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Chapter 529 There are two more Manchester City derbys!

Chapter 529 There are two more "Manchester City Derby"!

Before the situation of the Champions League quarter-finals came out, Manchester United went to Stamford Bridge Stadium to play the 6th round of the FA Cup with Chelsea. In this game, Yang Xiaozhuang did not follow the team to London at all, but in the end... Manchester United still won!

With Martial's goal, Manchester United tied 1:1 with Chelsea in 90 minutes at Stamford Bridge. After 120 minutes of overtime, the score between the two sides was still 1:1. In the end, they could only use a penalty shootout to decide the outcome.

For Manchester United, who has De Gea, the world's top goalkeeper, the penalty shootout has a natural advantage over them. In the end, after five rounds of penalty shootouts, Chelsea lost 2:3 in the penalty shootout.

However, "Blue Army" coach Yaldim was not dissatisfied with his team's performance after the game. Instead, he smiled at the reporter: "We have just experienced an important game. Facing the strong Manchester United, my players have been fighting until the last moment of the game. I am proud of them! I believe that in the next league competition, we also have enough confidence and perseverance to go to the end."

Chelsea's situation in the Premier League is a bit of a small crisis. They are currently only 4 points more than the fifth-ranked "Gunners" in just one round. If Arsenal wins the make-up game, the gap between the two teams will narrow to 1 point!

However, there is only a 2-point difference between Chelsea and Liverpool, which ranks third, so the top four competition in the Premier League has become increasingly fierce after the "Four Crazy Devils" joins in.

Even the rankings from third to fifth are only temporary, and neither Liverpool, Chelsea, nor Arsenal have achieved their goals at present.

When Manchester United finished the 6th round of the FA Cup, the draw results for the Champions League quarterfinals also came out, but the situation of the match... is really "interesting"!

Three England teams and five Spanish teams draw lots, but the result is... Manchester United faced Manchester City, and Chelsea faced Real Madrid.

Judging from the state shown by all teams this season, Manchester United and Manchester City are definitely the two strongest and best-performing teams in the entire European football world. As the teams that have reached the Champions League quarterfinals, these two teams met together. According to probability, the possibility of such a matchup situation is really too small, but the result... Could it be that the law has come into effect again!

After the matchup situation came out, the entire English football world was full of criticism, led by major football media, and fans in England were scolding...

"For Spanish teams, Manchester United is invincible, and Manchester City is also invincible, and then Manchester United encountered Manchester City."

"Thinking carefully is terrifying! Is the draw ceremony of the Champions League fair? According to the situation of the quarterfinals, we can now predict which teams in the Champions League semi-finals are all the winners of Real Madrid, Barcelona, ​​Atletico Madrid, and Manchester United, Manchester City. Whether it is Manchester United or Manchester City who enter the semi-finals, they will face the encirclement from the Spanish teams starting from the semi-finals."

"Mar United has no solution, Manchester City has no solution, so UEFA drew these two teams together, allowing them to kill each other, and also provide other teams with a solution to the problem. This arrangement is really clever and really high!"

"It's hard for us to believe that Manchester United and Manchester City actually encountered it in the Champions League quarterfinals. This is simply the 'fair' draw result!"

"I can't imagine that with Barcelona's current strength, they still have a chance to reach the Champions League semi-finals. They faced the weak Porto team in the first round of the knockout round, but even so, they only tied 0:0 with their opponents away, and only won the game at home to enter the quarterfinals. This time the opponent they met became Valencia, which they were extremely familiar with, and the possibility of their entry into the Champions League semi-finals has increased countless times as a result."

"Among the five Spanish teams in the quarterfinals of the Champions League, the only team that is combat-ready and confident of defeating Chelsea is Real Madrid, and then Real Madrid met Chelsea as an opponent. UEFA's matchup against the Champions League quarter-finals is really clear!"

Not only the media and fans are criticizing the Champions League draw results, but even the two head coaches, Ole Guardiola, couldn't help but complain.

In an interview with reporters, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer said: "I encountered Manchester City in the Champions League quarter-finals. This is the biggest test for me and the team to defend the Champions League trophy this season! When we won the match against Manchester City, we won the Champions League trophy! At present, Manchester City is the only team that has the hope of defeating us, but we met... By the way, I'm talking about not just English football, but the entire European range!"

Since coaching Manchester City, Guardiola, who has never achieved any outstanding results, is also under tremendous pressure and can't help expressing dissatisfaction with the reporters: "Although I don't doubt the fairness of the lottery results, I still have to say that our luck is too bad! Among this year's Champions League quarterfinals, except for Manchester United, we are not sure how to win, and we all have the confidence to win the other teams, but the result... everyone has seen that we encountered Manchester United, which is a damn lottery result!"

Guardiola, who has always paid attention to his personal image, couldn't help but swear, which shows how angry he was. Originally, Guardiola was very confident to continue to move forward in the Champions League, just like when he finally met with Manchester United last season in the Champions League final, but now... it seems that he has no chance to avenge the Champions League final.

However, if Manchester United can be rejected from the Champions League quarterfinals through two rounds of games... it will be a very successful revenge!

I'm afraid... the result is not satisfactory!

As a direct competitor, Guardiola knows how strong Manchester United is. If it weren't for the injury or unstable state of Manchester United, the probability of other teams beating Manchester United would be too low, especially in important games, this probability is probably... infinitely approaching zero!

Damn it!

What a damn UEFA!

Once upon a time, when Guardiola coached Barcelona, ​​he was also a vested stake in the Champions League draw results. Although he did not clearly understand the inside story of the draw, he had a feeling... When he coached Barcelona, ​​there seemed to be an invisible force behind him supporting himself and the team.
Chapter completed!
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