Chapter 221 Premier League Seedling

The media's prediction is clear that Manchester United and Barcelona will meet again in the Champions League final.

It turned out that Manchester United's game against Bayern Munich at home was also thrilling. Manchester United defeated Bayern Munich 3:2 at Old Trafford and advanced to the Champions League semi-finals with a total score of 6:3.

In this game, Rooney miraculously appeared on the bench of Manchester United, which shocked all the media. It is likely that something unexpected will happen, and Rooney will play. Fortunately, Manchester United took the lead in the third minute of the game. Raphael and Li Yu passed the ball continuously, and then Li Yu passed the ball to Gibson, and then He shot 25 yards on the right side, and the ball bounced back and jumped into the lower right corner, which was his first European goal.

The wonderful start is not over yet. Just 4 minutes later, Li Yu ran with the ball in the middle and suddenly divided the ball to the right. Valencia patiently shook Bardes Tubo's back pass. Demy Kelis failed to block the line. Van Bitten also stared at the mistake. Nani's heel on the edge of the penalty area and the back point, which is his since August. The first goal since then.

Although Li Yu did not score directly, both goals have a great relationship with Manchester United No. 9. Rooney can rest assured to watch the game on the bench.

Towards the end of the first half, Manchester United continued to expand the score in the 41st minute. Rafael threw an out-of-bounds ball on the right, threw away Bardes Tubber's Valencia and picked Demy Kelis' cross, Li Yu missed the ball at 14 yards, Nani pushed the goal from 15 yards away and scored twice, scored twice, Bayern Munich Still can't escape his bad luck, 3:0!

However, the Manchester United players who led the big score were a little relaxed in the last stage in the first half, and Bayern Munich also seized the opportunity at the last moment and scored a goal.

Bayern won back a city in the 43rd minute, and Mueller headed the ball to get rid of Carrick's Orci's small angle on the left side of the penalty area.

At the end of the first half, the total score was 6:2, and Manchester United still led Bayern Munich.

Not long after the beginning of the second half, Bayern Munich once again seized the loophole in Manchester United's defense line and scored a goal. Ribery made a corner kick. The unguarded Roeben's left foot was half volley on the edge of the penalty area and shot into the lower left corner. At the key point, the key players missed the defense. Manchester United paid once again for its laxity in defense. The price of a goal, but Robben's world wave also makes Manchester United players have nothing to say. It's really beautiful.

The total score is 6:3. There is already a huge gap between the two sides. Bayern Munich may just be fighting for dignity.

Immediately, Bayern Munich launched a crazy attack to try to save some face with another goal, but in the end, the German team had no choice but to accept the fate of being killed by Manchester United in two rounds and being eliminated.

Rooney failed to play in the end. In fact, the factors of Ferguson's psychological battle are far greater than the role of real fighting on the field. It inspires the momentum of Manchester United players on the field, hits the morale of the opponent, and also puts certain pressure on the opponent.

However, Ferguson was also calm at the post-match press conference. Today, Manchester United did not play very well at home, far from playing well away from home. This may have something to do with the leading score of consecutive goals at the opening. Some players lack the enterprising spirit at the critical moment.

Although there is no name, everyone knows what Ferguson is referring to. The two goals lost in this game have a lot to do with the laxness of the defense. Obviously, Ferguson is not too satisfied with this.

Although they led by a big score of 3-0 in the first 41st minute, the game did not go in the direction of 7-1 in the end. Oliqi and Robben's two goals made the opening lightning surprise attack of the Red Devils finally become a not gorgeous battle. Although they eventually advanced to the Champions League semi-finals, Manchester United's starting 11 people are still a little worried.

Gary Neville was not on the list, Giggs and Scholes took the bench. The three seniors of Manchester United did not start at the same time. The Lord gave a clear signal to the whole team a comprehensive acceleration. There are 33 rounds of the Premier League this season and 10 of the Champions League this season. In these 43 key games, only two games have failed to appear in the starting lineup at the same time, which are the league against Wigan and Blackburn at home. In other words, this season, as long as it is a key game for Manchester United, the Lord will send at least one old start. But in this game, Manchester United unexpectedly arranged a new young starting lineup, and Bayern was caught off guard, and the Lord decided to make a change.

Van der Sar 39 years old, Lal 19 years old, Ferdinand 31 years old, Vidic 28 years old, Evra 28 years old, Valencia 24 years old, Gibson 22 years old, Fletcher 26 years old, Carrick 28 years old, Nani 23 years old, Rooney 22 years old... The average age of this starting lineup against Bayern is only 26. 3 years old. If Van der Sar is not included (the goalkeeper's special position), the other 10 players on the field of Manchester United are only 25.3 years old, very, very young.

It turned out that Ferguson guessed the opening, and the unprepared Bayern was defeated by the young Manchester United at the beginning of the game. But on the battlefield, in addition to the coach's accurate off-court dispatch, only the players can play a decisive role on the field. In terms of the quality of players, Manchester United, who has a 100% state, is not completely superior, especially in terms of ball control. These Manchester United players are inferior to Bayern.

As everyone is aware, Barcelona's most powerful link is their ball control. There is a truth on the football field that those who get the midfielder get the world, which is the importance of ball control in the midfield.

The two armies are against each other. Once a team stands up in the midfield, it will naturally have the upper hand. However, after the first round of ball control was at a significant disadvantage, Manchester United's home control of the ball in the second round was less than 40%, which is very telling.

In the second round of the Champions League quarter finals this week, the Premier League teams, Manchester United and Arsenal, have very poor passes. Among a total of eight teams, Manchester United passed only 337, ranking 6th. After meeting the ball master Barcelona, Arsenal ranked second from the bottom of this ranking with 323 passes.

However, Bayern is second only to Barcelona with 520 passes in the second round, ranking second to the top eight of the Champions League. In the final stage of this game, with Bayern playing one more player, Manchester United can no longer grab the ball under Bayern's feet, which is of course closely related to Bayern's signing this season.

According to the statistics of Germany's Transfer Market, Bayern has spent a total of 67.23 million pounds on signing this season, signing a very practical Orci for free, 27 million pounds for Gomez, 21.6 million pounds for Robben, 9.9 million pounds for Shchuk at the end of the season, and 6.93 million pounds for Pulani. Qi and 1.8 million pounds to buy Bluff Hyde.

Among them, Orci and Robben handled three of the four goals in the two rounds, and Planich and Gomez also played very well in the first round. After selling Podolkski for 9 million pounds, Lucio for 6.3 million pounds, Hummels for 3.78 million pounds, Baum John for 900,000 pounds and Borowski for 655,000 pounds, Bayern cleaned the players in the transfer market and recovered 20.655 million pounds. That is to say, Bayern spent £46.575 million in the transfer market this season to strengthen the team.

In contrast, Manchester United, after selling Cristiano Ronaldo for 80 million pounds, Fraser Campbell for 6 million pounds, Manuccioggio for 2.4 million pounds, Lee Martin for 2 million pounds, Simpson for 500,000 pounds, and Tevez left the team after the expiration of the loan period, Manchester United only introduced Valencia and 500 for 17 million. Wan introduced Little Dioff, 3 million introduced Obertan, and 500,000 bought McKinty. Smarin, who was introduced in winter, joined this summer, which can be regarded as an investment in next season. In this way, Manchester United's net investment this season is only 65.4 million pounds, but Bayern is + 46.75 million pounds, and the Red Devils have invested 112 million pounds less than Bayern!

Isn't it the miracle of Ferguson and the result of Li Yu's full-scale explosion that Manchester United are competing with all kinds of heroes in the Champions League with such a big gap?

To be fair, with 110 million pounds less invested than the Bundesliga giant Bayern, Manchester United played like this in the two rounds, relying more often on Li Yu's continuous output of attack. If it hadn't been for Li Yu's continuous outbreak, maybe the huge gap would have changed into the result of failure.

Objectively speaking, Manchester United has been satisfied enough to show the team's posture on all fronts so this season. As the Lord said, money can't buy a champion, let alone a glorious history, but competitive sports can't be done without money.

Manchester United and Liverpool are subject to huge debts. Chelsea boss Abu doesn't move, but Arsenal, which is the most financially healthy, is busy repaying the loan from the Emirates Stadium... Look at Liverpool's plight this season, and look at Manchester City's record of 3 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss against the top four teams this season, and now in the top four, you will find that The role of money in it. If the example of Manchester City is not convincing, you can take a look at the crazy momentum of Real Madrid in La Liga this season, and you will find the effect of the huge investment.

This season's game, Manchester United has been out of the FA Cup early, and there is a problem with a very intuitive response. Manchester United's bench depth is no longer strong. Let's see which team Leeds United is eliminated from the powerful Manchester United. Although it is a full substitute, the final outcome is still unexpected.

After successfully defending its title in the League Cup, Manchester United still has two honors to compete in the Champions League and the Premier League.

Now, Manchester United is still in the leading advantage in the table, getting rid of the gap between Arsenal and Chelsea, and there are only the last five rounds left in the league.

As long as there are no too many unexpected words, Manchester United will achieve an unprecedented Premier League four-game winning th in a row. Manchester United can still be called a very successful season this season.

Even if the Red Devils are unfortunately successfully reversed by Chelsea and have only won one League Cup title this season, this Manchester United is still very worthy of respect for the world. They also have three consecutive Champions League championships to continue to write glory.

But once the Premier League and the Champions League champions both fail, the Lord must ask the American boss Glazer family for money. The Red Devils' signing this summer will determine their fate in the Champions League next year. Under the circumstance that the European powers are rushing to buy new aid in the signing market, If Manchester United continues to give up its voice in the transfer market this summer, it is tantamount to sitting and waiting to death.

If Manchester United hadn't maintained the last hope of the Premier League, this would be the first time that a Premier League team has missed the top four of the Champions League in the last seven seasons.

The last time the Premier League team played so fiercely in the Champions League was in the 02-03 season. In that season, only Manchester United reached the final eight of the Premier League. However, in the quarter-finals, although Manchester United defeated Real Madrid 4-3 at Old Trafford in the second round, the Galactic Battleships still eliminated the Red Devils with a total score of 6-5 to advance to the quarter-finals.

Since the 04-05 season, the Premier League team has been able to appear in the final championship and runner-up finals for five consecutive seasons. Liverpool won the championship in 04-05 season, Arsenal runner-up in 05-06, Liverpool runner-up in 06-07, Manchester United won the championship in 07-08 season, and Manchester United successfully defended their title in 08-09 season, but this record was almost ruthlessly broken this season.

Although it is not the worst ending, it is also the worst result of the Premier League in the Champions League in the past four years.

The result is overwhelming. The decline in the strength of the Premier League team has become an indisputable fact, and their control in the Champions League is also decreasing year by year.

Compared with the hundreds of millions of euros of players from membership clubs such as Real Madrid and Barcelona, the two giants of the Premier League, Manchester United and Arsenal, are achieving a "trade surplus" and achieving negative investment in the transfer market last summer; Chelsea boss Abu has also been in the signing market for several seasons. In fact, In the summer before Mourinho finished class, the Blues' biggest move in the transfer market was to buy Maluda for £13.5 million.

As for Liverpool, Benitez's team has been in debt and can only look for bargains in the transfer market. Aquilani, who occasionally went crazy and spent 20 million pounds to buy it, now seems that it can only be raised on the bench.

Competitive sports, in most cases, the input is still proportional to the output. A good example is the Inter led by Mourinho. After leaving Chelsea, Mourinho led Inter to the top four of the Champions League this season, which is of course closely related to the continuous high investment of Inter in recent seasons.

This season, although Inter has left an Ibrahimovic, Diego-Milito, Mota, Lucio, Eto'o, Sneid, Pandev and other generals came to vote one after another. In the team of last season's Serie A champions, six new players were absorbed, and Inter's strength has also increased significantly. Therefore, entering the top four of the Champions League is only a matter of course.

In this season's European match, there are still two teams in the Premier League that are still alive, Liverpool and Fulham in the UEFA Europa League; there are still three left in La Liga, Barcelona in the UEFA Champions League, Atletico Madrid and Valencia in the UEFA Europa League; two left in the Bundesliga, Hamburg and Wolfsburg in the UEFA Europa League; Serie A and Ligue 1 Only Inter and Lyon are left in the Champions League.

So far, this season's European Bundesliga ranks first with 16.583 points; La Liga ranks second with 16.500 points; the Premier League ranks third with 16.214 points; French Ligue 1 ranks first with 15,000 points; Serie A scores 14.714 points. In the UEFA League ranking, the Premier League ranks first with 80.142 points, La Liga ranks second with 78.329 points, and the third Serie A points are 63.624 points, which is a big gap with the Premier League and La Liga.

Therefore, the honor of today's first European league can only be contested by the Premier League and La Liga now and in the next three years. With the promotion of Manchester United, the Premier League has only one seed for Manchester United in the Champions League this season. Compared with UEFA Europa League's efforts to prevent the two Premier League teams from meeting in the past few years, this shows the decline of the strength of the Premier League giants, but it cannot prove the improvement of La Liga's strength.

Even if Barcelona can beat Inter Milan in the Champions League semi-finals and advance to the finals as desired, it does not prove that La Liga has fully surpassed the Premier League, but only that Barcelona, the super team in La Liga, is luxurious enough in today's football. Just as you can't say that the Celtics beat the Los Angeles Lakers from the West in the finals, you come to the conclusion that the NBA East has surpassed the Western Conference.

In the past few seasons, La Liga's comprehensive earning ability in the Champions League has been inferior to the Premier League, but La Liga teams pay more attention to the UEFA Europa League (UEFA Cup), while the Premier League mid-class teams pay more attention to the domestic field. Most of the time they just deal with this equal prize (last season, Villa and Tottenham played a life-and-death battle in the UEFA Cup. The main force even gave up directly without going away).

In the Champions League, in addition to Valencia and A Coruña that emerged at the beginning of the 21st century, and the short and brilliant yellow submarines in the 05-06 season, La Liga lacks the third iconic strong team of the Champions League in addition to the traditional two. In view of Real Madrid's weakness in the Champions League in recent seasons, La Liga has only relied on the powerful Barcelona in recent years to earn points.

There is no doubt about the strength of Barcelona, but he can only prove his strength, not the strength of his league. The strength of Barcelona's team alone cannot come to the conclusion that the league is strong.

Compared with La Liga, the Premier League team has formed a group advantage in the Champions League in the past few years, which is also an important reason why the Premier League's ability to earn more points in the Champions League has exceeded La Liga in the past seasons.

According to the UEFA competition rules, the criteria for scoring in the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League are the same. If Liverpool can turn over Benfica at home tonight, and then beat Atletico Madrid or Valencia in the semi-finals, and finally win the first UEFA Europa League. Even if Barcelona can successfully defend its title in the Champions League, La Liga will not take the honor of the European First League from the Premier League at the end of this season.

After all, Valencia and Atletico Madrid are going to fight each other in the quarter-finals tonight. It is almost impossible to help La Liga gain a lot of points at the same time in the European game. Although the Premier League team's lead of 1.813 points is not big enough to hold the country.

The European points for next season will start from the 06-07 season. In the 05-06 season, the Premier League scored 14.428 points and La Liga scored 15.642 points. If the European points of that season are erased at the beginning of next season, it is actually equivalent to increasing the Premier League's lead over La Liga by 1.214 points. This also means that as long as Liverpool enters the UEFA Europa League final this season, even if it fails to win the championship, the Premier League will still be able to hold the first European League at the beginning of next season's European matches, although the first position is now a little precarious.

In this sense, Liverpool and Manchester United are not only fighting for themselves, but also for the whole Premier League!