Manchester City beat AC Milan three-to-zero at home, and Real Madrid also defeated Ajax four-to-zero away, making the situation in the group of death completely clear.

Blue Moon ranked first in the group with five consecutive victories, Real Madrid ranked second in the group with three wins, one draw and one loss, AC Milan ranked third in the group with two draws, and Ajax ranked last in the group with points in one draw.

After the fifth round, Manchester City advanced as the top spot in the group, while Real Madrid advanced as the second in the group. AC Milan and Ajax will fight to the death in the last round to decide who can participate in this season's UEFA Cup as the third in the group.

In the last round of the group, Manchester City will challenge Real Madrid away.

Although both teams have advanced early, Real Madrid coach Mourinho still publicly issued a letter to Gao Han at the post-match press conference after playing Ajax, saying that the Galaxy Battleships will prepare for the game at home and wait for Gao Han to arrive.

"This showdown has nothing to do with qualifying, not with points, but with honor and dignity. Each of us will do our best to defend the dignity of our team at the Bernabeu Stadium!"

Mourinho's domineering challenge also made him on the front page of major media the next day. The fateful battle between him and Gao Han also became a showdown that countless fans talked about. Everyone even believed that without the constraints of qualifying, the two teams completely let go of their hands and feet, which is likely to turn into a wonderful peak battle.

In contrast, Allegri's situation is not so good.

Not long after the game, AC Milan announced that midfielder Boateng, who left the game early, would miss the last round of the group stage due to injury, and the injury diagnosed was a sprain of his right ankle.

AC Milan fans love him more and more. Even in the second half of this game when he lost to Manchester City by 0-3 to 3, Boateng really couldn't play. When he took the initiative to ask for the end, more than 2,000 fans of the Ross and Blacks who came away from home took the initiative to applause him.

Because at the city stadium, Boateng is one of the best players in the team.

Compared with Pato, Sidov, Gattuso and Pirlo, Boateng, Yankulovsky, Nesta and Thiago Silva, etc., all performed well. Without their outstanding performance, AC Milan might have lost a crushing defeat in this game.

As for the 33-year-old left-back Jankulovsky, he is no longer as high as he did when he played under Gao Han. However, as a veteran, although he failed to completely freeze Sanchez, he also performed well. He resolved Sanchez's threat many times and created several attacks.

The most threatening one was that in the 22nd minute, the Czechs penetrated into the frontcourt's ribs and made a straight pass, but Pato failed to react immediately, which resulted in the failure to create a threat after catching up with the ball, wasting a wonderful pass.

In an interview with the media, Allegri said that Boateng's injury has hit AC Milan a big blow, and he also said that this defeat will make him more aware of the team's problems.

All fans who care about and are familiar with AC Milan know what he is saying, but more people are really unwilling to see this happen for emotional considerations.

What is somewhat surprising is that the Italian media is more tolerant of Allegri's defeat, believing that AC Milan has indeed done its best away game, but unfortunately, it is not strong enough to threaten Manchester City. It is understandable to lose and have little to do with Allegri.

If you have to say who is unlucky, then the one who takes the blame is undoubtedly Ajax.

Just after the third round of the group stage, the Dutch Football Association announced that Ajax striker Suarez suddenly lost his mind because he failed to break the deadlock on the court in the previous round of the Dutch League against Eindhoven, and bite the shoulder of Eindhoven player Bakar.

This brought Suarez a seven-game suspension for domestic competitions, fortunately it has nothing to do with the last round of the Champions League group stage.

The Dutch League is no longer as attractive as it was back then, but because Ajax was assigned to the death group this season, and was in the same group as Manchester City, Real Madrid and AC Milan, every move is also noticeable. Suarez's absurd behavior has become notorious with the ban from the Dutch Football Association.

In addition to heavy fines from the Dutch Football Association, Ajax also issued an official statement saying that he had severely punished Suarez's absurd behavior in the team and said that he would not appeal the Dutch Football Association's penalty.

This means that Suarez will be suspended until February next year.

Perhaps the whole thing was too absurd, and Suarez's behavior was also reported by the media, and they were nicknamed Vampire's bite, which attracted the attention of the Urugua striker from the media and fans all over the world.

But what followed was Suarez's cold encounter in the transfer market.

Before this happened, the Uruguayan striker's excellent performance in the South African World Cup was once worth 40 million euros. Ajax even once called for 50 million euros that could not meet the team's requirements and demanded a higher transfer fee. But it was precisely because of this that Suarez would stay in the Netherlands this summer.

But now, with the spread of the vampire bite, all teams have doubts about Suarez's temperament, including Real Madrid, Manchester United, Barcelona and many other giant teams have drawn a clear line with him.

The Dutch People's Daily reported that even Tottenham Hotspur, who was originally interested in Suarez, began to hesitate, worried about Suarez's psychological condition and the potential impact of his image on the club.

"The Reds Liverpool are also no longer anxious to sign in during the winter break."

"They were very close to Suarez at one point, but according to the latest news, Liverpool is reconsidering whether Suarez's transfer is in the interests of the club."

But according to the news from the English Sun, Liverpool temporarily put Suarez's transfer mainly because the Reds had no money. "Although Ajax has reduced his psychological price to 30 million euros, Liverpool is only willing to give 15 million euros at most, which is far from Ajax's psychological price, and is even worse than Tottenham's 20 million euros."

"An important reason for Liverpool is that the club cannot give the price Ajax asked for on the books. Not to mention the 30 million euros asked by Ajax, even if it is 15 million euros, Liverpool may have to sell the players to raise funds first. This is also the biggest obstacle between the two teams."

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While the media around the world were bitten by Suarez's vampire and the transfer rumors were hyped up, the Premier League was still playing at the original pace.

After playing AC Milan, Manchester City challenged Stoke City away on the weekend.

In this 15th round of the Premier League, Blue Moon scored two goals in just ten minutes of the opening game, and maintained a 2-0 lead until the end of the game, leaving the away game unscathed.

Cristiano Ronaldo scored twice again!

Three days later, in the quarterfinals of the League Cup, Manchester City challenged Birmingham away.

Gao Han still arranged all the substitutes to play in this game, but he was indistinguishable from Birmingham.

First in the 12th minute, Adam Larana broke into the penalty area and set a penalty kick. Sturridge took the penalty and scored the first record for Manchester City.

But in the 30th minute, Birmingham launched a counterattack to create a corner kick opportunity. High center forward Rikic beat Kompany to the header and tied the score.

It was not until the 84th minute of the second half that Manchester City once again created a goal. Gareth Bale received an assist from Harry Kane and scored the winning goal, surpassing the score again.

The 2-1 score was also maintained until the end of the game, and Manchester City advanced smoothly.

In the other three games of the league quarterfinals knockout stage, Ipswich from the English Champions League unexpectedly defeated West Bromwich and successfully advanced to the semi-finals. Arsenal defeated Wigan Athletic 2-0 at home and successfully advanced.

What is really surprising is that the Hammers helped West Ham defeat Manchester United in a big four-to-zero home game.

Ferguson played in this game with a half-main and half-substitute lineup, but unexpectedly, he was suppressed by West Ham and Albert. The Hammers scored two goals in the first half and took the lead.

After the second half of the game, former Chelsea player Charlton Cole scored twice, expanding the score again.

The four-goal defeat not only allowed Manchester United to withdraw from the League Cup, but also put the Red Devils under unprecedented pressure.

Three days later, in the 16th round of the Premier League, Manchester United challenged the newly promoted Blackpool away.

Almost a replica of the League Cup knockout match against the Hammers, Manchester United once again trailed two goals in the first half, and Blackpool ended the first half with an incredible 2-0 lead at home.

But after the second half of the game, Ferguson replaced Giggs and Mkhitaryan, who had returned from injury. As a result, it was these two players and Scholes who co-directed the big reversal in the last twenty minutes.

In the end, Manchester United reversed Blackpool three-to-two with Tevez's brace and Hernandez's goal.

In another game played at the same time, Manchester City faced Bolton, and the two sides tied a one-to-one draw in the first half.

But after the second half of the game, Benzema took the lead in scoring for Manchester City, and then Bolton centreback Gary Cahill made a foul on defense and was sent off with a red card. Manchester City later, Xavi Alonso and Sturridge, who came on the bench, scored two goals in a row, breaking Bolton four-one, successfully defeating his opponent and winning all three points.

The Premier League has played so far this season, and the schedule is almost halfway through, and the situation is already very clear.

After the 16 rounds of battle, Manchester City ranked first in the standings with an invincible record of winning all sixteen games, and scored 48 points, far ahead of other competitors in the league and led Manchester United, who ranked second in fifteen points.

The performance of the Red Devils and Manchester United this season can be said to be bumpy. They only won nine games in 16 games, drew six games, and lost one game to Manchester City, and scored 33 points, ranking second in the league standings.

Chelsea performed very well at the beginning of the league, but after entering the middle, Scolari's team seemed to have encountered trouble, losing four games in total, which made Chelsea only get 30 points and rank third in the standings.

The problem with the Gunners Arsenal is that the team's performance is not stable enough, either losing or winning, with only two draws and only nine wins, two draws and five losses, allowing Arsenal to have the same points as Tottenham Hotspur with 29 points, but the Gunners ranked fourth with a goal difference advantage.

The situation of the Reds Liverpool this season is the most surprising. Hodgson's team only scored eighth place, and it was even worse than Bolton and Sunderland, which made it difficult for Hodgson to maintain its coach position.

After sixteen rounds, Manchester City was ahead of the pack and was still the favorite to win the Premier League.

In the Champions League, Gao Han's team also achieved five consecutive victories in the group stage, only one round away from a complete victory in the group stage.
Chapter completed!