Football career: From winning the championship to becoming a legend

After the last round of games, Arsenal manager Wenger claimed that he had spent the most frustrating week, or the most frustrating four days, since he took over Arsenal in 1996:

Liverpool lost to the Reds in an away game in the middle of the week and lost the qualification for this season's Champions League. At the weekend, they lost to another red Devils Manchester United in another away game and basically lost the hope of winning the Premier League title this season.

"We had a very good chance of qualification in the Champions League and a very good chance of winning the league if we beat Manchester United at Old Trafford. We worked hard for a year and threw it all away in four days...

There are still four games left in the season and we still have 4 points to go. If we reach 12 points by the end of the season, it will be an improvement for us. But just some minor mistakes turned us from winners to losers. ”

Yes, there are only 4 rounds left in the Premier League. For Manchester United, which has been eliminated from the FA Cup and has already finished the League Cup, there are only two trophies left to compete for, the Premier League and the Champions League, with a maximum of 7 games left.

曼联接下来的赛程是4月19日客战排名第9的布莱克本，4月23日客战巴萨，4月26日客场战切尔西，4月30日主场战巴萨，5月3日主场战排名第10的西汉姆联，5月11日客场战排名第15的维冈竞技，以及可能的5月21日欧冠决赛。

The most difficult ones are the three consecutive away games starting from April 4. If they don’t play well, it is very likely that Manchester United will experience the despair of Arsenal last week in the five days at the end of the month and lose a season’s efforts in a few days.

However, if Manchester United can get through these three away games, they will win rich rewards, at least the Premier League title is a sure thing. For example, if they beat Blackburn and Chelsea away, Manchester United can directly declare that they have won the Premier League title this season at Stamford Bridge.

As long as Manchester United does not lose to Chelsea, they only need a draw in the last two rounds to secure the championship. After all, Manchester United's lead in goal difference is too big, 27 more than Chelsea.

In addition, Chelsea's remaining schedule is no friendlier than Manchester United's.

切尔西将在4月17日客场挑战排名第五的埃弗顿，4月22日欧冠客战利物浦，4月26日主场对阵曼联，5月1日主场欧冠对阵利物浦，5月5日客场对阵排名第12的纽卡斯尔，5月11日英超收官战对阵排名第18的博尔顿，以及可能的5月21日欧冠决赛。

Unlike Manchester United, who only need to play Blackburn, who may still want to compete for a Champions League spot, and the remaining two teams are all teams with no desire, Chelsea will first play Everton, who still has a chance to compete for a Champions League spot, and Bolton, who need to fight desperately to avoid relegation in the last round...

However, Chelsea, who started the league two days earlier than Manchester United, was lucky enough to overcome the first hurdle.

2008年4月17日晚上20时，07/08赛季英格兰足球超级联赛第35轮首场比赛在古迪逊公园展开争夺，最终切尔西凭借着埃辛4天内的第二次破门，客场1比0小胜埃弗顿，以2分之差紧逼少赛一场的曼联。

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Before the race, Ricardo received a large package, which was the latest sports protective gear and accessories sent by his own sports fashion brand Shuang Aru RR, which he had not paid attention to for a long time:

It includes a Red Devil-style sports base layer that wicks sweat, dries quickly, is breathable, slim-fitting and tightly wraps the muscles; lighter and tougher shin guards; Red Devil-style leggings-effect socks; and fully customized non-slip, shock-absorbing and ultra-light insoles for football boots.

Especially the last sports version of the fully customized football boots insole is an exclusive patented product independently developed by Shuang Aru based on Ricardo's suggestions and ideas. It is said to have new technologies such as increasing speed, increasing battery life, shock absorption, anti-slip and deodorization. It is currently a flagship product on the market with sales of over one million euros.

However, the specific performance optimization data still needs to wait for feedback from more athletes after trying it out in more training and competitions.

Ricardo can't wait for the game to arrive so that he can put on his new equipment with magic patterns and arcs designed in collaboration with the Red Devils and perform on the field, accumulating data for his own brand while advertising it!

But when Ricardo anxiously put on his new equipment to attend the last training session, he was told that Ricardo would return to the bench in the weekend league. Not only Ricardo, but also Van der Sar, Rooney and Evra would be on the bench in order to prepare for the Champions League battle with Barcelona next week.

The starting lineup of the four little swans is Cristiano Ronaldo and Tevez, the two will form a front line. The latter is likely to come off the bench in the Champions League, while the former will try to tie or break the season goal record of Ruud van Nistelrooy and Denis Law in the remaining 7 games:

With 39 goals this season, Ronaldo is not far from Ruud van Nistelrooy's 44 goals. And catching up with Dennis Law's 46 goals is not impossible. One goal per game will do...

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2008年4月19日下午17时，阴天，在距离老特拉福德球场只有36.8公里的埃伍德公园球场，07/08赛季第35轮，红衣黑裤的曼联客场挑战蓝白球衣的布莱克本的比赛一触即发。

曼联近5次做客埃伍德公园仅胜1场，但是双方英超历史交锋25场，曼联14胜6平5负，其中客场5胜3平4负。此前双方历史交锋102场，曼联45胜26平31负，还是占据上风的。

Vidic, who had missed three games due to a knee injury, returned in time for this campaign. Kuszczak, O'Shea, Giggs, Tevez and Park Ji-sung replaced Van der Sar, Evra, Hargreaves, Lizzie and Rooney respectively.

Sir Alex put Ronaldo on the front line and arranged a traditional parallel 4-4-2 starting formation:

The goalkeeper is No. 29 Kuszczak;

The back four is No. 6 Wes Brown, No. 5 Ferdinand, No. 15 Vidic and No. 3 Evra;

The midfield is composed of No. 13 Park Ji-sung, No. 18 Scholes, No. 16 Carrick and No. 11 Giggs;

The two strikers are No. 7 Cristiano Ronaldo and No. 32 Tevez.

However, not long after the game started, Sir Alex Ferguson frowned on the sidelines and even wanted to ask Li Qi and Rooney to warm up quickly, but after hesitating for a while, Sir Alex Ferguson decided to observe for a while.

Manchester United got into the game very slowly, and it seemed that the whole team was a little absent-minded, or should we say nervous and flustered?

In the 6th minute, Manchester United made mistakes one after another. First, Carrick's direct pass error gave the home team a chance to quickly counterattack, and then Scholes' clearance error gave former Bayern striker Santa Cruz a chance to shoot from the middle of the penalty area.

Fortunately, Ferdinand kicked first and intercepted the ball. But Vidic made another mistake in stopping the ball, allowing the opponent's striker Roberts to poke the ball away 8 yards in front of the goal.

Roberts, who had intercepted the ball, was knocked down by Kuzczak. Fortunately, referee Styles showed leniency, believing that Roberts did not fully control the ball, and did not give a penalty. Manchester United escaped a disaster.

Manchester United, who were scared out of their wits and scolded by Sir Alex Ferguson who was pacing on the field, started to tighten up a bit, stepped up their pressing and controlled the ball more cautiously, and created several scoring opportunities, but they were missed by the impatient Ronaldo and the slow-moving Tevez.

Instead, the home team took advantage of Manchester United's carelessness and mistakes in the 21st minute and took the lead again.

After O'Shea cleared Blackburn's long pass, he did not return to his position immediately. Just as he turned and jogged, the violent right midfielder Pedelson quickly asked the home ball boy for the ball and threw the ball out of bounds to Roberts who was waiting at the edge of Manchester United's penalty area.

After Roberts protected the ball, he turned nimbly and actually dribbled past Vidic who tried to steal the ball too fiercely. Although his cross was touched by Ferdinand who came to defend, it did not prevent Santa Cruz in the middle from pushing the ball into the near corner before Kuszczak from 11 yards in front of the goal!

The Uruguayan prince took the lead in breaking the deadlock and scored his 16th goal in the league, which was also his 20th goal of the season, helping the home team Blackburn to a 1-0 lead over the visiting team Manchester United who had vowed to win before the game.

Sir Alex couldn't help it anymore, and immediately asked his assistant to arrange for Li Qi and Rooney to warm up, and of course Evra and Pique on the bench, all went to warm up...

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[I can only update twice today because I can't catch up yet.]

It’s too early to brag. I hope I can keep up the two updates tomorrow. After all, there are too many important games this weekend.

Moreover, I have to spend time with my family and take care of my kids on weekends, so I am really overwhelmed.

I hope that my readers who are following the updates will understand and continue to support me!

The author will try to make up for the 2500 words missing from yesterday before Wednesday...】