Between the two Champions League semi-finals between Manchester United and Ajax, there is still a Premier League 37th round to play.

However, their opponents are Huddersfield, who have already secured top of the league ahead of schedule.

One is aiming for the first, the other is the penultimate in advance, and the two teams really have nothing to see when they meet.

In a crisp 3-0, Manchester United maintained a three-point advantage until the final round, and Dai Zhiwei also increased his Premier League goal tally this season to 49, leaving only one goal away from the all-time mark of 50 goals.

In the final round, Manchester United will face Cardiff City, who have also been relegated early, and the latter has the third most goals conceded in the Premier League with 69 goals, and is also the best opponent for Dai Zhiwei to score goals.

With their league aspirations in mind, the Red Devils set out on a journey to Amsterdam.

As Manchester United's semi-final opponents, Ajax faced Willem II in the Dutch Cup last game, although the team made some rotations, but still able to suppress the opponent with strength, the whole game possession and shots were far more than the opponent, the team led by two goals in the first half, and finally won 4-0 to win the first title of the season.

After winning the Dutch Cup, Ajax are in hot form, with morale and confidence at a high level.

Although Ajax is currently at a critical moment in the Eredivisie title race, due to the schedule of the Eredivisie, the team has not had a league task for more than 10 days, the players have been relatively well rested, and the physical situation is undoubtedly superior to Tottenham.

The downside is that Ajax suffered a 2-0 defeat to Manchester United in the first leg of the semi-finals, and their home record in the Champions League has not been ideal, with no win in their last three consecutive home games and consistently conceding first goals in the competition.

In the first leg between the two sides, Manchester United took advantage of the holes in the defensive side caused by Ajax's overly aggressive attacking system, so as to take the Eredivisie giants lightly.

At the pre-match press conference, Manchester United was also full of confidence.

Dai Zhiwei made it clear: "We are full of faith, we will go away without fear and then try to score more goals. They have a strong attack but that's okay, if you're familiar with our style, we could have scored more goals. My team and I are not afraid of any opponent than attacking. ”

Jose Mourinho has also regained his former "madman" style, "We have two finals left, first we have to play Ajax. We're going to get back as soon as we can and get up to the challenge and I'm going to be proud of this team no matter what happens next." ”

In the face of the second leg, Ajax, who lost in the first leg, took the lead in changing the line-up, adjusting the starting lineup to a more solid 4-2-3-1, and Dolberg, who did not appear in the first leg, acted as the team's lone arrow.

Manchester United, on the other hand, continued the starting lineup for the first leg, which is quite a bit of a winner's not easy to change and unchanged.

Manchester United's starting line-up –

Goalkeeper: David De Gea

Defenders: Ricardo Pereira, Harry Maguire, Eric Bailly, Luke Shaw

Midfielders: Mesut Ozil, Kroos, Nemanja Matic

Forwards: Suso, Dai Zhiwei, Anthony Martial

Ajax starting line-up –

Goalkeeper: Onana

Defenders: Mazraoui, De Ligt, Blind, Tagliafico

Defenders: Schöne, Frenkie de Jong

Forwards: Tadic, Donny van de Beek, Hakim Ziyech

Forward: Dolberg

At 8 p.m. local time, the second leg of the Champions League semi-finals between Ajax and Manchester United officially began, with De Ligt winning the kick-off for Ajax after guessing the side, and Ajax took the lead in serving.

At the start of the game, Ajax did not start with a fierce attack on Manchester United's goal, but instead fell to the midfield, pulled back and forth the opposition defence, and began to patiently look for opportunities.

In this kind of knockout match, the impact of conceding goals at home is very large, so there is no room for Ajax to be careless.

Similarly, at the beginning of the game, Manchester United, who were away from home, did not want to concede a goal, so they did not come forward to attack.

In the first 10 minutes of the game, neither side had any good chances to score, and even the shots were only two or three shots, and Dai Zhiwei's long-range shot that grazed the post was already the best opportunity for both teams.

The Reds, who already have a two-goal lead, are not in a hurry, and a dull draw will be enough to get them through to the final anyway, but Ajax can't stand the dullness anymore.

Ajax controlled the ball again, they started the pass near the midfield line again, Matic hurriedly grabbed it, De Jong immediately knocked the ball back to Schöne, who did not hesitate to hoist the ball to Tadic on the right, and Dolberg, who was in front of Ajax, had quickly inserted into the penalty area at this time.

Tadic also saw Dolberg's movement, and the victory or defeat at this time was tied to him, but now there was no one around him, Luke Shaw was close to him, and the two waited for the pass from Schine.

Tadic leaned over, stopped against the ball, and then rushed forward, but Luke Shaw, who has been sitting at Manchester United's left-back this season, is no idle person, and hurriedly started to post again.

Tadic knew that it would be difficult for him to get past Luke Shaw, so he simply didn't continue to take it, and quickly got up and passed the ball diagonally after shaking the angle a little back.

Quick, this time Ajax's attack is really fast enough.

"Oops!" Mourinho frowned, although Tadic's pass was a bit big, but Dorberg was alert and activated the moment he passed the ball to Tadic, and Maguire made a fatal mistake in this defence - he turned too slowly.

Dolberg meets the football, jumps, shakes his head!

De Gea was not slow to react and made the first save, but although his right hand touched the ball, it only changed the direction of the ball slightly, and the ball flew into the goal!

“gooooooooooooooooal！ Dolberg opens the scoring for Ajax, 1:0! The aggregate score is 1:2, and Ajax pulls a goal back! "The Cruyff Stadium commentator began a barrage!

1:0！

Dolberg roared and leapt from the ground and ran with open arms towards Tadic, who had given him the assist, while the rest of the Ajax players flocked to Dolberg as he celebrated his goal.

As Dolberg struggled out of the crowd, he lunged at the home fans again and held up a finger.

Signal, it's just the first goal!

'Is he signaling that this is the first goal? He's got more goals to score? Dai Zhiwei's face was a little cold, "Don't be too arrogant!" ”

Dolberg opened the scoring in the 12th minute of the game for Ajax with this lion's head, 1:0!

However, he has stirred up the fighting spirit of another goal machine!

So, just five minutes later, Manchester United had a good chance to score!

In the 17th minute, Harry Maguire cut off Ziyech's pass and drove the ball forward, Suso returned to the middle to fight for the top and flicked the header to Anthony Martial on the left.

Anthony Martial didn't hesitate to get the ball, flicked the ball sideways, broke past Mazraoui's side, and rushed towards the Ajax penalty area.

Mazraoui didn't react at first and was broken past by Anthony Martial, but then he posted it up, and when Martial raised his foot to shoot from distance, he fell to the ground and made a flying tackle to stop the football.

In fact, it turned out that Mazraoui might as well not block this goal.

Anthony Martial's hasty long-range shot was not too threatening, most likely an anti-aircraft gun, but it happened that the ball was blocked by Mazraoui in the middle.

The ball hit Mazraoui's toe to create a parabola, which landed just before the six-yard penalty area, right in front of Ajax goalkeeper Onana!

Onana was about to save on the bouncing ball, but at that moment, a black figure flashed past him, and it was a volley of furious shots in front of the bouncing ball.

The ball went straight into the top right corner of the goal, and because it was too close, Onana's save was completely slow!

1：1！

The aggregate score is 3:1.

And, more crucially, Manchester United scored a valuable away goal!

After the goal, Dai Zhiwei smiled and rushed to the corner flag, and then looked at the stands where the media box was located with a blank face, and also raised a finger.

Everyone understands that it means the first goal!

You go in, and I'll get in too!

"Excellent! It's just amazing! The English reporters in the media box slapped and whistled at the venue, ignoring the Dutch reporters next to them.

"Haha, I like this arrogance so much!" An English journalist said to his companion.

'It was his 16th Champions League goal of the season, you know?' Another Manchester United reporter asked the reporter next to him in ecstaty, but unfortunately he forgot that the other party's nationality was Dutch.

The game continued, and although the game ended in a 1-1 draw, Ajax were 3-1 down on aggregate, especially with a lethal away goal, which meant they had to score at least three more goals to have a chance of winning the game.

Under this pressure, Ajax began to storm the doors of Manchester United.

As we all know, the Dutch team may not be impregnable defensively, but the attack must be extremely good, let alone Ajax, the best in the Eredivisie.

Manchester United were pressed by Ajax for a while, and could only linger in the own half, although under Manchester United's tight defense, Ajax did not get many chances in a short period of time, only Ziyech and Dolberg's two long-range shots threatened Manchester United's goal.

Dorberg, in particular, was the Danish striker who opened the scoring for the game and posed a big threat to United during this period.

Finally, Ajax's frantic counter-attack paid off – in the 40th minute of the first half, the Ajax fans burst into earth-shattering cheers!

In the 40th minute, Schöne took a corner from the right and De Ligt nodded the ball past De Gea's ten fingers.

2：1！

With an aggregate score of 2:3, Ajax recovered another goal!

This time, it was changed to Dutch reporters to show off to English reporters.

Mourinho's defense of this set-piece is also very slow, De Ligt is one of the most threatening players in Ajax's corner, Manchester United's defense does not have much restriction on him!

As the game continued, the Reds intensified their pressing and began to control the pace of the game under the cold eyes of Mourinho.

When the tempo of the game was controlled in the hands of the opponent, Ajax's young players realized the problem, but at this time it was not so easy to counter-attack, under the control of the core of the team, Kroos, Manchester United was not in a hurry to break through, but slowly backwards in the midfield, pulling the opponent's defense.

Manchester United's attack is playing well at the moment, and although there are no dangerous shots on goal yet, the more this happens, the more pressure Onana will be under pressure, and maybe the next time will be Manchester United's goal.

At this time, Dai Zhiwei, the only one in front of him who did not take the ball, ran around in front of the penalty area, causing the Ajax players to chase after him tiringly, and the defense was easily torn apart.

United are also very good at taking advantage of the width of the pitch, often with Anthony Martial, Luke Shaw, Suso and others launching surprise attacks on both sides, which attracted most of the troops at once, and now they are just a decisive opportunity.

Chances are always created, and just as the first half was coming to an end, Manchester United suddenly turned possession into a surprise attack led by Dai Zhiwei!

Maguire tucked the ball to the right, Ricardo Pereira quickly followed, and after getting the ball on the edge of the penalty area, he didn't rush to pass the ball, but dunked the ball, and then gently picked it up to Dai Zhiwei, who was inserted in front of the big penalty area.

Originally, Ricardo Pereira's intention was to pass a high ball in front of Dai Zhiwei and let him volley it.

It's just that under the interference of the Ajax defenders, Dai Zhiwei didn't have a chance to volley, so he had to hand it to Anthony Martial with his knee before De Ligt.

Anthony Martial had a flash of inspiration at this time, and under Mazraoui's defense, the heel of his right foot knocked the ball in the air and passed it back to Dai Zhiwei.

"Huh? Two over one? ”

Although Dai Zhiwei was stunned for a moment, he reacted quickly, followed up with a trip to dodge Mazraoui's defense, and when facing the front Blind's defense, he stabbed the ball lightly with his right foot, pushing the football from Blind's feet to the goal kick.

Anthony Martial took advantage of the situation and received a wonderful pass from Dai Zhiwei, and he was single-handed!

In the face of Ajax goalkeeper Onana's attack, Anthony Martial only gave a gentle push.

Onana swooped down on the ball, but no matter how fast he was, he couldn't stop Anthony Martial's close-range shot.

The ball rolls under Onana's arm into the goal, 2:2!

The overall score, 4:2!

In the final moments of the first half, United once again extended their aggregate advantage!

After Martial scored, he excitedly rushed towards the corner flag, but only ran one step before he was pushed down from behind by Dai Zhiwei, who then pounced......

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