Football career: From winning the championship to becoming a legend

Manchester United and Chelsea will meet in this season's Champions League final. The media on England's Fleet Street are extremely excited, clamoring that this marks the advent of the Premier League era.

Following La Liga and Serie A, the Premier League has become another league to monopolize the Champions League final, and its number of championships will also tie that of La Liga and Serie A.

At the same time, the Premier League has also fully recovered its lost ground in the UEFA standings:

After the Champions League semi-finals, England has surpassed Spain and topped the national standings for the first time in 23 years; and the upstart Chelsea has also surpassed AC Milan and topped the club standings for the first time in history, also becoming the first English team to reach this position in 23 years.

Why do we say "recovering lost ground"? Because England once had a glorious past in European competitions.

More than 20 years ago, in 1985, England and Liverpool were ranked first in the UEFA national and club standings respectively, which is why Sir Alex said that the greatest honor of his life was to dethrone Liverpool.

But the glory of England and Liverpool came to an abrupt end because of the Heysel Stadium tragedy. Five years later, England had to start all over again with a blank record in European competitions. Starting from 5st place in 1991, Manchester United, who won the Cup Winners' Cup that season, only ranked 21nd.

But since then, England's ranking has risen steadily. Last season, three English teams reached the semi-finals of the Champions League, regaining second place from Italy. This season, three Premier League teams have reached the semi-finals of the Champions League again, and their record is even better.

Finally, starting today, England has regained the top spot in the weapons ranking, oh no, it has regained the top spot in the UEFA standings.

During the period when English teams were absent, Real Madrid had the longest time at the top of the UEFA standings, ranking first for a total of 9 seasons; Juventus, as the representative of Serie A's heyday, followed closely behind, ranking first for 7 seasons.

AC Milan has never been at the top of the league table during the Milan dynasty that began in the late 80s, because European rankings are based on total points over five seasons, and AC Milan's performance in European competitions was unstable and they have been banned.

It was not until last season's Champions League victory that AC Milan experienced the taste of being at the top of the table for the first time, but with their early elimination this season, they eventually gave up the top spot to Chelsea, which has been rising at a rocket speed.

It is hard to imagine that in the Champions League group stage draw two seasons ago, the Blues Chelsea, then ranked 14th, complained about being placed in the second pot.

Due to its losses in European competitions in the past few seasons, Manchester United can only be ranked sixth in the club standings.

But as long as Manchester United does not lose to Chelsea in the final, they will definitely break the single-season scoring record of 34.162 points when Barcelona won the championship two seasons ago. Perhaps Ricardo Liqi, who has the opportunity to participate in both times, will be lucky enough to witness himself breaking a new record.

But before Ricardo looks ahead to the Champions League final, he has a lot of things to worry about. The first is...

Premier League?

No, that was second at best. The most difficult thing was definitely the arrangements for the girlfriends at the Champions League final. Who was going and who wasn't? What to do if both went at the same time?

It's time for Ricardo to envy Wuzi Maji again...

Fortunately, after some communication, Sarafina finally agreed to prioritize her final exams and stay in London to watch the live broadcast. Emma Watson also stayed in London to watch the live broadcast with Sarafina for the same reason and because of the poor security in Russia.

After dealing with the two most difficult ones, the remaining two were a little easier to deal with. Liana reached an agreement with him to stay in the Milan laboratory and watch the live broadcast on the condition that she would fly to Manchester for two consecutive weeks for closed-door meetings.

So in this season's Champions League final, Ricardo only has to deal with Julian.

In addition, we need to get tickets for the family cheering group...

Russia, it should be easy, just pay Pimenta some money to find scalpers, and they want connected and safe VIP seats!

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2008年5月3日中午12时45分，刚踢完欧冠半决赛3天的曼联众将士，又在老特拉福德迎来了07/08赛季英超联赛第37轮的比赛。

Ricardo, who was included in the starting lineup again, couldn't help but complain: "Damn! Chelsea and Abramovich definitely paid money to the Premier League and UEFA's organizing committee!

Before the Champions League semi-finals, in the 35th round of the Premier League, Chelsea played two days earlier than Manchester United in order to perform better in the first leg.

Chelsea played the first leg of the Champions League semi-final a day earlier than Manchester United, so they had one more day of rest and were well-rested enough to beat us at home.

The second round will be played a day later than us, and they will have an extra day to recover. Isn't it just so that they can snipe us at home in the league without any worries?

Well, after the Champions League, Chelsea was scheduled to play the final match of this round of the league, two days later than Manchester United! Isn't it because they are afraid that Manchester United will win and Chelsea will lose, leading to the Premier League ending early? !

"Damn it!"

But in fact, Manchester United players do not really care about the difference of one day less or one day more. After all, the depth of the bench is there, although Rooney and Vidic are still absent due to injuries.

But in this home game against West Ham United, a bitter opponent who had lost the last three encounters, Sir Alex Ferguson almost copied the starting lineup that defeated Barcelona in the middle of the week, only replacing veteran Scholes with Anderson.

However, not long after the game started, all the voices questioning the old man's decision not to let the main players rest and rotate disappeared, and they immediately changed their tune:

"Sir sir, you are wise and brave! You can win the game from thousands of miles away! The Manchester United team that just eliminated Barcelona in the Champions League semi-finals is in high spirits and in great shape. We should keep practicing and use the best steel where it counts!"

Manchester United, in red and white, played like a mad dog from the start, overwhelming the Hammers, in white and red, and soon got off to a dream start;

After all, this tactic of getting off to a good start was originally designed to target Barcelona, ​​but it was not used in the last game, so West Ham could only experience the treatment of Dream Team 2.

However, the goal that helped Manchester United score the first goal did not involve too much complicated design and coordination, it was pure personal ability.

In the third minute, Van der Sar made a long kick from the backcourt. Li Qi, who was at the front of the penalty area, made an accurate judgment and headed the ball with his back to the goal under the direct sunlight at noon.

After getting the ball on the right wing, Ronaldo pretended to go down the bottom line, then he made a reverse leg dunk, knocking down Neil on the opposite side, then dribbled sideways and cut inside, and suddenly changed direction to penetrate into the left rib of West Ham's penalty area.

Then, with the visiting team blocking him in front and chasing him from behind, Ronaldo decisively took a volley. The ball whizzed through the interception of three West Ham defenders and went into the lower left corner of the goal, never reaching the goalkeeper who was blocking the near corner!

This ball stunned the West Ham United's defense collectively. Within a few seconds, from getting the ball, breaking through, to shooting, Ronaldo performed a one-stop goal in the chaos. His form was really off the charts!

Li Qi, who got an assist, wanted to give Ronaldo a big hug, and get a close-up in the live broadcast while showing his friendliness +1, but he didn't expect that the little bitch Carrick got there first after stealing Xavi's jersey...

Rely on!

(For more about Carrick and Ronaldo’s gay celebration, see the picture in each chapter of the author’s words.)

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[This chapter is a bit short though, about 300 words less than usual.

But don’t worry, the author is determined to make up for Monday’s overdue work on Sunday, and will definitely update three chapters in a row today!

The second update will be delivered tomorrow morning. The third update will be delivered in the afternoon.

There will be two consecutive days of updates over the weekend, so please support us, dear readers!

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