Manchester United's plane landed at Manchester International Airport.

Soon, the stars were on the team bus, which was already on standby at the airport, and headed to the Carrington training base 10 kilometres away.

The airport is in the southern suburbs of the city, and Carrington is in the western suburbs of the city, so you don't need to go through the downtown area along the way.

The whole bus was silent, and the players either pretended to sleep, closed their eyes, or put on headphones, ignoring other things, or just stared out the window in a daze.

It's past the middle of the night, and there are already few cars on the highway, and occasionally there are cars intersecting, or passing through the street lamped lot, and the lights enter the carriage, so that you can clearly see the loneliness and frustration on the faces of the Manchester United players.

They lost 1-3 on the road.

It certainly wasn't a satisfactory result as it meant they had to push harder in the second round.

However, they will face Chelsea next up in a battle at the top of the table that cannot afford to lose.

Is it really going to stop at the quarterfinals like this?

United, from Alex Ferguson to the players, no one will be convinced.

The Red Devils and Manchester United have never been defeated!

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The bus was familiar with the path of Carrington and soon arrived at the training base.

With a pop, the door opened.

Head assistant coach Mike Ferran apparently wanted to get up from his seat and loudly remind the players that the team was disbanded and they could go home.

But at this moment, Ferguson, who was sitting next to him, suddenly reached out and grabbed Mike Ferran's arm.

The assistant coach sat back up, but Ferguson stood up.

Inside the carriage, all the players looked directly at Ferguson, who looked even older than usual in the dim light.

He's sixty-eight!

It's easy to overlook Ferguson's age in his usual passion, especially when he uses his nirvana hair dryer, and everyone feels that this somewhat annoying old Scottish man is more like a middle-aged man in his fifties.

But at this moment, they suddenly realized that the old man was really old.

Sixty-eight, heart problems, God knows how long he can coach?

Since the team won the Champions League, the outside world has been rumored that Ferguson is retiring, but if he retires, who will be in charge of Manchester United?

Everyone, up and down Manchester United, probably won't be able to adapt to a club without Alex Ferguson.

He is like a legend, an immortal monument.

Even many times, he doesn't need to do anything at all, he doesn't need to say anything, he just needs to stand there, stand in front of the coach's bench on the sidelines, and everyone will feel an unprecedented mental strength, willing to work hard for him.

At this moment, he stood up and stood in the middle of the aisle of the carriage, looking at the long bus and the rows of players.

Everyone was looking at him equally, waiting for him to speak.

But he didn't say a word for a long time.

The strange thing is that there is no embarrassment in the carriage, as if at this time, although they do not speak, everyone can read the meaning of Ferguson's silence, and get confidence and encouragement from him.

Whether it's thirty seconds, or a minute, or two minutes, no one cares.

That was until Ferguson himself broke the silence.

He said slowly, "Don't worry, guys, it's just two goals, we'll qualify at Old Trafford next Wednesday!" ”

Suddenly, everybody believed it!

Everyone in the whole carriage was persuaded by his words like this!

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Real Madrid's 3-1 reversal of Manchester United caused an uproar in football around the world.

Everyone knows that Real Madrid is strong and that bookmakers have high hopes for Real Madrid, but in reality, almost all professionals are not optimistic about Real Madrid because this is a team that has just undergone a restructuring.

Breaking up the regroup, and at the same time just breaking the spell of the Champions League round of 16, it is very difficult for such a team to get results in a short period of time.

But Real Madrid did it, reversing Manchester United 3-1 at home, showing everyone the strength and potential of this team.

Rafael Benitez's reputation as the king of the Cup was once again recognized, and Yang Yang, who scored two shots and made one pass, was elected the best player of the game, once again becoming the number one player in world football who was praised by fans all over the world.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Arjen Robben and Sneijder were also recognised, with Real Madrid's attacking performance showing incredible strength and everyone looking forward to Kaka's return to the early part of the season.

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In a good situation, Real Madrid welcomed Atletico Madrid at home.

With the Champions League to play at the weekend, Benitez has made appropriate rotations to the team, and the intensity is not small.

Las Diarra started in place of Mascherano and Maxwell, Granero, Raul and Higuain all qualified to start, but the likes of Yang Yang, Xavi Alonso, Ramos and Vermaelen still started.

The Sheets take this game very seriously, and the manager of the mid-game firefight, Flores, even said that it will be the most important game of the season for Atletico Madrid so far, and the team has been preparing for it for a long time.

On one side, tired from a long battle, and on the other hand, it was clear that Atletico Madrid had the lead.

What is surprising is that in the tenth minute of the game, Las Diarra's midfield dribbling was broken, and after Atletico Madrid's continuous passing, former Real Madrid player Reyes quickly inserted behind left wingback Maxwell and curled a ball on the edge of the penalty area to directly break through Casillas's goal.

Real Madrid then launched a series of attacks, but never managed to break through Atletico Madrid's goal.

The running and pressing ability of the Sheets Army made Real Madrid very passive on the field.

Until the 49th minute of the second half, Yang Yang broke through on the left side and crossed, forming a corner, Granero took a corner, Vermaelen headed the cross, and Xavi Alonso volleyed the goal.

Just five minutes later, Xavi Alonso's through ball tore through the Atletico Madrid defence, Yang Yang successfully countered offside, stopped the ball on his chest, dribbled into the box, and a quick pendulum passed, shook goalkeeper De Gea, and pushed the empty goal.

Yang then hit two more shots in a row, one from distance and one was saved by De Gea, both times failing to break through Atletico Madrid's goal.

In the 63rd minute, Yang Yang took the ball on the left side to attract the attention of the defense, and distributed the ball to Granero on the left side, who sent it into the penalty area, and Higuain made another goal for Real Madrid.

Three to one!

Real Madrid is in the back of the fold again!

However, after a succession of goals, Real Madrid's offensive was interrupted, but Atletico Madrid took advantage of a corner kick opportunity in the 68th minute to create a foul on Xavi Alonso in the penalty area, and the referee awarded a penalty, which Forlan calmly converted.

After that, the two sides attacked and defended each other, but neither Atletico Madrid nor Real Madrid could break through the opponent's goal again, and the score of 3-2 was maintained until the end of the game.

In the end, Real Madrid reversed the Sheets Army 3-2 in the Madrid derby.

With two successive comebacks, both conceding one goal and then chasing three goals in a row, Real Madrid's performances in the last two games have once again been worrying, while also exposing some problems, such as the lack of depth on the bench of attacking players up front.

The reason for the poor performance in the first half of this game is not only because of Atletico Madrid's tenacious style and Real Madrid's long-term fatigue, but also because after Robben and Ibrahimovic did not appear, Real Madrid did not have players in the front field to replace the role of these two players.

In addition to Yang Yang and Robben, there is no third person in the Real Madrid team who has the ability to attack on the wing, and after Robben was absent, Yang Yang's left side immediately became the focus of the opponent's strict defense.

Especially after Atletico Madrid scored a counter-attacking goal, Maxwell's insertion on this side was also significantly reduced, causing Yang Yang to fall into a lonely situation in the frontcourt.

This is obviously also a problem.

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Manchester United's match against Chelsea was played at noon, with United losing 2-1 at home to Chelsea.

But in this strong conversation, Ferguson hid a number of key stars such as Cristiano Ronaldo and Carrick, and even arranged four players over the age of 35 to start in the starting lineup.

Gary Neville was worried about Malouda in the weekend's league campaign after being unable to stop Yang Yang in the Champions League in midweek, with the first goal of the game being assisted by Malouda on the left side of Chelsea.

Gary Neville is thirty-five years old, and his level of competition is not as good as it was back then, how sure can he defend against Yang Yang next Wednesday?

And Berbatov, the Bulgarian center forward continues to disappoint, in the strong dialogue, the dashing brother is always invisible, the performance is sluggish, which makes Ferguson feel very angry.

He was very optimistic about Berbatov's characteristics, but he really did not expect that the psychological quality of the Bulgarian center forward would be so bad that repeated beatings were useless.

If Dimitar Berbatov can dominate the penalty area with 80% of Drogba, Manchester United's forward combination can sweep the Europa League.

Ferguson was so worried about the midweek game that he couldn't sleep all night.

However, after seeing Real Madrid's home game against Atletico Madrid, Ferguson's eyes suddenly lit up, and a smile flashed, he saw a very serious weakness of Real Madrid, and it is also the weakness that Benitez has always had.

Apart from the well-known gaps left behind the attacking left wing-backs, Rafael Benitez's side were still so poor at defending corners, and the area-marking defence was so complex that from Liverpool to Real Madrid, Benitez never found an effective solution to make up for this weakness.

It was at Anfield that Chelsea used that to beat Liverpool with three goals.

Now, it's Manchester United's turn!