Chapter 2171: The first round of the top 8 is a big one, everyone is paying attention! [With predict
"Huh, UEFA isn't afraid of fans getting tired of the aesthetics!"
"What a hell of a schedule...three games in a row against Manchester City!"
"Manchester City is definitely the most difficult opponent this year, no doubt about it!"
“This time neutral fans can enjoy the show!”
Before the game even started, heated discussions had already begun on various sports forums.
But only Manchester United and Manchester City know how great the pressure is.
Manchester City is definitely trying their best to get revenge.
Manchester United does not dare to say that they can defeat Manchester City 100%.
Under such circumstances, Manchester United can only expand its advantage as much as possible when playing at home.
In fact, the most discussed topic in the outside world now is conspiracy theory.
Both Manchester City and Manchester United have shown tremendous strength this year. If they meet other teams, they are likely to both advance.
But UEFA put them together.
why?
Suppress the Premier League!
With Ye Chen, Ronaldo and Messi coming to the Premier League, they have become the most influential league in Europe.
Even though all four La Liga teams have reached the quarterfinals of the Champions League, their popularity is still far behind that of Manchester United and Manchester City.
As the most eye-catching league in Europe, they don't want the Premier League to surpass them in popularity.
So let Manchester City and Manchester United fight each other...
Of course, there are many similar conspiracy theories.
Just like Manchester United and Paris Saint-Germain got together in the previous life, UEFA wanted to watch the match between Messi and Ronaldo.
Now it feels like a forced match between Messi and Ronaldo...
But as a player, Ye Chen did not pay attention to news from the outside world.
He still arrived at Manchester United's Bullingdon training base early to set an example for the players.
Of course, he was also pretending to be trying hard.
But goal after goal on the field was his powerful response.
Ye Chen knew that Guardiola would definitely come up with some new tricks to restrict himself, and what he could do as a player was to improve his cooperation with his teammates.
With him locked down, he allowed his teammates to attack boldly and look for opportunities to break the game.
As for him, he naturally has to use as much space as possible to create opportunities for his teammates.
In fact, the more crucial the game is, the more it tests teamwork.
After all, football is a sport for eleven people. No matter how strong one person is, he cannot fight against an entire opposing team on his own.
In order to deal with Guardiola, Ancelotti intends to take his football philosophy to the extreme.
As for Ancelotti's tactical philosophy -
Once the competition begins, the outcome will be clear.
The first Manchester derby is the quarter-final of the Champions League!
The quarter-finals are also called the semi-finals, and the first to start are Juventus and Real Madrid.
It stands to reason that Real Madrid's effectiveness would be greatly reduced without Ronaldo.
But when the game started, Real Madrid crushed Juventus and beat them 3-0 away from home.
At the same time, Sevilla played against Bayern.
Sevilla plays at home, and Klopp faces his former rival.
With Salah and Mbappe firing on all cylinders, they beat Bayern 3-1.
The first day of European competition is over, and it feels like Real Madrid and Sevilla will advance to the semi-finals!
However, the second game was not played and no one knew what the result would be.
The second match will follow on Wednesday.
Manchester United will host Manchester City and Barcelona will host Atletico Madrid.
The two games started at the same time.
One is the civil war in the Premier League, and the other is the civil war in La Liga.
But when the ratings of the two teams came out, everyone was surprised to find that 80% of the fans chose to watch the game between Manchester United and Manchester City.
Don’t forget, Messi, the former king of Barcelona, has joined Manchester City!
A large number of Barcelona fans will choose to watch both games at the same time.
April 4, 4pm local time.
Old Trafford is brightly lit, like a football temple ignited by passion and expectation.
In forty-five minutes, the first leg of the much-anticipated Champions League quarter-final will kick off here, and their opponent is Manchester City, which was once called "noisy neighbors" by Ferguson.
There were a total of 80,000 tickets available at the event, and the visiting team Manchester City only received 3,000.
This caused strong dissatisfaction before the game.
But according to UEFA's rules, this is reasonable...
The stands at Old Trafford were already filled with enthusiastic Manchester United fans, wearing the Red Devils' iconic red jerseys, turning the home stadium into a sea of red.
The camera swept across the stands, where fans were waving their scarves and singing the team song. The passionate singing echoed in the air, shaking the entire stadium.
Players from both sides are warming up on the court at this time.
Screams rang out from the audience from time to time, and players from both sides chose to lower their heads to warm up and did not interact with the fans.
A tense mood was spreading wildly.
Everyone understands the importance of this game.
In fact, some Manchester United fans have said that if they can win big against Manchester City in this game, it doesn’t matter even if they lose to Manchester City in the next league game.
After all, compared to the league championship, the Champions League is more difficult.
Let me put it this way, Manchester United and Ye Chen won the Champions League last season, which is only a total of four Champions Leagues.
Excluding the one by Ye Chen, Ferguson led the Red Devils to win two, one in the 98-99 season and the other on a rainy night in Moscow in 08.
The other one was won by Sir Bobby Charlton in the old days!
On the contrary, they have too many Premier League champions...
After the warm-up, the players trotted back to the locker room to listen to the head coach's final tactical arrangements.
The screens in both teams’ locker rooms showed the other team’s starting lineups.
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"Zhongyang TV station, Zhongyang TV station!"
"Welcome everyone to watch CCTV5 on time the first leg of the 2017-2018 UEFA Champions League quarter-finals, with Manchester United at home and their city rivals Manchester City facing off!"
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"Migu Sports welcomes everyone. I am today's host, Zhan Jun, and next to me is my partner, Zhang Lu..."
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"Welcome everyone to tune in... I am Ding Weijie, the host of tonight..."
A game that attracted the attention of countless fans.
There are no less than hundreds of channels commenting on this game.
Fans all over the world are watching this game.
"After a season of adjustment and rectification, Guardiola has brought a qualitative improvement to Manchester City."
"Manchester City is admirable not only for its results but also for its beautiful football style. Guardiola has almost perfectly replicated Barcelona's passing and controlling football in Manchester City. In the match against Everton that just ended, people seemed to see the Dream Team III of the past. They played their own football and left their opponents with no ball to play."
"Everton shrank their formation in their own half, and their ball possession rate once dropped to 10%. They knew very well that under Manchester City's powerful control system, no matter how hard they tried, they could not touch the ball. It is foreseeable that the scene of Everton against Manchester City will be repeated when other Premier League teams face Manchester City in the future. Even strong teams like Mourinho and Conte were already afraid before the battle and put up a defensive formation. Other weak teams, on the other hand, would rather lose less than win."
"But as the only opponent they have lost to this season, Manchester City are eager to beat their opponents today!"
"After all, everyone understands that Manchester City hired Guardiola as head coach not just for the Premier League, they are eager to achieve a breakthrough in the Champions League!"
Ps: Yesterday was really awesome. I predicted four out of four, and got two scores right. The directions were all correct. The last 20 and the bigger score were actually 30, which was a big win! Today's game is about to start, so I'll make a simple prediction! The first one is Australia. They lost the last game, but I believe they can get back on track in this game, 12/13! As for the Chinese national football team... everyone says that the Chinese national football team will lose badly, but they are optimistic about two scores, 10/11! Of course, try not to believe it. For the rest of the UEFA Nations League, I'm optimistic that Hungary will win, England will give up a win or a draw; Germany will remain undefeated; Georgia will remain undefeated, and Ecuador will win! I'm just responsible for the prediction, don't believe it all~
