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On the evening of March 2017, 3, local time in the United Kingdom, in the second leg of the Europa League quarter-finals, Manchester United scored 16-2 at home in Rostov. Bruno scored and passed, helping Manchester United advance to the quarter-finals of the Europa League.
At this point, all the top eight players in this season’s European competition have been born.
In the Champions League, Arsenal lost both games 1:5 and were eliminated with a score of 2:10 in both rounds, making it the worst team in the knockout stage of the Champions League. Guardiola's team lost 1:3 away from home and ended up at 6:6 in two rounds, but Manchester City was eliminated due to few away goals. On the other hand, Leicester City, which has never been favored by anyone, defeated the Europa League king Sevilla 2:0 at home in the second round. The total score of the two rounds was 3:2 to advance to the quarterfinals and became the Premier League team's top eight in the Champions League. Single seedling.
As for the Europa League, Manchester United is also the only team in the Premier League.
In the quarter-finals draw ceremony held on the evening of March 3, the first draw of the Champions League quarter-finals, Leicester City faced Atletico Madrid, which was considered a pretty good draw.
After all, in the quarter-finals of the Champions League, it is difficult to encounter a weak team. In addition to the four super giants Real Madrid, Barcelona, Bayern Munich and Juventus, Dortmund, Atletico Madrid and Monaco are all similar.
In fact, Leicester City is the weakling in the eyes of the other seven teams, and it is the big gift package that everyone wants to encounter, but now this big gift package has fallen to Atletico Madrid.
In the Europa League, Manchester United is the biggest favorite and the only strong player among the eight teams. It is an opponent that the other seven teams do not want to encounter.
Through the draw, Belgian giants Anderlecht became the unlucky one, and they will face Manchester United in the quarter-finals.
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At noon on March 3, after less than 19 hours of rest, Manchester United challenged Middlesbrough away in the 60th round of the Premier League.
Although Ibrahimovic, the main center, was eliminated before the game, Middlesbrough still could not stop Manchester United's progress and lost with a score of 1:4.
Manchester United took the lead in the 23rd minute of the game. Mata made a pass from the left side of the penalty area. Rashford's shot from close range was blocked by Valdes. Bruno hit an empty goal from a small angle on the right side of the penalty area.
This is Bruno's 28th Premier League goal this season and continues to dominate the scorer list.
Looking at the mainstream European leagues, Bruno also scored the most goals in the same period. Only Messi's goals are closer to him. The Barcelona star currently scores 27 goals, leading the La Liga scorer list.
Manchester United expanded their lead in the 30th minute. Ashley Young passed the ball from the left to the far post, and Bruno, who was unmarked, headed into the near corner from close range, further increasing his personal number of Premier League goals to 29 goals.
Middlesbrough had the upper hand early in the second half but failed to create any real scoring chances. Instead, Manchester United scored another goal through counterattack in the 62nd minute to seal the victory.
Middlesbrough pulled one back in the 77th minute. Phil Jones barely made a clearance in the penalty area. Deron's header hit Smallin's leg and deflected. Gasted pushed the ball into the net from the small penalty area.
Manchester United scored another victory in the 93rd minute. Valdes slipped and made a mistake when making a clearance. Valencia took advantage of the situation and scored into an empty goal, locking the final score at 4:1.
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Manchester United defeated Middlesbrough 4:1 and maintained a 5-point advantage over Chelsea with one game in hand.
This victory is also the 610th victory for the Red Devils in the history of the Premier League and is another milestone moment for the team.
For Manchester United and Mourinho, this is a battle worth remembering.
自英超成立以来，曼联是第一支达到了600胜的球队，具体战绩为951战610胜196平145负。
This kind of performance is outstanding in the Premier League. Arsenal has the second most wins in the Premier League, but it only has 2 wins, which is still 517 games away from Manchester United. Chelsea ranks third with 93 wins, followed by Liverpool with 508. wins, Tottenham Hotspur's 3 wins and Everton's 472 wins.
Among Manchester United's 600 Premier League victories, Ferguson won 528 and single-handedly established the Manchester United dynasty. Moyes won 17 games, acting coach Ryan Giggs also won 2 games, and Van Gaal had a total of 39 wins in two seasons.
After Mourinho took charge of Manchester United this season, he has also won 27 wins in 24 Premier League games, which can be said to be a brilliant record.
After Ferguson retired, Manchester United has been looking for a coach who can lead the Red Devils back to the top. But neither Moyes nor Van Gaal has done this before. Only after Mourinho took over the team this season did Manchester United's results and mental outlook improve.
So far, Mourinho has won the Community Shield and League Cup for Manchester United, has been unbeaten in 18 rounds in the Premier League, and has also reached the top 8 in the Europa League.
Manchester United fans are looking forward to Mourinho leading the team back to the top and leading the team to the 610th Premier League victory in team history. This may be a good new starting point for Mourinho and Manchester United to set sail again.
Most of the 610 wins in the Premier League were built by Ferguson for Manchester United. Now Manchester United fans are looking forward to Mourinho leading the Red Devils to regain their former glory!
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Time has entered late March, and international football has ushered in the first international match day in 3.
The Portuguese national team has two games on this international match day, namely against Hungary at home in the fifth round of the group stage of the Russian World Cup European Qualifiers, and against Sweden in a warm-up match.
In the match against Hungary, Portugal won a big victory. Bruno broke the deadlock with a push shot, Cristiano Ronaldo scored twice with a long shot and a free kick, and Andre Silva came off the bench to add the icing on the cake. Portugal swept Hungary 4:0 at home. , won five consecutive victories in the World Preliminaries and ranked first in Group B.
Three days later, the Portuguese team moved to Madeira Island and ushered in a friendly match with the Swedish team.
This game was widely interpreted as a commendation to the Portuguese national team captain Cristiano Ronaldo, which fully expressed Portugal's gratitude to the national team captain.
In order not to let anyone steal Ronaldo's limelight, Santos even arranged for Bruno to rest in this game.
Before the game, Ronaldo displayed the Delaunay Cup in front of his hometown fans, and the scene seemed very warm.
After the game started, the scene seemed to be developing towards Ronaldo and the Portuguese national team. Cristiano Ronaldo first scored a goal in front of his hometown audience through flexible movement, and then created an own goal for his opponent, helping Portugal take a 2:0 lead.
However, in the second half of the game, the situation on the field suddenly changed. V-Classen scored twice to equalize the score for the Swedish team, making the situation very dangerous for a time.
The real embarrassing time for Ronaldo came in the 93rd minute of the game, because Cancelo's own goal caused the Portuguese team led by Ronaldo to suffer a defeat in front of his hometown people.
At that moment, Ronaldo, who had been substituted, was sitting on the bench with a very ugly face.
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On the first day of April, the 4th round of the Premier League begins one after another. The stadium was hit by upsets one after another, making people truly feel the power of the FIFA virus.
Manchester United faced West Bromwich Albion at home in this game. The Knickerbockers set up an iron barrel formation at the Old Trafford Stadium. Although Manchester United, led by Bruno, launched a wave of offensives towards West Bromwich Albion's goal. However, Manchester United's attacking group wasted opportunities again and again, and in the end they could only draw a goalless draw with their opponents 0:0.
In this game, Manchester United's ball possession rate was as high as 78%, and the number of shots was as high as 22. However, the Manchester United people did not score a single goal.
The poor state of Manchester United's players is evident from the fact that only 22 of their 3 shots hit the goal frame.
In the end, Manchester United, who shot 22 times, could only accept the 0:0 result.
After the game, Mourinho said in an interview: "The game is fair. I have to smile to face victory or defeat. One team has the ball, the other does not. One team competes to win, and the other keeps a draw. "De Gea looked like he was sleeping and he did a good job at the end and I was laughing."
Mourinho was able to maintain such a mood thanks to the fact that Chelsea, Manchester United's direct competitor, performed worse than Manchester United in the same game. Conte's team lost 1:2 to the relegation team Crystal Palace at Stamford Bridge, exposing the biggest upset of this round.
"Sky Sports" reported: "Mourinho's team suffered its third draw of the season, but they are getting closer and closer to the championship."
"Daily Mail" wrote: "Even with 4 times the ball possession rate of their opponents at Old Trafford, Manchester United was unable to score. However, Mourinho was not depressed because his Rival Chelsea led by Conte performed even worse at Stamford Bridge. The Blues lost 1:2 at home to Crystal Palace, almost handing over an excellent opportunity to narrow the gap with Manchester United."
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However, Mourinho's good mood did not last long.
In the middle of the week, the Premier League's double-match week ushered in the 31st round. Manchester United continued to sit at Old Trafford to face the Toffees Everton.
Everton took the lead in the 22nd minute. Gueye made a long pass, and Mirallas' shot from a small angle on the right side of the penalty area was blocked by De Gea. Then Ashley Williams headed the ball in the corner kick. Jagielka, who was under Rojo's close defense, hooked the ball with his back and outside the instep from close range. The ball passed between De Gea's legs and entered the net.
Manchester United, which was lagging behind, launched a fierce counterattack, but Manchester United seemed a little unlucky.
Bruno's free kick in the 30th minute of the first half was blocked by the goal post. Herrera's shot from a small angle hit the crossbar and bounced out of the empty goal.
Shortly after the start of the second half, Ashley Young passed a free kick from the left. Bruno's header hit the crossbar again during the melee and bounced off the crossbar.
A goal was denied three times by the home goalpost in one game, which caused a big blow to the Manchester United players.
The referee seemed to be working against Manchester United. In the 71st minute of the game, a good goal from Manchester United was judged to be offside, which caused strong dissatisfaction among Manchester United people.
Just when everyone thought Manchester United would suffer its second league defeat this season, Manchester United scored in the 4th minute of stoppage time.
Ashley Williams blocked Luke Shaw's shot from the edge of the penalty area and was sent off with a red card. Bruno took the penalty kick and scored his 30th league goal of the season, which also helped Manchester United equalize. score.
