In Manchester United's Premier League match against Norwich, the Old Trafford stands were filled with green and gold scarves. But be aware that they are not supporting Premier League bottom-out team Norwich.
Green gold is the home shirt color of Manchester United's predecessor Newton Heath, and the audience has been using these two colors to express their resistance to the boss Glazer family. The game was full of drama, including Manchester United captain Maguire Scorpion swinging his tail and hitting Pogba in the head, who was furious. After the game, Pogba was again booed and scolded by the fans, and he walked into the players' tunnel and propped his ears toward the stands to express his dissatisfaction.
Fortunately, Ronaldo scored a hat-trick and scored 3 points for Manchester United. But the Red Devils' tough road to four is just getting started, and for the next 12 days, they have to play liverpool, Arsenal and Chelsea in a row.
Chelsea beat Crystal Palace 2-0 on Sunday to reach the FA Cup final and will compete with Liverpool for the title at Wembley Stadium. This is chelsea's fourth fa cup final in five years, and the last three seasons have been finalists, with the FA Cup final scheduled to start on 14 May.
Manchester United's Premier League at home to Chelsea was scheduled to take place on Sunday 15 May as the Blues reached the FA Cup final and the match was scheduled to be rescheduled. It was decided before the FA that as soon as Chelsea reached the final, the match between Manchester United and Manchester United would be played two weeks earlier.
Now, the Blues will visit Old Trafford at 19:45 local time on Thursday, April 28. The red-and-blue clash was originally set to be United's last home league game of the season, but after the rescheduling, Monday 2 May against Brentford became the final match of the season for The Theatre of Dreams.
The Premier League schedule changes have left Manchester United and Chelsea with the "Devil's Schedule" at the same time, while the Red Devils have been more difficult. Chelsea will face West Ham, Everton and Manchester United in a row, while Manchester United will face Liverpool, Arsenal and Chelsea in a row.
According to Beijing time, Manchester United's specific venue arrangements are: 3:00 away to Liverpool on Wednesday 20 April, 19:30 on Saturday 23 April to Arsenal, and 2:45 home to Chelsea on Friday, April 29. The three major battles in ten days will directly determine the success or failure of Manchester United in the top four this season, and if they lose consecutively or win consecutive games, the fire of hope for the fourth place won by beating Norwich will be extinguished again.
Especially against Liverpool, if United's defence is as bad as it was against Norwich, fans will remember the humiliating 5-0 experience at Old Trafford last October, but if United can end Klopp's strength away from home, it will greatly motivate the confidence to impact the Champions League in the final moments.
Red Devils interim boss Ronnick played the relationship card before the game, insisting that Liverpool had to thank themselves as many of the players Klopp signed were his own talent signed at Schalke 04, Hoffenheim, Red Bull Leipzig and Red Bull Salzburg. This includes Mane, Firmino, Matip, Conat, Nabi Keita and Takushi Minano.
'Liverpool are very good, very good, it's no coincidence that they are so strong. "Jurgen (Klopp) has built this squad over the last 6 and a half years, and six or seven of them have been my players," Lonnick said. When the players were unknown, I signed them for the club at the time. It's no coincidence either that Liverpool are probably the club with the largest number of players from my past clubs, and their playing style, their style and their way of playing, are very similar. ”
But Liverpool will not easily release water, they must beat Manchester United and achieve their goal of overtaking Manchester City. Longnick is worried about the strength of United's defence: "Against Norwich, the United players showed their spirit of striving to win the game, but in my opinion, the problem was the physical confrontation at the crucial moment. It wasn't the first problem today, it was an earlier game. I remember the game against Leeds United, when there was McTomine and Fred in the team, and we had to withstand the onslaught of Leeds United.
Later, the problems appeared more and more, and it was already very obvious. That's why the club contacted me in November, when United conceded too many easy goals. We lowered the number of goals conceded but the defensive standards were not up to the level of the top four clubs. ”