Chapter 62 Champion Night
The away game defeated Chelsea, and the second round of the competition between the two sides can be said to be basically meaningless. It is not that no one has tried to turn the tables at the doorstep of Florence, but unfortunately no one has ever succeeded.
The next day, in another semi-final of the UEFA Champions League, Premier League hegemony Manchester United played against Arsenal at home, a familiar opponent, a different stage. Manchester United and Arsenal, the inseparable enemies of the Premier League, will usher in the first battle of the belated Champions League. One is full of lofty ambition to win the championship, and the other is eye-sighted, vowing to break the spell of the Champions League.
Like the previous collision of these two Premier League hegemonic teams, Old Trafford will be doomed to be dominated by ** again. To some extent, the two heroes who are aesthetically tired of the Premier League will be more motivated to come to the Champions League stage. The offensive war will still be an eternal theme. After all, Manchester United and Arsenal represent the peak level of offensive teams, but the Red Devils are domineering and open, and the Gunners are beautiful and smooth.
Compared with Degan to Florence, Messi to Barcelona, Drogba to Chelsea, Manchester United and Arsenal pay more attention to the role of the offensive team, which is daunting. The offensive combination of Manchester United's Kimuro, Rooney and Berbatov, and the offensive echelons of Arsenal Adebayor, Fabregas and Walkot are all world-class.
The only regret of the gunman is that the recent "tsar" Arshar, who has been in a high state, has been unable to play, and Van Persie's absence, Arsenal in the away game will be somewhat at a disadvantage.
However, compared with Manchester United's difficulties in the third-line battle, Arsenal are better in both state and mentality. On a big stage such as the Champions League semi-finals, the team's momentum is often more important than the state.
Arsenal has never won the Champions League championship in history, and its experience in the competition cannot be compared with its old enemy, and it is also doubtful whether the Gunner's desire for the championship can beat the Red Devils' determination to defend the city.
For Manchester United, after strategically giving up the FA Cup, the whole team has the same goal and strives for the Champions League and the Premier League. In the recent series of games, the tenacity and tenacity shown by Manchester United are touching. The innate strong temperament of the Red Devils may be an obstacle that other strong teams cannot overcome.
Because of Mourinho, the confrontation between the first coach of the Premier League once turned into a madman VS Lord, but the classics are still in place.
When Ferguson and Wenger met on the sidelines for the 38th time, the two coaches should sigh that the time was wasted. For the 13th consecutive season, they finally ushered in a match on the Champions League stage. It seemed that fate had been arranged.
Before the war, the two coaches even began to cherish each other and praise each other. However, the arrogant Ferguson still did not forget to remind his opponent that it was not so easy to cross his level.
"It's not easy to win the Champions League. It's been 13 years, and now I'm looking forward to winning the championship for the second time." If so, is it time for the Frenchman, who has just entered the 13th year of coaching a gunman, come to work?
The first match between the two coaches in the Champions League began at Old Trafford. Despite countless opportunities, Manchester United finally won a 1-0 victory over the opponent with O'sshe's goal. A small victory means that the two teams will have a fierce battle at the Emirates Stadium in the next round.
The goal appeared in the 17th minute of the game. Anderson's corner was handed over to the unguarded right-back O'Shea, who made a close-range semi-blip shot and scored a goal for Manchester United.
But after the game, Manchester United coach Ferguson's regret must be greater than joy, because Lafayette felt that the "Red Devils" were likely to score two or three more goals, and Arsenal coach Wenger should be disappointed.
Manchester United controlled the game with the rhythm of "blitzkrieg" from beginning to end, making Arsenal exhausted most of the time. If it hadn't been for the brave performance of goalkeeper Almunia, the Gunners would never have fallen behind by more than one goal.
Although Arsenal and Manchester United are both regulars of the Champions League, this is the first time they have met in Europe. Ferguson unexpectedly put Rooney and Tevez on the front line at the same time and replaced Berbatov with Tevez, obviously to speed up the attack. Berbatov has declined too much recently. , which has not been fully integrated into the team's offensive system, and it is normal to sit on the bench. The midfielder chose young Anderson and Fletcher.
The game has also been developing according to Ferguson's setting. In addition to O's goal, Manchester United wasted two excellent opportunities before half-time. In the 29th minute, Tevez passed the ball from the right to Golden Mauro, whose header was blocked by Almuña. Just three minutes later, Anderson's wonderful pass hit behind the opponent, causing the forward Tvez to form a single knife, and Almunia intercepted in time.
In the second half, Arsenal fought back, but Manchester United still took the initiative. In the 62nd minute, Adebayor's shot higher than the crossbar could be regarded as Arsenal's most threatening attack in the game. In addition, Arsenal's attack was poor.
And Manchester United still had at least three opportunities to rewrite the score, including Anderson's high shot after receiving the consecutive wonderful passes of Kimuro and Rooney, and then Kimuro hit the crossbar with a strong shot. Giggs scored a goal in the middle of the second half, but was judged to be offside first, but Giggs has no need to regret. He has come out as a substitute. He completed his 800th glorious performance in Manchester United's robe.
Winning the first round makes Manchester United's promotion situation more favorable, but Ferdinand's ribs were injured during the game and may miss the second round of the two teams. Without Ferdinand, the Red Devils will definitely be under great pressure on defense.
Manchester United won Arsenal 1-0 at home, which is a normal result. Although there are not many goals, the previous away victory over Chelsea by Fiorentina is no less enjoyable. The pace of the game is faster and the creativity of both sides is stronger, which should meet the expectations of the fans.
After the trough of some time ago, Manchester United has been on the right track in an all-round way. The Red Devils bombarded the Gunners throughout the game, especially in the first half, but only scored one goal in the end, which may become a factor for Ferguson's concern about the second round.
In the game, we can see how strong Manchester United's desire to win is. Arsenal, the guest, on the contrary, was in such a slow state that the game could only rely on Armunia alone to reduce the number of goals conceded.
Wenger formed a 4231 formation in the midfield, but whether it was a position attack or an efficient quick counterattack, these previous killing moves were not reflected.
Walkot's speed was originally a sharp weapon of Arsenal, but Xiaohu's performance was not very convincing, not to mention Adebayor, who performed extremely poorly.
After two injuries this season, Adebayor's state has been fluctuating. Although he has scored a beautiful inverted goal in the Champions League before, his overall movement and desire for the ball are not good enough today, and his initiative and protection are poor.
Returning to home in the second round, if Van Persie can come back, it may solve this problem. Even Eduardo, who came on as a substitute today, seems to have a better connection with the midfield than the Togolese.
Wenger may be disappointed. The defense he carefully built for Arsenal was not broken by Manchester United's protagonists Kim Mauro and Rooney, but was smashed by the "gap" by the most inconspicuous supporting role O'Shea. The only thing that can comfort Wenger is that the three generals of Manchester United organized a tide of offensive, but the limelight was Amunia, who had been depressed, was resolved one by one.
said that O Xie is the lucky player of Manchester United. If he doesn't accept it, as long as he scores a goal, Manchester United will definitely win!
This "iron law" came true again in this game. With O'Shea's goal in the first half, Manchester United finally defeated Arsenal 1-0 at home in the first leg of the Champions League semifinals.
Arsenal's recent bad luck, piles of injuries have made the only two positive Indian strikers in the Gunners' formation, Adebayor and Bentna, so Ferguson had already used the defensive formation of a single striker in the game, so he decisively sacrificed 4321 strong offensive formation.
Compared with Arsenal, Manchester United's forward line has been in good shape recently, so most of the game, the battle was played at Arsenal's half.
Osier's goal is lucky. Arsenal defender's relief directly assists Osieh, but this is actually the inevitable result of the Gunners guard under the pressure of the opponent's strong attack power.
It's just that this goal was completed by Oshe, which is a little surprising. However, Oshe seems to have a hunch about his goal. After the game, in an interview, he also smiled and said, "Today is my birthday. I know I will have a good performance. I'm glad that my goal has helped the team win. ."
"I am satisfied with the performance of the players, who have shown a high level of passing and receiving balls and running positions." Ferguson praised his players after the game, but Ferguson could not smile at the result of the game. "1-0 is really disappointing. In fact, we should have scored four goals in the game, including the goal that Cristiano hit the crossbar."
In fact, even 1:0 has achieved Ferguson's set goal. He once revealed to the media before the game that his most desired outcome is a victory without a goal.
"The game is just half over, but I think Arsenal will be more painful, because they also know that we have the ability to score goals at the Emirates Stadium, which is their biggest burden because they didn't score today."
This game is completely an offensive performance of Manchester United. The humiliating Wenger has said that he will let Manchester United see a different Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium. However, Wenger's bold words are obviously a little lacking in confidence, and he can't even come up with Arsenal, a double striker. What can he use to attack Manchester United?
Returning to the home court, Arsenal's large-scale attack is inevitable, but does Wenger dare to let Adebayo and Bentner start at the same time? Van Persie is still recovering from his injury, and Arshavin can't play in the Champions League.
Instead, Manchester United, which is going to "play the field" at the Emirates Stadium, can attack more crazily at that time. With the excellent state of the front line F4, it should not be difficult to get a goal in Arsenal's territory, which should be enough to ensure that they enter the Olympic Stadium in Rome.
When the result of this game was obtained, Degan had arrived in Milan with the team and was ready to win the 35th round of the league with Inter Milan. Degan was not surprised at all.
"This is a normal result, and I am also looking forward to meeting Manchester United for the second time in the Champions League final. Of course, I think David is looking forward to more!"
Beckham also expressed the same meaning in a subsequent interview: "If I could walk into the Olympic Stadium in Rome with Manchester United, it would be a very strange experience for me. I spent the most important time in my career at Manchester United, which is the best memory, but If you can really meet Manchester United in the final, I hope Fiorentina will win!"
The final is still far away. Now is not the time to consider those issues. At present, the most important thing for Fiorentina is the current game. At present, there are still four rounds left in the league. There is a difference of 11 points between Fiorentina and the second-ranked Inter Milan. As long as they win this game, Fiorentina will be ahead of schedule. Won the championship in three rounds.
There is obviously nothing more refreshing than this for every player in Florence to be able to celebrate victory at the door of his sworn opponent.
"I like Inter Milan very much, because every time I meet them, good things always happen." Degan's tone seemed very relaxed in an interview. "It will be a very strange feeling to win the championship at the doorstep of the competitors. I'm looking forward to celebrating the victory at the Meacha Stadium after this game!"
Degan and his teammates are looking forward to winning the league championship in Meacha, while Inter Milan has to do their best to prevent this from happening.
At this point in the league, it is basically impossible for Inter Milan to reverse and win the championship, but at home, it is absolutely unacceptable for every Inter to let their opponent step on their shoulders to hold the cup.
Madman coach Mourinho said at a press conference before the game: "We have our own pride. This pride does not include sending our opponents to the championship podium. Degan said that Inter Milan is his favorite opponent very much. This statement is very interesting. I think tomorrow's game will definitely leave him very Deep impression!"
For this game, Mourinho can also be said to be fierce. In order to prevent Fiorentina from climbing to the top in Meazzo, he deliberately rotated some of the main players in the last round of the league for tomorrow's decisive battle.
In his first season of coaching Inter Milan, Mourinho will face a four-one ending. Although Moratti has expressed his support for him, if he can't win the match with Fiorentina, his position will be shaken.