host must win

Chapter 58 Champions League Draw
Manchester United, who had won the promotion in the Champions League qualifying round, ushered in their second round of the Premier League after two days of rest, and went to London to challenge the blue team Chelsea.

In fact, Chelsea is not the nouveau riche that people felt later, they have always been a Premier League team, and they can be called a traditional Premier League team.

在英超时代的头十年里，除了前四个赛季他们的战绩较差，三次排名第11一次排名第14之外，随后的六个英超赛季，蓝军的联赛排名分别是第6、第4、第3、第5、第6、第6！

At Stamford Bridge, a weary Manchester United suffered a tough game.

In April of this year, Manchester United won a 4-3 victory at Stamford Bridge. Ferguson pushed Giggs to the front line in that game, and the result was miraculous.Today he used Scholes as a shadow striker.Although Yin Jun went to London with the team, he did not enter the squad. He continued to watch the game from the stands to experience the away atmosphere of the Premier League.

After the opening, Chelsea took advantage through smooth cooperation, Lampard and Petit suppressed Keane and Butt.

In the 3rd minute, Cenden took a low-level free kick, Gallas grabbed ahead of Keane, and scored the ball not far from the goal.

Then, Hasselbaink missed two opportunities to expand the score.

In the 26th minute, Manchester United played a wonderful counterattack. Sylvester made a long pass in their own half. Desailly deflects into the net. 1:1!

After that, the two sides played against each other, but they failed to rewrite the score.Until stoppage time in the first half, Carroll wanted to throw the ball to launch a counterattack, but the ball was caught by the opponent. Cenden shot with his left foot 18 meters away from the goal on the left side, and the ball hung in the upper left corner of the goal and entered the net.

2:1 Chelsea lead again.

In the 11th minute of the second half, Beckham almost scored twice. He lobbed a shot from the right side of the penalty area and hit the crossbar.Since then, Scholes' shot was saved by Italian goalkeeper Cudicini.

In the 62nd minute, there was a scene of controversy on the field.Cudicini threw Scholes down in the penalty area. Ferguson and his players believed that a penalty kick should be awarded. The slow motion of the big screen replay in the stadium seemed to prove that Cudicini had committed a foul, but the referee Boll A goal kick is awarded and Beckham is booked for protesting.

In the 66th minute, Sylvester made a breakthrough from the left, and Giggs equalized with a left-footed shot. This was his 100th goal for Manchester United.After Solskjaer unlocked his 100-goal achievement on behalf of Manchester United in the first round, Wang Laoji also followed suit to complete this achievement.

Both Ferguson and Ranieri dispatched troops, but the two sides did not have many opportunities in the remaining time, so they could only shake hands and make peace.

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Only four days later, the third round of the Premier League started again.Manchester United host Middlesbrough at Old Trafford.Ruud van Nistelrooy produced a questionable first-half penalty and converted it to end Middlesbrough's unbeaten run.But Beckham was substituted before the end of the game, worrying Eriksen, who was watching from the stands.

Ferguson revealed after the game: "He performed very well tonight, but he has a slight strain on his left calf muscle. We are very concerned about this because we will be away to challenge Sunderland soon."

But the England coach in the stands felt that Ferguson's words were like farting. He thought Ferguson was "arranging for Beckham to be injured" in order to avoid the national team match day in September.

Eriksson has good reason to think so, as there is precedent.

Prior to this, Scholes had been declared injured, so Eriksson did not recruit Scholes into the new England national team, but Manchester United's midfielder was miraculously "returned from injury early" in this game. "Yes!

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With the start of the major leagues and the final 32 of the Champions League, the new season of the Champions League has also entered the final preparation stage before the start.

In the early morning of August 8, BJ time, the specific competition schedule for the first stage group stage of the 30-2002 European Champions Cup was announced.

Although Manchester United failed to directly qualify for the Champions League this season, when they broke into the main match and started the group draw, they still became one of the eight seeded teams by virtue of their excellent European results in the previous four seasons.

In the past four seasons, Manchester United won the championship once, entered the quarter-finals twice, and broke into the semi-finals last season.

In the group stage draw ceremony, Manchester United drew a good group. Their opponents were Bundesliga runner-up Bayer Leverkusen, Greece's Olympiacos and Israel's Maccabi Haifa.In addition to Leverkusen, Olympiacos and Maccabi Haifa are both big players in the Champions League.

Ferguson is also very satisfied with the result of the draw, and the British media even said bluntly that the Red Devils have secured a place in the second stage of the group stage.

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On the last day of August, before the summer transfer market of international football in 8 was about to close, the farce of Ronaldo's transfer to Real Madrid, which had been raging for a summer, finally came to fruition.Aliens moved from Inter Milan to Real Madrid for £2002m, with Florentino continuing the project of building his Galacticos.

The Premier League ushered in the fourth round of the Premier League this weekend. Manchester United was a guest at Sunderland to challenge the Black Cats.As a result, at the Stadium of Light, Manchester United was not only tied 4:1 by Sunderland in the away game, but captain Keane was also sent off for elbowing former teammate McAteer.

Not long ago, Keane exposed the inside story of hurting people in his autobiography, which caused an uproar. The Football Association of England and lawyers are checking the contents of this book with a magnifying glass.The book also contained criticisms of McAteer. McCarter tackled Keane from behind in the second half and vented his dissatisfaction with Keane. The forward elbow hit McAteer in the face, and the referee who was close at hand immediately drew out a red card.

After the game, Ferguson defended Keane as usual. He believed that Keane did not throw his elbow and blamed the referee for not punishing McAteer in time.

Subsequently, Keane announced that he will undergo hip surgery and is expected to be sidelined for three months.

In other words, the Manchester United captain's 2002 has basically ended ahead of schedule, and I am afraid that it will be Christmas or even the new year when he plays again.

In this game, Yin Jun still didn't get the chance to play. Instead, his national team teammates Sun Jihai and Li Tie staged a "Chinese Derby" in the Premier League.

In the end, Manchester City, who played at home, defeated the visiting Toffee Everton 3:1 and achieved 12 consecutive victories at home. Anelka scored a hat-trick.

Both Sun Jihai and Li Tie started the game.Regrettably, Li Tie was injured in the 25th minute and Sun Jihai played the whole game.

(End of this chapter)