Chapter 840 It's Manchester United's Turn!
Manchester United's special plane landed at Manchester International Airport.
Soon, the stars boarded the team bus that was already on standby at the airport and headed to the Carrington training base ten kilometers away.
The airport is in the southern outskirts of the city, and Carrington is in the west outskirts of the city, so there is no need to pass through the bustling area along the way.
The entire bus was silent. The players either fell asleep, closed their eyes, or put on earphones, not listening to others, or just stared out the window in a daze.
It was past midnight, and there were already few vehicles on the expressway. Occasionally there were vehicles crossing, or passing through a street with street lights, and the lights entered the car, so that the loneliness and frustration on the faces of the Manchester United players could be clearly seen.
They lost one to three on the road.
This is definitely not a satisfactory result, because it means that they have to work harder in the second round.
However, they will face Chelsea next. This is a top game and there is no room for loss.
Could it be that they really want to stop at the quarterfinals like this?
Up and down Manchester United, from Ferguson to the players, no one will be convinced.
The Red Devils Manchester United have never conceded defeat!
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The bus passed through the small road in Carrington familiarly, and soon arrived at the training base.
With a puff, the car door opened.
Chief assistant coach Mike Phelan obviously still wanted to stand up from his seat as usual, and loudly reminded the players that the team was disbanded on the spot and they could go home.
But at this moment, Ferguson, who was sitting next to him, suddenly stretched out his hand and grabbed Mike Phelan's arm.
The assistant coach sat back down again, but Ferguson stood up.
Inside the car, all the players looked directly at Ferguson, who looked older than usual in the dim light.
He is already sixty-eight!
It is often easy for people to ignore Ferguson's age in the passion on weekdays, especially when he uses the nirvana hair dryer, everyone feels that this somewhat annoying old Scottish man is more like a fifties, A middle-aged man in the prime of life.
But at this moment, they suddenly realized that the old man was really old.
Sixty-eight, with a heart problem, God knows how long he can coach?
Since the team won the Champions League, the outside world has been rumored that Ferguson will retire, but if he retires, who will take charge of Manchester United?
Everyone at Manchester United may not be able to adapt to a club without Ferguson.
He is like a legend, an immortal monument.
Even in many cases, he doesn't need to do anything at all, he doesn't need to say anything, he just needs to stand there, standing in front of the coach's bench on the sidelines, and everyone will feel an unprecedented spiritual force, willing to work hard for him .
At this moment, he stood up and stood in the middle of the aisle, looking at the long bus and the rows of players.
Everyone was also looking at him, waiting for him to speak.
But he didn't say a word for a long time.
The strange thing is that the inside of the car didn't feel embarrassed at all, as if at this time, although he didn't speak, everyone could understand the meaning of Ferguson's silence and get confidence and encouragement from him.
Whether it is thirty seconds, one minute, or two minutes, no one cares.
Until Ferguson himself broke the silence.
He said in a tone that was neither serious nor serious, as if the clouds were calm, but it made people feel very weighty, "Don't worry, guys, it's just two goals. Next Wednesday we will be in Lao Te Rafford pitched!"
Suddenly, everyone believed it!
All the people in the car were actually persuaded by just one sentence from him!
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Real Madrid reversed Manchester United 3-1, which caused an uproar in football all over the world.
Everyone knows that Real Madrid is strong, and they all know that gaming companies have high hopes for Real Madrid, but in fact, almost all professionals are not optimistic about Real Madrid, because this is a team that has just undergone reorganization.
Breaking up the reorganization, and at the same time just breaking the curse of the Champions League round of 16, it is very difficult for such a team to achieve results in a short period of time.
But Real Madrid did it. They reversed Manchester United 3-1 at home, allowing everyone to see the strength and potential of this team.
Benitez's reputation as the king of the cup was once again recognized, and Yang Yang, who had two shots and one pass, was elected as the best player in the game, and once again became the number one player in world football praised by fans all over the world.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Robben and Sneijder were also affirmed. Real Madrid's offense in the frontcourt showed incredible strength. Everyone is also looking forward to Kaka's return and hopes to restart. The attacking phalanx of the early season.
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In the case of a good situation, Real Madrid ushered in Atletico Madrid at home.
Due to the Champions League to be played on the weekend, Benitez has carried out a proper rotation of the team lineup, and the intensity is not small.
Las Diarra replaced Mascherano in the starting line-up, Maxwell, Granero, Raul and Higuain all qualified, but Yang Yang, Xavi Alonso, Ramos and Fei The main players such as Ermalen are still starting.
The Sheets Corps attaches great importance to this game, and the head coach Flores even said that this will be Atletico Madrid's most important game so far this season, and the team has been preparing for it for a long time.
One side is exhausted after a long battle, and the other side is waiting for work. The start is obvious, and Atletico Madrid has seized the opportunity.
Surprisingly, in the tenth minute of the game, Lars Diarra was intercepted with the ball in midfield. After Atletico Madrid made continuous passes, Reyes, a former Real Madrid player, quickly inserted left back Maxwell. Behind him, a curved ball on the edge of the penalty area directly broke Casillas' goal.
Subsequently, Real Madrid launched a continuous offensive, but it has never been able to break through Atletico Madrid's goal.
The running and pressing ability of the Sheets Legion made Real Madrid very passive on the scene.
Until the forty-ninth minute of the second half, Yang Yang broke through from the left and made a pass, forming a corner kick. Granero took the corner kick.
Only five minutes later, Xavi Alonso's through ball tore through Atletico Madrid's defense. Yang Yang was offside successfully. After stopping the ball in his chest, he dribbled the ball into the penalty area. De Gea missed the goalkeeper and scored an empty goal.
Then Yang Yang shot two more shots in a row, one long shot missed, one was thrown by De Gea, and he failed to break through Atletico Madrid's goal twice.
In the 63rd minute, Yang Yang took the ball from the left to attract the defensive attention, and then distributed the ball to Granero on the left side, who sent it into the penalty area. Higuain made it overnight and made another victory for Real Madrid.
Three to one!
Real Madrid reversed again!
However, after consecutive goals, Real Madrid's offensive took a break, but Atletico Madrid took advantage of a corner kick in the 68th minute to create a foul by Xavi Alonso while defending in the penalty area. The referee awarded a penalty kick , Fran calmly scored a penalty kick.
Afterwards, the two sides fought and defended each other, but neither Atletico Madrid nor Real Madrid could break the opponent's goal again, and the score of 3 to 2 was maintained until the end of the game.
In the end, Real Madrid reversed the Sheets 3-2 in the Madrid derby.
Two consecutive games were reversed, and they all conceded one goal first and then chased three goals in a row. Real Madrid's performance in the last two games has once again made people worry, and it has also exposed some problems, such as the lack of thickness of the frontcourt offensive players. weakness.
The reason for the poor performance in the first half of this game was that apart from Atletico Madrid's tenacious style and Real Madrid's fatigue after a long battle, there was another very important reason that Robben and Ibrahimovic did not appear on the field. , Real Madrid has no player in the frontcourt who can replace the role of these two players.
Apart from Yang Yang and Robben, there is no third person in the Real Madrid team capable of attacking from the side. After Robben was absent, Yang Yang's left side immediately became the focus of the opponent's strict defense.
Especially after Atletico Madrid scored a counter-attack goal, Maxwell's penetration on this side was also significantly reduced, causing Yang Yang to fall into a situation where he was alone in the frontcourt.
This is obviously also a problem.
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The game between Manchester United and Chelsea was played at noon. Manchester United lost to Chelsea 1-2 at home.
But in this strong dialogue, Ferguson hid many main stars such as Cristiano Ronaldo and Carrick, and even arranged four players over 35 years old in the starting lineup.
After Gary Neville couldn't stop Yang Yang in the midweek Champions League away game, he couldn't stop Malouda in the weekend league. The first goal of the game was assisted by Malouda from the left side of Chelsea. Ferguson was very worried.
Gary Neville is already thirty-five years old, and his competitive level is no longer as good as it was back then. How sure can he be against Yang Yang next Wednesday?
And Berbatov, the Bulgarian center continued to disappoint. In the dialogue between the strong and the strong, Brother Xiaosha was always invisible and his performance was sluggish, which made Ferguson feel very bitter.
He was very optimistic about Berbatov's characteristics, but he really didn't expect that the mental quality of the Bulgarian center would be so bad that repeated beatings were useless.
If Berbatov can have Drogba's 80% dominance in the penalty area, Manchester United's striker combination can sweep Europa.
Ferguson was worried and worried about the midweek game, and he couldn't even sleep at night.
However, after seeing Real Madrid's match against Atletico Madrid at home, Ferguson's eyes suddenly lit up, and a smile flashed across his eyes. He saw a very fatal weakness of Real Madrid, and it was also Benitez's all-time weakness.
In addition to attacking the space left behind the left-back that everyone has been known to attack, Benitez's team is still so bad when defending corner kicks. Zone marking is so complicated that from Liverpool to Real Madrid, Benitez Tess has never been able to find an effective solution to make up for this weakness.
Back then, Chelsea used this to kill Liverpool with three goals at Anfield.
Now, it's Manchester United's turn!