In the early morning of March 7, Beijing time, Serie A and the Premier League both ended a luxurious showdown, the traditional giants of the Premier League, Manchester United, were hoisted by the leader Manchester City 1-4 away from home, and the traditional giants of Serie A, AC Milan, overthrew the leader Napoli 1-0 away from home and won the battle of Tianwangshan. United's defeat in this campaign is expected, as United have languished on both ends of the pitch recently.
What's more, Manchester United have lost 2-0 to Manchester City in the first leg of this season, and their overall strength is far inferior to their opponents. In terms of lineup configuration, the 37-year-old C Ronaldo is indeed old, his career for the first time appeared lack of stamina, after entering 2022, only 1 goal was scored in 10 games, and this round of the Premier League was directly absent due to a hip injury, but C Ronaldo is still important to Manchester United, the lack of his lineup is equal to less support, attack and defense are worse.
In the game, Manchester United seemed to have no ability to fight back, with only 28% of the ball, 5-23 and 2-10 on target with Manchester City, and finally conceded four goals in the 4th minute, 27th minute, 67th minute and 90th minute of the game, scoring four goals for Manchester United, de Bruyne and Mahrez, who each scored twice; Manchester United scored a goal by Sancho in the 21st minute of the game.
Statistics, Manchester United from February began a big avalanche, the last 8 games in all competitions only 2 wins, played 4 games, lost 2 games, the last three wins, 2 draws and 1 loss, the standings directly fell out of the top four, according to this state of contention 4 is basically hopeless, because Arsenal's 25 Premier League games have scored 48 points, ranking fourth in the table, Chelsea 26 games 53 points, ranked third, both teams have recently won consecutive victories (Arsenal 4 consecutive wins, Chelsea 2 consecutive wins), Manchester United 28 rounds of Premier League full only 47 points, Once Arsenal and Chelsea maintain a winning finish-up, United will be 10 points behind the top four and will be difficult to counter in the last 10 rounds.
The situation of the traditional giants AC Milan is more fantastic than that of Manchester United, and this time Milan has really recovered, without the illusion of recovery last season. As we all know, last season's AC Milan in the early part of the league like a tiger, the middle of the season because of the lack of Ibrahimovic direct avalanche to withdraw from the championship ranks, this season Milan perfectly avoided this phenomenon, although the middle of the league again encountered the situation of Ibrahimovic injury, but the team has other players to stand up, Olivier Giroud and Leo shouldered the team's offensive line, supporting Milan in the middle of the league continued to break out, this round 1-0 overturned the leader Napoli, the big Olivier Giroud scored the only goal of the game in the 48th minute of the game, Unfortunately, Olivier Giroud retired injured in the 67th minute of the match after scoring a goal, and Ibrahimovic the Great did not come off the bench until the 89th minute of the match to replace Leo.
Before the overthrow of Napoli, AC Milan also overturned Inter Milan, and the momentum of the title race was quite rapid. Now, AC Milan have scored 60 points in 28 rounds of Serie A and lead the Serie A table alone, but Inter still have the initiative to compete for the title, they have scored 58 points after playing 27 Serie A matches, and the win of the make-up will surpass AC Milan to regain the top of the table. Therefore, the next schedule is still a big test for AC Milan, and the team cannot relax for a moment, hoping that Ibrahimovic, Olivier Giroud and Leo can maintain a stable state.