I'm the Red Devil's savior

Chapter 267 The First Battle
Prior to this, the Premier League away season points record was also maintained by Mourinho. In the 2005-2006 season, Magic Bird's Blues scored 19 wins, 15 draws and 3 loss in 1 Premier League away games, and scored 48 points. They are only one step away from being unbeaten in the away season.

In the history of England's top league, there are only two teams that can remain unbeaten in away games throughout the season. Before Manchester United, there are only two teams that have achieved an unbeaten away game three times throughout the season.

第一支是1888-1889赛季不败的普雷斯顿，他们也是第一支在整个赛季不败的英格兰球队。当时整个赛季只有22场比赛，普雷斯顿在客场8胜3平没输过。

Incredibly, it took 113 years for another team to avoid a loss on the road for an entire season.That was Arsenal in 2001-2002 and they ended up winning the Premier League and FA Cup double.This season, Arsene Wenger's Gunners have won 19 of their 14 away games in the Premier League and drawn the remaining five.This record is even better than the undefeated championship two years later.

In the 2003-2004 season, Arsenal won the championship unbeaten throughout the season, but the away record was only 11 wins and 8 draws.

After a lapse of 13 years, Manchester United not only reproduced the miracle of winning the championship undefeated in the season, but also far surpassed the Gunners who won the championship undefeated in the previous season in terms of points.

当初，枪手在38轮英超联赛里拿到26胜12平90个积分，比现在这支曼联足足少了14个积分！
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Manchester United ended the Premier League this season with an unbeaten record and set a new record for points in the five major leagues, which has become the focus of the world.Even in China, CCTV's news broadcast specifically reported the news.This made Ye Su and Manchester United once again harvest a wave of fans around the world.

Seeing the soaring number of fans of Manchester United in various countries, the management of Manchester United grinned excitedly, actively planning the summer warm-up matches and further expanding business cooperation.

Ye Su's personal assistant, Isabella, has also been very busy recently. There are endless letters from all over the world wanting to ask Ye Su to act as a commercial endorsement, especially in China.

However, Ye Su and Manchester United players seldom appear in front of the public at this time, because they are intensively preparing for the Champions League final two weeks later.

Among all the Manchester United players, the one who trains most seriously is Ibrahimovic.

瑞典老将一生中打进了超过400个正式比赛进球，也获得了几乎所有的联赛冠军：2次荷甲冠军、4次意甲冠军、1次西甲冠军、4次法甲冠军和1次英超冠军。

But there is an eternal pain in his heart, that is, in his career, he has not won the Champions League so far.Not to mention winning the championship in the end, even before joining Manchester United, the team Ibrahimovic played for never entered the semi-finals of the Champions League when he was still there!

There is a saying in world football that the winner of Ibrahimovic wins the league championship. This is an affirmation of Ibrahimovic's ability, but it is even more ironic.

This year is the closest Ibrahimovic is to winning the Champions League, because Manchester United has reached the final of the Champions League and is only one step away from winning the final.Ibrahimovic hopes that he can have a good performance in the game and break the so-called curse!

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Ibrahimovic's performance in joining Manchester United this season is indeed dazzling.He played 37 games in all competitions and contributed 25 goals. He is the second shooter in Manchester United. In addition, he also sent 8 assists and averaged 0.89 goals per game. The efficiency is amazing.

Among Ibrahimovic's 25 goals, 16 appeared in the Premier League, 5 scored in the Champions League, 2 goals in the League Cup, 1 goal in the Community Shield, and 1 goal in the Club World Cup. The distribution is very wide and there are many ways to score. Reflects Ibrahimovic's all-round scoring ability.

Last year, Ye Su signed Ibrahimovic because of the memory of the Swede's amazing performance in his first season at Manchester United.However, because there is a big gap between the current Manchester United and the former Manchester United, Ye Su did not expect Ibrahimovic to perform as well as before, but he did not expect the Swede to have a strong competitor like Harry Kane in Manchester United Under the circumstances, he still showed an extraordinary level, and even suppressed Harry Kane, becoming the second thigh of Manchester United's striker besides Rooney.

This is really relying on one's own strength and hard work, which is completely different from Rooney's situation with Ye Su's help.

Ye Su was wondering if he wanted to stay in Ibrahimovic for another year.

I remember that Ibrahimovic did not perform well in his second year at Manchester United, but that was because Ibrahimovic was seriously injured in the second half of the season.

Today, Ibrahimovic's body is very healthy.Because Manchester United's lineup is thick enough, Ibrahimovic has received sufficient rotation and repairs during the season, and has not been overused, so there have been no serious injuries.

And a healthy Ibrahimovic is the guarantee of scoring goals.This law, even before Ye Su crossed, still did not fail: At the beginning of 2020, Ibrahimovic, who was nearly 39 years old, returned to AC Milan and handed over 18 games with 10 goals and 5 assists in half a season!

Ye Su decided to have a good talk with Ibrahimovic after the season is over.

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Because the final venue is in Cardiff, Wales, only more than 200 kilometers away from Manchester, and there is a highway connection all the way, it only takes about 3 hours to arrive by bus, so the Manchester United team did not take a plane, but took a bus. Cardiff City.

Manchester United ended closed training on the morning of June 6, and then took a bus to Cardiff City at noon.And on the afternoon of June 2, I went to the Welsh National Stadium, the final venue, also known as the Millennium Stadium, for adaptive training.

Real Madrid arrived earlier than Manchester United. In order to beat Manchester United and avenge last year's defeat, Real Madrid obviously hopes to be more fully prepared.

Both teams are bound to win this game, because this is the real first battle!

At present, in the UEFA standings, Real Madrid still ranks first, but with Manchester United winning the Europa League and the Champions League for two consecutive years, their UEFA points have surpassed Bayern Munich and Barcelona, ​​​​rising to the second.

UEFA scoring rules: In the UEFA Champions League and Europa League, each league team gets 2 points for each game won, 1 point for a tie, and halved points for qualifying matches, and 1 point for each game won , 0.5 points for a tie, and the Toto Cup is not included in the calculation.

In addition, since the 2009-2010 season, teams that advanced to the group stage get 4 points, teams that advance to the top 16 get 5 points, and teams that advance to the quarter-finals, semi-finals and finals get 1 point each. award.

In the UEFA Europa League, starting from entering the top 8, 1 point will be added for each round of progress.

The sum of the scores of each team, minus the number of teams participating in the European War, is the points of the league in a single season.

Because of the stable record in the European competition in the past five seasons, Madrid's Champions League points are very high.In the 2012-2013 season, the Galacticos scored 26 points, followed by 35 points, 29 points, and 32 points in the next three seasons. This season, Real Madrid has reached the final and scored 31 points. The points are as high as 5 points, ranking first.

Affected by Manchester United's premature exit from the Champions League in the 2012-2013 season, there is a certain gap between Manchester United and Real Madrid in points. In the 2012-2013 season, Manchester United was eliminated by Real Madrid in the quarter-finals, so they only scored 18 points.

In the 2013-2014 season, although Moyes' Manchester United had poor performance in the league, they reached the quarter-finals in the European war and thus scored 23 points.

In the 2014-2015 season, Manchester United went all the way and won the first Europa League championship in team history. All the results were 10 wins, 5 draws and 2 losses, and 30 points.

In the 2015-2016 season, Manchester United won the Champions League and scored 11 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss. According to UEFA's scoring rules, they scored 35 points.

This season, Manchester United reached the final again. In 12 games except the final, the score was 8 wins, 1 draw and 3 losses, and scored 29 points again.

Therefore, Manchester United's current UEFA points are 135 points, 1 point ahead of third-placed Bayern Munich.

However, starting next season, UEFA points for the 2012-2013 season will be deducted.So at the start of next season, Real Madrid's points will drop to 127 points, while Manchester United's points will rise to 117 points.

However, if Manchester United can beat Real Madrid in the final, the point difference between the two teams will be further reduced to 8 points.And if Manchester United lose the game, it will widen the points gap to 12 points.

Except for these two teams, the points gap of the rest of the teams is relatively large.Bayern Munich are down to 101 points, while Barcelona are down to 107, with little room to grow as the two teams failed to reach the Champions League final this season.It is also difficult to catch up with Real Madrid and Manchester United in the short term.

So this is a competition between Real Madrid and Manchester United for the number one club in the world.

Not only that, this game also involves the battle for the first league between La Liga and the Premier League!

From the current point of view, La Liga's UEFA points still have a clear advantage over the Premier League. This is mainly related to the poor record of the other Premier League teams participating in the European war except the Manchester City duo.

However, with the outstanding performance of the Manchester City duo in the European war this season, the score gap has been narrowed a lot.

This is somewhat similar to the battle for the number one club between Manchester United and Real Madrid.

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Manchester United hopes to lift the Champions League trophy for the fifth time in team history, not only involving the competition with Real Madrid as the number one club in the world, but also the competition for domestic historical status.

In terms of the number of titles won in England's top league, after winning three consecutive titles, the Red Devils have won 23 titles ahead of their 18-time rival Liverpool 5 times.

However, in the European arena, the Red Army is still ahead of the Red Devils.Liverpool has won 3 Europa League (Union Cup) and 5 Champions League titles, while Manchester United has only 1 Europa League and 4 Champions League titles.

If Manchester United can win the fifth Champions League trophy, it will smooth the gap between the two sides in the Champions League.As for the Europa League, who will pay attention to this?

Besides, doesn't Manchester United still have a Cup Winners' Cup, as well as more European Super Cups and Club World Cups.

Real Madrid, on the other hand, are looking forward to avenging their defeat a year ago while continuing to consolidate their leadership in the competition.They have won the Champions League 10 times before, and they hope to win the trophy for the 11th time this year.

As the most successful team in the history of the Champions League, Real Madrid played the most games in the Champions League and scored the most goals.They have scored 499 goals in the Champions League before, and they only need one goal to become the first club to score 500 goals in the Champions League.

For the two teams, this is the sixth time they have entered the Champions League final since the restructuring of the Champions League. This number is the same as that of another team with the DNA of the Champions League, AC Milan.

Moreover, the winning percentage of the two teams in the Champions League final is not low.Real Madrid have won four of the five finals in the restructured Champions League and lead the rest of the league in terms of titles won, though their only loss in the final came against Manchester United.

United have won three of the five finals in the restructured Champions League, and lost two of their finals against teams from La Liga: Real Madrid's bitter rivals Barcelona.

Manchester United are attempting to become the first team to successfully defend the Champions League after the reorganization of the Champions League. They had tried once before, but it ultimately failed.That was in 2009, they lost to the rising cosmic team Barcelona, ​​and achieved the latter's reputation.

除了曼联之外，AC米兰（1994年和1995年）、阿贾克斯（1995年和1996年）和尤文图斯（1996年和1997年）都是在第二年的决赛中失败。

Ye Su is trying to become the first coach to win the Champions League in two consecutive years, while Rooney is trying to become the first captain to lift the trophy in two consecutive years.

If Manchester United wins Cardiff City, it will be the sixth time an English team has been crowned in the restructured Champions League, further approaching the record of a La Liga team (8 times).At the same time, this is also the second consecutive year that the English team has won the Champions League, also tying the record of a La Liga team.

The final was the sixth Champions League final between Spanish and English sides, making it the most common clash, more than between Spanish and Italian teams.

No player scored a hat-trick in the restructured final of the Champions League, Massaro (1994 AC Milan), Riedel (1997 Dortmund), Crespo (2005 AC Milan), Inzaghi (2007 AC Milan), Milito (2010 Inter Milan) and Rooney last season both scored twice in the final.

只有劳尔（2000皇马和2002皇马）、埃托奥（2006巴塞罗那和2009巴塞罗那）、梅西（2009巴塞罗那和2011巴塞罗那）、C罗（2008曼联和2014皇马）、鲁尼（2011曼联和2016曼联）和拉莫斯（2014皇马和2016皇马）曾经在两届决赛中进球，鲁尼、C罗和拉莫斯都有望在加的夫成为第一位三次决赛破门的球员。

Eighteen players have scored at least two goals in a Champions League final more than once. Marcelo and Bale (Real Madrid 18) and Wayne Rooney (Manchester United 2014) all had chances to rewrite their history in Cardiff. Di Stefano And Puskas lead the crowd with 2016 goals.

United are trying to become the first team to win the treble three times, having already done so twice in 1999 and 2016.Barcelona has done it twice, most recently in 2015.

If Manchester United completes the treble, coach Ye Su will become the first coach in history to win the treble twice.In addition to Yesu, Ferguson, Guardiola, Mourinho, Heynckes, Luis Enrique and others have also won the triple crown.

(End of this chapter)