Chapter 471 Famous Shuai After Class

In the UEFA Cup, Manchester United thrilledly eliminated Ajax!

Returning to the Premier League, with Giggs, who played for Manchester United for the 900th time in the 92nd minute, Manchester United defeated the Norwich team, which performed very well this season, in the away game.

Such a precious victory not only greatly boosted the morale of Manchester United, but also once again threw pressure on the leader Manchester City. For Manchester United, which has just advanced to the UEFA Europa League, the team still has a chance to win the 21st championship in the league, and things are moving in a favorable direction.

Manchester United this season seems to be different from the past. In addition to the rejuvenation of the lineup, the team's combat effectiveness seems to be quietly changing.

First of all, people will find that Manchester United is slowly becoming a "re-half team", which means that most of the team's goals come from the second half.

Before the game against Norwich, only one of the 19 Premier League goals in front of Manchester United was scored before the 39th minute of the game. Although the goal rate in the first half has decreased, on the other hand, it can also show that more goals in the second half are more conducive to the team's victory.

Whether it is chasing three goals in a row to equalize Chelsea or defeating Norwich in this game, it is a good proof of the importance of scoring goals in the second half. Therefore, if Manchester United can continue the "goal in the last 45 minutes" as a law, it may make the team go further.

On the other hand, Manchester United has always been shown as a "home dragon" in the past season. The away results of this season are quite surprising, and the record is surprisingly good.

In the past 13 Premier League away games, Manchester United has achieved an excellent record of 9 wins, 3 draws and 1 loss (average 2.31 points per game). It ranks first in the Premier League away from home, which is a veritable "aling dragon".

Even if you look at the five major European leagues, this result is second only to Real Madrid (12 away games with 10 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss, averaging 2.58 points per game), which is higher than AC Milan with the best away record in Serie A (8 wins, 2 draws and 3 losses, averaging 2 points per game) and Borussia Dortmund with the best away record in Bundesliga (12 away games 7 Win 3 draws and 2 losses, averaging 2 points per game).

In the past 11 league games, Manchester United has scored 28 goals indiscriminately, and the attack power is quite terrible. What's more surprising is that in the 40 games that Manchester United has played this season, only one game has not scored! It was in the 3-0 away game against Newcastle on January 4.

This magical record is unparadone in continental football, and it also illustrates one thing: Manchester United's attack power is now very stable, and it is very difficult to limit their scoring points.

In this game, Manchester United scored by 37-year-old Scholes and 38-year-old Giggs respectively.

The two veterans, who are as old as 75 years old, last scored for Manchester United in the same game dating back to five years ago, and their first time they started at the same time was in 1994.

In the past 13 times in the league against Norwich, Manchester United has only lost one game, which has a greater psychological advantage. However, throughout this game, Manchester United was a little lax in the lead by one goal and easily handed over the ball to the home team, resulting in a danger in their penalty area for a period of time. The only loss of the ball was also caused by weak control of the ball.

BBC football commentators believe that "Manchester United paid the price for the relaxation of the second half. Judging from the situation on the court, the side that is more likely to score should be Norwich. Home coach Lambert said that the team's goal this season is to get enough points to enter the top 10 in the league. And in terms of their performance, they really deserve such achievements.

For Manchester United, losing to Blackburn and Newcastle in two league games on New Year's Eve has greatly damaged the team, otherwise the team would have been proud of the team in the table.

However, as the saying goes, after a period of adjustment, Manchester United is back on the right track: defeating their sworn enemies Arsenal and Liverpool, equalizing Chelsea in a desperate situation three goals behind, and eliminating the Dutch giant Ajax in two rounds of the UEFA Europa League. These games have made Manchester United regain their long-lost loss. Morale. The last five league games have not been defeated, and the hope of continuing to compete for the championship has also been retained.

It is not difficult to imagine that when the team is fighting fiercely in the two-line game, Red Devils fans will look forward to the arrival of the decisive moment, and they will have a certain sense of urgency and pressure.

Of course, the biggest capital for the championship comes from the strength and status of the players. According to statistics, in the Premier League, Manchester United's shooting accuracy rate is as high as 53%, leading all giants.

It can be seen that the improvement of shooting skills will help players score more goals and avoid wasting opportunities caused by wave shooting. Another good news is that Manchester United's serious injury problem has shown some signs of easing recently. The injured are gradually coming out of their beds and can participate in the game after a period of recuperation and training.

Li Yu, Valencia, Mata, Cleverley and other tactical core figures will definitely play a huge role in the remaining 1/3 of the season under healthy conditions.

Judging from the remaining league schedule, except for the next round of away challenge Tottenham Hotspur and the Tianwangshan match against Manchester City on May 1, other opponents are almost not afraid of Manchester United. As long as it is playing normally, winning with all your strength is the only goal. The enemies of the Blue Moon Legion also include Arsenal and Chelsea, the two heroes of London.

Now the season has reached the stage where you need to grit your teeth, including Arsenal, Chelsea and other teams have learned from the "drop" during this period.

So what Manchester United need to do now is for the team to work together. In order to win the 21st top championship, the dream of Manchester City's "money champion" is really "not far away".

Manchester United seems to be back on the right path, while Chelsea, who also changed the head coach this season, gave another answer early.

Chelsea's Cobham training base actually detonated a smoke screen last week - after the fire brigade came and found that it was a false alarm, the fans and the media understood that the "prank" of the two players in the Blues locker room is actually the best expression of the team's current situation?

Boas is facing the chaos that seven predecessors have never faced: although he has the patience that Abu has never had, the long collapsed locker room and the coach who has lost trust are gradually exhausting the demeanor of the Russian owner.

It turned out that Abu's patience and demeanor were indeed very limited: at 13:30 p.m. London time on March 4, less than 24 hours before the Blues' defeat at the Hawthorn Stadium, Boas was officially dismissed. At this time, it is only 256 days since the Portuguese young coach took office on June 22 last year. Since Boas also became the Lord of Abu, he has only coached more than the short-lived coach of Wilkins, Hiddink and Scolari.

Obviously, the away defeat to West Brom has suffered its seventh league defeat this season, which is the last straw to overwhelm Boaz.

In 40 games of coaching the Blues, the defeat of the Portuguese young coach is equal to the sum of the two equally short-lived coaches, Grant and Scolari.

Since the 2001/02 season, Chelsea has never been in such a miserable situation: 46 points in 27 rounds, and successive coaches in the past 10 years have failed to achieve such a terrible result. In the last six rounds of the league, Chelsea has only won 1 victory, and even West Brom can't win. Arsenal, which has suffered a big reversal against a strong opponent, has surpassed three points.

Boas's winning rate is as low as less than 50%, which is not only the lowest in the Abu era, but also goes back to the Hodel era, which ended in the history of Chelsea.

After defeating West Brom, Boas, who was known to be nearing the end, was furious at the press conference: "They grabbed all the first and second points. They are much better than us. Our performance does not meet Chelsea's standards. We are extremely poor. A goal may give us extra motivation, but to be honest, I don't think we deserve to score.

Chelsea, who only had 10 shots in the whole game, did not deserve a victory at all. West Bromwich Albion, who wandered in the middle, got 24 shots, and the morale, confrontation and offensive efficiency were higher than the Blues. If it hadn't been for Cech's five wonderful saves, the Blues would have been completely passive without waiting 10 minutes before the end of the game. In the game, the corner kick ratio of the home and away teams was also very different from 14 to 5. Both sides of the Blues were completely exploded by their opponents, and their own side attack was not threatened.

Against West Brom, Chelsea's attack has not been good at all. Not only can they make a breakthrough on the side, but they can't find a breakthrough in the middle. After the game, Boas claimed that only A. Cole performed well in the game, and the rest failed.

In fact, the people who really perform well are Cech and Drogba. A. Cole can't take care of himself, not to mention the attack. The side road is ineffective, resulting in the Blues being able to rely on high-altitude transmission. For Drogba, whose physical confrontation ability has been greatly reduced, such an attack is equivalent to suicide.

Boas then replaced Torres and Maluda, but Torres only touched the ball twice in 15 minutes, while Maluda, like Lampard, did not work hard and was more often idle. Coupled with a descendant who only wants to shoot by himself, how can such an unmotivated Chelsea pose a threat to a relegation team?

After coaching 40 games, Boas lost Leverkusen and Naples in the Champions League, lost to Liverpool in the League Cup, and the only remaining FA Cup had to be rematched. This is Chelsea's most tragic record in the Abu era.

In this regard, Boas still insists on "holding it": "No matter what the situation is, I will never resign. I just need to continue to do my own work. It's the boss's right to fire me. Outsiders are just talking. But the patience of the fans has come to an end. After the defeat at the Hawthorn Stadium, the British media has published an open letter sent by Chelsea fans to Abu, demanding the immediate dismissal of Boas.

Abu's patience was originally only related to money, and it was completely exhausted at this time: in the past eight years, Abu has thrown more than 80 million euros on paying the coach's salary and breaking the contract. In the face of today's financial crisis in Europe, Russians do have some taboos. . At this moment, when Boaz leaves, he needs to pay 17.5 million euros to the Portuguese young commander, and he has paid a "transfer fee" of 12.5 million euros for Boaz last summer. But obviously, the open letter from the fans and the team's performance finally made Abu understand that Boas has reached the point where "not killing is not enough for civilians to be angry".

In the Abu era, no coach who did not get the trophy could end well, and Boaz was no exception.

Looking back on his first news conference in Blue Bridge on June 28, the ambitious Portuguese young marshal claimed that his goal was to win the Premier League. However, the honeymoon ended quickly after losing 1-3 to Manchester United in September last year. The re-defeat in October to the Queen's Park Rangers opened Boas' nightmare: Chelsea lost five of the following nine games, and his conflict with the locker room quickly became public.

The 1-3 defeat at home to Aston Villa on New Year's Eve made Chelsea have to start the 2012 schedule with a huge gap of 11 points from Manchester City at the top of the list. Two months later, his Chelsea was 20 points away from Manchester City at the top of the list!

British media speculated that Abu was actually ready to dismiss Boaz after defeating Naples. In the dismissal statement released on Chelsea's official website yesterday afternoon British time, Chelsea's official wording was very tough: "At the critical moment of the season so far, the team's performance and results have not been satisfactory. The team is still competing for the Champions League and the FA Cup, as well as the top four in the league, so changes must be made."

Like Mourinho, who was dismissed by Abu five years ago, Boas failed to recover his losses with his achievements.

But unlike Mourinho, the madman only offended Shevchenko and Barak, but now Boaz has offended Drogba, Lampard, Malouda and Mikkel.

Therefore, Boas does not need to expect the players of Blue Bridges to be as emotional as the gift to Mourinho. In those years, the madman just didn't hug Sheva and Barak. Now, Boaz may not even have such a farewell ceremony.

After only more than 8 months of coaching Chelsea, Boas, who led Porto to achieve the triple crown last season, was dismissed. According to the Daily Star, Boas clashed with Torres on the training ground before he was fired. Of course, Torres was not the first player to quarrel with Boas. Lampard, Akol and Essin all quarreled with Boas because of tactics and use.

The Daily Star said that before the conflict with Torres, Boas compared Torres with some strikers who did not perform well in Chelsea, such as Shevchenko and Kaizman in an interview with Portuguese Radio, which made Torres very unhappy.

Since last September, Torres has not scored in the Premier League, but he does not allow his coach to comment on him like this. After hearing this, Abu asked his men to translate the full text of the interview in Russian to ensure that he could understand what Boaz said. At a very delicate moment, Abu was very concerned about what Boaz would say to the media, and Boaz's bombardment of Torres hit Abu's muzzle.

According to the Daily Express, at 9:30 a.m. local time in the United Kingdom, Boas led the team to complete the warm-up, and then he was taken to an office. Abu, Chelsea CEO Gurley and Director Transbaum were waiting for Boas, and the Portuguese young marshal was immediately informed. His mission at Chelsea is over.

After firing Boas, Abu then held a meeting with the whole team at the Chelsea training base. Abu told the players that they needed to fight for their future for the rest of the season.

The Daily Telegraph said that after dismissing Boas, Abu will clean up a group of Chelsea brands this summer, including Lampard, Drogba and Ashley Cole. Among them, Lampard and Acol's contracts with Chelsea will expire next summer.

Maluda, Kalau and Bosinwa, their contracts with Chelsea will expire this summer, and they will resume their free time after the contract expires. In addition, Mikkel and Ferreira are also likely to leave the team, and even captain Terry can't guarantee 100% staying at Chelsea next season. In terms of signings, Chelsea are very interested in 25-year-old Naples striker Cavani and 19-year-old Brazilian Sao Paulo genius Lucas Mora, and Spurs core Modric and Porto midfielder Mutinho are also on the list.

Chelsea's acting coach Di Matteo said, "This is a very difficult 24 hours for most people in this club. We need to look forward and try to achieve good results in the Premier League, UEFA Champions League and FA Cup. The Daily Telegraph said that Abu hoped that Di Matteo could start with Torres, and he hoped to prove that the 50 million pound signing was not wrong.

At the same time, Manchester United sent good news on the field, which is of course somewhat ironic, because it was Chelsea's former head coach Ancelotti who led Manchester United.

Before Manchester United visited White Hart Lane against Tottenham Hotspur, the old captain Gary Neville said, "If Manchester City's lead is still 5 points after today, they will have a great chance to win the championship; if Manchester United beats Tottenham Hotspur in White Hart Lane, Manchester United should understand that the championship is under their control." In White Hart Lane, although Manchester United only played a good ball for 25 minutes, this is enough. After defeating Tottenham Hotspur 3-1 away, Manchester United took another big step towards the goal of 20 crowns.

Looking at the technical statistics of OPTA, in the whole game, Manchester United's number of shots was only 6, which is 1/3 of Tottenham's 18 shots, but Manchester United's efficiency is extremely high, and the Red Devils scored 3 goals with 5 shots. After the game, Tottenham Hotspur coach Lao Lei said depressed that his team's goalkeeper Friedel had no chance to save at all. While Ancelotti admitted that it was a miracle that Manchester United could lead in the first half, he sighed that the Red Devils were really lucky.

After losing 1-3, Tottenham Hotspur has won none of the past 26 games against Manchester United (including 22 league games), with a specific record of 6 draws and 20 losses. The last time Tottenham Hotspur beat Manchester United was in May 2001, when they won 3-1 in White Hart Lane, and Giggs and Scholes both started in that game.

In this game, DP's goal allowed Tottenham to avoid the fifth score in the past six games against Manchester United.

This is the second time that Tottenham Hotspur has lost at home this season. The last time they lost at home was in the third round of the league 1-5 and was beaten by Manchester City. However, this is the fifth time that Tottenham Hotspur has scored 3 or more goals from their opponents this season, losing 1-5 and 2-3 to Manchester City at home and away; 1-3 and 0-3 to Manchester United; and 2-5 away to Arsenal.

In the face of such a vulnerable opponent, this is by no means the performance of a champion division. After this game, Tottenham was 13 points behind Manchester City and 11 points behind Manchester United. They basically withdrew from the battle for the Premier League title this season, and the championship battle became the real Manchester derby.