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Chapter 358 The king of the kings of Europe

The next night, the European Super Cup was broadcast live all over Europe.

The Champions League champions last season will face the League Cup champions last season.

In a sense, this event can also be regarded as a contest among European kings.

Let’s see if the Champions League champion is more powerful or the UEFA Champions League champion is more powerful.

Logically speaking, everyone will definitely think that it is the Champions League champion that won, and there is no suspense.

But in fact, this is not the case.

Football is round after all.

I won’t talk about it earlier, just talk about the European Super Cup that was held at the Louis II Stadium in Monaco since 1998, because it was a game of winning or losing, while the previous European Super Cup was home and away round-the-clock.

From 1998 to 2010, the League Cup champions won eight times.

Four of them were winning consecutively.

From 1998 to 2001, the final winners of these four European Super Cups were the League Cup champions, or the European Cup Winners champions.

Chelsea, the champion of the 1998 European Cup of Winners, beat the then-Champions League champion Real Madrid 1-0 in the UEFA Super Cup, and the only goal for Chelsea was Uruguayan legendary star Poyet.

The following year, Manchester United lost to then-Chengo Champions League champion Lazio in the European Super Cup, and Chilean scorer Salas scored the only goal in that game.

In 2000, the European Cup of Winners was cancelled, and the European Super Cup became a contest between the Champions League and the League Cup. That year, the League Cup champion Galatasaray defeated Real Madrid, which won the Champions League champions 2:1, and the game was decided by the Golden Ball in the overtime. The famous Brazilian star Jadel scored twice in the game.

In 2001, Liverpool, who won five championships in the new century, faced Champions League champion Bayern Munich. Liverpool finally defeated Bayern Munich 3:2.

Since the European Super Cup was held in Monaco, the UEFA Champions League champions did not win at once in the first four years, which is indeed quite unexpected.

This may also be related to the fact that the Champions League champions did not attach much importance to the European Super Cup at that time.

It was not until 2002 that Real Madrid, the "Galaxy Battleship" who won the ninth Champions League title, ended the embarrassing record in the UEFA Super Cup, defeating League Cup champion Feyenoord 3-1 in the UEFA Super Cup.

2003 Champions League champion AC Milan defeated Porto, the League Cup champion led by Mourinho, 1-0 in the Super Cup.

The Champions League champions won two consecutive victories.

However, in the next 2004, Porto participated in the UEFA Super Cup as the Champions League champion, but lost to the League Cup champion Valencia. It is worth mentioning that the Valencia head coach at that time was Benitez, but Porto's head coach is no longer Mourinho, and Mourinho went to Chelsea.

In the 2005 European Super Cup, the Champions League champion AC Milan defeated the League Cup champion CSKA Moscow 3-1. At that time, Kaka, who was very popular in the mid-sky, scored twice in the European Super Cup, and Kaka also won the World Footballer and European Golden Ball Awards that year. In fact, if Kaka had not performed well in the Champions League final, I was afraid that the team participating in the European Super Cup would be Liverpool, not AC Milan.

In 2006, Barcelona, ​​who defeated Arsenal and won the Champions League championship at the Princes Stadium in Paris, was called the "Dream Two", but they lost 0:3 to the League Cup champion Sevilla in the UEFA Super Cup, completely defeated!

A sad thing happened before the 2007 European Super Cup. The captain of the League Cup champion Sevilla, Puerta, suffered a heart attack during the game and died after being sent to the hospital for rescue. This also made the whole team of Sevilla have no intention of the European Super Cup. They lost 1:3 to Bayern Munich in the Super Cup. This is also the first European Super Cup that Rong Guang participated in. He was not happy to defeat Sevilla to win the European Super Cup, because his opponent had no intention of fighting at all. Beating such a team was meaningless.

In 2008, Champions League champion Manchester United lost 1:2 to League Cup champion St. Petersburg Zenit in the Super Cup.

2009 is a relatively critical year. This time, Barcelona defeated Donetsk Miners 1-0 in the European Super Cup and won the European Super Cup. At the same time, they also won the Spanish Super Cup and the Club World Cup at the end of the year. They finally achieved a legend of "six crowns". It is precisely because of Barcelona's six crowns that the Champions League champions seem to have begun to pay attention to the European Super Cup. Especially those teams who ended last season with a triple crown.

However, Inter Milan lost 0:2 to Atletico Madrid in the 2010 Super Cup. Atletico Madrid at the time, Inter Milan coach Leonardo was under tremendous pressure because of this and was scolded by Inter Milan fans all day long because he made Inter Milan lose the second team after Barcelona to become the six-champion...

This is also the last European Super Cup before this year. Judging from these 13 Cups, the Champions League champions have only won five times. If the historical confrontation results are analyzed, the Champions League champions are obviously at a disadvantage.

But this does not mean that this League Cup champion Porto can defeat the Champions League championship.

Because there is no logical necessity between each game and the previous game, let alone a year apart between these two games.

Besides, Manchester City has three guys who are hard to guess. Rongguang, Ibrahimovic and Kaka, Rongguang and Ibrahimovic have always been difficult to understand. Recently, there is one more Kaka. Since Kaka went to Manchester City, he has become difficult to understand.

These three people compete on the same field, and no one knows what actions they will do. Therefore, they cannot analyze and predict at all.

But one thing is quite certain.

That is, it is really difficult for Manchester City, who has these three people at the same time to lose to Porto...

Not to mention others, just a glory makes Porto very difficult to deal with.

And if we really want to trace history, history is also more beneficial to Manchester City.

Because of the 2004 European Super Cup, Manchester City head coach Benitez had already fought with Porto once. The situation was almost the same as it is now. It was a young coach with a personality who left the team to Chelsea after leading Porto to the European Championship.

It's just that the team coached by Benitez has changed from Valencia to Manchester City.

But Manchester City is much stronger today than Valencia back then.

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In fact, the same is true. In the European Super Cup at night, Rong Guang scored the first record for the team in the 29th minute, helping the team to take a goal lead.

Then in the 39th minute, Ibrahimovic expanded the score to 2:0.

The two sides changed sides and fought again in the second half. In the 68th minute, Kaka scored the third goal with a long shot, 3:0!

Then in the 70th minute, Kaka was replaced, and all the fans stood up to applaud him.

From Real Madrid to Manchester City, Kaka's performance and transformation are seen by everyone. It is really hard to believe that this is Kaka who can't run in Real Madrid...

At this time, the commentators of European TV station joked about Real Madrid.

"I really don't know what expressions Florentino and Mourinho will have on their faces after seeing such Kaka..."

"Kaka's performance at Manchester City is completely different from his time at Real Madrid. What I am most interested in now is whether Real Madrid regrets that they let Kaka go?"

"Real Madrid let Sneider go before, but Sneider performed well at Manchester City, helping the team eliminate Real Madrid in the Champions League group stage. I think from that time on, Florentino should have been very clear that he must not send his players to Manchester City. What's the result? Now with Kaka, this law has worked again..."

Unfortunately, Florentino and Mourinho will not appear on the scene in this game. After yesterday's Champions League draw ceremony, Mourinho returned to Madrid, and Florentino did not come at all.

So even if you want to cut into the stands and give Florentino and Mourinho a few close-ups.

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Ferreira's Porto has no good idea in the face of Manchester City's tsunami attack.

They had no ability to stop Manchester City at all. In the 88th minute, Manchester City scored another goal, and this time the goal was Gareth Barry, who appeared as substitute Kaka.

Porto was unable to score even a goal until the end of the game.

They didn't even save face.

In the end, Manchester City defeated Porto 4-0 in the European Super Cup, winning the first European Super Cup championship in their club history.

After winning the championship, Manchester City players were as happy as if they won the Champions League again. They became the real king of Europe.

"European Super Cup champion - Manchester City!" the commentator shouted. "Marcelona is so popular recently! In the league, they just tied the record of unbeaten in the 58 league games set by AC Milan. At the Champions League awards ceremony, they won almost all the best awards. Now in the European Super Cup, Manchester City beat Porto with a huge gap of 4:0. Although Porto replaced Boas, the gap between the two sides is not so big, right?"
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