The war is approaching.

The atmosphere of the Derby permeates the entire Manchester City.

Sky blue and red intertwined, and various billboards and TV commercials kept promoting this Manchester derby, which may be the most popular ever.

This is the Manchester derby with the highest total value in both sides in history. The influence of two Asian stars, Xu Qi and Park Ji-sung, has driven the attention of the Asian market.

Because of Xu Qi, countless media in China are exaggerating this national derby. Not only sports media, but also many comprehensive media, even the TV1 news broadcast reported on the situation of text messages.

This is enough to show how powerful Xu Qi is, and it is enough to show how much attention this Manchester derby has attracted.

This is a visual feast.

Both teams attach great importance to this battle, and Ferguson also issued a kill order to Manchester United, which would inevitably win Manchester City at Old Trafford Stadium and strive to return to the top of the Premier League.

This is the 160th Manchester derby in history. In the previous 159 games, Manchester United had the upper hand with 66 wins, 50 draws and 43 losses. In the Premier League, Manchester United has a greater advantage, especially at Manchester United's home court.

In the past three seasons, Manchester United has maintained a complete record against Manchester City at home and has an advantage.

This season's Manchester City team is by no means the same as before. They have shown strong strength in the new season. With the joining of powerful players such as Xu Qi and Aguero, their strength has become even better and they have become the strongest opponents on Manchester United's path to defending the Premier League championship.

Therefore, this game will even determine the final Premier League champion to a certain extent.

The start time of the game is 20:30 in Beijing time. This time period is very suitable for Chinese fans to watch football, so the attention of this game is also extremely popular.

The referee of this game was Kratenberg again. Although he had caused several controversial events in the previous law enforcement game, the FA also trusted the coach more at this time and chose to let him enforce the law in such an important Manchester derby.

The starting list of both sides has also been officially released.

For the home team, Manchester United, the goalkeeper is De Gea, who has been signed this summer, and the defense is Smalling, Ferdinand, Evans and Evra.

Previous main central defender Vidic has increased injuries this season and has not appeared on the roster.

In the midfield, Fletcher, Anderson, Ashley Young and Nani formed a rather aggressive midfielder.

On the forward line, Rooney partnered with Virbeck.

Manchester City, who plays away, also has two forwards, with Aguero and Balotelli's partner.

The backcourt has almost not changed much from the past.

David Silva and Xu Qi were separated from each other, Yaya Toure and Barry were in the center, and Richards, Kompany, Lescott and Krish were in the defense.

Goalkeeper Hart.

De Jong, Nasri, Milner, Dzeko and others are on standby on the bench, which also allows Manchester City to carry out some tactical changes and emergency responses at any time.

Recently, Tevez has not appeared on Manchester City's roster. He has begun to break with the club and is seeking a transfer to leave here. Mancini is also very angry about what happened before and banned Tevez.

I have to say that there are quite a few individual players in Manchester City. In addition to Tevez, Balotelli, who got the starting opportunity, is also one of them.

This starter is not too surprising. Balotelli has performed well recently, so Mancini also trusts this young player. Although there are a lot of negative news about Balotelli recently, Mancini still doesn't care much about the news outside the court on the court.

Before the game started, in the player channel at Old Trafford, Balotelli kept blinking at Xu Qi, reminding Xu Qi not to forget what had been discussed before.

Xu Qi used his gesture to make a "ok" look reassuring Balotelli.

These days, Balotelli has come to Xu Qi almost every day to remind Xu Qi to forget him, which also makes Xu Qi feel a little amused and amazed that this guy's personality is really strange.

Manchester United players also stood beside Xu Qi and prepared to play. Rooney took the initiative to come over to say hello to Xu Qi.

The confrontation last season has made both sides very familiar. Although everyone will become unaware of each other when they arrive on the field, now before the game, both sides still smile at each other.

Finally, the time has come and players from both sides have entered the court.

The game finally started with a lot of calls. Xu Qi occupied the left side as soon as the Manchester City team started, but David Silva's position was not fixed. He often went to the middle and often came to Xu Qi's left side to cooperate with Xu Qi.

They want to attack this side of Smalling's defense.

Before the game, Manchester City coach Mancini believed that Manchester United's wing road would be easier to break.

At the beginning of the game, Manchester City took the initiative in the scene as the go.

Whenever Manchester City players take the ball, Manchester United fans at Old Trafford Stadium booed the players who take the ball.

The size of the boo is also closely related to the player's fame. Like Xu Qi, it must be the highest decibel boo treatment.

Of course, one person got a boo sound louder than Xu Qi got.

That is Balotelli, who has made headlines recently. Manchester United fans know that this kid is particularly prone to being angered, so they want to deliberately anger him.

The domestic broadcaster has also sent a strong commentary lineup. During the live video of a certain portal website, Zhan Jun and Li Yuankui are conducting live broadcast commentary.

"At the beginning, we can see that Manchester City is in a very strong momentum. Xu Qi has completed his first shot for Manchester City. The ball was blocked by Ferdinand, and then slowed down and was held in his arms by De Gea." Zhan Jun explained calmly.

However, Manchester United, who plays at home, doesn't like this situation very much, but the configuration of the technical midfielder composed of Xu Qi and David Silva makes Fletcher and Anderson very uncomfortable.

In the tenth minute, Xu Qi even faced the defense of five Manchester United players and almost broke into the penalty area. It was not until the end that he was blocked by Ferdinand and Smalling.

David Hill also completed his escape under the siege of the opponent. These confrontations have made Manchester United's defense line very embarrassed.

Judging from the progress of this game during the opening period, it is somewhat beyond everyone's expectations.

It might have been closer to a even confrontation, but in the scene, Manchester City really had the upper hand.

That is, Manchester United's defense line can withstand Manchester City's last blow at a critical moment. If it weren't for this, the current score might have been rewritten.

This situation has lasted for about twenty minutes, Manchester City still has all the advantages, and Manchester United is still at a loss.
Chapter completed!