Chapter 486 Fanny with an awkward position

The Champions League quarterfinals this season have become a match between the Premier League and Serie A. Eight teams, three Premier League teams, AC Milan, Inter Milan and Juventus have also advanced to the quarterfinals. The other two teams are Bayern Munich in the Bundesliga and Ajax in the Dutch Eredivisie.

La Liga, which was originally the best in European points, was wiped out by the team after the quarterfinals: Real Madrid was killed by Juventus in overtime, while Barcelona was killed by Mourinho's Chelsea at Stamford Bridge.

In the quarterfinals draw, Premier League teams also look more ideal.

The Red Devils, which has topped the European Championship, have faced the bottom of Ajax in the quarterfinals. Almost all European media believe that Manchester United has been almost led to the semi-finals.

The strong Chelsea faced Bayern Munich, who was not in the best condition, and had a clear advantage in the promotion odds. After all, even against Arsenal, Bayern Munich seemed a little lucky in advance. Now facing the Blues, the Bundesliga South King wants to continue to move forward, but he may not have much hope.

That is, the Reds Liverpool, who are in poor form, are not very optimistic in the quarter-finals because they face the powerful Serie A top Juventus.

The last two teams in the quarterfinals, Milan's two-member team, will stage a city derby in the quarterfinals.

Many European media have predicted that in the Champions League semi-final this season, two Premier League teams are likely to play against two Serie A teams.

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Yin Jun did not pay much attention to the next Champions League match, because even the first leg of the home match against Ajax will not be held in early April, and there is still about a month left before now.

Before this, he still has 4 club games and 2 national team games to play.

Manchester United entered its first game in mid-March, a FA Cup quarter-finals against Southampton.

Ferguson once again had a certain rotation in this game, but Yin Jun still started.

The best of this game belongs to Fanny. Although the Dutch striker has not found the feeling of scoring, he has given three assists in the game, which is the biggest contributor to Manchester United's 4-0 away victory.

Manchester United's four goals were scored by Yin Jun, Ronaldo and Scholes, among which Ginger Head continued to show extraordinary form and scored twice in the game.

Manchester United continues to show strong state in the three fronts of the Premier League, Champions League and FA Cup, making media and spinach companies all over Europe very optimistic that they will win the triple championship again.

If this is true, coupled with the League Cup that Manchester United had won before, Manchester United will become the first "four-champion" in the history of England and even European football!

Especially in the 28th round of the Premier League match held on the evening of March 15, local time in the UK, Manchester United won Portsmouth with a score of 3:1 at home and regained the top spot in the Premier League standings again.

In this game, Rooney showed excellent form, scoring twice, and personally scored 9 goals in the Premier League this season.

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Recently, three super young Manchester United stars have exploded continuously, allowing the whole world to see Manchester United's youth storm.

Some are happy and some are sad. While the three young people are in full swing, some must be frustrated. The biggest one is undoubtedly Dutch striker Van Nie.

Since suffering from injuries at the end of last year, Fanny's form has fallen into a trough. His position in Manchester United has also declined again and again.

Although he gave three assists in the FA Cup with Southampton, Fanny's current situation is indeed embarrassing compared to the super shooter before this season.

After becoming the team's top scorer with 36 and 44 goals in the first two seasons of joining, the "honeymoon" between the Dutch and Manchester United ended last season's away game against Fulham. In that game, Van Nie had received a red card before he appeared, and then had a fierce conflict with Ferguson in the locker room.

Of course, this does not mean that the Dutch has lost the trust of the head coach, but Van Nie's relationship with the team has changed drastically: two years ago, Manchester United relied on him like Henry to Arsenal; but in the past 12 months, only 6 goals were scored in 19 Premier League games (4 of which were penalty kicks), and with endless injuries, Van Nie is no longer the indispensable scorer.

Moreover, Fanny's own technical characteristics are far from perfect, for example, he has never scored a goal outside the penalty area for Manchester United.

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More importantly, in the 433 new formation recently used by Sir Joseph, Rooney looks much more suitable for the forward arrow than Fanny, who turned 29 in July this year. One of the major features of the "Christmas Tree" formation is multi-point offense. Manchester United did not have a scorer like Fanny in the season when he became the "triple-champion". The situation remained unchanged in the following year but scored 97 goals in 38 league games. Now there is no reason to put all the hope of scoring on a certain player, even if he is Fanny who "will become a legend" (Ferguson's words).

Especially Manchester United has Yin Jun, a young World Footballer and the double winner of the European Golden Ball Awards, as the core of the team building.

The remarks of the Guardian columnist Robert Smyth are even more extreme. He believes that if there are still clubs who bid against Fanny like Real Madrid in the summer of 2003, Sir Joseph could have sold it, although the Dutch is definitely not worth £35 million at the moment.

Although the viewpoint is a bit extreme, it is not completely nonsense.

First of all, Sir Joseph has to buy suitable candidates from two important positions, one is the successor of captain Keane in the midfield, and the other is a world-class goalkeeper who can inherit Schmeichel's mantle.

For the former, the recently rumored targets of Manchester United are Gattuso of Milan and Essin of Lyon, while the goalkeepers are Niemi of Southampton and Frey of Parma.

Regardless of the final candidate, a considerable transfer fee is inevitable, but introducing Rooney has almost prepaid all the club's transfer budget this summer.

On the other hand, with the successive comebacks of the front line wounded soldiers and the progress of the 17-year-old newcomer Rossi, Manchester United's imbalance in lineup configuration has been fully revealed. If players must be sold for transfer funds, Sir Jordan will definitely take advantage of the bloated front line. Among them, it is easier for Fanny's potential buyers to find.

Therefore, Fanny's only choice at the moment is to try to regain his former state in the shortest possible time. Otherwise, not only will he have doubts about getting back his main position, but he will even make the last contribution to Manchester United.
Chapter completed!