The 2020-2021 Europa League season came to an end, and Manchester United, who was optimistic by many parties, lost at the feet of Villarreal, the seventh place in La Liga, and won the cup 4 times in the 5 finals in 8 years, Emery completely turned the Europa League arena into his own place! The yellow submarine also attacked with a "weak" posture and won the most important championship trophy in the club's history!
Europa League final As a "mat race" representing the highest level european champions cup final for European clubs, Manchester United and the yellow submarine battle can also be regarded as an appetizer for the upcoming Champions League final. Emery and Villarreal from Spain have given a wake-up call to their fellow Pep Guardiola with practical actions.
In the face of The Premier League runner-up Manchester United, Villarreal is far from being able to see Manchester United in terms of the club's financial resources, heritage, and the paper strength of the team's squad. Before the Europa League final, Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer even made a "modest" statement: at Manchester United, winning the league runner-up and the Europa League title is not a success! At the same time as there is a hint of ridicule for the predecessor, when the Upcoming Europa League is about to start, it is as if the trophy is already in hand. Villarreal? What the heck? La Liga seventh!
But Ole Gunnar Solskjaer apparently forgot the name of his opponent was Unai. Emery! The guy with the greasy back has reached the tournament's final five times in 8 years, and has won three consecutive cups in the previous four finals, the most recent of which was the Arsenal, the Premier League team that led the weakening west! Today, however, Emery is back in Spain! Back to the league that made him engrave his name three times on the Europa League trophy! This is a comeback, and this is even more of a restoration!
When Moreno took the lead in breaking the deadlock and ending the first half, it didn't seem to arouse the vigilance of the dominant Manchester United! Especially after Cavani equalised shortly after the opening of the second half, the United players and even Ole Gunnar Solskjaer were still confident, as if it was impossible to solve the battle in ninety minutes. However, despite the Red Devils United's attack, the Yellow Submarine's defense line was almost impeccable, and it was hard to get a chance, and it was squandered by Rashford! Villarreal's every counter-attack was equally remarkable, with the referee ignoring Handball in Fred's penalty area and allowing United to escape.
We believe that as long as there is enough time, in terms of the strength of both sides, it is only a matter of time before Manchester United breaks the gate of the yellow submarine! However, after carrying United's last-minute counterattack and surviving extra time, Villarreal finally dragged United into a brutal roulette game! When the 10-round penalty shootout was beating both fans to death, the two goalkeepers who performed very differently in the game began a direct duel, and De Gea lost to Rulli! The Europa League, back in Emery's hands again! Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's face was livid...
The "cushion game" is played like this, presumably providing a reference for the two teams that are currently about to participate in the Champions League final, Manchester City and Chelsea! Football, it's round! In the face of the last attempt, the value of paper strength is not much reference significance, and the results of the match between Manchester United, which is worth nearly 800 million euros, and Villarreal, which is worth less than 200 million euros, illustrate too many problems.
In the Champions League final, Guardiola played against Tuchel, and the two-year-old Guardiola can almost be called Tuchel's teacher, which is reflected in Tuchel's admiration for Bayern's Guagua when he was at Dort in the past. Now, Guardiola, who has been away from the Champions League final for too long, has returned strongly again, and it is inevitable to fight against the champions league runner-up coach last season. Paper strength, and damn paper strength! What are the odds of Manchester City, which is dominant on paper? Who can guarantee that? Manchester United and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer have already told us the truth!
Taking over chelsea halfway through, Tuchel has already given Guardiola two sticks. If Guagua used doubts in the second leg of the league, but the defeat in the semi-final of the FA Cup must be considered a complete defeat of Guagua, after all, for the ultimate perfectionist and a generation of grandmasters, Pep Guardiola, winning all the championships and then taking the "full crown" is Guardiola's pursuit, after all, Bayern's Frick has no longer let Guardiola's "six champions" enjoy the honor. Therefore, Chelsea's victory in the FA Cup semi-final under the bombardment of Manchester City is definitely worth Pep Guardiola's deep thinking.
With the final victory of the mourning division, Chelsea has a precedent! In the 2011-2012 season, Di Matteo, who took over in the middle of the road, led a group of old, sick and pregnant Chelsea to reach the Champions League final, facing the Bundesliga banba Bayern Munich, who was pressed on the ground and rubbed repeatedly for nearly 90 minutes, and then with Drogba seizing the only opportunity on the spot to equalize, the penalty shootout was alive and kicked up the Big Ears Cup! In this campaign, Di Matteo took the turtle shrinkage tactic to the extreme...
On the other hand, Manchester City, after winning the League Cup this season, was crowned the league title early, and in the last few league games, Guardiola had enough time to practice his tactical philosophy, even if the league lost to Chelsea, it would not matter, even if it lost to Brighton, no one would really think that it was the strength of the reason that made Manchester City overturn the ship in the gutter. In the last round, in order to give the club's meritorious old man Aguero a beautiful farewell, the backhand was a 5:0 tore the toffee!
In the final battle of the league, the completely relaxed Manchester City beat Everton by 5 goals, while the Champions League final opponent Chelsea returned home in the crucial life and death battle for the fourth, thanks to the same city rivals Tottenham Hotspur to carry forward the style, Sheng Sheng sent the Blues into the Champions League zone. One side tried its best but regretted the loss, and the other side "sent the substitutes" to play unscrupulously but returned with a big victory. All this seems to explain something, as if it does not explain anything! ......
In short, Emery used this minimalist victory to tell his compatriot Guardiola that sometimes victory is not only a manifestation of strength, but also courage and determination, but also requires luck! Of course, Guardiola, who has hardly lost in the final, naturally has enough experience, and there are too many possibilities for sending Tuchel a runner-up. But still that sentence, football, is round! There is a place called the gutter! Overturning a ship in a gutter is not uncommon on the football field...
Five years on, Manchester City in Guagua have won and lost games almost every year, and now they are finally closest to the championship. I have to say that Mansour is definitely a conscientious owner. As an extreme perfectionist, Guardiola meets such a superstitious boss, which is a match made in heaven. Winning the league laurels in five years may not be enough to repay the owner's superstitious trust, and now, Mansour's trust has finally received a reward, Guagua, the last hurl, must not carelessly lose Jingzhou!
Come on! Guagua!
Come on! Manchester city!
Of course, there is also the Ah Kun who is about to retire! Come on! Arrive like a prince, leave, and be crowned as a legend! blessing! ......