The twelfth round of the league is a great opportunity for Chelsea to close the gap between them and Manchester City.

Because in this round of the league, Manchester City will welcome their city rivals - Manchester United at home!

If United can hold out a draw away from home, or even a win over Manchester City, Chelsea can catch up again with a win over their rivals, Fulham.

However, to the disappointment of the entire Chelsea squad, Alex Ferguson's United have not been able to stop City from moving on on the road.

Glory and Ibrahimovic are in perfect form, plus David Silva and Sneijder, and City scored three goals in this game.

Glory, Ibrahimovic and Sneijder are one each.

Of course, United also had two goals on their scoresheet, with Klose netting twice, but his excellent performance was not able to help United win on the road.

Since joining Manchester City in the 2008-2009 season, Manchester United have won just one game against Manchester City, and that game was again due to Glory's absence due to injury, and Manchester City's form at the time was also terrible.

Since then, United have not been able to beat Manchester City.

For Ferguson, this is naturally intolerable.

In the past, he only regarded Liverpool, Arsenal and Chelsea as his mortal enemies, and he never paid attention to his city rivals.

But now he must take a fresh look at his city rivals and raise City's threat rating to the top of the list.

Liverpool is finished, Arsenal has not won the championship for many years, all minds are on competing for the top four in the league, and Chelsea since Mourinho left, the table is not stable enough, but in general, Chelsea is still the biggest threat to Manchester United, they have been under the leadership of Grinthe, the acting manager, reached the Champions League final, and Manchester United competed for the title, if it wasn't for the final Terry penalty sliding, it is difficult to say who won the Champions League that time.

In the league, Chelsea have been able to play Manchester United in recent years. League titles are largely between Manchester United and Chelsea.

But when Manchester City came out, everything changed.

Chelsea were looking to win the title last season after Manchester United's poor table and their table that season was also excellent. But it was Manchester City who won the title in the end.

Manchester United have had a poor start to the season, with Chelsea leading the way, but now the top spot in the league has changed hands, with Manchester City top, Chelsea and Manchester United in second and third place.

If Manchester United want to regain their place at the top of the league, it is not Chelsea that they should be wary of, but Manchester City.

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After beating Manchester United 3-2 at home, Manchester City are still four points clear of the league table.

In the thirteenth round, Manchester City's winning streak was halted, perhaps because they fought so hard with Manchester United last weekend that the team was a little too excited, and now they are in a period of slackness after that.

All in all, Manchester City were not very excited when they faced Birmingham City at home.

In the end, they were held to a 0-0 draw by Birmingham City.

However, they were lucky enough this time around, and in the absence of a win, third-placed Manchester United drew 2-2 away at Aston Villa.

Chelsea, who are second in the league, simply lost 3-0 at home to Sunderland. And Chelsea suffered much more than that. Not only did Chelsea lose in this game, but Ballack, the absolute heart of the midfield, also suffered a serious injury in the game. After the game, Chelsea FC announced that Ballack would be out for at least four months......

On the way to the league title with Manchester City, the team's absolute midfield core was injured, and Chelsea's fighting power was greatly reduced in an instant.

In doing so, City remain at the top of the league table, five points ahead of Chelsea, eight ahead of Manchester United and seven ahead of Arsenal – who have unwittingly caught up and taken advantage of Aston Villa's draw away to complete their comeback to third in the league and fourth in the league.

Manchester United have not been very good for more than a season, and since Cristiano Ronaldo left them for Real Madrid, Manchester United seem to have lost their backbone.

There is no core at all on the field.

Ferguson is taking time to build Wayne Rooney into a new core, but the team will need time to get used to Rooney's new core, and Rooney's appearance is not as stable as Cristiano Ronaldo's back then.

All of this has contributed to the ups and downs of Manchester United's current table.

Some media even claim that the Premier League has completely entered the Manchester City era, and the old Premier League powerhouses represented by Manchester United, Liverpool, and Arsenal will gradually withdraw from the competitive stage.

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After playing the league, Rong Guang and his teammates left the club, and this time he returned to China with Sun Hai.

He will represent the Chinese national team in the warm-up match on November 17, and the Chinese team's opponent is the European team Latvia.

This team was found to simulate China's opponent in the group stage, Uzbekistan.

Latvia and Uzbekistan are both former Soviet teams, so they are somewhat similar in terms of style of play.

This warm-up opponent can be regarded as targeted.

Because of the success of the previous two games against Syria and Uruguay, what Chinese fans are most looking forward to now is to play for the Chinese team in glory.

Even if it's a warm-up game, they put a lot of enthusiasm into it.

After the first two warm-up games, some Chinese media sighed: "...... Don't say that Chinese football is unpopular, don't say that Chinese football grandma doesn't love uncle and doesn't love it. It's just that we haven't found the right way before, and now that we have the right way to open it, Chinese football will show you a completely different face......"

“…… We were amazed by the enthusiasm of the Chinese fans, because this is definitely not the Chinese fans we remember. The Chinese fans in our impression are a group of people who secretly watch the national team games with the curtains drawn and are ashamed to admit it, the Chinese fans in our impression are a group of people who hate iron and steel and make fun of the national football team, the Chinese fans in our impression are a group of people who shout 'the dissolution of the Football Association' in the stands of the Bird's Nest in Beijing, and the Chinese fans in our impression are a group of people with tears on their faces and painful eyes all the time...... But now we're seeing a group of people who are elated and raised their eyebrows. What made them have such a change? The return of glory has reawakened their love for the national football team, and I think this is a more valuable result than beating Syria 4-0 in the warm-up match and drawing 2-2 with Uruguay in the quarterfinals of the World Cup......"

"The anti-corruption crackdown in Chinese football is ongoing, and after a while we will hear the news of the fall of some people we are familiar with. The development of Chinese football certainly depends on these administrative forces. But the results of the national team can also comfort everyone's hearts at this time, and the return of glory is just in time. Although Rongguang said that he would win the Asian Cup, I think that even if he didn't win the championship in the end, just because he put on the jersey of the national team again, it was already a victory......"

Since then, Chinese fans have been waiting for November 17 every day.

This time, tickets for Kunming Tuodong Stadium are still hard to find, and scalpers have hyped up the tickets to sky-high prices, and there are still many people rushing to them.

Kunming has once again become a place where fans from all over China gather and a holy place to yearn for.

For Chinese football, which has just suffered a heavy defeat in the Asian Games, glory may be their only consolation.

The unhappiness of Chinese fans at the Asian Games is in urgent need of vent.

Even in the warm-up game, they value the win.

This time, Rongguang did not transfer from Beijing, because he did not need to be interviewed by CCTV in Beijing anymore.

He flew directly from Manchester to Kunming.

At Kunming's Wujiaba International Airport, hundreds of fans came, and they came specifically to greet the glory.

This time their organization was much more orderly than the last time, and when the glory appeared, there was no danger happening, only uniform singing, cheering and applause.

Sun Hai followed Rongguang to report on the national team, and he was also stained.

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In the match with Latvia, Gao Hongbo made some adjustments to the starting lineup, some of which were related to the state of the international players in the league, and some were related to Gao Hongbo's tactical considerations.

Gao Hongbo plans to use the warm-up game to test a few more sets of tactics, and he still has ideas in his heart.

He wanted to find the best solution, that is, how to integrate Rongguang with the existing national team......

Although the starting lineup is different, even the formation is different.

However, Glory's table on the court is still the same as in the previous two games.

He scored twice in the tournament to help the national team beat Latvia 2-0.

Gao Hongbo discovered that no matter how his previous tactics were arranged, when the game started, Rongguang would soon be able to turn his tactical arrangement into decorations, and the whole game would become Rongguang's personal performance......

The team is still struggling to keep up with the rhythm of Glory and integrate organically with Glory.

The Chinese fans in the stands gave a huge cheer every time Rong Guang took the ball, and they fully enjoyed Rong Guang's wonderful personal performance.

However, it was really difficult for Gao Hongbo to be happy, because he only saw his own failure and the collapse of his tactics. Even if he wins against Latvia, it will be a glorious personal victory, and it has nothing to do with the Chinese national team, let alone himself.

Gao Hongbo scratched his head, and his calm expression made it impossible to see what he was thinking in his heart at all, even if the TV broadcast gave him a close-up......

After the game, Rong Guang left Kunming with Sun Hai and flew back to Manchester to continue playing their Premier League with two national team goals and another warm-up victory, as well as the cheers and praise of hundreds of millions of Chinese fans.