With nearly 90 minutes of tenacious defense, FC United defeated league leaders Manchester City 1-0, not only ending Manchester City's unbeaten league record, but also improving their league standings by one more place and successfully breaking into the top four.

It's just that FC United only stayed in fourth place for three days before being dragged down by Arsenal, who are good at competing for four, and unlike the game against Manchester City just now, FC United played a beautiful head-to-head match with Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium.

Just three minutes into the game, Ramsey assisted Lacazette to complete the heel goal, Arsenal entered the second half with a 1-0 advantage, and the second half turned into a performance of two high school forwards, first Arsenal played a beautiful triangle in the box, Ozil crossed from the left side of the box and Giroud easily pushed the goal in the middle.

FC United's Sollot immediately countered with a curling ball from the right flank and Sollot leaned on Mustafi's right-footed shot to pull a goal back. Then, just four minutes later, Maddison headed straight into the box and Sollot showed the speed not normally seen by taller players, catching up with the ball and levelling with a low shot.

Unfortunately, Arsenal completed the killer in the 87th minute, left-back Koracinac unexpectedly entered the box and completed a wonderful pick in the box, Giroud snatched the ball into the net before Harry Maguire cleared.

The first meeting with Professor Arsene Wenger ended in failure, Lu Wei is not depressed, now Arsenal are playing the last gorgeous football, playing against such a team, even if they lose, FC United can learn a lot from their opponents.

The two-month Devils fixture is over, and FC United can finally have some time to adjust to themselves, although December is the most intensive time for the English league schedule, but FC United's opponents are not strong. FC United have fielded part of their rotation against Swansea after two tough fights in a row, but even so, the Reds relied on goals from Harry Maguire and Grimes to win their opponents.

Brighton, Southampton, Watford and Stoke City have not stopped FC United, halfway through the Premier League schedule, FC United firmly occupies the third place, 12 wins, 5 draws, 2 defeats in 19 league games with 41 points, only one point behind second-placed Manchester United.

FC United are followed by Chelsea with 39 points, Liverpool with 35 points and Tottenham and Arsenal with 34 points, FC United inserted between the traditional big6 teams, and the first half of the season against these six teams is also two wins, two draws and two defeats, all of which indicate that there seems to be a strong team in the Premier League on the rise.

Manchester City are indeed somewhat unstoppable this season, with a record of 17 wins, 1 draw and 1 defeat in the table, and they have only lost to FC United in the league, with 58 goals scored the most of any Premier League team, 12 goals conceded is also the fewest of all Premier League teams, and an 11-point lead in the half seems to announce the Premier League title this season.

FC United's excellent record made the media waiting to see their jokes slowly shut their mouths and changed the topic from talking about it, and Lu Wei said this when asked by the media after the game against Stoke City whether the team would be happy that the team was in the top three.

"Are the top three going to be happy? Our goal is indeed to finish in the top four, but we're only halfway through the season, so what am I happy to do now? To be happy, we have to wait until we are still in the top three after the league, which is worth rejoicing, and the top three is not something to celebrate, we will only celebrate if we win the championship. "

FC United also qualified as the first in the group in the Europa League, beating Astana 2-1 at home, while in the other game of Group A, Villarreal lost 0-1 to Maccabi Tel Aviv, but because Astana also lost, Villarreal were still able to retain the second place in the group by two points.

The draw for the first round of the Europa League knockout round was also given after all the Champions League and Europa League group stages were completed, with the 12 Europa League group runners and the 4 best group thirds in the Champions League becoming seeded according to the rules, while the second in the 12 Europa League groups and the third in the four groups with the worst Champions League records became unseeded.

There are some strong teams who finished third in the group stage of the Champions League, Atletico Madrid and Borussia Dortmund have the strength to reach the Champions League final, and Celtic, Napoli and CSKA Moscow are also famous in European competitions, and none of them are easy to mess with.

The round of 32 will be drawn one by one in the order of matches, first the non-seeded teams, then the seeded teams, and the seeded team has the advantage of first away and then home, while FC United have not had bad luck and did not draw the four teams that are third in the Champions League group, and their opponents in the round of 32 are Lyon from Ligue 1, which is the second in the group of Group E, and the first leg will be played on February 15, 2018 at the Olympic Park Stadium.

FC United had an easy time in December, but there were some hidden dangers in the team, with Hayden suffering some ankle tendon wear and tear, underwent minor surgery in mid-December, and it will take at least two months to recover.

Tarkovsky injured his brow bone in the game against Stoke City, was sent to the hospital after the game for eight stitches, had to wait at least half a month to play again, and Lozano strained a muscle in a passing attempt, Lu Wei seems to be more dependent on the young players in the team at the start of the 2018 new year.

With Europa League Round of 32 Matchmaking Table for the 17-18 season:

Borussia Dortmund [Germany] VS Atalanta [Italy

] Nice [France] VS Lokomot

Moscow [Russia] Copenhagen [Denmark] VS Atletico Madrid

[Spain] Spartak Moscow [Russia] VS Athletic Bilbao [Spain

] AEK Athens [Greece] VS Dynamo Kyiv [Ukraine] Celtic

[Scotland] VS Zenit St. Petersburg

[Russia] Naples [Italy] VS RB Leipzig [Germany

] Red Star Belgrade [Serbia] VS CSKA Moscow [Russia

] Lyon [France] VS FC United [England] Real Sociedad [Spain] VS Red Bull Salzburg [Austria].

Partizan Belgrade [Serbia] VS Pilsen Victory [Czech Republic

] Bucharest Star [Romania] VS Lazio

[Italy] Ludogorec [Bulgaria] VS AC Milan [Italy

] Villarreal [Spain] VS Sporting Lisbon

[Portugal] Östersund [Sweden

] VS Arsenal [England] Marseille [France] VS Braga [Portugal].

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