The epidemic continues to rage, and the European continent has been deeply affected, and almost all of the five major leagues have been attacked, and none of them have been spared. According to the latest news, manchester City, the current premier league top team, has 21 people infected with the new crown virus, including 7 players and 14 staff. Among them, the biggest impact is that head coach Guardiola ushered in the first "crown" of the new year, and Manchester City club officially declared Guardiola to test positive for the new crown virus, which also means that he will definitely miss the FA Cup Manchester City away game against Swindon. But fortunately, Manchester City has a strong family foundation, there are 2-3 strong players in each position to do the guarantee, even if the large-scale rotation is not a big problem, the real worry is manchester City's biggest opponent on the road to the championship, the Reds Liverpool.
Look at The Reds Liverpool. David Maddock, a reporter from the Mirror, revealed that the epidemic is getting worse and worse in the team, and there are currently less than 10 players available in the Liverpool first team, and even a starting lineup is not available. In addition, Liverpool's first leg of the League Cup match with Arsenal has also been postponed, and the match against Shrewsbury in the third round of the FA Cup now seems to be postponed. This is obviously not good news, too many postponed matches are piled together in the later stages, which will lead to an extremely dense schedule and great physical requirements, and now the two core players of the team, Mane and Salah, are going to participate in the African Cup of Nations and have left the club for the national team training. Coach Klopp's team is almost all infected with the new crown virus, and now Liverpool can be said to have no one to do, to coach without a coach, almost to the point of exhaustion.
Also suffering from serious injuries is Bayern Munich. Although far away in Germany, but the epidemic situation in Germany will only be more severe than the United Kingdom, according to the latest news of German media Sport1, Bayern first team has 10 players infected with the new crown virus, coach Nagelsmann was forced to recruit two 16-year-old young players from the youth team to the first team. In the pre-match training with Borussia Moncheng, only 20 players participated in the training, including 9 young players, also facing a bad situation where no one was available.
Manchester City, Liverpool and Chelsea are the three strongest teams in the Premier League this season, but all three teams, without exception, have encountered serious injury problems and epidemic attacks, but relatively speaking, Chelsea's lineup is the most complete. Manchester City and Liverpool this wave of injuries will have a huge impact on the entire Premier League, the current no. 3 Chelsea will usher in a great opportunity, according to the schedule, the following Premier League, Chelsea will face Tottenham and Manchester City, if they can take advantage of Manchester City's weakness to defeat the opponent, then it will greatly narrow the point gap with Manchester City. In addition, Arsenal, who are currently ranked No. 4, also have a very complete squad, although Aubameyang tested positive for the new crown, but the American sheep has almost been kicked out of arsenal's starting lineup, and his absence has little impact.
Arsenal's recent momentum has been fierce, although they lost in the match against Manchester City, but the team is not at all behind in the scene, the attack is becoming more and more "beautiful football", the goal scored, the attack is launched from the midfield, smoothly and quickly advanced to the front and Saka completed a perfect goal. Now this Arsenal strength can not be underestimated, but also will become a headache opponent for the major Premier League giants. And Arsenal have no European games to play, can put all their energy into the league, Liverpool and Manchester City lack of major generals time period, Arsenal will usher in a great moment to chase points, in the standings to surpass Chelsea Liverpool is not impossible!
Bayern's side, because it is a big player in the Bundesliga, so the league does not have to worry, it is this Champions League game, Salzburg Red Bull is not a giant, but it is also a strong team, if in February can not get rid of the injury problem in time, by Red Bull to eliminate, but the loss is big.