Football King Bale

Having just finished their FA Cup quarter-final match against Arsenal, Manchester United faced another challenge from Marseille without stopping. This is the second leg of this season’s Champions League quarter-finals.

In the first round of the game, Manchester United got a perfect score away from home, which almost pushed Marseille to a desperate situation: Marseille must beat Manchester United by more than two goals at Old Trafford, or a big win of more than 3:1. The score can reverse Manchester United and advance to the quarterfinals.

Manchester United has played against French Ligue 1 teams 11 times at Old Trafford, with an impressive record of 8 wins and 3 draws. Manchester United, led by Ferguson, has yet to lose a point at Old Trafford in the Champions League this season. It has won three consecutive victories over Glasgow Rangers, Valencia and Bursaspor.

Manchester United not only achieved a complete victory at Old Trafford this season, even if it expanded to all fronts, they have never lost here, but were tied once, and that was as early as October 16, five months ago. On the same day, the Red Devils were tied 2:2 by West Bromwich Albion at the Theater of Dreams.

In the next five months, Manchester United achieved a terrifying 18-game winning streak in the Theater of Dreams on four fronts: the Champions League, Premier League, FA Cup and League Cup!

Facing Manchester United like this, the Marseilles know that they want to make a comeback here, but their hope is almost infinitely close to zero.

However, the Marseilles did not want to surrender. Their coach Deschamps said in an interview with reporters: "If you look at the data alone, there is no doubt that this will be a very difficult game. Manchester United has already won at home. 18 consecutive wins, 26 unbeaten games, 7 Champions League games this season, and only conceded one goal in seven consecutive wins. Although it was three or four years ago since they last won the championship, due to their status, everyone Before the season started, they were always considered one of the four or five teams that were expected to win the championship.”

"On the surface, Manchester United is indeed more favored by everyone. However, we also have opportunities. Football matches cannot be determined by looking at statistics. Maybe we can only get three or four chances in the whole game, so this He asked us to become more calm in front of the goal. I personally watched the game between Manchester United and Arsenal. I am not sure about Ferguson's tactics, but we will attack with all our strength and also take into account the team's defense. Try not to give your opponent any chance."

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Before the start of the game, another piece of bad news came from Manchester United, that is, Vidic, who had just returned from the ban, was injured again during training and had to hang out with Ferdinand, Park Ji-sung and others. Therefore, the starting center back The combination can only be composed of Smalling and Brown.

It is worth mentioning that Manchester United's starting 11 players have played 675 games in the Champions League, setting a club record.

For Marseille, Gignac, who missed the first round due to injury, has recovered and formed a front three with Remy and Ayew.

Before the game, both sides held a moment of silence for those who unfortunately lost their lives in the Japanese earthquake.

At the beginning of the first half, Manchester United took advantage of the possession of the ball and quickly got off to a dream start.

In the 5th minute, Rooney passed the ball to Giggs on the left in the midfield. Wang Laoji then passed the ball to the middle. Bell received the pass from the Welsh veteran at the top of the penalty area and took advantage of the situation to pass the ball into the air. Later, the unmarked Hernandez easily broke the deadlock with a shot into the empty goal from close range.

The score on the field became 1:0, and the score in the two rounds became 3:0. Marseille needed to score three goals at the Theater of Dreams.

At the same time, Manchester United will no longer be allowed to score in order to advance.

The little pea who scored this goal has scored 15 goals in the season and is the third scorer in Manchester United after Bale and Berbatov.

As the situation became increasingly unfavorable, Marseille immediately stepped up their offense. They had to choose to attack, otherwise they would have to accept the result of being eliminated by Manchester United.

In the 9th minute, Ayew knocked the ball with his heel and Gignac got a chance to stand alone, but unfortunately Van der Sar's shot was too high.

After that, Manchester United still clearly had the advantage in possession of the ball, but there were slightly too many fouls.

In the 20th minute, Hernandez was given a yellow card for knocking down the opponent after Heinze made a ball.

In the 23rd minute, Rooney made a wonderful pass, and Hernandez's header was confiscated by Mandanda. However, Mandanda made a low-level mistake in opening the kick and handed it directly to Bell. Bell then passed the ball to Rooney who was pulling to the right, and then moved forward into the Marseille penalty area, intending to complete a wall kick with Rooney. Unfortunately, the little fat return pass was not accurate. Poor, the ball was cleared by Diawara.

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Seeing that Bell was active again and posing a great threat, Marseille strengthened its defense against him.

Because the team is now at a very obvious advantage, Bell did not use all his strength to fight Marseille, so his performance inevitably dropped.

Bell in front was defended by Marseille, but it also attracted a lot of Marseille's defensive energy. This gave O'Shea, who played right back in this game, a chance. He began to frequently provide assists from behind.

However, O'Shea obviously had bad luck today. He sent the ball into the penalty area several times but failed to create any threat. In the 32nd minute of the game, he himself even failed because of a cross after a breakthrough. Strained thigh muscle.

O'Shea's injury forced Ferguson to use up one of his substitutions early.

Subsequently, although both sides created some opportunities, they failed to change the score.

Especially when Hernandez received a cross from Giggs from the left and was pushed down by a Marseille defender when he was about to hit the goal. However, the referee showed no sign and even made the Red Devils fans in the Dream Theater boo. Shocking.

In the end, the 1:0 score was maintained until the end of the first half.

After a short half-time break, the second half began immediately. Although Marseille intends to attack, facing Manchester United's iron wall, they have absolutely nothing to do against Manchester United.

Not only that, when the game reached the 75th minute, Manchester United scored again!

Valencia, who had just returned from injury and replaced Giggs, sent a direct pass along the sideline. Bell, who got rid of the defender, went down at high speed, then sent a cross and passed the ball to the penalty spot. Little Pea. Hernandez cleverly appeared at the spot where the ball landed and easily pushed the ball into the empty goal. While scoring twice, it also helped Manchester United expand the score to 2:0. In the entire series, the score between the two sides has become 4: 0!

This is also the first time that Manchester United has sent two assists in a single game in the Champions League. Now, his number of assists in the Champions League has reached three times, tied for first place with Real Madrid's Ozil, but Bell because of the first letter of his name. factors, ranking at the top of the assists list.

As a result, a very magical phenomenon has appeared in the Champions League's personal ranking data: that is, the top positions of the scorer list and the assist list are occupied by the same person!

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The team led 4:0 in two rounds, with less than 20 minutes left in the game. Ferguson felt that the game was stable and made another substitution adjustment, replacing Bale with Nani.

As the season draws to a close, every game is crucial, and every minute of rest is equally important to the players.

Ferguson knows the role of Bell on Manchester United very well, so at this time, whenever there is a chance, Ferguson will let Bell rest.

After Bell left the field, Manchester United adopted a more conservative playing style and used more passes to consume the game time.

However, Manchester United's gate was still declared lost in the 82nd minute of the game. This was also Manchester United's second goal conceded in the Champions League this season.

What makes people feel embarrassed is that the goal was not scored by a Marseille player, but an own goal by Manchester United center back Wes Brown.

At that time, Marseille got a corner kick opportunity. The ball was driven into the Manchester United penalty area by Marseille players, but was missed by the Marseille players. However, Brown, who was in the center of the goal, accidentally headed the ball towards himself without suffering much defensive pressure. goal. Although Scholes, who was guarding the goal post, cleared the ball, it was already too late. The ball had already crossed the goal line first.

In this way, the Marseilles unexpectedly regained a victory and saved some face.

And Wes Brown, who scored an own goal, looked bad and looked doubtful about life.

Fortunately, this goal was insignificant. Manchester United faced off calmly in the last 10 minutes and did not give their opponents any chance. They maintained the 2:1 score until the end of the game, thus eliminating Marseille with a total score of 4:1 and advancing to the quarterfinals.

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While Manchester United was playing against Marseille, another Champions League match was also going on at the same time. Bayern, which beat Inter Milan 1:0 away in the first leg, faced the Nerazzurri at home.

After an exciting goal battle, Inter Milan finally defeated Bayern 3:2 in an away game, advancing to the Champions League quarterfinals with a total score of 3:3 and more away goals.

Eto'o scored at the beginning to give Inter Milan the lead, but then Robben showed off his power. He first forced Cesar to take a long shot, which led to Gomez's goal, and then passed the ball, causing Motta's mistake to help Muller score again. In the second half, Sneijder tied the score, and before the end, Pandev used Eto'o's assist to set the score at 3:2.

On Wednesday night, the last two second-leg matches of the Champions League quarter-finals continued. As a result, Real Madrid defeated Lyon 3:0 at home and advanced with a total score of 4:1.

Finally, the best club in the world in the 20th century broke through the haze that had shrouded it for many years, and it may even be the most embarrassing haze in the century-old history of the team. It reached the quarterfinals of the Champions League for the first time in seven seasons, ending their Champions League campaign. title.

The embarrassing record ended tonight at the Bernabeu. Real Madrid announced its return to world football with a clean 3-0, launching its 10th impact on the highest honor of the Champions League.

This is Real Madrid's night of nirvana. Humiliation has become history, nightmares have become a thing of the past, and Los Blancos, who have taken off their pseudo-rich hat, once again truly have the qualifications to compete for the Champions League after 7 seasons.

Chelsea, the blue team, played a boring 0:0 battle with Danish hegemon Copenhagen at Stamford Bridge and advanced with a total score of 2:0 over the two rounds.

At this point, all eight of the Champions League quarterfinals have been born.

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