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The Red Rebels' opponent in the second round of the UEFA Cup is Basel from the Swiss Super League. This is also a traditional strong team in Switzerland. It often appears in European competitions, but it has not achieved too impressive results.

When Xiao Yu was a fan in his previous life, he always confused France's Auxerre with this Basel team, but not now. Basel came to Manchester as his opponent and walked into Old Trafford.

Maybe Xiao Yu will misidentify something else, but he will definitely not misidentify his opponent!

Basel's usual tactic is 442. The Red Rebels also launched their usual 4231 tactic to suppress them in this game. Villa served as the striker, and Ronaldinho accepted Mourinho's punishment. It was given to Palacio, Kaka was rested, Mourinho used Ribery to play in the middle of the game, and the double midfielder was Beckham and De Rossi.

The back line from left to right is Philip? Lahm, Terry, Curtis and Maicon, who are unable to play in England, and the goalkeeper is Peter? Cech.

Although it was an away game, Basel played very tenaciously and knew that the Red Rebels had a strong home offensive, so they boldly used a double midfielder and based on the defensive counterattack.

Basel's defense did bring a lot of trouble to the Red Rebels, but Beckham opened the game less than 10 minutes and found Villa with a long pass from the backcourt. The latter cooperated with Palacio two-to-one. , Tuishe the near post and helped the Red Rebels open the scoring.

But after that, Basel's tenacious play still brought a lot of trouble to the Red Rebels, and the score of 1:0 was finally maintained until the end of the game. Although the Red Rebels won the first round of the game, they It's an unsafe score.

However, three weeks later, Mourinho made a big attack on the road, which made Basel, who originally planned to use the home advantage to break through the Red Rebels, suffered a big loss.

The two sides staged a confrontation in Switzerland, and the Red Rebels finally took away a hearty victory from the St. Jacobs Park with their more balanced strength and advanced to the UEFA Cup with a total score of 5:2. Third round.

At the same time, the three Premier League teams in the second round of the UEFA Cup, Manchester City were tied by the Polish team Goslian in two consecutive games, but the score of 1:1 at home and 0:0 away made them because of away goals. And was eliminated.

The other two Premier League teams, Newcastle and Liverpool, have also defeated their respective opponents and entered the UEFA Cup round of 32.

Among the other teams that have advanced to the top 32 of the UEFA Cup, including La Liga's super giants Barcelona, ​​powerhouses Valencia, Villarreal, Mallorca; Serie A's Rome, Perugia, Parma and other teams, Germany's football team The team is Dortmund and Schalke 04, France is Bordeaux, Auxerre and Lens, and the Netherlands' Feyenoord.

Sporting Lisbon and Benfica in Portugal.

But that's not too surprising, the real surprise was the third place in the group stage from the UEFA Champions League.

In Xiao Yu's previous life, this year's Champions League was hailed as the most civilian Champions League, because big-name teams failed one after another, but Xiao Yu never thought that this year's Champions League would come to such civilians.

When the UEFA Cup decides the top 32 list, the fifth round of the European Champions Cup group stage is over. Although there is still one round, many teams have already been determined to have lost their qualifications.

The top team in Group A is Lyon. Celtic beat Bayern to occupy the second place in the group. Bayern only accumulated 5 points in the first 5 rounds of the group stage. If they fail to win Anderlecht in the last game, they will be eliminated. Even if they beat Anderlecht and won the third place in the group, they can only go to the UEFA Cup round of 32 knockout.

The situation of Group B and Group C is not very clear, but the three teams of Arsenal, Inter Milan and Lokomotiv Moscow in Group B are likely to participate in the UEFA Cup, and Group C is Eindhoven and Deportivo Deportivo. The team is in the competition for second place, with Monaco ranking first in the group.

Juventus in Group D is currently in third place under Real Sociedad and Turkey's Galatasaray.

The third place in Group E has been determined, which is Scotland's Glasgow Rangers, Marseille in Group F, and Lazio in Group G. The situation of these three groups has become clear, and these three teams will participate in the UEFA Cup. Round of 32 matches.

The competition in Group H is the most intense. Among them, Ajax, Celta, AC Milan and Bluey all have the possibility of advancing, and there is also the possibility of being out. Anyone may participate in the UEFA Cup round of 32.

When the fifth round of the UEFA Champions League group ended, the whole of Europe was shocked. If so many strong teams were eliminated by then, what would be the point of the UEFA Champions League?

But sometimes the situation is like this, when everyone is worried, he happens to happen.

In the sixth round of the group stage, Bayern defeated Anderlecht, but failed to qualify for the group stage and could only go to the UEFA Cup. Inter Milan and PSV Eindhoven also became Bayern's giants.

Juventus in Group D and AC Milan in Group H. This time, the top 32 of the UEFA Cup immediately became a star, plus the original Barcelona, ​​Varosia, Liverpool, Roma, Dortmund and Feyenoord. .

The outside world immediately wailed miserably. This year's European Champions Cup and UEFA Cup were reversed. The former became extremely common people, while the latter became rich and powerful.

In the Champions League, Real Madrid with 6 wins in the group stage and Manchester United with 5 wins and 1 losses have become the most attractive teams. They are also considered to be the two teams most likely to gather in the European Champions Cup final. The other team is Arsenal who have done well in the Premier League.

……………… The Red Rebels continued to perform well in the Premier League while they reached the round of 32 in the UEFA Cup.

In the 12th round of the league, the Red Rebels defeated Birmingham 3:2 at home. The latter brought a lot of trouble to the Red Rebels in this game. The continuous two-line battle also made the Red Rebels players very tired, but in the end Tenaciously withstood the pressure, fell behind twice to equalize the score, and finally relied on Beckham's long-range shot to help the team get 3 points.

After Birmingham, the league had a two-week hiatus before the Red Rebels visited Goodson Park to challenge Everton.

Moyes's team's performance this season has not been able to continue the stunning performance of last season, and it has been very unstable. Although they are playing at home, they are very tenacious and once equalized the score, but the last two shots from Kaka and Beckham helped the Reds. The rebels defeated their rivals.

In the 14th round of the league, the Red Rebels welcomed Newcastle at home. This traditional strong team in the Premier League gave the Red Rebels a heavy hammer in this game. The game should have ended 1:0, but Shearer took advantage of an error in the Red Rebels' defence before the end and scored the crucial goal to give Newcastle a precious one point from the Red Rebels.

It is precisely because of this draw that the Red Rebels fell back to third place in the league, and Manchester United took the lead.

In the fourth round of the League Cup, the Red Rebels welcomed Crystal Palace at home. Mourinho once again arranged for a large number of young players to play. Messi and others did not live up to Mourinho's expectations. They defeated Tenacious 1:0 at home. Crystal Palace, Chiellini used a corner kick to score the only goal of the game.

After the Crystal Palace game, Mourinho led the team south to London to challenge Tottenham away.

After a rest, the main players of the Red Rebels performed very well in this game. Although Tottenham took the lead to score a goal, the Red Rebels still scored twice with Drogba, Kaka and Palacio Ao's goal, 1:4 reversed Tottenham.

After the game against Tottenham, the Red Rebels had a rare chance to breathe. Mourinho gave the first-team players a day off so that they could have a good rest and prepare for the game against Aston Villa on Sunday. .

Xiao Yu followed the team south to London to challenge Tottenham, but did not come back with the team. Instead, accompanied by Boyas and others, he went to Argentina, in addition to going to the riverbed to see Mascherano in person. At the same time, in addition to having a conversation with him, he also finalized the transfer of Aguero with the reading force.

The Red Rebels paid a transfer fee of 1.5 million pounds for the reading force team, which was originally only 1 million, but Xiao Yu hoped to cooperate with the reading force team, including training and transfer transactions for young players. After this transaction, The Red Rebels will have the right of first refusal for the players of the Reading Force, and the Red Rebels can also bring the players they like in Argentina to the Reading Force for training.

In addition, the current lineup of the reading force also has many stars who are very popular in the future, such as the main center defender Milito of the Barcelona Triple Crown, and the famous demon goalkeeper Ustari in fm, etc., and now they are all in this team. Team effectiveness.

Milito should have moved to Real Madrid this season, but he went to Zaragoza after the transfer was aborted, but with the change of Real Madrid's policy, Samuel went to Real Madrid, Milito finally failed to make the trip, but Xiao Yu has promised to use the Red Rebels' relationship in European football to help the reading force contact.

In the central defender, the Red Rebels have already played Terry, Curtis, Vidic and Chiellini, so there is no shortage of people, and going to the Premier League with Milito's height is probably also a big instability. factor.

During his stay in Argentina, Xiao Yu asked Boyas to look for two players, one of which was a central defender called Otamendi who he liked very much when he was playing games, and the other was the attacking midfielder Pastore.

For these two players, Xiao Yu intends to keep them in the reading force team for training and competition, and then bring them to Europe when the time is right. This move is not rejected by clubs and players in Argentina. Leagues in the five major leagues, the Netherlands and Portugal also often do this kind of thing, and Porto even often divides players into countless shares to transfer equity, just like a public company.

After finishing these things, Xiao Yu took Aguero and his family to Manchester.

Aguero was born in a slum. His father was originally a driver. Later, Argentina's economy was not good. After losing his job, he joined the reading force team as an item manager. Now Xiao Yu bought Aguero from the reading force team for the sake of the players. Considering the attitude, Xiao Yu decided to help Aguero's family go to Manchester, where his parents would stay at the Red Rebels' Newton Heath training base to work.

This is also the most common measure used by the Red Rebels to solicit player loyalty. Currently, the parents of the team, including Messi, De Rossi, and Palacio, all work at the club, and there are countless family members of players who rely on the club’s recommendation for work. Including first team and youth team.

Now Xiao Yu also hopes that Aguero can continue the Red Rebels' youth training concept of being responsible for the players and join the Red Rebels. Although he can only participate in the youth team for the time being, Mourinho has made it clear that he hopes Get him and believe he will have a place in Mourinho's tactics.

On the second day of Xiao Yu's return to Manchester, the Red Rebels defeated Aston Villa 0:3 away.

With this victory in the Premier League, Mourinho focused his preparations on Liverpool a week later, and Arsenal next, and started the most troublesome schedule of the winter break!

(To be continued)