It is almost certain that Manchester United will reach the last four of the Champions League.
In the FA Cup, Manchester United's substitutes and newcomers have also performed well. They have already reached the final four. As long as they defeat Manchester City, they can reach the final. As the other semi-final opponent is the winner between Stoke City and Bolton, the semi-final between Manchester United and Manchester City can be called an advanced final.
However, the league, which had a huge advantage, lost to Liverpool away and was chased to six points by Chelsea. There are still nine rounds left, one of which has a strong dialogue with Chelsea. In fact, the six points are not stable enough.
Manchester United attach great importance to the match between the 30th round of the league and the relegation team Bolton. This is not only a three-point problem. If both Manchester United and Bolton eliminate their opponents and reach the FA Cup final, they may fight in the FA Cup final. Therefore, if Manchester United can beat Bolton in this match and meet in the FA Cup final later, they will have enough advantages in mind.
Good news came from Manchester United before the match. Among the injured, Evans, Berbatov and park Zhixing are all back from injury. Although they may not be able to recover to their peak state, there is one more player in the front, middle and back fields. At least Ferguson does not need to worry about the platoon arrangement.
However, there is also bad news. Sky sports has revealed that Manchester United intend to renew Gao Xiaodong's contract, but the two sides failed to reach an agreement on annual salary and liquidated damages. Gao Xiaodong refuses to renew his contract. Afterwards, the daily mail, the sun and other big media followed up and hyped the news. In order to attract attention, small media and portal websites weaved all kinds of fake news about Gao Xiaodong's leaving Manchester United, Manchester City, Real Madrid, Chelsea and Gao Xiaodong's agent.
At the beginning of the news that Gao Xiaodong refused to renew his contract, Manchester United fans didn't care. Gao Xiaodong just came less than a season, how could he leave? Even if he wanted to leave, he would not release the news at the most tense time of the match. However, three people become tigers. With the hype of so many media, Manchester United fans all over the world began to be nervous.
Although Gao Xiaodong still has two years on his contract, after his transfer to Manchester United, Gao Xiaodong's performance is amazing. Every Manchester United fan is looking forward to Gao Xiaodong's long-term stay at Manchester United instead of playing for another two years.
In addition, the United fans are so worried because Gao Xiaodong has played in three clubs before, but REXOS, who has played for the longest time, has only two seasons. United fans are worried that Gao Xiaodong will leave again after United win the treble.
The crowd of fans is turbulent and the reporters are constantly questioning, which makes the morale of Manchester United's army unstable. Ferguson has to hold a press conference to explain Gao Xiaodong's renewal of his contract. Ferguson said: "Gao is still very happy at Manchester United. He can feel the fun of playing here and win the respect of the fans and teammates. I believe he will stay at Manchester United for a long time …”
But the fans are not satisfied with Ferguson's explanation, because what Ferguson said is empty talk. Gao Xiaodong is happy to live in inter and win and win the championship. However, Gao Xiaodong still transferred. The fans hope that the club can take out some dry goods to make them feel at ease, such as the progress of contract renewal negotiations or Gao Xiaodong's promise.
However, Gao Xiaodong has not been interviewed by reporters recently, and his social software has not been updated, which makes the fans feel even worse.
On the day of the match, many fans raised banners in the hope that Gao Xiaodong would renew his contract, as if Gao Xiaodong had been allowed to leave.
Although Manchester United players feel that Gao Xiaodong is unlikely to leave after less than one season, after all, Gao Xiaodong has a record of leaving Inter in one season, and his teammates are also worried.
Teammates like Rooney and Nani, who have a good relationship with Gao Xiaodong, all ask Gao Xiaodong what's going on.
In fact, Gao Xiaodong is very clear about what is going on, but he is also very helpless.
It's true that he is talking about the renewal of his contract with Manchester United, which started after playing Inter. But this is the initiative of Manchester United club. Mendes hopes to increase his annual salary to 15 million and set a penalty, so that Gao Xiaodong can take the initiative to stay in his own hands.
Mendes also did so because Gao Xiaodong's performance at Manchester United was too eye-catching and won the golden ball award. He has enough confidence.
However, Manchester United feel that the annual salary of 15 million euro is a little high, and only want Gao Xiaodong to renew his contract, not to set up a penalty.
It's normal for players and clubs to have disputes over the renewal of their contracts. No matter how important Gao Xiaodong is to Manchester United, even if the request is reasonable, the club can't agree. In this case, the future negotiations can't be done.
It's just that people are popular. Since the Golden Globe Award, Gao Xiaodong has been on the cusp of the storm. If Gao Xiaodong didn't keep on high performance, he might have been unable to take care of himself by the media. Now it's so easy to have an opportunity. How can the media let it go again.
Gao Xiaodong can only tell his teammates that it's all media hype. He doesn't want to leave. He wants to play a few more seasons at Manchester United.
Even if Gao Xiaodong himself said that he would not leave, his teammates were dubious. Unless the contract renewal negotiations between Gao Xiaodong and Manchester United come to an end, there will be no news about Gao Xiaodong's transfer.
Ferguson has a lot of experience. The players want to make more money, the club doesn't want to spend more money, and he doesn't want to participate unless it affects the team's performance.Manchester United have just knocked out the defending champion in the Champions League. Their morale is high and their confidence is good. The fans think that the match against Bolton is a good chance to widen the gap between them, because this round of the match between Chelsea and Manchester City.
But after the game started, Manchester United fans found Bolton difficult to play.
Bolton are on the edge of the relegation zone, the situation is very dangerous, even in the face of strong Manchester United, Bolton are not ready to surrender, they play very tenacious, very positive at Old Trafford, hoping to get a valuable point.
Ferguson sent in the combination of Smalling and Evans in the centre back, forward Hernandez partner Rooney, Valencia, middle Fletcher partner Scholes and Carrick, Bolton launched a strong attack.
But in this game, forward Hernandez was in poor condition, and Evans and Smalling were not reliable in the back court. Scholes led the midfield forward to help his teammates attack, and back to wipe the bottom of the centre back. It was like being a father and a mother, playing very hard.
However, the most painful thing for Manchester United was the penalty given by the referee on duty, marina. In the 32nd minute of the game, he missed Cahill's handball. Five minutes later, Cahill shoved Evans with both feet, and Marina did not punish Cahill.
In the second half, Bolton, who was connived by the referee, played rougher, and Ferguson and the players' frequent protests did not help.
United's players became more and more impatient because they couldn't break the opponent's "tortoise shell" all the time. In the 64th minute of the game, Davis was shoved down in front of Evans's penalty area. Davis's leg was cut by Evans's spikes. Referee Marina sent Evans off with a red card and sent Ferguson to the stands who applauded him.
With nearly 30 minutes to go, Manchester United will have 10 players to fight. The fans think that Manchester United is going to be cold. Bolton also tried to fight back and changed the plan of getting one point into getting three points. However, Manchester United, with one less player, has a big magic power, forcing Bolton to continue to attack.
In the 86th minute of the game, Bolton goalkeeper yasklinin saved a long-range left foot shot from outside the restricted area of Berbatov, who just came on the bench. The ball fell to Berbatov's feet. He shot again outside the restricted area. Bolton goalkeeper yasklinin threw the ball away and the ball slowly rolled into the goal.
1-0, Berbatov scored and Manchester United took the lead by accident.
Then Bolton made a big comeback, but Manchester United used their experience to delay and finally won Bolton at home.
In another focus game, as Chelsea beat Manchester City 2-0, they continued to catch up with Manchester United by 6 points, while Arsenal were tied by West Brom, and the point gap with Manchester United widened to 10 points, which basically lost the chance to win the championship.
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