Of course, the league title talk is only an argument between a small group of fans, but Manchester United's attention has shifted from the Premier League to other places, because the European competition in midweek is about to start again, and Manchester United have to prepare for the upcoming challenge of Borussia Dortmund.

At 7:45 p.m. local time on April 12, Manchester City, which took the lead, defeated another football tycoon Paris 1:0 at the Etihad Stadium at home, and took the lead in entering the semifinals of this year's Champions League with a total score of 3:2 over two legs.

For a while, Manchester City fans sang and danced in Manchester City, rejoicing, as if they had won some kind of championship.

This is indeed something to celebrate for Manchester City fans, as it is the first time in the club's history that they have reached the last four of the Champions League.

The media throughout England gave a positive assessment of Manchester City's promotion. After all, in recent years, the Premier League's European results are a bit ugly, not only lost the first place in European points early, but also was forced to third by the Bundesliga, and now even the third position is in danger, and the fourth place Serie A is not far from the Premier League's European points.

This time, Manchester City advanced to the semi-finals, which is not only the only seedling of the Premier League in Europe, but also helps the Premier League earn a lot of European points and consolidate the third position.

However, Manchester United fans in the same city are not happy: Isn't Nima just reaching the last four of the Champions League? We have three championship trophies in our family, and we are not so sassy as you, be careful and happy, and go home as soon as you turn around!

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Another Champions League quarter-final game that started at the same time as Manchester City, Real Madrid, which lost 0:2 away in the first leg, played the momentum of the Champions League hegemon at home, and former Manchester United player Cristiano Ronaldo brought a hat at home to help Real Madrid reverse Wolfsburg and advance to the Champions League semi-finals with an aggregate score of 3:2.

And the following Wednesday night, Atletico Madrid, who was sitting at home, defeated the former Cosmos team Barcelona 2-0 at home, and advanced 3-2 over two legs, while also keeping the opponent out of the semi-finals.

The slogan of revenge for the Champions League exit two years ago shouted by the Cosmos team and Messi before the game has not been realized, but has added new hatred without revenge.

Bayern, who won 1:0 in the first leg, drew 2:2 with Benfica away and also advanced to the semifinals with an aggregate score of 3:2.

Careful people found that the total score of the two legs of the four Champions League opponents was 3:2, and no team achieved a double kill against the opponent in the quarterfinals!

As a result, the media have said that this year's Champions League quarterfinals are the closest quarterfinals, and as for the argument that Wolfsburg and Benfica were identified as fish belly and gift bags before the quarterfinals began, they have long been forgotten by the unscrupulous media.

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After the Champions League, it's the turn of the Europa League.

In the Europa League quarter-finals, the best chance of qualifying is undoubtedly Manchester United, who won 3-1 away in the first leg. In the second leg, as long as they don't concede by two or more goals at home, they will definitely advance.

Since the end of the first leg of the Europa League quarter-finals on Thursday, the German media have been generally pessimistic, believing that it will be extremely difficult for Dortmund to turn the tables on the road.

For Borussia Dortmund, in the second leg, their most realistic expectation is to win 3-0 away and advance 4-3 on aggregate.

It would take Borussia Dortmund to score three goals against Manchester United in the first place, and at the same time, they would have to keep not conceding a goal!

Not to mention whether Manchester United can score 3 goals with Dortmund's attacking ability this season, it is difficult to prevent Manchester United from conceding goals, because Manchester United has Rashford, the hottest goalscorer in Europe and even the world recently!

At this time, everyone can see that Manchester United can go so far in the Europa League this season, which is directly related to the performance of their new striker Marcus Rashford.

In both the Europa League quarter-finals and quarter-finals, Marcus Rashford played a decisive role: in the first eighth, he added a penalty and an own goal to help United come; In the two-legged meeting with Liverpool, he scored four goals and assisted once, and was directly involved in all five goals; And judging from the Westfa-round game, Rashford once again covered all three goals for Manchester United.

Based on these previous performances, it will be very difficult for Dortmund to turn the tables in the second leg of the away game if they are not able to completely freeze Rashford.

The problem is that it's so hard to freeze Rashford completely!

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Although the situation is clearly superior, Van Gaal is not so optimistic.

Van Gaal still has a deep understanding of the current strength of the Dortmund team. Because five years ago, he was disgraced by Dortmund's subversion of Bayern's hegemony in the Bundesliga.

Five years have passed, Dortmund is no longer in the hands of Klopp, and even the players have changed a lot, but the pressure brought to him by Dortmund is still the same as it was at the beginning.

In fact, in the first leg, Dortmund has put Van Gaal under immense pressure. Don't look at the final score is Manchester United 3-1 victory, but the process of the game is not as simple as the score.

Dortmund this season, under the leadership of Tuchel, have the strongest attack group in the Bundesliga, and with 69 goals in 29 league games, they are not inferior to Bayern, because Bayern have only scored 69 goals, and their average attack power of 2.38 goals per game is considered first-class in the whole of Europe.

Even if it is put into other leagues, this data is very dazzling, that is, the attacking firepower of the two poles of the Spanish Super League and the Ligue 1 giants are stronger than them: Real Madrid, which has scored 93 goals in 32 La Liga games, has an average of 2.91 goals per game, Barcelona, which has also scored 87 goals in 32 La Liga games, has scored 2.72 goals per game, and Paris Saint-Germain, the overlord of Ligue 1, has scored 83 goals in 33 Ligue 1 rounds, with an average of 2.52 goals per game.

As for the highly competitive Premier League and Serie A, which are known for their defense, there is no team that can match Dortmund's attacking firepower: Tottenham, the top scorer in the Premier League, has only scored 59 goals in 33 rounds, while Napoli, the top scorer in Serie A, has scored 66 goals in 32 rounds.

What's more, in order to reverse Manchester United on the road, Dortmund also chose to abandon last weekend's Bundesliga match, Tuchel put Reus, Aubameyang, Mkhitaryan and other attacking mainstays on the bench, Ramos, Shinji Kagawa and teenager Christian Pulisic formed a trident.

You must know that it was the famous Ruhr derby in Germany, and it was also a crucial period for Dortmund to compete for the Bundesliga title, which shows how determined Dortmund is to win Manchester United and continue to move forward in the Europa League. I want to talk about "The British Emperor" with more like-minded people, "Chat with more book friends about your favorite books."

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