Manchester United had only won two defeats and one draw at Craven Cottage in the previous three years, and this time Gao Xiaodong's goal finally helped Manchester United break the curse and help Manchester United snatch three points from the "farmer".

The next day, Sky Sports gave Gao Xiaodong a score of 9 as against Newcastle in the first game, which was the highest score in the Manchester United team.

"Sky Sports" commented on Gao Xiaodong: dominates both offensive and defensive ends, deserves a value of 80 million and Manchester United's highest salary, and his future is limitless.

However, because the referee judged Manchester United's second equalizing goal as an own goal, Manchester United fans and Ferguson were not satisfied, because Chelsea had beaten Wigan Athletic by 6 goals, but Drogba, who scored a hat trick in the first round, did not score, if that own goal was counted as Gao Xiaodong's goal, then Gao Xiaodong would have surpassed Drogba to lead the scorer list.

However, whether it is an own goal depends on whether the ball flies to the goal before it touches someone, and this requires the referee to make a subjective judgment, so the result cannot be changed, and Gao Xiaodong can only suffer a small loss.

After the second round of the Premier League, the Champions League qualifiers kicked off in midweek. 10 teams battle it out for a place in the last 32 of the 2010-11 Champions League.

Entering the Champions League means that at least 20 million pounds will be shared, and the other 10 eliminated teams will only receive 6.4 million in participation bonuses, saying goodbye to this season's European competition. Therefore, the Champions League qualifying round has always been the most brutal and interesting matchup.

After two days and ten matches, the final 10 places in the last 32 of the Champions League have finally been decided, with Werder Bremen, Basel, Tel Aviv Workers, Braga, Partizan Belgrade, Tottenham Hotspur, Ajax, Copenhagen, Ausell and Zhilina qualifying for the Champions League group stage, so that the 2010-11 Champions League group stage 32 have all been decided, and a total of 9 former Champions League champions have entered the group stage, which is a veritable Champions League.

UEFA seeds the top eight teams based on each team's European points over the past five seasons, and the next three teams are grouped according to the number of points.

According to this rule, the 2010-11 Champions League group stage seeds will be Barcelona, Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal, Bayern Munich, Inter Milan, AC Milan and Lyon.

Pot 2 includes Werder Bremen, Real Madrid, Roma, Shakhtar Donetsk, Benfica, Valencia, Marseille and Panathinaikos. Real Madrid have not reached the last eight once in the past six years, and their points are poor, so they can only be relegated to Pot 2 again, but their presence in Pot 2 also means that the chances of a group of death are very high.

On Thursday morning, Gao Xiaodong, Wayne Rooney, Edwin van der Sar, Paul Scholes, Alex Ferguson and Manchester United CEO David. Gil flew to Monte Carlo, Monaco to attend the draw for the group stage of the UEFA Champions League and last season's Champions Cup award ceremony.

Monaco is located in the southeast of France, is a small country of less than two square kilometers, with only more than 30,000 citizens, but it is a tourist mecca frequented by European princes and nobles and business celebrities.

Monte Carlo is the center of the Principality of Monaco, one of the world's four famous casinos, and is also a sports active zone, with the F1 Grand Prix, Monte Carlo Masters, Monte Carlo Rally and so on all world-famous events, and UEFA also arranges the annual Champions League group stage draw ceremony at the Grimaldi Convention Center in Monte Carlo.

Since the draw ceremony did not start until around 6 p.m., the United group went to the nearby Fairmont Hotel to take a break and wait for the evening draw and award ceremony.

At the Fairmont Hotel, Gao Xiaodong and his entourage happened to meet the Inter Milan team who also lived in the Fairmont Hotel.

The entire Inter Milan squad arrived at Monaco to attend the UEFA Super Cup at the Estadio de Monaco II the day after tomorrow and to attend the award ceremony at the Grimaldi Convention Centre this evening.

In tonight's awards ceremony and draw ceremony, Inter Milan is the protagonist, and among the five awards that will be awarded, except for the best midfielder and the best player may be Gao Xiaodong, the other three may be Inter Milan players.

Of course, it will be a little embarrassing for the two Champions League final opponents to meet, Benitez had a very general relationship with Ferguson in the Premier League, he said hello to Ferguson lightly, but ignored Gao Xiaodong, who had been training with him for more than two weeks, and went directly to the room on the second floor.

Benitez has a complaint about Gao Xiaodong, he went to Inter Milan, in fact, he wanted to build a new Inter Milan with Gao Xiaodong as the core, but he didn't expect Gao Xiaodong to take the initiative to leave Inter Milan and transfer to Manchester United, which was tantamount to slapping Benitez in the face, which made Benitez, who had always been arrogant, very annoyed, so he didn't give Gao Xiaodong a good look when they met.

However, most of the players in Inter Milan have a good relationship with Gao Xiaodong, Eto'o, Zanetti, Samuel and others came to greet Gao Xiaodong and hug, only Benitez set up the new core of Inter Milan Sneijder and Gao Xiaodong did not get along, he did not say hello to Gao Xiaodong, and followed Benitez back to the room.

Inter Milan President Moratti still has a lot of feelings for Gao Xiaodong, and after greeting David Gill and Ferguson, Moratti came to Gao Xiaodong's side, took Gao Xiaodong's hand, and looked at Gao Xiaodong, "Gao, you have lost weight." ”

Gao Xiaodong was very moved and said, "Hello chairman, I'm not used to the food here. ”

Moratti smiled: "Slowly adapt, if you really can't adapt, go back to Milan, Inter Milan will always welcome you." ”

Gao Xiaodong said with a smile: "Thank you, chairman, when I go back to Milan, I will definitely go to see you." ”

Moratti smiled: "Okay, I'll wait for you." Then he sighed: "Without you, I really don't feel at ease with this year's league and Champions League." ”

Gao Xiaodong said with a smile: "Chairman, the Inter team is still there, as long as you can mobilize enthusiasm, the league is guaranteed, and the Champions League depends on luck." ”

Moratti laughed and said, "Don't touch your Manchester United, I'm afraid of running into you right now." ”

Gao Xiaodong smiled: "I'm also afraid of drawing Inter, it's best for us to get together again in the final." ”

Moratti patted Gao Xiaodong on the shoulder and said, "Thank you for Ji Yan, if I enter the final again this time, I should retire if I am bored and win the championship." ”

Gao Xiaodong said: "Chairman, you can't retreat, Inter needs you." ”

Moratti shook his head and said, "I'm old, I can't do it, Xiaodong, I wish you the best player this time, see you in the evening." ”

Moratti touched Gao Xiaodong's head and left, Gao Xiaodong also felt Moratti's exhaustion and helplessness, and returned to his room with emotion.