Although they lost the match, the Manchester United fans who stayed until the end were in good spirits because they saw hope in Luis Nacho.

Chen Hero is already forty years old, almost forty-one, and he will retire at the end of this season. Everyone knows what Liverpool will become when they lose Chen Hero—just as a person without a backbone will become.

The end of each dynasty is accompanied by a period of division and warlord infighting.

If Manchester United wants to regain the throne, they must be prepared to seize the initiative quickly, defeat all opponents, and eventually regain the top spot.

To this end, Nacho's maturity is something that all Manchester United fans are very pleased about.

In their view, Nacho is the number one star in the Premier League after Chen Hero retires, and no other team has a player who can compete with Nacho. As long as they survive until Chen Hero retires, Manchester United's return to the peak is just around the corner.

Solskjaer is also looking forward to it.

He was pleasantly surprised by Nacho's maturity in this game.

He plans to have another good contest with Liverpool in the two Champions League matches.

Previously, he didn't have enough confidence in Nacho, so he didn't make any special adjustments to the tactics. But this time, he wants to maximize Nacho's energy and then see what the comparison of strength between Manchester United and Liverpool will be like.

He is not worried that entrusting Nacho with important tasks in such an important game will be counterproductive.

Because Nacho has proved with his actions that he can shoulder such a heavy responsibility.

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Although they beat Manchester United away, Gerrard didn't get carried away thinking that his team would definitely win the league title, nor did he think that his team could easily beat Manchester United twice in a week.

The most valuable asset that Martin O'Neill left to this team was not those trophies, but a cautious and serious attitude.

Gerrard stayed under O'Neill for many years, so he naturally inherited this point.

Gerrard is also a cautious and serious person.

He still takes the Champions League quarter-final against Manchester United very seriously. Not only himself, but he also asked his players not to get carried away because they won this game.

"The league is very long, it's not easy for everyone to persevere to this point, I don't want this great situation to be ruined by someone's carelessness. How did Liverpool get so many championships? You should know what Liverpool's championship tradition is. I hope you keep this in mind."

This is what Gerrard said to his players in the away team's locker room at Old Trafford. The game had just ended, and he warned his players with a straight face, which shows how careful and cautious he is.

After playing against Manchester United, Liverpool's opponent in the thirty-second round was the "Black Cats" Sunderland. This is not a strong opponent.

Considering the upcoming two fierce battles, Gerrard decisively rotated the squad.

But Chen Hero still started.

More than ten years have passed, and this has become a tradition for Liverpool who have Chen Hero.

No matter how the team rotates, Chen Hero will definitely start. Even if Liverpool's strength is strong enough, they can still beat their opponents without Chen Hero. But he still has to start.

From the coach's point of view, Chen Hero is Liverpool's ultimate insurance. If there are any accidents on the field, such as Liverpool, who are originally strong, being unable to beat their opponents due to various messy things, then at least there is Chen Hero, as long as he is there, no matter what problems they encounter, Liverpool will definitely win.

This is the role of Chen Hero.

The starting lineup has never changed, the only thing that has changed is his playing time.

When Chen Hero was in good physical condition, the whole team rotated, but he could play all the games, and he did so for the entire season.

Now that his physical decline is obvious, Gerrard has also begun to reduce Chen Hero's playing time in order to protect him. If the overall situation of the game is set and Liverpool will definitely win, he will usually substitute Chen Hero between sixty and seventy-five minutes, on the one hand to give him plenty of rest, and on the other hand, naturally, to allow Chen Hero to enjoy a cheer and applause from the fans alone.

Anyway, with Chen Hero's current ability, even if his playing time is reduced, he can still complete the task perfectly.

The nine-month ban did not wear away his form, but also gave him a chance to rest. This allowed this forty-year-old guy's physical fitness to not have major problems, and goals continued to appear one after another.

The game against Sunderland was the same.

Chen Hero played for sixty minutes and scored twice in the game, helping Liverpool take the lead early.

After completing his task, Chen Hero was substituted by Gerrard.

The substitution was most meaningful because Chen Hero could only get deafening cheers at Liverpool's home stadium. In any other stadium, all he could get was boos.

In the end, Liverpool beat Sunderland 4:1 at home, who were not very motivated.

However, the victory in this game did not help them rise to second in the league.

Because Manchester United beat Bolton 3:0 in another league game, they still lead Liverpool by one goal in terms of goal difference.

Nacho scored again.

The difference between the two people is four goals. However, the goal difference between Liverpool and Manchester United has not changed, it is still one goal, with Manchester United ahead of Liverpool.

Manchester United are trying their best to maintain their one-goal advantage over Liverpool. This is the only way they can stop Liverpool.

But how long can this approach last?

After all, this will bring huge pressure to Manchester United.

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Gerrard doesn't care about Manchester United's response, he only cares about the Champions League game against Manchester United.

Liverpool's goal this season also includes regaining the Champions League title they lost six years ago.

This was proposed by Chen Hero, and Gerrard was stunned at the time.

But now that they are going to do it, they have to do it well. Liverpool must take back the European Champions Cup they lost six years ago this season!

Even if it's just to give Chen Hero the best farewell gift, not for Liverpool's glory, this championship must be won!

Liverpool and Manchester United are old rivals, so there is no need for special research. Just follow the normal preparation procedures.

If it weren't for the media's hype, everyone might not think that the next game is a Champions League game, but a rematch of the game a week and a half ago...

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In the first leg of the match, Liverpool will face Manchester United at home, and in the second leg, Manchester United will return to their home stadium.

In terms of schedule, Manchester United is more favorable.

But everyone knows that when playing against Liverpool, these factors that cannot play a decisive role are all nonsense.

The most famous classic case in the past was the match between Barcelona and Liverpool. At that time, Barcelona played the first leg away and the second leg at home. Everyone thought that Barcelona's schedule was very favorable and that Barcelona would beat Liverpool to advance to the final.

And Liverpool obviously knew this too.

After all, at that time, this arrangement on the schedule was still considered one of the generally recognized favorable conditions.

What was the result?

Liverpool scored six goals against Barcelona in the first leg!

You must know that their opponent was Barcelona! The world's number one at the time.

In order to ensure their qualification, Liverpool scored six goals against Barcelona at home, completely killing the suspense of the game.

Since that game, everyone knows that for Liverpool, there is no difference between playing the first leg at home or away.

Because they always have a way to kill you.

This game is the same.

Solskjaer knows this very well, so in the first leg, his tactics were still defensive counterattack, but this time he gave Nacho more authority, and the core of the team's counterattack was also him.

He just wanted to see what kind of answer sheet Nacho could hand in in this game.

But unfortunately, Nacho worked very hard in this game, and the whole team worked very hard.

But Manchester United still couldn't compete with Liverpool.

Chen Hero scored twice in the game, scoring all two goals of the game, helping Liverpool win a complete victory at home.

His number of goals in the Champions League this season has reached nine, and his ranking in the Champions League scorer list this season has also risen from outside the top ten to fourth.

The Barcelona shooter Quake, who is ranked first, has thirteen goals. The two are ranked four places apart, and the number of goals is also four apart.

Luis Nacho has already been defeated in the competition for the Premier League scorer list, and now everyone is waiting for Quake to be dragged down from the top spot by Chen Hero.

Chen Hero's performance was very brilliant, and Nacho didn't score a single goal at all.

It's not that Nacho is in bad shape.

Nacho's condition is very good, his performance is also very active, his running, dribbling, and passing are impeccable, and he even participated in the team's defense many times. He is not actually the kind of player with excellent physical fitness, but in this game, he ran back and forth without any effort.

Despite this, he still didn't score a goal, and Manchester United's performance didn't improve because of his active performance.

But from Nacho, Solskjaer suddenly discovered a new problem.

In this Champions League game, Manchester United lost 0:2 away, which is a very dangerous situation.

They can be said to have lost hope of advancing, or they can be said to still have a chance.

The difference of two goals means that everything is possible after returning to the home stadium.

But Solskjaer's focus is not on this score.

This discovery made him a little flustered. If it is confirmed, it means that his previous efforts may have been in vain.

But he must confirm it, because he is responsible for the future of Manchester United, even if it means negating himself.

Now, it is no longer important whether Manchester United can reach the Champions League semi-finals this season.

What he has to do now may be related to the next ten years of Manchester United, which is much more important than a season's Champions League results.