On September 19th, the eyes of football fans around the world were focused on Manchester.

At 2.30pm, the 180th England National Derby kicks off at Old Trafford, the European Theatre of Dreams.

According to the British newspaper Daily Star, the match will be broadcast in 211 countries and regions, and the total number of fans following will reach a staggering 800 million.

While this figure is not as large as the 1 billion viewers of the 2007 Arsenal-Manchester United matchup, it has surpassed the 400 million viewers of the Spanish national derby between Real Madrid and Barcelona, and the 700 million viewers of the World Cup final in South Africa.

This double red will attract so many fans, not only because it is one of the most important domestic competitions in the United Kingdom, but also because the Premier League has always been enthusiastically sought after in Asia, after Manchester United had a large number of fans in the Far East due to Park Ji-sung's round of Dongfang Zhuo, and after Gao Xiaodong joined Manchester United, he directly brought more than 100 million Chinese fans to Manchester United.

With so much attention and so many fans, security has become a top priority, and the Manchester City Council and Council have decided to make every effort and manpower to ensure that the security and other work of the game are carried out in an orderly manner. In addition, there will be a special temporary rule at Old Trafford where only around 5,000 Liverpool fans will be able to enter with tickets. This move is also to avoid the displeasure of Manchester United fans and the occurrence of quarrels and group fights once there are too many Liverpool fans, after all, the Heysel tragedy is not far away.

Liverpool manager Roy Hodgson is well aware of the significance of the game, but he called on the fans of both teams to exercise restraint and do their best to give the world a game of the highest standard. "Football is very important, but it is never more important than life," Hodgson said. This is true both in England and in other parts of the world. I hope the fans will be able to refrain from it. Manchester United fans in particular, please all work together to keep the stands in order and respect the Liverpool fans. Liverpool fans must learn to be generous and never create any bad behavior that damages the team's image. I think we should respect each other and we are both the best teams in the world. ”

Hodgson's words will only be seen as pedantic by fans on both sides at this time, and at this time, neither Manchester United fans nor Liverpool fans can calm down, and what they need is to add fuel to the fire, not pour cold water on it.

Compared with Hodgson, Gao Xiaodong is very good at gaining popularity fans, and he wrote this sentence on his Twitter and Weibo: The first time I participated in the Double Red Conference, can I become the most popular person?

What makes people think is that Gao Xiaodong has a picture below of him slaughtering AC Milan at Inter Milan.

This is equivalent to a stone to stir up a thousand waves, Manchester United and Liverpool fans hated each other, seeing Gao Xiaodong play such a high-profile game, they were very excited, and expressed their support for Gao Xiaodong to lead Manchester United to slaughter Liverpool, break the record, and put Liverpool into the relegation zone.

Of course, Liverpool fans were not happy, and they left messages under Gao Xiaodong's Weibo and Twitter:

It's hard to say whether you can become the most popular person, but you can definitely become the stupidest person!

It's not easy to say whether you can become the most popular person, but you can definitely become the stupidest person!

It's not easy to say whether you can become the most popular person, but you can definitely become the most arrogant person!

It's not easy to say whether you can become the most popular person, but you can definitely become the least ejaculating person!

……

It's lively on the virtual network, and it's even more lively in reality.

In order to watch the game, countless Manchester United and Liverpool fans arrived in Manchester City three days ago, wearing Manchester United and Liverpool shirts, wandering around, drinking too much and causing trouble, making this old industrial city into a miasma.

On the 19th, the number of domestic and foreign fans arriving in Manchester reached its peak, almost 100,000 fans, while Old Trafford was able to provide a maximum of 76,000 tickets, and there were almost more than 20,000 fans who did not have the ball to watch, and they were a big problem for law and order.

At 12:30 p.m., Old Trafford opens two hours early, allowing fans to make an early pilgrimage to the Theatre of European Dreams, while also avoiding fights between fans from both sides.

At one o'clock, Sky Sports commentator Martin arrived at Old Trafford and gave an introduction to the grievances between Manchester United and Liverpool, the past history, the current situation of the two sides in the league, and the starting line-ups of both sides. “

Martin is well-informed, and even when commenting on important games like Manchester United and Liverpool, he is very relaxed, and from time to time he makes fun of the players on both sides in the starting line-up.

"Manchester United's starting line-up: 1-Van der Sar, 22-O'Shea, 15-Vidic, 23-Evans, 3-Evra, 17-Nani, No.10-Gao Xiaodong, 18-Scholes, 11-Giggs, 9-Berbatov, 7-Rooney.

Manchester United's midweek Rangers are not veterans, the purpose is to deal with Liverpool, and now in addition to Valencia, Nani and Giggs are on the field at the same time, I think it is possible that Nani switched to the left, both wings flew together, and the back row was inserted to grab points, which was originally Manchester United's trick.

Gao Xiaodong and Scholes are partnered, it is estimated that it is still a dual-core drive, and Gao Xiaodong should be more defensive.

Evans replaced Ferdinand to start, after all, Ferdinand has just recovered from his injury, and the lord is still a little cautious, as for why O'Shea replaced Rafael at right-back, it is estimated that Ferguson still considers him young and inexperienced.

Now let's take a look at our Liverpool starting line-up, "Goalkeeper: No. 25 Reina, defenders: No. 2 Glen Johnson, No. 37 Skrtel, No. 23 Carragher, No. 3 Koncheski, midfielders: 10 Joe Cole, No. 4 Mereles, No. 17 Maxi Rodriguez, No. 28 Paulsen, No. 8 Gerrard, forward: No. 9 Torres.

Gone Alonso, walked Mascherano, came Joe Cole and Meleles, now Liverpool has flexibility in rigidity, Joe Cole and Meleleles have the ability to send through balls, if Manchester United can not do a good job of defending, the spiritual Spanish golden boy Torres is very likely to break Van der Sar's goal.

This is the 180th meeting between the two sides in history, after United had a slight advantage of 69 wins, 50 draws and 60 defeats.

The two sides have met 36 Premier League games, with Manchester United holding the upper hand with 19 wins, 7 draws and 10 defeats, including 10 wins, 4 draws and 4 defeats at home.

Manchester United have won 5 and lost 1 of their previous 6 league games at home against Liverpool, but have only won 1 and lost 3 of their last four league games against the Reds, beating Liverpool 2-1 last season and Liverpool beating Manchester United 4-1 at Old Trafford last season.

South Korean Park Ji-sung scored a penalty to beat Liverpool once in two recent double games at Old Trafford, but now he can only watch from the bench.

However, there is also an Asian player starting at Manchester United now, that is, Gao Xiaodong, the standard king this summer, I don't know if he can surprise Manchester United fans like Park Ji-sung in this double red meeting.

The referee of this game is Webb, and it is estimated that Manchester United fans will be very happy to see Webber, because the 39-year-old Webber was known as the "queen referee of Manchester United" when he debuted, and Webber officiated the World Cup final ...... this summer.

At this time, there was a tsunami-like cheer, and the on-site commentator Martin said: "...... The players from both sides came out of the dressing room and the game started immediately! Let's see if there are any changes to the starting lineup...... No changes, now let's get ready for an exciting derby!"