As Manchester United fans rushed to Manchester from all over the world, a special group of United fans from South America arrived at the Carrington training base, the Chilean minkhtars who had been miraculously rescued two months earlier.

During the San Jose mining disaster in Chile in August, 33 Chilean miners were trapped about 700 meters underground, watching a football match underground. Their love for the sport has sustained them through more than two months, and they have been called "great survivors" by the media around the world. After their ascension, the miracle was reported in the headlines of newspapers around the world, and their deeds were ready to be made into a movie.

Manchester United legend Sir Bobby Charlton was informed of the news and invited the surviving miners to visit Old Trafford and Carrington and watch the match between Manchester United and Arsenal for free.

With the help of Manchester United's sponsor Manna Distillery, 27 of the 33 rescued miners finally arrived in Manchester ahead of the Manchester United-Arsenal clash with Arsenal.

Almost all of the 27 Shakhtars are Manchester United fans, and their pilgrimage is very strong, and they are very excited to see Manchester United's superstars, many of them laughing and jumping, pointing at the players, and talking about it.

Manchester United CEOs David Gill and Alex Ferguson came with their players to greet these special fans from afar.

After the pleasantries, Ferguson told the miners: "I am delighted to have you come to Old Trafford, I would also like to thank you for being here, and I will use your spirit to inspire the players to fight as strong as you are."

Like everyone else in the world, I see you on TV and I think you're great people. However, at that time I could only watch you from a distance, and now that I can meet you in person, I find that they are stronger and more optimistic than what you see on TV, and you are amazing people. ”

The miners had only seen Ferguson on TV and in the newspapers, and they all thought that Ferguson was an arrogant and irritable person, but they didn't expect Ferguson to be so approachable in reality, and they all applauded Ferguson excitedly.

The representative of the miners, 56-year-old bulldozer driver Regadas, thanked Ferguson and the Manchester United hierarchy, "It's an honour to be at Old Trafford, we only saw the Theatre of Dreams on TV before, and now we have finally made it happen, thanks to Ferdin, thanks to Manager David Gill, thank you to Director Bianchetti of Manna Distillery, you are all kind people, and my compatriots and I wish Manchester United the best of luck to beat Arsenal in the game and win the 19th league title because we are all Manchester United fans." ”

Although Manchester United has South American players such as Anderson and Hernandez, the most popular is the three elders of the 92 class and Gao Xiaodong and Rooney, two top balloon stars.

The players will also have a pre-match tactical drill, the Shakhtars will get autographs and group photos, and after a brief conversation with their idols, they will visit the Old Trafford Stadium under the leadership of David Gill and Bianchetti, and as special fans, the Chilean Shakhtars will sit in the box to watch the fight.

The game was played at 7.30pm, two hours before the arrival of tens of thousands of fans around Old Trafford. By 7 o'clock, Old Trafford, which can accommodate 76,000 fans, was almost full, and most of the rest were VIP guests in the boxes.

Sky Sports' on-site commentator Martin began to warm up for the game, and he used his wealth of football knowledge to tell fans about the history of Arsenal and Manchester United's battle for supremacy, as well as the 14-year feud between Ferguson and Arsene Wenger.

It may be that Martin said that he was too involved, and he didn't wait for him to analyze the intentions and advantages of the two famous coaches in the world to put out this starter. The Manchester United and Arsenal players came out of the dressing room.

"Fans and friends, the players from both sides have come out of the dressing room, the game is about to start, let's see if there is any change in the starting line-up of both sides...... Manchester United's starting goalkeeper is No. 1 Van der Sar, and the back four are Patrice Evra and Nemanja Vidic...... Arsenal's starting XI: 53-Szczesny, defenders: 3-Sagna, 18-Squeeraki, 6-Koscielny, 22-Klich, forwards: 19-Wilshere, 17-Song, 4-Fabregas, forwards: 8-Nasri, 10-Van Persie, 23-Arshavin......"

There have been few changes to the starting positions between the two sides, the only change is that Arsene Wenger replaced Polish goalkeeper Fabianski with a number three goalkeeper, and some fans may not be familiar with Arsenal's starting goalkeeper Szczesny, the 20-year-old is former Poland international Maciej? Szczesny's son, he is 1.95 meters tall, he reacts quickly and saves with a huge range of arms to deal with a single ball and attack more decisively, but he is inexperienced and not stable enough, in such a big battle to send a 20-year-old youngster, we can only say that Professor Wenger has a big heart, now let's see if the 20-year-old talented goalkeeper Szczesny can clean up the 21-year-old Gao Xiaodong, Manchester United's new core is currently averaging 1.3 goals per game, and is the most attacking midfielder in the entire world football. ”

At this time, the captains of the two sides on the field have completed the ceremony of exchanging team flags and emblems and picking sides, and are waiting for the referee Webb to blow the whistle.

The two veteran captains of Ferguson and Arsene Wenger on the sidelines were still chatting.

"I hope you don't play as rough as you used to, Manchester United and Arsenal are big teams, they should play LinkedIn Premier League style, otherwise the tragedy of Valencia and Eduardo will continue." ”

Arsene Wenger took the initiative to put pressure on Ferguson.

Ferguson smiled slightly and said: "Arsène, don't take bravery as rudeness, Manchester United is not Wigan Athletic, we are never rude, let alone conservative." ”

Arsene Wenger smiled and said, "Well, Sir Alex, I believe you are a gentleman and hopefully today is a good game, win or lose." ”

Ferguson smiled: "Welcome to my office for a drink after the game. ”

Ferguson and Arsene Wenger returned to their seats, and the game officially kicked off with a whistle from referee Webb.

After Berbatov passed the ball back to Gao Xiaodong, Manchester United's forward line ran forward to suppress the opponent's backline, while Gao Xiaodong passed the ball back and waited for the Arsenal players to come and grab it.

Arsenal are 11 points behind Manchester United and will have to win this game against Manchester United if they are to compete for the league title, with a draw not enough for the Gunners.

After the start of the game, Arsenal's tactical intention was clear, which was to attack, and their three lines pressed forward quickly, pushing the formation to the 30-meter area, and pushing the battle field to the area of Manchester United in the center circle.

After having Gao Xiaodong, Manchester United's midfield technical content and ball control ability have been greatly improved, they dare to fight with opponents in the midfield, and dare to control the ball in the midfield, and they also did not give up defensive counterattacks and long passes, Manchester United's offensive means can be said to be very rich.

Seeing that Arsenal were in a hurry to win, the Manchester United players took the initiative to retreat five meters, allowing the defenders to control the ball, ready to play the space behind the Arsenal defenders.

Seeing that Arsenal's three forwards were pressing too fiercely, Scholes, who was not physically strong, stayed in the midfield, and the young Gao Xiaodong retreated to his 30-meter area to meet the defender and midfielder Fletcher.

Rafael saw Gao Xiaodong coming back, and hurriedly passed the ball to Gao Xiaodong, Gao Xiaodong received the ball and turned around, forcing Fabregas, who was grabbing it, to make a steal and give a kick to Gao Xiaodong's calf.

Ordinary people would fall down at such a moment, but Gao Xiaodong was fine, stumbled a little, turned around and made a long pass, looking for Rooney who was in the forward position.

Originally, Rooney and Gao Xiaodong's passing and running had a tacit understanding in training, Gao Xiaodong received the ball, and Rooney ran away, but this time Gao Xiaodong was kicked and stumbled, and then passed the ball after adjusting the center of gravity, Rooney was offside.

However, Rooney was eager to score and the crowd shouted loudly, and he didn't hear the referee Webber blowing the whistle, and although Szczesny gave up the save, he stopped the ball on his chest and volleyed the ball into the net.

Webber was so upset that he took out a yellow card and warned Rooney.

Ferguson was very unhappy, although he felt that Rooney was too impulsive and naïve, and also felt that Manchester United was now making a big move, Webber was a little against Manchester United, Ferguson couldn't let this happen, he rushed out of the coach's box and yelled at Webber twice, and after the fourth official came to dissuade him, he returned to the coach's box and sat down.