The Red Rebels face Basel from the Swiss Superliga in the second round of the UEFA Cup, a traditional Swiss powerhouse that regularly appears in European competitions, but has not been overly impressive.

When Xiao Yu was a fan in his previous life, he always confused France's Auxerre with this Basel team, but now it will not, Basel came to Manchester as his opponent and walked into Old Trafford.

Maybe Xiao Yu will misidentify something else, but he will definitely not misidentify his opponent!

Basel's usual tactics are 442, and the Red Rebels also launched their usual 4231 tactics to suppress them in this game, Villa as a striker, Xiao Xiaoluo accepted Mourinho's punishment, and returned at the end of his sentence, and the right side was still handed over to Palacio, Kaka was rested, Mourinho used Ribery to play in the middle of this game, and the double back was Beckham and De Rossi.

From left to right, the back line is Philippe? Lahm, John Terry, Curtis and McConn who will not be able to play in England, goalkeeper Peter? Cech.

Although they were playing away, Basel played tenaciously and knew that the Red Rebels had a strong attack at home, so they boldly used two midfielders to counter-attack on the defensive back.

Basel's defence did cause the Red Rebels plenty of problems, but Beckham opened the scoring less than 10 minutes into the opening line when a long ball from the back found Villa, who combined with Palacio to score the opening goal at the near post.

However, after that, Basel's tenacious style of play caused a lot of problems for the Red Rebels, and the score of 1-0 was maintained until the end of the game, although the Red Rebels won the first leg, but it was an unsafe scoreline.

However, three weeks later, Mourinho attacked aggressively on the road, which caused Basel, who were looking to use home advantage to beat the Red Rebels.

The two sides staged a head-to-head battle in Switzerland, and the Red Rebels eventually relied on their more balanced strength to take away a hearty victory from St. Jakob's Park to advance to the third round of the League Cup with an aggregate score of 5-2.

At the same time, the three Premier League teams in the second round of the League Cup, Manchester City were forced to draw by Polish side Goslian in two consecutive games, but the score of 1:1 at home and 0:0 away made them eliminated because of away goals.

The other two Premier League sides, Newcastle and Liverpool, also beat their respective opponents to reach the last 32 of the UEFA Cup.

Among the other teams that advanced to the round of 32 of the League Cup, including La Liga's super giants Barcelona, Valencia, Villarreal, and Mallorca; Serie A teams such as Roma, Perugia and Parma, Germany have Borussia Dortmund and Schalke 04, France have Bordeaux, Auxerre and Lens, as well as Feyenoord in the Netherlands and Sporting Lisbon and Benfica in Portugal.

But that's not too surprising, as the real surprise was the third-place finish from the group stage of the European Champions Cup.

In Xiao Yu's previous life, this year's Champions League was known as the most civilian Champions League, because big-name teams collapsed one after another, but Xiao Yu never thought that this year's Champions League would come so civilian.

When the League Cup was decided for the round of 32, the fifth round of the group stage of the UEFA Champions League was also over, and although there was still one round, a number of teams had already been confirmed to have lost their qualification.

The top team in Group A is Lyon, Celtic beat Bayern to occupy the second place in the group, Bayern only has five points in the first five rounds of the group stage, if they can't win the last game against Anderlecht, they will be eliminated, even if they beat Anderlecht and finish third in the group, they can only go to the League Cup round of 32 knockout round.

The situation in Groups B and C is not very clear, but the three teams in Group B – Arsenal, Inter Milan and Lokomotiv Moscow – are all likely to play in the UEFA Cup, while Group C sees PSV Eindhoven and Deportivo La Coruna battling it out for second place, with Monaco topping the group.

Juventus in Group D are currently third in third place, caught between Real Sociedad and Turkey's Galatasaray.

The third place in Group E has already been determined for Scotland's Glasgow Rangers, Group F is Marseille and Group G is Lazio, and the situation in all three groups has been cleared up, and these three teams will play in the last 32 of the UEFA Cup.

Group H is the most intense, with Ajax, Celta, AC Milan and Bruce all having the potential to qualify and be out, with anyone likely to play in the last 32 of the UEFA Cup.

When the 5th round of the UEFA Champions League group is played, the whole of Europe is shocked, if so many strong teams are all eliminated by then, then what is the European Champions Cup?

But sometimes it's like that, and when everybody is worried, it just happens.

In the sixth round of the group stage, Bayern defeated Anderlecht, but failed to qualify from the group and could only go to the League Cup, and Inter Milan and PSV Eindhoven also became Bayern's giant companions.

Juventus in Group D and AC Milan in Group H, the round of 32 in the UEFA Cup immediately became star-studded, plus the original Barcelona, Valosia, Liverpool, Roma, Borussia Dortmund and Feyenoord.

There was an immediate mournful wail from the outside world that this year's European Champions Cup and the League Cup had turned upside down, with the former becoming extremely civilian, while the latter became a cluster of giants.

In the Champions League, Real Madrid, who won all six of their group games, and Manchester United, who won 5-1, became the most appealing teams, and they are also considered the two most likely teams to gather in the Champions League final, the other being Arsenal, who have performed well in the Premier League.

…………………… While reaching the round of 32 in the UEFA Cup, the Red Rebels also continued their good form in the Premier League.

In the 12th round of the league, the Red Rebels defeated Birmingham City 3-2 at home, the latter brought a lot of trouble to the Red Rebels in this game, and the continuous double-line battle also made the Red Rebels players very tired, but in the end they still stubbornly withstood the pressure, twice behind and equalized twice, and finally with Beckham's long-range shot, the team got three points.

After a two-week break in the league after playing Birmingham, the Red Rebels travelled to Goodson Park to take on Everton.

David Moyes's side have not been able to continue last season's impressive form this season, and although they were tenacious at home, they equalised at one point, but Kaka and David Beckham's last two shots put the Red Rebels back in the open.

In the 14th round of the league, the Red Rebels welcomed Newcastle at home, the traditional powerhouse of the Premier League gave the Red Rebels a hammer in this game, the game was supposed to end 1-0, but Shearer took advantage of a mistake in the Red Rebels back line before the end of the game and scored a crucial goal to help Newcastle get a valuable point from the Red Rebels.

It was precisely because of this draw that the Red Rebels fell back to third place in the league, and Manchester United overtook them.

In the 4th round of the League Cup, the Red Rebels welcomed Crystal Palace at home, Mourinho once again arranged a large number of young players on the field, Messi and others did not live up to Mourinho's expectations, and won 1-0 at home against the tenacious Crystal Palace, Chiellini took advantage of a corner kick opportunity to score the only goal of the game.

After playing Crystal Palace, Mourinho led the team south to London to challenge Tottenham Hotspur away.

After a break, the main players of the Red Rebels performed well in this game, although they were the first to score a goal by Tottenham, but the Red Rebels still reversed Tottenham 1:4 with a brace from Didier Drogba, goals from Kaka and Palacio.

After the game against Tottenham, the Red Rebels had a rare respite and Jose Mourinho gave his first-team players a day off to recuperate and prepare for Sunday's trip to Aston Villa.

Xiao Yu followed the team south to London to challenge Tottenham, but did not come back with the team, but accompanied by Boyas and others, went to Argentina, in addition to going to River Plate to watch a Mascherano game, and also had a conversation with him, and also finalized the transfer of Aguero with the Reading Team.

The Red Rebels paid a transfer fee of £1.5 million to the Reading Team, which was originally only 1 million, but Xiao Yu hopes to work with the Reading Team, which includes training and transfer deals for young players, from which the Red Rebels will have the right of first refusal to buy the Reading Team players, and the Red Rebels can also bring the players they fancy in Argentina to the Reading Team for training.

In addition, the current lineup of the Reading Team also has many stars who will be very popular in the future, such as Milito, the main central defender of Barcelona's treble, and the famous demon goalkeeper Ustari in FM, who are now playing for this team.

Milito was supposed to transfer to Real Madrid this season, but after the transfer was aborted, he went to Zaragoza, but with the change of Real Madrid's policy, Samel went to Real Madrid, Milito did not make the trip in the end, but Xiao Yu has promised to use the Red Rebels' connections in European football to help the Reading Team contact.

In central defence, the Red Rebels have already played the role of Terry, Curtis, Vidic and Chiellini, so there is no shortage of personnel, and going to the Premier League with Milito's height may also be a major instability.

During his time in Argentina, Xiao Yu asked Boyas to find two players, one of whom was a central defender named Otamendi who he liked very much when playing games, and the other was a striker Pastore.

For these two players, Xiao Yu plans to keep them in the Reading Team for training and competition, and then take them to Europe when the time is right, this move is not excluded by clubs and players in Argentina, you know, the five major European leagues, the Netherlands and Portugal and other leagues also often do this kind of thing, Porto even often divide the players into countless shares to transfer equity, just like a listed company.

After doing these things, Xiao Yu took Aguero and his family to Manchester.

Aguero was born in the slums, his father was originally a driver, and then the Argentine economy was not good, and after losing his job, he joined the Reading Team as a goods manager, and now Xiao Yu bought Aguero from the Reading Team, out of consideration for the players, Xiao Yu decided to help the Aguero family go to Manchester, in which his parents will stay in the Red Rebels' Newton Heath training base to work.

This is also the most common tactic used by the Red Rebels to solicit the loyalty of their players, with the parents of Lionel Messi, De Rossi and Palacio all working at the club, and the families of the players who rely on the club's recommendations to work, including the first team and the youth team.

Now Xiao Yu also hopes that Aguero can continue the Red Rebels' youth training concept of being responsible for players and join the Red Rebels, although he can only play in the youth team for the time being, but Mourinho has made it clear that he wants to get him, believing that he will have a place in Mourinho's tactics.

On the second day of Xiao Yu's return to Manchester, the Red Rebels beat Aston Villa 0-3 away.

With this win in the Premier League, Mourinho focused his preparations on Liverpool a week later, and Arsenal next to him, starting the most troublesome schedule of the winter break!

(To be continued)