Chapter 224 The Weakest Champion?

At Manchester City's home court, with Scholes' dramatic kill, Manchester United won a valuable victory and successfully rebounded. After the goal, the crazy celebration of Manchester United players is also reasonable.

At the last moment of the competition for the league championship, Manchester United defeated Manchester City in stoppage time for the third time this season. After the game, after celebrating the victory with the Manchester United fans who accompanied the team, Scholes revealed that the players could not stop the joy of victory in the locker room. They will keep this momentum until the end of the season. Bundle.

"This is an important game for the fans of the two teams. I know how much this game means to the fans, and I'm sure it's the same for the players." Scholes said in an interview with MUTV.

"It's really great to win the Manchester derby. It's a very important thing, especially in this season, it's the third time we've defeated Manchester City in this way. It's really good to score a goal and win the game at the last minute."

"We are just a persistent team. Some teams will be satisfied with a draw. I don't know what Manchester City thinks, but we have never been a team that is only satisfied with a draw. We hope to win every game, which ensures that we will do our best at the last minute."

Manchester City may complain about bad luck, but Scholes stressed that Manchester United can win at the last minute by relying on patience and steady performance.

"We deserve to win," he said. "We had two good chances in the first half, but unfortunately we couldn't lead by one or two goals. Manchester City also had some opportunities, but I think we all had excellent defensive performance for most of the game. The four defenders in the back line were excellent, and Van der Sar was also very good. Excellent, we can keep the lead until the end of the game.

"We feel relaxed. In the last 20 minutes, our army pressed on it, hoping to get the winning goal. When the game becomes more open, you will know that you will always have a chance to find a goal, but Manchester City mostly shoots outside the penalty area, which is difficult to test Van der Sar."

"This is an important victory for us. Obviously, there is still an advantage over Chelsea, and all the remaining pressure has shifted to Chelsea."

The suspense of the Premier League championship will not come again!

Scholes's final shot in the last 15 seconds of injury stoppage time, in addition to saving Manchester United, almost cut off the presumption of this season's Premier League championship. Manchester United beat Manchester City in 92 minutes and 45 seconds. Chelsea was defeated by Tottenham Hotspur 2-1 away. There are still three rounds left in the league, and the Red Devils' lead remains at 6 points. In the goal-goal competition, Manchester United also has three goal-goal goals less than Chelsea. But now there is no need to watch any goal difference!

Before this game, the British media said that this was the closest point ranking between the two sides in the last eight years since Manchester City's success in the last round of the league. Previously, with four rounds left at the end of the league, the closest rankings were in 2008 and 2009, both of which were Manchester United ranked first and Manchester City ranked eighth, with a gap of seven places. But before this game, Manchester United ranked first and Manchester City ranked fourth, with a difference of only three places.

"This is the most significant derby in the 23 years since I coached Manchester United. Tottenham Hotspur has the ability to beat Chelsea." The Lord encouraged the players before the game. Compared with the league starting lineup with a 0-0 draw with Blackburn in the last round, the Lord rotated five people in this round, Rooney, Evans, Evra, Fletcher and Gibson. Before the game, Manchester United midfielder Carrick was very confident, "We will not give up. Manchester United still has half the chance to win the championship." The veteran Giggs said, "We definitely can't give up. We will definitely fight to the end. I hope Chelsea loses the score, so that we can have a chance to achieve a reversal.

But in the eyes of most bystanders, Carrick and Giggs' remarks are at best to embolden themselves. More people believe that Chelsea still has the hope of a counterattack. What about now? After Manchester United's victory, this almost means that this season's Premier League championship has entered a garbage time.

Chelsea also hopes that Manchester City can cause some trouble for Manchester United, but the Londoner's wishful calculation is wrong, and Manchester United will not easily lose to Manchester City. Even if Manchester United is not doing well recently, even if its rival Manchester City is a strong team that is determined to hit the Champions League tickets next season. This is the 142nd Manchester League derby. In the previous confrontation, Manchester United had the absolute upper hand with 56 wins, 48 draws and 37 losses. After this game, Manchester United won 20 more games in the league match against Manchester City.

Before the game, Manchester City was strongly dissatisfied with the temporary change of referees by the Football Association. Manchester City fans were also very disgusted with the FA's move. Of course, Manchester United also complained about Atkinson's previous law enforcement.

Shortly after the start of the game, Gibson was knocked to the ground by Manchester City midfielder Barry while competing for the header. Ferguson immediately roared at the fourth official on the sidelines. The Manchester City fans sang "fuckofffergie" with great momentum. But throughout the whole audience, the Lord rarely quarrels with the border judges, and there are very few such disputes. To be fair, the referee Atkinson did not take sides in the game, and the coaches of both sides did not question the referee after the game. So far, since losing 1-2 at home to Manchester City in February 2008, Manchester United has achieved a double kill against Manchester City for two consecutive seasons.

In the two Manchester derby matches, Manchester United all defeated their opponents in the end, fully reflecting the tenacious temperament of the Red Devils. In the first round, Owen completed the final shot in the last second of the injury stoppage; in the second round, Scholes completed the last 15 seconds of the injury stoppage; Manchester United led by a total of 16 seconds in two rounds, but earned 4 more points on Manchester City. Scholes's goal in stoppage time was Manchester United's seventh goal-goal victory in the league this season.

In the last three rounds of the league, Chelsea will face Stoke City at home, challenge Liverpool away, and play against Wigan at home; Manchester United is also two home and one away, playing against Tottenham Hotspur at home, challenging Sunderland away and Stoke City at home. Relatively speaking, Chelsea's opponents are stronger. It must be a little more difficult to challenge Liverpool away than Manchester United's away challenge Sunderland. Although it is less difficult to play against Wigan at home than Manchester United's home game against Tottenham, everyone knows that Manchester United has always had a lot of experience in playing Tottenham. Tottenham has not been a professional for Manchester United for a year. Two years.

This Saturday, Manchester United will play Tottenham Hotspur at home in the early game, while Chelsea will play Stall City on Sunday. Once Manchester United wins, they will lead by up to 9 points in the standings, and the pressure will be completely thrown to the Blues. Is Stoke City easy to play? At least the two teams have met in the last two leagues, and Stoke City has not made Chelsea feel too comfortable. In the first round of the two teams this season, Chelsea did not finish the final until the 4th minute of injury time. The two teams fought at Stamford Bridge last season. Chelsea also scored in the 4th minute of injury time, and Lampard finished the final. It is usually so difficult to play Stoke City, not to mention the lack of captain Terry. With a slight mistake, the champion is already Manchester United.

Even if they can cross the pass of Stoke City, Chelsea may fall at Liverpool's feet. This season, Liverpool has achieved 12 wins, 3 draws and 2 losses at home in the previous 17 leagues, with a loss rate of only 11.8%. Only Villa and Arsenal took 3 points from Anfield. Chelsea's previous 18 away games this season were 9 wins, 4 draws and 5 losses, with a winning rate of 50%. That is to say, from the data analysis, Chelsea has a considerable possibility that it is difficult to gnaw on Liverpool at Anfield. Moreover, Chelsea is the last home game of Liverpool's league this season, and no Liverpool player is willing to end this bitter season with a loss.

After losing Cristiano Ronaldo and Tevez, this Manchester United can still rank first in the table with only three rounds left in the league, compared with last season's seemingly no major players.

Chelsea added Mr. 18 million Mr. Jilkov but fell behind by 3 points in the top battle. Manchester United is an incredible miracle. The conditions for Manchester United to win the championship are very simple. They can wait for the great moment when their opponents make mistakes.

Although Ancelotti was still there after the game and said that the champion was still in the hands of Chelsea, he also admitted to losing to Tottenham Hotspur. In fact, Chelsea has been forced to have no way out. The three-game victory is only the same as the current Manchester United. Everyone knows that Chelsea's victory only exists in theory!

Let the hour hand be dialed back to April 28, 2007.

In the 06-07 season, before the 36th round of the Premier League, Manchester United led Chelsea by 3 points.

In the 36th round, Manchester United visited Goodison Park to challenge Everton. The goals of Stubbs and Fernandez helped Toffee take a 2-0 lead in the 50th minute. It seems that Manchester United's loss of points in Goodison is inevitable.

On another field, Chelsea, coached by Mourinho, led Bolton 2-1 at home. Considering that Chelsea's defensive data was good that season, he only lost 20 goals in the previous 35 rounds, and Mourinho was waiting for a planned victory.

The score of Manchester United's 0-2 behind from Liverpool City was hit on the big screen of Stamford Bridge in time. In the excitement of the Chelsea fans, the madman couldn't hide his excitement and smiled. He knew that the opportunity for Chelsea had come. If Manchester United loses 0-2 and Chelsea wins 2-1, the two sides will score 83 points. Of course, Manchester United is also 11 goals ahead of Chelsea.

But the opportunity did not come after all. Four minutes later, Kevin Davis headed the goal and helped Bolton make the score 2-2. Six minutes later, Manchester United set off a Jedi counterattack. O'Shea, Phil Neville (Oolong), Rooney and Eagles scored four goals in the first and 29 minutes to help Manchester United finish. It became a shocking reversal, and Chelsea's score of 2-2 on the Stanford Bridge big screen has never been rewritten.

In this way, after 36 rounds, Manchester United is 5 points ahead of Chelsea, plus 16 goals more than Chelsea. With two rounds left in the league, Mourinho can no longer fantasize about Manchester United's two consecutive defeats and Chelsea's two consecutive wins in the remaining two rounds, and the madman's smile finally stiffened in the wind.

In the 37th round, with Cristiano Ronaldo's goal, Manchester United beat Manchester City away. Ferguson led the Red Devils to regain the three-seasonly lost Premier League championship from Mourinho. In the same round, Chelsea tied Arsenal away. Mourinho did not wait for the miracle. What he waited for was that his players had to applaud the new Premier League champion Manchester United in the next Premier League make-up match. This doesn't feel good. After all, in the past two seasons, Manchester United have been defeated by Chelsea.

Back to this round. When referee Atkinson made a three-minute make-off gesture to the linesman, it is believed that many Manchester United fans have sadly turned off the TV.

It seems that this is another 0-0 game. Manchester United will have two rounds in a row, and the league champion will be full of suspense again. But in fact, Manchester United proved what a rich family is and what Ferguson time is at a critical time. They have put the trophy in their arms, and there is only a little time left.

30 seconds before the end of the game, the Chelsea saw any hope, but Scholes' magical kill in the last 15 seconds of stoppage time changed everything.

It seems to be the reincarnation of God's will. God played a joke on Chelsea again after three years.

After this game, Chelsea is 9 points behind Manchester United with three rounds left at the end of the league. The only advantage is that they have 3 more goal difference; they are 6 points ahead of Arsenal in the first round of the game, and the situation has become very serious. Once Arsenal wins tonight's game, the Gunners' points will reach 74 points, 3 points behind Chelsea.

In addition to the presumption of the Premier League championship, the fourth competition in the Premier League this season has also intensified. Manchester City lost in the last 15 seconds, and Tottenham defeated Chelsea, allowing the latter to overtake Manchester City by 2 points in the table and one more goal difference. With also 4 rounds left, Liverpool is 8 points behind Tottenham Hotspur and 7 goal difference (equivalent to 8.5 points). In fact, it has said goodbye to next season's Champions League (heatspur only needs to score 4 more points in the last 4 rounds, and the ranking will definitely beat Liverpool). We can only see Liverpool's performance in next season's UEFA Europa League. It is. Even if Villa wins this round, in the 34 rounds of the same round, Tottenham Hotspur is 6 points ahead of Villa and more than 15 goals. With only 4 rounds left, this gap is almost insurmountable.

That is to say, the fourth battle in the Premier League this season has completely become the battle between Tottenham and Manchester City. Both teams have now realized the importance of goal difference. Both teams still have a focus match against the top four of the Premier League. Manchester City's away game against Arsenal and Tottenham's challenge Manchester United. For Manchester City, the biggest advantage is that Mancini's team will play Tottenham Hotspur at home. As long as the gap with Tottenham Hotspur is within 3 points before the penultimate round, Manchester City will have a chance to fight.

However, even if Manchester United breaks out in the second half of the league, it will not escape the weakest championship in the history of the Premier League. In the past 18 seasons, the Premier League champion has never lost more than five games in a single season.

You know, the Red Devils only lost 4 games last season!

Since the Premier League was determined to be 20 teams in the 1995/96 season, only the championship losses in the 1995/96 season and the 2000/01 season have lost 6 games. Previously, Blackburn lost 7 games in the 1994/95 season, but there were 22 teams in the league at that time, with four more rounds in the season than now. Even in those two "weak seasons", Manchester United is in a special situation: the former did not start well and was 12 points behind Newcastle at Christmas; the latter was because of the early determination of the championship, and the final loss to Derby County and Tottenham Hotspur.

And it's not just a "weak crown", but also the four major families have lost the most in a single season this season. In the past six years, they have only lost 27 games at most in the 2005/06 season, but when there are 14 games left this season, the top four have lost 30 games! Among them, in the face of the large-scale defeat of the midstream teams, the psychological advantages of the top four in the past disappeared.

Arsenal were killed by Chelsea and Manchester United, losing to Manchester City, Tottenham Hotspur, Ping Villa and Everton, with almost no technical tactics and scene advantages.

Tottenham Hotspur and Villa used to be the top four givers, but this season, Tottenham's winning streak against Arsenal and Chelsea did not fall behind against Villa, Everton and Manchester City, which directly affected the trend of the championship and the competition. Although the ups and downs of Manchester City were double-killed by Manchester United, the double-killing of Chelsea, two draws with Liverpool, and the big victory over Arsenal all made the traditional top four lose face.

Since the Premier League entered the "acquisition era", there has never been a situation where the top four lost more than three games against the midstream team in a single season. But this season, the advantage of the top four has been greatly weakened, followed by the suspense of the championship and the unprecedented strength of the middle class. Although Chelsea or Manchester United still have great hope of winning the championship with a high score of more than 85 points, behind this false high score is supported by a weak body.

This weekend is crucial for Li Yu: the competition for European golden boots has almost heated up, although there is basically no suspense that he was elected as the best in the league. He is alone in the Premier League and the dialect is all over Europe. It is the most perfect answer given by Li Yu in his second year at Manchester United!

Before the game, The Sun made a series of news. First, Real Madrid used C. Ronaldo as bait and sold the superstar in the summer with a sky-high price of 100 million euros.

There are only 3 rounds left in the season. In the statistics of the European Golden Boot, Li Yu has scored a full 42 goals in various events this season, far exceeding the number of goals scored by the second place Messi and C Ronald. The European Golden Boot is getting closer and closer to Manchester United No. 9!

However, it was immediately revealed that Real Madrid intends to pay a sky-high price of 100 million euros. Li Yu's current contract is also a fixed salary of the Premier League. This five-year contract has a new portrait right sharing bonus clause. The bonus alone may bring him an additional 6 million pounds of income per year. The ** power of money is really not for Li Yu. Too big.