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Next week, Manchester United will go to London to face Fulham!

Even though Manchester United was an away game before the game, they were unanimously favored by everyone and returned with all three points.

Ferguson also underestimated the enemy if he wanted to, and the away game against Fulham became 2:2!

Not only Ferguson, but all the players on the field admitted after the game that Fulham was far better than they had prepared. Manchester United's carelessness turned three points into one.

You can choose to accept this reason or not.

Li Yu admitted after the game that this was a mistake. The whole team was a little slack, including himself, who did not expect the game to be so difficult and did not prepare 100% for the game. Not bad, I will go all out in the next game and never let the mistake happen again.

On the other hand, Manchester United's rivals, Chelsea, were also away, but they scored 6:0 and bloodbathed Wigan Athletic.

Arsenal also taught the newly promoted Blackpool a good lesson at home, another 6:0!

The unexpected loss of points in the second round is a lesson for Manchester United.

Returning to the home court in the third round, Manchester United did not allow mistakes to be staged again, especially Li Yu, who did what he said, and West Ham United became the unlucky guy, 4:0!

The second 4:0 at home at Old Trafford in the new season!

Li Yu scored two goals again, Rooney did not play due to muscle fatigue, Nani's outburst filled Rooney's absence, one goal and one assist, boosting Manchester United to a big victory at home, and the last goal of the icing on the cake was veteran Schole scored.

In the two rounds, Li Yu scored four goals. The super high scoring efficiency of the World Cup is still continuing. Every year, each giant will always target one person. He is the creator of the Premier League schedule, Glenn Thompson.

Glenn Thompson was unintentional.He is Ferguson's natural enemy. In the past 18 years, Ferguson has often vented his anger at the organizers of the Premier League schedule. Thompson is this person.This season, he has not heard the scolding of the coaches of the four giants, but Scudamore should applaud him first. The first few rounds of strong confrontation, strong and weak competitions, which are extremely eye-catching games, are very exciting. Inadvertently took the lead in setting off a wave of excitement in the five major leagues.

In the opening game, the two old enemies of Tottenham and Manchester City met on a narrow road, staged a very connotative draw, which has given the new season a perfect start.In the first round, there was also a clash between Chelsea and the newly promoted West Brom. A massacre was about to come. In the finale, Arsenal and Liverpool met at Anfield, 1-1. Everyone was happy.The second round of the Red Army's non-stop visit to Manchester City is another duel between the old and the new nobles.Wigan, Blackpool, and Newcastle, the clubs that have the possibility of relegation, all encountered strong enemies, three 6-0, dark horses and massacres.

In the third round, Tottenham's encounter with Wigan, which was bloodbathed 9-1 last season at White Hart Lane, was for talk.After entering September, Manchester United, Liverpool Northwest Derby, Manchester City, Chelsea two upstarts fight each other, each round has a match that suffocates the fans.The chaotic battle between the heroes is of course the root cause of the hot schedule in every round, but Thompson naturally also contributed.

But Thompson didn't do it on purpose. The complicated procedures of the Premier League schedule are definitely beyond his control.The biggest principle is that the local teams are staggered. For example, Liverpool and Everton will not arrange home games at the same time.Other parameters include shortening the travel of fans on Christmas Day, special requirements of some clubs due to geographical reasons, etc. The parameters are all input into one of his computer programs, and then a series of match schedules are released.

It's not over yet, and Thompson's job is overseen by a supervisory team, so it's hard to cheat.

After the review, the last one needs to be approved by the police departments of each city.After these procedures, the new season schedule will be announced to the public.Thompson commented on Ferguson's complaints over the years, saying he has "been used to it".What makes him feel wronged most is that most of the complaints from the giants are caused by conflicts in the Champions League schedule, but the Premier League schedule has been released long before UEFA confirms the opponents in the group stage and the home and away games. It is very difficult to "kill" Manchester United or Chelsea.

After 3 rounds of the league, the Red Devils Manchester United, who aim to overthrow Chelsea and the defending Premier League champions in the new season, have 2 points with 1 wins and 7 tie, temporarily ranking third in the standings.

However, what brought surprises to all Manchester United players in the new season was not the few new aids headed by Hernandez. On the contrary, the outbreak of veteran Scholes was beyond everyone's expectations.With precise long passes and sharp through passes, Scholes, who is one year older in the new season, seems to be "possessed by Zidane".But the 35-year-old Scholes can only be regarded as an "extra gift" after all. In the new season, the Red Devils will attack in all directions. Obviously, they cannot rely on the performance of this "ginger head" every game.

Leaving aside the offensive end led by Li Yu, Manchester United's midfield is actually the most worrying, especially the configuration of the midfield, which has always been strong in offense and weak in defense. Come out, many experts are saying that it is not so much that Manchester United's defense level has declined, it is better to say that Manchester United's midfield defense is not good.

In fact, looking through Manchester United's first-line lineup list, it is not difficult to find a familiar and long-lost name: Mr. Hargreaves, who is worth 1700 million pounds.However, the former England international has hardly appeared on the green field since September 08. Although he had a brief appearance time of 9 seconds at the end of last season, it was at best a familiarity.

In fact, towards the end of last season, the 29-year-old midfielder once started training with the first team. Unfortunately, in the pre-season training this summer, Hargreaves' knee injury recurred again, and he was dismissed by the head coach. Ferguson sent back to Colorado expert Richard Sterman for another "overhaul".

"I have a big problem now, whether to reserve a place in the 25-man league squad for Hargreaves." Ferguson said helplessly that another injury cast a shadow on the career of the former Bayern iron waist. , exhausted the golden years of his career in the past two years but there is no improvement, perhaps waiting for Hargreaves, after all, will be the end of his premature retirement.

Unlike Hargreaves, another midfielder Anderson has returned from injury, but after nearly half a year of sickness, it is doubtful whether he can recover as soon as possible and adapt to the rhythm of the league.

"It must be realized that he has been away from the game for too long, and he just started his recovery training this Wednesday. Although Anderson's ambition and fighting spirit are very high, so I have to pay more attention to his state."

Regarding the recent situation of the Brazilian player, Ferguson said that he is still not optimistic.And Carrick is completely different from the above two. Since the former British footballer slipped "amateur" in the last season's UEFA Champions League knockout match with Bayern, he has been picked up by coach Ferguson. Completely in limbo, and then this summer's World Cup was abandoned by Capello, it can be said that Carrick has now fallen into the lowest point of his career.

A return from a serious injury is nowhere in sight; another is recovering from a major injury and is in a sluggish state; the other is simply regarded as a weak point. In the position of the midfielder, Ferguson lost 3 vital strengths in a blink of an eye, which is more or less for Manchester United, which is attacking on the 4th line in the new season. Covered with a layer of fog.

Fortunately, the door to the transfer market is still a few days before it closes, and Sir Alex still has time to strengthen the team's midfield.

News from the Netherlands, "Daily Mail" confirmed at the same time, in desperation Ferguson once again thought of his promising new star, from the Belgian Standard Liege's talented midfielder Stephen Defoe. The 22-year-old Telford suffered a serious injury last season and stayed away from the game for half a year. However, during the most depressed recovery period, Telford received a letter of encouragement from Ferguson. Only then was he able to revive himself.

The "Daily Mail" also stated that because they failed to stand out in the Europa League qualifying round, Standard Liege had to sell the head star to maintain the club's operations, but the value of more than 1200 million pounds will be a constraint. The biggest factor for the "Scholes successor" to join Old Trafford.

Not to mention whether Manchester United can complete the final transfer in the transfer window, the group draw for the Champions League group stage has been released ahead of schedule.

Ferguson saw Manchester United being drawn to a top lottery in Monaco.

Manchester United encountered La Liga runner-up Valencia, Scottish overlord Glasgow Rangers and Turkish champion Bursaspor in the Champions League group stage draw.Whether it is Manchester United ceo David - Gill or Manchester United coach Ferguson, are satisfied with this signing.Objectively speaking, Manchester United is obviously the strongest in this group. It should be said that it is not difficult for the Red Devils to qualify smoothly, and even win the first place in the group.

Among these three teams, the one that may pose the greatest threat to Manchester United is probably Valencia.However, Valencia sold the team's two signature stars David Villa and David Silva this summer. In addition, the Bat Corps also sold Zigic and Marchena, but only introduced Saul. The strength of Dado, Tino Costa, Ricardo Costa, Del Horno, Topal and Aduriz has declined significantly.

In the history of the European War, Manchester United and Valencia have played against each other 6 times before. Manchester United has 1 win, 4 draws and 1 loss. In the 82-83 season, in the first round of the UEFA Cup, Manchester United drew 0-0 at home with Valencia, lost 1-2 away to the opponent, and was eliminated by the opponent with a total score of 1-2 in the two rounds; They beat Valencia 99-00 at home and drew 3-0 away; in the UEFA Champions League group stage in 0-0, Manchester United drew 00-01 at home and 1-1 away, and both drew with their opponents in two rounds.Judging from the past historical confrontation records, Manchester United did not suffer from the confrontation with the Bat Corps, but now that Valencia's strength has declined, this is a good opportunity for Manchester United.

Manchester United's other opponent in the group stage is Glasgow Rangers, which is where Ferguson struggled as a player.

In the 1967-69 season, Ferguson represented Glasgow Rangers in the league and scored 41 goals in 25 games, which was very efficient.But the Scottish Cup final in 1969 changed Ferguson's fate with the Rangers. The Glasgow Rangers were slaughtered by the Celtics 0-4.After the game, Ferguson was accused of being responsible for one of the conceded goals, and was sent to the youth team by the furious Rangers executives. Then, Ferguson left the team angrily and switched to the Falkirk team.

It can’t be said that Ferguson and the Rangers formed a bridge, but the fact is that after Ferguson became the coach, he led the Aberdeen team to win the league championship, breaking the 15-year-old relationship between the Rangers and the Celtics. years of domination.Although they are the overlord of the Soviet Super League, the level of the Scottish Super League has dropped a lot in recent years, and the Rangers only poached Weiss and striker Beatty from the Premier League this summer, and their strength has not been greatly enhanced.In the history of the Champions League, Manchester United was in the 03-04 UEFA Champions League group stage with the Rangers. As a result, Manchester United 3-0 at home and 1-0 away, double-killing opponents at home and away.

The last opponent is the "mysterious teacher" from Turkey - Bursaspor. This little-known team won the Turkish Super Cup and the Turkish Super Cup last season.

The vast majority of Bursaspor team players are Turks. The team has 4 foreign players from Argentina, 2 foreign players from Serbia, and 6 foreign player from Bulgaria and Romania.Although Manchester United had a 2-0 record at home against the Turkish giants Fenerbahce in the Champions League group stage, in the Champions League group stage last season, Manchester United lost 1-[-] at home to another giant in Turkey Besiktas.Therefore, the Red Devils must be very careful when encountering the more mysterious Bursa Sports this time.

For Manchester United, it would be great if they can lock in the first place in the Champions League group as soon as possible.

By analyzing the schedule, we know that after Manchester United finished the Champions League, the next three games will be very difficult.

On September 9th, the first round of the UEFA Champions League group stage, Manchester United will host the Glasgow Rangers at home. Five days after the end of the campaign, Manchester United will host Liverpool in the Premier League; on September 14th, the second round of the UEFA Champions League group stage After returning from the away game against Valencia, Manchester United will return home non-stop. After 5 days of preparations, they will challenge Sunderland away to the league. Two consecutive away games, the difficulty can be imagined.

On December 12th, in the sixth round of the Champions League group stage, Manchester United will face Valencia at home. Four days later, Manchester United will host Arsenal in the Premier League. On the 7th, Manchester United will play away in the Premier League. Chelsea, these three games are crucial to Manchester United's journey of the season, and if they want to play well in these focus games, Manchester United must strive to secure the top spot in the group before the home game against Valencia Location.

The draw for the Champions League group stage was announced. Among the top three in the Premier League, Chelsea's luck in signing is relatively the most unfavorable.Ancelotti's blue team may encounter a relatively severe test in the past few years.

When Valencia is placed in Manchester United's group, Real Madrid will definitely be placed in one of the four groups according to the game-day television broadcast rules stipulated by the draw.

However, England star Lineker has made England's team avoid the "Galaxy Fleet".

However, Chelsea did not encounter a "soft persimmon". The appearance of Marseille still made the Blues have to be careful.One of the top three giants in Ligue 1993 (the others are Lyon and Paris Saint-Germain), Marseille were champions of Ligue [-] last season, their first since being ordered to relegate in [-] over a club president bribery scandal. League champion.

In recent years Marseille has been a frequent visitor to the Champions League.In the past three seasons, Marseille has participated in the Champions League, and in the 3-2008 season, it also reached the top 2009.Last season, Marseille was in the same group as Real Madrid and AC Milan, but failed to qualify.Since the UEFA Champions League was restructured into the current format, Marseille has participated in a total of 16 group matches, 4 of which reached the knockout stage, and in the other two times, the team also achieved 2 wins and 2 draw. The strength cannot be underestimated watch for.

In this group, Chelsea is more than one opponent in Marseille.Spartak Moscow is another tough nut to crack.

For Europe's biggest clubs, the last thing they want to face in the Champions League is a Russian team - which means they have to fight in the ice and snow.Moreover, due to the cold climate in Russia, the stadiums there use artificial turf.

In 2007, the England team was planted on the artificial turf in Moscow. They lost to the Russian team away and failed to enter the 08 European Cup finals.For an older team like Chelsea, it is unknown whether the weather and the playing field will bring them additional consumption.

In this Chelsea group, the Slovak Zilina team in the fourth tier can be said to be a "mysterious division".In this Champions League qualifying play-off, Slovakia eliminated Sparta Prague 2-0 at home and 1-0 away.The score of not conceding a goal in the two games is enough to show their strength.Previously, Zilina had never participated in the Champions League group stage.Although its strength is difficult to pose a threat to Chelsea, if they are underestimated, the Blues are likely to overturn the gutter.

The relatively average strength of the group opponents is not the only difficulty Chelsea has encountered.According to the schedule, Chelsea's Champions League group stage will last until December 12 at the latest, and during this period, Chelsea will encounter 8 of the 5 league title rivals (except Manchester United).What is even more unfavorable is that on September 4 and October 9, Chelsea will play against Manchester City and Arsenal in the league successively. In the middle of these two games, there will be a Champions League game.In addition, on November 25th, Chelsea will also play an away game against Liverpool after a Champions League game. The difficulty of the schedule can be imagined.

For Chelsea players, the difficulty of fighting on two fronts is getting bigger and bigger.Lampard, Drogba, Malouda and Anelka are all over [-] years old, and Terry will soon enter his [-]s.This week, Malouda said in an interview: "I'm [-] and I know that a player's career is short. In Europe, there is no better team than Chelsea and my goal is to win the Champions League." And Kalou also said at the beginning of the season that because the age of the team's main players is increasing day by day, "this season will be the last chance for the Blues to win the Champions League."

Of course, winning the "Big Ears Cup" ultimately depends on the performance in the knockout stage.It can be expected that in the group stage, Chelsea will not encounter too much trouble, and qualifying will never be a big problem.

For the Blues, due to the age of the team and the thinness of the season, the less consumption the better in the first half of the season.Otherwise, like the 06-07 season, when they couldn't stand it at the last moment, they shouted the slogan of competing for the four championships, but in the end they fell short and only won two insignificant cup championships. The tragedy is not impossible to repeat.