After winning this big victory, Southampton, who returned to the league, suffered a draw, but no one paid too much attention to this. On the contrary, Tottenham continued to rise. They defeated Queens Park Rangers, who were fighting for relegation.
Arsenal tied with Chelsea, so the competition for fourth place became more intense - Arsenal had 65 points, Tottenham had 65 points, and New York City had also won consecutive games recently.
Card, the points have reached 65 points!
Three teams with 65 points competed for the last Champions League spot, which was extremely fierce.
Southampton has already scored 73 points, leading them by eight points. With three rounds left in the league, they have basically secured their third position.
The competition for the championship has also started to ripple again. In this round, Manchester United was tied 4-4 by Everton, and the points stayed at 83 points. However, Manchester City defeated the bottom Wolves, and the points reached 80 points.
Three points behind Manchester United!
And in the next round, Manchester City will welcome Manchester United at home!
Manchester City's goal difference is six more than Manchester City. If they can defeat Manchester United at home, they can return to the first position through the goal difference advantage!
No one expected that the Premier League competition would become so fierce at the last moment!
At this tense moment, everyone in Southampton can watch the show leisurely...
"Isn't this bad..." Benali said.
"What's wrong? Do you want us to focus on the Europa League and have to fight with the teams in the league to win the championship or qualify for the Champions League?" Noriya said.
"I'm still willing to win the championship." Benelli muttered.
"That's true, I am willing to win the championship." Ji Ya was stunned for a moment.
Then the two people burst into laughter. Fortunately, their unscrupulous conversation would not be heard by coaches such as Ferguson, Mancini, Wenger, old Redknapp and Pardew.
Afraid of spitting out a mouthful of blood...
We are working our butts off here, and you are actually making fun of us?
I can't bear it!
But by this time the entire Southampton team had arrived in Valencia to prepare for the second round.
After all, although they have a huge advantage in the first round, Southampton, which does not draw attention in the league, can still prepare well for the second round.
This is not a good thing for Valencia.
This is actually the case.
In the following second round, Valencia tried to score, but made no progress due to Southampton's midfield press and penalty area defense.
Southampton did not invest much energy in offense in this game, and focused mainly on defense. Therefore, while affecting its own offense, it also prevented Valencia from scoring goals.
Throughout the first half, Valencia didn't even have a few successful shots. Occasionally, a few missed shots were saved by Navas.
After the start of the second half, Southampton killed the game with a counterattack. Vidal passed the ball in the midfield, and Willian stepped in from the right and sent the ball into the goal. This was also the only goal in the game.
Southampton achieved a brilliant victory in two rounds - a total score of 6 to 2 was even shocking in the Europa League semi-finals. In the other semi-final, Atletico Madrid had the last laugh, they won three games in two rounds.
They eliminated Athletic Bilbao from the same league with a score of one to one and also entered the finals.
To say that Atletico Madrid's performance in the Europa League this season is indeed very good. They were the Europa League champions last season. They also easily took first place in the group stage this season, and their opponents in the group stage are
Udinese in Serie A, Rennes in Ligue 1 and Celtic in the Scottish Premiership are quite good in terms of gold content. In the knockout rounds, they also eliminated Lazio, Besiktas, Metalist and
Athletic Bilbao, in terms of gold content, has more solid results than Southampton.
Although they are currently only ranked fourth in La Liga, which is still worse than Valencia, they are the kind of team that although not particularly outstanding as a whole, has several good hot spots, such as Turkey in the midfield.
Turan is excellent in technique and breakthrough, while striker Falcao was the top scorer in the Europa League last season and played against Southampton.
Coupled with outstanding players such as Godin, Miranda, Courtois, Gabi, and Koke, what Atletico Madrid lacks now is just experience compared with Valencia.
Although their head coach Simeone is still young, he has his own way of training the team. When facing Athletic Bilbao led by Bielsa, his head coach in the 2002 World Cup, in the semi-finals, he
He led the team to defeat Athletic Bilbao, which performed well, with solid defense and counterattacks.
"Atletico Madrid is still difficult to deal with. Any team that can enter the final is difficult to deal with. Compared with Porto last season, their defense is particularly strong. Their goalkeeper Courtois and two central defenders are very strong.
, we have to pay attention to it."
Ji Ya has now put all his attention on this final. The unusual time of this final is on May 10th, which happens to be between the thirty-seventh and thirty-eighth rounds. Ji Ya specially
Called Mancini and said sorry, we can't help you stop Manchester United in the 37th round...
Mancini, who was so angry that he was almost bald, scolded Ji Ya - I was thinking about how to deal with Manchester United, and you called me to disturb me. Tell me, did Ferguson send you here?
However, after being harassed by Ji Ya, Mancini became much clearer. In the thirty-sixth round of the home game against Manchester United, he commanded decisively and was extremely patient. In the end, Manchester City relied on captain Kompany to
A golden goal before the end of the first half, beating Manchester United 1-0 at home!
With this score, it is actually enough.
After all, their goal difference still has an advantage.
After winning this game, Manchester City caught up with five points in two games and returned to the first place in the standings, with great momentum!
"It's a pity that they couldn't win this game... but Manchester City played well and they won this game, but if they want to win the championship, they have to win the remaining two games. I
I noticed that Manchester City has won many games in a row. They lack the experience to persist in such situations, so we still have hope. In the next two rounds, we will win the game and then quietly wait for Manchester City to make mistakes.
of."
At the press conference after the game, Ferguson didn't seem so anxious, which made many old reporters start to complain in their hearts - this old guy started to use the same trick against Keegan again...
Mancini did not answer this question. No one knows whether he was affected by Ferguson's remarks.
But no matter what, the competition for the league championship this season has reached a fever pitch!
