Three days after the Manchester derby, Manchester City sat at the city stadium and ushered in the third round of the League Cup knockout round.

The opponent is Cardiff, a team from England's second-tier league.

According to the original arrangement, Gao Han performed a large-scale rotation in this game and intends to use Cardiff to practice the team's tactics. He still adopted the three-back tactics in the first half, but the midfield became a parallel position, and two full-backs, Bridge and Sabaretta, were arranged as full-backs.

In addition, the frontcourt Trident has also been adjusted, with Petrov, Ruo and Sturric joining together.

As a result, Sturridge's goal helped Manchester City's first record just three minutes into the game.

After that, Manchester City also firmly controlled the situation on the court. Young player Michael Johnson and Ellano partnered in the middle and performed well, but the team's offense never threatened.

After the side change in the second half, Gao Han adjusted the lineup, transforming from the original three, four, and three into the four, three formation. The trident remained unchanged, replaced defender Kohlluca, replaced midfielder Stephen Ireland, further strengthening midfield control.

But perhaps Gao Han's continuous adjustments and changes made the players unable to adapt. Manchester City's entire offense was a bit messy, and he could not break through Cardiff's goal until the end of the game.

In the end, Blue Moon defeated Cardiff 1-0 at home and successfully advanced to the next round.

In the seventh round of the Premier League, Manchester City continued to play at home, welcomed London's Hammers and West Ham United.

West Ham United performed poorly this season and is currently ranked 18th in the Premier League, but the strength of the Hammers is unquestionable.

Manchester City was at home, and in just five minutes of the game, Cristiano Ronaldo dribbled the ball from the left to assist Benzema in scoring, opening the first record for Manchester City.

But West Ham United's head coach Zora also performed very hard and did not retreat because of the gap in strength between the two sides. Instead, he learned from Manchester United's style of playing in the Manchester derby, attacked decisively, took advantage of the loopholes in Manchester City's defense line, and soon Parker assisted Charlton Cole to counterattack and equalized the score.

When Charlton Cole scored, the Premier League live footage also gave Gao Han a long close-up because both Parker and Charlton Cole were players when Gao Han coached Chelsea, especially Parker, who was still the one who was strongly introduced by Gao Han.

But West Ham was a little greedy after equalizing the score, and soon Manchester City seized the opportunity again. Cristiano Ronaldo once again surpassed the score, 2-1.

In the second half, West Ham United's physical fitness declined, and the scene was even more passive and had to retreat to the half. In the 61st minute, Sanchez assisted Benzema to win another goal, expanding the score to three-to-one.

In the end, Manchester City also defeated the visiting West Ham United at home with a score of 3-1.

The most impressive thing about this game is that Manchester City's possession rate is as high as 63%, with twenty-five shots, fourteen shots on the right side, eleven shots missed, and three goals scored.

West Ham United goalkeeper Robert Green performed quite well.

In the other focus matches of this round, Manchester United beat Stoke City 2-0, Liverpool beat Hul City 3-1 at home, Chelsea beat Wigan Athletic 2-1 away, and Arsenal beat Fulham 1-0 away.

After the game, the ranking of the Premier League standings remained unchanged.

In the second round of the Champions League group stage in the middle of the week, all four Premier League teams won except Liverpool lost 0-2 to Fiorentina away, which also cast a shadow on the Reds' visit to Stamford Bridge Stadium in the eighth round of the league.

On the weekend, Manchester City went south to Birmingham and challenged Aston Villa, who had the title of Devil's home court, away.

After a week of rest, Manchester City made a tide of offensives, but Martin O'Neal's team built a wall in the half. In the fifteenth minute, Manchester City took advantage of a set piece in the frontcourt. Cristiano Ronaldo took a free kick and was saved by goalkeeper Friedel. Xavi Martinez made a quick trick and assisted Kompany to score.

After the side change in the second half, Benzema assisted Sanchez to win another goal, rewriting the score to 2-0.

After that, Manchester City never broke through Aston Villa's goal and finally won 2-0 away.

This game is also the first time Cristiano Ronaldo failed to score a goal this season.

But scored ten goals in eight league games, and the Portuguese's offensive firepower was amazing.

While Manchester City struggled to defeat Aston Villa away, at Stamford Bridge Stadium in London, the focus of this round of Premier League matches, Chelsea's home match against Liverpool was in full swing.

The score between the two sides is zero to zero, and the time is ninety minutes.

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Abramovich sat anxiously in the president's stands at Stamford Bridge Stadium, looking very impatient.

He had already received the news more than an hour ago that Manchester City led Aston Villa away with the goal of central defender Kompany, and half an hour ago, he received the news again that Sanchez scored another goal, 2-0.

Manchester City escaped from the Devil's home court, but Chelsea still hovered on the brink of death.

It was ninety minutes later, and the fourth official on the sidelines raised the sign of three minutes of stoppage time, but the score was still zero to zero.

Abramovich cursed angrily, "What a fuck!"

Chelsea did play very awkwardly in this game and was seriously out of shape throughout the game.

Scolari lined up a formation of 4321, with the three players in the frontcourt being Robinho, Drogba and Anelka, and Al Shavin sat on the bench, which should be the strongest lineup that Chelsea can line up.

But such a lineup is still unable to break through Liverpool's goal at home.

Benitez's targeted tactics were arranged very closely in this game. Players such as Gerald, Scotter, Glenn Johnson were all very active, causing a lot of trouble for Chelsea's offense and defense.

So far, Liverpool has scored twelve shots, and Chelsea is actually one less than Liverpool, only eleven times.

Chelsea are not as good as Liverpool in terms of corner kicks, offside, etc., and even have fewer fouls.

The Blues have little advantage in this game, but the ball possession rate reaches 52%, which is almost the same as Liverpool. There are also the efficiency of shooting, eleven shots and seven shots, while Liverpool only has three shots on the twelve shots.

The reason why John Terry's outstanding performance on the back line is indelible.

This made Abramovich feel a little unwilling, because he could guess that tomorrow there would definitely be another media reporter taking advantage of the topic to hype Gao Han's contribution to Chelsea, and so on. This is what Abramovich most reluctant to hear.

"Is the game over there?" Abramovich sighed with a strong squeezing his nose.

Assistant Granovskiya, who was sitting next to him, nodded and said, "It's over, 2-0, Manchester City won."

After hearing this, Abramovich sighed again and wanted to curse.

So far this season, two teams in the Premier League have maintained a complete victory, one is the tall Manchester City and the other is Chelsea.

Manchester City's performance this season is not satisfactory, especially in terms of offense. After Chelsea took over Scolari, they changed Rijcard's pursuit of ball control and played more pragmatically, which made the Blues not very good-looking, but the score efficiency was very high. After all, the team's strength is still very advantageous.

But in this game, I couldn't stand it when facing Liverpool.

If this game is tied, Chelsea's winning streak will come to an abrupt end, how can Abramovich be willing to do so?

Just when Abramovich was about to curse, a burst of cheers suddenly broke out in the stadium.

Just saw Robinho dribbling on the left side and tripping by the opponent's defensive player. The referee awarded a free kick in the frontcourt without hesitation, while Lampard ran to the free throw point and quickly sent a free kick.

The ball fell to Drogba at the front of the penalty area.

I only saw the Ivorian Warcraft suppressing Carragher and Scotter with their powerful body. After receiving the ball, they forced two defensive players away and turned around to dribble the ball horizontally. After seeing Anelka rushing over, they immediately passed the ball horizontally to the top of the arc.

Anelka wouldn't miss such an opportunity, and directly shot a curved ball.

I saw the ball crossing a wonderful arc, crossing the player in the penalty area, rubbing the fingertips of Spanish goalkeeper Reina who flew to save, and crashing into the Liverpool goal behind me.

The whistle that the referee scored a goal sounded the moment he scored!

In an instant, the entire Stamford Bridge Stadium suddenly became boiling.

Abramovich rushed out of the seat and shouted in the stadium.

"Damn it, I finally scored a goal! I finally scored a goal!"

"Yeah! Eight consecutive victories!"

"Damn bastard, damn Gao Han, come and see, we also won eight consecutive victories!"

The anger of the whole game was suppressed, and finally, at this moment, accompanied by Anelka's goal, the smoke disappeared.

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One to zero, the finale in the finale in the final moments of stoppage time, Chelsea beat Liverpool 1 to zero.

Abramovich shouted in the stands and was also captured by media reporters on the scene.

Although the sound of the scene was loud, Abramovich was scolding in Russian again. No one heard what he was saying, but from his uncontrollable behavior, anyone could tell that he was venting his excitement.

After defeating Liverpool, Chelsea maintained an eight-game winning streak.

But after this game, Manchester City overcame Chelsea with the advantage of goal difference and successfully topped the Premier League standings, with the Blues following behind, with both teams winning eight consecutive victories and no defeats.

This undoubtedly gave countless British media materials to hype.

Everyone knows that Gao Han and Chelsea have been in conflict with each other for many years. If Gao Han left Chelsea before and always chose to deal with it in a low-key manner, then last season, Abramovich directly fired head coach Rijkald on the bus. After Gao Han witnessed the scene, it broke out in full swing, criticizing Chelsea for lack of respect for the head coach.

It can be said that this incident became the fuse for the outbreak of conflicts between the two sides, and Gao Han's bombardment also put Chelsea in a dilemma for a time, and no one was willing to take over such an infamous team.

In the end, Abramovich used multiple relationships and offered a high annual salary, which finally convinced Scolari, hoping to use the authority of the famous Brazilian coach to suppress Chelsea's locker room and rebuild an iron army to compete with Manchester City led by Gao Han in the new season.

It is obvious that Abramovich's purpose has been achieved.

Scolari's eight-game winning streak gave Chelsea the best league start since the high cold.

It was also after this round that Manchester United and Liverpool showed a downward trend, and the Premier League gradually showed a situation where Manchester City and Chelsea competed for the dominance.

After the eighth round of the Premier League, the European League was suspended again, ushering in two weeks of national team match day.
Chapter completed!