In the first half, FC United took the lead thanks to Madison's penalty, which knocked Maccabi Tel Aviv off a cliff with just 45 minutes to go.

In the second half, Maccabi Tel Aviv's broken cauldron attack encountered a steel frame, and FC United replaced two defenders at halftime with Baird and Pinnock to start a defensive counterattack.

Football is so wonderful, the first half is still FC United onslaught, Tel Aviv Maccabi is dead, but just scored a goal, it became Tel Aviv Maccabi onslaught, FC United defended.

No matter how powerful Maccabi Tel Aviv is, they are only an Israeli team, originally the offensive ability is not strong, and it is even less likely to have a chance to score when encountering a defensive FC United, and the final score is also fixed at 0:1, FC United qualified from the group in advance.

On the other hand, Villarreal beat Astana 3-2 to move up to second place in the group, so Maccabi Tel Aviv was also eliminated one round earlier.

Flying back to Manchester, the players could have been given a day off as usual, but this time Lu Wei cancelled the holiday, because three days later the league opponent is Manchester City, the leader of the Premier League, FC United must play 120% spirit to prepare for this game.

Manchester City's lead in the league is now very large, with 11 wins in 12 matches, the only draw was a 1-1 draw with Everton in the second round of the league, not only that, but they also scored a horrible 40 goals in total, and some teams could not even score so many goals in a season.

Lu Wei knows that this season is the beginning of Pep Guardiola's Manchester City gradually beginning to dominate the Premier League, and in the next six years, five Premier League trophies will fall into their hands, and the only United team 20 years ago can have such dominance in England.

Lu Wei also knows how difficult it can be to challenge such a team, having been working on the current Manchester City team a week ago.

Aguero scored the 178th goal of his career at Manchester City in the just-concluded Champions League group stage, becoming Manchester City's all-time goalscorer, and now has scored eight goals in the league

, Sterling and Sane play for Aguero on two wings, not only can assist teammates, but also complete the final blow for the team, Lu Wei remembers that this season, Sterling completed a large double-double with more than 15 goals and assists, and these two have been able to score and assist double-doubles for two consecutive years. This shows how powerful Manchester City's attacking firepower is.

For them to deliver fire continuously were De Bruyne and David. Silva two masters, a passing master and a master, De Bruyne is different from Arsenal's big-eyed player, his passing does not seem to have so much imagination, but it feels like you can't pass the position, De Bruyne can often pass through, and also creates one excellent attacking opportunity after another for Manchester City.

In addition to De Bruyne and David. Silva, Gundogan, Bernardo. Silva and Fernandinho are very good players, Bernardo. Silva added sharpness to the midfield breakaway, Gundogan added a balance to the midfield tandem and Fernandinho added a solid layer to the midfield defense.

A strong attack alone will not win the title, and the central defender combination of Kompany and Stones is still Manchester City's most stable defensive line, and this season has spent a lot of money on the backline, Laporte, Kyle. Walker, Danilo, Benjamin. Mendy and others have raised the overall thickness of Manchester City's defense to a notch, and what makes Guardiola most happy is that Manchester City finally have a reliable goalkeeper.

Joe. Hart was criticized for more than two years, and Manchester City finally spent 40 million euros to buy Brazilian goalkeeper Ederson from Benfica, Ederson can not only save well, but also the technical and long-pass accuracy at his feet are in line with Guardiola's football philosophy, it can be said that Ederson's arrival has made up the last piece of the puzzle for this terrifying Manchester City.

In the face of such a Manchester City, FC United Manchester rely on to wrestle with them, last season's Carabao Cup Manchester City is at best a second team, that is also the Red Rebels to rely on Hogan's inspiration to complete the kill.

Manchester City is very strong, not only Lu Wei knows, Steele knows, FC United coaches know, and the players who focus on training on the training ground also know, so they have no complaints about the club canceling this day's post-match leave, but are happy, who doesn't want to play in a team hungry for victory?

Not only the coaches, but also the players' competitive spirit has reached a peak, although Manchester has entered the late autumn season, the weather is a little cold, but there has been sweat dripping on the Newton Heath training ground, no one is tired, no one is called to stop.

After the training, the players usually enjoy FC United's unique Chinese medicine massage, but in the past two days, they have put away their laughter, they are closing their eyes and meditating, speeding up the recovery speed of their bodies, so that their bodies can adjust to the best condition when the game comes.

Lu Wei is also using all available time to pass on experience to the players.

"Observe, how many times have I said, you have to observe more, whether it is catching, passing or running, you must observe the position of your teammates and opponents, you see why you lost the ball just now, it's because you didn't see Chris behind you, and you were waiting for the ball while retreating, I don't remember teaching you this."

Maddison, who had just been cut off under his feet in the group confrontation, was receiving criticism from Lu Wei at this time, not only him, almost all FC United players have been trained by Lu Wei, although Lu Wei is not a professional player, but his understanding of technical and tactical actions on the field is stronger than some big stars, so the players are also obedient to the coach's teaching.

After the promotion to the Premier League, players who have never had experience in the top flight are increasingly aware of where they are far from their opponents, not only in terms of experience, but also in the way they adjust their mentality, the ability to cope with key games, and the environment in which they are at a high level of competition, which the Reds players cannot obtain in the lower leagues.

Now in order to be better than their own better opponents, only continuous hard training, not afraid of someone better than you, afraid of more diligent than your excellent people, FC United in hardware equipment is not lost to Manchester City, in terms of logistics support and even in the whole of England can rank first, compared with Manchester City, what is lacking is only the overall strength.

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