Chapter 575 Everyone’s Thoughts

Villarreal's dark horse journey ended at his home court by defending champion Leiden Oriental, which is something that most people expect - if Leiden Oriental is eliminated by Villarreal, it would be a big upset, and it is even more surprising than Real Madrid's AC Milan both were eliminated by Monaco and La Coruna. After playing this game, Leiden Oriental flew back to London to prepare for the next league, while quietly waiting for the final opponent to appear.

The other semi-final was held the day after Leiden Oriental and Villarreal. In the first leg, Barcelona defeated AC Milan 1-0 away. After returning to home, they had a high chance of qualifying. This is true. Although Barcelona did not play well at home, AC Milan still failed to score. A zero-to-zero draw was enough to allow them to enter the Champions League final for the first time in twelve years after the 12-year-old season. Interestingly, they were swept by AC Milan four-to-zero in the last time in the Champions League final, but this time, they eliminated AC Milan, which was a pity they had before.

This situation also made Ronaldinho's reputation reach a peak. Last year, he won the World Footballer and the European Golden Ball Awards. Although this result was more obtained in Leiden Oriental, he still maintained a very high level after transferring to Barcelona. Seventeen league goals, seven Champions League goals and countless assists made him undoubtedly the best player in the world this season.

Zidane is old and Ronaldo plays one game and two rests in Leiden East. Today's football world is undoubtedly Ronaldo's world. If he can lead Barcelona to win the double championship of the league and Champions League this season, then this title will be even more unshakable, not to mention that he is only 26 years old and has an extremely bright future.

All Europe thinks that Leiden Oriental has made a loss-making deal. Judging from Ronaldo's performance this year, 45 million pounds plus Messi's world number one is really nothing. You should know that with so much money, as long as you win a Champions League championship, it is definitely not a loss.

However, Leiden Oriental fans have no opinion on this. After all, although the league was not good this year, Leiden Oriental still entered the finals in the Champions League. Withdrawing such a large amount of cash, no one can say what whoever loses and makes a profit.

And in the eyes of Leiden Oriental fans, their team will definitely be able to teach Ronaldo and Barcelona a lesson in the Champions League final, so that he can know that leaving Leiden Oriental will be the biggest mistake in his life...

The Champions League final will be held on May 18th, and there are more than 20 days left before the end of the Premier League. After the final round of the Premier League, it will take eleven days to usher in the final of the Champions League. For Leiden Oriental, they have enough time to adjust.

Leiden Oriental's opponents in the last two games were Tottenham and Birmingham. Tottenham has no hope of participating in the Champions League now. It is a foregone conclusion to participate in the League Cup, while Birmingham has fallen into the relegation zone. They may have been relegated before the last round of the trend arrives, and it is not difficult to play.

In these two games, what Xiao Ming has to do is adjust the players' state, not only to let the main players rest, but also to let them keep their own form while playing games, and try to avoid injury. The qualification for the Champions League next season has been obtained. If the main players are injured for such a not-so-important game, it will be troublesome.

Of course, Leiden Oriental cannot give up in these two games. After all, they still have a chance to hit the second place. You should know that the third and fourth places are going to play in the qualifying round, which means that Leiden Oriental's pre-season training camp will be one week ahead of schedule. There will be a World Cup match this summer. If the players are too tired, it will have a great impact on next season.

So on the fourth day after returning to London, Leiden Oriental, who only rotated two main players, defeated Tottenham by 1-0 on the away game with Van Nicht's goal, and Manchester United unexpectedly collapsed away, losing to Chelsea by 0-3. With the help of the victory of this game, Leiden Oriental surpassed Manchester United by one point and returned to the second place in the standings. Liverpool won again, one point behind Manchester United, and ranked fourth. In the last round, the opponents of the three teams were not strong. Manchester United played against Charlton at home, and Liverpool played against Portsmouth away. Leiden Oriental had to defeat Birmingham if they wanted to keep the second place.

However, after this round of the game, Birmingham, ranked 18th, fell four points behind Portsmouth, who was seventeenth, and was relegated one round ahead of schedule. They were also self-destructive. Before this round of the league, Portsmouth only led them by two points. However, Portsmouth beat Wigan in this round of league, but they were tied by Newcastle, who was 0-0 at home, completely ruining their last glimmer of hope for relegation.

On May 7, the last round of the league was fired at the same time. Manchester United defeated Charlton four-zero, Liverpool defeated Portsmouth three-one, but Leiden Oriental only used one-zero to kick them into the Champions League qualifiers. Next season, they will first start their new season from the Champions League qualifiers.

Before participating in the Champions League final, Leiden Oriental got good news. After research, UEFA decided to place the venue for the Champions League final next season at the Oriental Stadium in London, on the grounds that "in order to commend Leiden Oriental's promotional contribution in the New Century Champions League and encourage clubs to invest in professional stadiums." Therefore, Oriental Stadium defeated its biggest competitor, the Olympic Stadium in Athens, Greece, and successfully became the venue for the European Champions League next season. Of course, to do this, the excellent hardware facilities and fanatical atmosphere of Oriental Stadium also played a huge role in it.

Of course, these are all obvious. The good relationship between Xiao Ming and Johnson also made the venue of this final more lean towards Leiden East. Next January is the beginning of the new presidential election for UEFA. During this period, Xiao Ming has used all his relationships and means to help Johnson canvass votes against the aggressive Platini, and joined forces with Western European football powers to fight the radical reform ideas promised by Platini. You must know that although the football level of Western European powers is equivalent to the highest level of football in the entire European football, no matter whether your football is strong or weak, each country has a vote. Football powers such as Germany, Italy, England, and Cyprus, Malta have no advantage.

However, the potential abilities of these countries are huge. In history, Platini was able to serve as the chairman of UEFA because there was a disagreement between these powerful countries. In addition, he did not have a clear understanding of how great the harm to their interests of Platini's reform ideas was to their interests. Now with Xiao Ming helping to deal with it, at least the wealthy families in the five major leagues began to feel that this Frenchman would definitely hurt them after taking office...

In history, Platini won a lot of money, because Western European powers and Nordic countries where Johnson's hometown are basically supported by Johnson, while Platini was his motherland France and Central and Eastern Europe, the weak football countries. For some reasons, five British countries (including Ireland) finally stood on Platini's side, and Platini only won four votes in the end - at least Xiao Ming would not let this happen - his relationship with the FA is good.

To be fair, Xiao Ming believes that many of Platini's practices are indeed good, including fiscal balance and forcibly regulating that each club team must have at least seven domestic players, which is absolutely not wrong. The former makes the European League clubs not have to worry about the fiscal deficit every time, allowing the league to go longer, while the latter has a very positive impact on the level of those football powers. However, his approach of reducing the level of strong powers and increasing the chances of weak countries appearing in the Champions League has reduced the viewing of the European Champions League game, which is something that Xiao Ming cannot tolerate.

Xiao Ming did a lot of these tasks. He knew that he might have become a thorn in Platini's side, but Xiao Ming didn't care. At least, as long as Platini failed to defeat Johnson, Leiden East's position in UEFA can be further improved.

"Hey, Leo, you haven't returned yet."

Messi, who was carrying the ball in a row of obstacles, heard such a shout. He stopped and wiped his sweat, and smiled at the visitor: "Yes, Cristiano, you haven't gone back either."

Little Luo walked over easily: "It's okay to go back... Katherine is going to class tonight, so I'll just pick her up later."

Messi laughed. Now everyone in the Leiden East team knew that Ronaldo had caught up with their captain's favorite sister. However, this is also true. Among the players in the team who are most close to Daniel's family, Gerald is already married, and Mascherano also has a fixed girlfriend. Ashley Cole is now playing with Cheryl, known as the "most beautiful woman in Britain". Messi is a newcomer. Who can have a better chance than Ronaldo, who is close to the water? However, Ronaldo is also smart and good at doing things, so Daniel, who was very dissatisfied with this at the beginning, could only choose to turn a blind eye.

"I'm going to set out for France in two days. Are your family ready to go?" Xiao Xiao Xiao sat down on the training lawn, looked up at the sky where there were no stars, and turned to ask Messi.

"Well, the boss has told me that the club has been arranged. Don't each of us have six tickets. There are exactly six people in my family. In addition to me, there is one more ticket."

"Yes, my family, and my enlightenment coach are also my godfathers, and they will go to France with me." Xiao Xiao Luo said with a smile: "When I just went to Sporting Lisbon, he has always taken good care of me, and now I finally have the ability to repay him."

"I have people who have taken care of me like this, and there are many more." Messi sighed: "But if I can play in this final, I will not be willing to repay them... because I hope we can win this final."

"Oh, by the way, you were trained by Barcelona." Little Ronaldo muttered: "I don't have such a feeling. I have never met Sporting Lisbon, but since we have come to Leiden East, we are players of Leiden East. No matter what team we meet, we have to strive for victory."

"Yes, but I don't know if I have this opportunity." Messi laughed: "I'm not as good as you. You are the absolute main force now. I'm just a substitute."

"What do you mean? You don't know how lucky you are." Ronaldo exaggeratedly: "Do you know when I came to Leiden East? In 2003! I only started to play as the main player two years later. In the past two years, I could only play in the FA Cup and Louis were injured and needed to rest! You are much lucky than me. I have just arrived at Leiden East this year and can play so many games and have the opportunity to participate in the finals of the Champions League. I didn't even participate in the League Cup finals when I came to the season."

After saying this, Ronaldo patted Messi on the shoulder with anger again: "Besides, you are three years younger than me. I am afraid that you will not be the main player in the future. You will have so many opportunities this year. Maybe Jozell will be your substitute next year."

"You're too exaggerating, Jozell is in such a good condition this year." Messi shook his head and said, "I still have a lot to learn from him."

"But after all, he is old, and he has never been able to hold on to the intensive game after being injured." Ronaldo curled his lips and said: "That damn driver, if it weren't for that car accident, Joezel could have played until at least 36 or 37 years old. Manchester United's Giggs was the same year as him. Look at how good Giggs is in now, Joezel's technical characteristics and ability to maintain shape are definitely not worse than him!"

"That's nothing to do..." Messi sighed: "Maybe God is jealous of Jozell."

"But God also gave him a great Hollywood beauty." Little Ronaldo laughed: "If you want to say that the two captains of our club are not good people, they all went to play stars."

Messi glanced at him and smiled maliciously.

"Hey, you're not going to report me, are you?" Little Ronaldo shouted in fear. He was not afraid of anything else. If Daniel knew that he was saying this...

"I don't know." Messi shook his head seriously. Ronaldo had just breathed a sigh of relief, and Messi continued: "I just wanted to tell the boss that Cristiano said that none of the people who pick up female stars are good people..."

Xiao Xiao Luo was shocked, and then he realized that in addition to offending the two captains, he also offended the boss Xiao Ming...

"Don't you want me to transfer, do you? Leo?" Little Ronaldo said in a state of silence.

Ronaldo is excited about the upcoming final. Messi is about to face Barcelona, ​​which is given to him in a freshman. Other players from Leiden Oriental are looking forward to becoming part of the defender of the Champions League. For another group of people, the final at the Stadium in France this time has a more special meaning.

This group of people participated in the Champions League finals that also played at the Stadium de France six years ago. Six years have passed and they are still in Leiden East and have the opportunity to participate in the second Champions League match on the same stadium. This is a very amazing achievement and record.

Yasquelenin, Daniel, Hypia, Deselly, Ashley Cole, Marklele, Boban, Jinklaze, Glenshare, Gerrard and Fanny, plus Robbie Keane and Karaze who came on as a substitute, this is all the appearances of Leiden Oriental in the 2000 Champions League final.

Among these thirteen people, there are still eight people who are still in Leiden East. But think about it, Ashley Cole and Gerrard were both substitutes at that time. Gerrard's appearance was because Xiao Ming wanted to strengthen the midfield defense. Kerr's appearance was also because of Garney's suspension. Leiden East has changed a lot in the past six years, but the main framework was basically decided in the second year after entering the Premier League. Fanny in the frontcourt, Gerrard, Jinklaze and Marklele in the midcourt, Daniel, Ashley Cole, Hypia and goalkeeper Jasquelinin in the backcourt, they have basically never moved the core of the three lines. They are relatively stable and have been relegating to the drought and retaining the essence. The reason why Leiden East has maintained an extremely high level in the past six years.

Among these eight people, Jasqueline, Daniel, Cole, Marklele and Gerrard have always had a stable position, but Marklele is about to fade out of the front line now. He already has a good successor. Hepia once became a substitute, but this season, because Campbell's decline in form has caused him to return to the main position and perform well. Fanny had a serious injury in the middle of the process, but he has always been the most trusted shooter of Leiden East. Jin Kraze was revitalized after more than two years of blank period. If nothing unexpected happens, these eight people will start in the Champions League final. Half of them are already in their thirties, it is already very difficult to see them play together next time.

It is precisely because of this that they cherish this game so much.

Before setting out for France, Leiden East had their own thoughts, excitement, expectation, and nostalgia, but they had a common goal, which was to win the fourth championship trophy in the club's history, engrave their own names in history or make their names deeper.
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