{"id":12139,"date":"2011-05-05T09:02:04","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T16:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/05\/05\/chanceless-schalke-eliminated-in-manchester\/"},"modified":"2011-05-05T09:02:04","modified_gmt":"2011-05-05T16:02:04","slug":"chanceless-schalke-eliminated-in-manchester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/05\/05\/chanceless-schalke-eliminated-in-manchester\/","title":{"rendered":"Chanceless Schalke eliminated in Manchester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"schalke_04\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/schalke_04.jpg\" height=\"328\" width=\"328\" \/>PFDC &#8211; MANCHESTER, <strong>Schalke were never close to the wonder they would have needed to overcome a 0-2 deficit from the first leg, suffering a 1-4 defeat to Manchester United in the second leg of UEFA Champions League semifinals. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alex Ferguson lined up a complete B team to rest his players for the decisive league title clash against Chelsea on Sunday, but similarily to the first game ManU dominated the proceedings and easily won the game.<\/p>\n<p>Valencia and Gibson gave the homeside a deserved two-goal lead before Jurado surprisingly pulled one back for the Germans. <\/p>\n<p>But a second half brace from Anderson sealed Schalke&#8217;s destiny, who nevertheless can be proud of a historic season.<\/p>\n<p>Ali Karimi, despite the return of two keyplayers from injury, as almost always was selected for the 18-men-squad ahead of Chinese international Hao or Greek Euro 2004 hero Charisteas, but didn&#8217;t come into play. <\/p>\n<p>Coach Ragnick had brought on two strikers instead and had played without a defensive midfield for a short period before conceding the third goal and then opted for a defensive midfielder to avoid a further thrashing.<\/p>\n<p>Schalke has two further meaningless Bundesliga games &#8211; against Mainz and in Cologne &#8211; in front of them, before taking on second Bundesliga outfits MSV Dusiburg in the German Cup final on May 21st.<\/p>\n<p>Winning the Cup will be Schalke&#8217;s final chance to qualify for the UEFA Europa League next season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PFDC &#8211; MANCHESTER, Schalke were never close to the wonder they would have needed to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":11944,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c16-iranian-legionairs"],"views":4366,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}