Captain Football System

Chapter 317 Elimination of Barcelona
On February 2, in the first round of the Europa League round of 16, Manchester United played at home against Ligue [-] team Saint-Etienne.

The UEFA Europa League is the most important game for Manchester United besides the league this season, so Mourinho only rotated a few players who played more games in a few positions, and kept most of the main players.

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On February 2, in the fifth round of the FA Cup, Manchester United played against the League One team Blackburn.

In this game, Manchester United all came off the bench, and finally lost [-]-[-] to their all-out opponents and was eliminated. Blackburn also completed a feat of defeating a strong Premier League team, which was considered an upset in this round of the game.

In this regard, Manchester United's fans and management do not think there is anything wrong. Recently, Manchester United's schedule is too dense. If they continue to invest too much in the FA Cup, it is likely to affect the league and the Europa League.

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On February 2, in the second leg of the UEFA Europa League round of 23, Manchester United challenged St. Etienne away. Manchester United still firmly controlled the rhythm of the game. Although it was at home, St. Etienne had no choice but to face Manchester United's main lineup. In the end, they were beaten [-]-[-] at home.

In the end, Manchester United defeated Saint-Etienne with a total score of [-]-[-] in two rounds and advanced to the next round.

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In this round, Manchester United will challenge Manchester City away. However, due to the recent closeness of Manchester United's matches, the UEFA Europa League has just ended, and the League Cup final will be held one day later. Therefore, their match was postponed and adjusted to April 2. At the same time, the match between Arsenal and Southampton was also adjusted to May 25.

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On February 2, Wembley Stadium, the League Cup final, Manchester United played against Southampton.

In the final, the winner will win the championship, so no matter what the final is, most teams will go all out, and so is Manchester United.

Southampton eliminated Arsenal [-]-[-] in the quarter-finals and Liverpool [-]-[-] in the semi-finals, so Manchester United did not dare to be careless in this game, otherwise they would let their opponents step on the corpses of three top six teams in the Premier League to win the championship.

It attracted enough attention from Manchester United. Southampton naturally failed to please them. Of course, they were well prepared and defended well against Shen Peng.

After the goal, Manchester United pursued the victory. In the No.401 minute, Rooney scored another goal.

After an intermission, 72 minutes into the second half, Ibrahimovic received a pass from Shen Peng and scored another goal to seal the victory.

So far, Southampton has no fighting spirit.

In the end, Manchester United won a [-]-[-] victory, winning the first championship of the year and the second championship of the season.

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3月4日中午12:30，英超No.20七轮，曼联主场迎战伯恩茅斯。

In the end, thanks to the goals of Shen Peng, Pogba and Fellaini, they defeated their opponents [-]-[-] and continued to cling to the top of the league, Chelsea, which was only three points behind with one game less.

Of course, one less game does not guarantee three points. After all, the opponent is Manchester City, which is not a weak team, so Manchester United is still under great pressure.

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On March 3, Paris Saint-Germain challenged Barcelona in the second round of the Champions League quarter-finals.

Shen Peng is also watching the game at home.

I thought that Paris Saint-Germain had made it to the next round, but something happened.

I don't know whether it was because of the big victory in the last game that made Paris Saint-Germain's players underestimate the enemy, or whether Barcelona played an extraordinary combat effectiveness at home. At the end of the first half, they had already recovered two goals. With a goal from Suarez and an own goal from Kurzawa, they led [-]-[-].

After the start of the second half, Barcelona's offense became more violent. At the minute, Messi scored another goal, three to zero!
At this time, the morale of the Barcelona team was like a rainbow, and they were about to catch up with two more goals to tie their opponents.

However, in 62 minutes, Mbappe stood up again. After receiving a pass from his teammate, he calmly volleyed and scored a point, helping the team get a valuable away goal!

In this way, Barcelona must score at least seven goals in this game to successfully advance to the next round!
They only have three points now, and it is obviously impossible to score four goals in less than half an hour.

But they seemed to be really taken care of by God. At the end of the game, Neymar scored another goal, and in stoppage time, Roberto scored another goal and got a free kick!

This free kick was taken by Neymar, and finally he scored the ball into the goal with a delicate arc.

Six to one!

Now the total score of the two teams is [-]-[-], but Paris Saint-Germain has a valuable away goal!

With the seconds remaining, Paris Saint-Germain deftly delayed the time, and finally succeeded in eliminating Barcelona and advancing to the quarter-finals of the Champions League.

In this game, Neymar performed very well, but they lost too much in the first round, so even a [-]-[-] victory could not save them from being eliminated.

After watching the game, Shen Peng also had to feel that football is really round. If Paris Saint-Germain scored one less goal, even if it was [-]-[-] at home, they would probably have been eliminated by now.

This also reminded him, no matter what time, don't underestimate the opponent, any negligence may allow the opponent to find a chance to stand up.

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On March 3, in the quarter-finals of the Europa League, Manchester United challenged Rostov in the Russian Super League away.

It is generally difficult for Russian Super League teams to play at home. In addition to the style of play, it is also because of the weather there. Although it is more than March, it is still very cold there.

Of course, compared to December, it still takes a lot to play there in January.

In the end, Rostov drew with Manchester United one to one by virtue of their home advantage.

This draw made Rostov's players very excited. It would be a very honorable thing for them if they could kill Manchester United, who played with all the main players.

But after a few days, they knew they were wrong.

In the second round of the UEFA Europa League quarter-finals on March 3, Manchester United returned to their home court against Rostov and played a clean 16-[-], which made Rostov's players realize the absolute gap in strength.

In the end, Manchester United also advanced to the next round with a total score of [-] to [-].

(End of this chapter)