Chapter 572: The Butterfly Effect

With Southampton beating Reading 7-0 at home to Reading, Manchester United lost 2-1 at home to Manchester City, and the gap between the two teams quickly narrowed to five points.

As for Manchester City, although they won Manchester United, compared with the top two teams in the league standings, the gap is still too far.

When it comes to analysing the league shape at the end of the round, the BBC daily matches are almost always disagreed.

Charlene Laherry and Alan Shearer are unwavering supporters of Southampton, believing it will be difficult for Alex Ferguson to solve United's biggest bottleneck at the moment, especially as the Premier League teams have already figured out the United's tactical seven inches.

Alan Hansen, although he does not have a good relationship with Alex Ferguson, believes that Manchester United have a good chance of winning the title this time.

As for Southampton, if they want to win the title, come back next season!

The controversy over the daily race also carried over to the pages of major newspapers in Britain and Europe the next day.

The fierce competition in the English Premier League has attracted the attention of all football fans around the world.

Whether Southampton can achieve the great feat of hanging silk counterattack has also been concerned by countless fans.

Coincidentally, in this season's La Liga, Atletico Madrid's table is also quite eye-catching, and in the closing stages of the league, the Sheets still firmly control the league leader.

Although the lead is not obvious, and it is chased by Barcelona and can be pulled down at any time, this is undoubtedly the biggest achievement for La Liga fans.

After all, for the past decade, the league title has been the confines of Real Madrid and Barcelona.

Now, Atletico Madrid has finally made a strong revival!

The emergence of dark horse teams in the Premier League and La Liga immediately injected a new blood into football lovers all over the world, and countless fans are vying to follow these two teams and the situation of the two major leagues.

Especially in the Premier League, Southampton's positive momentum in the past two seasons, coupled with the record of defeating many big teams in the International Champions Cup and winning the championship, have made fans around the world talk about this team and have high hopes.

Now, the table of the saints is amazing!

It would be even more ideal if it could complete the reversal!

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After beating Reading, Southampton welcomed the quarter-finals of the Europa League against Lazio.

Away to Italy, Southampton won 1-0 away at Lazio thanks to Vidal's key stunner.

It was Drogba who assisted Vidal, and the Ivorian was getting stronger and stronger, grabbing the landing point in the big penalty area, ferrying the header to Vidal, and assisting the Chilean midfielder to score the crucial goal!

After that, the FA Cup semi-finals were ushered in, and Southampton faced Wigan Athletic.

Although Southampton did not do their best, the two goals of Eden Hazard and Sturridge still ensured Southampton to defeat Wigan Athletic 2-0 at home and reach the final.

On the other side, Chelsea take on Manchester City at Stamford Bridge.

In the end, Benitez's side relied on the advantage of their home stadium to defeat Manchester City 2-1 and reach the final.

When Southampton competed in the FA Cup, Manchester United, who had been eliminated early, beat Stoke City 2-0 away from home thanks to goals from Robin van Persie and Michael Carrick.

However, there was a lot of controversy in this game as United had been passive since taking the lead through Michael Carrick in the fourth minute, with Stoke City playing well and looking threatening.

But at the critical moment, the referee gave Manchester United a penalty, Van Persie hit the penalty, and in the end, Manchester United won 2-0.

Because Southampton participated in the FA Cup, they had one less round, so Manchester United extended their points to eight points.

Three days later, Southampton hosted Lazio.

Although the Reds extended their lead with a win and put Southampton under pressure, goals from Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Gareth Bale ultimately helped Southampton beat visiting Lazio 2-0 at home.

After two legs, Southampton eliminated Lazio 3-0 on aggregate to reach the semi-finals.

After the draw, Southampton's opponent in the semi-finals is Benfica, a powerhouse in the Portuguese Super League!

After returning to the Premier League, Southampton ushered in the 34th round, away to Swansea.

Rodrup's side have been impressive this season, continuing the beautiful style of football Swansea's past, and it has been talked about by fans, especially Spanish midfielder Michu, who has become the Premier League's most surprising scorer.

Southampton away to Swansea City, and the Saints didn't dare to be careless.

In fact, the game was also very hard.

It wasn't until the 76th minute of the second half that Southampton scored the crucial goal from left-back David Alaba and the assist was centre-forward Zlatan Ibrahimovic.

Southampton continued to threaten Swansea after that, but Laudrup did not dare to lose and was determined to fight back.

But in the 81st minute, Hazard, who came on as a substitute, scored a crucial goal, and finally made Swansea have to accept the defeat with hatred!

Southampton eventually managed to get the ball off the beaten track thanks to David Alaba and Eden Hazard.

But this battle was extremely hard, and Laudrup's team was still glorious despite defeat!

At the same time, Manchester United did not sit idle, relying on Van Persie's hat-trick to beat visiting Aston Villa 3-0 at Old Trafford, cutting down another three points and continuing to maintain an eight-point advantage.

However, Southampton closed the gap again in midweek when they beat West Ham Allardyce 2-0 thanks to goals from Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Vidal at St Mary's Stadium.

With four league games remaining, Manchester United are still five points ahead of Southampton!

In the face of such a fierce title battle, the whole of Britain felt a tense atmosphere.

It was as if everyone was tense and nervous, nervous, and uneasy with Manchester United and Southampton.

This atmosphere even carried over to the Premier League President's Summit.

As the owner of a Premier League team, he naturally will not be like ordinary fans, who will fight-for-tat at every turn, or even fight big.

Even if it is a sworn rival team like Arsenal and Chelsea, or Manchester United and Manchester City, the owners meet face to face, and everyone still smiles and greets each other with respect.

After all, the identity and status are there, if you are like an ordinary fan, it is a bit inappropriate.

But even so, because the competition for the league title, the competition for Champions League qualification, and even the competition for the three relegation places have been completely hot, so the atmosphere of the Premier League chairman's summit is still a little tense.

Fortunately, there was no big topic at the Premier League President's Summit this time, that is, the CEO of the Premier League, Scudmore, stood up and introduced some of the situation in the Premier League, as well as the problems encountered.

Among them, Scudmore focused on Liverpool striker Suarez.

The Uruguayan striker bit Chelsea's defender Branislavic for unknown reasons in the just-concluded 34th round, Liverpool's match against Chelsea.

Although it escaped the eyes of the referee at that time, it did not escape the omnipotent media and live broadcast cameras.

For Suarez's extremely bad behavior, the FA has already released cruel words, and it will definitely impose additional penalties.

Even the Premier League criticized it by name at the chairman's summit, which shows that this time, the FA and the Premier League have the idea of cleaning up the Premier League atmosphere, waving the stick in their hands to teach Suarez a hard lesson.

According to the preliminary estimates of the outside media, at least ten games!

Thirty-eight games in a season and a ten-game ban are undoubtedly quite strict.

If the FA were a little more ruthless, I'm afraid it would ......

At the same time, the media also dug up the news that once the ban is too long, Suarez is likely to move away from the Premier League at the end of the season to avoid the ban from the FA.

Coupled with the fact that Liverpool is no longer likely to play in the Champions League next season, Suarez's eagerness to play in the Champions League and prove his quality has also led to his possibility of moving to a team that can play in the Champions League this summer.

And the really interesting scene of this Premier League chairman's summit happened after the meeting.

When Skudmore announced that the meeting was over, Abramovey? The first to leave his seat and take Chelsea's chief executive, Granovskia, towards Liverpool owner John Henry.

"What's going on?" Yang Huan turned around and asked Peter Kenyon.

Mr. Bald immediately stepped forward, "It is estimated that Chelsea wants to poach Suarez!" ”

When Yang Huan heard this, he immediately felt funny.

Damn, this can't be a deliberate ruse by Abramovich, right?

Suarez just bit your player in a match against your Chelsea, and he was going to face an overweight fine and a long-term ban, but as soon as you turned around, you ran to poach Suarez?

Isn't that the favorite fodder for conspiracy theorists?

Just as Yang Huan was smiling, Peter Kenyon gently reminded Yang Huan again.

Following Peter Kenyon's eyes, he found that Arsenal's general manager Gazidis also walked towards John Henry and Ian Ayle, could it be that Arsenal are also interested in Suarez?

Yang Huan looked at Peter Kenyon, who nodded heavily, it is very likely!

Chelsea had spent a lot of money to bring in Torres from Liverpool, but the Spanish striker had become an out-and-out parallel commodity, not to mention terrible, and had taken up a considerable amount of salary space in the team.

As for Demba Ba, who introduced Newcastle during the winter break, everyone knows that this guy is okay to play as a substitute, and he really wants to support Chelsea's forward line alone, he is not qualified yet!

For a team like Chelsea that is aiming for the Champions League, the front line must at least be a first-class scorer!

Looking at the whole of European football, the most likely, and the safest target, is naturally Suarez.

After all, the Uruguayan striker has no problem adapting to the Premier League.

Moreover, Suarez's technical characteristics are so comprehensive, and his tactical adaptability is even better than Torres's, so it's worth starting!

As for Arsenal, the forward line has always been an old problem.

Strictly speaking, since Robin van Persie's move to Manchester United, the Gunners' forward line has not been better.

Coupled with the fact that Wenger now has money in his hands, his waist is so hard that the top four in the league this season are so fiercely grabbed that the Gunners have to increase investment to bring in reinforcements and strengthen their own strength.

Otherwise, the strength of other teams will improve, and Arsenal will have no hope of Champions League!

It has to be said that this is also the butterfly effect brought about by the rise of Southampton.

After all, there are only four teams in the Champions League, Southampton grabs one place, and the other teams lose one chance!

Yang Huan sat in his place, looking at the group of people not far away for a long time, obviously understanding the situation.

It's just that John Henry and Ian Al are constantly shaking their heads, as if to say that Suarez is not for sale.

But how pale and feeble these words are!

Liverpool has no hope of the Champions League, Suarez is very determined to transfer, and in addition to Suarez's contract terms, there is a 40 million pounds release clause, and the teams that can afford this money are naturally moved by the news!

Yang Huan thought of this, and Huo Ran also stood up.

"Let's go, Peter, let's go join in the fun!"

After speaking, he strode towards the crowd.