Section 812 Champions League teams
At this time, the Champions League round of 16 games ended one after another, and the teams that qualified were also produced.
Manchester United undoubtedly successfully qualified: their strength is unquestionable. This season, Ronaldo played the best season of his career. Manchester United's three-headed monsters began to be famous and played in the league in the league. In the Champions League, they also easily beat their opponents to the horse. Their style of play finally began to take shape. On the attacking end, Ronaldo, Tevez and Rooney's cooperation has begun to show his glorious side. The whole Europe has begun to feel uneasy about their strength.
Chelsea also qualifies: in fact, Chelsea's luck in the past few years has always been good. In addition to provoking Barcelona, they have almost never encountered other wealthy families in the grand stage when they draw lots. The wealthy families they meet are either Bayern in the decline of the Bundesliga or Juventus behind the phone. Although they shout that they have suffered UEFA's persecution every day, in fact, their draws are not bad at all. This time, Olympiacos, as their opponent, allows them to win effortlessly.
Arsenal and Liverpool also defeated their opponents by side. This means that the two giant teams AC Milan and Barcelona have been eliminated.
Milan's depravity came faster than people thought. Last season they had begun to show a downturn, but with their outstanding Champions League results, they were still not considered dead end. However, not to mention that they could not maintain the top three league results this season, even their always good Champions League results had problems. After 0-0 away games, they originally thought they could win at home, but who knew that after 0-2 at home, they lost 0-2 in their own stadium and had no hope.
Even they themselves did not think too much about winning. After the game, they were busy contacting the midfielder Flamini who performed well in the game and wanted to sign the Arsenal player. This approach is quite sad. Milan was once a big European player, and the buying efforts of people were much stronger than other teams. But now they have become so much more likely to rely on sign-free buying of opponents. This approach makes people a little confused about what to say.
What is even more surprising is that Milan's poor league performance this season is also very obvious, and it may even fall into a difficult situation where she cannot enter the Champions League. How shock would it be if such a situation happens?
Compared with Milan's decline, Barcelona's exit was amazing. This season, Liverpool left Zhao Yaning, fourth in the league and second in the group. Many people think that they have lost their position as a strong team in the first-tier team. Barcelona beat them and thought it was a good thing with both inside and out. Who knew that when they really encountered it, they realized that it was not the case: Liverpool played in the league in a mess, but in the Champions League, they immediately changed their appearance. This way of losing the league and winning the Champions League made Barcelona feel very distressed - how can the team play like this? The league was so bad, but in the Champions League, they were so crazy and perverted.
In fact, if we analyze it later, it would not be strange: Liverpool left Zhao Yaning, without a good wing, and in the Premier League environment, they naturally could not play in the league. However, in the Champions League, they still had an excellent central axle, Torres, Gerrard, Mascherano, and Alonso. The outstanding performance of these people is enough to ensure that they will not lose to anyone. Although the substitute lineup is not good, Liverpool, which has lost the ability to compete for the championship early, simply gave up on the league and played in the rotation only for the Champions League, with sufficient physical strength and personnel. This made Barcelona naturally complain after encountering it.
After losing 1-4 away, Barcelona was unable to turn the situation around at home. After a 1-2 loss, Barcelona had a total home and away score of 2-6, and they completely tasted the bitter fruit of failure.
The Champions League quarterfinals were defeated and Real Madrid was too overwhelmed. At this time, Barcelona also had the idea of changing coaches for the first time. This season, after Sevilla and Valencia collapsed one after another, Real Madrid's last strong opponent also collapsed at this time.
But speaking of this, this is not a good thing. The top four in the Premier League have qualified one after another, while only one single player is left in La Liga. On another battlefield, Lyon under Mourinho defeated Sevilla and entered the quarterfinals, making Real Madrid the last hope for La Liga this year.
Like La Liga, Bundesliga, Ligue 1 and Serie A have achieved success.
Needless to say, Lyon's strength in France is now dominant. When it comes to promotion, it is naturally them. The one who advanced to the Bundesliga was Schalke 04. They defeated Porto. Although in terms of comprehensive strength, Schalke 04's strength is slightly worse than Porto's giants in the Portuguese Super League, they were lucky enough to meet their goalkeepers in excellent condition: their young goalkeeper Neuer has always been a good choice for a famous international in Germany, but his comprehensive strength has always been considered to be lower than Adler, who is Leverkusen. However, in these two rounds, he performed very well. With his outstanding ability, he made Schalke 04 concede only one goal in two games, which also allowed Schalke 04 to successfully drag the game into overtime, and then advanced to the Champions League quarter-finals through a penalty kick.
Inter Milan, the top player in Serie A, was the top player in Serie A. As Italy's most powerful team, their opponent was Turkey's Fenerbahce. Such a showdown was still easy for Inter Milan to deal with. They defeated their opponents and advanced to the quarterfinals.
In the quarterfinals of the Champions League, half of the Premier League, the other four teams belong to the four major leagues. This makes many people admit that the Premier League is indeed dominating the times now.
"Can it be four teams, each drawing one Premier League team, then fighting against each other, and then seeing who advances?"
In Real Madrid, everyone has some speculations about this, but no one believes this idea.
"There should be two Premier League teams fighting against each other, and then the remaining two teams from the four major leagues compete against each other. Otherwise, if the semi-finals are all Premier League teams, what's the name of the Champions League? Wouldn't it be better to just look at the FA Cup?"
Raul spoke his opinion directly without any concealment. Although he was nominally drawn lots, everyone knew that UEFA had his own interests and that all Premier League teams had entered the semi-finals. Then UEFA was simply included in the FA. In order to make money, they would not do that - UEFA still had to make a living after all.
"So which team will it be our turn?"
This is also the issue we are discussing now. Real Madrid is not afraid of the other three single teams, but if it is Manchester United, Liverpool and Chelsea, Liverpool are really afraid of it.
"Don't worry about so many things. Whether it's the semi-finals or the quarter-finals, aren't they all losing? There's no difference." Raul said, "Playing the games one by one, looking in front of you is better than anything else."
After playing the Champions League, Real Madrid's next game was against Valencia. In this game, Real Madrid's frontcourt was rotated, Guti and Higuain both got the starting chance, and Raul and Mata had a rest again. In fact, at present, except for Zhao Yaning who still maintained good physical strength, there were no problems with the physical strength of the other people in the team. They were no longer used to the weekly double games, especially the frontcourt players, who needed to rotate appropriately.
Real Madrid won this game without any difficulty. Although Valencia's scorer Villa performed very well in the game and scored one goal in the first and second half, the final victory of this game still belonged to Real Madrid. After Zhao Yaning scored a free kick in the first half, he first assisted Higuain to score in the second half, and then used the opportunity of a corner kick to help Pepe score. In the end, Zhao Yaning broke through to the penalty area and was knocked down. He scored a penalty and completely locked the score at 4-2. In this game, Real Madrid still won.
After a continuous draw, Real Madrid was still very happy to be able to defeat the mortal enemy and win a key game. At this time, Zhao Yaning also left the team and returned to China to participate in the World Cup qualifiers.
"In this game, you sit on the bench first and don't play."
Although it was a away game, because his opponent was Oman, Coach Gao was a little brave. He knew that Zhao Yaning had been tiring recently, so he did not let Zhao Yaning play again, but let Zhao Yaning sit on the bench - to the country, it is naturally a protective player, but Zhao Yaning always feels that he wants to try some of it. Without Zhao Yaning, how good can he lead the team? As a coach, he has coached for so long, but he has always relied on the players' super personal abilities. Some people think it is luck, but some people are not satisfied.
Coach Gao obviously wanted to see if he could do more, but he was still not brave enough and only dared to let Zhao Yaning sit on the bench, but did not dare to let Zhao Yaning come back at all. However, being cautious and careful is not a bad thing. Zhao Yaning also sat on the bench and watched the game with great interest.
The game was pretty good, but the only problem was that this game still seemed a little dull. The Chinese team now suffers from Zhao Yaning's dependence disease to a certain extent. Zhao Yaning played two completely different games when he was on the court and when he was not on the court.
However, Oman is not a strong team after all, and in the end, the Chinese team won 2-1.
"Coach Gao, you have a good idea." After watching the game, Zhao Yaning couldn't help but speak, "If you don't coach the national football team in the future, you should go abroad to take a look."
"Are you pushing me away?"
"I said in the future - for example, after 10 years, I think going abroad will be of great help to you. I am not talking about the kind of study, visiting, what I mean is to find a team and try to coach foreign teams. I found that I rarely see Chinese coaches going abroad to make a living, so why not try? I always hang out in my own small circle and never make progress."
Coach Gao smiled, but did not answer. Zhao Yaning probably thought he had his own ideas, so he didn't ask more questions. He just said a few words and stopped asking more questions.
This season, there are only two national team games in total, and the remaining four group games are after the end of the season. Zhao Yaning's national team mission is over, which also made him return to Spain with a whisper.
"Two news, one good news, and one bad news, which one do you want to listen to first?"
Looking at Guti's smile, Zhao Yaning estimated that the bad news would not be too bad, "What's the bad one?"
"Is it bad? Of course, we were eliminated from the Copa del Rey."
Oh, there is also a King's Cup... Zhao Yaning suddenly realized that Spain really did not pay attention to the Cup. At this time, Zhao Yaning remembered that he had nothing to do with the King's Cup.
Chapter completed!