Lin Liangfeng: How will Manchester United and Tottenham compete for the Europa League affect the future?

Sports Weekly All-Media Reporter Lin Liangfeng

Pakistan has a pirate. Please find the second couplet.

Manchester United has Mount. Isn't it a little cold? Mount literally means "riding" or "installing", which is somewhat related to "launching". As soon as Pakistan took action, the third brother lost 6 planes. Mount was kicked together, and Bilbao was poked 4 holes. The two-legged advance to the finals 7-1 was the biggest difference between Manchester United and La Liga teams in the European game. Mount's long-range missile fell into the empty goal accurately amid the encouragement of "shooting" by the audience, bringing an end to the victory.

defeated Bilbao, which is Manchester United's sixth time this season, scoring 4 goals or more in a single game (5 goals against Lyon in 12 minutes). Half of them appear in the Europa League, and two-thirds are in the Cup, which means that Manchester United still has a certain ability to fight back outside the Premier League. From the quarterfinals of 16 to date, Manchester United has eliminated two La Liga teams, Bilbao is temporarily ranked fourth in La Liga, and eliminated Lyon in the quarterfinals to overtime stage a shocking reversal that will make the second and thirds win, adding some value to the team's Europa League promotion path. This season, the Champions League will not send resignations to the Europa League, which is also a major favorable factor for Manchester United and Tottenham to enter the finals. On the other side of the semi-finals, Tottenham Hotspur returned to Bode with two goals, and scored two more goals to meet Manchester United in the final. The Europa League changed its era and repeated the scene 53 years ago, and two more English teams competed for the championship. No matter who wins the cup, the Premier League will receive an extra UEFA Champions League ticket. Next season, six teams will be sent to the Champions League, and in the third-level UEFA Cup final, there is another Premier League team: Chelsea, the overwhelming favorite to win the championship. Even though the Premier League representatives failed to enter the Munich finals, Arsenal, Villa and Liverpool's excellent performance at different stages earned enough points for the Premier League and led the fifth place in the league to enter the Champions League.

In contrast, in the Premier League's old rival La Liga, only Betis reached the final of the UEFA Cup, and Real Sociedad and Bilbao both lost to the Premier League relegation team, which once again makes people question: Is the Premier League going to make a big splash? La Liga is not good? This argument is not new and has not even attracted enough traffic in the British media. As early as the 2017-18 season, five teams in the Premier League scored historic UEFA Champions League. In the following year, Liverpool and Real Madrid competed for the Champions League and the Europa League fell into Atletico Madrid's hands again.

European Union was born in the Expo Cup. This event even came out earlier than the Champions League. Xihu's competition system has huge flaws. In the first 10 years after its launch, I became an orphan that my uncle didn't love my grandmother and didn't love her. It was not until the Scottish FA announced again that she had a more formal title and belonging. From the 1971-72 season to the League Cup and the 2000-10 season to the second season, the Europa League has always been regarded as the "loser's game" by the industry.

But the League Cup has its own unique charm. In addition to providing a mid-week place for the frustrated domestic league competition, it also becomes a stage for reviewing the overall strength of a league. Serie A once enjoyed the reputation of the "Small World Cup" from the late 1980s to the turn of the century, and the League Cup is a big footnote. Since Maradona led Naples to win the second League Cup for Serie A in 1989, only Ajax, Bayern and Leverkusen have interfered with the Serie A dominant trophy in the next 10 years. On the championship list, Juventus, Inter Milan and Parma won the 10th prize in just one time. You will know where the money was and where the talents were in the football world at that time.

Originally, Premier League teams don't look down on the Europa League. Whether it is the rewards, schedule and risk, it makes clubs with a little wealthy income tasteless. Although Premier League teams have had the advantage of winning the Europa League for a long time, they have been dragged down by various factors, such as the possibility of being able to compete for the fourth place or the risk of relegation, and in the end they have to give up. Both ends involve returns, and the Europa League bonus is too unattractive. It was not until 15 years ago that UEFA allocated a place to reward the Europa League champion that the "losers" in the Premier League gradually took it seriously.

Both Manchester United and Tottenham were extremely disappointing in the Premier League this season, and both teams had moments of "Oh, we're going to relegate". But after stabilizing the position, the two teams played better and better in the Europa League knockout stage. The finals are a recognition of the overall strength of the two teams. None of the other 14 teams that entered the knockout stage were ashamed of these two men in the domestic league. To what extent can Manchester United compete with Tottenham Hotspur in the Europa League affect the future? Revisiting the premature death of the European Super League, it is not difficult to see that the Premier League is facing the continent. To be clear, the fight against Emperor Saren is the root cause of the drastic changes in the future.

European Super League, after all, is the trick of Real Madrid being extremely worried about the Premier League and trying to disintegrate it with the bait of "big scales to divide gold". The vitality of the Premier League lies in being too strong and self-sufficient. You can not play the European Super League in the Premier League, but you can’t play the European Super League without the Premier League. The growth of the Premier League mid-range team will erode Real Madrid's hegemony in two aspects. The change of the Champions League and Europa League means that Real Madrid and La Liga teams have more times in the European game and Premier League opponents. The longer the time, the more the winners and losses are tilted towards the Premier League. Although the Premier League cannot compete for talent, this is another long-term struggle. The longer the time, the more experts the Premier League absorbs, the more likely it is to intercept the masters that Real Madrid pursues.

In recent years, La Liga alone has exported as many as 40 or 50 players to the Premier League, and their flows are spread across the third level of the Premier League. In addition, the Premier League teams have come from Taobao elsewhere, and the strength of the mid-stream teams is also rising. This season's Premier League has given people this vague awareness. In addition to Liverpool winning the championship ahead of schedule, Arsenal and Manchester City have 93% first place, but there are as many as four teams competing for the remaining two. Newcastle, Chelsea, Forest and Villa have all shown strong combat effectiveness for a long period of time. Although Newcastle and Manchester United joined hands to enter the Champions League and did not do well, the Premier League's salary was tempting. Even if the domestic ranking temporarily declined, you can still buy powerful players..

Under normal circumstances, Manchester United and Tottenham should be in the team that are competing for four or five this season, but if they are so poor, they can still reach the Europa League final. If they are lucky, they can reach the "promising land" with honey drinking milk. How can "unknown people" such as Brighton, Burns, Fulham and Crystal Palace not be moved? The lineup they have accumulated is already stronger than opponents of the same level in the four major European leagues. If you have the chance to go to the Europa League, who won’t win a wife and a son? Even if you can't reach the Europa League for a while, you can still follow West Ham and start with the European Association. The qualitative change in the pattern takes time. It was purely accidental for Fulham to reach the finals in the first Europa League, but then Manchester United and Chelsea won the championship, driving the Premier League to reach the quarterfinals and semi-finals in the past five years. In the next five years, the Europa League will also reappear in the scene of Serie A's former monopoly on the League Cup.