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After sending off the players, it was not long before the final of the UEFA Cup arrived. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The UEFA Cup final was played at the City Stadium in Manchester, England, and for Manchester City, it was a home game, but Arsenal were familiar with the stadium.

Due to the proximity, Xiao Yu and club officials went to watch the game, and Manchester City, who were playing at home, finally narrowly defeated Arsenal 2-1 and won the first heavyweight trophy after Van Gaal took charge.

Although it is only a League Cup, in fact, the weight of this League Cup is not light at all, because along the way, almost all of the strong teams have been eliminated, including the Bundesliga giants Bayern Munich, so this League Cup is full of weight.

And the FA Cup that followed, because it was held far away, Xiao Yu didn't rush to it in the end, but he went to Moscow, Russia's first time, to watch the Champions Cup final, accompanied by Eva? Snow and Chopin, a family of three, also arrived in Moscow a few days early to visit this atmospheric city.

The final, played between Manchester United and Droysden, is known as the Manchester derby, and has reaffirmed the global reputation of the industrial city, which has already monopolized the Champions League final for two consecutive seasons.

Both Ferguson and Manuel Pellegrini have a deep understanding of each other, and have arranged and set up their surnames, after all, this is a final, and no one wants to take risks lightly.

Manuel Pellegrini was uncharacteristically aggressive in the game, looking for chances from the start despite having a back three, and in the 26th minute, Ashley? Young found a chance on the flank, crossed to the middle, Dzeko headed in and Forlan ghostly stabbed the ball into the net.

Droysden took the lead unexpectedly!

After that, Manchester United and Droysden played each other's attack and defence, and the two teams knew each other very well, and neither could play new tricks.

Mascherano was very eye-catching in this game, his interceptions and tackles in the middle ensured the depth of De Roysden's defense, Manchester United almost did not get any chances in the Mascherano defence, and the blood captain has been tempered for several years and is now the Premier League's leading and powerful midfielder.

To be able to keep Mascherano, David? Pace also made a lot of efforts, including a contract of 6.5 million euros for Mascherano, which broke De Roysden's previous record and surpassed Forlan, who also expressed his willingness to stay at the Butcher's Knife Stadium.

'I work very well with Manuel Pellegrini, he knows how to use me, he plays my strengths, I want to stay here and I want to help Droysden win a trophy in the Champions Cup!

The contract extension before the final clearly encouraged Droisden's players to be very active in the game.

After Otamendi switched to the right side, he washed away the shortcomings of his height when playing at central defender, and was known as the new Zanetti, and he was very active, but in this game, he directly faced Robinho, one of the best left wingers in the world, and even Rooney and Diego frequently looked for opportunities on the right side, and Otamendi was a little tired.

In the 78th minute of the second half, there was a crack in Droisden's impregnable defense, Robinho and Diego skillfully combined on the left side, Diego fired a powerful shot in the box, Joe? Hart reacted, but got out of his hands, Rooney plugged in the back row, and hit a timely follow-up shot to pull the score back, 1:1!

The goal conceded also sent the game to extra time.

After that, Manuel Pellegrini and Ferguson made adjustments and substitutions, but the final score remained 1:1 until the end of the game, and neither of them could break through the opponent's goal again.

After a brutal penalty shootout, Manchester United is old and hot, Ferguson focuses on Rooney at the end, and Pellegrini has always trusted Ashley? Yang and Dzeko were pressured to take their penalties either wide or saved by Edwin van der Sar.

In the end, Manchester United eliminated Droisden with difficulty by virtue of a penalty shootout!

........................ "Don't be sad, David! Xiao Yu was in the box, and he could only comfort David with regret? Pace.

The middle-aged man, who was still wearing a De Roysden fan, looked sluggish and clearly regretted De Roysden's last-goal defeat to Manchester United.

But Xiao Yu feels that it should be looked the other way around, Droysden's players have no other big names except Forlan and Mascharono, but they can occupy the top four in the Premier League and reach the Champions Cup, from this point of view, Pellegrini is undoubtedly the top priority of this team.

"Keep Pellegrini, keep Forlan, keep Mascherano, De Roysden will only get stronger!"

David? Pace smiled a little wryly, "You won't understand, Xiao Yu, your Red Rebels have won three championships in the finals, with a 100% winning rate, but this is the first time in history that we have reached the Champions Cup, but we lost to Manchester United with one kick, this feeling is very depressing!" ”

Xiao Yu can also understand this mood, but he still thinks that at this moment, retaining players and managers is the most important thing, after all, De Roysden will continue to compete in the Champions League next season.

In the past few seasons, Droysden's business is still good, with good results, and his business development ability is also considered to be above average in the Premier League, so that Droysden's finances and operations have always been healthy, and they are one of the most localized teams in the Premier League, and there are currently many Premier League internationals in the team.

Ashley? Young, Lennon, Mike? Dawson, Milner, Leyton? Barnes and De Roysden contributed five internationals to Capello's England squad at the European Championships, far more than the Red Rebels.

The Red Rebels have only two internationals in Capello's national team this year, namely Curtis and Terry, and it is still unknown whether these two players will be able to play.

Maybe it's because of the grudge between the Red Rebels and Juventus that Capello is very prejudiced against the Red Rebels players, and it can even be said that he doesn't like the Red Rebels players, so including Michael? Players such as Johnson, Ismail and Theo Walcott have all been omitted from the squad for this year's European Championships.

The outside world is very skeptical about Capello's selection criteria, after all, everyone can see the strength of the Red Rebels, but in the previous warm-up games, England's performance has not been convincing, and this time it is in the same group with Germany, Croatia and host Austria, the situation is not optimistic.

…………………… After the Champions Cup final, Xiao Yu and his family went to Austria, spent a few days of vacation in this wonderful country, and then stopped by Venice, the water city of Italy, where they stayed for three days, and then went to Switzerland to attend the opening ceremony of the 2008 European Cup.

Since this opening ceremony was between Switzerland and the Czech Republic, as the captain of the Czech Republic, Peter? Petr Cech will play for the Czech Republic, and Xiao Yu's family naturally became Czech fans in the stands, applauding and cheering for the Czech Republic.

Petr Cech was outstanding in this game, defusing Switzerland's attacks on a number of occasions and helping the Czech Republic to beat Switzerland 0-1 and get the European Championship off to a flying start.

After this game, Xiao Yu went to meet with Cech and personally congratulated the super goalkeeper who successfully won the Czech Footballer of the Year, after all, after winning Switzerland, the possibility of the Czech Republic qualifying from the group is very great.

Then Xiao Yu's family of three went to watch Portugal's 2:0 victory over Turkey, but from the perspective of the scene, the two biggest stars in the Portuguese lineup, Xiao Xiao Luo and Quaresma, failed to show their best strength, especially Quaresma, the whole game was sluggish, and Xiao Xiao Luo except for one assist, the others were also lackluster.

After all, after a busy season, immediately ushered in the European Cup, even if Xiao Xiao Luo was in excellent physical condition, but after all, he still failed to maintain a high level of performance, and his teammates in the national team were not as strong as their Red Rebel teammates, and their performance was naturally greatly reduced, but there is no doubt that Xiao Xiao Luo is still the brightest star in the European Cup.

After watching this match, Xiao Yu returned to Austria to watch the match between Germany and England the next day.

These two teams are old enemies, and it is also the first heavyweight matchup of this year.

Capello fielded a 442 tactic in this game, and the goalkeeper was David? James, the backline from left to right is Ashley? Cole, Ferdinand, Mike? Dawson and Glenn? Johnson, the two central midfielders are Frank Lampard and Barry, the right midfielder is Gerrard, and the left midfielder is Joe? Cole, the two forwards are Wayne Rooney and Defoe.

After Beckham left the national team, Capello handed over the captain's armband of the national team to Gerrard, apparently to use the influence of the soul of the Liverpool team to control the England dressing room.

However, as some media worried before the game, the combination of Lampard and Barry is too weak, who is the core of Gerrard and Lampard, and the problem of unclear division of labor has once again appeared, while the tactics of the German tank led by Frijns, Ballack and Schweinsteiger are very clear, playing in the midfield!

As Mourinho said in a previous lecture at the Red Rebels Coach Training Course, football now emphasizes the midfield more than ever, although there are various tactics such as 451, 433, 4231, 4132, etc., but in fact, to put it bluntly, they are all emphasizing how to control the midfield, and those who win the midfielder win the world!

Theoretically, Fabio Capello's side have Barry and Frank Lampard can play more freely, but the Blues and Steven Gerrard seem to have been completely unavailable, barely threatening in central midfield, and the two have played almost negatively together.

This allowed the Germans to easily control England's midfield, and then scored a goal in the 20th minute through Podolski, who did not adjust after that, and Podolski added another in the 72nd minute of the second half.

In this way, in the first game of Euro 08, England unfortunately lost to Germany 2:0!

After this game, almost all the English media began to question Capello's personnel and tactics, in fact, almost since Capello took office, stubbornly used 442 tactics and abandoned the Red Rebel players, his tactics have been greatly questioned, and this game once again proved a point.

England, which had lost its Red Rebels players, was once again in the chaos it had been.

"This situation has been foreshadowed, and English football has reached a consensus for more than a year, that is, if you want to integrate the England national team, you must have a strong core like David Beckham, Beckham, Michael? Johnson is the best in this category, and even Barry and Carrick have the ability to do so. ”

"It's not important to abandon the Red Rebels, it's not really the key, the real problem is that Capello stubbornly wants to use his philosophy to make his personal mark on the England national team, but we have seen that more than half a year has passed, he has never succeeded, and even so, what we see is still an England team with no rules to speak of."

"It reminds me of the England national team in 2004, when it was as chaotic as it is now, Beckham announced his departure from the national team, and then we all know the result, the national team had to bring Beckham back, the effect is obvious, England has won many games, this ironclad fact tells us that England has no shortage of stars, no lack of fighting spirit, nothing is lacking, there is a lack of a core player who can control the rhythm."

"Capello used Barry and moved Gerrarda to the right, which was a very wise choice, but he ignored one point, Barry is not Beckham, even if Capello tried every possible way to establish Barry's prestige, but we saw that Barry was overwhelmed, made a lot of passing errors, and almost failed to organize a threatening attack."

"On the pitch it's always about strength, Barry didn't play well, Gerrard and Frank Lampard started not to buy it, they both started to want to rely on themselves, and as a result, we saw a scattered England national team, each playing separately, and even we have to rejoice that 2:0 is lucky, fortunately David? James didn't put on a thrilling game this time, otherwise, it is estimated that he would have lost more goals! ”

In the face of media skepticism, Capello still insisted on his ideas, and his stubbornness made him a world famous coach, but let's not forget that he has only achieved results in the club before, but coaching the national team and coaching the club are two very different concepts.

The most obvious difference is that if the left-back is weak in the club's staffing, Capello can ask the club to bring in the left-back he admires in the transfer market, but not in the national team, there is no transfer here, and only tactics can be relied on to make up for this lack of accommodation.

And the national team only has a few games a year, rushing to train intensively, playing one or two games, and then scattering things, which is completely different from the club, and it can be said to be more difficult.

And judging from the current situation, Capello has undoubtedly not come out of this transformation, because in the second round, England vs. the host Austria, Capello is still stubborn, and England is still sinking!

(To be continued)