Beating defending champion Inter Milan in the Champions League away game is a huge boost to the confidence and morale of Manchester United's players. Then, in the away game against Wigan Athletic, Manchester United did not feel tired of going to Italy. They scored two goals in the first and second half respectively, easily defeated Wigan Athletic, and continued to lead the table with an unbeaten record of 28 rounds.
The only regret for Manchester United is that their centre back Vidic has a thigh muscle injury and is determined to miss the next red cross match with Liverpool.
This is unexpected and reasonable, because Ferdinand was often injured before and Evans was injured in training recently. In order to ensure the stability of the back line, Vidic can only play a full game without missing a minute.
Fatigue is the most likely cause of muscle strain, but Ferguson has no way. If Vidic and Ferdinand can't play, in the most important position of centre back, they can only play Smalling, or O'Shea and brown. No matter how they are combined, Ferguson can only use them.
Although the United fans are still very pleased with all the time, the reason may be the high level of United's performance.
In the match with Wigan Athletic, although Gao Xiaodong only scored one goal, the goal was not as good as Rooney who scored twice, but he still entered the best team of this round with excellent performance.
Chelsea also won this round. They easily beat Birmingham, another Chinese owner's team, 3-1.
However, Manchester United's victory made the victory of Chelsea meaningless. With 10 rounds left in the league, the score of Chelsea is 9 points less than that of Manchester United. In other words, as long as Manchester United don't make continuous mistakes, the Premier League champion is almost Manchester United's.
For the current Premier League Fans, the only suspense is when Manchester United's gold medal will be broken and which team will be demoted at the end of the season.
In the remaining ten rounds of the league, Manchester United still have three strong teams: Liverpool, Chelsea and Arsenal. They play away against Liverpool and Arsenal, and they play at home against Chelsea. Judging from their home and away performances and playing methods, there is little hope for Chelsea to win over Manchester United at Old Trafford. Arsenna's playing method is severely restrained by Manchester United, while Liverpool's playing method is similar to that of Manchester United It's a team with a terrible game that can hope to break United's unbeaten gold medal.
In the 29th round, Liverpool played 28 unbeaten league games against Manchester United at Anfield.
The "double red clubs" of Liverpool and Manchester United have always been regarded as the "English Derby", but in the past 20 years, the title has been questioned by the fact that the Red Army has no title in the Premier League and the rise of Arsenal and Chelsea one after another. However, as the Premier League has 4.7 billion spectators and 2 billion fans in the world, the competition between the two teams still has the greatest global influence, which can not be compared with the Spanish National derby between Barcelona and Real Madrid, and the Milan derby between inter and AC Milan.
This game is of great significance for Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish. In his first game in office, Liverpool were eliminated after losing to Manchester United in the FA Cup, which made Dalglish get a head blow after taking office.
Fortunately, Dalglish is experienced enough to win three games, draw two games and lose one game in the following League, and beat Chelsea at home, which makes Dalglish gradually change his bad impression in the eyes of the team and fans.
As Liverpool's early record is really bad, only four points away from the relegation zone, Dalglish can't go back even if he has the ability of Sir Alex Ferguson. Although they are in the sixth place now, they are still six points away from the fourth place Arsenal, so it is almost impossible to reach the Champions League.
Therefore, for Liverpool and Dalglish, the main task of this season has become to break Manchester United's unbeaten gold medal and try to prevent Manchester United from winning the championship.
Although the goal is to beat Manchester United and win the double red cross, Dalglish has taken the initiative to cool down the fans of the Red Cross because Liverpool are in a weak position and Manchester United are gaining momentum.
"People say it's the most important game of the season, but I don't see any major or minor events in my eyes. It's just another game. If you win, you can get three points. The only difference this time is that if we win, we can break their unbeaten gold medal this season and make the championship more suspense
"But I hope the players and fans of Liverpool can keep calm in the game. The result of Saturday's game is very important because it concerns the feelings of millions of fans, but it's not a boxing match, it's a football match."
"There is no personal grudge between me and Ferguson. I am not a selfish person. The team's victory is far more important than personal gain and loss. Now the most important thing for us is to prepare for the match and fight on the field with collective strength
Both Ferguson and Dalglish are Scots. They have made brilliant achievements in a pair of rival teams. One is knighted and the other is hailed as king. The competition between the two is equal, but they are obviously not in the same mood.
When interviewing Ferguson before the match, the reporter talked about an old story. In 1994, at the double red conference half a year after Ferguson led Manchester United to win the first Premier League title, the Liverpool fans made a banner at Anfield to ridicule Ferguson who wanted to surpass Liverpool in the number of champions. "When you win the 18th League title, talk again."With only 10 rounds left, Manchester United are nine points ahead of second place Chelsea and almost lock in the 19th League title. The reporter asked Ferguson if he was a Manchester United fan, would he put the banner of "Manchester United 19th championship" on the Anfield stands?
In response, 70 year old Sir Alex joked, "if we have won the championship and I am an ordinary fan, I will hang that banner at Anfield myself. I bet there are at least 76000 Manchester United fans who want to do this, but now we haven't won the championship, even if we are nine points ahead, we can't say that the championship is ours, so even if I am an ordinary fan, I can't do this
In the second match of the season, Liverpool have made great changes compared with the first leg. Torres, the most troublesome Spanish striker for Manchester United, has been transferred to Chelsea, with a transfer fee of 50 million yuan in exchange for Carroll and Suarez, whom Dalglish likes.
For this change, Ferguson said very impolitely that Carroll and Suarez still have a long way to go with Torres. They still need time to prove themselves. The double red clubs are too heavy for them. Ferguson does not think these two people can decide the outcome of the double red clubs.
Ferguson's contempt for the Reds' new signing Luis Suarez is very upset. Suarez also specifically criticized Ferguson on twitter, saying that he is not inferior to Gao Xiaodong in football skills, and that he wants to give Manchester United a bit of color in the game.
If Steven Gerrard said this, the players of Manchester United will definitely take it back. However, Suarez is not a big name, and he is transferred from the Dutch league outside the five major leagues. No one at Manchester United pays any attention to Suarez, which makes Suarez very injured.