The hottest club in Europe into the New Year is Manchester United, who have won nine straight games since the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. The seventh round of the Premier League rematch, Crystal Palace v Manchester United, kicks off at 4am Beijing time tomorrow. If United win, they will leapfrog Newcastle and Manchester City into second place in the Premier League table.
Manchester United have gone nine years without a Premier League title since the retirement of their decorated manager Sir Alex Ferguson in the summer of 2013, while city rivals have gone on to rack up a series of titles that are infuriating.Italian Serie A. To sum up the experience and lessons, first, the team likes to be a demon, leading to frequent change of head coach, team mixed son too much; second, the defensive system has not been set up, especially at the back, where a top player has been missing.
All this, finally this season has changed fundamentally. Tenhahe’s iron-hand management, in the team results are remarkable, especially with the struggle of C Ronaldo. Finally Tenhahe won a big victory. C Ronaldo went to West Asia to seek gold. Manchester United’s internal strife has been broken.
United, on the other hand, have acquired Casemiro from Real Madrid. After Kante’s injury and slump in form, the Tiger has become the number one defensive back in the world. With him in the midfield, United have improved so much that they have won 11 of the 15 Premier League games in which Casemiro has played, with eight clean sheets.
Take Casemiro’s former club Real Madrid, who won La Liga and the Champions League last season and are the world’s most glamorous club. However, the summer window market, Real Madrid is not stirring, brought in Ruediger and June Ameni, Ruediger on a free import, June Ameni is to make up for Casemiro’s vacancy.
He is already one of the best defenders in the world, but he is still young and needs to grow up. He is not in his prime yet. After the loss of Casemiro, Real Madrid’s performance this season has indeed had a big decline. In the field of La Liga, Real Madrid won 12 of 16 games, drew 2 and lost 2, and ranked second place with 38 points, 3 points behind Barcelona. Don’t think that Real Madrid’s score is quite high. In fact, it is because there is no team that can play in La Liga except Real Madrid and Barcelona, and the two teams will lose very few games. So the three points difference is not small. This season, Real Madrid want to defend the title of La Liga, it is still very big.
Last season, Real Madrid in the European Champions League journey thrilling, song and tear, they continuously met Paris Saint-Germain, Chelsea, Manchester City and Liverpool in the knockout round, the European top strong teams except Bayern, all touched, such a difficult schedule, Real Madrid can win the title, on the one hand is the team’s European Champions League heritage and super mental combat, on the other hand luck is really good. This season, on paper, there are four or five teams in Europe that are better than Real Madrid and it will be much harder for them to defend the Champions League.
Barcelona’s 3-1 win over Real Madrid in the Spanish Super Cup just concluded is a good example of Real’s current difficulties, although there are many reasons for this, but Casemiro’s departure is a big factor.