For the giants of Europe's top five leagues, although there is no task of European competition this week, they are still facing the test of a week of double matches, this match day, a number of giant teams debuted, among which the Blue Moon Army Manchester City, which has been frequently blocked in the domestic arena, made its debut in the Club World Cup, facing the Asian champion Urawa Red Diamonds, Manchester City dominated the field, and finally won 3-0 and entered the final, while in the English League Cup, Chelsea experienced a penalty shootout 5-3 revenge against Newcastle United, and successfully advanced to the semi-finals, La Liga Atletico Madrid failed to maintain a two-goal lead to the end in the case of ten players, allowing Getafe to score the equalizer in stoppage time, and finally forced the Sheets Army to draw 3-3, ending the latter's 20-game winning streak at home!
Last season's European champion Manchester City and Asian champion Urawa Red Diamonds, met in the semi-finals of the Club World Cup, although they are both champions of continental competitions, but the difference in strength between the two teams is very large, which is why Guardiola boldly changed the formation in this campaign, and did not rotate after resting many main players, the Blue Moon Army was still able to beat the opponent in the game, and Manchester City had 74% possession in the whole game created 24 shots on goal, while the home team Urawa Red Diamonds only completed one shot in 90 minutes and failed to hit the target.
From the first minute of the game, Manchester City turned on the siege mode, but it has to be said that in the first half, Urawa Red Diamonds' swing bus strategy had an obvious effect, so that the Blue Moon Army fell into a situation of no points, although it also completed a few very threatening attacks, but they were all defused by the Urawa Red Diamonds goalkeeper, until injury time, Nunez's cross caused Hojbroten to clear the mistake and send an own gift, Manchester City broke the balance on the field, and the backward Urawa Red Diamonds moved forward in the second half to give Manchester City more attacking space, Kovacic and Bernardo Silva scored two goals in eight minutes, and finally helped Manchester City 3-0 to reach the final of the Club World Cup for the first time。
Pochettino will certainly want revenge at home after the Magpies thrashed the Blues 4-1 in the first leg of the league tie at Stamford Bridge and will certainly want revenge at home, but a series of mistakes by four Blues in the first half allowed Wilson to take an early 1-0 lead for Newcastle.
In the second half, 60 million striker Nkunku made his Blues debut, but he was not able to save the team, but fortunately in injury time, Kieran Trippier returned an own assist, Mudryk scored the equalizing goal, and the game also entered a penalty shootout, Kieran Trippier missed a penalty again in the second round, and Chelsea also seized the opportunity to avenge Newcastle 5-3 and advance to the last four of the English League Cup.
Atletico Madrid, which has won 20 consecutive victories at home in this round of La Liga, sat at home to face Getafe, although the Sheets were sent off early, but they still relied on Griezmann's brace and Morata's goal to establish a 3-1 lead, but in the final moments of the game, the superior Getafe launched a crazy counterattack, 87 minutes Oscar recovered a goal, Riquelme sent a penalty in injury time, Real Madrid's veteran Mayoral hit the penalty, and at the same time played a solo goal, the score was fixed at 3-3！