Mourinho gave the team two days off, and Fan Kerry had nowhere to go. Apart from practicing day after day, he was playing FIFA 18 with Van de Beek and De Ligt at home or playing Black and White with Gu Yutong..

Two days passed quickly, and the entire Manchester United team returned to the Carrington training base for training.

The players found that head coach Mourinho had higher demands on them. Just when they were at a loss, the assistant coach informed the team to prepare in advance for the first leg of the 2017-2018 Champions League 1/8 finals to challenge Bayern as a guest. To what.

The time has come to February, and it is indeed time to prepare for the 1/8 finals of the UEFA Champions League in the 2017-2018 season.

Bayern Munich, the Southern King, is a real super team in the Champions League. From the 2011-2012 season to the 2015-2016 season, Bayern entered the Champions League semi-finals. The failure to advance to the semi-finals last season was due to losing to the defending Champions League champions in the quarter-finals. Champion Real Madrid last failed to advance to the quarterfinals of the Champions League dating back to the 2010-2011 season.

Bayern is a top team in the Champions League with a very strong combat effectiveness. It often performs big scores in the Champions League. Barcelona was taught a lesson by Bayern that year, with a score of 7:0 in two rounds. Beating the Premier League team is like a father beating his son..

Mourinho has always been cautious. In order to be able to play well in the Champions League 1/8 finals, he has detailed and targeted arrangements for every link.

In addition, Manchester United still has many key contests after the first leg of the Champions League 1/8 finals. They will face Chelsea at home in the league, play the League Cup final with Arsenal at the new Wembley Stadium, and play Bayern in the Champions League 1/8 finals. Before the second leg of the final, they will face another challenge from Liverpool at home.

It is equivalent to saying that Manchester United will play against three strong teams in the Premier League between the two Champions League 1/8 finals. Counting the two rounds of the Champions League 1/8 finals with Bayern, Manchester United will have to play five strong teams in six games. A fierce battle began.

In the words of The Times, it is: a battle for the lifeblood of the championship in all competitions in the 2017-2018 season!

As long as they win these five games, Manchester United's competition in all competitions this season will basically be certain.

Of course, this is except for the Champions League.

The first game of the 27th round of the 2017-2018 Premier League season was the North London Derby. Tottenham faced Arsenal at home. With Harry Kane's final goal, Tottenham defeated Arsenal 1:0 at home.

Manchester City, which lost points in the last round, beat Leicester City 5-1 at home in a later game. Manchester United's away game against Newcastle starts at 3pm the next day.

And this day happens to be Fan Kerry's 19th birthday.

Before the start of the game, the entire Manchester United team gave Van Kerry a simple birthday at the hotel where they were staying. As the protagonist, Van Kerry also became the absolute protagonist of the league in the afternoon.

At St. James' Park, Van Kerry once again completed a perfect hat-trick with a head kick and a kick, leading Manchester United to defeat Newcastle 4:1 away from home and win ten consecutive league victories.

Van Kerry, who scored a hat trick, scored his sixth hat trick this season, tying the record of six hat tricks he set in a single season last season. There are 11 rounds left in the 2017-2018 Premier League season. English domestic media, Dutch media, Both Chinese media and European mainstream media believe that Van Carey will score a hat trick in at least one game in the remaining leagues!

Because Manchester United will face Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City and Arsenal in the next league. As we all know, Fan Kerry is the kind of player who performs better the stronger the opponent. Not to mention wearing all hats, there are still big mistakes in one or two games. Probabilistic.

William Hill, Bet365, and Ladbrokes, the three major European bookmakers, even proposed a new method for Van Kerry to wear a hat trick. Taking into account Van Kerry's super scoring efficiency, they bought Van Kerry to break the Premier League single-season hat trick record he set last season. There are still not a few lottery players.

It's just that the 7 hat tricks with the highest probability have the lowest odds, which are almost negligible. The 10 hat tricks are only 1:3.28.

Closer to home, Manchester United quickly returned to Manchester after the league ended. Mourinho took a flight directly from Newcastle to Munich to watch Bayern's home game against Schalke 04 at close range.

As has been customary in the past, the players were given a day and a half off to prepare for the FA Cup fifth round six days later.

Considering that after playing Huddersfield as a guest, Zorc will challenge Bayern. Is Mourinho planning to play as a semi-main force in this FA Cup match? To be on the safe side, Van Kerry, Pogba and others can decide the outcome of the game. The negative player brings

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The fifth round of the 2017-2018 FA Cup came as promised. Originally, Mourinho wanted to let the substitutes stabilize in the first half and wait until the second half to let Van Kerry establish the victory in one fell swoop. As a result, Rashford and Lingard He scored goals one after another to help Manchester United take a two-goal lead.

Van Kerry only came on as a substitute in the 80th minute to get a feel for the game and prepare for the first leg of the Champions League 1/8 finals against Bayern at the Allianz Arena four days later.

Heynckes, the firefighting coach who came to Huddersfield from Munich, was very speechless. He came all the way just to see Manchester United play what they had, but...several main players did not play.

After finally waiting for Van Carey to come on as a substitute, he was walking around the court, only occasionally taking the ball and dribbling forward to create murder.

After ninety minutes, the 0:2 score displayed on the scoreboard remained unchanged.

Heynckes was very upset. If he had known this, he might as well have stayed in Munich and watched the Manchester United game video.

As the fifth round of the FA Cup between Manchester United and Huddersfield ended, the focus of European mainstream media turned to Madrid and Munich.

On the first and second match days of the Champions League in midweek, there will be two first legs of the Champions League 1/8 finals in the two cities, which are known as early Champions League finals.

Real Madrid vs Paris Saint-Germain and Bayern vs Manchester United.

Among them, Bayern's home game against Manchester United in the Champions League 1/8 finals is a contest that football fans around the world are paying attention to. Compared with the 1/8 finals confrontation between the defending champions of the Champions League and Paris Saint-Germain, which has been sanctioned by UEFA, Bayern and Manchester United's The Champions League 1/8 finals are more worthy of the title of the Champions League finals held in advance.

Bayern is outstanding in the Bundesliga. After 22 rounds of the league, it is 18 points ahead of the second place Red Bull Leipzig. Manchester United is not alone in the Premier League, but it can be said to be the most promising team to win the league championship in the Premier League this season. After 27 rounds of the league, it is ahead of Manchester City. Nine points top the list, a full 27 points ahead of third-placed Liverpool.

In addition, Bayern's second-longest unbeaten record in the five major European leagues set in the 2012-2013 and 2013-2014 seasons was broken by Manchester United this season and increased to 68 games.

In the late 1990s, Manchester United also snatched away a Champions League trophy from Bayern.

The last time the two teams met in the Champions League dates back to the 2013-2014 season. At that time, the two teams still met in the quarter-finals. The two teams drew 1:1 in the first round at Old Trafford and returned to Allianz in the second round. Bayern Munich defeated Manchester United 3:1 at the stadium and advanced to the Champions League semi-finals with a total score of 4:2.

When the two teams meet in the Champions League 1/8 finals three seasons later, it will definitely be a match between Mars and Earth.

The Champions League 1/8 finals between Real Madrid and Paris Saint-Germain will be played on the first midweek Champions League match day, and Bayern VS Manchester United will be played on the second Champions League match day, which is Wednesday night at 8:45 pm.

Therefore, the entire Manchester United team took a flight from Manchester to Munich on Tuesday morning, preparing to visit the Allianz Arena to challenge Bayern in the first leg of the Champions League 1/8 finals.

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