I am the king of football

Chapter 456 The Rival is Born
Ferguson's decisive remarks set the tone for this press conference. At this moment, Manchester United felt like they had been looked down upon for the entire season and now it was time to come clean.

People said that their formation was aging and they might be suppressed by Manchester City, but they just had a 100% championship season; people said that they were now unable to cope with multi-line battles, but they just won the FA Cup, League Cup and Premier League Grand Slam.

When the honor of winning the treble was crowned on the heads of this Manchester United team, it was only natural that they made a bold statement in advance after reaching the Champions League final that they would definitely win the Champions League this season.

As Ferguson turned off the microphone, the team's veteran players Scholes and captain Vidic spoke one after another. As the team's seniors, their speeches were not so sharp, and they also knew that they were not the protagonists of this press conference, so they quickly turned the topic to Qin Hu.

Therefore, Qin Hu became the finale of this interview.

"Qin, you have now scored 16 goals in the Champions League, completely breaking Messi's single-season Champions League goal record. Tell me what you think!"

"I am very proud and honored. Messi is a very strong player. Maybe he is not in good form this season, but I am still looking forward to the opportunity to play against him."

"Do you think you can score in the Champions League final?"

"Well, I'm personally looking forward to scoring in the Champions League final, which is a huge stage I've never been to, but who can say for sure? As long as I can help the team win, scoring is not that important to me."

This is indeed the case. After Qin Hu secured the honor of top scorer in all the competitions he participated in and became the Golden Boot of this season's Champions League with an undisputed number of goals, scoring goals is really not that important to him.

Rather than scoring one or two extra goals, Qin Hu hopes that the team can successfully win the Champions League final.

Just as domestic fans thought, since the Chinese team will never appear on the stage of the World Cup final, the highest honor for a Chinese player may be the Champions League. When the opportunity was presented to him, Qin Hu was extremely excited.

"So your goal is?"

"Quadruple champions! As I told you before, we will win every single championship, it's that simple."

The team's ambitions were conveyed to the media for the last time. This time, when Qin Hu said that our goal is to win the championship in all competitions, there were no more voices of doubt or ridicule.

The greatest achievement of a man is to realize all the boasts he has made. Qin Hu is such an awesome man at the moment.

After the press conference, major news media quickly reported a series of speeches by Manchester United players. Those reporters and media who did not get the opportunity to enter the press conference also interviewed the Red Devils players who did not attend the press conference through their own channels. In short, almost all of Manchester United's main players expressed their ambition to win the Champions League.

Manchester United fans are naturally extremely excited. Their team has created too many miracles this season. For the Red Devils fans, the more domineering the team's performance is, the tougher they can be when facing fans of other teams.

While everyone was discussing how Manchester United was just one step away from winning four titles this season, the second leg of the other Champions League semi-final against another opponent quickly began.

At 0pm local time, at the Nou Camp in Barcelona, ​​Barcelona, ​​who lost 3- to Dortmund away in the first leg, welcomed their opponents.

Due to the humiliating loss in the first round, the welcoming ceremony prepared by Barcelona fans for Dortmund this time was also full of hostility.

There were numerous actions such as booing the opponent's bus, tearing off the opponent's flags and even besieging the Hornets' fans. These hostile actions were frequently staged in the streets around Camp Nou before the game even started, which made the anger of both sides reach the maximum before the game even started. The whole Manchester United team naturally sat together in the team's meeting room again under Ferguson's arrangement. After this game, their opponent in the Champions League final would be born, so Sir Alex asked everyone to watch every detail of the game carefully.

The Red Devils players, who did not dare to slack off, all had their eyes wide open. Before the game started, they could see from the scenes at the Camp Nou stadium the huge hostility of Barcelona fans towards the Hornets. This was not difficult to understand. If it were Manchester United, they would have been beaten 3-0 in the first leg and their fans would have been anxious too.

In the camera, Barcelona's core players Xhaka and Messi both lowered their heads and immersed themselves in warm-up. They both appeared quite calm, and this calmness made the home team look unperturbed.

For a moment, no one was sure whether Barcelona was really not afraid of losing 0-3, or whether the team was just in this state.

In contrast, the entire Hornets team who were warming up opposite them were very excited as soon as they entered the field. This team, which has set off a Hornets storm under the leadership of Klopp, is very young. Many players in the team are in their prime. Compared with Barcelona, ​​they are more like a team that is ahead of their opponents and is ready to reverse the situation.

Focusing on the warm-up status of the two teams, everyone began to discuss the final result of the game. Due to the terrifying strength that the Universe team had shown, when the final statistics were made on who the fans thought would advance smoothly, the voting results showed that Barcelona and Dortmund were still evenly matched.

"Three goals! That's a three-goal lead! I don't think it will be that easy to reverse."

Such a result greatly puzzled Sky Sports guest commentator Roy Keane. As a Manchester United legend, he agreed with Ferguson that it would be difficult for Barcelona to stage a comeback given their current stagnant state.

The game then started and everyone stopped discussing and quickly immersed themselves in the game.

At the start of the first day of the game, Barcelona still played very aggressively. Guardiola, standing on the sidelines, had a calm look on his face, and his players on the field continued to move forward and create opportunities through ground control.

In the seventh minute of the game, Messi fired a long shot from the left side of the penalty area, which hit the crossbar and flew out of the bottom line, giving Barcelona fans hope of equalizing.

However, just five minutes later, everything took a turn for the worse. When Gundogan intercepted the ball from Xavi and passed it to Gotze in the frontcourt, the magical boy then made a straight pass to Lewandowski. Lewandowski, the center forward who has performed extremely well this season, shot directly into Valdes' goal.

Because the goal came too lightly, many people did not react at first. When the cheers of Dortmund fans resounded throughout the Nou Camp, the hearts of Barcelona fans finally gradually slid into the abyss of despair.

After conceding a goal, Barcelona quickly tried to counterattack and attack the opponent but it did not work until the end of the first half. After the start of the second half, Barcelona's defense was empty because all players pressed forward and Reus finally scored a goal with a quick counterattack.

2-0, Dortmund thus secured a 5-0 advantage in the total score. Such a huge score difference happened after sixty minutes of the second half. Even if the king of football were reborn, there would be no chance of a reversal.

When the time came to the last second of the game, Barcelona didn't even score a face-saving goal. The team's top star Messi was silent again in this game. He was closely guarded by two Dortmund defenders, Hummels and Schmelzer. Although he occasionally had wonderful shots, he ultimately failed to threaten the opponent's goal.

So Manchester United's opponent in this season's Champions League final was born, Dortmund, a super dark horse appeared. This Bundesliga Hornets, which has not reached the Champions League final for 16 years, appeared on the stage of the Champions League final again. They are in high spirits and full of fighting spirit.

Such a team that defeated the cosmic team Barcelona 5-0 has become Manchester United's opponent, which will undoubtedly add great instability to Manchester United's journey to the Champions League.

Today's update is here! Thank you all for your support!!! Who would have thought that Bayern would advance to the next round by beating Barcelona 7-0? Dortmund lost to Bayern in the final, so 5-0 is not too much~ (I went to the hospital and got an IV drip for a long time, but it was not dehydration. Fortunately, the blood test showed that it was not Norovirus...)
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