Chapter 1009: Manchester United Barcelona Division Final
Manchester United reached the Champions League final for two consecutive years, Ferguson and Gao Xiaodong were unrivaled for a while, Ferguson confirmed his status as the world's best coach, and the media no longer questioned Gao Xiaodong's Ballon d'Or, and even Rooney had the potential to catch up with Ronaldo.
A few years ago, the Golden Ball Award was the Romance of the Three Kingdoms of Ronaldo, Messi and Kaka, with Kaka's injury withdrawal, world football has become a triumvirate of Messi, Ronaldo, and Gao Xiaodong, and now Messi and Gao Xiaodong won the Champions League and the Golden Ball Award in the first two years, and Ronaldo won nothing, if Ronaldo leads Real Madrid to the Champions League final, this season's four are empty, he is likely to be thrown away by Messi and Gao Xiaodong, and forced to be with Rooney.
Jose Mourinho led Porto to win the Champions League a few years ago, led Chelsea to consecutive league titles in the Premier League, and beat Ferguson and Arsene Wenger to the point where he almost became the best coach in the world tied with Alex Ferguson.
While Pep Guardiola's meteoric rise threatened Mourinho's position, it was last season that Mourinho led Inter Milan to a treble that put him at the top of Europe once again.
However, Ferguson has a lot of background, and he will be the best coach in the world whether he wins the title or not, but if Mourinho cannot reverse Pep Guardiola's Barcelona to reach the Champions League final this season, Mourinho's place will be replaced by Pep Guardiola.
Manchester United and Chelsea's Champions League clash is certainly a big sight, but Chelsea are a rising star after all, and it is still a little worse than the derby of the century between Real Madrid and Barcelona.
Real Madrid and Barcelona's La Liga matches are like Mars hitting Earth, not to mention a Champions League semi-final.
Although Barcelona beat Real Madrid 2-0 away in the first leg and Messi scored a shocking goal, no one dared to say that the stars were all and Real Madrid, commanded by Jose Mourinho, had no hope of a comeback.
Therefore, the Champions League semi-final at Camp Nou has attracted the attention of fans and professionals from almost all over the world, and thousands of journalists have come to cover it.
As the first to reach the Champions League final, Manchester United naturally followed this game more than anyone outside of Real Madrid and Barcelona.
The United players were so tired from playing their semi-finals the day before that no one was able to travel to Barcelona except for Alex Ferguson and Mulensteen, who were watching from the studio at Old Trafford.
The game started at 8:45 p.m., and from the first minute, the game entered the white heat, Barcelona controlled the ball, Real Madrid pressed frantically, and the pace of the game was very fast and intense.
Everyone knows that although Barcelona has a two-goal lead away, they can't concede a goal in the first half, as long as they concede a goal, they will be in trouble later, they don't concede a goal in the first half, and Real Madrid's pressing strength in the second half will certainly not be stronger than in the first half, and their technical advantage is shown.
In the first half, Barcelona still dominated the possession of seventy percent, but Real Madrid's counterattack after the steal was very sharp, because Barcelona's possession today was more for defense, and Real Madrid's counterattack was not able to get too good shooting opportunities.
After 30 minutes of the first half, Real Madrid could not afford to wait any longer and began to increase their attacking strength in an attempt to open the scoring early.
But when Real Madrid gave Barcelona space to counterattack at the back, Messi's power was shown.
In the 32nd minute, Barcelona launched a quick counterattack at the back, Messi started to dribble through 2 people in the middle line, and was brought down by Carvalho for a tactical foul, and the referee warned Carvalho with a yellow card.
In the 35th minute, Ronaldo took a free kick in front, Puyol's header cleared, Messi quickly passed the ball through the middle line and was tackled by Diarra, Messi sent a single shot to Pedro before falling to the ground, but unfortunately was blown offside by the linesman.
In the 38th minute, Messi counterattacked with the ball in front, dodged Diarra's tackle, and was kicked down from behind by Carvalho, who dragged Messi up from the ground, but the referee did not show him another yellow card.
At this time, the reporter first gave Ronaldo a shot, and then gave Mourinho a shot, Mourinho couldn't help shaking his head, helpless at Ronaldo's performance.
The on-site commentator said: "At this time, Mourinho will definitely miss Gao Xiaodong, in the strong dialogue, Gao Xiaodong's role is much stronger than Ronaldo, with him in Real Madrid, Messi will definitely not be alone." β
Messi's counterattacks seem to have given Real Madrid a blow to the head, and they didn't dare to continue to invest in troops, because if they continued to invest in troops, maybe they hadn't scored yet, and Barcelona would take the lead.
Barcelona had a two-goal advantage in hand and didn't mind scoring or not, Real Madrid didn't dare to continue to invest in troops, they continued to defend with the ball, and finally survived the 45 minutes of the first half.
After the end of the first half, David Gill sat next to Gao Xiaodong, "Gao, who do you think can enter the final?"
Gao Xiaodong said: "Normally, it's Barcelona, the strength of the two teams is about the same, and Barcelona has too much advantage in the first leg." β
David Gill said: "If Barcelona reach the final, can we beat them?"
Gao Xiaodong said: "It's almost, everyone's strength is about the same." β
David Gill said: "Messi is very difficult to deal with." β
Nani said on the side: "Gauguin is not easy to deal with. β
Gao Xiaodong smiled: "This is a clash between the two teams, I think the experience of the lord is much stronger than Guardiola, this is our advantage." β
David Gill nodded secretly, and said in his heart, this kid is young, but he is low-key and modest, and he knows that his coach is really a rare talent, and he must not let it go.
"Gao, come over here, I have something I want to ask you. β
Gao Xiaodong followed David Gill, and David Gill said: "Gao, now that we have reached the Champions League final, there are no major games in a short period of time, I want to ask you, how do you think about the contract renewal?"
Gao Xiaodong smiled: "David, you should ask Mr. Mendes about the contract renewal." β
David Gill said: "Mr. Mendes does not let go, Manchester United can't afford the annual salary of 1,500 euros, and you know Manchester United's current economic situation." β
Gao Xiaodong said with a smile: "David, don't cry poor with me, I don't understand economic matters, I don't understand how much annual salary I should get, I don't understand, I think you should talk to Mr. Mendes." β
David Gill knew that the price couldn't be suppressed, and said: "Gao, I think this contract should be longer, you are still young, the three-year contract is too short, I think it will be at least five years, and the liquidated damages should not be set,"
Gao Xiaodong made a blank look and said, "Mr. David, this is something I really don't understand, I know how to play football, it's useless for you to tell me this." β
David Gill felt a burst of contempt in his heart, and said in his heart, you don't understand? You know better than anyone else, this is pretending to be confused with me, but he can't help it, so he has to say: "You tell Mr. Mendez, don't let our club be too passive." β
"Okay, that's fine, I'll tell him when I get back. Gao Xiaodong saw that the game had started, and hurriedly said: "The game has started, let's go watch the game." β
David Jill had no choice but to follow Gao Xiaodong back to the studio hall.
In the second half, Real Madrid had no way out, even if Barcelona scored, they had to give it a go, and Mourinho invested more troops to attack Barcelona.
Just two minutes after the second half, Ronaldo broke through with the ball, Pique was left behind, he had no choice but to push Ronaldo, Ronaldo fell forward, just pounced on the leg of Mascherano who helped the defense, and knocked Mascherano down.
Mascherano's fall gave Higuain a chance as he grabbed the ball and smashed a shot past ValdΓ©s.
However, at this time, the referee thought that Ronaldo had knocked down Mascherano and gave Higuain a chance to take the ball, and the goal was invalidated.
The Real Madrid players were furious and gathered around to protest, but the referee decided that there was no problem with the decision, refused to change the decision, and gave Ramos a yellow card.
Six minutes later, Barcelona counterattacked, Iniesta sent a delicate through plug in the middle, Pedro successfully won the knife against offside, and scored with a low shot! Barcelona led 3-0 on aggregate! At this point, there was no suspense in the game.
In the 63rd minute of the game, Real Madrid counterattacked on the spot after breaking the ball in the front, Di Maria's shot from the left side of the penalty area hit the post and bounced back to his feet, Di Maria immediately crossed, Marcelo scored in front of the goal!
There are almost 30 minutes left in the game time and stoppage time, and there is still time, but Real Madrid's physical fitness has declined, and it can no longer maintain high-intensity pressing, so it can only let Barcelona control the ball and defend, and in the end, the score of 1:1 can no longer be rewritten, Barcelona eliminated Real Madrid with an aggregate score of 3:1, and Manchester United will meet in the Champions League final!