"Welcome to Old Trafford! What is about to start on this stadium is a game in the first leg of the Champions League quarter-finals, with Mallorca from La Liga against the home team Manchester United! Mallorca is the first time they participated in the official group stage of the Champions League this season. The last time they participated in the Champions League was in the 99-00 season, but they were eliminated in the qualifiers. However, their performance this time was surprising. They have passed two consecutive group stages and advanced early. They have always ranked first in the La Liga in the first place.

1. It is very likely to become the tenth team in the history of the Spanish League to win the La Liga! Now, although they are away against Manchester United, they will not be afraid... At the same time, Bayern will also play against Real Madrid at home. Perhaps the battle between Bayern and Real Madrid is more eye-catching. However, these two teams will always encounter each other in the previous seasons, which also makes people feel a little aesthetic fatigue. In comparison, it seems that Mallorca's away challenge to Manchester United is more impressive... Although Mallorca had participated in European competitions before.

There are not many games, but they seem to have a lot of experience in playing Premier League teams. When it was in the Cooper era, Mallorca had defeated the defending champion Chelsea in the semi-finals of the Winners Cup and entered the finals, and eventually lost to two lucky balloons. In the next season, Jose, who put out the fire in the middle of the season, won the League Cup championship for Mallorca. In the process of winning the League Cup championship, they first eliminated Leeds United in two rounds in the semi-finals, and then defeated Arsenal in the finals with a penalty kick... As for this

In the season, they also faced Arsenal in the first stage of the group stage, and now they are going to play against Manchester United. In addition to Liverpool, Mallorca can be said to have touched the Premier League teams all over, and in the previous games, their results were unbeaten! A total of seven games, three wins and four draws, and the draw also included a penalty kick final, which is very valuable! As the overlord of the Premier League in the past decade, Manchester United also shoulders the heavy responsibility of clearing the name of the Premier League team!"

"The lineup of both sides has come out... Unexpectedly, both sides attach great importance to the position of the back midfielder! Manchester United, who plays at home, lined up the 451 formation, withdrew Solskjaer from the front line, and let Van Nie break forward alone, midfield right forward Beckham, left forward Giggs, front midfielder Scholes, captain Keane and Bart form double midfielder. It seems that Ferguson is quite afraid of Mallorca's midfield offense... On the defense line, Gary Neville right back, Sylvester left back, French veteran Blanco and Norwegian defender Johnson are partnering with the center back,

The French national goalkeeper Badz. Mallorca was even more overdoing. Although Ronaldo, Etoo and Luke were both on the court, Jose took down Rufit in the midfield and sent out a three-middle midfielder - Georgia international Carlaze and Pablo Garcia appeared in the right forward position, Mota was in the center, George was on the bench on the defense line, Campano served as the right back, left back Capdwell, center back Van Biden and captain Nadal, goalkeeper Franco, it seems that Mallorca is planning to focus on defense in the away game!"[]

The commentator is right. Jose does plan to focus on defense on the away game. After all, the reputation of the king of the small penalty area, Fanny's golden midfielder and the existence of Manchester United's golden midfielder made Jose a little afraid. However, this does not mean that he gave up the attack. The midfielder took down Ruffit and sent Garcia to strengthen the blocking ability of the midfield and support the defense of the two wings. However, this also liberated Mota, allowing him to reduce the pressure in the middle, and he could restrain Keane's organizational offense through his own forward insertion. Although Manchester United's golden midfielder is famous all over the world and has almost no flaws, Jose knows where Manchester United's midfield defects are.

That's the technical aspect.

Manchester United has always been a Premier League team, and the skills of Premier League players are generally relatively rough. Although they can always produce mainland players with different styles from island countries, from Bobby Charlton to Hodel, from Gascoin to later Joe Kerr, their national team always has one or two talented players with different styles from other players. However, such players are very rare after all, at least Manchester United does not have such players now.

Scholes was undoubtedly a master player in the later stage. His long pass and short pass organizational instigation has reached a level of perfection. However, Scholes does not have such ability. Scholes is now just an attacking midfielder with excellent forward and goal-scoring skills, and is not the core of the organization.

Beckham and Giggs are also not players who organize the offense. Although one breaks through sharply and the other passes with the right foot, in fact, the instigator of Manchester United's entire offense is their captain Keane, who looks very fierce and rough.

He has helped Manchester United's defense a lot, driving the entire aura to block the opponent's attack. However, while defending, his support for Manchester United's offense is the most important thing.

He was the one who passed the ball in the backcourt and broke the deadlock when he was in a relegation. Although he didn't score many goals and assists, he was one of the most important links in Manchester United's offense.

The arrangement of Jose's midfielder is to suppress Keane. Ronaldo can dispose of most of Keane's energy by himself. Perhaps Ronaldo is not Keane's opponent now, but Keane also needs to spend a lot of energy to let go of Ronaldo, so that his investment in offense will be reduced, his investment in offense will be reduced, and the dangers on Mallorca's defense will be less.

In addition to Ronaldo, Mota also sent Carazze and Garcia to protect and liberate Mota, making Keane under greater pressure. At the same time, adding a direct pass point in the middle, using speed and technology to fight against Manchester United, an old and slow central defender. This is the core idea of ​​Jose in this game.

However, Ferguson seemed to have anticipated this, so in this game, he sent Bart to partner with Keane in the middle. Although Bart has always served as a substitute at Manchester United due to Keane's existence and Scholes' rise, he is also an excellent defensive midfielder. With him being by his side, Keane's defense pressure will be infinitely reduced, and he will participate in offenses more than usual!

It was indeed the scheming Ferguson!

Although Ferguson seems to be on par with Wenger in the Premier League in this era, although he has the advantage, he cannot escape Wenger's pursuit behind him. However, in the era when the Premier League champions emerged, Wenger began to fall behind. Ferguson, who was older than him, completely shone his own brilliance. Whether it is facing the revived Liverpool led by Benitez or the steel army Chelsea led by the madman Mourinho, Ferguson has failed, but he can stand up quickly and continue to win!

This is a coach who is more courageous and never gives up! Just like his heart with a nuclear power device, although he is old, he still beats extremely powerfully!

What's even more terrifying is that Ferguson has been making progress and changing, and has no inherent mentality of observing the old man. He has been learning, learning from coaches younger than him, and is full of children's interest and desire for all emerging things. Perhaps it is precisely because of this mentality that he can stand firm in his decades of coaching career and become a symbol of a top wealthy family alone!

In 2003, some people thought that Ferguson was about to retire, but he had not retired until 2012. He led the team to win several league championships and a Champions League championship - the end of the world is coming, but Ferguson still did not fall.

He made a brave attempt before this season, that is, he still bought Argentine international Juan Peron with a lot of money while having four major gold midfielders, in order to increase the technical content of the midfield - although from now on, this experiment is not successful...

But as long as you try bravely, it proves that Ferguson has an immortal heart.

Standing next to the away coach's seat at Dream Theater, Jose looked at Ferguson from a distance - Old Trafford is a regular typical English football stadium, with the stands very close to the stadium, and the coach's seat is level with the stands. Because it didn't rain today, there was no rain shed, so Jose could see the red-faced Scottish old man chewing gum and watching the stadium without saying a word.

Just a glance, Jose withdrew his eyes and looked up at the foggy sky - Manchester is an industrial city, or to be precise, a post-industrial city, where life is not pleasant, yet Old Trafford is one of the most desirable stadiums in the world.

In fact, it was not raining today. In fact, starting this morning, it was raining lightly in Manchester. The weather was a little cold and the temperature would not exceed fifteen degrees. If it was still raining now and it was already night, Jose thought he could sing a song "Cold Rainy Night".

However, half an hour before the start of the game, the rain stopped, and there was sunshine in the sky at one point. Even when the players from both sides entered the court, a rainbow appeared over the court, which caused the fans in the stands to stutter.

Before the game started, Jose stepped on the lawn. Although Old Trafford's drainage system was very good, there was no water left on the court. However, it had rained and the field seemed relatively slippery. The ball might roll faster on the lawn. This is obviously unfavorable for Mallorca, who is more accustomed to letting the ball roll on the lawn.

"Fortunately, I prepared my spiked sneakers." Jose thought to himself.

This game... won't be very easy to play...

Jose sighed in his heart.

In the away game, the weather is the cold that Mallorca players are most unacceptable to. They are facing Manchester United, which has rich Champions League knockout stages. The lawn is slippery and is not suitable for Mallorca's characteristics... Everything in this game so far seems to be a factor that is unfavorable to Mallorca.

The favorite thing Mallorca players is on a sunny afternoon, at the St. Mois Stadium, which is in good lawn condition, uses their own skills to continuously dispatch the opponent's defense line and then score one goal after another, but all of this is not available in this game.

With the right time, place, people, all this is not on Mallorca's side. For a team playing away, it is difficult to win unless their strength is too strong to exceed their opponents.

But is Mallorca's strength higher than Manchester United? What a joke...

If Ronaldo was the elf dancer who ruled the world in Barcelona in later generations and Etoo was the terrifying cheetah who won the top scorer in La Liga, maybe Mallorca would be less than Manchester United, but now, it is still a little worse.

What made Jose feel even more stressed was the old guy chewing gum standing not far away. Ferguson gave him a warning before the game started. In the tactical arrangement, Jose undoubtedly lost.

Now, I can only fight - Jose thought secretly in his heart.

The game began amid the shouts of more than 50,000 Manchester United fans and more than 3,000 Mallorca fans from afar.
Chapter completed!