Chapter 52: The Hope of English Football

Manchester United's bloody massacre of Barcelona at the Camp Nou 6:1 has caused a sensation in the entire European football world. Everyone knows how powerful Manchester United is this season. They are even stronger than any "Red Devils" in history. But even so, no one will believe that they can beat Camp Nou 6:1 away.

The thought of the players wearing "Fred the Devil" printed on it dyed the green lawn of Camp Nou Stadium bloody color, it makes people feel chilling!

Spanish media took the lead in sending out a wailing cry...

"Marca": It may be time for us to make changes. Teams like Barcelona have been played by Manchester United as sieves. The national team's record has also slipped to underestimated in recent years. Now Spanish football has reached a turning point and we need to find the direction of development again.

"As": Although the "Red Devils" this season have not lost a single defeat and Manchester United's rise again is expected, Barcelona, ​​one of our best teams in Spain, lost to the opponent 1:6 at home, which is still something worth pondering. The development of Spanish football has lagged behind the opponent. We must make adjustments and make changes. The pattern of the two heroes competing for hegemony must be changed with intention, otherwise it will be detrimental to the development of Spanish football.

Unlike the Spanish media, the English media cheered loudly...

Mirror: Simon Grayson is a representative figure of modern offensive football. The "Solar System Tactics" he pioneered first achieved great success at Leeds United, and now it has started to bear fruit at Manchester United. Manchester United beat Barcelona 6:1, which just reflects that English football is on the right and rapid development in recent years. We were only in the quarterfinals of Europe during the European Cup, but we have already won the runner-up in the World Cup. This is enough to show that we are constantly improving! Simon Grayson's success. Leeds United's success and Manchester United's revival are just a microcosm of the development of English football. In the future... we will be stronger!

The Times, which has never been easily mixed, also published an article saying that English football has begun to move forward in the right direction under the stimulation of new forces represented by Simon Grayson. The emergence of young stars such as Shaq, Ashley Hood, Ben Parker, Jack Rodwell, Phil Jones, Will Sher, Sturridge, Walcott, and Botland will make English football more competitive, and they will surely win honors for England.

The cheers from the English media are indeed reasonable. The progress of English football is also very huge. As the league is developing better and better, more and more investors are investing a lot of money, and more and more world-class stars are offering their skills, which has indeed driven the rapid development of the entire English football level.

After finishing the first leg of the game with Barcelona, ​​Manchester United began to play domestic games at their own pace again. They easily defeated Sunderland 2-0 away in the fifth round of the FA Cup.

Simon Grayson was very satisfied with the entire game, because except Shaq, De Gea, Subotic and Franny, everyone else was a substitute player in this game, but Manchester United still easily won the away game.

The only thing that made Simon Grayson uncomfortable was that Shaq still didn't score in this game, although it seemed that his condition was getting better and better. He made 63 passes in the game, 7 instigated his team's direct attack, 13 steals, 4 headers and 7 shots and 3 hits in the goal. But this goal... it's just that he won't come!

However, Simon Grayson's concerns were obviously redundant. Just four days later, Manchester United ushered in the 26th round of the English Premier League opponent Blackburn at home. As a result, Shaq scored a hat trick in this game, helping Manchester United defeat his current eighth opponent in the standings with a score of 5:3.

Just eight minutes into the game, Shaq passed two consecutively in the counterattack, broke into Blackburn's penalty area and shot angrily.

Although Subotic scored in the 38th minute, Blackburn's extremely fast Canadian black forward Holaite didn't know what crazy he was. A long shot in 18 minutes, two counterattacks in 31 minutes, and 43 minutes actually completed a hat-trick in the first half. During the break, Manchester United, who played at home, was behind.

Fortunately, the game entered the second half, and Shaq, whose condition had completely recovered, got angry...

At 48 minutes, Shaq received a cross from "Little Fat" from the top of the arc, and shot with his right foot and shot the ball into the upper right corner of Blackburn's goal, a typical "Shaq goal"!

In the 64th minute, Shaq received a pass from Van der Weill from the top of the right arc, turned around and shot with his left foot. The ball flew straight into the blind corner of the lower left corner of Blackburn goal. This goal was also a goal that helped Manchester United overtake the score.

When Shaq used two "Shaq goals" to lose the morale of the opponent, there was no suspense about the outcome of the game. Papadopoulos used a corner kick opportunity to score a header in 72 minutes, locking the score at 5:3!

The game was very thrilling, but Simon Grayson seemed very excited after the game: "This game is very important to us, and I even believe that by the end of the season, this game may become the second outbreak of the team, because not only did we achieve a difficult victory, but most importantly, we saw that Shaq has been resurrected!"

After playing this game, Manchester United almost "winned" the league because they have achieved an impressive record of 25 wins, 1 draw and 76 points in the standings, leading by Chelsea, which ranked second, by as many as 19 points. With 12 rounds left in the league, all the "Red Devils" have to do now is just waiting to win the championship trophy as the schedule deepens.

However, after this game, Manchester United will play the League Cup final with Tottenham at Wembley Stadium. Simon Grayson still attaches great importance to this game, because this will be the first trophy he has the chance to win after taking over Manchester United.

When Manchester United was preparing for the game, good news from the English team came again in the Champions League...

There are four English teams participating in the Champions League this season, namely last season's champion Leeds United, runner-up Manchester City, Arsenal and Manchester United. Except for Leeds United, the defending champion, who was eliminated in the group stage, all the other three teams have entered the knockout round.

Manchester United has beaten Barcelona 6-1 away and has entered the quarterfinals of the quarterfinals with one foot. A week later, Manchester City and Arsenal have also shown their strength. Pellegrini's Manchester City beat Schalke 04 3-1 away. The Gunners were also unwilling to let it go and defeated Paris Saint-Germain 3-1 away.

It can be said that the three teams that reached the Champions League quarterfinals all performed quite strongly, all of them won away games, and their opponents were not weak at all. The victory of the "Red Devils", "Blue Moon" and "Gullers" are all very convincing.

Barcelona is a veteran European team. Lamacians have their own football and have always been one of the richest and most powerful teams in the world.

Paris Saint-Germain also became a new giant under the Qatar Golden Dollar Stick. After one star after another, the combat effectiveness of this team has been continuously improved. Stars such as Ibrahimovic, Mene, Pastorre, Thiago Silva have also made Paris Saint-Germain's combat effectiveness soar to a very high level.

Schalke 04 has always been a German football team. They have always performed well in Germany and can always make their own tough voices in European courts.

But this time, all the three strong teams lost to England's teams, and they all lost to their opponents at home, which shows the strength of the English team.

This result shocked the European football world again. It seemed that the rise of English football was unstoppable. Except for the "Young Guards" who participated in the Champions League, they were eliminated early due to their own reasons, the other three teams actually had great hopes to reach the quarterfinals.

"Red Devils" Manchester United has been coached by Simon Grayson this season and introduced Shaq, Van der Welsh, Papadopolos, Jose Angel and other stars at this time, they are completely invincible in their push. It would be fine if they beat Barcelona away.

Manchester City and Arsenal have not even entered the top three in the Premier League standings this season. They are currently ranked in the "Blue Army" Chelsea, and the "Red Army" Liverpool ranks fourth and fifth behind, but they are still extremely strong in the Champions League. If Chelsea and Liverpool have both teams that have won the Champions League trophy join in next season, will there be someone else coveted in this European football and the Champions League?

Could it be that European football will reappear the situation where everyone sets up stutters and sets cards ten years ago!?

The first to make such suspicion was not Manchester United, Manchester City, Arsenal, but... Chelsea!

"Madman" Mourini made his voice, and he issued a "warning" to his three opponents in the league: "Manchester United, Manchester City, and Arsenal are almost about to reach the Champions League quarter-finals, but I still have to remind them, don't forget how UEFA treated our English team ten years ago. The English Premier League is indeed the well-deserved world number one league, and there are many competitive teams here, such as Chelsea, Liverpool, Tottenham Hotspurs

Leeds United, etc., these teams can win championships in other leagues, but here we can only compete for one championship, and even in many cases, we cannot even obtain the qualification for the Champions League. We are already very difficult, but there are still various factors that are blocking our progress, so... we should not be too optimistic! To develop English football and be truly strong, we must have the ability to overcome these subjective difficulties!" (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!