Manchester United defeated Monaco 2:1 at home, fortunately eliminated their opponents with the advantage of many away goals, and after entering the Champions League semi-finals this season, they finally had some breathing time.

The match between Manchester United and Monaco ended at around 9:40 pm local time on April 18. Their next game was at 1:00 noon on April 23, and the interval between the two games was more than four days. This was undoubtedly a "very sufficient" rest time for Manchester United, who had just fought three games in six days!

On Wednesday night, two other Champions League quarter-finals continued. Juventus, who was away from Camp Nou, tied Barcelona 0:0, thus eliminating the opponent with a score of 3:0 in two rounds.

In the match between Atletico Madrid and Leicester City, the two sides fought 1:1 at the Royal Power Stadium, and the Blue Fox was eliminated with a total score of 1:2. After eliminating Leicester City, Atletico Madrid entered the Champions League semi-finals twice in four years, and reached the quarterfinals twice in the other two, becoming the team of the No. 1 group in Europe.

At this point, all the Champions League semi-finals were born, La Liga became the biggest winner, and two Madrid teams joined hands to enter the semi-finals.

Not only that, after Thursday night's UEFA Europa League quarter-finals, another La Liga team made it to the semifinals.

In this way, in the two UEFA Champions League, a total of 3 teams continued to stay. However, the situation in the Premier League is not bad. Both Manchester teams continue to stay in the European arena, Manchester United reached the Champions League semi-finals, and Manchester City entered the Europa League semi-finals.

The draw ceremony for the Champions League and Europa League semi-finals was at noon on Friday, local time. In the final draw result, the Madrid two players staged a city derby, while Manchester United encountered Juventus.

As for the two strongest teams in the world that people are most looking forward to, Manchester United and Real Madrid, they did not meet in the semi-finals. However, everyone can expect these two teams to meet in the Champions League finals for two consecutive years.

As for the four teams in the Europa League, Ajax faced Ligue 1 Lyon, while Manchester City met Celta of La Liga.

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At noon on Sunday, Manchester United ushered in the 34th round of the Premier League, challenging the wine army Burnley.

Because he had won the Premier League and had another fierce battle with Monaco in the Champions League more than four days ago, Manchester United once again held a comprehensive rotation in this game.

The starting goalkeeper is young Dean Henderson. Manchester United youth training young player who only celebrated his 20th birthday last month finally made his Premier League debut in his career.

In the back line, Ye Su unexpectedly sent all the main players, partnered by Luke Shaw, Maguire, Van Deck and Kyle Walker. The double midfielders are Phil Jones and Fellaini, while the forward line trio is Lingard, Mata and Martial, and Ibrahimovic is single arrowhead forward.

In the 21st minute of the game, Martial counterattack broke through at high speed and passed the ball to the right wing. Mata inserted and made an accurate cross pass. Martial shot from the middle of the penalty area and hit the lower right corner. Manchester United led Burnley 1:0.

Since breaking his two-month goal drought against Sunderland on April 5, Martial is in very good shape, scoring 3 goals in four games, and his number of goals in all main matches this season has reached 9 goals. Although this is a big gap from his 17 goals in various competitions last season, his condition has rebounded very significantly.

In the 39th minute, Mata made a direct pass from the left rib. Martial inserted the upload at high speed and was blocked by Heaton, who was attacking. Ibrahimovic followed up with a small angle to attack the goal. The ball was kicked out by Ward after crossing the goal line. The goal was valid!

This is Ibrahimovic's 22nd goal scored for Manchester United in all major matches this season, second only to Rooney who scored 43 goals in various competitions, but surpassed Harry Kane who scored 19 goals in various competitions, Rashford who scored 18 goals and Valdy who scored 12 goals, and is the second scorer in Manchester United.

In the end, Manchester United defeated the host 2-0 at Tefmore Stadium, and the Premier League points had reached 95 points, which was only one victory away from breaking the Premier League single-season points record they had just set in the field!

In other words, in the next Premier League game, as long as Manchester United can defeat their opponents, they will score 98 points, breaking the Premier League single-season points record that they set a year ago, and it is also the historical point record of England's top league.

Manchester United's next Premier League opponent is their city rival, Blue Moon Manchester City led by Guardiola!

This is the 26th round of the Premier League!

At the end of February, due to the League Cup final, Manchester City's second leg of the Manchester City Derby was forced to postpone the match against Manchester United at home.

After negotiation between the two sides, the game was scheduled to be at the end of April, which is two months after the day when the game was supposed to be!

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Guardiola has been very upset recently, on the one hand, because his team was just eliminated by Wenger's Arsenal in overtime in the FA Cup semi-final last weekend, and on the other hand, because of the upcoming 26th round of the Premier League.

Guardiola's Premier League debut season was very unsuccessful. After experiencing a brief highlight at the beginning of the season, Manchester City's performance in the league has become increasingly struggling. Not only is it far behind its rival Manchester United in the city, but it also withdraws from the league championship early, and even falls to a situation where even a Champions League seat is difficult to guarantee.

At present, the Premier League has held 34 rounds, and Guardiola's team has played two fewer games (the 26th round of the league was postponed because Manchester United participated in the League Cup final, while the 34th round was postponed because Manchester City participated in the FA Cup semi-finals). He only achieved 18 wins, 7 draws, 7 losses and 61 points in 32 league games, ranking 6th in the Premier League!

The gap between their points with Manchester United, the city rival, has reached 34 points!

Thanks to their previous experience in the Premier League, Guardiola has not set a record of the gap in points with Manchester United. But for Guardiola, who has achieved excellent results in the league at Barcelona and Bayern, this result still makes him lose face.

Many fans are Guardiola who can gang up in the leagues like Barcelona and Bayern. Once they arrive at the fiercely competitive Premier League, their true colors will be revealed.

You should know that Manchester City is definitely not weak. Last season, they were Manchester United's biggest competitor in the league and also reached the semi-finals in the Champions League.

Now, he has fallen to the sixth place in the Premier League. If you want to enter the Champions League, you have to rely on winning the UEFA Cup!

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Although this sounds ugly, Guardiola has to admit that judging from the current situation, it is the most realistic and relatively easy for Manchester City to win the UEFA Champions League place.

In the current Premier League standings, the top three positions are relatively stable.

There is naturally no suspense at the top of the list. Manchester United, who has won the championship, has too obvious advantages and no one can shake it: the 31 wins, 2 draws and 95 points made Guardiola unable to believe his eyes!

The second place is Conte's Chelsea. Although the Blues lost to Manchester United in the championship battle, Chelsea has already won 25 wins, 3 draws, 6 losses, 78 points, locked in the Champions League place.

The third place is Pochettino's Tottenham. Bai Baihe's performance is very stable, and she has scored 22 wins, 8 draws and 3 losses in the 33 rounds of the Premier League, ranking third with 74 points.

Klopp's Liverpool is currently ranked fourth. The Reds have 19 wins, 7 draws and 8 losses in the 34 Premier League rounds, and squeezed Arsenal out of a familiar position with 64 points.

Wenger's team has scored 19 wins, 5 draws and 9 losses in the 33 rounds of the Premier League, ranking fifth in the Premier League with 62 points!

Liverpool, Arsenal and Manchester City have a tight spot. It seems that Klopp has the advantage in ranking, but Arsenal and Manchester City still have games. Once they finish the make-up game, they are very likely to overtake Liverpool and enter the Champions League.

However, if you carefully consider the schedule of the three teams in the future, you will get different results.

Liverpool currently has only 4 games in one league game, and the schedule is the easiest; Arsenal has 5 Premier League games and a FA Cup final, and the schedule is much more intensive than Liverpool.

Manchester City's games are the most intensive, with 6 Premier League games and at least 2 Europa League games.

Should we compete for 6 Premier League games to compete for a Champions League place, or three Europa League games to compete for a championship and a Champions League place?

It seems that as long as you are not a fool, you can make a choice.

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However, it is not so easy to make a decision if you want to give up the Premier League, especially the next 26th round of the Premier League.

Because once you lose to Manchester United at home, it not only means that Manchester United will step on Manchester City's body and create a new Premier League single-season point record, but also allows Manchester United to continue to write its own Premier League unbeaten record.

Since losing to West Ham United in the 35th round of the Premier League last season, Manchester United has been unbeaten in the Premier League for 34 consecutive games!

This is the fourth record in England's top league history for more than 100 years. Before that, only Arsenal set a record of 49 unbeaten in the Premier League set in the 2003-2004 season, Nottingham Forest's 42 unbeaten record in the 1977-1978 season, and Chelsea's 40 unbeaten record in the 2004-2005 season, tied with Leeds United's 34 unbeaten record in the 1968-1969 season.

In any case, Guardiola must not take this Premier League make-up match against Manchester United this mid-week.

As the mortal enemy in the city, even in those years when Manchester City became a Premier League lift, they would never admit defeat when facing the Premier League overlord Manchester United at the time. Now they have become the top team in the Premier League and even Europe, and there is no reason to give up when they face Manchester United.

Guardiola has no doubt that once fans think he has voluntarily given up this world-renowned Manchester City derby, he will be scolded by Manchester City fans!
Chapter completed!