Zhigao Supreme: The Legend of Greenery

Chapter 403 Suspenseful
As soon as the Champions League semi-finals were released, the English media was boiling.

The top four seats, the top three of the Premier League accounted for the third.For two consecutive seasons, three Premier League teams have appeared in the top four of the Champions League. Such a grand occasion is enough to prove that the Premier League is in a heyday.

Since the beginning of the last century, the English media and Italian media have been fighting over who is the first league between the Premier League and Serie A.Both sides insisted on their own opinions, and no one would admit defeat.

In the 70s and 80s, teams from the English League dominated the European arena.Between 77 and 84, 8 of the 7 UEFA Champions League titles were won by teams from the English league.What is even more terrifying is that between 77 and 82, all 6 championships were taken away by teams from the English League.Such a record has not been broken so far.

In the era when the English league dominated the European arena, only the Hamburg team from the Bundesliga broke their monopoly in the 83 European Champions Cup.

But Feng Shui took turns. After Italy won the Hercules Cup in the 82 World Cup, Italian football was fully opened to introduce a large number of stars from all over the world, and gradually established the Serie A league known as the Little World Cup.

However, it was still the team from England that ruled the European arena at that time. In 1985, Liverpool once again broke into the European Champions Cup final, and their opponent was Juventus from Serie A.

The final was held at the Heysel Stadium in Brussels, Belgium. During the game, some rogue fans from Liverpool fans fought in the stands, killing more than 30 people and injuring more than 300 people, creating a Heysel tragedy that shocked the world.English football hooligans have since become notorious.The furious UEFA banned the English team for 5 years, and Liverpool was banned for 7 years.

In the end, in this European Champions Cup final, Liverpool lost the game and Juventus won the championship.

Then the England team faced a long-term suspension and bid farewell to the European arena. The European arena officially entered the Serie A mode.

In the following 20 years, Serie A teams have advanced to the Champions League final 12 times and ruled the roost 7 times.The title of the first league is naturally worn on the head of Serie A.

However, with the end of the suspension period of the English team and the vigorous development of the Premier League, the Premier League teams returning to the European arena have basically become a nightmare for Serie A teams.Since 97, Premier League teams and Serie A teams have faced each other a total of 23 times in the European arena, and English teams have won 17 times.

With the economic recession in Italy, the competitiveness of Serie A is also gradually weakening. In recent seasons, it has only relied on AC Milan to support its face there.

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

Therefore, the dust-laden first league battle was once again brought up by the media, and the English media unceremoniously crowned the Premier League with the crown of the first league.

The Serie A league, which has long been known as the Little World Cup in the past, is naturally unable to compete with the Premier League now.When refuting the Premier League's No. [-] league in the world, the Italian media did not have much confidence, especially their poor performance in the European war this season.Roma, the only one to break into the quarter-finals of the Champions League, was beaten by Manchester United without any temper.The heartbroken Serie A media can only revisit last season when AC Milan battled against the top three in the Premier League and finally won the Big Ears Cup. It seems that they can vaguely see the prosperity of Serie A from AC Milan.

However, in two consecutive seasons, the top three of the Premier League advanced to the top four of the Champions League. The rebuttals of the Italian media seemed pale, but they gave the Catalan media some psychological comfort.

Last year, AC Milan was able to break through the encirclement and suppression of the top three in the Premier League, so why can't the mighty Barcelona?

The Catalans believe that this year's Champions League must belong to them.

Barcelona is also very optimistic about the situation of the Champions League. Even if the opponent is a strong Manchester United, they are full of confidence in the championship.

In the face of such remarks by the Catalan media, any rebuttal by the English media seems somewhat pale.

Who told the top three to advance to the Champions League final last season, but none of them were able to win the Champions League?
So they came directly to Carrington to interview Ferguson and Manchester United players, hoping that they could fight back against Barcelona in terms of speech.

"The semi-finals of the Champions League, there are still two weeks to go, and we will play three league games in these two weeks, which is related to the ownership of the league title! So sorry, I don't want to talk about what happened in two weeks, but I I can tell you one thing for sure, that is, we are also desperate for the championship!"

Ferguson refused the media's request to interview the players. He did not want the players to be disturbed by the media at this critical moment.

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

With regard to the competition for the first league, after two days of heated quarrels, the media ceased 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 game against Middlesbrough was postponed.Manchester United, with one round less, is still proud of the crowd, dominating the standings and leading the No.2 Chelsea by 7 points.

On the weekend, the 34th round of the Premier League kicked off.

Manchester United ushered in Arsenal at home.

Unlike the first round of the contest between the two sides, the situation of the two teams has now undergone a huge reversal.

Manchester United has basically locked in the league title, while Arsenal can only settle in third, losing hope of winning the title early in the league.

They were eliminated by Manchester United in the FA Cup by a big score, and in the just-concluded Champions League quarter-finals, they were eliminated by Liverpool 5-3 in two rounds.

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

Arsenal sits firmly in third place in the league and has already secured a place in the Champions League.They have no hope of competing for the championship this season, but it is not bad to be able to cause Manchester United a little trouble.

With this attitude, they came to Old Trafford.

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

Cristiano Ronaldo scored twice in the first half, fixing the score at 2-0.

Throughout the game, Arsenal, who were suppressed by Manchester United and unable to form an effective attack in the half, scored a face-saving goal in the last few minutes when Manchester United players were lax.

Manchester United defeated Arsenal 2-1 at home.

In the other game of this round, Chelsea were tied at home by Wigan.Manchester United, with one round less, leads Chelsea by 9 points in points.

After the end of the game against Arsenal, Manchester United ushered in a make-up match against Middlesbrough in the middle of the week.

If this game wins, Manchester United's points advantage over Chelsea will reach 12 points.In this way, with 4 rounds left in the league, even if Manchester United loses all the games and Chelsea wins all, Manchester United can win the league championship.

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

In terms of goal difference, Manchester United has 2 points ahead of No.19 Chelsea. It is very difficult to win 19 goal difference in four games.

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

In the opening stage, Yu Liang assisted Ronaldo to complete the goal with a direct pass from the frontcourt, establishing the leading advantage early.

But Middlesbrough, which has been hovering on the edge of the relegation zone, has shown super combat effectiveness.

What kind of team can't afford it?

The relegation team can't afford to mess with it.

Manchester United's lead was equalized by Middlesbrough before the end of the first half.

The first half ended in a draw between the two sides.

After the start of the second half, Manchester United stepped up their offense and quickly overtook the score.

In the 52nd minute, after Yu Liang made a steal in the frontcourt, he assisted King Dong who was offside and scored a goal, rewriting the score to 2-1.

The excited Manchester United players began to celebrate on the field.

The league trophy seemed within reach.

But just after they led for nearly 40 minutes, in the last minute of stoppage time, Middlesbrough scored a corner kick, abruptly turning Manchester United's three points into one.

In this game, they tried their best and failed to win the championship. Manchester United's players are more or less psychologically behind.

Coupled with exhaustion, so when they were a guest at Ewood Park at the weekend, they only drew with Blackburn with Rooney's goal.

With three rounds left in the league, Manchester United are only 8 points ahead of Chelsea in points.

From the huge lead to the gap of only eight points now, there are many suspense about the ownership of the Premier League title.

In the next round of the Premier League, the strong dialogue between Manchester United and Chelsea will directly determine the championship!
(End of this chapter)