Chapter 88 Ready to go
It was a five-goal reversal in the second half, and the opponent was Tottenham Hotspur, but this time it was not as difficult as 5 to 3 that year, but the final score of 5 to 2 was enough to make everyone remember this classic turnaround. After four consecutive victories in the Premier League, the Red Devils are no longer far from the 11th Premier League crown in history.
In fact, this is only Manchester United's second reversal in the Premier League this season. The last time was at Newcastle's home stadium at James Park on March 4. At that time, Lowencrans broke Van der Sar's unbroken body, and Rooney and Li Yu went down two cities to help the Red Devils reverse. Compared with Liverpool, the reversal of the Premier League this season, the reversal of the Red Devils is small, but Ferguson and his disciples are sending a strong signal to Benitez and the Reds: it is not so easy for the league to reverse us!
Major media are reporting on Manchester United, among which CCTV is the most interesting media!
Before the start of the "Road to the Champion" series, China CCTV specially prepared a collection of Li Yu's goals. This season, Li Yu has dedicated a lot of wonderful goals to the fans. Before the start of the series, she used a wonderful goal moment to build momentum in advance for the program that will be officially launched next week. It's also a preview.
Li Yu's free kick in the quarter-final match between Li Yu and Porto's Champions League was played repeatedly last week. Huaxia did not get any form of reporting rights in the Premier League, so the highlights of Li Yu's goals seen by Chinese fans came from the Champions League. The goals of the Premier League did not appear on CCTV Sports Channel. In the collection.
Obviously, CCTV Sports TV is not alone. Li Yu's goal collection is also broadcast in the UK, and the covers and front page headlines of all the media are also commenting on Li Yu's truth about the fair play in the weekend competition. Even the home page of the UEFA official website reports Li in a prominent position. Jade's move.
England, especially Manchester, Manchester media is the number one star to promote them.
However, Li Yu did not get lost in this overwhelming praise. He understands that no matter how noble the morality is, he can't win the game. The exciting thing is the reversal of Manchester United. No matter how much praise there is, it doesn't have much practical significance. Now Manchester United is facing the critical moment of competing for the championship, only at the end of the season, with both hands Lifting the trophies of champions is to be happy and satisfied!
Everyone at Carrington Training Base can see that Li Yu's training is still so hard every day, trying to maintain her own state, and has to do so many seemingly boring and boring shooting trainings every day, and the extra training has never been interrupted.
In the words of the old jandler of Carrington's training base, he has seen Cantona's training and witnessed Van Nistle Rui's training, but he is not such a hard-working player as Li Yu. He should be a role model for all football players.
Although Li Yu's hard training is only his own personal behavior, what he can't imagine is that his hard training has deeply touched his teammates. As the top scorer in the team, Li Yu is still so consciously practicing his shooting skills, so how can others be lazy?
In addition, C Ronaldo has also been practicing hard, and the two killers are still constantly honing themselves.
Perhaps they themselves did not expect that their hard training has driven the atmosphere of serious training of the whole team to a certain extent and improved the quality of training.
In this scene on the training ground, Ferguson saw that the old Scottish man was very satisfied. In his opinion, Li Yu and C Ronaldo's example made their teammates be affected and trained seriously, which also shows Li Yu's position in the team to a certain extent, which is not as simple as a simple scorer. C Ronaldo and Li Yu are now more like the two flags of Manchester United, and while Li Yu is constantly winning the trust and respect of his teammates, her status is gradually getting closer to C Ronaldo. In the near future, when there is no C Ronaldo, Ferguson may not have to worry about any substitutes at all. In terms of offense, Manchester United There is already a person who is not inferior to C Ronaldo, whether it is offensive ability or position in the team.
There are still four rounds in the Premier League, including five make-up matches, one FA Cup final, two rounds of the Champions League semi-final, plus the final Rome City final, there are a total of three games. This is all the remaining games of Manchester United this season, a total of 9 games, and the FA Cup and the Champions League are not allowed to lose. In the case of one less round of the Premier League, Manchester United is 4 points ahead of the second-place Liverpool. In fact, all the British media have confirmed that it is a matter of time before Manchester United's title this season. The biggest advantage of the two games is unshakable. Now what the British media is more looking forward to is the way to defend the title of the Champions League. Manchester United becomes Just the great six crowns.
The last Triple Crown made Ferguson achieve the title of Jazz, so if he can win all the championships this time, Ferguson may be the first person in British football to win a real aristocratic title.
If Li Yu didn't have the matter of Jenny's father, she would not pay attention to the so-called aristocratic title. As the British media said, Ferguson's title was more people who would make special contributions to Britain in the future. In fact, it was just a knight's low-level aristocratic title, not a real aristocrat at all.
Li Yu also realized from media reports that the next Champions League semi-finals are important to Manchester United. Arsenal is an important pass in front of Manchester United's great achievements and must be passed.
In the 115-year history of fighting between the two sides, this game will be their 206th match. In the previous 205 matches, Manchester United has the upper hand with 72 wins, 41 draws and 66 losses. In terms of the domestic cup, the two sides have played a total of 25 times in various domestic cups, and Arsenal has a slight advantage of 11 wins, 4 draws and 10 losses. This encounter in the Champions League is the first time in the history of the two teams in a European arena. In the first round, Manchester United won 1-0 at home, which not only allowed Sir Alex Ferguson to lead Manchester United to the professor's total record against Arsenal to be equal, but the two legendary leaders each scored 14 wins, 10 draws and 14 losses on their opponents; it also allowed the two teams to hold the total record of all the Cup matches in more than a hundred years of fighting history. They each got 11 wins, 4 draws and 11 losses.
In this game, the first thing to decide is which of the two super giants can enter the finals of the Champions League. Secondly, a new leader will be decided after the two main coaches and the two teams' Cup results are equal. In addition, if you notice, 24 may be an interesting number. Before this game, Manchester United had completed 24 consecutive unbeaten games in the Champions League, while Arsenal had completed 24 unbeaten games at home. In this game, it will be interesting whether these two records will continue.
For Arsenal, the home court is always their advantage. Arsenal have performed very well at home in the Champions League this season, with 4 wins and 1 draw in 5 games, and has not lost a goal in 514 minutes. This is a big contrast with their Champions League home games in the past two seasons - you know, Arsenal has not won a home victory in the Champions League knockout matches in the past two seasons. Although the Gunners have been unbeaten in 24 home games in the Champions League, too many draws have also punished Arsenal in the previous two seasons' Champions League knockout. From this point of view, Arsenal's home performance in the Champions League this season is not only stable, but can even be called an outbreak.
However, the data is also unfavorable to Arsenal. Arsenal has only one successful promotion experience in the past eight European knockout matches in the first round, and in the League Cup exactly 20 years ago, the opponent was just a well-known Hajaduk. In history, Arsenal fell behind 0-1 in the first round of the European game four times, and all of them were eliminated by their opponents. At the same time, Arsenal have been defeated by an English team twice in the UEFA Champions League, and have been eliminated by Chelsea and Liverpool twice.
Like Arsenal's historical data, the relevant data in Manchester United's history are also mixed. After playing 1-1 with Lyon in the first round of the 2007/08 UEFA Champions League, Manchester United did not conced any goals in the past four away games of the Champions League knockout match! In history, Manchester United has won 21 games at home in the first round in Europe, and finally eliminated their opponents as many as 16 times. The last time they won at home, they were eliminated in the 06/07 season. Manchester United defeated AC Milan 3-4 at home and lost 0-2 away.
Unfavorable is that Manchester United took the lead 1-0 at home in the first three first rounds of the European games in Manchester United' history. Only in the 1967/68 season, when the Red Devils participated in the Champions League for the first time, they won the promotion after a 3-1 draw with Real Madrid. In the other two cases, they were eliminated by Juventus of Italy and Vidioton of Hungary in the Winners' Cup in the 1976/77 season and 1984/85 respectively.
Throughout the more than 100-year history of the two teams, Arsenal' 55 home games against Manchester United, 30 of which are copied to this game is enough to make the Gunners advance smoothly. Among these 55 victories, there are also 6 other scores of 1-0, which is enough to extend the suspense to overtime.
The recent performance of the two teams in the Premier League has formed a sharp contrast. In this way, Manchester United's advantage is even greater.
Manchester United achieved this incredible reversal in the last round of the Premier League, which is very beneficial to Arsenal in the first leg of the Champions League semi-finals next Wednesday.
First of all, the league has stabilized the situation, and the mentality is quite relaxed, so as not to think about the league in the Champions League. Secondly, let the attacking four find the best state. C Ronaldo and Li Yu and others are full of confidence. It is possible to copy the second half of the lineup against Arsenal. Third, the whole lineup has been completed after Rafael's return. After taking the lead, Ferguson even asked Raphael to rest early and replace Fletcher with Scors, which was not only a tactical adjustment, but also an appropriate rotation, which could restore the team's physical fitness.
In contrast to Arsenal, there is a downwind everywhere.
He only played the relegation team Middlesbrough on Sunday afternoon. He had one less day off than Manchester United. The lineup was incomplete and the defense line was uneven. There were only two main players, Toure and Sarnia, while striker Van Persie, was absent due to injury. Although Eduardo recovered from his injury, he did not play for a long time. Russian striker Arshavin, who won four yuan at Anfield on Wednesday. However, he is not qualified to represent the gunman, only Adebayor alone on the front line. Moreover, the Gunners have not played as frequently as Manchester United recently, but there are not many people who can be used for rotation, unlike the Red Devils.
From this point of view, this reversal is likely to be a stepping stone for Ferguson to launch another final impact on the Champions League and Premier League. If it goes smoothly, morale and mentality are conducive to the Red Devils' final stage to achieve good results.