in Fleet Street howled when all the wealthy families met and overturned.

The Daily Mail even reported this round of games with a sensational headline like ‘Premier League suspense ends 34 rounds ahead of schedule’.

“Judging from the performance of the major clubs in this round, I don’t see any hope of defeating Manchester City. I have a hunch that Manchester City will not only win the championship this season, but they will also lead their opponents by a large margin and win the championship many rounds in advance!

Perhaps, we have to witness with our own eyes the moment when the historical record for the highest score in the Premier League is broken! "

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The outstanding performance of scoring goals in three consecutive games made Son Heung-min quickly recognized by Manchester City fans.

Even his teammates' attitude towards him has changed greatly. They took the initiative to say hello to him, and more and more people started to pass the ball to him in training matches.

But just when he felt good, even a little elated.

Guardiola found him with a serious expression: "Sun, come with me!"

Sun Xingmin's heart thumped, and he subconsciously thought that he had done something wrong to make the coach unhappy?

It was only when he followed Guardiola to the training ground anxiously that he finally breathed a sigh of relief.

He is not the only one on the training ground, there are also Lin Quan, De Bruyne, Kroos, Kante and many other players here.

"Sun, go through the sparring session between you and Lin Quan again and let us see!"

Guardiola nodded to Lin Quan, and then gave instructions to Son Heung-min.

"Yes, boss!"

Son Heung-min was confused and didn't know what Guardiola was going to do, but he still did it honestly.

In fact, the sparring between Sun Xingmin and Lin Quan was completely a process in which he was repeatedly abused by Lin Quan.

He is not a professional defensive player, his defensive awareness and skills are very average, and he cannot stop Lin Quan's breakthrough at all.

Several players knew this at a glance, but what Guardiola wanted them to see was not an embarrassing scene of Son Heung-min.

"Do you see clearly how Lin excels?"

Guardiola looked at the crowd and asked.

Kanter, who is good at defense, stood up and explained the techniques Lin Quan used during his breakthrough.

As a top defensive player, he is naturally familiar with the various methods of the opponent's offensive players.

However, although he said it was easy, if he was really allowed to face Lin Quan one-on-one, Kanter would be in a hurry and be embarrassed.

This kind of perversion cannot be prevented one-on-one.

However, whatever you are afraid of will come to you. After Kanter analyzed Lin Quan's extraordinary skills, Guardiola nodded with satisfaction, and then said:

"That's good. If that's the case, then N'Golo, you and Lin will have a sparring match!"

"Huh? Me?"

Kanter was stunned for a moment, looking a little embarrassed.

Coach, you know me. I, Kanter, am not afraid of anything. I am said to have no obstacles that I cannot overcome, only Kanter that I cannot overcome.

But, am I really no match for this guy?

When I joined the team, I was instigated by my teammates and went to challenge Team Lin over my own abilities. As a result, I was beaten so badly by Team Lin that it was not easy to successfully defend against me even once out of ten times.

That series of failures almost shattered my Daoist heart and made me lose confidence in my abilities!

If I come here now, I'm afraid my inner demon will relapse!

"Well, you practice with him once, just once!"

Guardiola seemed to know that Kanter was a little scared of Lin Quan, so he emphasized that it only needed to be practiced once.

"All right!"

Kanter reluctantly stood up, but because he lacked self-confidence, the result against Lin Quan would not be good.

Kanter was defeated as expected, and he was defeated completely. It was completely impossible to see that he was the omnipotent defensive iron gate on the field.

Goulon!

Sun Xingmin swallowed subconsciously, although after these few days of training, he already knew that Lin Quan's extraordinary ability was very powerful.

But I didn't expect it to be so powerful!

Unexpectedly, even Kanter, the strongest defensive player in the team, couldn't stop him, and was even completely defeated by him.

Is this guy still a human?

I'm afraid even Messi at his peak is nothing more than this!

"Very good, I think everyone has realized that your teammate Lin Quan is a player who is very good at breakthroughs and passing others!"

Guardiola was very satisfied with the result and clapped his hands, attracting everyone's attention.

Everyone stared at Guardiola curiously. Everyone felt that he would not be so bored that he gathered everyone together just to appreciate Lin Quan's excellence.

So, he must have some other purpose.

Guardiola didn't give in, and he quickly revealed the answer:

"In that case, do you want to have the same ability as Lin Quan?"

As soon as this statement came out, the scene was in an uproar.

Everyone looked at Guardiola dumbfounded. He has the same extraordinary ability as Lin?

Is this really possible?

"Ahem, I didn't make it clear. I meant to learn Lin's extraordinary skills and improve your extraordinary strength. I don't mean to let you reach Lin's level!"

Guardiola thought to himself, ordinary people can't learn Lin Quan's talent.