From the man behind the football king to the football king.

Chapter 884 Jorginho
With Manchester United winning the Premier League for the fifth consecutive time, the 2020-2021 season has come to an end. However, for Manchester United, their season is not over yet, there is still a very important game - the Champions League final!
This is also the fourth consecutive year that Manchester United has participated in the Champions League final. In the previous three years, Manchester United defeated the three super giants, Real Madrid, Liverpool and Chelsea Munich, becoming the first team to win three consecutive championships since the Champions League was reformed in 1992.

As the highest honor in club competitions, the importance of the Champions League is self-evident.

For Manchester United, having won six championship trophies in the 2020-2021 season, they are already great enough, but if they really want to be outstanding and perfect, they have to win this Champions League final!

Their opponent, Chelsea, is also one of the top clubs in the world of football today. The last time they won the Champions League was in the 2011-2012 season nine years ago.

It is worth mentioning that the Blues' last experience in winning the Champions League was quite similar to this season. Both were due to poor performance and the coach was changed in the middle of the season, and the team quickly turned the situation around after the new coach took office, and the season was a great success.

Some differences are that nine years ago, Di Matteo's team finished sixth in the league, the lowest ranking for the Blues in the league for several consecutive years, due to his all-out efforts in the cup competitions. However, he made great achievements in the cup competitions, winning the FA Cup and the Champions League. This season, Tuchel made progress on multiple fronts, finishing fourth in the league and reaching the finals of both the FA Cup and the Champions League.

However, in the FA Cup final that ended half a month ago, Chelsea lost 0:1 to Manchester United and missed the championship.

This time the two sides meet again in the Champions League final, and it remains to be seen who will win.

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"This season's Champions League final is the second time that a civil war has occurred between Premier League teams since 2019, and it is also the third time in the history of the Champions League that a civil war has occurred between Champions League teams. Manchester United has been the protagonist of the civil wars all three times, and they have tied with Real Madrid for the team with the most civil wars in the same league in the history of the Champions League."

"As a traditional force in the Premier League, Manchester United has been around almost throughout the history of British football. They have long become a symbol and totem of British football. In the past three seasons, they have reached the Champions League final and won the championship, setting an example for the rise of British football. Another team, Chelsea, is the best representative of the emerging forces of British football in the new century. In the summer of 2003, after Russian billionaire Abramovich bought the London team, Chelsea quickly rose in the Premier League. First, in 2005, it broke the monopoly of Manchester United and Arsenal on the Premier League, and then in 2012 it reached the top of Europe and became a new giant team in football. It can be said that Chelsea has been having an impressive performance in the past decade. These two teams have been compared from the very beginning. This is inevitable. One is an old aristocrat and the other is a new force. This is a collision between the past and the future of British football."

"The clash between these two teams has been given a lot of meaning, but what I want to say is that this is first and foremost a football match. I still remember the grand occasion when these two teams first met in the Champions League final on a rainy night in Moscow in the 2008-2009 season. The two teams joined forces to give us a wonderful game. From that time on, I believed that the game between Manchester United and Chelsea would be very exciting! So please look forward to this Champions League final!"

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The media also paid close attention to this match. Just as they said, both teams were equipped with many things other than the match, such as old nobles and new forces, tradition and cutting-edge, perseverance and breakthrough... and so on.

Even the players on both sides started their routine war of words.

Jorginho said in an interview that Manchester United's performance in the past few years is indeed shocking, but Chelsea will not be afraid of Manchester United. He is tired of the comparison between Chelsea and Manchester United in the media.

"We will fight back on the court!"

Since joining Chelsea with his mentor Sarri in the summer of 2018, Jorginho has been the core of Chelsea's midfield. His words can represent the thoughts of many Chelsea players.

Because Manchester United has swept England and Europe in the past five seasons, winning numerous championships and becoming the most successful team in world football today. As the head coach of Manchester United, Mourinho's contribution to this is well known.

Because of Mourinho, the media have always talked about Chelsea and Manchester United together in recent years, and even some completely unrelated things were brought up. It can be said that "not only are they shot while lying down, but they are also shot while sitting and hiding."

When talking about Manchester United, everyone will more or less talk about how Chelsea was in the past. When talking about Chelsea, they will also say "Compared to Chelsea, Manchester United is like this and that."

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This kind of talk has been going on for five seasons, and Chelsea players are fed up. As a result, every time they face Manchester United, Chelsea is full of fighting spirit and can't wait to tear Manchester United apart. Not just in this game, they want to sweep Manchester United in all the past games, so that the media can realize that there is no comparison between the two teams, and it is extremely stupid to talk about them together. I hope that after doing this, the media will shut up their annoying mouths and let Chelsea players have peace of mind.

But disappointingly, Chelsea has lost more than they have won against Manchester United in these five seasons. According to statistics, since Mourinho took over Manchester United in the summer of 2016, the two sides have played against each other 18 times in various competitions, with Manchester United winning 15, drawing 2 and losing 1, almost a sweep.

这其中，曼联分别在2017-2018赛季和2019-2020赛季，完成了对切尔西的4杀和5杀！

In fact, Chelsea's only victory against Manchester United in these five years was in October 2016. At that time, they beat Manchester United 10-10 at home in the 5th round of the Premier League, ending Mourinho's nine-game winning streak in the league.

Chelsea have never beaten Manchester United since then.

而在本赛季，今天是双方的第四次交手。此前的三次对阵，曼联取得了2胜1平。其中联赛主场2:0轻取蓝军，在斯坦福桥球场则是0:0互交白卷。而在两周前的足总杯决赛中，曼联在新温布利大球场1:0绝杀了切尔西。

If Chelsea want to completely get rid of the "shadow of Manchester United", they may have to reverse this record to have hope.

Today's Champions League final is a good opportunity for Chelsea. As long as they can beat Manchester United, they can not only avenge their defeat to Manchester United in the Champions League final in Moscow 13 years ago, but also end their opponent's three consecutive Champions League titles, which is of great significance.

Of course, Chelsea, a new football star, still has a long way to go if it wants to catch up with super giants like Manchester United in terms of football status.

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Bruno, as the captain of Manchester United, also responded to the remarks made by Jorginho and other Chelsea players: "I don't care who the opponent is, the championship will only belong to Manchester United."

When asked by a reporter how he reacted to the comments made by Jorginho and others, he smiled and said: "Chelsea is a good opponent, but Manchester United is the most unique one. No one can be compared with Manchester United."

We must do everything that the enemy hates. This is one of the laws of struggle.

Since Chelsea players hate the media comparing them with Manchester United, as opponents, they have to strongly support and approve of this approach, to make the opponent upset, impatient and anxious, and lose their calm, and Manchester United's goal will be achieved.

Don't you think you are better than Manchester United? Then I will expose the bloody reality: whether in the past or now, you are no match for Manchester United!
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Mourinho's starting lineup for the Champions League final is almost full of elite players. Except for Maguire who has not yet fully recovered, all of them are regular starters of the season. The goalkeeper is De Gea, the left back is Luke Shaw, the right back is Cancelo, the center backs are Van Dijk and Lindelof, the defensive midfielders are Kante and Gundogan, the attacking midfielder is Bruno, and the forwards are a combination of Rashford, Harry Kane, and Mbappe.

Chelsea also has basically all its players, with only Christensen missing half a month due to ligament injury at the beginning of this month. However, before this game, he had announced his comeback and was included in the squad for this game.

At Porto's Dragon Stadium, 17,000 fans from both sides will witness another peak showdown between the two sides.

The total capacity of this stadium is 1. The Portuguese health authorities recently confirmed that the Dragon Stadium in Porto can open no more than one-third of the stadium's capacity, that is, 3 seats, on the day of the Champions League final. UEFA said that Manchester United and Chelsea, participating in the final, can each sell tickets, and the remaining tickets will be given to UEFA's partners.

Bruno was standing on the field wearing the captain's armband and the red home jersey of Manchester United. Opposite him were the Chelsea players wearing blue jerseys, and his old acquaintance Jorginho was also on the field.

The two were rivals in Serie A when Jorginho played for Napoli. The outstanding youth talent of Verona joined Napoli in the winter transfer window of 2014 and quickly gained a foothold in the team. As a defensive midfielder, he had faced Bruno head-on many times in Serie A and was considered a tough opponent.

Jorginho moved to the Premier League two years later than Bruno. But since becoming a member of the Blues, every clash between Chelsea and Manchester United is also a contest between Jorginho and Bruno.

As the referee blows his whistle, the game begins!
(End of this chapter)