At Old Trafford, the award ceremony took place as scheduled. The Reds celebrated their fourth consecutive league title with a declarative sign that another dominant dynasty had been established.

If they can win the Champions League again this season, the United will be remembered forever in the history of the team.

Of course, it's not easy.

The United players didn't celebrate too much, and of course some of the English players went for an all-night drinking party, which is a tradition for English players and Ferguson couldn't stop it.

After a day's rest, the squad flew en masse to France, where they will take on Lyon at the Stade Gérland.

With a huge advantage of 3 goals in hand, Manchester United can enter the final smoothly as long as they don't collapse in this game, so the players are still very relaxed.

Ronaldo was not on the plane. Ferguson had intended to start him in such a game that was not particularly important, but Ronaldo had another serious fluid buildup in his knee and needed to rest for a while and had to miss.

Dimitar Berbatov and Owen will compete for the main centre-forward position, and of course it is possible to bring Rooney forward and Scholes play in midfield, and no one knows what Ferguson is thinking.

After arriving in Lyon, Ferguson gave the players a half-day off so that everyone could prepare for the game with a more relaxed mind.

In his pre-match press conference, Lyon coach Pierre said: "I know there is little hope, but we are not going to give up. Manchester United are a very strong team, they and Barcelona are the first team in this Champions League, better than any other team. ”

'We had a very tough task to score at least three goals in the game and try to prevent the opposition from scoring. But I believe that this is not an impossible task, and that miracles can happen if we work together. We have to take control of the game from the first minute and try to score one or two goals in the first half. ”

Ferguson gave face to his opponents: "Lyon are a very good team, and the fact that they were able to beat Real Madrid shows their quality. The score in the last game is not a true reflection of the quality of the two sides, so we will be very careful in tomorrow's game and try to avoid surprises. ”

'The lads are very tired and that's why it's hard for the Premier League to win the Champions League, our league is the only one in Europe that doesn't have a winter break and the fatigue builds up. It's not always possible to overcome fatigue with willpower. It's going to be an uphill battle for us. ”

On the evening of April 27, at the Gerrand Stadium, Lyon was in full swing.

But once the match began, Ricardo noticed that his opponent didn't seem to be very scrappy.

This is also normal, the huge difference of 3 goals is enough to make any team desperate.

Although they appeared to be eager to win and launched an attack from the start, it can be seen that they did not play resolutely and lacked the momentum to break the boat.

It was Manchester United who were the first to threaten.

In the third minute, Licardo broke the ball on the left side and immediately sent in a cross, which was flicked off by Berbatov, who started the game, and the ball narrowly rolled off the far post.

Gerland was in the stands with a lot of exclamations. If this goal is scored, Lyon really has no hope.

Manchester United's pressing made it very difficult for Lyon to get the ball, they were eager to attack, but they couldn't organize, they could only launch attacks with long passes again and again, but Manchester United's steel defense was not so easy to break down, Ferdinand and Vidic did not have much effort to defuse the opponent's attack again and again, and Valencia, who played at right-back, also performed well, although the defensive skills were still a little lacking, but his attitude made up for the lack of skills.

After 20 minutes of pressing, Ferguson waved his hand and Manchester United began to recycle as a whole.

After a couple of probing, Lyon pressed up and put more players into the attack, and while they couldn't create a real threat, they looked like they were playing a decent game.

However, this is only a reflection before death.

In the 26th minute, Manchester United launched a quick counterattack from the right, Nani dribbled past two people and passed the ball to the middle, Rooney kept the ball straight and plugged it straight away, and Berbatov received the ball smoothly on the right side of the penalty area.

Although he wasn't fast and wasn't physically strong, he still held the ball well and picked it up to the back post.

Lyon's defence was already in disarray, and there was no one to watch around Ricardo, who was ambushed at the back post. He jumped up with an easy header and smashed the ball into the back of the net with all his might.

Manchester United lead 1-0!

It was a goal that completely destroyed Lyon.

If Lyon want to avoid being eliminated, they will have to score five more goals without conceding any more goals. Scoring just four goals and they will still be eliminated due to fewer away goals.

In this case, their manager Pierre could not do anything to save the team.

Lyon launched a frenzied attack, which can be called madness, because there are no routines and rules, it is pure random kicking, the players have forgotten their tactical responsibilities, and the defenders can no longer maintain an intact backline.

Such Lyon seems to play arrogantly, but in fact it is extremely fragile.

They had a few chances, though, and in the 30th minute, Govu's clever cross from the flank almost set up Bastos, but the latter's close-range shot went wide.

In the 41st minute, Manchester United once again easily penetrated the Lyon defence, Carrick found Rooney with a long pass directly from the backfield, Rooney used his strong body to squeeze through the defender, ran with the ball for 20 meters, and passed the ball to Berbatov in the box.

Berbatov stopped the ball but struggled to turn around, and after looking up, he knocked the ball back into the box.

Ricardo, who had just run outside the box, did not make any adjustments, and shot angrily at the ball, and the football turned into a white light and flew straight into the Lyon goal.

This world wave gave Manchester United a 2-0 lead away!

Ferguson also applauded Ricardo's brilliant goal.

In fact, today's Licardo is not active, so far there has been no breakthrough, and he is completely dealing with the play of an opportunistic striker, but such a casual gangster can also mix two goals, and it can only be said that the ability of top players to capture fighters is too strong.

In the 60th minute of the game, Lyon's Kerry applauded the referee in dissatisfaction after receiving a yellow card, and was expelled from the game by the referee with another yellow card.

Lyon had to play 10 to 11.

Even the most ardent believer in miracles would not have believed that a miracle would befall Leon. Despite 30 minutes remaining, Lyon's fans began to leave the stadium in large numbers, with only the Red Devils fans singing and dancing as they celebrated their team's reach to the final.

This turned the rest of the game into a personal show for the Manchester United players.