Football King Bale

Winning the away game against Tottenham is a game of great significance for Manchester United's meritorious coach Sir Alex Ferguson, because it is the first league game that Sir Alex Ferguson has led Manchester United to play, thus surpassing the club's other legendary coach Sir Alex Ferguson in one fell swoop. Sir Te Busby has become the coach who has played the most league games in Manchester United's history.

In Ferguson's 986 games, his record was 602 wins, 225 draws and 159 losses, with a winning rate of 61.05%, far exceeding Sir Busby's 985 games of 481 wins, 235 draws and 269 losses.

It happened that the person who faced Sir Alex Ferguson in this campaign was the old Redknapp, who is second only to him in age in the Premier League. However, Lao Lei rarely took advantage of Manchester United's previous encounters. He played 44 wins and only had a pitiful 7 games.

After returning to Manchester from London, although the Champions League knockout rounds were about to begin in three days, Manchester United still held a celebration dinner for Sir Alex. The main management of the club and all members of the first team were present.

Manchester United holds such an internal celebration dinner at this time, not only to express congratulations to Sir Alex Ferguson, but also to clarify the goals of this season internally.

There is no doubt that now that the season has progressed to this point, Manchester United's goal is naturally to compete in the league, Champions League and FA Cup. Although the opportunity to defend the Four Crowns was lost, defending the Triple Crown was not bad.

Under such a premise, Manchester United's energy will inevitably tilt towards the Champions League. After all, compared to the Premier League and FA Cup, defending the Champions League is much more difficult.

As for the Premier League, as long as Manchester United does not collapse in the next 11 rounds, there is almost no doubt about defending the title. Among the quarter-finals of the FA Cup, only Chelsea and Tottenham are considered strong teams. But of these two teams, Tottenham is Manchester United's point-delivering boy, and Chelsea is currently in a whirlpool of chaos, and it is difficult for them to pose much of a threat to Manchester United.

Therefore, in subsequent Premier League and FA Cup matches, unless there are some key matches, core players like Bell will often have to rest for the Champions League knockout rounds and focus more on the Champions League.

Although Bell felt a little regretful, after all, he still wanted to break two records, but as the team's second captain, he had to stand with the team's strategy.

Moreover, it is not impossible to connect all these goals together. After all, even if Manchester United reaches the Champions League final, there will only be 6 games. In the remaining two months of the schedule, he can still play in many leagues. , in order to ensure promotion to the FA Cup, he will certainly not lack opportunities to take action.

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When the Manchester United team determined the final goal of the season, the Premier League was in a state of excitement because of a piece of news.

Just on Saturday afternoon, less than a day after Chelsea lost 0:1 to West Brom in the away game, that is, on Sunday morning, Chelsea officially announced that coach Villas-Boas was officially fired, and club legend Roberto Di Matteo was temporarily dismissed. Appointed as Chelsea's new head coach, he will coach the Blues until the end of the season.

"Today, Andre Villas officially parted ways with Chelsea." Chelsea Club's official website wrote. "The Board of Directors would like to thank him for his contribution to the team. We regret that the relationship between the two parties has ended so early. Unfortunately, the Football Club The team's results and performance are not very good, especially at the critical moment of this season, the team shows no signs of improvement. At present, the club can still compete for the Champions League championship and FA Cup championship, and can also compete for fourth place in the Premier League "Our next goal is to continue to compete on all fronts as much as possible, and with that in mind, we feel that our only option at this time is to make changes."

He has been in charge for less than a year, and with the halo of "Mourinho II", Chelsea has been impressed by the meritorious coach who spent about 13.3 million pounds in liquidated damages.

It was a sad farewell to Stamford Bridge.

When the two parties signed the contract in June last year, Chelsea confidently stated: "Boas's ambitions are consistent with the club's, and he will lead the team to achieve more brilliant success in the Premier League and European competitions."

At that time, the 33-year-old Villas-Boas was also very ambitious and determined to build a new "Blue Army" with a more competitive and more reasonable age structure through his own "project" during the three-year contract.

However, less than 9 months have passed. Although Villas-Boas's so-called "project" has been advanced step by step, the team's record has been disastrous: after 27 rounds of league games, the "Blues" have fallen behind the leader Manchester United by 30 points, and are almost even in theory. All hopes of winning the championship were lost; in the Champions League, the "Blue Army", which had stumbled into the knockout round, was defeated by Naples 3:1 in the first round. It was extremely difficult to come back in the second round; yesterday, after losing to the underdog, Chelsea With only 3 wins in the past 12 league games, the Champions League berth for next season is in short supply.

Although the direct trigger for Villas-Boas's departure should be the 27th round of the Premier League, the Blues were defeated 1:0 by West Bromwich Albion, which had never lost before, but Villas-Boas's dismissal was not unexpected. The media even exclaimed some time ago why Abramovich was so patient with Villas-Boas and could tolerate the team's repeated "embarrassments".

Immediately after the loss to West Bromwich Albion, Blues fans already wrote to Chelsea Club, asking owner Roman Abramovich to sack coach Villas-Boas. Although it is impossible for Abramovich to confiscate Villas-Boas' coaching seal just because of a public petition from fans, the eyes of the public are sharp and the power of fans is infinite.

In the end, Villas-Boas failed to escape the tragic fate of Scolari, and was swallowed up by the famous Bermuda of Stamford Bridge. The 34-year-old Portuguese only took up the post of Chelsea coach in June last year. He was dismissed after less than a year. From signing the contract on June 22 last year to stepping down on March 4 this year, in 256 days, he became the No. 1 young coach in Europe. Took a roller coaster ride.

Regarding the candidate for the new coach, Chelsea's official website also gave the answer. Blues legend Roberto Di Matteo will take over Villas-Boas's position and coach Chelsea until the end of this season.

Regarding this temporary appointment, no one except Bell, a time traveler, would believe that he could actually bring Chelsea to the highest peak in team history: FA Cup championship and European championship!

However, many things have changed in this time and space, and whether Di Matteo can continue his legend in another time and space is a big question mark.

After all, Manchester United today has the highest goal of defending the Triple Crown!

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No one, including Bell, knows where things will end up, so everyone can only grasp the immediate situation, such as the second leg of the Champions League quarter-finals that has already arrived.

Although they won the away game 3:1 in the first round and almost secured the promotion spot, Ferguson did not dare to neglect in the second round.

In the first round of the game, Zenit has proven their strength and resilience, and this team has defeated Manchester United before, so at Old Trafford Stadium, Manchester United still plays its main force and is ready to fight.

Facts have proved that compared to the Red Devils Manchester United who are at their peak, the strength of the upstart team from Russia is at a comprehensive disadvantage.

Under the leadership of Bell, Manchester United did not give the visiting team any chance. They scored 2 goals in each half and swept Zenit 4:0 at home. They eliminated their opponents with a total score of 7:1 in the two rounds and took the lead in advancing to the quarterfinals of this season's Champions League. When Spalletti led his team to face Manchester United for the third time, he was bloodbathed again.

In this game, Bell's performance was still unstoppable, participating in all 4 goals of Manchester United, with 1 shot and 3 passes!

As a result, Bell has scored 10 goals and assisted 8 in the Champions League this season, once again leading the Champions League scorer list and assist list this season.

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While there is no suspense about Manchester United's promotion, the other game that starts at the same time, that is, Arsenal's home game against AC Milan, is a different scene.

Bringing the memory back to the night of May 25, 2005, in the UEFA Champions League final of the 2004-2005 season, AC Milan led 3:0 in the first half of the game. In the second half of the game, Liverpool scored in the 53rd minute. In the 60th minute, he scored 3 goals in a blitz, tied the score, and defeated AC Milan in a penalty shootout to win the championship. This battle is considered to be one of the most exciting finals in the history of the Champions League. It was also the most painful battle in AC Milan's more than 100-year history, bar none.

Today's Arsenal is replicating the miracle of Liverpool that year, and it is also a great half. From Koscielny's goal in the 7th minute to Van Persie's goal in the 42nd minute, Arsenal activated the comeback with a 3:0 halftime victory. hope.

Arsenal failed to complete a shocking reversal in the end, and could only regretfully bid farewell to this season's Champions League with a score of 3:4 in two rounds.

The British media generally lamented after the game: Wenger's team was so close to defeating Milan and was only one step away from replicating the miracle of Istanbul. Arsenal was gloriously eliminated today.

However, few media have mentioned: With today's victory over Milan, Arsenal has actually defeated other top league champions in the knockout stages of the Champions League for two consecutive seasons. It was Barcelona who fell at the Emirates Stadium last season. Guardiola's goal The team was reversed 1-2 by the Gunners; in today's showdown, Milan lost even more humiliatingly. Defender Mexes even claimed after the game: "We really can't celebrate being promoted like today!"

In today's game, it was actually more difficult for Arsenal to win than they imagined, because there were as many as 11 people in Arsenal's injured camp, but this team managed to win the Serie A championship, and they did so in just 9 days. The third bad battle.

What’s even more incredible is that no matter whether they played against Tottenham, Liverpool, or Milan, Arsenal always caught up after falling behind in a single game or the total score, and scored 10 goals in 3 strong games against 3 powerful teams!