As soon as the Champions League semi-finals were announced, the English media was boiling. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The top four spots, the top three of the Premier League account for three. For two consecutive seasons, there have been three Premier League teams in the Champions League semi-finals, which is enough to prove that the Premier League is in its heyday.

Since the beginning of the last century, the English and Italian media have been battling over who is the first league in the Premier League and Serie A. Both sides insisted on their own words, and neither of them admitted defeat.

In the 70s and 80s of the last century, teams from the English league dominated the continental competition. Between '77 and '84, seven of the eight UEFA Champions League titles were lost to teams from the English league. Even more terrifying is the fact that between '77 and '82, all six titles were lost to teams from the English league. Such a record has not been broken so far.

In the era when the English league dominated the continental competition, only Hamburg from the Bundesliga broke their monopoly in the UEFA '83 Champions League.

However, after Italy won the Hercules Cup in the 82 World Cup, Italian football was fully opened to the outside world, and a large number of stars from all over the world were introduced, and the Serie A league known as the small World Cup was gradually established.

However, it was England that dominated the European competition at the time, and in 1985 Liverpool reached the final of the European Champions League again against Juventus from Serie A.

The final was played inside the Heysel Stadium in Brussels, Belgium, and some rogue fans from Liverpool fans fought in the stands, killing more than 30 people and injuring more than 300 people, creating the Heysel tragedy that shocked the world. England's football hooligans have since become notorious. Enraged, UEFA banned English teams from participating in the three European Cups for five years, while Liverpool were banned for seven years.

In the end, in this UEFA Champions League final, Liverpool lost the game and Juventus won the title.

Then the English team faced a long-term ban, so they said goodbye to the European competition, and the continental competition officially entered the Serie A mode.

In the more than 20 years since, Serie A teams have qualified for the Champions League final 12 times, winning seven times. The title of the first league is naturally worn on the head of Serie A.

However, with the end of the ban period for English teams and the strong development of the Premier League, the return of Premier League teams to Europe has basically become a nightmare for Serie A teams. Since the beginning of '97, the Premier League and Serie A teams have met a total of 23 times in Europe, with English teams winning 17 times.

With the recession of Italy, the competitiveness of Serie A has gradually weakened, and in recent seasons it has only relied on AC Milan to make a strong presence there.

Last season, there was a situation where AC Milan played in the top three of the Premier League alone.

As a result, the long-awaited battle for the First League was once again brought up by the media, and the English media unceremoniously crowned the First League crown to the Premier League.

Serie A, which has long been known as the mini-World Cup in the past, is now naturally unable to compete with the Premier League. When it comes to refuting the Premier League's world number one, the Italian media also don't have much confidence, especially since they have not had a good run of results in Europe this season. Roma, the only one to break into the quarterfinals of the Champions League, was beaten by Manchester United without any temper. The Serie A media with a sour heart can only take out the last season's AC Milan battle against the top three in the Premier League and finally win the Big Ears Cup to relive it, and it seems that they can vaguely see the prosperity of Serie A in the past from AC Milan.

However, after the Premier League semi-finals in the Premier League for two consecutive seasons, the Italian media's rebuttal paled in comparison, but it gave the Catalan media some psychological comfort.

Last year, AC Milan was able to break ground from the top three of the Premier League, so why can't a strong Barcelona?

The Catalans believe this year's Champions League title will be theirs.

Barcelona are also very optimistic about the Champions League situation, even against a strong Manchester United side, they are full of confidence in the title.

Any rebuttal from the English media pales in the face of such statements by the Catalan media.

Who told the top three last season to advance to the Champions League final, but they didn't win the Champions League?

So they went straight to Carrington to interview Alex Ferguson and the Manchester United players, hoping that they would hit back at Barcelona with their rhetoric.

"The Champions League semi-finals, there are two weeks to go, and in those two weeks we have three league games, and that's about the league title! So I'm sorry I don't want to talk about what happened in two weeks' time, but I can tell you for sure that we are desperate for the championship as well! ”

Ferguson has turned down media requests to interview the players, and he does not want the players to be disturbed by the media at this crucial moment.

However, his words are enough to show Manchester United's ambitions in the Champions League.

After two days of loud arguing about the battle for the first league, the media stopped their fire and turned their attention to the domestic arena.

Due to the conflict between the FA Cup schedule and the league schedule, the 33rd round away to Middlesbrough has been postponed. Manchester United, who have played a game in hand, are still smiling at the top of the table, seven points ahead of second-placed Chelsea.

At the end of the week, the 34th round of the Premier League began.

Manchester United welcomed Arsenal at home.

Unlike the first leg between the two sides, the situation of the two teams has now turned a huge turnaround.

Manchester United have all but secured the league title, while Arsenal are now relegated to third place, having lost their hopes of winning the league title early.

They were knocked out of the FA Cup by Manchester United and were knocked out 5-3 by Liverpool over two legs in the Champions League quarter-finals.

After a busy season, Arsenal fans found that the ambitious Arsenal team at the beginning of the season actually had another empty-handed season.

Arsenal sit third in the league and have already secured a Champions League spot. With no hope of winning the title, they have no desire this season, but it would be nice to be able to cause a little trouble for Manchester United.

With that in mind, they arrived at Old Trafford.

Although they want to do their best to stop Manchester United, everything they do seems so futile and pale in front of Manchester United, who have a strong desire to win.

In the first half, Cristiano Ronaldo scored twice to make the score 2-0.

Arsenal, who were unable to form an effective attack in the half, were unable to form an effective attack by Manchester United throughout the game, and scored a face-saving goal in the final minutes when they took advantage of the slackness of Manchester United's players.

Manchester United beat Arsenal 2-1 at home.

In the other game of the round, Chelsea were held to a draw at home by Wigan. Manchester United, who have a game in hand, are nine points ahead of Chelsea on points.

After the game against Arsenal, Manchester United have a make-up game against Middlesbrough in midweek.

A win would put United's points advantage over Chelsea to 12 points. With four rounds remaining, even if Manchester United lose all of them and Chelsea win, Manchester United can still win the league title.

The Premier League ranking rules, in the case of the same number of points, first compare the goal difference, then compare the number of goals!.

Manchester United are 19 ahead of second-placed Chelsea on goal difference, and it will be very difficult to get 19 clean sheets in four games.

So after the game against Middlesbrough, the players of Manchester United were very positive.

In the opening stage, Yu Liang assisted Ronaldo to complete the goal with a direct pass in the front court, establishing the lead early.

However, Middlesbrough, who have been hovering on the edge of the relegation zone, have shown super fighting power.

What kind of team can't be messed with?

The relegated team can't afford to mess with.

United's lead was levelled by Middlesbrough just before half-time.

The first half ended in a draw.

At the start of the second half, United stepped up their attack and quickly took the lead.

In the 52nd minute, after Yu Liang made a steal in the front, Dong Wang, who assisted the anti-offside position, scored a goal and rewrote the score to 2-1.

The excited Manchester United players began to celebrate in the stadium.

The league championship trophy seems to be within reach.

But just after they had led for almost 40 minutes, Middlesbrough scored from a corner in the final minute of stoppage time to turn the three points into a point.

In this game, they tried their best to win the title, and Manchester United's players were more or less psychologically lagging behind.

Coupled with a lack of fitness, they only drew with Blackburn Rovers on the weekend's trip to Ewood Park.

With three league games remaining, United are just eight points ahead of Chelsea on points.

From a huge lead to an eight-point gap now, the Premier League title is in suspense.

In the next round of the Premier League, the strong dialogue between Manchester United and Chelsea will directly determine the championship! (To be continued.) )