Chapter 205 The situation is good
Manchester United beat Arsenal 3-1 away, which may become a watershed for the Premier League this season. After this battle, Arsenal, which is 5 points behind Chelsea, may gradually withdraw from the championship stage; and this season's Premier League championship situation has also changed from the Romance of the Three Kingdoms to two heroes.
Compared with the starting point of defeating Hull City 4-0 at home in the last round of the league, Ferguson made two replacements in this game, with Brown replacing the suspended Ferdinand; and Carrick replacing Owen. Before this battle, in the previous 41 face-to-face confrontations between Ferguson and Wenger, Lord won 16 times, Wenger won 14 times, and the two sides drew 11 times. After this battle, the Lord expanded the ratio between himself and the professor to 17:14.
In the past four matches between Manchester United and Arsenal, Manchester United remained unbeaten with 3 wins and 1 draw. But in Manchester United's past four away games against Arsenal, the Red Devils have not won once. In the past nine away games against Arsenal, Manchester United only won once. It was in February 2005, when Manchester United captured Hybri 4-2. The two teams played against Old Trafford in the first half of the season. Manchester United won with Rooney's penalty kick and Diaby's own goal. It was not easy to win. If he wins this game, Wenger will become the second captain to reach 300 wins in the Premier League, but the Lord did not let him succeed. The Scots expanded their Premier League wins to 439.
Since losing 1-2 away to Manchester City in the first leg of the League Cup semi-finals, Manchester United has won three consecutive victories, scoring 10 goals and conceding 2 goals. The next three games are extremely important for Manchester United's journey this season. The next home game of the league is the relegation team Portsmouth, which is a game that must be won.
The next day, Chelsea will play against Arsenal at home, and Manchester United can watch the tiger fight. Manchester United is of course looking forward to Arsenal taking points away from home. In that way, the Red Devils can take advantage of the game and continue to maintain their leading advantage over Chelsea. If Arsenal loses to Chelsea away from home, the Blues will help Manchester United get rid of a pursuer, and the situation of the two heroes this season is officially formed.
Before this game, Manchester United had lost five of the past six top four minor league away games, with only one draw.
However, in this game, according to the winning law of Manchester United's first goal in this season's league (the previous 14 league goals and 14 first goals), after Armunia scored an own goal, Manchester United is likely to win this game, and the results also verify this point. Manchester United's 15th first goal this season finally won After 15 victories, the winning rate of the first goal in the league is still 100%.
It is worth mentioning that three of the four defenders from Manchester United in this game are substitutes. Wenger did not see where the loopholes in this lineup is. At his inshous, Ashavin stormed the area defended by Brown, but finally failed to win because he was too hasty. On the contrary, Li Yu and Rooney went to two cities in a row in just 4 minutes, and the style of the game was set.
Last season, Manchester United was beaten by Liverpool in the top four minor leagues, 1 win and 1 draw in Chelsea, 1 draw in two games, 1 draw and 1 loss in Arsenal, and only 1 win, 2 draws, 3 losses and 5 points in 6 games in the top four minor leagues. Compared with Liverpool, which has 4 wins and 2 draws in 6 games, the top four minor league points are 9 points less, but Manchester United finally won the championship with a total score of 4 points over Liverpool with the super winning rate of the weak team. This season, Manchester United has so far scored 6 points in the top four minor leagues; Chelsea has scored 9 points for 3 wins and Liverpool has scored 3 points; Arsenal has scored 3 points for 1 wins and 3 losses; Arsenal has scored 3 points in 4 games. Manchester United still has two games in the top four minor league this season, but the points have exceeded last season.
For Manchester United, a more favorable condition is that there are 14 rounds of the league left, only two of which are the top four small leagues, and all of which are played at home. The opponents are Chelsea and Liverpool respectively. The other 12 rounds of the league are not difficult. They have played against Portsmouth, West Ham, Fulham, Tottenham Hotspur and Stoke City at home. Among them, Tottenham Hotspur is slightly stronger, but Tottenham has not won the top four teams on the road for 16 years, and Manchester United is good at playing Tottenham professionally. It can be called a revenge battle against Fulham at home. I believe My lord and his Manchester United will not let go of this revenge opportunity.
The away game has successively challenged Villa, Wolves, Bolton, Blackburn, Manchester City and Sunderland. Among them, Manchester City and Villa's home games are two difficult bones. Once they win these two games, the possibility of Manchester United defending their title will be greatly increased.
That is to say, although the next 14 rounds of the league will be tough, Manchester United only needs to play these four focus games, and it is likely to successfully defend the title.
Of course, they must wait for Ancelotti's team to make mistakes, and playing Chelsea at home is the best chance to reduce points. In the Champions League, a favorable condition for Manchester United is that after playing Villa, the team will have six days of rest before playing against Milan, which is very critical for the Red Devils.
After the end of the war, the European winter transfer window will also be closed. It seems that Manchester United only introduced a potential central defender Smarin in the winter transfer market. Although it is average and the name is not loud enough, the transfer fee of up to 14 million pounds has attracted the attention of the whole Europe. If there is no miracle in the next 10 hours, Smarin will be the winter champion of the five major European leagues. A club with a debt of 716 million pounds spent a sky-high price of 14 million pounds to smash a potential central defender. It is hard to say that the Red Devils have no money to attract.
The following question is, does Manchester United still have money to draw this summer?
The answer is still yes. Manchester United CEO David Gill interpreted all this. In an interview with BBCFiveLive yesterday, Gill talked about the offer of Benzema last summer. Now the top priority is to retain Rooney and Li Yu, and never sell Carrington training base. Jill revealed that after Li Yu's successful renewal of the contract, signing a new contract with Rooney will be an important agenda for Manchester United this summer.
"We didn't get Benzema, but our offer reached 35 million euros. We just called the Glazer family and told them that we wanted to make an offer of 35 million euros, and they replied 'very good'. We made an offer, but Benzema finally went to Real Madrid for more than 40 million euros.
Sir Sir Alex Ferguson said publicly that this number is too much. But if I say to Joel Glazer again, 'Sir Ferguson wants a special player, do we have money to buy people'? The answer will be an unequivocal yes. They have proved this. From my personal point of view, the Glazer family will support our request no matter what. They only consider to ensure that Manchester United continues to succeed, continue to attract exciting players, and continue to create good results off the court.
From Manchester United boss to coach, no one has the desire to sell Cristiano Ronaldo. His contract with Manchester United ends in 2012, and we would like to give him another contract, but he replied 'no'. He stayed with us for 6 years, he did an excellent job, and he chose to leave. There is no reason to keep an unhappy player. I am very confident that unless Sir Alex Ferguson agrees, we will not accept an offer from the player we want to keep, no matter how high the offer is. Sir Alex Ferguson still has a lot of **, and I think he will stay here for many years.
"The contract with Rooney and us ended in 2012. He has publicly stated that he wants to stay here, and we also want him to stay. We hope that he can sign a long-term contract with us. He is only 24 years old, and the best years of his career are yet to come. Only a few native British players want to leave Manchester United to play football. I'm 100% sure that Manchester United will never sell the Carrington training base under the Glazer family.
Arsenal's football is as wonderful as ever. In fact, within 27 minutes before the opening, Arsenal actually made the Premier League overlord Manchester United shoot 0 with the help of home advantage. On the other hand, the Gunners, if they are not in a hurry, Ashaven will have a good chance to take the lead for Arsenal. Before this battle, the Lord issued a warning that after this game, the Premier League's top three may become a competition between the two heroes. Now it seems that the Lord's prediction is very accurate.
The number of threatening balls passed by a person in this game is one more than the sum of all five midfielders of Manchester United, but the talented Xiaofa is deeply trapped in the bag of Manchester United's muscular men.
Even after falling behind 0-3, the iron-blooded Vermallen still narrowed the score to two goals with a wonderful shot. Until the last moment before the whistle, the Arsenal team has been fighting for the result of this game and for Wenger's football faith.
But the bloody Red Devils shattered Arsenal's colorful cuts. In addition to Nani, Manchester United's four engineering midfielders completely disrupted Arsenal's gorgeous dance steps.
An obvious example is that in the second half, when Ashavin was about to break through Rosiki's pass, Scholes came up to shovel without saying a word, and then a friendly attempt to pull up the Tsar, but the angry Tsar refused to shake hands with Ginger. Over the past five years, Arsenal, which has adhered to its beliefs, has been as pale and weak as snow. In the past five years, bloodthirsty Manchester United has won nine championships, including three league championships, one Champions League championship and two League cups, one World Cup and two community shields.
Arsenal's cheapest season ticket price this season is £855, and Manchester United's cheapest season ticket price is £513; Arsenal's most expensive season ticket price this season is £1825, while Manchester United's most expensive season ticket price is only £931, which is equivalent to half of Arsenal. Compared with a metropolis like London, Manchester is just an industrial city in the northwest of England.
All these things are enough to show that Manchester United is more civilian than Arsenal. This team belonging to the British working class has become a banner of the Premier League.
The snow is very white, and Arsenal's 5-year-old 0-crown report card reflects Wenger's pale face; the blood is very red, and the 5-year 9-year crown is more red than the red medal.
Manchester United finally spent the intensive January, and Li Yu and Ferguson also won the best player and best coach in January with a month of rich answers.
Li Yu has won the player of the month for the sixth time at Manchester United. After media statistics, it was found that in the absence of C Ronaldo, Li Yu completely replaced C Ronaldo in the club, and sometimes even played a bigger role.
A Chinese teenager under the age of 22 has achieved such brilliant results in a rich club like Manchester United. Li Yu is proud that no 22-year-old young man will achieve such a result.
When Ferguson got the best coach, he also put forward this view, "With Li Yu's excellent performance, Manchester United will continue to be brilliant last season!"
As soon as the award was awarded, Manchester United won another 6-0 victory at Old Trafford at home, proving Ferguson's point.
Portsmouth became another victim of Manchester United's butcher's knife. Li Yu contributed two goals in this game. Rooney scored a hat-trick, and the last goal was the icing on the cake. The new Manchester United Trident attack made people see what is a luxurious offensive ability.
At the same time, Chelsea sniped at Arsenal at Stamford Bridge as they wished, allowing Professor Wenger to suffer two consecutive defeats and completely lose the right to compete for the final championship.
The competition between the two powers has become the trend of winning the Premier League. Who can win the cup in the end? The two teams have to deal with every next game carefully.
In the 26th round of the league, no one expected that the two teams had an unexpected situation. Manchester United, which challenged Aston Villa away, only brought back 1 point away.
According to the media, in the rehearsal of the League Cup final, Manchester United was completely restrained by Villa's extremely rough defense, and Rooney scored Manchester United's only goal in the game.
In the Chelsea game that began later, Everton helped Manchester United a lot. They defeated Chelsea 2:1 at Goodison Park at home.
After only one round of the league, although the upper position of the table has not changed, the situation has changed fundamentally. In the case of one more game, Manchester United's leading advantage has become 6 points, and the advantage has become 2 games!
After two consecutive rounds of the league, Manchester United will go away to challenge AC Milan on Tuesday night, February 16, local time. In the first round of the top 16 knockout match of the UEFA Champions League, in addition to the two giants attracting attention, Beckham's first meeting with his old boss for the first time in seven years seems to be more topical.
Before the game, Beckham warned his current teammates that Manchester United's striker Rooney was not inferior to Ronaldinho, but at the same time said that he would do his best to defeat the old owner for the Rossoneri.
"For me personally, this is one of the most important games. But the team's victory over Manchester United and promotion is the first priority, which is also what I hope. Reuters quoted Beckham as saying that although he has left Old Trafford since 2003, Beckham has been paying close attention to the Red Devils. "Manchester United has been in a brave state recently, and they have performed very well. Rooney showed his ability to score goals, which will be a difficult game.
When asked whether Li Yu can now be compared with Xiao Luo, the winner of the World Footballer of the Year, except for Rooney, Xiao Bei replied, "There is no doubt that I have always said that Li Yu is one of the best shooters in football. He has also proved one thing. He is playing for a great club and doing what he is best at - scoring goals.
According to Milan coach Leonardo, Beckham will not necessarily get a starting opportunity because of the special significance of the game to him.
Beckham himself said that even if Milan loses Maldini, Kaka and other players, the Rossoneri is still expected to defeat Manchester United. "Milan is still that Milan, and the great team spirit still exists." In the face of his old teammate Giggs and Ferguson, it will not affect his performance. "Indeed, I Manchester United have special feelings and memories. They will always be a part of my life, but now I will do my best to defeat them and win for Milan.
As a former captain of the England team, Beckham can't avoid questions about Terry's "friend's wife". Beckham refused to comment on this. To be honest, there are enough statements about this matter, and I don't think I need to comment on anything more. It has nothing to do with me."
If Beckham scored against Manchester United, what would he say? Teammate Sisdorf, as a "experienced person" - the Dutchman played against the old owner Real Madrid in the Champions League. He gave Beckham a advice: Celebrate as usual!" If he scores a goal, he should celebrate, and people should also understand that he is not disrespectful to the club that once loved him and made great achievements there, but just a burst of emotion. I hope the fans will applaud him then.
Beckham is determined to fight the old owner, while Manchester United coach Ferguson said that the team is currently in the best condition, and he also called on the players to seize the opportunity to become heroes in the big scene. Ferguson's confidence, in addition to a week's rest and a good record of four wins and one draw in the last five games, has scored 27 goals. Li Yu, who is at the top of the Premier League scorer list, is the key to winning the Red Devils.
"In every game, I always think about how to score goals. Obviously, my ideas can always be realized in the game." In an interview with People, Li Yu's confidence was overwhelming. I am a fighter and hate failure. My parents have told me not to give up since I was a child. The game with Milan will be very difficult, but we will play to the extreme and beat them.
In addition, just as Beckham praised that Li Yu is comparable to Ronaldinho, Li Yu also responded to Beckham, "He used to be the idol of Manchester United fans, and I hope he will be warmly welcomed at Old Trafford in the second round." Speaking of other players of AC Milan, Li Yu said: "Sedoff is a difficult player. He is the best opponent I have ever met. Milan and Pirlo, maybe Ronaldinho will also have a good performance.
Ferguson agreed with the team's No. 9. Lord went to San Siro last Friday to watch AC Milan's 3-2 victory over Udinese in Serie A. Beckham came on as a substitute for Ronaldinho in the second half: "Losing Kaka has a great impact on them, and they have changed their tactics for this. But they still have a lot of experience and smart players like Pirlo, Ambrosini and Sedorf. And if Pato can't start, they may let Beckham be the right forward.