Chapter 846 The Unbeatable Red Devil

In the Champions League quarter-finals against Roma, Manchester United finally scored directly with Yin Jun's free kick and defeated their opponent 3:2 in the away game. This also gave Manchester United an advantage in the two-round knockout round.

Back in England, Manchester United only rested for less than three days before their next game. In the 32nd round of the Premier League, Manchester United visited Fratton Park to challenge Portsmouth.

Since being promoted to the Premier League in the summer of 2003, Pompey's Legion has experienced relegation and struggle in the previous three seasons. This season it has shown the strength of the mid-to-upper-tier Premier League teams.

This season, after 31 rounds of the schedule, they have scored 43 points with a record of 11 wins, 10 draws and 10 losses. They are temporarily ranked 9th in the Premier League. However, the points difference with Bolton Wanderers 5th and Tottenham Hotspur 6th in the Premier League are respectively.

With only 7 points and 5 points, there is still hope of entering the European competition.

Since this game is less than 70 hours away from the Champions League game in midweek, and Manchester United will face Roma at home next Tuesday night, and they only narrowly defeated Roma last week, Ferguson made a decision on Manchester United's starting lineup.

A major adjustment was made. Yin Jun did not start again. Scholes, who missed the second round match with Roma due to a red card suspension, continued to start. In addition, two veterans, Giggs and Solskjaer, as well as Cristiano Ronaldo and

Rooney, the two main players, also sat on the bench.

Facing Manchester United, which had rotated almost half of its main lineup, Pompey's Legion saw hope of defeating their opponents at home. They were more proactive after the start, but Manchester United patiently dealt with the home team.

Manchester United suffered a blow in the 30th minute of the game. Richardson stopped the ball in the backcourt and was intercepted by O'Neill. Muwaruwari's 23-yard shot was saved by Edwin van der Sar. Matthew Taylor got ahead of Ferdinand.

A shot from 8 yards broke the deadlock.

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Manchester United entered the halftime break with a 0:1 disadvantage.

At the beginning of the second half, Ferguson replaced Richardson, who had performed poorly in the first half, with Giggs to strengthen the attack.

The opponents in the six Premier League games are Portsmouth, Sheffield United, Chelsea, Middlesbrough, Everton and Manchester City. Chelsea is the title rival, while Portsmouth and Everton are competing for European qualifications.

At first glance, Sheffield United is a relegation team, Middlesbrough is a famous giant killer, and Manchester City is a mortal enemy in the same city. Each opponent is difficult to measure with common sense.

In order to fight for relegation, they will probably not compete with Manchester United in the FA Cup.

Because the Premier League has to face a lot of tough opponents in a row, Ferguson does not want to lose any of the league games because you don't know what the result of the next league game will be.

Yin Jun created a scoring opportunity shortly after his appearance.

Not surprisingly, Manchester United will eliminate Roma and reach the semi-finals of the Champions League. As a result, Manchester United will also play two Champions League semi-finals with its old rival AC Milan!

Starting from the first leg of the Champions League quarter-finals on the evening of April 4, to the beginning of May, Manchester United is likely to play 11 games!

This includes 6 Premier League games, 1 FA Cup semi-final, and two confirmed semi-finals with Roma.

Five minutes later, Manchester United made a comeback. Scholes passed the ball into the penalty area, Smith headed the ball over, and Yin Jun drew the ball from the corner of the penalty area and scored his 27th league goal of the season.

Helped Manchester United reverse the score.

Therefore, Ferguson hopes to win today's league, and at least strive for a draw.

If they lose to Portsmouth today, and Chelsea have already won this round, Manchester United's lead will be reduced to 7 points. In addition, in the 34th round, they will go to Stamford Bridge as a guest.

Be careful and if you lose again, Manchester United will be really in danger.

As a result, Manchester United has no purely defensive midfielder in the midfield.

After Yin Jun came on, he appeared in the middle of the midfield with Scholes, Giggs and Park Ji-sung were on the wings, and Solskjaer and Alan Smith partnered as a double forward.

So, in the 65th minute of the game, when Manchester United almost conceded the second goal, the unbearable Ferguson directly used his trump card. Yin Jun and Solskjaer came on the bench at the same time, and they replaced Fletcher and Kari.

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In the 69th minute, Heinze passed the ball. Yin Jun passed the ball straight to Alan Smith at the first time. The latter broke into the penalty area and was tackled from behind by Primus. Solskjaer's shot from a small angle on the right side of the penalty area missed. Referee Klatten

Borg believed that Primus had successfully tackled first and rejected Manchester United's penalty appeal.

However, Manchester United quickly equalized the score. In the 76th minute, Scholes passed a diagonal pass from the right into the penalty area. Yin Jun successfully headed the ball near the penalty spot and scored his 26th Premier League goal this season.

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In other words, Watford, their opponent in the FA Cup semi-finals, looks a little easier to bully. As the current deputy captain of the Premier League, although the Hornets are still 11 points away from the relegation zone, they have not completely lost hope of relegation after all.

As for their opponents in the Champions League, they are absolutely formidable enemies. Even if they defeated Roma in the first round away from home, Manchester United still cannot say that they are absolutely sure. Even if they advance to the semi-finals, they will face the challenge of AC Milan, which is ahead of Manchester United.

The old rivals who have been in European competitions for several seasons are very difficult to deal with.

However, Giggs' appearance did not bring fundamental changes to the situation. Although Manchester United continuously created many threats, they were still far behind in scoring.

Although Manchester United currently has a 7-point advantage over Chelsea, this does not mean that Manchester United's championship is really stable. Because in the next month, Manchester United will face a devilish schedule.

However, Manchester United's lead did not last long, and this was a very low-level mistake and a goal lost.

In the 89th minute of the game, Manchester United's midfielder was passing the ball in the backcourt to waste time, while Portsmouth, unwilling to fail, pressed the whole team.

Just when Yin Jun thought that the opponent's defense had exposed a huge hole and Manchester United was about to score the game-killing goal, Manchester United's defense made a mistake that shocked everyone!

Ferdinand was forced by Lualua and passed the ball back to Van der Sar, but the Dutchman had already run out. The ball, which was far outside the control of the two, was in the eyes of everyone in the audience in shock.

Zhong rolled into the empty door!

Fortunately, this was not the final score of the game. Manchester United scored again after entering stoppage time. In the 91st minute, Manchester United, which was pressing a crazy attack, played an exquisite attack. Yin Jun's pass tore Ports.

Mouth's defense, Solskjaer's 18-yard shot from the left side of the penalty area was saved by James, and O'Shea scored with a supplementary shot from 6 yards.

In the end, in this game where Manchester United scored 4 goals, Manchester United narrowly won with a score of 3:2!
Chapter completed!