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However, although Xu Qi wanted to continue to win records in the Premier League, he did not agree with the schedule.

The traditional Chinese Spring Festival has arrived. On the second day of the Lunar New Year, a highly anticipated Champions League quarterfinal has finally arrived.

Donetsk Miners play Manchester City at home.

Xu Qi faces the old master.

After taking a plane to Ukraine again, Xu Qi felt that everything had changed.

The Donetsk Miners' home court is no longer the magnificent Donbas Arena, but has become another very high 12-year European Cup venue in Chengdu, Lviv Arena.

Since the outbreak of military conflict in eastern Ukraine, Donetsk miners have moved to Lviv, a western Ukrainian city.

The Donetsk Miners' original home court, Donbas Arena, was found to be destroyed due to the exchange of fire between two local forces.

When this happened, Xu Qi and many stars issued a call together, calling on the world to pay attention to Donetsk and return Donetsk to peace.

However, the role of these stars is just a call.

Later, the Donetsk miners moved to Lviv, and Akmetov also bought the Lviv Arena directly from the Lviv government.

In order to deal with the refusal of many of Xu Qi's former teammates and other players in the team to return to Donetsk, Lucesku announced that the team will train in Kiev and play in Lviv.

This stadium is one of the eight stadiums in the 2012 European Cup.

Located in western Ukraine, it is already far from Donetsk.

It is only 70 kilometers away from Poland and is closer to Hungary and Austria. It can be said that this is somewhat less like the former Donetsk miner.

Xu Qi is here, it is difficult to see the group of fans who used to be Donbas Arena.

However, when learning that Xu Qi was about to return with Manchester City, many old fans of the Donetsk Miners rushed from Donetsk. They made huge banners with the words "Welcome Xu Qi home in Russian".

This also made Xu Qi feel very warm when he saw those fans who specially picked up the plane.

This is a special trip to face the old boss again.

The Lviv Stadium, which can accommodate 35,000 fans, is already full, and this is the highest attendance rate since the Donetsk Miners moved here.

Manchester City's starting lineup is still the same traditional main lineup, except that Yaya Toure has not returned because of participating in the African Cup.

Speaking of Yaya Toure, he actually missed many Manchester City games. Rather than saying that Manchester City did not perform well during the period when Xu Qi was away, it would be better to say that Manchester City's winning streak was stopped without Xu Qi and Yaya Toure.

Joe Hart is still the starting goalkeeper.

Defensive lines Krish, Demikelis, Kompani, Sabaleta.

Double midfielder Fernandinho and Milner took on the role.

Xu Qi on the left and David Silva on the right.

Aguero and Dzeko are paired with two forwards, and Xu Qi returns to his traditional left side.

The Donetsk Miners also have many old friends of Xu Qi.

Including Serner, Rakitsky, Kucher, Piatov, Teixeira, Gladki, Isinho, and Luis Adriano, who competed with Xu Qi in the Champions League group stage to score first.

Xu Qi greeted these old teammates one by one in the player channel and asked each other about their current situation.

Especially Serna, this is the person who helped him a lot in Donetsk back then.

Former captain.

At this time, the old coach Lucescu also walked to Xu Qi and patted Xu Qi on the shoulder.

"Sir." Xu Qi also smiled at Lao Shuai.

Lucescu's eyes were full of relief. He himself never expected that Xu Qi could achieve such a success today. He was glorious last season, and Ronaldo and Messi became the Golden Globe winners of the previous year.

But today, they are opponents.

When you get on the court, everything will become different.

The process of the game is indeed not very warm. After the game started, Serner directly brought down Xu Qi from behind for the first time when facing Xu Qi's breakthrough.

Although Serner still pulled Xu Qi up with a smile after the foul.

But the side impact behind the back and the thigh railing was not merciless at all.

Of course, Xu Qi is not the only one who faces the old master.

And Fernandinho.

Faced with his former teammates, Fernandinho showed no mercy. He stopped Teixeira's breakthrough and knocked down Teixen at the beginning.

Taisen was not Xu Qi's teammate. When Xu Qi played for the Donetsk Miners, he also played for Kharkov Metalworkers.

The two have had a fight in the Ukrainian Super League.

Now Teixen has become a member of the Donetsk Miners team, and together with two small members of Teixeira, he has taken on the banner of the Donetsk Miners' offense.

Judging from the lineup, the Donetsk Miners have indeed lost a lot of young monsters in recent years.

Including Xu Qi's former friends William, including Mkhitaryan, Douglas Costa, etc.

However, the Donetsk Miners still demonstrated the strength of a strong team with many years of experience in European warfare.

The confrontation between the two teams was very fierce, especially the Donetsk Miners in defense. With Lucescu's careful arrangement and Serner's outstanding performance, they actually restricted Xu Qi.

As a result, Xu Qi completed his first shot until 30 minutes of the game and missed it.

However, Xu Qi then completed a threatening shot, and the ball flew out of the baseline against the post.

In addition, the Donetsk miners' counterattack was also quite sharp.

However, Manchester City is still stronger and controls the entire game.

In the first half, the two sides had a zero-to-zero situation.

Pellegrini is not very satisfied with this situation. Although he doesn't feel that he has to win this game, Pellegrini still wants to score a away goal.

But after all, he has Xu Qi in his hand, which is something that can reassure him.

After all, Xu Qi has not been able to score a goal so far this season.

It is almost impossible to stop Xu Qi.

But in the second half, Xu Qi still did not perform particularly dazzlingly.

Xu Qi is indeed a little out of shape today. Although it is closer to Poland, the temperature is indeed much lower than that in England, which is not conducive to performance.

Moreover, Manchester City's entire team is not in good shape.

As the game approaches the end, the score remains above zero to zero.

Manchester City has not had a zero-to-zero score in all games this season.

It seems that this first time zero to zero is finally coming.

Sure enough, the referee blew the whistle to the end of the game, and a zero-to-zero score appeared.

Xu Qi also experienced his first game so far this season where he was unable to score.

Coincidentally, this game happened to be when facing the old team Donetsk Miners.

Many people sighed at the wonders of football.

Xu Qi's consecutive Champions League goal record ended and was eventually locked in 13 games.

The record of consecutive goals in 28 games in the league and Champions League this season has also ended.

All this ended at where Xu Qi's European dream began.

A record is over, and of course there are more records waiting for Xu Qi to create.
Chapter completed!