Chapter 1026: Away Battle Blackburn
Signing a professional contract with Paul Pogba is a trivial matter for Manchester United and Manchester United fans, but the biggest thing for Manchester United is to win the league title as soon as possible.
Manchester United has won the FA Cup this season, which is the easiest championship, winning the FA Cup can only barely pass a giant like Manchester United, winning the league title can be regarded as excellent, and winning the Champions League can be regarded as a full score.
For Manchester United, if they win the league title, there will be less pressure when they play the Champions League final at the end, after all, with the league title in hand, even if the Champions League final is lost, it will be a successful season.
If you lose the league title and lose the Champions League final, this season will be a losing season, and the pressure will be high when you play.
Against a super team like Barcelona, if you go to the game under pressure and lose the tactical initiative because you have to win, you have little hope of winning.
Manchester United are in a very good position to win the league title, with two rounds remaining, two points ahead of second-placed Chelsea, and only need to win the last two rounds to win the league title, even if United can't win all of them, as long as Chelsea can't win all of them, Manchester United can also win the title.
Manchester United's opponents in the last two rounds are Blackburn Rovers and Blackpool, these two teams, Blackburn are 15th, and they are still fighting for relegation, Blackpool is second from the bottom, and the hope of relegation is very slim, and there is only one breath left.
From the perspective of strength alone, the two teams together can't play Manchester United as a team, but football is round, and the opponent must fight hard for relegation, and Manchester United does not dare to say that it can win all six points nine times out of ten.
But United must get those six points, and not a single one.
Because Manchester United can't pin the fate of winning the championship on the opponent Chelsea, and because Chelsea and Ancelotti still need the league as a lifeline than Manchester United, if Chelsea can't grasp this slim hope, if the big four are empty this season, Ancelotti is bound to be sacked.
Blackburn Rovers finished 10th last season and given the team's lacklustre transfer investment and financial situation, as well as the narrowly relegated rankings the previous season, manager Sam Allardyce's careful tweaking has been a big contribution.
Blackburn have had a poor season, finishing 15th after 36 rounds, just four points above the relegation zone.
This is a very dangerous score, and if you are not careful, you will be doomed.
A small team like Blackburn, whose task every season is to relegate, naturally does not have any big-name stars, and their main players are some free veterans and giants, and the core players are Norwegian winger Petersen and Senegalese striker Diouf.
Petersen, who has played for Blackburn Rovers for seven seasons, has scored 27 goals in 192 league appearances and 10 goals in the FA Cup Cup.
Peterson missed his chance to join the big clubs, and now that he's old enough to live at Blackburn, the fans here do adore him like a little beckon.
However, Blackburn's soul is not the star, but their coach Sam Allardyce.
Resourceful and one of the most successful coaches in the Premier League, Sam Allardyce is a well-known man for making things out of nothing, winning success on a small budget, and was once a candidate for the England national team manager. As an old-school British coach, "Big Sam" also has a wide range of contacts in the circle, has a deep relationship with the coaches of major giants, and can often get idle players from giants cheaply, which is very helpful to the relegation battle.
Ferguson and Allardyce are very familiar and have a good relationship, he knows that Allardyce is not easy to mess with, but at this time, Manchester United wants to win the championship, Blackburn is going to be relegated, everyone is their own master, no one can take care of anyone, they can only fight hard.
The game was an away game, with the United players arriving at Ewood Park early.
Ewood Park has never been the playground of big clubs, but last season Sam Allardyce was decisive in the Premier League title race, with United dropping two points to snatch the league title from Chelsea.
Speaking at a press conference before the game, Ferguson told reporters with a grim look that Manchester United only have three games left for the season, and although today's opponents are not strong Blackburn, they will be difficult to entangle, and he hopes that Manchester United's players will take it seriously and try to get three points on the road.
In the pre-match press conference, Blackburn's manager Sam Allardyce said that he did not want to offend Manchester United and curry favor with Chelsea, Blackburn is not fighting for any team, Blackburn is fighting for their own destiny, Blackburn will not show mercy in this game, they will definitely go all out to win Manchester United at home.
Looking back at the team meeting, Ferguson told his disciples that he had worked hard for a season, and he could not lose the championship in the last two rounds, and he must pay attention to Blackburn Rovers and not pin his hopes of winning the championship on the loss of his sworn rival Chelsea. Of course, don't be too nervous, Manchester United is still far stronger than Blackburn, as long as you are serious and don't make mistakes, there is no problem in winning.
The game was played at 12.45 a.m. on the 14th, and Manchester United rarely played during this time period, because usually Manchester United players were taking a nap at this point, and the biological clock suddenly changed, and the body was not very comfortable, and it was difficult to adjust to the best condition.
In order to cheer up early, the United players arrived at Ewood Park more than 30 minutes earlier than usual to warm up.
The Reds had only been warming up for 20 minutes before Blackburn's players arrived, and the pressure on Blackburn Rovers was counting on the three points needed to beat Manchester United and win relegation.
By the time United and Blackburn Rovers warmed up, Ewood Park was already packed, with a third of the more than 30,000 fans being visitors and the rest locals.
The game hasn't started yet, and the on-site commentators have got the starting lineups of both sides and are introducing:
Blackburn Rovers play in a 4-4-2 formation: goalkeeper: 1-Robinson
Defenders: 25 - Salgado, 4 - Samba, 28 - Phil Jones, 5 - Giwe
Defenders: 15-Nzongzi, 2-Jones, 7-Emerton, 3-Olsen
Forwards: 30-Roberts, '12-Petersen
Manchester United also started in a 4-4-2 formation: goalkeeper: 1-Van der Sar
Defenders: 3 - Patrice Evra, 15 - Ferdinand, 5 - Vidic, 22 - O'Shea
Defenders: 25-Valencia, 16-Carrick, 10-Gao Xiaodong, 17-Nani
Forwards: 7-Rooney, 14-Hernandez
Injuries aside, both sides are playing their best and everyone wants to win this game, and it looks like it's going to be another tough battle today......
Gao Xiaodong, who was warming up at the scene, was a little uneasy, because his mind was always thinking about the red envelope reward given to him by the system when he won the FA Cup.