After the Bolton Wanderers, the team finally got a chance to breathe a sigh of relief.

England is very dense, many people have the impression that the schedule should be dense during the winter break, but in fact, the main enemy of the winter break is the weather, when the climate is too cold, there are many injuries, which makes it very difficult for the team to play.

If you want to talk about the intensive schedule, the beginning of the season is also quite a headache, especially for teams like the Red Rebels, most of them are two games a week, and after entering September, there are national team competitions, and South American and African players have to travel long distances to return home to participate in the competition, which undoubtedly exacerbates the physical consumption of the team.

Luckily, the team can get a week's rest in October, but the headache is that the 8th round of the league will be played on October 4, and there will be two weeks of national team matches between the 9th round of the league on October 18.

The Red Rebels' opponents in the eighth round are Manchester City, who have moved their home stadium to Berry, who have rented Berry's Giger Lane stadium and are preparing to take out a loan from the bank to build a new stadium, but the team's financial problems have been a huge problem.

However, I heard that there is a group of foreign money that is preparing to buy Premier League teams recently, and Manchester City is one of them.

With the downturn of the football economy, after the Premier League team went public, the stock price plummeted, in addition to Manchester United and Arsenal, the two stronger teams, other Premier League teams are even more miserable, many teams have to mortgage the players to the bank, and then lease them back to use, pay the loan fee, they don't even have the right to buy and sell players.

If you look at the stock price, it can be said that it is the right time for foreign investors to buy a Premier League team, if you buy it according to the stock price, a Premier League team worth more than 200 million may not even have a market price of 50 million pounds, and some people even have a share price of only 20 million pounds for some Premier League teams with serious debts.

Imagine that for a rich man like Abu, buying a Premier League team can greatly increase his influence, but £20 million is not worth mentioning to him.

Of course, buying a Premier League team requires taking on all his debts, and some clubs have debts as high as tens of millions of pounds, so the price of buying a team is about the same as the market value.

Manchester City have always had a very strange mood towards the Red Rebels.

Some people say that the enemy of the enemy is the friend, but in fact, when Manchester City sees themselves sinking more and more, but the Red Rebels, who are the enemy of the enemy, are getting more and more beautiful, they are also very unhappy.

Now when it comes to Manchester in the Premier League, Manchester United is the first to be promoted, then the Red Rebels, and finally Manchester City.

At present, in the league standings, as the Premier League promotion horse, the Red Rebels are fifth, but Manchester City has fallen to the bottom and is even in danger of relegation, but the only good thing is that they have participated in the UEFA Cup this season, which has also caused some distraction for the team.

For Premier League teams such as Manchester City and Everton, participating in European competitions is not necessarily a good thing, Manchester City, who finished ninth in the league last year, have high hopes this season, but their results have plummeted, and now they are almost in the relegation zone.

In the final analysis, it is the lack of bench thickness and the large gap between the main players and the substitutes, which will cause Manchester City's results to be seriously affected once they fall into a two-line battle.

On the other hand, the Red Rebels, in the first two seasons, often fought on two or even three lines, and their results will be affected a little, but the overall impact is not great, this is because the Red Rebels' bench thickness is very strong, Xiao Yu attaches great importance to the competition between the main team and the substitute players in the first team, and Mourinho's concept of starting only in form also urges the players to improve.

So it can be seen that after the departure of Hleb, who performed well last year, fans thought that Robben and Little Ronaldo would be the main wingers this season, but in the pre-match warm-up game to the present, Palacio has grabbed the position of the main right winger with his excellent performance.

In the forward position, in addition to the tactical special arrangement, Villa also caused a lot of problems for Drogba, and he started in place of Drogba in this game against Manchester City.

The two wingers are Arjen Robben and Palacio, Kaka up front, David Beckham and Essien at the back, and Philippe at the back from left to right? Ram, Terry, Curtis and Colo? Toure, goalkeeper is Cech.

This game was not paid attention to by the media before the game, in addition to Manchester City moving out of Manchester, but also because of their fall this season, currently hovering near the relegation zone, with Manchester City's style of lifting in recent years, the possibility of relegation is not impossible.

On the other hand, the Red Rebels, currently ranked 5th in the league, have achieved remarkable results, and they are fighting at home, you know, the home stadium of the Red Rebels has never been captured.

And by the way, the old French general of the Red Rebels, Silvain? Distin is currently playing for Manchester City, he transferred from Newcastle last year, and his performance is not bad, basically sitting in the main team, and Manchester City's right midfielder is also Wright, who used to play for the Red Rebels? Phillips and full-back are Sun Jihai from China, which makes this game very interesting in China.

The Red Rebels launched a fierce offensive football at home, taking the lead in launching a fierce offensive from the first minute of the game, although Manchester City had prepared for a long time, Keegan frequently told the players before the game that they must be careful of the Red Rebels' attack, first stabilize the defense and then try to counterattack.

However, Mourinho knows Distin very well, and has taken a fancy to the flaw of Manchester City's two central defenders who are slow to turn, and uses the more flexible Villa to attack their defence, while on the two wings, Palacio and Robben frequently cut inside to create threats.

The Red Rebels' offensive was still strong on the ground, and the four-man attacking combination in front of the field overwhelmed City's defence.

In the 11th minute, the Red Rebels took advantage of a corner kick opportunity and Beckham assisted John? John Terry scored his first goal of the season to open the scoring against Manchester City.

Since then, the Red Rebels' offensive has continued unabated, especially Palacio and Robben on the two wings, and Villa and Kaka in the middle, almost turning Manchester City's backline upside down.

Keegan watched helplessly from the sidelines as his team was at a disadvantage, and he simply couldn't prevent the team from losing, both in terms of strength and tactics, the Red Rebels were undoubtedly stronger than Manchester City.

At 4:0, the Red Rebels once again won a hearty victory.

After the game, when Sun Jihai was interviewed by the Chinese media, when evaluating his poor performance in this game, he gave the Red Rebels a very pertinent evaluation, thinking that this team is very strong, he has played with Arsenal, Manchester United, Liverpool and other teams, but it has never been as difficult as this game.

From the first minute, he was passively beaten, making it difficult for the Manchester City team not to say attack, even defense, for Robben who he was targeting, but he performed well and scored a goal, Sun Jihai admitted that he couldn't stop him at all, even if he was already the best player in the entire Manchester City backline, but his score was still not up to par.

Manchester United also beat Birmingham City 5-0 away from home to Old Trafford, Chelsea beat Middlesbrough 1-1 away, and Liverpool lost 2-1 at home to Arsenal, who have been in excellent form of late, with goals from Edu and Piret helping Arsenal to reverse the Reds.

It was also in this round of games that the Red Rebels overwhelmed Liverpool to enter the top 4 of the league, Arsenal 8 games, 7 wins and 1 draw and 22 points, ranking first in the standings, Manchester United 6 wins, 1 draw and 19 points ranked 2nd, Chelsea 6 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss accumulated 19 points ranked 3rd, and Red Rebels ranked 4th with 5 wins, 2 draws and 17 points.

Because the Red Rebels and Manchester United have played one less game, so Chelsea's position is not solid, the ability of the tinker Ranieri is good, at least Chelsea this season in the case of the introduction of a number of players, but he is still blended into the type, which has to be said to be the embodiment of his coaching ability, but Chelsea in the first 8 rounds of Liverpool and the Red Rebels two fierce rivals, the result is one win and one loss.

There are rumours that Abnieri is unhappy with Ranieri's management because he has spent a lot of money but has not delivered good results, especially because he is unhappy with Chelsea's 3-0 defeat at the Red Rebels, and believes that Ranieri's flaws are particularly evident in this game.

Abou's requirements for Chelsea are simple: play beautifully, the team must be iron-blooded, be able to overtake when they fall behind, and at the same time perform consistently, Ranieri is undoubtedly unable to meet any of them, and there is no way to talk about consistent performance.

Arsenal are undoubtedly the best team in the Premier League this season, scoring 19 goals and conceding five in eight league games, and currently sit top of the league table, against the likes of Liverpool and Manchester United, which are tied 0-0 with Manchester United.

Manchester United have scored 18 goals and conceded two goals in the first seven games, with Ruud van Nistelrooy, Ryan Giggs, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and Paul Scholes attacking in attack, the attacking power is not lost to Arsenal, but the defense is more solid, and Arsenal's tofu backline has been a hidden danger in recent seasons.

In Xiao Yu's previous life, Kolo? Toure should move to Arsenal and become a centre-back pairing with Campbell in Arsenal's backline this season, but now Colo? Toure, on the other hand, played at right wing-back for the Red Rebels and was solid.

If the performances of Arsenal and Manchester United were expected by critics, the Red Rebels were a bit of a surprise as they have scored 19 goals in seven league games and conceded just one, maintaining the same pattern of sharp attacking and ironclad tactics that the team has continued over previous seasons.

England's famous football critic and a reporter for the Post, Martin? Samuel commented on the tactics of the Red Rebels in his column, saying that the team's ability to control the game has reached the level of a grandmaster, and its full-court pressing and counter-attacking tactics make people feel like returning to the Dutch all-attacking and all-defensive period, but their attack is very fluid and sharp, and the players run frequently and variedly, making it difficult for the players who defend them to catch up with their changes.

Also Martin? Samuel also listed a series of data, because the Red Rebels played 7 rounds, so Samuel deducted the data of the 3rd round of the league, in these 7 rounds, the Red Rebels players ranked first in the Premier League in terms of running distance, and the top 6 were all Red Rebels players, and Beckham's pass success rate was the first in the Premier League, and the average number of passes per game was also the first in the Premier League.

The Red Rebels didn't have much possession than Manchester United, let alone Arsenal, but they posed a much higher threat every game than either team, even in the 0-0 draw at home to Portsmouth, with 23 shots on target and nine on target.

…… Studying the Red Rebels' passing routes and player runs throughout the field, it is as if we see a densely woven spider web, one point clinging to another, and when defending, these points use this connection to firmly control the space and limit the enemy's attack.

When attacking, these points are intertwined, by encroaching on the enemy's space, widening their own offensive routes, and then through frequent running, causing waves of attack on the enemy, as if it were a raging wave, Red Rebels fans call this attack a wave attack!

Martin? In his column, Samuel admired the tactics of the Red Rebels, writing!

(To be continued)