Chapter 577 The most suspenseful Premier League finale in history
Chapter 577 The most suspenseful Premier League finale in history
In the away game against Brighton, Mourinho made a comprehensive rotation of Manchester United's lineup, and even Bruno sat on the bench. After all, no matter what the result of today's game is, it will not affect the fact that Manchester United has already won the championship in advance.
After a simple pre-match welcome ceremony, the game started soon.
Perhaps it was because the pre-match welcoming ceremony made Brighton players feel depressed, or perhaps it was because Brighton has not yet completely landed and still needs some points to ensure successful relegation. After the game started, Brighton performed very actively on the field.
However, it was Manchester United who scored the first goal away from home.
In the 3rd minute of the game, Rashford sent a free kick into the penalty area from the left, and Fellaini made a header to score.
Just as Manchester United players excitedly began to celebrate the goal, the referee received a prompt from the linesman and blew the whistle on Manchester United's goal.
Manchester United players were very dissatisfied with the goal being disallowed, and even the commentator said that it was controversial for the referee team to disallow this goal for Manchester United.
Manchester United players were delighted for nothing, and the score returned to 0:0.
Brighton then launched a wave of attacks. Connaughton and Izquierdo's shots in the penalty area were blocked by Romero, Stephens' long shot hit the right post and went wide, and Gross' low shot from the edge of the penalty area was also confiscated by Romero. Propper passed the ball, and Murray's half-volley shot from 25 yards was saved by Romero.
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In the first half of the game, although Brighton had a strong offensive and suppressed Manchester United, which mostly consisted of substitutes, their players failed to seize the opportunities they created and take the lead.
For Manchester United, the team's offense lacks threat due to large-scale rotations.
In the end, neither side scored a goal in the first half and the game went into halftime with a score of 0:0.
At halftime, Mourinho was somewhat dissatisfied with the team's performance in the first half. He criticized the players for their slackness on the field and asked them to be more active in the second half.
After the start of the second half, Manchester United players were more active than in the first half and had some shooting opportunities. However, neither Mata's shot nor Fellaini's header from the corner kick really tested Brighton's goalkeeper Ryan.
In the 57th minute, the home team Brighton broke the deadlock. Izquierdo broke through Damian's defense on the left side of the penalty area and made a cross. Gross headed the ball from the edge of the small penalty area but was blocked by Rojo on the goal line, but the goal line technology prompted the referee that the goal was valid.
After conceding the goal, Manchester United launched a counterattack, but unfortunately the effect was not good and several shots failed to hit the target.
As time went by, Manchester United's lagging situation has not been changed.
Bruno couldn't sit still anymore and took the initiative to ask Mourinho to play.
According to Mourinho, the team had already won the championship, so the win or loss of this game was not important, so he arranged for Bruno and other key players to take turns to rest. Now seeing Bruno's initiative to play, and the team's upcoming schedule is not too tight, he agreed to Bruno's request.
In the 72nd minute of the game, Bruno came on as a substitute, replacing Mata.
Also substituted was Damian, who made a mistake when the goal was scored just now, and he was replaced by Luke Shaw.
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"Manchester United's attack was passed to the front court and handed to Rashford."
"Rashford retreated to get the ball with his back, turned around and passed it to Bruno..."
"Bruno quickly follows up..."
"He was very quick and the Brighton players came forward to defend..."
"Bruno dribbled the ball sideways past the defender and shot directly with his left foot!"
"The ball went in!!!"
"GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOALLLL!!!!!!"
"Bruno! Goal from Bruno!"
“Just nine minutes after coming on as a substitute, Bruno scored against Brighton!”
"This is also Bruno's 40th league goal this season. He continues to break his own Premier League single-season goal record!"
"In this season's European Golden Boot rankings, Bruno is also far ahead with 80 points, followed by Barcelona star Yosi with 66 points, Liverpool striker Salah with 62 points, and Bruno's Manchester United teammate Harry Kane with 60 points!"
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Bruno seemed extremely excited. He was so excited that he rushed out of the stadium, ran all the way to the corner flagpole, and slid down to his knees in front of everyone.
He was simply intoxicated by the feeling of leaving the home fans speechless.
He leaned back and could clearly see the angry yet helpless looks of the Brighton fans in the stands.
They have no way to deal with Bruno!
Manchester United players also rushed towards Bruno, and everyone looked extremely excited.
Although the outcome of today's game will have little impact on Manchester United, which has already won the championship, but which player would refuse the opportunity to not lose, or even win?
You know, Manchester United is still unbeaten this season. If they can continue to remain unbeaten in the last three league games, they will become the second team after Arsenal to achieve an unbeaten Premier League season.
Moreover, as long as Manchester United can get a draw today, they will become the first team in Premier League history to score more than 100 points in a single season!
The team performed poorly in the first 70 minutes, and the players felt a little frustrated. As a result, Bruno scored a goal just 9 minutes after he came on the field, helping the team to equalize the score.
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However, Bruno's goal was also the last goal for both sides in this game.
In the end, Manchester United relied on this goal to draw 1:1 with Brighton away from home. With this draw, Manchester United also got the 100th point of the season, becoming the first team in the history of the Premier League to score more than points in a single season, and even the first team in the history of the English top league to score more than points in a single season.
For Manchester United, this is a season worthy of being written into history. In addition to winning the Premier League championship, Manchester United had set five records in the Premier League before this game, including consecutive wins (24 games), most goals in a season (115 goals), most wins (32 games), and points (99 points). It also tied the record for away wins in a single season (15 games).
However, Manchester United did not stop there. Being able to create more records became the driving force for Manchester United after winning the championship.
Mourinho said in an interview after the game: "Although we have won the championship, the season is not over yet. We will work hard to win, there is no doubt about it."
曼联虽然是第一支单赛季拿到100分的英超球队，但是在欧洲五大联赛史上，他们却仅能排在第4，此前3支分别是2013-2014赛季的尤文（102分）、2012-2013赛季的巴萨（100分）和2011-2012赛季的皇马（100分）。
Outside of the top five leagues, Benfica also scored 1990 points in the 1991-101 season.
In the history of the English top league, if converted to the three-point system, the previous record was 1978 points created by Liverpool in the 1979-98 season, but there were 42 games at that time.
Manchester United also broke another record held by Chelsea. Currently, Manchester United's goal difference is as high as 93 goals, breaking the record of 2009 goals set by the Blues in the 2010-71 season.
In fact, Manchester United broke Chelsea's record on the first day of the new year in 2018. At that time, they beat Everton 22-4 away in the 0nd round of the Premier League, with a goal difference of 74 goals, surpassing Chelsea's 71 goals.
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Four days later, on the evening of May 4, a make-up match of the 5st round of the Premier League was held between West Ham United and Manchester United at the London Olympic Stadium.
After a dull battle, the two teams drew 0:0.
At this point, Manchester United only has one game left to remain undefeated this season!
Their unbeaten record in the Premier League has also been rewritten to 39 games, just one step away from Chelsea's 40-game unbeaten record.
As long as they remain unbeaten in the final game of the season, they will tie Chelsea's unbeaten record!
Similarly, as long as Manchester United can get a draw in the final game of this season, they will tie Juventus' single-season points record in the top five leagues of 2013 points in the 2014-102 season.
Even if they can win the game, they will set a new single-season points record in the top five leagues with 104 points!
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2018年5月13日，英国当地时间下午三点，英超2017-2018赛季第38轮的10场比赛，全部在这一刻进行。
However, due to Manchester United's early championship, the final battle of the Premier League this season did not attract much attention, especially the lack of the most important focus of winning the championship, as well as the relegation battle and the competition for Champions League qualification.
Of course, there are still some concerns, such as whether Manchester United can remain unbeaten in this round of games and create a record of winning the championship unbeaten in the season.
The current Premier League standings are as follows:
曼联37轮32胜5平，打进116球失21球，净胜球95个，积101分排名第一；
曼城37轮30胜4平3负，打进105球失32球，净胜球73个，积94分排名第二；
热刺37轮21胜9平7负，打进69球失34球，净胜球35个，积72分排名第三；
利物浦37轮20胜11平6负，打进79球失40球，净胜球39个，积71分排名第四；
切尔西37轮20胜7平10负，打进62球失37球，净胜球25个，积67分排名第五；
阿森纳37轮18胜6平13负，打进72球失53球，净胜球19个，积60分排名第六；
伯恩利37轮14胜11平12负，打进35球失38球，净胜球-3个，积53分排名第七。
These are the top seven teams in the standings, and they are also the seven teams participating in European competitions in the new season.
This is mainly because Manchester United has already won the League Cup this season, and both Manchester United and Chelsea, who reached the FA Cup final, have already secured their qualification for the European competition, so the last qualification for the Europa League was given to the team ranked seventh in the standings.
Burnley, in seventh place, is four points ahead of Everton, in eighth place, and has already secured seventh place, which makes qualification for European competitions no longer in suspense.
The relegation teams had also been decided before the last round. Stoke City and West Bromwich Albion with 29 points, and Swansea City with 33 points, have already secured the three relegation spots.
