host must win

Chapter 341

The United man made new FA Cup history by failing to score a seventh goal after scoring his sixth.In the end, Manchester United won the 6th FA Cup in team history with a score of 0:11.

Although Millwall suffered the biggest defeat in the history of the FA Cup in a century, they did not get nothing. At least they won the tickets for the UEFA Cup next season, and they can go to the European arena as a team in the English secondary league. It can be regarded as creating another history.

However, the FA Cup did not attract much attention, because at the moment people are more concerned about the ownership of the Champions League.

Just five days later, this season's Champions League final will be held at the Schalke Stadium in Germany. The Red Devils Manchester United and Monaco will start the final competition to compete for the club's highest honor this season.

Is Manchester United defending the honor of the giants and breaking the curse that no team can defend since the restructuring of the Champions League, or is Monaco continuing to be black to the end and becoming the second team in the history of Ligue [-] to win the Champions League?
Another focus of attention is who will win the Champions League Golden Boot this season.At present, Yin Jun leads the UEFA Champions League scorer list with 10 goals this season, while Monaco Morientes, who is on loan from Real Madrid, is close behind with 9 goals.The two will compete for this year's Champions League Golden Boot in the Champions League final.

Ruud van Nistelrooy's poor performance in the Champions League this season has only scored 4 goals so far, and he lost the possibility of competing for the Champions League Golden Boot early.After all, it's almost impossible to expect one man to score six goals or more in a Champions League final.

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In order to prepare for the Champions League final, Manchester United did not even have a big celebration after the FA Cup final, but flew to Germany on Monday afternoon.

Monaco even arrived two days earlier than Manchester United. In order to support this team that may become the second Ligue [-] team to win the Champions League, Ligue [-] deliberately moved Monaco's last round of the league two days earlier.

Originally, the 38th round of Ligue 5 would be played on the evening of May 23 local time, but the match between Monaco and Bordeaux was brought forward to the evening of May 5.Then, while Manchester United was still competing with Millwall for the FA Cup, Monaco had already traveled to Germany to make final preparations for the Champions League final.

Ligue [-]'s support for Monaco made Ferguson very envious. He even bombarded the FA and the Premier League for not caring enough for Manchester United who reached the final.Because Manchester United's last round of matches could not be played ahead of schedule, and the FA Cup also could not be rescheduled, which made Manchester United's preparations for the Champions League final appear hasty.

According to Ferguson, it is best to advance the FA Cup final to around May 5, then after playing the FA Cup final and the last round of the Premier League, Manchester United will have ten days to prepare for the Champions League final.

Or, advance the 38th round of Manchester United's match to around May 5, and then advance the FA Cup final by one week, which is the time of the last round of the Premier League. Manchester United will also have sufficient time to prepare for the Champions League final.

However, for Manchester United's two proposals, neither the Premier League nor the FA have approved.

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Before the arrival of the Champions League final, fans of both teams began to go to Germany.

The rich and powerful Monaco people have great momentum. Before the game, Prince Albert said that he would bring all the people of Monaco to the scene. This is not impossible. After all, the total population of the Principality of Monaco is only 35000 people.

But in the end, Prince Albert's ambition was not realized, and only 14000 Monaco people bought tickets.This forced Monaco to return 7500 allocated tickets to the tournament organizers.

Being able to "gather" 14000 fans to travel long distances to cheer on the scene is no small miracle for a city with a total population of only 35000 including babies.

The Monaco government arranged 14 special planes to Dorserf at Nice Airport, transporting about 4000 fans to Germany.More fans chose to go by rail or limousine.Paris, Strasbourg, Marseille and the northern city of Lille, dozens of limousines will depart from all over France.

The momentum of the Monaco fans is already huge. At least Manchester United's organization of fans is far behind them.

However, Manchester United also have advantages, at least the number of Manchester United fans is a hundred times that of Monaco.According to media estimates, more than 300,000 Manchester United fans will travel to Gelsenkirchen from all over the world during the Champions League final.

Although only one-tenth of the fans among them can enter the Schalke Stadium to watch the game, but the enthusiasm of Manchester United fans cannot be stopped at all.

Of the 300,000 fans, less than 100,000 people came from the UK, and there were tens of thousands of Manchester United fans from China.The remaining half of the fans are from all over the world.

Among them, the number of fans with Chinese blood exceeds 100,000 people, and there are also many Asian fans.This shows Yin Jun's influence, especially on Manchester United.

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In fact, it was a surprise that the Manchester United club could get almost [-] tickets.

Originally, the organizers only gave Manchester United 21500 tickets, which is the same as the number allocated to Monaco by the organizers.

This is true for any team participating in the Champions League final, both teams will be allocated the same tickets.

But who knows that Monaco is so small that even these 21500 tickets cannot be sold out, and there are more than 7000 left.

Then these tickets were given to Manchester United by the event organizers, which was in Manchester United's arms.For the world-renowned super giant Manchester United, the more than 20,000 tickets given by the organizer before are really too little, and it cannot meet the needs of the fans at all.

Even with the addition of more than 7000 cards, it is far from enough, but no matter how small a mosquito's legs are, it can still solve the problem of more than 7000 fans entering the stadium to watch the game, right?
In fact, the organizers of the event are already very generous.Although the Ov Schalke Stadium claims to accommodate 61500 spectators, for major games such as the Champions League, standing seats cannot sell tickets, and the capacity is only about 54000.The organizer took out 43000 tickets and distributed them to the two teams participating in the finals, which is already a high proportion.

For example, in last year's Champions League final at Old Trafford, although the capacity of the stadium was as high as 68000, the organizers of the event allocated only 17000 tickets to the two teams.

It can be said that Manchester United fans got 29000 tickets through public external ticket sales. In addition, among the partners distributed by the event organizer, most of the tickets will fall into the hands of Manchester United fans. This Champions League final can basically be said It has become the home of Manchester United.

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