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The prediction given by the media is already obvious, Manchester United and Barcelona will meet again in the Champions League final.

Facts have proved that Manchester United's game against Bayern Munich at home was also without any danger. Manchester United defeated Bayern Munich 3:2 at Old Trafford and advanced to the semi-finals of the Champions League with a total score of 6:3.

In this game, Rooney miraculously appeared on the bench of Manchester United, which shocked all the media. It is very likely that something unexpected will happen, and Rooney will go into battle. Fortunately, Manchester United took the lead in only 3 minutes of the opening , Rafael and Li Yu passed the ball consecutively, and then Li Yu gave Gibson a shot from 25 yards from the right. The ball jumped into the lower right corner after bouncing off the ground. This was his first European goal.

The wonderful start is not over yet. After only 4 minutes, Li Yu dribbled the ball in the middle and suddenly passed the ball to the right. Valencia patiently passed Badstube and made a cross. Demichelis failed to block Line, Van Buyten also made marking errors, and Nani's heel smashed into the post from the edge of the penalty area, which was his first goal since August.

Although Li Yu didn't directly score the goal, both goals have a huge relationship with Manchester United's No. 9. Rooney can rest assured to watch the game from the bench.

Towards the end of the first half, Manchester United continued to expand the score in the 41st minute. Raphael threw a throw-in from the right, and Valencia, who left Budstuber, picked a pass from Demichelis. Li Yu 14 yards Missed the ball, Nani scored twice with a push from 15 yards away, a two-point double play, Bayern Munich still failed to escape their own bad luck, 3:0!

However, after a big lead, the Manchester United players were a little slack in the final stage of the first half, and Bayern Munich also seized the opportunity at the last moment and scored a goal.

Bayern pulled back a victory in the 43rd minute, and Muller headed the ball to get rid of Carrick's Olic and scored from a small angle on the left side of the penalty area.

At the end of the first half, with a total score of 6:2, Manchester United still leads Bayern Munich by a large score.

Shortly after the start of the second half, Bayern Munich once again seized the loopholes in Manchester United's defense and scored a goal. Ribery took a corner kick and the unguarded Robben shot into the lower left dead corner with his left foot from the edge of the penalty area. Key location, key figure There was a leak, and Manchester United paid the price of a goal again for their slack in defense, but Robben's world wave also left Manchester United players speechless, it was so beautiful.

With a total score of 6:3, there is already a huge gap between the two sides of the game. Bayern Munich may just be fighting for dignity.

Immediately, Bayern Munich launched a crazy attack and tried to save some face with goals, but in the end they returned without success. The German team had no choice but to accept the fate of being eliminated by Manchester United in two rounds.

Rooney was still unable to play in the end. In fact, Ferguson's psychological warfare factor was far greater than the effect of real fighting. It encouraged the momentum of Manchester United's players on the field, hit the opponent's morale, and put a certain amount of pressure on the opponent.

However, Ferguson was also frank in his press conference after the game. Manchester United did not play very well at home today, far from playing well away. Lack of aggressiveness.

Although they didn't mention their names, everyone knows what Ferguson is referring to. The defensive players, the two conceded goals in this game have a lot to do with the slack in the defense. Obviously Ferguson is not very satisfied with this.

尽管在开场第41分钟就以3-0的大比分领先，但比赛最终没有向7-1的方向发展。奥利奇和罗本的两粒进球，让红魔开场的闪电奇袭最终成为并不算华丽的战役。尽管最终还是晋级欧冠半决赛，但曼联首发11人让人还是感到了一丝担忧。

Gary Neville was not on the list, Ryan Giggs and Scholes were on the bench, and the three elders of Manchester United did not start at the same time. Sir Alex Ferguson made a clear signal to the team to speed up in an all-round way.After 33 rounds of the Premier League this season and 10 games of the Champions League this season, in these 43 key games, only two games of the three elders failed to appear in the starting lineup at the same time, namely the home games against Wigan and Blackburn. .In other words, this season, as long as it is a key game for Manchester United, Ferguson will at least send an old starter.But this time, Manchester United unexpectedly arranged a new and younger starting lineup, which caught Bayern by surprise, and Ferguson decided to make changes.

范德萨39岁、拉尔19岁、费迪南德31岁、维迪奇28岁、埃弗拉28岁、瓦伦西亚24岁、吉布森22岁、弗莱彻26岁、卡里克28岁、纳尼23岁、鲁尼22岁……战拜仁的这套首发阵容，平均年龄仅为26.3岁。如果不算范德萨的话(守门员位置特殊)，曼联场上其他10名球员均龄仅为25.3岁，非常非常的年轻。

Facts have proved that Ferguson guessed the opening, and Bayern, who were caught off guard, were defeated by this young Manchester United at the beginning of the opening.But on the battlefield, apart from the coach's accurate off-court scheduling, only the players can play a decisive role on the court.In terms of player quality, Manchester United with a 100% Li Yu is not completely in the upper hand, especially in terms of ball possession, these Manchester United players are much inferior to Bayern.

As we all know, the most powerful part of Barcelona is their possession of the ball. There is a truth on the football field, whoever wins the midfielder wins the world, which refers to the importance of possession of the ball in the midfield.

When the two armies face each other, once a certain team gains a foothold in the midfield, it will naturally have the upper hand.However, following the obvious disadvantage in possession of the ball in the first round, in the second round, Manchester United's possession of the ball at home was less than 4%, which is very illustrative.

In the second round of the Champions League 14 finals this week, the two Premier League teams, Manchester United and Arsenal, had very poor passes.Among the total of 8 teams, Manchester United only passed 337 times, ranking 6th; after encountering the master of ball control Barcelona, ​​Arsenal even ranked second to last in this ranking with 323 passes.

In the second round, Bayern was second only to Barcelona with 520 passes, ranking second in the quarterfinals of the Champions League.In the final stage of the game, with Bayern playing one more player, Manchester United has been unable to grab the ball at Bayern's feet. This is of course closely related to Bayern's signings this season.

据德国《转会市场》统计，拜仁本赛季在引援上总计花费6723万英镑，免费签下非常实用的奥利奇、2700万英镑购入戈麦斯、2160万英镑购入罗本、990万英镑购入季末什丘克、以693万英镑购入普拉尼奇以及180万英镑买入布拉夫海德。

Among them, Olic and Robben scored 4 of the 3 goals in the two rounds, and Planic and Gomez also played very well in the first round.After selling Podolski for £900 million, Lucio for £630 million, Hummels for £378 million, Baumjohn for £90 and Borowski for £67.5 After that, Bayern cleaned up the players in the transfer market to recover [-] pounds.In other words, Bayern spent a net £[-] in the transfer market this season to strengthen the team.

On the other hand, Manchester United sold Ronaldo for 8000 million pounds, Fraser Campbell for 600 million pounds, Manucho for 240 million pounds, Lee Martin for 200 million pounds, Simpson for 50 pounds, and Manchester United for 1700 pounds. After Weiss' loan expired and left the team, Manchester United only brought in Valencia for 500 million, Diouf Jr. for 300 million, Obertin for 50 million, and McGinty for 6540. Joining is an investment in next season.Calculated in this way, Manchester United's net investment in signings this season is only -1.12 million pounds, while Bayern is +[-] pounds. The Red Devils invested [-] million pounds less than Bayern!

Isn't it a miracle of Ferguson that Manchester United has such a big gap in the Champions League competition with other powerful players? It is also the result of Li Yu's full-scale explosion.

In all fairness, with 1.1 million pounds less invested than the Bundesliga giants Bayern, Manchester United played like this in the two rounds, relying more on Li Yu's continuous output in offense. If it weren't for Li Yu's continuous explosion, Perhaps a huge gap will turn into a failure.

Objectively speaking, Manchester United's performance on all fronts has been satisfactory enough so far this season.As Sir Alex Ferguson said, money cannot buy championships, let alone glorious history, but competitive sports cannot be achieved without money.

Manchester United and Liverpool are subject to huge debts, Chelsea boss Abramovich stands still, and Arsenal, the most financially healthy, is busy repaying the loan at the Emirates Stadium...Look at Liverpool's plight this season, and look at Manchester City's 3 wins against the semi-finals this season With 2 draws and 1 loss, and now firmly in the top four, you will find the role of money in it.If the example of Manchester City is not convincing enough, you can look at Real Madrid's frantic scoring momentum in La Liga this season, and you will find the effect of huge investment.

From this season to today, Manchester United has been out of the FA Cup early, and it is very intuitive that there is a problem. Manchester United's bench depth is no longer strong. Let's see which team Leeds United eliminated the mighty Manchester United. All came off the bench, but the final outcome was beyond everyone's expectations.

After successfully defending the League Cup, Manchester United still has two honors to contend for, the Champions League and the Premier League.

Now, Manchester United is still in the lead in the standings, throwing away the two games gap between Arsenal and Chelsea, and there are still 5 rounds left in the league.

As long as there are no major surprises, Manchester United will achieve an unprecedented four-game winning streak in the Premier League. Manchester United can still be called a very successful season this season.

Even if the Red Devils were unfortunately successfully reversed by Chelsea and only won one League Cup this season, this Manchester United team is still very worthy of respect from the world. They still have three consecutive Champions League titles to continue to write glory.

But once both the Premier League and the Champions League are lost, Sir Alex Ferguson will have to ask the American owner, the Glazer family, for money. The signings of the Red Devils this summer will determine their fate in the Champions League at this time next year. With the market rushing to buy new aid, if Manchester United continues to cede the right to speak in the transfer market to Zhuqiang this summer, it will be tantamount to sitting and waiting to die.

If it weren't for Manchester United to maintain the last hope of the Premier League, this would be the first time in the past seven seasons that a Premier League team missed the Champions League semi-finals.

The last time a Premier League team was so miserable in the Champions League was in the 02-03 season.In that season, only Manchester United broke into the final eight of the Premier League teams.But in the 14 finals, although Manchester United defeated Real Madrid 4-3 at Old Trafford in the second round, the Galaxy Battleship still eliminated the Red Devils with a total score of 6-5 to advance to the semi-finals.

自从04-05赛季以来，英超球队此前已经连续5个赛季都能出现在最终的冠亚军决赛中。04-05赛季利物浦夺冠、05-06赛季阿森纳亚军、06-07赛季利物浦亚军、07-08赛季曼联夺冠、08-09赛季曼联卫冕成功，但这一纪录本赛季差点被无情的打破了。

Although it is not the worst ending, this is also the worst result of the Premier League in the Champions League in the past 4 years.

The result is overwhelming. The decline in the strength of the Premier League teams has become an indisputable fact, and their control in the Champions League is also declining year by year.

Compared with membership clubs such as Real Madrid and Barcelona, ​​which cost hundreds of millions of euros in signings, the two giants of the Premier League, Manchester United and Arsenal, are achieving "trade surpluses" and realized negative investment in the transfer market last summer; This season, he stopped moving in the signings market. In fact, in the summer before Mourinho dismissed get out of class, the Blues' biggest move in the transfer market was just spending 1350 million pounds to buy Malouda.

As for Liverpool, Benitez's team has been overwhelmed by debt and can only look for bargains in the transfer market.Occasionally crazy, Aquilani, who spent 2000 million pounds to buy, now looks like he can only be kept on the bench.

In competitive sports, in most cases, input and output are directly proportional.A good example is Inter Milan led by Mourinho. After leaving Chelsea, Mourinho led Inter Milan to advance to the semi-finals of the Champions League this season. This is of course closely related to Inter Milan's continuous high investment in recent seasons.

This season, although Inter Milan left an Ibrahimovic, Diego Milito, Thiago Motta, Lucio, Eto'o, Sneijder, Pandev and other generals came to vote one after another. With 6 generals, Inter Milan's strength has also grown significantly.Therefore, entering the Champions League semi-finals is only a matter of course.

In the European competition this season, there are still two Premier League teams still alive, namely Liverpool and Fulham in the Europa League; there are three left in La Liga, Barcelona in the Champions League and Atletico Madrid in the Europa League and Valencia; there are two Bundesliga teams left, Hamburg and Wolfsburg in the Europa League; Serie A and Ligue [-] only have Inter Milan and Lyon in the Champions League.

截止至今，本赛季欧战得分德甲以16.583分排名第1；西甲以16.500分位列第2；英超以16.214分位列第3；法甲得分为15.000分；意甲得分则为14.714分。而在欧足联联赛排行榜上，英超以80.142分位列第1，西甲以78.329分位列第2，排在第3的意甲积分为63.624分，与英超、西甲的积分差距拉得有些大。

Therefore, the honor of today's European No. [-] league can only be contested by the Premier League and La Liga in the next three years.With Manchester United's promotion, only Manchester United is left in the Premier League in this season's Champions League. Compared with UEFA's efforts to prevent the two Premier League teams from joining forces in previous years, this shows the decline in the strength of the Premier League giants, but they cannot It proves the improvement of La Liga's strength.

Even if Barcelona can defeat Inter Milan in the semi-finals of the Champions League and advance to the final as they wish, it does not prove that La Liga has surpassed the Premier League in an all-round way, but it can only prove that Barcelona, ​​the super team in La Liga, is already luxurious enough in today's football.Just as you cannot say that the Celtics defeated the Los Angeles Lakers from the West in the finals, you can draw the conclusion that the overall strength of the Eastern Conference exceeds that of the Western Conference.

In the past few seasons, La Liga’s comprehensive ability to earn points in the Champions League is inferior to that of the Premier League. It’s just that the La Liga teams pay more attention to the Europa League (European Union Cup), while the mid-range teams of the Premier League pay more attention to the domestic arena. Most of the time, they just deal with it. A game with mediocre prize money (last season Villa and Tottenham played a life-and-death match in the UEFA Cup, and the main players gave up without even going to the away game).

In the UEFA Champions League, except for Valencia and Deportivo that emerged in the early 21st century, and the short-lived yellow submarine in the 05-06 season, La Liga lacks a third iconic Champions League team besides the traditional two.In view of Real Madrid's weakness in the Champions League in recent seasons, La Liga only relies on Barcelona, ​​which has been strong in recent years, to earn points.

There is no doubt that Barcelona is strong, but he can only prove his own strength, not the strength of his league. The strength of a Barcelona team alone cannot draw the conclusion that this league is strong.

Compared with the La Liga team, the Premier League teams have formed a group advantage in the Champions League in the past few years. This is also an important reason why the Premier League's ability to earn points in the Champions League has surpassed La Liga in the past few seasons.

According to the UEFA competition rules, the standards for scoring points in the Champions League and the Europa League are the same.If Liverpool can comeback Benfica at home tonight, and then beat Atletico Madrid or Valencia in the semi-finals, and finally win the first Europa League championship in one go.Even if Barcelona can successfully defend the Champions League, La Liga will not take away the honor of Europe's first league from the Premier League at the end of this season.

After all, Valencia and Atletico Madrid are going to fight each other in the 14-finals tonight. It is almost impossible to help La Liga increase a lot of points in the European competition at the same time. Although the Premier League's 1.813 point lead in La Liga is not big, it is enough. Hold the country.

The next season's European War points will start from the 06-07 season. In the 05-06 season, the Premier League scored 14.428 points, and La Liga scored 15.642 points. If the European war points of that season are erased at the beginning of next season, it is actually equivalent to increasing the Premier League's lead over La Liga by 1.214 points.This also means that as long as Liverpool reach the Europa League final of this season, even if they fail to win the championship, the Premier League will still be able to hold the European first league when the European competition starts next season, although this first position is already somewhat At stake.

In this sense, Liverpool and Manchester United are not only fighting for themselves, but also fighting for the entire Premier League!