Chapter 560 Broken Golden Body
Although it was only October, Moscow was quite cold.
Artificial turf and cold weather are the advantages of CSKA Moscow, and many media also believe that it will be possible to end Manchester City's unbeaten golden body.
Manchester City is the only unbeaten team in the five major European football leagues today.
Now, both Barcelona and Real Madrid and Bayern have lost. Only Manchester City not only maintains a high winning rate, but also has never lost.
Before the start of this late October game, snow fell on Moscow.
Not big, but it is enough to show the coldness of Moscow.
This will be a snow battle.
Moscow CSKA coach Slutsky said before the game that his opponent is one of the most powerful teams on the planet and one of the best players on the planet.
Of course, the CSKA Moscow is most familiar with Xu Qi. The goalkeeper Akinfeyev once broke through his goal.
Therefore, Ajinfeiv, as the captain of the team, also expressed his intention to win the opponent and Xu Qi today.
However, in this game, his time to not concede the ball only lasted until the 29th minute of the game.
Xu Qi assisted Aguero to score, and Akinfeyev's declaration of losing his opponent was declared a failure.
Next, Xu Qi will be given a penalty.
Ten minutes later, Aguero reciprocated and assisted Xu Qi to score, and the zero-block of Xu Qi claimed by Akinfeyev was declared a failure.
Within forty minutes, Manchester City led the way with two goals away. In the eyes of many people, Manchester City basically won this game.
"I didn't expect that Moscow, which was frozen in the cold, could not stop the powerful Manchester Expeditionary Force!" said Leinker, a special commentator at Sky Sports Station, in surprise.
However, Akinfeyev's failure was not the failure of the CSKA Moscow. This team from the combat nation has always had an extremely strong fighting spirit.
Although they lost two goals in a row in the first half, they fell behind.
But in the second half of the game, Manchester City's situation suddenly became worse.
Xu Qi, who finished his senior year in the weekend league, was also tackled by Berezutsky in this cold weather. Although it was not a big deal and could still hold on, Xu Qi felt that it was difficult to rush up.
At this time, Dunbia of the CSKA Moscow completed the goal and helped the CSKA get back a goal.
Subsequently, Manchester City suddenly seemed to lose form in this game.
The CSKA Moscow finally found their sense of fighting at home, controlled the ball and began to siege Manchester City's goal.
"This team has been winning, winning, winning. In fact, this has reached their limit. The cold Moscow has exposed Manchester City's weaknesses. In this game, Manchester City is very hungry." Lyinkel, who originally thought that the cold Moscow could not stop Manchester City, changed his mind after watching such a game.
"Sure enough, Moscow is not an easy place to break. You know, Bayern Munich won only one goal here in the last round."
"It's enough for Manchester City to defend the fruit of 2-1 victory, and three-pointers are more important than anything else." Reinkell is no longer optimistic about Manchester City, which suddenly loses the initiative in the game, and believes that it's good that Manchester City can keep three-pointers.
Perhaps, three-pointers are not that easy to defend.
As time goes by, players including Xu Qi and Aguero have all declined a bit.
"It seems that the cold in Moscow and the long-distance travel on the plane affected the team's condition. It is said that Manchester City's arrival in Moscow this time affected some formation due to the snow, which made them not have enough time to prepare for this game." CCTV's commentator Gong Leiyuan gave such a speculation.
Indeed, this team is in a bit embarrassed now.
In the eighty-six minutes of the game, the CSKA Moscow finally equalized the score, and Nacho scored the goal.
When he saw the CSKA tie the score to 2-2, Xu Qi could only hold his knees with his hands weakly and gritted his teeth to watch the scene of the CSKA celebrating.
The CSKA, which lost two consecutive games, is finally going to get points. Although it is still difficult for them to qualify in the group, they have greatly increased their confidence in equalizing a strong team like Manchester City when they are behind two goals at home.
In this game, Manchester City was tied again.
Although the three-round Champions League group stage remained unbeaten, the record of winning and drawing by one is not very good.
Especially in another game in the same group, Bayern Munich slaughtered Roma 7-1, two wins and one draw to the top of the standings, and scored a large number of goals.
While Xu Qi lamented the crushing defeat of Roma, he also felt that Bayern Munich was indeed very strong this season.
In the three rounds, Bayern Munich scored seven points first, Manchester City scored five points second, Roma scored three points third, and CSKA Moscow scored one point last.
Manchester City still did not show their dominant strength in the Premier League in the Champions League.
After all, they have won all the results in the Premier League so far.
Seeing such a record, Pellegrini had to sigh that the difficulty of the Champions League is indeed very difficult.
Of course, some English media did not buy it. They still believe that the Premier League is actually more difficult. The reason why Pellegrini was tied in this game was entirely due to underestimating the enemy.
However, such a draw is not a doomsday.
Manchester City still has the opportunity to compete for the first place in the group.
Back in the Premier League, Manchester City will continue to prepare for the ninth round of the league.
The schedule today is indeed intensive.
Perhaps due to the fatigue caused by the away game against Moscow, Manchester City still failed to maintain the unbeaten golden body in the league in the ninth round of the league.
In two consecutive away games, this time against West Ham United, Manchester City's physical fitness did not recover well.
In the end, West Ham United defeated Manchester City 2-1 at home, and Manchester City finally suffered its first league defeat.
There are actually two things that comfort Manchester City fans.
The first thing is that Chelsea and Manchester United finally tied the tough battle in this game.
Therefore, Chelsea did not have the chance to tie Manchester City in the standings and trailed Manchester City by a two-point advantage.
However, their record of seven wins, one draw and one loss in nine leagues is already very terrifying.
Manchester City's confidence in winning the Premier League championship is far from reaching Chengdu, where they are taking pictures.
The second thing that comforts Manchester City fans is that the only player who scored Manchester City in this game is Xu Qi!
Manchester City's winning streak ended, and the unbeaten golden body ended, but Xu Qi's record of scoring goals in every game in succession continues.
In nine league games, Xu Qi has scored 16 goals, and his efficiency is terrifying.
Achieving an astonishing 178 goals per game.
In the Premier League’s scorer list, no one can threaten Xu Qi’s position. If Xu Qi’s efficiency continues, then breaking some previous goal records will be no problem.
All the games Xu Qi participated in this season have scored goals, nine league games and three Champions League games, and there have been twelve games.
Chapter completed!