Football King Bale

On the second day after Manchester United reversed Valencia and advanced to the knockout rounds of the Champions League with a strong record of victory, the remaining four groups of Champions League matches continued. After the winners and losers were determined, this season's Champions League group stages were all over, and sixteen All teams that advanced to the knockout rounds were also born.

In Group A, Bell's old club Tottenham unexpectedly surpassed the defending champion Inter Milan and advanced to the first place in the group. Inter Milan won another promotion place; in Group B, Schalke 04 and Lyon advanced together; As for Group C, the last round of games was actually just a formality. Although the victorious Manchester United and the Bat Legion were victorious, it did not affect their promotion, or even whether they were first or second in the group; in Group D, Barcelona After advancing with an unbeaten record of 4 wins and 2 draws, the Danish team Copenhagen ranked second in the group; in Group E, Bayern and Roma won the promotion spot without any suspense; in Group F, Chelsea and Marseille ranked first and second respectively, with 9 points. Spartak Moscow could only play in the Europa League; in Group G, Real Madrid advanced undefeated with 5 wins and 1 draw, while AC Milan narrowly qualified by one point over Ajax; in Group H, Arsenal unexpectedly lost the first place in the group, while the Miners qualified strongly with a score of 5 wins and 1 loss.

The top 16 have all been selected, and they will have to wait until a week later for the knockout draw to be held at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland. At that time, they will decide who their opponents will be.

However, this year's group stage was generally normal. Almost all the major giants successfully advanced to the top of the group. Only Inter Milan and Arsenal felt like they had made some mistakes. And these two teams have also become the opponents that the first in each group is unwilling to face.

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As the end of the year approaches, other leagues are about to enter the final stage of 2010 and begin to enter the winter break. However, for the Premier League where Manchester United is located, the most intense time of the year is just around the corner.

Especially for Manchester United, they have advanced to the knockout rounds with a complete victory in the group, and they are about to face consecutive fierce battles in the league.

At 8 o'clock on the evening of the same day, they will face Arsenal in the final game of the 17th round of the Premier League. This is also a battle between the top two in the Premier League standings. Although Manchester United has locked in the Premier League half-time championship three rounds in advance after reversing Blackpool in the last round of away games, they also have every reason to win the game against a direct title rival like Arsenal.

Of course, in order to maintain a glimmer of hope of winning the championship, Arsenal also has reasons to defeat the Red Devils. Once they lose the game against Manchester United, they will be 13 points behind Manchester United after 17 league rounds. Then they have basically said goodbye to this season's league championship.

There is also good news for Arsenal, that is, the Blues and Chelsea are still in a sluggish state. After losing the last round of the Champions League, the Blues' performance did not improve when they returned to the Premier League. On Sunday afternoon local time, they were tied 1:1 by Tottenham, who had lost Bale, at White Hart Lane. This makes them one point less than Arsenal despite playing one more game. They only scored 31 points after 17 Premier League games. This is completely different from the 25 points they scored in 10 Premier League games at the beginning of the season. Team.

A 1:1 away draw with Tottenham. Judging from the recent strength of old Redknapp’s team, Chelsea could accept this result. However, Drogba missed a penalty kick at the last minute, allowing the defending champion to score only 1 point. Not so willingly.

Tottenham's 6-game unbeaten run is worthy of celebration, but Chelsea has faced an embarrassing situation of 5-game winless streak, with 3 draws and 2 losses, and only 3 points. Even including the one-goal victory over Fulham, they have only scored 6 points in the past 7 rounds, averaging less than 1 point per game.

This has been since the 2000-2001 season,

Chelsea's longest winning streak was during the era of Ranieri's leadership. They had no wins, 2 losses and 4 draws in 6 games, and scored 7 points in 7 league games, 10 years ago.

In fact, Chelsea were winless for more than five rounds seven times in the Premier League era, all before 2001, before Abramovich took over at Stamford Bridge. The Blues, heavily armed with money, have never had an embarrassing record of 6 points in 7 rounds.

If it were Manchester United without Bale, the Blues' recent weakness would not be so obvious. After all, in another time and space, Manchester United, which had two games less at this moment, was only tied with them.

However, now that Bell has moved to Manchester United, Manchester United, which was originally in average form this season, is unexpectedly strong. The results of three wins and three draws can be called the best start since the establishment of the team.

In this way, the Blues' decline stands out.

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West London fans have mixed feelings towards Abramovich. Without the capital injection from the Russian tycoon, Mourinho's immense ability would not have been able to revive this aging club that had not won a championship in half a century and become the top club in Europe. But in the same way, Abramovich's signing of Shevchenko caused turmoil in the locker room and drove away Mourinho, an important figure who was at odds with him. It was he who almost personally ended the blue era of the Premier League. Inviting Hiddink and Ancelotti was a great move, but three consecutive years of stingy investment in the transfer market have made Chelsea's lineup increasingly outdated and leaky.

"Daily Mail" believes that Ancelotti may not be able to survive the devilish schedule in December. In fact, Ancelotti is also a clever woman who cannot make a meal without rice. When the personnel were fully assembled at the beginning of the season, it is obvious to all that the Blues performed well, but when Terry and Lampa After three pillars, Germany and Didier Drogba, were plagued by injuries one after another, and they could not find a suitable substitute on the bench, Chelsea's league and cup results plummeted.

The vacuum left by the departure of Ballack, Joe Cole, Deco, Carvalho, Belletti and others is simply not enough to be filled by a Ramirez and a half-broken Benayoun. The captain of the German team made it clear that it was Abramovich who drove them away in order to save money: "I talked to Ancelotti in the summer and he wanted me to stay, but other people made the decision."

The focus of Abramovich's attention has long been away from Stamford Bridge. He has watched fewer and fewer games on-site and has become more and more stingy in his investment in the team. Wilkinson, Arneson and others have been fired one after another, and the depth of the first-team bench has become thinner and thinner. They responded to every request at the beginning, but now they have almost no money and only rely on young people and free players to support the team. The invincible fleet built by one hand is almost deserted and dilapidated.

AC Milan fans will have the same feeling of sympathy. Berlusconi's behavior in the past few years is almost exactly the same as Abramovich today. The "Daily Telegraph" said that Abramovich will target big names such as Pato Aguero in the winter market. In fact, anyone with a discerning eye knows that this is not realistic. All Ancelotti will ask for is a few more practical players to enrich the lineup. .

It is a fact that Abramovich's net worth is shrinking, but it does not mean that he is no longer interested in football, but his focus has already shifted. For example, Russia recently won the right to host the 2018 World Cup, with Abramovich's financial support behind it. The gradual shift to Russia was Roman's plan, but Where should Chelsea go from here?

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