Judging from the schedule, if the outcome of this game is not considered, Manchester United has a certain advantage.
Manchester United returned to home against West Ham in the 37th round. Curbishley's team was extremely unmotivated in the final stage. In the past 10 games, they had 2 wins, 2 draws and 6 losses, and lost to Chelsea. Liverpool and Tottenham both lost four points.
Afterwards, they suffered two small losses of 1 goal to the relegation teams Bolton and Sunderland, and only a 2-1 home victory over the relegated Derby County. The team is still in tenth place, thanks to its good record in the first half.
Nowadays, the team lacks stamina and has many injured players. Last year, West Ham beat Ferguson with a goal. West Ham took advantage of Manchester United's lack of motivation to win the championship in advance, and they had to win to avoid relegation. What's more, the hero Tevez at that time is now
Man from Manchester United. The situation is now the opposite. It doesn't matter if West Ham loses, but Ferguson's team must win in order to win the championship. It is very possible that Kubishli will go along with the situation and return favors. Even if they fight head-on, Manchester United's strength is clearly superior, and again
Playing at home, the possibility of losing points in an upset is very small. In the last round, Manchester United plays away against Wigan. The home team currently ranked 14th is basically not in danger of being relegated, and Manchester United will once again encounter a team that has always had "no desires and no demands".
Since Wigan were promoted to the Premier League in the 2005-06 season, they have lost twice to Manchester United at the JJB Stadium. The scores were 1-2 and 1-3. This season, Manchester United won 4-0 at home. There is a clear gap in strength between the two sides. If nothing else, Manchester United
Winning the game is no problem at all.
On the contrary, Chelsea's visit to the next round will be a tough battle. The Magpies, led by Owen, Martins and Viduka, have been playing crazy recently, with 4 wins, 3 draws and 7 games unbeaten. In the past three home games, they have won 7 goals and conceded 0 goals.
The 4-1 victory over Tottenham showed the renewed vitality of this star-studded team. Keegan's team spent most of the season in extreme depression. Now that "spring" is here, they don't care about rankings, they just want to
Feel free to vent. Looking at the record, Chelsea have not won at St. James Park in the past five years, with a record of 2 draws and 3 losses. The last time they scored all three points in the league was in the 2001-02 season, when Abramovich had not yet taken charge of the Blues.
The only thing that is good for Chelsea is that this game will be played next Monday. Chelsea will have plenty of time to adjust after playing in the Champions League. Chelsea's last game is against Bolton at home. The Blues have home field advantage, but they are likely to encounter a team that is
A team that is fighting to avoid relegation. Bolton are currently ranked 16th, but are only two points higher than the third from bottom. Chelsea's advantage is its home court and strength, and its historical record is also superior, but a team bursts out at the moment of life and death.
The power is immeasurable.
Therefore, if Chelsea wants to win the final championship, then there is no room for failure in this game. Even if they cannot win Manchester United, they must ensure that they are undefeated. But once they lose, the league championship may really become a dream, unless
There were miracles in the last two rounds, but would there really be so many miracles? The prince felt that it was not possible. He would not put his money on illusory luck. He wanted to win this game.
The day before the game, the Manchester United team came to London and adapted to the venue at the Blue Bridge in the morning. In the afternoon, Ferguson and Ronaldo attended the pre-match press conference.
This most focused battle of the entire season has attracted the attention of the world. It can be said that the outcome of this game determines the Premier League championship.
"I have to say that every time we went to Stamford Bridge in the past, it was very difficult. Our luck was simply terrible. It can be said that most of the time we played very well, but we just couldn't take three points from there. I think we were there.
There is indeed a lack of luck on this field. Yes, everyone knows that it is difficult to play Chelsea away from home. In the past two away games against them, we failed to win, but I believe that my players know that they need to prepare well for each subsequent match.
An away game, because these difficult games will ultimately determine whether we can win the championship. Everyone knows their responsibilities. Of course, everyone knows better the standards and expectations of the club and fans. When Manchester United players step onto the field, there is only one
The goal is to go all out to defeat the opponent." Ferguson naturally wanted to encourage the team at this time. Although he said that the Blue Bridge is a very difficult stadium to conquer, they will definitely win a victory here and then win the championship.
League champion.
What he said is absolutely right. For Manchester United, the Blue Bridge is indeed not a place that can bring them good luck. The following set of data illustrates this point well.
According to statistics, in the Premier League, Manchester United has been unable to defeat Chelsea on the road for nearly five years.
On May 10, 2007, the score between the two sides was 0-0;
On April 29, 2006, Manchester United was defeated by Chelsea 0-3;
On August 15, 2004, Manchester United lost again 0-1 away at the beginning of the season;
On December 1, 2003, it was still a 0-1 defeat;
On August 23, 2002, the two sides fought to a 2-2 draw;
It was not until April 20, 2002, that Manchester United won that league away game against Chelsea, with a score of 3-0. However, this victory was nearly five years ago.
This history was naturally used by Grant as an argument. No matter what Sir Alex said, Grant said that history speaks for itself and that Manchester United's desire to win at Stamford Bridge was tantamount to wishful thinking.
Grant's rogue performance left Sir Alex unable to refute. In the end, the two angrily expressed that they would make the other party look good in this game and let the facts speak for themselves.
The topic of the head coach is over, and naturally the player makes a grand appearance. In fact, another focus of this game is the duel between two superstars-Cristiano Ronaldo and Callejon.
Ronaldo's performance this season has been unstoppable. Although some people continue to use one reason or another to think that Ronaldo is not good enough, the Portuguese continues to use actions to show a pattern: he is not perfect, but he is always improving. In Liverpool, he
Once again filling a criticized gap - he scored the goal of Liverpool for the first time. Previously, although Ronaldo has scored 33 goals this season and 24 goals in the Premier League, some critics keep repeating that he has scored against Chelsea
He didn't score against Liverpool. He's not good at playing in big games. In fact, Ronaldo doesn't need to prove anything anymore. If he scores the winning goal in the Champions League quarter-finals, doesn't it count as a good performance in big games?
But one statistic is really not conducive to Cristiano Ronaldo to stop all doubters. In the past 30 games against Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool and Everton, the five strong teams that have a chance to compete for the Champions League this season, Cristiano Ronaldo has only 6
goals, 3 against Arsenal and 3 against Everton.
The goal against Liverpool brought Ronaldo's statistics this season to 34 goals in 34 games. For a winger to be able to achieve this data, according to Ferguson, Giggs and others, this is phenomenal.
"There is no other winger in the world who has such scoring ability." Ferguson smiled and promoted his latest disciple to reporters countless times.
After scoring twice on Wednesday to break Best's record and lead Manchester United to a 2-0 victory over Bolton, the "Daily Mail" still had doubters: "Cristiano Ronaldo is the greatest seeker, he can only score against rubbish teams.
The ball never scores against the best team."
However, this sentence is obviously not convincing. If Ronaldo only scores against rubbish teams, AC Milan, Roma, Arsenal, and now Liverpool will all become rubbish teams... After this game, there are currently 20 teams in the Premier League.
Among the teams, only the Chelsea team has not been scored by Ronaldo. Ronaldo's current Premier League data is 60 goals in 156 games, excluding 7 goals in 31 games against Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool.
He scored 53 goals in 125 games, averaging one goal per 2.35 games, which is an outstanding figure even among forwards.
In the match against Liverpool, in addition to a header goal, Ronaldo also had another shot at the center post, and two other one-on-one shots against offside were blocked by Reina. This shows that Ronaldo does have room for improvement.
If his grasping ability is further improved, the number of goals will undoubtedly be even more amazing. Giggs, the most experienced teammate in the Premier League, couldn't help but exclaimed: "Cristiano's record this season is phenomenal, but he can still score more."
Lots of goals! He scored a lot of goals, you're not complaining of course, but he could have scored more. The position he found for himself and the quality he had, it could have brought him more goals. It's just too much.
Scary, really."
More importantly, take a look at Ronaldo's Premier League goals in each season he played for Manchester United: 4 goals in 29 games in the first season, 5 goals in 33 games in the second season, 9 goals in 33 games in the third season, and 34 games in the fourth season.
17 goals, this season, 25 goals in 27 games.
While Giggs believes Ronaldo can still improve, he also asserts: "Cristiano is the best player in the world right now. I don't think anyone can beat him this year, and no one else can perform at the same level as him.
"If Manchester United can win the Premier League title and the Champions League this season, and Portugal can enter the semi-finals of the European Cup again, there will be no dispute that Ronaldo won the 2008 European Ballon d'Or and World Player of the Year, just like he won two Premier League titles last season.
Like the best player in the competition, this is the common view of all media.
Of all the Premier League teams, the only one that has not been defeated by Ronaldo is Chelsea. This game is undoubtedly the best time for Ronaldo to prove himself, but will the prince let him get his wish?
