Football's No. 1 Prodigal Son

The next day after Ronaldinho won the award, Manchester City ushered in the League Cup quarter-finals. They will face Bolton at home. Tuchel hurried back to Manchester that morning to direct the game. There is no way, who made him just the head coach, not the boss... Although Bolton is a Premier League team, Manchester City still arranged a substitute lineup. Yang Luo made up his mind to use these games to train newcomers and give Mario Gomez the League Cup top scorer. Even if he really can't keep him next year, it's better to sell him with good data, right? Bolton is now ranked seventh in the standings, and its performance is beyond expectations. So they are not ordinary people, and they are completely different from their previous opponents.

Moreover, they used the starting lineup of the main players and substitutes in this game, and they obviously wanted to rush for the League Cup.

Manchester City also underwent a huge test in this game. Less than 20 minutes after the start, the opponent's striker Kevin Davis scored a goal.

Yang Luo didn't care much, just wanted to see how much pressure this young team could withstand.

But the next scene made him furious.

In the 33rd minute, Fabregas got the ball on the right. He used a beautiful fake move to shake off Jaidi, but he was knocked down by a fierce tackle!

The Spanish boy screamed and hugged his ankle in pain.

Yang Luo was immediately annoyed. Fabregas is the future star of the team!

He protested loudly on the sidelines: "This is a crime!"

Although the referee gave Jaidi a yellow card, it still couldn't calm Yang Luo's anger.

Seeing that Fabregas could not continue the game, he called Kaka directly: "Kaka, hit them hard!"

So after Kaka came on the court, Bolton knew what cruelty was.

In the 41st minute, Kaka made continuous breakthroughs in the middle and passed the ball to Mario Gomez. The German striker made a dunk in the penalty area and shot directly to help the team equalize the score.

In the last minute of injury time in the first half, Kaka broke through with the ball again, forcing Jaidi to knock him down with a tactical foul.

This time the referee showed no mercy and sent him off with a yellow card.

With the advantage in numbers, Manchester City continued to exert its strength in the second half, and Yang Luo even replaced Robben to play for 30 minutes.

Under their crazy attack, Manchester City finally won the opponent 4-1, among which Kaka completed one goal and two assists, which can be called a dominant performance.

Mario Gomez also scored twice, so his goal tally has reached seven goals, becoming the top scorer in the League Cup.

Looking at this trend, he has a good chance of winning the League Cup top scorer.

After the game, Fabregas was diagnosed with a slight ankle fracture and is expected to miss a month of games.

This made Yang Luo even more dissatisfied.

Fortunately, this injury will not affect his career, as long as he rests well, there will be no problem.

With the end of the game, the top four teams in this season's League Cup have also been announced, Manchester United, Arsenal, Wigan Athletic and Manchester City.

And Manchester City's semi-final opponent will be Arsenal!

Three days after playing against Bolton, Manchester City went to the away game to challenge Wigan Athletic.

Since the battle with Chelsea will be held three days after this game, Yang Luo still used a rotation lineup in this game.

Messi, Milner, Lescott and other young players appeared in the starting lineup for two consecutive games. Among the main players, only Ronaldinho, Luca Toni, Uifalusi and Essien appeared in the starting lineup.

However, there were some minor twists and turns in this game. Manchester City accidentally lost the ball at the last moment of the game, and the game ended in a 1-1 draw.

Manchester City also ushered in the second draw of the season.

It was thought that Manchester City would lose the top spot in the league, but Chelsea, who kicked off at the same time, unexpectedly lost to Fulham!

Mourinho's team seemed to be very tired. They were in a very bad state throughout the game, and it was reasonable that they were suffocated by Fulham in the end.

Now that the 18th round of the game is over, Manchester City ranks first with a record of 16 wins and two draws, and Chelsea ranks second with a record of 16 wins, one draw and one loss. These two teams have left other teams far behind and become the strongest contenders for the league championship.

And four days later is the day when they will directly fight!

But before that, Yang Luo still needs to take care of two things

things.

The first thing is the registration for the Club World Cup.

This year's Club World Cup is the first after the reform. It was supposed to be held in December, but it was postponed to January for some reason.

And now it is the registration period.

The competition requires teams to provide a list of 23 players, including at least two goalkeepers.

After careful consideration, Yang Luo and Tuchel finally determined the list.

Goalkeepers: Cech, Weaver.

Backcourt: Sun Jihai, Maicon, Uifalusi, Distin, Kompany, Lescott, Evra, Felipe.

Midfield: Makelele, Essien, Xabi Alonso, Barton, Kaka, Ronaldinho, C Ronaldo, Robben, Wright-Phillips, Messi and Milner.

Forwards: Fernando Torres and Luca Toni.

Since Schmeichel played in the League Cup, Yang Luo chose to bring Weaver this time.

Although this made Schmeichel very unhappy, Yang Luo persuaded him a few words, and his father also helped to comfort him, so he calmed down.

After all, there are only two games in the Club World Cup, and he would rather play more domestic cup games.

Moreover, he is only 19 years old and will have plenty of opportunities to participate in various competitions in the future.

However, Yang Luo knew that for the development of Schmeichel, he would eventually need to sell this famous descendant.

After all, he can reach the level of a first-class goalkeeper in the Premier League in the future, and he feels bad to always put him in the second goal position.

The second thing is the draw for the Champions League round of 16.

Since Manchester City qualified as the first in the group, its opponent will be selected from the eight second in the group.

The eight second in the group are Bayern Munich, Ajax, Werder Bremen, Benfica, Eindhoven, Real Madrid, Arsenal and Glasgow Rangers.

According to the country and group avoidance, Manchester City's possible opponents are only Bayern, Bremen, Benfica, PSV Eindhoven, Real Madrid and Glasgow Rangers.

Although there are teams like Bayern and Real Madrid among the opponents, Yang Luo is not panicked at all.

Because he has a hunch that Johansson should still take care of Manchester City before the election.

Sure enough, after the draw results came out, Bernstein on the scene showed a smile on his face.

Manchester City's opponent will be Glasgow Rangers!