On April 7, just two days after Manchester United beat Bayern 6-2, the 33rd round of the Premier League began.

Manchester United will take on local rivals Manchester City at the Etiha Stadium in what is the most important game of the season in the Premier League title race.

The Manchester duo remain in the top two of the table, while United are seven points ahead of their city rivals.

If Manchester United can beat Manchester City in the 33rd round of direct competition, then with only six league games remaining (both Manchester United and Manchester City 31st round postponed until May), the gap between the two teams will widen to double digits, and Pep Guardiola's side will have little chance of a comeback.

If the two teams are tied, then the seven-point advantage will be enough for Mourinho to secure his first league title since Alex Ferguson.

A win for Manchester City would see the gap between the two teams close to four points, and with the Champions League and FA Cup games still to be played, things will get complicated.

In the 32nd round of the Premier League before the two teams went head-to-head, Manchester won both.

Manchester United won 2-0 at home to Swansea City.

The Red Devils took the lead in the 5th minute, Lingard passed, Ozil crossed from the left side of the penalty area, Dai Zhiwei shot into the top corner from 13 yards, 1:0!

United doubled their lead in the 20th minute when Jesse Lingard counter-attacked and Ozil fired a low shot into the bottom left corner from the edge of the box to make it 2-0.

After sealing the win, Manchester United closed the game and waited for the results of Manchester City.

However, the Blues did not concede the Reds to the Reds, as they beat Everton 3-1 at Goodison Park, with goals from Leroy Sane, Gabriel Jesus and Raheem Sterling.

However, it seems that it is not that simple.

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola said after the match with Everton that the first thing City has to think about is the Champions League.

On April 4, Manchester City will travel to face Liverpool, who are also Premier League teams. Speaking after the Everton game, Pep Guardiola said: "It's a very good result, we haven't played for three weeks. The team has to be aggressive and I've wanted to play like that for two years. But now we have to focus on the Champions League. ”

Pep Guardiola also spoke to MOTD about the next Premier League fixture, Manchester City's host Manchester United, and the timing of this game was crucial, stuck between the two legs against Liverpool, which will test Guardio's trade-offs.

If the main team does its best to fight Manchester United, even if it defeats Manchester United, it may be a miserable victory, so after being happy in front of the sworn enemy and narrowing the point difference, what about the decisive battle against Liverpool in the Champions League?

Liverpool are not good at stubble.

Pep Guardiola sees this very clearly: "We have to focus on the Champions League, although we have to play Manchester United between the two Champions League games, but in terms of the starting line-up, we have to think about the Champions League. ”

It is not difficult to see from Pep Guardiola's tone that basically Manchester City has strategically given up the Premier League game with Manchester United, so that Mourinho's Manchester United is likely to beat Manchester City at home.

However, if Manchester City can get a better score in the first leg of the Champions League against Liverpool, Guardiola is expected to adjust his strategy again. Now it's up to Guardiola to see how the next few tough battles are arranged.

Unfortunately, unlike Manchester United's 6-2 victory over Bayern, Manchester City suffered a humiliating first leg in the Champions League quarter-finals.

Originally, it was expected that Manchester City would cause big problems for Liverpool on the road, but Klopp's team led by three goals in the opening 31 minutes and failed to score away from home, and it was extremely difficult for Manchester City to return to the home stadium.

Liverpool scored three goals in 20 minutes to win 3-0 at home to Manchester City to take the lead, Salah crossed the ball, Oxlade-Chamberlain was the world's wave, and Sadio Mane headed the net.

The result of this game completely overturned Guardiola's previous calculations.

In the case of the extremely difficult to turn the Champions League quarter-finals around, Guardiola may be all the main players in the derby with Manchester United to fight for the league title.

The BBC had already decided that even if Sergio Aguero was not fit to play for Manchester United, Guardiola would bench him for use in the league title.

And Manchester United, who has almost half a foot in the Champions League semi-finals, will definitely focus all their energy on this battle for the top spot.

It is worth mentioning that in the previous 20 meetings between Guardiola and Mourinho, Guardiola had the upper hand with 8 wins, 7 draws and 5 losses, and was also the coach who beat Mourinho the most times in his coaching career.

For this game, any Manchester United would be hoping to step on their sworn rivals to win the Premier League title this season, and Red Devils legend Gary Neville is clearly one of them.

On his INS, Gary Neville posted a photo of himself celebrating Scholes' stunner against Manchester City in 2010 with the caption: "Gary Neville must win!" ”

However, after seeing Manchester United's starting line-up, many Red Devils fans may be disappointed, because Mourinho chose the tactics of defensive counterattack, he lined up a 4-3-2-1 formation, Juan Mata and Jesse Lingard formed a double defender, and the back from left to right were Pogba, Nemanja Matic, and Fellaini, which can be described as the main force.

Pep Guardiola lined up in a 4-3-3 formation, with Bernardo Silva, Gabriel Jesus and Leroy Sane forming a front three, with Sergio Aguero on the bench.

Manchester United's starting line-up –

Goalkeeper: David De Gea

Defenders: Valencia, Bailly, Lindelof, Ashley Young

Midfielders: Nemanja Matic, Paul Pogba, Marouane Fellaini

Avant-garde: Juan Mata, Jesse Lingard

Forward: Dai Zhiwei

Manchester City's starting line-up –

Goalkeeper: Edson

Defenders: Danilo, Kompany, Otamendi, Delph

Midfielders: Gundogan, Fernandinho, Silva

Forwards: Bernardo Silva, Gabriel Jesus, Leroy Sane

Standing on the field and waiting for the opponent to kick off, Dai Zhiwei looked at the opponent's defenders in front of him, and the blue moon really sent his old opponent Otamendi to defend himself.

"Hehe, what a pleasure!" Manchester City is definitely Dai Zhiwei's favorite opponent, he doesn't know what's going on, as soon as he meets Manchester City, he is in good shape, and he has excellent luck in recent years, it can be said that how to shoot and how to score, it is also amazing!

"Tick!"

Just when Dai Zhiwei was deserting, suddenly a crisp whistle suddenly sounded beside him. Suddenly hearing a loud whistle, Dai Zhiwei was startled, and quickly turned his head to look at the referee.

And Mata next to him looked at Dai Zhiwei's face with a look of indignation, and couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart, at such a nervous time, this guy is good, and he actually has a distraction, although he doesn't know what Dai Zhiwei is thinking, but with those obsessive eyes, anyone can see that he is absolutely out of the world just now.

Shaking his head and putting aside the distractions in his head, Dai Zhiwei quickly chased after Mata, if he stayed in place, he did not dare to guarantee that Mourinho would not rush into the field with a tactical board.

Manchester City's tee-off, Dai Zhiwei turned his head to look during the run, found that Mourinho's face was not different, and he was relieved, and then rushed towards the opposite half.

Rushing quickly across the halfway line with the ball, Sane had just raised his head and could not find his position as a striker when Nemanja Matic blocked his way.

This is not the first time the two have faced each other, and Sane will not underestimate the iron-blooded midfielder, propping up his left arm on Matic's body and preparing to launch an all-out attack.

Just as he tossed the football out of the ground, a long thick leg quickly stretched out next to him and shoveled the football out cleanly and fiercely.

Before Sane could understand what was going on, he felt the left side of his body empty, and Matic, who had been clinging to each other, had already run past him.

After two or three quick steps to catch up with the football, Matic saw signs of the opponent's midfield closing towards him, decisively kicked the football, and then flew high and fell towards Pogba on the right.

In the face of the football passed by Nemanja Matic, Pogba skillfully stretched out his right foot and threw it directly, full of aura, and the football did not stop, and quickly flew to the front line.

Today's Pogba is far more "cute" than Dai Zhiwei was at the same time in his previous life.

He is like the Monkey King who is making trouble in the sky, if he wants to become a Buddha, he must be bound by Tang Seng.

For example, during the Juventus period, there were Pirlo, Buffon and other bigwigs "suppressed", and in the French team, Griezmann, Mbappe, Kante and other teammates clamped down, and now in Manchester United, Pogba is also suppressed by Dai Zhiwei, and there is no ambition that should not be born.

Pogba, who is in his own right, is still a top five midfielder today!

Looking at the football that flew in at the right moment, Dai Zhiwei shook off his legs in understanding and slid diagonally towards the gap between Otamendi and Kompany.

The whole figure was like a sharp knife piercing into the blue moon penalty area, tearing through Manchester City's defense without a sound.

In fact, this goal is not to say that Otamendi and Kompany's ability is not good, but both of them are careless, I didn't expect Pogba to stop the ball at all and send a wonderful pass, let alone Dai Zhiwei to run out of such a smart position.

In addition, the game has only started, and the state has not been fully adjusted, Otamendi and Kompany have waited until they react, but they have been left far behind by Dai Zhiwei.

Kompany was too old, and Otamendi was scared by Dai Zhiwei, they only felt that they turned their heads, Dai Zhiwei had disappeared without a trace, and by the time they turned their bodies completely, Dai Zhiwei had at least thrown them two or three meters away.

"Oh my God, is Dai Zhiwei a ghost? I didn't see how he broke through our defenses. Watching Dai Zhiwei float quickly past the two stake-like opponents on the court, the on-site commentator at Etiha Stadium only felt that his brain was blank and muttered to himself.

In the midst of an exclamation, when Dai Zhiwei came to the vicinity of the football, the nearest defender was also two meters away.

Dai Zhiwei's speed cannot be visually intuitive, but from the comparison of Otamendi, Kompany and his position, all the fans have that feeling of shock in their hearts.

Although this is not the first time that Red Devils fans have seen Dai Zhiwei's performance, every time his speed soars, he still can't restrain a passion that is difficult to suppress!

"Danger!" Etiha's on-site narrator screamed

After Dai Zhiwei got the football, his speed did not weaken in the slightest, but showed some signs of acceleration, throwing off the followers behind him and rushing towards the Manchester City penalty area.

The fans of both sides in the stadium quickly got up from their seats, stretched their necks and looked nervously at the field, no one expected that Manchester United would create such a rare scoring opportunity in less than two minutes of the game.

Even Mourinho, who was already prepared, ran to the sidelines as soon as possible and looked nervously at the field.

It's hard to describe the feeling of running freely on the pitch without hindering it, and the exhilaration, as if all the pores of the body are opened to the maximum, and the infusion of the fresh breeze is as refreshing as drinking a sip of ice water on a hot summer day.

Squinting his eyes slightly, comfortably experiencing the unrestrained breeze on his face, Dai Zhiwei's feet quickly alternated and naturally plucked the football under his feet.

Now Dai Zhiwei's dribbling gives people a sense of natural harmony, you can't perceive his strength when he plays, and you can't see his deliberate change of direction with the ball when he is running, just like Ronaldo's early days in Barcelona and Inter Milan, like a child of the wind!

It felt as if he was just strolling leisurely on the lawn, and the football was like an obedient elf, obediently flying around his feet.

Staring at Edson, who was constantly shaking his arms up and down exaggeratedly, screaming with a bluff in his mouth, and constantly moving his steps, his excited heart did not fluctuate, and he went straight towards the original destination Earth Gate.

The distance between the two was approaching rapidly, and in an instant, Dai Zhiwei had already entered the forbidden area.

"Can't hesitate any longer!" A thought flashed through Edson's mind, and after suddenly taking two steps, he chose to attack.

Ederson's tall body suddenly pounced, and when Manchester United fans were extremely nervous, Dai Zhiwei, who was dribbling the ball at high speed, suddenly began to shake his upper body back and forth, making it impossible for the opponent to predict the direction he was about to break through.

It's like a pendulum swinging back and forth!

Just after Ederson made a flying move, Dai Zhiwei's body twisted, and he flashed to the left with a football light, and also let the last line of defense of Blue Moon.

After nothing stood in front of him, Dai Zhiwei pushed the arch of his left foot without a trace of fireworks, and the football rolled slowly and resolutely across the white line in the desperate gaze of the Manchester City people.

“goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooal！”

Today, Lineker, the commentator of Sky Sports TV, stood up excitedly as soon as Dai Zhiwei flashed Edson, and yelled excitedly as if he had eaten gunpowder!

The Etiha Stadium also instantly became like a werewolf gathering meeting, and the passion instantly swept all corners of the stadium.

It's a blue city, but it's a red flame!

(End of chapter)