Chapter 776 Five Major Leagues Suspended

This shot stimulated Manchester United severely. Afterwards, the Red Devils launched a crazy counterattack, and Mbappe frequently created killing opportunities on the right.

Finally, Manchester United broke the deadlock in the 30th minute of the game. Fernandinho fouled in front of the penalty area, and Bruno scored a direct free kick to help Manchester United take the lead.

After the second half, Manchester United continued to launch a continuous offensive.

In the 64th minute, Bruno sent a straight pass, and Harry Kane quickly inserted the ball behind Manchester City center back Kovac, and scored a single goal, rewriting the score to 2:0.

This is also the final score of the game. Manchester United defeated Manchester City at home. This is their third time to defeat the Blue Moon this season.

After this victory, Manchester United continued to chase Liverpool by 3 points.

The suspense of the Premier League is still there!

Manchester United defeated their city rivals Manchester City 2:0 at home, completing a league double kill against the Blue Moon this season. After the game, many Manchester United players celebrated this result on Twitter.

Bruno wrote: "Tonight was a fantastic game and an important victory, which kept us close to Liverpool. We are working hard as a team and moving in the right direction. Now it's time for us to stay focused and keep moving forward."

Fred, who came on as a substitute, and Greenwood, who entered the bench but did not play, wrote at the same time: "Manchester is red."

Rashford, who was absent due to injury, was not idle either. He posted a photo of watching the game with his brother and wrote: "In the red corner... victory [love]"

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The global "pandemic" trend, the impact of the epidemic on sports continues.

As China's epidemic situation gets better day by day, the number of international new crown diagnoses has officially exceeded that of China.

Compared with China's uniformity and strict prevention and control, foreign actions are obviously slower. Perhaps foreigners really have a mysterious confidence in their physical fitness.

But as time goes by, the increasingly serious epidemic has also begun to slow down the rotation of football.

The Italians were once called the Chinese in Europe by the people. This time, facing the epidemic, it is obvious that Italy has also largely imitated China's approach in action.

After wavering on the league schedule and whether to play behind closed doors, Inter Milan's president became the whistleblower of the entire Italian football world. The young owner publicly criticized Serie A president Dal Pino on social media. He even directly said that President Dal Pino was the biggest and most hateful clown.

Rich people can be more outrageous in their remarks!

And Dal Pino's reply was that he hoped you would apologize. Inter Milan's young owner did not show any weakness and directly hit back. I still think those words are not cruel enough.

And the facts also proved that Inter Milan's young owner was not wrong. The number of confirmed cases in Italy soon approached 30,000.

Juventus' central defender Rugani was found to be infected with the new coronavirus on March 11. Major media outlets have posted photos of Rugani and his teammates celebrating after the Italian national derby, and the significance is self-evident.

At present, no one else in Juventus has been diagnosed. In addition to being quarantined at home, Ronaldo has directly contracted an island.

The Sampdoria people were not so lucky. After Gabiadini was diagnosed, 7 people in Sampdoria were diagnosed. This time, no one knows who is Samp's number zero.

The Italians have calculated that if the league and the Champions League are suspended, Juventus's losses alone will be as high as 110 million euros, enough to buy a Yosi.

Under such circumstances, Serie A became the first of the five major leagues to be suspended.

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The most amazing thing about the UK recently is his herd immunity theory. Under this theory, the Premier League is also quite strong. Until March 13, it still insisted that the league would not be suspended, as if it would not die if it did not die.

But the reality is very cruel. First, Arsenal's head coach Arteta tested positive, and after knocking down the dominoes, Chelsea winger Hudson-Odoi was next, and then many players began to show suspected symptoms.

Finally, the Premier League announced a suspension. Liverpool suffered the greatest loss from the suspension of the Premier League.

Not to mention the lucrative income, the Premier League title that Liverpool people have coveted for many years is the biggest carrot hanging in front of the donkey.

Liverpool has performed very well in the Premier League this season. Since taking the top spot from Manchester United in December last year, it has firmly held it, and even once led Manchester United by 7 points in the standings. Although Manchester United later struggled to catch up, Liverpool also made some mistakes, allowing Manchester United to catch up to 3 points.

But for Liverpool's stable and strong performance this season, the 3-point advantage is enough. After all, they won 27 games in the first 29 rounds.

At this pace, they are likely to become the second team after Manchester United to score more than 100 points in a single season this season, and win the first Premier League championship in team history.

And now it seems that the new crown pneumonia has become a killer that drags them down.

When the league was suspended, messages were everywhere. Some said that the league's results this season were cancelled, and some said that the championship was directly given to Liverpool. It seems that Liverpool fans will be hanging for a long time.

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The Germans were as rigorous as ever in the fight against the novel coronavirus. While intercepting several shipments of Swiss anti-epidemic supplies, the Bundesliga continued as planned until none of the players around them could keep up with the action, and then the suspension of the league was announced.

On the evening of March 13, the Bundesliga officially announced that due to the epidemic, the 26th round of the Bundesliga and the 26th round of the Bundesliga originally scheduled to be held in empty stadiums this weekend were all postponed.

Even so, there was only one player in the entire league, Luca Gillian of Paderborn, who was diagnosed.

Under the epidemic, the Bundesliga giants still insisted on training. Life is precious, and the championship is more valuable. Some domestic bosses are ready to resume work early under the pressure of the epidemic.

So far, the five major leagues of the Premier League, La Liga, Serie A, Ligue 1, and Bundesliga, as well as the Champions League and Europa League have all been suspended!

Not only that, let alone whether the "Olympic torch relay in Greece was stopped" will affect the scheduled holding of the Tokyo Olympics, now the badminton Olympic points competition, wrestling Olympic qualifying competition, diving Olympic qualifying competition and other competitions have also been postponed one after another. Under the influence of the epidemic, the sports circle is almost completely silent...

With the entire European football world having entered a shutdown, many players still maintain an optimistic attitude.

On social media platforms, Real Madrid players Ramos and Benzema posted photos of themselves insisting on indoor training; C Ronaldo, who left Italy earlier, also shared photos of himself and his family being quarantined at home on Madeira Island, Portugal; there was also Paris defender Kimpembe playing shooting games at home; Watford Club used the FM "Football Manager" game to simulate a match with Leicester City... Everyone seemed to be trying to stay calm and optimistic, waiting for the day when the event would reopen.

However, can the game really be successfully reopened on the "unblocking day"? What about the delayed schedule?

According to the previous decisions of various countries, Serie A and the Premier League will be suspended until April 3, while the Bundesliga will be suspended until April 2. La Liga's decision is to suspend at least two rounds, which means that it can resume as early as April 5.

But the situation is obviously not optimistic. As the CEO of the Premier League Brighton said: "Based on the current trend, it is unthinkable to resume the league in the short term."

Among the five major leagues, the announcement of Ligue 1 is more realistic: when to reopen will be notified separately.

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If the leagues of all countries cannot be restored in the short term, various troublesome problems will follow: How to determine the league champion? How to deal with promotion and relegation? And can the European war and the 2020 European Cup still be played?

Everything does not seem to be easily solved.

The only "good news" at present is that it seems that only Serie A needs to worry about this before, but now all leagues have to face the same problem, which may push them to discuss a more unified standard.

The play-offs, "freezing the standings" and completely canceling the results of this season are the three suggestions previously put forward by the Italian Football Association. Judging from the public opinion of other countries, it may be very difficult to reach a consensus under this framework.

For example, Liverpool fans are more accepting of the "freezing the standings", but this approach is not accepted by their mortal enemy Manchester United. After all, for Manchester United, the gap of 3 points is not an insurmountable gap.

And some other clubs that have not performed well this year have expressed their desire to cancel the season, such as Lyon, which is currently ranked only 7th in Ligue 1.

In fact, no matter which of the above three modes is adopted, it will cause great damage to the leagues of various countries.

According to the Spanish and German media, if the league matches cannot be played in full, the La Liga and the Bundesliga, which have lost a lot of ticket and broadcasting income, may even face bankruptcy.

In such a situation, the Spanish and German countries are likely to join forces with the United Kingdom, Italy and other countries to put pressure on UEFA to postpone the European Cup originally scheduled to start on June 12 this year, so that each country has ample time to play its own league.

This is also an option with relatively small overall losses at present.

On March 17, UEFA will hold a telephone video conference to discuss the response measures of national leagues, the Champions League, the Europa League and the European Cup.

At present, the Champions League and the Europa League have also been confirmed to be suspended, and according to the revelation of "As", UEFA has plans to reduce the number of remaining matches. That is, after the top four are determined, the tournament system will be adopted, so that the semi-finals and finals will be held in the same city, and both will be single-game deciders.

As for the European Cup, which has not yet been postponed, it now seems impossible to hold it as scheduled. The only question is when the decision will be postponed.

In this regard, the British "Telegraph" broke the news that it will be moved to December this year, so that it does not have to be postponed for a year and will not collide with the new Club World Cup in 2021.