Chapter 109 Elimination! Injuries! What a man! Yang Cheng, I'm waiting for you at Old Trafford! [Please subscribe]
While the Bayswater Chinese defeated Tottenham Hotspur 3-1 at home, in northwest England, Manchester United narrowly defeated Blackburn 1-0 away from home.
French forward Saha scored the only goal of the game.
In the other two games in London, Chelsea relied on Didier Drogba's hat-trick to slaughter Watford 4-0 at home.
Arsenal defeated Liverpool 3-0 at home.
When Ferguson led the team back to Carrington from Blackburn and received the battle report from the south, his first reaction was excitement.
“It’s been a long time since I’ve had this exciting feeling!”
The godfather of Manchester United was gearing up and couldn’t contain his excitement.
How long has it been?
Anyway, Queiroz has not seen him since he has been at Manchester United for so long.
Ever since Beckham left Real Madrid in 2003, Manchester United's midfield has had a big problem.
Although Veron was introduced for a time, the overall situation was still affected.
Ferguson has always wanted to reform Manchester United's overall skills and tactics, and this is why Queiroz arrived.
Starting in 2003, Arsenal's unbeaten season began, followed by the rise of Mourinho's Chelsea, while Manchester United has been trapped in its own problems.
Many people actually don’t know.
Ronaldo was signed in 2003, and Rooney was signed in 2004.
But initially, Ferguson’s goals did not include Ronaldo.
In the summer of 2003, what Manchester United wanted to sign most was Ronaldinho.
The talks with Ronaldinho were almost complete at that time, and everyone even felt that the Brazilian genius would definitely join Manchester United.
Ferguson himself felt the same way.
But in the end, due to some reasons involving Ronaldinho's agent brother, the Brazilian went to Barcelona.
Ferguson then eagerly signed Ronaldo at a sky-high price.
What about 2004?
In addition to Rooney, Manchester United actually wants to sign a very important player.
Winger Robben of PSV Eindhoven in the Netherlands.
How important is Robben?
Ferguson spent almost a year in advance to talk to PSV and the players, and the talks were almost complete.
Ruud van Nistelrooy's transfer that year gave Manchester United a lot of credibility with Eindhoven. The Dutch were also willing to sell Robben to Manchester United. It can be said that the two sides hit it off.
Just imagine, Robben on the left, Rooney in the middle, and Ronaldo on the right. How terrifying is this attack combination?
Unexpectedly, Chelsea suddenly came out.
The transfer market itself is a war for talent!
Chelsea is here, but Manchester United is gone.
Manchester United has been really frustrated in the past few years!
Now, Ferguson is beginning to find a bit of the ambition he had when the Red Devils were dominant.
This made him excited.
"It seems like our kid is really planning to win the league championship!" Ferguson said with a smile.
"Normally, the team has adjusted to this level and has its own strength. It is unjustifiable not to rush forward."
"But winning the championship also depends on the confidence!" Ferguson snorted. A smile," Can he hold on? "
Everton's Moyes has always regarded Ferguson as a mentor. Even every time Ferguson returned to Scotland to start a class, he would make a special trip back to listen, and he often exchanged some coaching with Ferguson. Experience.
His coaching ability is also quite good, but he still cannot play in the Premier League and Champions League.
What?
He was in the Premier League, League Cup and UEFA Cup at the same time last season?
Is it as difficult as competing for the Premier League title and participating in the Champions League?
"Their current lineup is too young." Queiroz nodded.
“Do you know why Wenger has had so few championships over the years?” Ferguson asked Queiroz.
Queiroz shook his head.
“Because he is greedy and doesn’t know the trade-offs!”
Ferguson smiled proudly, quite a bit like he was guiding the country.
“Arsenal actually had many times, and by January, they were still fighting on the fourth line, but they were most likely to break the chain after fighting on multiple lines.”
"When one of their fronts collapses, it will immediately cause a chain reaction, and other fronts will also collapse quickly."
"Maybe in just one month, sometimes even in two or three weeks, we went from fighting on the fourth front to achieving nothing!"
"Wenger is a person who is good in all kinds of ways in normal times. , just as bad.”
“At the critical moment, he is not a man enough!”
At the end, Ferguson held his head high, as if to say: I am a real man!
Quiroz remained silent.
He personally coached Real Madrid.
Before coaching, he boasted of his extraordinary tactical attainments and had accumulated enough experience with Ferguson.
Real Madrid was the team with the most stars and the strongest strength in the world at that time, so they proved themselves to Real Madrid.
As a result, he lost completely!
Real Madrid’s coaching made him understand one thing.
Coaching a team is never easy.
Especially the wealthy teams in the top leagues!
People only see the glory of the successful, but they can never see the bones left by the losers behind them.
How many people like Queiroz, after a complete failure, never have the courage or the opportunity to try again?
He didn’t know why Yang Cheng could do so well at such a young age.
Maybe Yang Cheng is really a genius.
But genius also needs to be tempered and tested.
"Carlos, tell our players, from now on, we are going to fight a war!"
When Ferguson said this, his whole person became unusually calm and calm.
“I will decide the league championship this season!”
"No one can try to grab it!"
Quiroz nodded heavily.
It has been many years since he saw Ferguson with such high morale.
It seems that Ferguson was really angered by Yang Cheng.
“As a man, you have to survive the winter break!”
...
Between the 12th and 13th rounds of the Premier League, it is the national team match day.
So after playing 12 rounds, many international players rushed to report to the national team.
After hurriedly playing a friendly match for the national team in midweek, we rushed back to the league at the weekend.
This kind of back and forth has obviously affected teams with many national players.
Arsenal drew 1-1 with Newcastle at home.
Wenger's team continued its unstable state this season, with great ups and downs in the game.
Sometimes, if you defeat your opponent in one round, you will be defeated miserably in the next round.
When Manchester United challenged deputy squad leader Sheffield United away from home, Rooney scored twice and successfully reversed the score after conceding a goal first.
Chelsea faced West Ham United at home, and the game was extremely dangerous. In the end, with Gremi's goal, they defeated the Hammers 1-0 and successfully scored 3 points.
Liverpool drew 0-0 away from home with Middlesbrough.
The Bayswater Chinese continued their blitz game this season. In the 18th minute of the game, Maicon assisted Arshavin to score Charlton's goal.
After that, the game was very stalemate.
Until the 72nd minute, Lass Diarra assisted Lambert to score another victory.
The Bayswater Chinese defeated Charlton 2-0.
After this battle, the Bayswater Chinese continued to maintain pressure on Manchester United.
Both teams have the same points.
At the post-match press conference of this round of games, Ferguson made a bold statement. In May next year, Manchester United vowed to win the league championship!
“Our state since this season shows that we have the strength to win the championship.”
“There is no doubt about it.”
"If our players can stay healthy, then we can do it, I'm pretty sure."
"The opponent on the road to the championship?"
"I think the most likely to be Our competitor is Chelsea, they have a very strong squad , the stamina will be very strong, especially during the Christmas, winter break and February and March, this schedule will be very challenging."
"Baswater Chinese?"
"No, I don't think they have a chance of winning the championship because they are too young."
"When a team has too many young players, it often means that their lineup is too thin."
"No, no, no, they are completely different from the Class of 92 I coached. The lineup at that time was not that young.”
Then a reporter asked Ferguson a question.
He has always had the habit of inviting the opponent's head coach to drink after home games.
But it seems that Yang Cheng has never been invited before.
Then in the 21st round of this season, which happens to be on the Christmas schedule, will Ferguson treat Yang Cheng to a drink?
In response, Ferguson laughed.
“I don’t know, maybe.”
“But I’m not sure if he’ll be in the mood to drink with me then.”
When the media relayed Ferguson’s remarks After making these remarks, Yang Cheng had only one reply.
"If Ferguson's Manchester United is as good as his words on the pitch, maybe we will feel more threats and challenges!"
Internally, he told the players not to talk about Ferguson's Take these words seriously.
“He is not looking down upon us, but he truly regards us as his opponents!”
“He said this deliberately just to anger us!”
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In the fifth round of the Champions League group stage in midweek, Bayswater Chinese visited Portugal to challenge Sporting Lisbon.
This is a very interesting matchup.
Sporting Lisbon has no hope. It has lost all 4 games. It is basically impossible to qualify from the group.
The Bayswater Chinese had 3 wins and 1 draw, and got the right to qualify in advance. The difference is that they are first in the group and second in the group.
In this case, Yang Cheng played with a full substitute lineup.
It's just like playing in the League Cup.
This also gave the young players in the team a very valuable experience in the Champions League.
For many of them, this is definitely an opportunity they have only dreamed of before.
So, this group of young players played particularly hard and excitedly in the away game.
Sporting Lisbon itself is also somewhat demoralized.
But this is their home field after all.
In the end, the young people of Bayswater, after a hard-fought 90 minutes, returned home with a 0-1 defeat in the away game.
While comforting the players, Yang Cheng was not disappointed because of the loss, but was actually a little happy.
Sometimes, a loss brings more gains to the players than a victory.
Especially when this group of young players have tried their best.
At another stadium, Real Madrid drew 2-2 at home with Bayern Munich.
Ribery passed and shot, his performance was very eye-catching.
The worth of 40 million pounds has been proven in both the Bundesliga and the Champions League this season!
As a result, the suspense of the Champions League group stage competition is left to the last round.
The Bayswater Chinese now have 3 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss, scoring 10 points.
Bayern Munich has 2 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss, and scored 8 points.
Real Madrid had 2 wins, 1 draw and 2 losses, scoring 7 points.
So, the current situation in the Champions League group stages has become very confusing.
In the final round, Bayern Munich will play Sporting Lisbon at home and Bayswater Chinese will play Real Madrid at home. Both will be the most watched matches in the Champions League group stages this season.
Whoever is eliminated from the group will attract the attention of countless fans.
After the fifth round of the group stage, in less than two days, Adam Crozier reported the ticket sales for the home game against Real Madrid on December 6.
Including season tickets, the number of fans attending that game exceeded 60,000.
There is still half a month until the start of the competition.
The day after Yang Cheng returned to London from Lisbon, he received a piece of very bad news.
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Since taking over Bayswater Chinese, everything Yang Cheng has done has been for the development of the club.
As a head coach who has been coaching for decades, he is more familiar with the ropes than others when it comes to planning and arranging many things.
For example, he attaches great importance to the medical sector.
In the early days, the Chinese in Bayswater had no money, so the medical department was very rudimentary.
But after Yang Cheng made some money, the first thing he did was to set up a medical department and hire excellent team doctors.
It was at that time that David Favre and Rob Price joined the Bayswater Chinese.
Today, one is the director of the medical department and the other is the chief physical therapist.
The medical department has rapidly expanded to dozens of people, and is in charge of the Bayswater Chinese first team, youth training camp and satellite training center, which is the largest in the Premier League.
Yang Cheng also insists on investing every year. Whether it is the introduction of some advanced facilities or the introduction of high-level professional talents, Yang Cheng is never stingy.
Many people outside say that the Chinese in Bayswater are very shabby and even rent their home court.
But only the people in the club know that the team's investment in medical care, youth training, coaching, etc. over the years has far exceeded that of other Premier League teams, even European teams.
So in the past few years, the Bayswater Chinese have always had the fewest injuries among the Premier League teams.
Especially after the establishment of the sports analysis system of Thad Fawcett and Oliver Bartlett, a series of advanced instruments and equipment were introduced from the United States to conduct more detailed and detailed analysis of the players' bodies. After in-depth testing and obtaining more detailed data, basically no Bayswater Chinese players suffered major injuries due to fatigue and other human factors.
Even some uncontrollable injuries occur naturally, but they are basically not serious.
As for injuries, in the world of professional football, it is basically impossible to eliminate them.
Just like Yaya Toure this time.
Biceps femoris strain on the back of the thigh.
Why is it hurt?
There was no physical collision, no excessive fatigue, not even a bump.
It was during a training session that when a player was grabbing the ball, he suddenly stopped, turned around, and accelerated again. Then he began to feel discomfort, and then he was unable to continue training.
After being sent to the medical department for examination, the initial diagnosis was that the biceps femoris was strained.
Send to the hospital immediately for further detailed examination.
"Confirmed, biceps femoris strain on the back of the thigh."
When such a slightly larger injury occurs in the first team, medical director David Fevere is of course Ask in person.
He went to the hospital and after getting first-hand detailed information, he came back to report to Yang Cheng and the coaching staff.
"This muscle is often injured, very frequently, usually during short-distance sprints."
"Based on my communication with the doctor at the hospital, the initial judgment is 4 to 6 weeks, but the muscle strain is For this kind of thing, we cannot give a very specific time, and we need to refer to the actual recovery situation of the players."
After the report, David Feifei took a look at Yang Cheng and sat back.
Yang Cheng has long been used to seeing all kinds of injuries, and has long been used to disrupting plans due to injuries.
In the long season, who has not encountered injuries?
"Thad." Yang Cheng looked at Thad Fawcett, "What do you say?"
Thad Fawcett stood up and typed out a PPT.
“The biceps femoris muscle on the back of the thigh is in this area. As David said, it is often injured. More than half of the muscle strains on the back of the thigh are in this area.”
< br>"After Yaya Toure joined our team, we were tailoring a physical training plan for him. The first thing we arrange is hip strength training.”
“In this way, when he picks up the ball with his back and is pressed, he will get more space and it will be more conducive to his movements. We also arrange this for other players who often use their backs to get the ball.”
No one had any objections to this.
Many times, hand movements and hip movements, these may not seem to have anything to do with football, but they are very useful on the court.
For example, Yaya Toure often presses his hips against his opponent when turning around to protect the ball.
Don’t think wrongly.
It’s really just for playing football, and the effect is very good.
Just imagine, with his height of 1.91 meters, if he bows slightly and has sufficient hip strength, the defensive players will not be able to steal the ball from his feet.
“The coaching staff has always explained before that our team attaches great importance to speed and technology, and we also pay special attention to this aspect during training. For example, when we train players, we are trying to find ways to avoid players being When building muscle, it affects the flexibility and agility of their technical movements."
"There are many things involved, so I won't go into details one by one."
"Usually. Let’s talk , we train some players who need to sprint short distances frequently, such as Theo Walcott, Gareth Bale, Ribery, Di Maria, and Arshavin. They all often have to sprint back and forth.”
< br>“In the past, many teams’ physical training for this type of players only focused on the concentric contraction of the back of the thigh. This is to further improve the player’s power, which is of course very important.”
"But this type of player also needs more eccentric force training."
"During short-distance sprints, the hamstring muscles require very large eccentric force to stabilize the knee. And the pelvis, so players who are good at short-distance sprinting are easily injured at the knee. This is the reason why we have strengthened eccentric strength training for these players from the beginning. This is very important protection for them.”
"But Yaya Toure is not among them. He is 1.91 meters tall and is a deep-lying midfielder. He is training in physical strength and has to invest in other more important parts. This time it caused the thigh We really didn’t expect that the biceps femoris on the back was injured.”
“Next, we will refer to the training video, as well as the specific degree and location of the muscle strain to discuss this issue. Dig deeper to find ways to prevent and train.”
"At the same time, we will also be deeply involved in his recovery training."
Yang Cheng nodded.
The medical department and sports analysis team can basically only do this.
The next step is how to resolve the adverse effects of Yaya Toure's injury.
As for diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation, Yang Cheng put forward his own requirements.
"Last season, Arsenal had a man-made disaster."
"First Ashley Cole fractured, then Clichy fractured, and the two left backs fractured at the same time, and both were sidelined for a long time. This A huge blow to Arsenal.”
“Especially Ashley Cole, I don’t want us to score. Similar things happened in the team. I have to be responsible for my players. They are the most valuable asset of our club!”
“So, I hope everyone will take this as a starting point. As for the game, we Let’s find a way to overcome it, okay?”
Yang Cheng set the tone for this matter.
Why is it mentioned that Ashley Cole is a man-made disaster?
Ashley Cole, who was still playing for the Gunners at the time, was injured during the national team training in early October 2005. At that time, Eriksson also issued a press release saying that the scan results showed that the bone was injured. Broken, injured for 1 month.
Later, Arsenal’s team doctor also checked and determined that it was 4 to 6 weeks.
Does it look like Yaya Toure now?
But then things changed again and again.
Ashley Cole did not return until mid-January 2006.
But this time he came back, he only played 56 minutes, helping Arsenal slaughter Middlesbrough 7-0.
As a result, this comeback was not a sign of his recovery, but instead further aggravated his injury.
Ashley Cole then fell into a long period of recuperation and did not return until April 29.
From early October to mid-January, from mid-January to the end of April, Arsenal’s team doctors perfectly explained how an injury that should have lasted 4 to 6 weeks finally turned into a A disaster.
So much so that Chrissy also went through months of long recovery.
Of course, Yang Cheng is not saying that this is all the responsibility of the team doctor. But he said it was a man-made disaster.
The purpose is also very simple, that is, we hope that the medical department and the sports analysis team can look at the players' injuries objectively and carefully. If you should see an expert, go to the expert, and do not delay the condition. .
Everyone here knows what happened at Arsenal, and naturally understands what Yang Cheng means.
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Yaya Toure’s injury did not attract much attention from the outside world.
This kind of thing is too common.
In the subsequent 14th round of the Premier League, Yang Cheng arranged another midfield combination.
Modric and Lars Diarra remain unchanged, and Gokhan Inler serves as the deep midfielder.
In the west London derby against Fulham away from home, the first half was not ideal.
The players are familiar with each other, but after replacing a player, many things need to be re-edited, which made the team not operate smoothly in the first half.
The turning point of the second half occurred in the 50th minute.
Fulham head coach Chris Coleman made a substitution.
As the Bayswater Chinese's offense became more and more fierce, the pressure on the defense was also increasing, so he arranged the former Barcelona central defender, Frenchman Christian Vale, to replace midfielder Diop .
This substitution completely liberated the Bayswater Chinese midfielder.
Five minutes after the substitution, Arshavin dribbled the ball into the penalty area, created a foul and got a penalty kick opportunity.
Modric scored in one stroke and opened the scoring for the team.
1 to 0!
In the 60th minute, the Bayswater Chinese's frontcourt attack created a corner kick.
Pepe headed the ball back to the center and Koscielny hit the goal with a header.
2 to 0!
And just 6 minutes later, there was another corner kick, another header from Pepe, this time from the front point to the back point, and the scorer became Ashley Young.
3 to 0!
Before the end of the game, substitute Gareth Bale also scored a goal, rewriting the score to 4-0!
In the end, the Bayswater Chinese finished Fulham with 4 goals.
In this round, Liverpool defeated Manchester City 1-0 at home.
Manchester United suffered a 1-1 draw with Chelsea at home.
Among them, Chelsea's goal was scored by Carvalho using a corner kick.
Combined with the two corner kicks against Fulham, after the game, many media such as The Times jokingly said: "The corner kick put the Bayswater Chinese back on top!"
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Arsenal suffered a 1-3 away defeat to Bolton Wanderers.
The Gunners' status is so confusing.
Everyone knows what Wenger's team will do in the next round.
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Yaya Toure’s injury finally caused problems in the 15th round of the Premier League.
At St. James' Park, when Yang Cheng's team challenged Newcastle away from home, the team encountered a tenacious sniper attack from the Magpies.
The opening attack tactics did not work. Instead, in the 23rd minute, the opponent counterattacked and stole a goal.
Then in the last 10 minutes of the first half, the Bayswater Chinese launched a wave of attacks.
Arshavin scored two goals to help the team reverse course.
But in the second half, the extremely fast Martins got a goal back in the 57th minute and successfully tied the score.
In the 84th minute, former Inter Milan midfielder Emre's long shot left Newcastle 3 points at home.
This is also the first defeat of the Bayswater Chinese this season.
The unbeaten record in the league stopped at 20 games.
Among them, 14 were won this season and 6 last season.
For this defeat, Yang Cheng believes that it will not have much impact on the team.
"This is like an accident for us."
"No team can remain undefeated forever."
The Chinese lost to Bayswater After Newcastle, Serie A's Inter Milan has become the only team in the five major leagues to remain unbeaten so far this season.
After the Calciopoli scandal broke out, Inter Milan is now the dominant player in a league, and the momentum has been difficult to contain. Teams including AC Milan and Roma are finding it difficult to compete with Inter Milan. rival.
Among them, Ancelotti's AC Milan began to focus on the Champions League.
The Bayswater Chinese side lost, and Manchester United defeated Everton 3-0 at home.
Chelsea defeated Bolton Wanderers 1-0 away from home.
Liverpool was tied 0-0 at home by Portsmouth.
Arsenal lost again, losing 1-2 to Fulham away from home.
After 15 rounds of games, the Bayswater Chinese, who had just climbed to the top of the league, were kicked down again.
Manchester United leads the way with 37 points, followed by Bayswater Chinese with 36 points and Chelsea with 33 points.
After that, Arsenal only scored 22 points, which was far behind the previous three teams.
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In midweek, in the final round of the Champions League group stage, the Bayswater Chinese faced Real Madrid at home.
Because this game is related to the final situation of the Champions League group stage, it attracted many fans to the scene.
Many Spanish fans even went to watch the away game.
More than 60,000 people attended this game.
Everyone wants to catch a glimpse of the Real Madrid stars.
On the Bayswater Chinese side, since they have already qualified from the group ahead of schedule, there is no competition pressure.
But what about Real Madrid?
They need to beat Bayswater away from home to have a chance.
In this case, Capello no longer had to worry about so much, and almost arranged the strongest offensive lineup he could.
Superstars such as Ruud van Nistelrooy, Ronaldo, Beckham and Robinho all appeared, plus familiar stars such as Carlos, Cannavaro, Salgado and Emerson. .
Suddenly the Wembley Stadium became star-studded.
Especially Cannavaro.
In the European Golden Globe Award selection announced a few days ago, Cannavaro was elected as the 2006 European Golden Globe Award winner.
This is another defender who won this award after Sammer in 1996.
He is also the first Italian to win the Ballon d'Or since Roberto Baggio in 1993.
In fact, many people have begun to assert that the FIFA World Player of the Year selection in mid-December is basically Cannavaro's bag.
This undoubtedly makes the game at Wembley Stadium more attractive.
Different from Real Madrid's preparedness, although the Bayswater Chinese also sent out their main players, their overall performance was extremely aggressive.
Yang Cheng looked aggressive from the beginning, attacking Real Madrid's defense with the team's best blitzkrieg.
In the 13th minute, Modric's wonderful pass helped Dzeko beat Cannavaro in the penalty area and score with a header.
1 to 0!
This immediately ignited the atmosphere of the entire stadium.
This is a goal scored over the heads of the Ballon d'Or and World Footballer!
The significance is extraordinary!
This goal also completely sounded the clarion call for the two teams to attack.
Real Madrid began to press hard and launched an offensive desperately.
The Bayswater Chinese began to strengthen their defense in the midfield and steadily defended their counterattack.
In the 27th minute, during a quick counterattack after stealing the ball in midfield, Arshavin broke through Mohamed Diarra's defense with the ball and sent a direct pass.
After Dzeko stopped the ball and broke into the penalty area, between Cannavaro and Mejia, he shot angrily and broke Casillas' goal again.
2 to 0!
But before the end of the first half, Ronaldo took the ball outside the penalty area, broke through Pepe, and sent the ball into the goal guarded by Neuer.
1 to 2!
After changing sides and fighting again in the second half, Yang Cheng's team took the lead and wanted to launch a wave of attacks. It did pose a threat and almost scored.
But in the 48th minute, Beckham's diagonal pass was accurately sent behind the Bayswater Chinese defense. Ronaldo started quickly, formed a single shot, and scored again.
2 to 2!
The race is back to the same starting line again.
But this is far from enough for Real Madrid.
The two sides started a fierce competition, and the game was very open and fast-paced.
Compared to Real Madrid, the Bayswater Chinese have qualified ahead of schedule and have no psychological burden.
In the 76th minute, Arshavin received Ashley Young's cross kick, broke into the penalty area, and shot low, breaking Real Madrid's goal again and exceeding the score again.
3 to 2!
But in the 88th minute, Inler fouled while defending Robinho and gave Real Madrid a free kick in the frontcourt.
Beckham calmly took the penalty and sent a full moon scimitar, which accurately penetrated Neuer's goal.
3 to 3!
In the end, the score remained until the end.
The Bayswater Chinese and Real Madrid shook hands and made peace.
At another stadium, Bayern drew 1-1 with Sporting Lisbon.
As a result, the final ranking of this group is that the Bayswater Chinese have 3 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss, scoring 11 points, ranking first in the group.
Bayern scored 9 points with 2 wins, 3 draws and 1 loss, ranking second in the group.
Real Madrid scored 8 points with 2 wins, 2 draws and 2 losses, ranking third in the group.
Sporting Lisbon has 1 win, 1 draw and 4 losses, finishing at the bottom of the group.
Baswater Chinese and Bayern Munich qualified together, while Real Madrid was eliminated in third place in the group and will go to the UEFA Cup. Sporting Lisbon was eliminated at the bottom.
This result immediately shocked the entire European football world!
Although Real Madrid has been weak in the past few years, at least it has been able to break out of the group stage every year.
But now?
The chairman has been changed, the head coach has been changed, and most of the superstars have been purged, but in the end they couldn't even make it out of the group stage.
This is simply a shame!
Those Real Madrid fans who followed the team to the away game started booing at Wembley Stadium.
When the Real Madrid team took a special plane back to Madrid that night, they were blocked by Madrid fans.
Yang Cheng didn't care at all about Real Madrid's affairs, but he paid quite a lot of attention to the subsequent draw for the top 16 of the Champions League.
According to the rules, the first place in the group can draw the second team in the group.
But the second place in this year’s group is a bit fierce.
Teams such as Inter Milan, Barcelona, Roma and Bayern Munich are all second in the group.
Since we are in the same group in the group stage, we will not draw Bayern, but what about other teams?
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In the 16th round of the Premier League, Bayswater Chinese defeated Bolton Wanderers 1-0 at home with Lambert’s goal.
This goal occurred in the 73rd minute of the second half.
The whole game was also very difficult.
But in any case, after being stopped in 20 games unbeaten, they were able to defeat Bolton 1-0 at home, which represents the team coming out of the shadows and avoiding the situation of losing again and again.
In Yang Cheng's opinion, this is already a very good result.
Manchester United defeated Middlesbrough 2-1 away from home.
The Red Devils also won this battle not easily.
Chelsea defeated Newcastle 1-0 at home.
The first three teams basically maintain their original rankings.
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One week later, the Premier League ushered in the 17th round.
The Bayswater Chinese challenged Watford away.
Only 4 minutes into the game, the Bayswater Chinese's blitzkrieg worked again.
Ashley Young received an assist from Arshavin and opened the scoring for the team.
Before the end of the first half, Dzeko's goal expanded the team's score.
Only 3 minutes into the second half, Ashley Young sent a cross, and Dzeko scored with his left foot in the penalty area.
3 to 0!
The Bayswater Chinese defeated Watford with 3 goals in an away game and scored 3 points again.
A little later, Manchester United also launched an opening attack at home.
Interestingly, Manchester United's scoring rhythm is somewhat similar to that of the Bayswater Chinese.
Rooney opened the scoring for Manchester United in 6 minutes.
Before the end of the first half, Saha scored a goal for the team.
But the second half was not fun.
Man City's right back Trabelsi pulled a goal back in the 72nd minute.
C Ronaldo scored the third goal in the 84th minute.
In the end, Manchester United defeated Manchester City 3-1 at home.
The next day, Chelsea drew 1-1 with Arsenal at home.
After this round of competition, Manchester United led with 43 points, followed by the Bayswater Chinese with 42 points.
Chelsea began to gradually widen the gap and only scored 37 points.
Arsenal is currently ranked 4th, but only scored 26 points.
In other words, the Gunners are 17 points behind Manchester United and 16 points behind the Bayswater Chinese.
But after playing against Chelsea, Wenger talked about this season's Premier League championship for the first time at the post-match press conference.
The Gunners' head coach said, "If you ask me, who am I more optimistic about winning the Premier League title this season?"
"Manchester United? Bayswater Chinese? Chelsea?"
"Both No!”
“My answer is, Arsenal!”
The Gunners performed better than Chelsea for most of the game, but the Blues performed better in the last 20 minutes. He did a great job and managed to equalize the score.
This is also where Wenger is most unwilling.
They can obviously score 3 points.
But Mourinho was equally dissatisfied with the result.
The Portuguese madman said that Arsenal's possession of the ball was indeed better. For a long time in the game, the Gunners were in the lead, which he acknowledged.
He believes that Arsenal seriously lacks enterprising spirit.
Because in the last 20 minutes, especially after Chelsea equalized the score, Arsenal adopted a defensive tactic.
“What I can’t understand is that a team that keeps clamoring to win the championship is now 17 points behind the leader, but they still confidently believe that they still have a chance to win the championship. . ”
“I can’t understand this kind of confidence.”
“I don’t think this team has the ability to win the league championship!”
"They lack such ambition!"
Mourinho said very arrogantly, "We have won a decent place at Stamford Bridge and also won the respect of the fans."
"We have won the Premier League championship for two consecutive seasons, and this season we also won the Premier League title. Will continue."
"Being 6 points behind Manchester United is not a problem at all for us."
In the end, Mourinho even did not forget to take a dig at Wenger.
“In the future, if our neighbor in North London uses the team lineup and age as an excuse, then I will invite him to visit and learn from Hyde Park North.”
"I don't want to mention that team, but I have to admit that they did a much better job than Arsenal."
"At least, they are 16 points ahead of the North London team."
“Oh, by the way, Arsenal also lost 4 goals, we were 0-0!”
“Of course, the Bayswater Chinese can’t win the championship!”
“Because the championship will belong to us Chelsea!”
Wenger was very dissatisfied with Mourinho's statement.
Arsenal has indeed encountered many problems this season, both internally and externally.
The reason why Wenger called out to win the championship was not because he was so blindly arrogant that he really thought Arsenal could reverse the situation.
But I want to take this opportunity to boost the morale of the team.
Unexpectedly, it aroused Mourinho's ridicule and sarcasm.
As a result, Wenger immediately fought back, believing that Mourinho was a dishonest liar.
“The fact is that we are the team that wants to win the most, and we almost did it.”
When did Mourinho admit defeat?
I fought back immediately.
When Yang Cheng learned from media reporters that he had participated in the scolding war between Mourinho and Wenger for no reason, he said that he was innocent.
The most important thing is that both teams actually shouted that they wanted to win the championship.
You can just shout, why do you look down on us?
NND, don’t look at the gap in the standings, do you want to save face?
“I have no interest in getting involved in a boring spat between two noisy neighbours.”
“I also don’t think Chelsea and Arsenal have a chance of winning the title.”
"The Premier League championship this season will only belong to us Bayswater Chinese!"
"Chelsea? Arsenal? Wait until they beat us!"
Everyone is here too It took me a moment to realize that Chelsea and Arsenal have not yet won a victory against the Bayswater Chinese.
Yang Cheng also participated, and the scolding war immediately escalated and became more interesting.
Especially when Ferguson later commented on the championship this season, he once again expressed that he was not optimistic about the Bayswater Chinese.
Why?
In addition to youth and a thin lineup, the schedule is also a major factor.
“How important the Christmas schedule is, we all know that it may even determine the championship of the entire season.”
“There are 3 games scheduled for Christmas this year, 26 Day, 30th and 1st. ”
“In these 3 league rounds, we played 2 home games and 1 away game, Chelsea also played 2 home games and 1 guest game, and Bayswater Chinese and Arsenal both played 1 home game and 2 guest games. ”
"But in Arsenal's two away games, they all faced newly promoted teams."
"Of Chelsea's three opponents, two are not strong."
"And Bess The Watt Chinese will face a huge challenge as they continue to play The two away games were against Chelsea and Manchester United.”
Ferguson then smiled from ear to ear. He said that he had prepared a box of good wine and was waiting to entertain him at Old Trafford. Yang Cheng, I hope he is still in the mood to have a drink with him.
“Although it’s a bit irresponsible to say this, I really feel that the winner of this season’s championship should be decided in January.”
The implication is that Manchester United has an absolute advantage.
The Bayswater Chinese will be widened by Manchester United in the Christmas fixtures at the end of December.
At that time, who else can stop Manchester United from winning the championship?
(End of this chapter)