After two national team games, the players ended the national team games and returned to their respective clubs.

Manchester City's Carrington training base has returned to its former liveliness.

However, national team competitions are not always good, and there are always news of injuries coming every national team competition.

This time Kompany was injured in the Belgian national team and was to miss the game for two weeks.

But after the next league game, the Champions League will be...

Manchester City will face Arsenal at home on September 12th, and on September 15th, Manchester City will continue to face Bayern Munich at home three days later.

Both games were not easy to play.

Manchester media lamented that Manchester City had bad luck.

The main central defender was injured before such two important games...

And he will definitely miss his first Champions League group stage against Bayern Munich.

Manchester City fans have been looking forward to the first Champions League game for 39 years, and the final result may be somewhat different from their vision...

"The injury of Kompany is definitely a heavy blow for Benitez. On this defense line, Kompany is the main force that cannot be broken. His injury will seriously affect the stability of Manchester City's defense line... I think Benitez must have a headache now and he will almost scratch his hair that he didn't have much..."

The media also began to discuss Kompani's injury.

For Benitez, this is indeed a headache for him, but he doesn't pull out his hair...

Kompany was originally used to deal with Bayern Munich and two extremely fast players, but now he is injured and can't play. What should I do?

When he was studying Bayern Munich before, he was always thinking about how to deal with those two extremely fast players.

Kompany's speed is very good.

Now that Kompani is injured, who will replace him?

Dunn?

That must not work. Dunn is simply a traditional British defender, tall and outstanding frontal air defense capabilities, but the turning speed is really terrible... If he goes up, he will immediately become the gap for Bayern Munich wolves to break through.

Who else?

Diego Godin?

Benitez thought of this name.

This Uruguayan, who was bought by himself as a substitute centre-back, has a good speed...

However, after he came to Manchester City, he has never played a game. Can he face Arsenal and Bayern Munich all at once?

Arsenal also has many fast players, such as Van Persie and Walcott.

Benitez thought about it and finally decided to give Godin a chance to first let him play against Arsenal to see his performance. If it is good, let him start against Bayern Munich.

If it doesn't work... I'm thinking of other ways.

In addition, in the right-back position, Benitez also plans to make adjustments. In the game against Arsenal, he plans to rest Zabaleta, who has just finished the national team game, and the starting right-back will be Mica Richards trained by Manchester City youth training camp.

The black defender has excellent physical fitness, good speed, and strong, and is better at defending on the right than Sabaleta.

Like Godin, if Richards plays well against Arsenal, Benitez will consider allowing him to continue starting in the Champions League against Bayern Munich.

Being able to start in Manchester City's first Champions League game 39 years later is believed to be enough to motivate the young Richards to be better.

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In the fifth round of the league, Manchester City faced Arsenal at home.

This game was exaggerated by the media as a "battle of revenge" before the game.

Because last season, Arsenal was taken off the horse like a madman by Manchester City...

Although they fought hard, they were still unable to change their tragic fate of losing their fourth and Champions League qualifications...

The myth of fighting for the four mad demons is shattered.

Arsenal club and players suffered a heavy blow to the UEFA Cup. Some players were originally discussing renewal with the club, but they had to be postponed or postponed because Arsenal did not qualify for the Champions League in the new season...

Whether it is a player or a club, you must rethink it if you are unable to participate in the Champions League...

At the same time, the inability to participate in the Champions League also had a great impact on Wenger's preparations for the season.

And this series of consequences are caused by Manchester City.

Originally, Arsenal had no grudge against Manchester City before, and the hatred between them and Manchester United was very large.

But now, they have a grudge.

Arsenal's fire has been in a hurry since the end of last season until now. They will never let it go when facing Manchester City again.

Before the game, the media on both sides had already started a war of words.

Some media supporting Arsenal ridiculed Manchester City's Champions League grouping results.

"...If I had known that the final result would be like this, why would I do so hard last season? If Arsenal entered the Champions League, it would be the first-class team. Such a tragic thing would never have happened... Letting Manchester City go to the Champions League would be a waste of a place. Next, the first Champions League group stage against Bayern Munich would soon make everyone understand this..."

This is really a matter of fact, and it is sprinkling salt on Manchester City's wounds.

The Champions League grouping is the topic that everyone discusses most about Manchester City. The media supporting Arsenal, for example, is to disgust Manchester City.

As expected, as soon as this was said, the Manchester media, who had been fighting for fun, suddenly didn't know what to say.

Make a bold statement for Manchester City?

If Manchester City loses to Bayern Munich in the end, wouldn’t this slap still be slapped in the face?

It's not worth it...

The media supporting Arsenal won the battle of words, which made them proud. Now they are waiting for Arsenal to defeat Manchester City in the game.

The media is generally optimistic that Arsenal will beat Manchester City, although it is Manchester City's home court.

Or no matter how bad it is, Arsenal should not lose to Manchester City away.

Why?

Because next is the match against Bayern Munich.

Manchester City will definitely keep its efforts to deal with Bayern Munich. After all, it is Manchester City's first Champions League game after 39 years. Whether it is club executives, coaches, ordinary fans, players will pay more attention.

To do this, he may choose to stay in the game against Arsenal.

If you still keep your energy in the battle with Arsenal, you won't even think about winning

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Manchester City's home match against Arsenal is coming soon.

Before the game, both sides announced their respective starting lists.

Arsenal has sent the strongest lineup. As a major international player, the national team match day does not seem to affect their deployment.

Revenge is evident.

What surprised everyone by Manchester City is that Benitez does not seem to have any intention of reserving the next Champions League group stage.

He sent almost all the main players he could, regardless of whether they had just participated in the national team competition or not

In addition to being in the centre-back position, the Uruguay international replaced the injured Kompani.

However, it was a bit surprising on the right back.

Since they are all main players in other positions, why does Sabaleta, the main player in the right back, not start?

Instead, young player Mika Richards from Manchester City's youth training camp

Could it be that Sabaleta was also injured in the national team game?

Didn't see any related news...

Then why is Sabaretta just replaced by Richards?

A reporter asked Benitez this question at a pre-match press conference.

"Sabaletta is a little tired, so we let him rest." Benitez answered the question.

In fact, of course not, but Benitez didn't intend to tell the truth - he had to be careful of Bayern Munich's scouts.

Since he can send scouts to Germany to inquire about Bayern Munich, then Bayern Munich will definitely send someone to observe Manchester City.

He doesn't want Bayern Munich to know that Richards is specially used to deal with them...

He hopes Bayern Munich thinks this is just an ordinary rotation.

Then give Bayern Munich a "surprise" in the next game.

Benitez herself has communicated with Sabaleta, telling him about his arrangements, hoping to get her understanding, and at the same time hope that Sabaleta will keep a good look with him.

If a reporter comes to ask him, he will just use "physical fatigue" to answer.

Benitez gave an answer, and the media did not continue to get involved in this issue.

This is indeed a possible situation. It doesn't seem to be injured, but after playing in the national team game and having a long flight, the players were tired and mentally unhappy, so the head coach arranged for him to rest... It's no big deal.

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To be continued...