The Tigers shot at the beginning, Ronaldo and Messi begged me to retire!

Xu Ning scratched his head and recalled carefully.

He really forgot what broke out in the group stage of the Champions League this season.

At least looking at these participating teams, it is difficult to have any explosive points!

UEFA is to force the teams of the third and fourth gears out and form a death group, so that there is still something to watch.

And this group of death will never have Manchester City, after all, with Manchester City can not be regarded as a group of death, or the group of death of other teams.

The probability is to find a few teams of equal strength to stuff into a group

! The third pot team is Liverpool, and the fourth team is Monaco and Roma, probably they will be used by UEFA!

The first team to draw is a gear, which really doesn't matter.

Manchester City were drawn to the final Group H.

Next, the second pot team is drawn.

Among the powerhouses are Juventus, Borussia Dortmund and Paris Saint-Germain, plus a maximum of Schalke 04 and Porto.

However, when the draw results came out, the Manchester City players were a little unsure of what to say.

Of the five strong teams, Manchester City did not meet a single one, and drew almost the weakest Shakhtar Donetsk.

Xu Ning even wondered how the team got to second gear.

Barca and Paris have met each other, and it is not the first time that the two teams have met in the Champions League.

Juventus and Atletico are grouped together, but there is a battle of dragons.

Borussia Dortmund and Arsenal are together, and the two teams are likely to be evenly matched.

Next, there is the draw for the third gear.

Looking at the name Bilbao, the Manchester City players were also expressionless.

They were not familiar with this opponent at all.

Although it is also from the five major leagues, it can only barely be regarded as a strong team in La Liga, and it is far from the level of threatening Manchester City.

Liverpool, the only thing to watch in the third gear, was drawn into Real Madrid's group.

Soon, the draw for the fourth gear began.

Xu Ning watched Borisov's team be drawn into Group H.

Manchester City, Shakhtar Donetsk, Athletic Bilbao, Borisov.

If so, let Manchester City directly advance, why play six more group games!

It may even be that Manchester City will send a second-tier squad that will be enough to easily qualify for the knockout rounds.

The public opinion on the next day was much quieter than in previous years.

After all, there is no real death group, and there are not many explosive points to speak of, and it is difficult to arouse the interest of fans.

Even if it is hyped up for a grudge showdown, it can only attract momentary attention.

At this time, even UEFA has already noticed that the overall decline in attention to the Champions League group stage is obvious.

However, for politicians like Platini, it doesn't really matter at all, what matters is that he can win the votes of small and medium-sized countries with voting rights, and he can continue to be elected.

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The Champions League group draw and the start of the League Cup have made Manchester City's schedule intense.

And interspersed with European Cup qualifiers, Manchester City are not having a good time.

On 30 August, Manchester City host Stoke City.

The all-out Blue Moon once again showed its full strength, and several major forwards scored one after another with the assistance of the attack group behind him.

Xu Ning scored twice, Roberto Firmino and Dzeko both scored, and Nasri also scored Stoke City with an insider shot.

Manchester City won 5-0.

The internationals then returned to their respective countries to prepare for the qualifiers.

Fortunately, Xu Ning did not go back and has been training in the Manchester City training base.

The main thing is that Portugal is grouped too well, with Denmark, Serbia, Armenia, Albania in a group.

The top two in the group qualified directly, and the third place played in the play-offs.

It's hard to imagine that the ST World Champion can't qualify from such a group.

Therefore, Paul Bento did not recruit absolute core players such as Xu Ning and Ronaldo this time, but recruited many young people to give them more opportunities to exercise, and he also needed to investigate new people.

When the internationals returned from the national team, Pellegrini's hanging heart was slightly put in his stomach.

With the exception of Sergio Aguero, who suffered a slight strain, and Kompany's slight sprain, the rest of the players returned with all their tails intact.

This is probably a good result for Manchester City, where the FIFA virus is always terrifying.

You know, every international break last season, Manchester City must have players injured, so Manchester City want to fight those national teams lawsuit!

On September 13, in the fourth round of the Premier League, Manchester City away to Arsenal.

Even if Sergio Aguero and Kompany are not playing, City's bench thickness will be enough to guarantee them an absolute advantage over Arsenal.

If Manchester City have the best experience in playing, it is probably Arsenal.

Arsenal's beautiful football can hardly be called beautiful now, and the technical flow of play is completely restrained by Manchester City.

Not long after the start, Xu Ning assisted Dzeko to score a goal and get off to a perfect start.

It wasn't long before Manchester City returned in attack, with Nasri scoring twice from a corner kick for Dzeko.

Next, Xu Ning was not willing to be lonely, and used a surprise attack to slam the door after two people.

Had it not been for Pellegrini's quick rotation in the second half, Manchester City might have beaten Arsenal again.

The 4-0 score still left Arsenal feeling powerless, and Arsene Wenger's side may be able to compete for four, but it would be too wishful thinking to cause problems for Manchester City.

After the victory over Arsenal, Manchester City flew straight to Donetsk to prepare for the Champions League group stage against Shakhtar Donetsk.

Although it was an away game, Manchester City did not want to dream too much, and won the game cleanly in the first half.

Although the game was rotated quite a bit, and even Xu Ning was only coming off the bench to find a feeling, Shakhtar still could not compete with Manchester City.

The final score was 2-0, and Manchester City won the most economical victory with extremely low losses.

Next, back in the league, Manchester City really faced a strong opponent, Chelsea.

Jose Mourinho's team has shown great fighting power.

With all four Premier League wins, even the goal difference is only slightly behind Manchester City, not much behind.

While other big clubs such as Manchester United and Liverpool are unable to compete for the title, only Chelsea remains the biggest threat to Manchester City.

Although Manchester City beat Chelsea to win the trophy in the previous Community Shield, the Community Shield was more of a warm-up and did not have more reference value for the new season.

So this time, many fans are optimistic that Chelsea can create some problems for Manchester City.

When Jose Mourinho's team is iron-blooded, it's a completely different concept!