Korea's best legend Park Ji-sung is great. Ferguson ranks fourth in EPL history as the strongest team in Manchester United history

Apr 29, 2025

Korea's best legend Park Ji-sung is great. Ferguson ranks fourth in EPL history as the strongest team in Manchester United history
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Korea's best legend Park Ji-sung is great. Ferguson ranks fourth in EPL history as the strongest team in Manchester United history
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Park Ji-sung was a player who played for a team that could be considered the best team in the history of the English Premier League (EPL).

Liverpool won 5-1 in the 34th round of the English Premier League (EPL) in 2024-2025 season against Tottenham at Anfield in Liverpool, England on the 28th (Korea time). With this victory, Liverpool confirmed the league title regardless of the remaining schedule.

After the 33rd winning team in EPL history, the British The Athletic made an interesting analysis. It was a look at the best team among the 33 teams that have won the EPL so far, from 1st to 33rd place. In fact, it may be meaningless to determine the superiority and inferiority of champions, but just as the best team in football history exists, there is a great championship team in the EPL.




On the one hand, it was amazing that there was a story of a Korean player in one of the best winning teams in EPL history.

It was Manchester United in the 2007-2008 season that ranked fourth overall among the 33 winning teams. This was the season when Cristiano Ronaldo began to rise as the world's best soccer player.
Korea's best legend Park Ji-sung is great. Ferguson ranks fourth in EPL history as the strongest team in Manchester United history
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Manchester United's formidable offense, which includes Ronaldo, Wayne Rooney and Carlos Tevez, has been devastating since the middle of the season, defeating all of their rivals. United were only shaken at the beginning of the season, moving on to the championship. He won the league after a close contest with Chelsea. He has 27 wins, 6 draws and 5 losses in 38 games.

It is not easy to choose the best team among Alex Ferguson's winning team. It would be hard to say that Ferguson's best six seasons at Manchester United were badly wrong even if he decided to dart. But this team was special. The tight defense and the offense that led to Ronaldo, Rooney and Tevez were properly harmonized. He explained why Manchester United were the great EPL champions at the time, saying, 'We haven't lost a game since mid-December.




There was Park Ji-sung in Manchester United like that. To put it bluntly, Park Ji-sung in the 2007-2008 season is a low point in terms of his performance as a player in the entire season. The reason why it is inevitable is that Park Ji-sung had surgery for a knee injury and blew the first half of the year. Park only returned in late December and did not recover quickly after returning from knee surgery. He failed to play as a starting player in the league due to the strong triangular formation leading to Ronaldo, Rooney and Tevez.
Korea's best legend Park Ji-sung is great. Ferguson ranks fourth in EPL history as the strongest team in Manchester United history
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Even if he didn't play as a main player, Manchester United were a great team at the time just to compete. This is because there were many world-class players such as Ryan Giggs, Luis Nani, Paul Scholes, Michael Carrick, Rio Ferdinand, Nemana Vidic, Patrice Evra and Edwin van de Sarr. It was Park Ji-sung who competed against them.

Even in the big game, Park Ji-sung shone. Ferguson knew the value of Park Ji-sung playing for his team, so he started Park Ji-sung in the quarterfinals and semifinals of the Champions League and let him play full time. Park Ji-sung was a hidden contributor to the defeat of Barcelona. Unfortunately, he did not play in the UCL final, but Park Ji-sung performed very well in the UCL and Manchester United won the championship, so Manchester United in the 2007-2008 season can look like a greater team. Park still remains the first Asian to win the UCL.






This article was translated by Naver AI translator.