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In the middle of the week, the first leg of the Champions League quarter-finals started, and Manchester United challenged Lille away.

Since Lille's home court does not meet the Champions League specifications, this game was played at the Bolart Stadium in Lons. The home team Lille is currently ranked third in Ligue 1 and has not won in the last four league rounds. In the last round, he lost to the leader Lyon 1:2 while leading the way.

Although Lille was not good as soon as possible in the Ligue 1, they still showed strong fighting spirit at home in this Champions League knockout match with Manchester United. Until 80 minutes passed, the score on the field was still 0:0.

At this time, an unexpected action from Manchester United changed the situation on the field. At that time, Manchester United obtained a frontcourt free kick of 30 yards from Lille's goal. Giggs chose a free kick and quickly sent it through Lille's goal.

But Lille goalkeeper Silva protested that the referee let Giggs shoot before the Lille player set up a wall, and the referee warned him of a yellow card.

Then a ridiculous scene happened on the court, and several Lille players seemed to be preparing to strike. Lille coach Ball asked the players to continue the game, while Ferguson was very angry at Lille's behavior.

The game continued to resume, but the Lille fans in the stands were very dissatisfied. They threw objects at the stadium, mostly concentrated on Neville's side, causing Neville to hang on his face.

The Lille people are a little unreasonable because they don’t even understand the rules. Under the current free kick rules, when the offensive party is fouled, they will have certain priority. For free kicks around the penalty area, the referee will ask the players who serve whether they want to send fast or slow. The choice is in the hands of the offensive party, and they can choose not to wait for the whistle to blow.

However, if they choose to send quickly, then there is no right to resend. Even if the opponent's player only withdraws from 3 yards and blocks the ball, it will not resend. If the ball flies out of the crossbar, then the ball will be the opponent's.

Before Giggs sent a free kick, there was a clear communication link with the referee, so he did not violate any rules.

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With Giggs' quick free kick, Manchester United beat Lille 1-0 away and took the lead in the knockout round in two rounds.

Manchester United, who returned to England, continued their away trip and challenged Fulham at Craven Farm. This was the first game of the 28th round of the Premier League, at noon on Saturday. Manchester United conceded one goal first, and reversed their opponent with a 2:1 score. With one more round, they expanded their advantage against Chelsea to 13 points.

However, in the face of this result, Chelsea has no way to change it for the time being, because this weekend, they will compete with Arsenal for the League Cup championship this season at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, so the matches of both teams have been postponed in this round.

One day later, Mourinho's Chelsea beat Arsenal 2-1 to win the first championship of the season.

In this game, a total of three players on both sides were sent off by red cards. This came from a melee between the two teams at the last moment of the game.

In the 94th minute, Mikel foul on Toure triggered a melee. Mikel and Toure pushed each other. Fabregas pulled Lampard forward, and Adebayo stepped forward from one side and punched Lampard. It was not until Mourinho and Wenger both entered the court to persuade him that the situation returned to peace.

Subsequently, Mikel, Adebayo and Toure were sent off with red cards, and Henry persuaded the furious Togolese to play. Lampard and Fabregas were also warned by both yellow cards.

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Manchester United enters its first game after March, another Saturday afternoon game!

Manchester United players have forgotten what time of noon game this season. The only thing that people remember is that before the season, Ferguson just got the schedule, he directly fired at the FA and criticized the FA for taking care of the other three strong teams, specifically targeting Manchester United, because Manchester United's game at noon was the sum of the other three Premier League teams.

No one would like to play at noon because they are in a bad state to adjust.

To give the simplest example, everyone knows that on the game day of a professional player, everything, including eating, drinking, defecating, urinating, and sleeping, must be limited to a certain time limit. The purpose is to ensure that the players can achieve the best state during the game.

If the game is in the afternoon or evening, it is better, but if it is in the afternoon, it will be very troublesome.

As usual, the last tactical meeting should be held before the game, and the meal time should be much earlier to ensure that the food is digested almost the same during the game, and the players are at the point that is most conducive to the game.

To do so many things, players need to get up earlier than usual, and there is no sufficient guarantee of rest time.

This is just the part of the player's condition adjustment, and there are many other aspects. All the work of a football club is basically based on the game.

Isn't that noon competition not good? Nor.

Because according to the time difference, the game at noon often caters to fans in Asia. Therefore, since Yin Jun joined Manchester United in the summer of 2002 and performed well, Manchester United played more games at noon than before.

In this second round of the Double Red Club where Manchester United was away from Anfield, just like the first round, they were still lined up until noon.

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Although Manchester United has played many games at noon this season, they still feel uncomfortable.

Of course, as an opponent, Liverpool is not much better.

At the beginning of the game, both sides played very fiercely. This is the consistent feature of the Double Red Club. The century-old feud between Manchester United and Manchester United is often solved through the game.

The players on both sides fought fiercely. From the beginning of the game, they entered a hand-to-hand battle with bayonets. They both played without reservation and fought against each other. However, the players on both sides were not in good condition and both missed many opportunities.

Manchester United plays away. Ferguson originally wanted to control the midfield, but there was a problem. That is, Liverpool knew Manchester United so well, so Ferguson took the initiative to seek change, dragged Yin Jun to the back, partnered with Carrick with two midfielders, and Fletcher pushed forward, similar to the position of a central defender.

In this position, it is inevitable that Fletcher's chances of getting and taking the ball have more.

But the problem lies here. Compared with Yin Jun, Carrick, and even Scholes, Fletcher's blocking ability is indeed quite excellent and has a huge effect, but his ability to pass and control the ball is much worse, and he makes too many unnecessary pass mistakes.

Liverpool is in poor form, and secondly, they are indeed unable to compete with the midfield, but they specifically target Manchester United's midfield passes and receiving mistakes to counterattack, creating several threatening offensives.

On the contrary, Manchester United has the advantage but cannot create a threat, and the midfield goal and organization are a bit chaotic.
Chapter completed!