A day later, the Old Trafford Stadium was packed with seats, and the stands, which could accommodate up to 128,000 people, were filled with flags and cheers. All Manchester United fans have long known that the situation of each team in this round of the league is the most beneficial to Manchester United - the enemy is weak and the competitors are fierce. As long as you win with one hand, you will touch the handle of the championship trophy.
Everyone wants to see this historic moment - Manchester United has won 18 top league titles before and chased their rival Liverpool. As long as they win this championship, they can dominate England.
When the Manchester United players came on the field, they received cheers like a tsunami from the stands - this is the function of Old Trafford as the home court, but today it was particularly loud. Manchester United supporters also hope that in this way they will put extra pressure on visiting Arsenal and make them feel helpless and throw up their hands in surrender.
Ferguson is like a head of state and commander-in-chief of the three armed forces, standing on a high tower, reviewing the troops passing in front of him with great ambition, enjoying the huge cheers and praises of his subjects from the stands. The pinnacle of his coaching career is coming.
Of course, there is another person who feels the same as him, and that is the club owner Jiang Feng who is standing in the VIP box above. He is the one who really should enjoy this imperial feeling, because he is the real owner of this club, Ali Alex Ferguson? He's just a wage earner, a little more advanced.
Jiang Feng only arrived in Manchester last night. His team is likely to lock the league championship in the following games. Once Manchester United wins the league championship, then Manchester United can leave behind their mortal enemy Liverpool and become the history of England. The team that has won the most top league titles in the world, as the owner of Manchester United and a die-hard fan. It was naturally impossible for Jiang Feng to miss such a major event.
After Jiang Feng's eyes wandered around the stadium, he turned his attention to the old man again, and couldn't help feeling a little nervous. With Jiang Feng's current knowledge, there are very few things that can make him nervous.
Why does Jiang Feng have such emotions about the upcoming game? Because he recalled what happened the previous season.
??This past season, with six rounds left in the game. Manchester United is still five points ahead of Chelsea. When everyone at Manchester United was already preparing to celebrate the arrival of the 19th top league championship trophy in the club's history, Manchester United suffered a series of defeats. They were first tied by Chelsea in the 34th round of the league away from home, and then were tied by Middlesbrough and Everton successively, with scores of 1:1 and 4:4 respectively. Then they were beaten in the penultimate round of the league. At that time, they defeated their city rivals Manchester City. They were one point ahead of Chelsea before the start of the last round of the season. However, in the last round of the league, they were defeated by West Ham United, who were desperate to avoid relegation. They watched the league title fly away. gone. This also caused Manchester United's process of comprehensively surpassing Liverpool to be postponed for a year.
The current situation is very similar to last year, and Jiang Feng is worried that the same scene will happen again.
And at this moment. The old man in Jiang Feng's sight obviously didn't think of what happened last year. The huge excitement of the arrival of glory hit the brain of this senior wage earner, causing his facial nerves to become uncontrollable, and there was a clear smile hanging on the corner of his mouth. . In the eyes of outsiders, he was not standing on the sidelines before the game, but on the sidelines after the game. The result. Naturally, his team won a resounding victory.
With tactical rivals and the advantage of home court, there is no reason for problems in this game.
When the players from both sides stood in formation in their respective halves, the referee stood outside the center circle and put the whistle into his mouth. The Old Trafford stadium, which had been noisy for a long time, suddenly became quiet.
This kind of quietness gave Ferguson an illusion. He looked back at the stands behind him and saw that everyone was still there. He was relieved.
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One hundred and twenty minutes later, nearly half an hour has passed since the end of the game.
Alex Ferguson sat alone in the empty coaching bench. As empty as the coaching bench are the stands and the green field in front of Old Trafford.
He sat here without saying a word, with neither an expression of ecstasy nor a downcast expression on his face.
There were footsteps coming from far and near, but he didn't pay attention.
"Sir." The footsteps disappeared beside him, and Queiroz's voice sounded.
"Huh?" Ferguson didn't even raise his eyebrows.
"Let's go back?"
"I'll sit down for a while."
"You've been sitting there for fifteen minutes."
Ferguson finally moved his eyes from the court to Queiroz next to him. He didn't speak, but his eyesBut it gave Queiroz a chill down his spine.
Ferguson is like an angry beast because of the loss of his child. He stares at you as if he might jump up and pounce on you at any time and eat you.
He is really, really, really angry
"You" Queros paused, "You didn't say anything just now, you acted very normal, everyone thought you"
"You're not angry, are you?" Ferguson asked in a cold voice.
In the past, it was Roy Keane who came to trouble Ferguson, but today Keane led the team away.
"How could I not be angry?" Ferguson asked again, but this time there was no smell of gunpowder at all. "But who should I direct my anger at? Just after the game, when I was questioned by a group of media at the press conference, I really wanted to rush into the locker room and scold everyone. But as soon as I thought of that After losing to Manchester City for the first time, I endured it. But I didn¡¯t want to see them again, so I sent them to leave early. I ran here and sat for a while. I felt that I couldn¡¯t express my anger to them No, you can¡¯t send it to them. Do you know why?¡±
Ferguson looked at Queiroz, and Queiroz looked at him and did not answer.
"Because I feel that if you trace the source of this scolding, the person who deserves the scolding the most is me. I tripped over the same stone twice! Last year, my team was tied with Chelsea. In the end, Jose's The guy snatched the championship trophy from my hands abruptly! However, just today, the same situation happened to my team again. That guy Arsene drew my team again, allowing Chelsea to see a little bit again. A reversal is theoretically possible. But I can't scold myself, especially in front of others." Ferguson stood up from his seat. "Three days after the league is played, there is the Champions League semi-final. Three days after the Champions League semi-final is played, there is the league again. Three days after the league is played, there is the Champions League semi-final. The players' condition has fluctuated. They are too tired. ."
"If I had been bolder in this game, it might not have been the result it is now. I didn't rotate when I should have rotated most. I wanted to use the strongest lineup to tear Arsenal apart, but I didn't expect that the outcome of the game was not The strongest lineup"
"Then I sat here and thought and thoughtEveryone was gone, there was no one, and there were no reporters like flies to bother me. I could think about it, and I didn't have to pretend in front of others. I didn't I'm thinking about why I stumbled at this time. I just think that fate is so wonderful. It can make you go to heaven and send you to hell"
"Thinking about it, I won't be angry anymore." Ferguson's eyes changed, and a smile appeared on his face again. He opened his arms and even danced a little. "I admit that I was blinded by the performance in front of me at first. Some people may think that this result is a cruel joke played by fate on me, but in fact I think it is just right and the best result!"
"I'm not mad! What was our original plan? No matter how much we are ahead of our opponents, we are always in the lead, right? Moreover, the current league is not a desperate situation for us. The league is still There are two rounds left, but we are still six points ahead of Chelsea. The result of this game just postponed our championship by a week."
"The most important thing is" Ferguson winked at Queiroz, "I also thought of how to make Barcelona surrender at home. We will get the tickets to the Champions League final for the sixth time."
Ferguson stretched and said, "Let's go, Carlos, go home. It's great that someone listens to what I'm saying, otherwise it would be uncomfortable to hold it in my heart" He took the lead to walk towards the corridor, then stopped and looked back. With Queiroz. "You know what? I suddenly felt that it was a great experience to sit in a stadium where no one was empty and think about problems. The office or my home was too small, which restricted my thinking."
¡°It¡¯s just right here.¡± Ferguson pointed to the court and continued, ¡°It¡¯s big enough, but it¡¯s not boundless, otherwise I¡¯ll lose my mind.¡±
Then he muttered again: "Compared to the noisy stadium, I suddenly like such a quiet stadium again It's really strange."
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On April 26, 2008, three days before the second leg of the Champions League semi-finals, in the 36th round of the 2007-08 English Premier League, Nottingham Forest was tied with Arsenal at home. The score was 0:0. Who was the winner? Neither scored a goal.
At the end of this round, the points gap between Manchester United and Chelsea is still six points, and Chelsea still retains its theoretical hope of winning the championship. If Manchester United loses all the games in the next two rounds, and loses by a large margin, then Chelsea may win the championship. Why do you say this, because in addition to being six points ahead of Chelsea, Manchester United is alsoWith a twenty goal difference advantage.
For Ferguson and Grant, there are still two rounds before the end of the league. Will there be any surprises in the last two rounds of the league? (To be continued)