Chapter 447 The league championship is close at hand

There is only the last month of the season, and Manchester United still has too many games left, which makes them usher in a new game after two days of rest.

On the evening of May 5st, Manchester United visited Turf Moor Stadium to challenge the Clarets Burnley.

Although he will go to Spain to challenge the Europa League semi-final opponent Celta Vigo in three days, Mourinho still sent most of the main players to play in this game. The purpose is naturally to score all three points and help the team as early as possible Lock the league championship.

After all, at this moment, Manchester United only needs to win 2 more games to win the Premier League championship in advance. However, today's opponent Burnley has limited strength and has successfully relegated in advance. It can be said that it is the best to deal with no desire and no desire. opponent.

And as long as they win today's victory, Manchester United is really only one step away from winning the 14th Premier League championship in team history!

Manchester United played away from home at Turf Moor Stadium and launched a fierce attack on Burnley's goal from the beginning of the game. It is Bruno who drives these Manchester United attacks.

Although Burnley has no desire this season, it does not mean that they can lose to Manchester United without resistance. If they can beat Manchester United, they will do it without hesitation.

Of course, it is impossible to say how enthusiastic Burnley is about defeating Manchester United. After all, the relationship between the two teams is not bad.

As a newly promoted team this season, Burnley introduced many players from Manchester United in last summer's transfer window, such as their goalkeeper Tom Heaton, center back Michael Keane, and midfielder David Jones, all of whom came from Manchester United. Youth training camp.

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For Burnley, the reason why they have the idea of ​​defeating Manchester United at home is because Manchester United has played too many games in the past month.

Starting from the game against West Brom on April 4, this game against Burnley is already the 1th game that Manchester United has played in a month, averaging one game every three days.

Although Mourinho carried out certain player rotations, Bruno played in nine of these ten games.

Playing nine games in a month, and all of them are extremely intense games, no one can say what level Bruno will be able to perform in the fierce Premier League competition.

Mainly due to fatigue. After experiencing close-level competition for almost a month, Bruno must be very tired.

But when the game started, everyone quickly discovered that at least Bruno's fatigue was not very prominent, and his running was as usual.

His physical fitness is much better than everyone imagined, and Bruno's performance naturally exceeded Burnley's expectations.

Because they did not expect Bruno to have such good physical fitness, they naturally did not control Bruno's running range so tightly, allowing Bruno to move freely within a relatively loose range, which caused a lot of trouble for Burnley. .

Driven by Bruno's engine, Manchester United continuously launched a fierce offensive towards Burnley's goal.

The game was only thirty minutes old, and Manchester United had already had nine shots on goal, while Burnley had only one.

It can also be seen from this data that Burnley's defense against Bruno was not adequate.

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In the 39th minute, Manchester United finally broke the deadlock. Bruno launched the attack from the backcourt. After three passes, the football fell to Rooney's feet. The Manchester United captain took a shot without hesitation. The football penetrated the goal guarded by Tom Heaton, his former teammate.

"Rooney!! Manchester United has taken the lead!" Gary Lineker shouted excitedly. "Manchester United is very organized in their attack. Look at this attack just now. Bruno, Lingard, Rashford, and finally passed to At Rooney’s feet, Rooney completed the shot from back to front, from the center to the wing and then to the center, the route was very clear!”

Many commentators feel the same way. Although the goal was scored by Rooney, the initiator of this offense was Bruno, and not only this offense, but the previous offenses that failed to score goals also have a very close relationship with Bruno.

Bruno means to Manchester United that everyone knows exactly what they should do on the pitch.

The Manchester United players obviously knew this, so after Rooney scored, although he immediately ran to Rashford to hug and celebrate, he did not forget to hook his hand backwards and signal Bruno to come up quickly and let everyone celebrate together. .

Bruno and Lingard ran up together, and the four of them hugged each other.

This is the four-man group in Manchester United's frontcourt attack in this game.

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After Manchester United took the lead, Burnley was a little impatient. They received two yellow cards in the 41st and 44th minutes, forward Barnes and defender Lowton, both due to excessive movements in defense. This is obviously a sign of psychological imbalance.

Fortunately, there is not much time left in the first half, otherwise Burnley's players will collapse sooner or later if their emotions continue to develop like this.

Now, they can also use the halftime break to make some adjustments to allow the players to calm down their brains.

It can be said that the referee's whistle at the end of the first half saved Burnley.

However, this actually only allowed Burnley to struggle for a while longer...

In the second half, the two sides changed sides and fought again. In the 2th minute, Bruno received a pass from Herrera and scored another goal for Manchester United, changing the score to 0:.

This is the 36th league goal Bruno has scored this season. Not only is he far ahead in the Premier League scorer list, but he is also the leader in the ranking of the European Golden Boot Award. Shooters from the five major leagues, including Yossi and Aubameyang, were all left behind by him.

Manchester United leads Burnley by two goals, and there is actually no suspense in this game.

Although Burnley really wants to play the role of a league champion sniper, the gap in form and strength between the two teams is still obvious.

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After taking a two-goal lead, Mourinho began to make substitutions to prepare for the away game in the Europa League semi-finals three days later.

Although the Europa League is a bit useless for Manchester United, and Manchester United does not need the Europa League this season to save the country and compete for a place in the Champions League next season, but being able to win a championship, both Mourinho and Manchester United players will Will not refuse.

Especially after Manchester United wins the Europa League, they will also complete the three major cup competitions of the Champions League, European Cup Winners' Cup and Europa League, becoming the fifth Grand Slam winner in history. Everyone is still very interested.

Lingard was replaced by Gundogan in the 70th minute, and Bruno was replaced by Carrick in the 77th minute.

In the end, Manchester United maintained the 2:0 score until the end of the game.

After getting the three points as expected, Manchester United's points have risen to 91 points, tying Manchester United's single-season points record in the 20-team Premier League period and falling short of the team's 1993 points in a single Premier League season set in the 1994-92 season. The historical record is only 1 point different.

After defeating Burnley and returning to Manchester United, the team soon began preparations for the Europa League semi-finals.

The Europa League semi-final against Celta Vigo was Manchester United's first European semi-final in six years.

Six years ago, Manchester United defeated Schalke 2 in the Bundesliga with a total score of 0:4 in the Champions League semi-finals, 1:6 away and 1:04 at home, and entered the Champions League final, but in the end they lost 1:3. Barcelona, ​​at its peak, lost to the Cosmos in the Champions League final for the second time in three years.

After that Champions League final, Manchester United inevitably fell into a trough. They failed to advance to the Champions League group stage in the 2011-2012 season, were blocked by Real Madrid from the quarter-finals in the 2012-2013 season, and stopped in the quarter-finals in the 2013-2014 season. Because Moyes created the lowest ranking in the Premier League in team history and missed the European war, the 2014-2015 season was once again eliminated in the Champions League group stage...

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This season, Manchester United has performed very strongly on all fronts. They have won the League Cup and reached the final of the FA Cup. They are one step away from the Premier League championship and have reached the semi-finals of the Europa League with an unbeaten record. Fans are excited. I hope the team can continue their efforts, beat Celta Vigo to reach the final, and eventually win the championship.

Celta Vigo is currently ranked tenth in La Liga. Although they are not performing well in the league, they are still very good in the European competition.

This is also a common phenomenon for mid-tier teams in La Liga, such as Atletico Madrid in previous years, and Sevilla, known as the "King of the Europa League". They do not have the strength to compete in La Liga and the Champions League, and they are more than enough to control the Europa League.

For the Premier League teams, the Europa League is very useless and adds more trouble than glory.

How many times have the Premier League’s Europa League representatives made it to the quarter-finals before hurriedly withdrawing from the fight. For example, this was the case for Manchester United in the 2011-2012 and 2015-2016 seasons.

Celta Vigo is also a typical mid-table team in La Liga. They performed well last season and qualified for the Europa League as sixth in La Liga.

This season, they will focus mainly on the Europa League. They want to save the country and qualify for next season's Champions League. Their performance in the Europa League is very good. In the knockout stage, they eliminated Shakhtar Donetsk, Krasnodar and Genk reached the semi-finals.

In Spain, although their overall performance is not good, they have defeated Barcelona at home and eliminated Real Madrid in the Copa del Rey. They can be called a killer of giants.

Celta has former Liverpool player Aspas in the team. This forward has scored 23 goals for Celta this season, ranking first in the team's scorer list. He is very threatening. He defeated Barcelona at home and was the number one contributor. Often performs well against strong enemies.

Facing Manchester United, Aspas will definitely be more motivated.

This is why Mourinho dare not underestimate this team.

This is not an easy team to deal with. Bruno has fully understood this in the simulated battles many days before the game.

Conquering Celta Vigo on the road is difficult.