Outrageously abstract! Two teams that are close to relegation in the league are going to compete for the UEFA Cup championship

With Manchester United and Tottenham both advanced to the UEFA Cup finals, the Premier League has officially confirmed that it will secure the sixth place to participate in the Champions League next season, and it has also created one of the most bizarre final matches in European and even world football history.

If you don't pay attention to this season's Premier League, your first impression when you see this group of matches may be: Wow, the two Premier League giants are meeting in the finals! But if you pay attention to the Premier League, or even only focus on the results of the game and league rankings, you will be very surprised: How did they do it?

Manchester United, the team with the most championships in Premier League history (note: it is the Premier League), currently ranks 15th in the league this season, setting a record for the lowest ranking in the Premier League in the team history.

Tottenham, although they have never won the Premier League championship, they have always been a powerful team. They have also been one of the BIG6s in the past ten years. They are more abstract and rank 16th in the league, worse than Manchester United.

If it weren't for Leicester City, Ipswich and Southampton, the three brothers who had been too bad, had locked in the relegation quota early, Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur might be struggling to relegate now.

But these two teams who are bullied by everyone in the league have completely become another person when they arrive at the UEFA Cup, and they become someone who is tortured by anyone. Especially Manchester United, they actually beat Athletic Bilbao, the fourth-placed La Liga in two rounds, and they have never lost a single game until the season has been going on. The civil war was timid, and the foreign war launched a heavy blow, seeking far and wide, and saving the country in a curve. They were considered to be a play that they understood.

As for why this strong contrast occurs, first of all, the competition system of the league and the cup is different, so the adaptive tactics and gameplay are completely different. Secondly, each team has different attitudes towards leagues and cups. The other is some luck, after all, the accidental nature of the cup is much greater than that of the league.

In short, although this result is very abstract and even a bit ironic, it has to be said that the strategies of Manchester United and Tottenham were successful, and they saved the possibility of participating in the Champions League by saving the country in a curve. For giant teams or traffic-type giant teams, Champions League qualification represents face and is deeply linked to economic returns. We must try our best to compete.