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Plague! A terrible plague! This is an irresistible plague that has swept the entire European Hall of Fame League and destroyed all the original order in the past!

Just like what Mourinho muttered on the sidelines of the Gerland Stadium, the world has indeed gone crazy, so crazy that everyone is at a loss.

In the past 24 hours, I am afraid that all of Europe has been immersed in an atmosphere of skepticism that cannot be extricated, and everything has become unpredictable.

What is the truth? What is an illusion? What should be? What should not be? What is the standard? What is absurd? Everything is messed up.

Any so-called professionalism and discussion under normal reason have become meaningless after these 24 hours. A plague beyond everyone's imagination has completely wiped out the order of European football and destroyed the banquets of the rich that have been passed down for decades.

Four non-traditional rich teams have completely turned the once five-star European Champions Cup into a UEFA Cup match like a food stall.

Even UEFA officials complained privately that this damn team lineup is not as luxurious as last year's League Cup. Is this still the European Champions League?

The most angry people must be the TV stations that bought the broadcasting rights of this Champions League. They really don't know if anyone will pay to buy out the advertising time of the semi-finals and finals. After all, the ratings will be very worrying. This may be something that no one thought of before the start of the Champions League.

April 11 is the traditional and ancient Easter in Europe, but since it came, all traditions and order have been dead.

All the followers of the giants can only helplessly sing a "Requiem" for the team they regard as their life when Easter comes.

The prosperous traditional giants in European football have become coquettish and ethereal because of these two obscure match days, and there are faint chants floating in the air.

Arsenal, which represents elegance, Real Madrid, which represents luxury, and Milan, which represents stability, have all been thrown into a huge funeral ceremony.

Half a month ago, if someone dared to say that he could predict the future, then the best way would be to let him write down the final list of the Champions League semi-finals.

If what he wrote was correct, then this guy is either a prophet or a time traveler, because this may be the most bizarre game in the past half century.

None of the teams in the Champions League semi-finals can be considered a giant, and even the quasi-giants seem very reluctant, purely a bunch of long-term soy sauce.

Among all the teams that did not lose in the first round of the game, only Porto team maintained its unbeaten record away from home, and the rest of the teams all fell.

Especially the giant teams like Real Madrid and AC Milan that beat their opponents by a large score in the first round, they lost a lot.

It is estimated that if someone bet on this game, I don’t know how many people will lose everything and be left with nothing, because this game is too weird.

Just like Brito's expression of surprise and numbness when he heard the result of AC Milan, the whole of Italy was so confused that night. The team that could be defeated in San Siro in just ten minutes, with a 4:1 score difference, a super luxurious lineup, and a rock-solid defense line.

Everything seemed to indicate before the game started that this was just a meaningless away trip, and the result was already doomed.

But God told the Italians with facts that the Iberian Peninsula is always a world you can't see through, and it seems like there is magic here.

Ancient Spanish books tell us that the Galicia region in the north of the Iberian Peninsula has always been a land full of witchcraft and spells.

This time, Deportivo La Coruna showed their mysterious magic in front of fans all over Europe. This was a 90-minute magic feast.

Some teams just like to explode in desperate situations. This team, which has always emphasized overall combat and has a pitifully low transfer budget, is not afraid of any opponent when it is crazy. In recent years, Deportivo La Coruna has had too many classics of the weak defeating the strong in the European arena.

But this time, AC Milan became their dead soul. Deportivo La Coruna needed to score three goals before the start of the game to advance.

Facing AC Milan, a team with a quasi-Italian national team defense, this is basically an impossible task. Deportivo La Coruna has proved this in the away game. They lost badly in the last game. Ten minutes, three goals, this is the gift from the Italians to them.

But everyone forgot that Deportivo La Coruna is the craziest nerve knife in the whole of Spain. When they go all out, they can destroy everything.

In the fifth round of the league, Real Madrid was pressed on the grass of the Bernabeu by Deportivo La Coruna, which had previously drawn and lost one.

In that game, Real Madrid had no chance to fight back from beginning to end. It was at the Bernabeu, and it was also the first time that Queiroz heard the voice of dismissal.

This is the Deportivo La Coruna team. They dared to lose 0:2 to the bottom team in the league at home, and they dared to act like a big boss on Real Madrid's territory!

You can never predict how these guys will play in the next game, but when they are on the verge of despair, they will suddenly explode.

Just like this game, from the moment the whistle sounded, they gave it their all. Irueta stood on the sidelines like a conqueror.

He was using his crazy shouting to drive the team's attack. Even if the defenders failed to press forward in time, this guy would scold them at the top of his lungs.

Under Irueta's urging, the eleven players on the field of the Deportivo La Coruna team launched an attack on AC Milan's concrete defense.

Compared with Ancelotti, Irueta brought this kind of psychopathic temperament to the entire Deportivo La Coruna team, and they collectively went crazy.

Pandiani, Belleron, Luke and Fran, who came on as a substitute, are probably names that Italians will remember in the next few months.

Deportivo La Coruna gave back everything they had encountered in San Siro two weeks ago to AC Milan. The score was 3:0 at the end of the first half.

Fran's goal in the second half completely nailed AC Milan to the pillar of shame. This bad night can be regarded as the most tragic defeat of the Rossoneri.

The last time AC Milan lost so badly was 46 years ago, but this night, they experienced the bitterness of losing that year again.

There is no savior in the super luxurious lineup. Kaka, Shevchenko, Inzaghi, Nesta, no one can really save AC Milan.

Luxurious lineup does not mean victory. This truth was repeated twice in the Champions League quarter-finals. The first time was AC Milan and the second time was Real Madrid.

Like the unlucky Italians, Real Madrid was stabbed twice at Monaco's home court by the old players they abandoned.

Leading 4:2 in the first round, and scoring a goal away from home, Real Madrid had even half of their bodies in the top four before the end of the first half, but Morientes used his head to push this group of proud white warriors back.

Monaco did not have any exquisite cooperation. Deschamps, a pragmatist, pursued a simple and direct offensive method, breaking through the side and passing.

Giuly and Rothen's breakthroughs, Morientes's grabbing points, they relied on this routine to kill Deportivo La Coruna 8:3 in the group stage.

This time they still relied on this simple offensive method to overturn the Real Madrid team, powerful headers, and grabbing points in front of the goal, which was enough.

One pass and one shot, this former Spanish national team's starting center, who was regarded as useless by Florentino, took ruthless revenge.

Although Morientes and Raul, the old partner, could still hug each other affectionately before the game, he became the avenger in the game.

Morientes never said anything about revenge to Florentino, but this guy's actual actions came very quickly.

Throughout the game, this Real Madrid abandoned player used his strong performance to make all the superstars on the entire Galaxy Battleship dim.

The only light source left on the Real Madrid field is probably the shiny bald heads of Carlos, Zidane and Ronaldo.

The lineup worth more than 100 million euros was defeated in front of the French, and Queiroz could not even find a solution.

This tragic guy tried to find the reason for his failure after the game, but the media has begun to predict when he will be laid off.

The entire management of Real Madrid will not give this guy any chance, even if it means paying a huge penalty.

Anyway, now the people of Madrid are eager for this bad luck to get out of the team as soon as possible. He has brought a disastrous season to Real Madrid.

Not only is the league now ranked third, but in the Champions League, which they value most, they can't even enter the semi-finals. What a stick!

The offense that Real Madrid was once most proud of was not seen this time. Only Raul's goal was a threat throughout the game.

Neither Zidane nor Ronaldo could scare Monaco in the game. The French could even say that they had no pressure.

Even in the 80th minute of the game, Deschamps dared to replace Morientes from the field and accept the worship of the whole Monaco alone.

This is simply a slap in the face of Florentino, who is sitting in the stands at the moment. This is the first time in five years that Real Madrid has missed the semi-finals.

And the knife that stabbed them to death was handed to Deschamps by Florentino himself. This is probably the most ironic joke in this Champions League.

Compared with these two tragic guys, Arsenal's death is not too unfair. At least they were not reversed by their opponents. One draw and one loss, at least it looks better.

But Arsenal has been able to maintain an unbeaten record in the Premier League, but Wenger fell to the Chelsea team he hated the most, which made the professor very angry.

If Wenger's mortal enemy was Ferguson before, then starting from this season, Chelsea has successfully replaced the old Sir Alex.

Especially Peter Kenyon's practice of publicly waving checks to attract Arsenal players made the professor full of disgust for them.

Chelsea is such a robber, they don't care about any rules, just so blatantly put the check under the opponent's nose.

Ashley Cole, Vieira, Henry, these are all Chelsea's acquisition targets, and they have even promised high salaries to the players.

London derby sometimes is not only on the field, but also on the negotiation table. Here, a lot of money is the master of everything.

Wenger was forced to adjust his salary structure because of Chelsea's aggressive acquisition trend. No wonder he hates them so much.

But the reality is so cruel. In the league, the professor can suppress Chelsea's rising momentum, but he lost to his opponent in the Champions League.

In the two rounds of the game, Arsenal has never taken advantage. Compared with their opponents, they obviously lack a kind of brave temperament.

"The King of Highbury" Henry also lost his sharp offensive edge and was completely submerged in Chelsea's muscular defense.

"Only the domestic league can truly reflect the strength of a team. Even if a team can really win the Champions League, it cannot prove that their strength is the strongest in the whole of Europe. It can only mean that they are lucky enough." This is what Wenger said to reporters after being eliminated.

Maybe when he said this, Wenger was still full of anger. He could only use the fact that he was eight points ahead of Chelsea in the league to cover up the depression of failure.

In one week, they were eliminated from the FA Cup by Manchester United with a score of 1-0, and then they were eliminated by Chelsea in the Champions League quarterfinals. It is no wonder that Wenger was so resentful when he spoke. The morale of the Arsenal team can be said to have reached the bottom at this moment.

Originally, they were advancing in parallel on three fronts and had an unbeaten record for a season, but within a week, they were overturned by two major opponents.

No matter who it was, it is estimated that they would not be in a good mood. Wenger did not curse in public in front of the media, which was considered to be a good temper. If it was Ferguson, he might have thrown a few shoes in the locker room. The elimination in the Champions League caused Arsenal to suffer heavy losses.

Originally, the construction of the new stadium made Wenger's pockets not very rich. Now that Arsenal was eliminated again, he lost a lot of income.

I really don’t know where the French will find some money to continue to contribute to the team when summer comes. That is a lot of money.

Especially for Lin Yi, who he had his eyes on, Wenger could already foresee that this would be a big deal when Chelsea and Manchester United were eyeing him.

Not many people care about how these losers feel now, although the newspapers still analyze the various reasons why the giants were eliminated in lengthy articles.

The teams that successfully entered the semi-finals will be the focus in the future, especially between Monaco, Chelsea and Porto, which are mixed with many other factors. The struggle between Ranieri, Mourinho and Deschamps may be the biggest highlight in the Champions League semi-finals.

On one side is the Italian coach who is not satisfied with Peter Kenyon and the Russian boss, and the other two are the coaching candidates that Chelsea wants to recruit.

The result of this confrontation may determine who will eventually take over Chelsea, and this suspense is the topic that those media reporters are interested in.

Chelsea not only set off a bloody storm in the transfer market, they even refused to let go of the head coach circle, and the rich are so confident.

But it is very funny that in the past, the worse the club's performance was, the more attention the media paid to the fate of the team's head coach.

Now Chelsea is the opposite. They are fighting on two fronts. The better the team's performance, the more suspense there is about whether Ranieri will be fired.

If Chelsea's performance is not good, it is natural for Ranieri to leave, but Chelsea has reached the semi-finals of the Champions League, which is a record in their team history, and they are also closely following Arsenal in the Premier League. With the current momentum, there is a certain hope for both championships.

But even with such excellent results, there are still constant news about Ranieri's departure next season, and even the candidates have been selected.

Mourinho and Deschamps are both on the list, and Mendes can testify to this, so whether Ranieri wins or loses, he is a tragic figure.

I just don't know if Peter Kenyon and Abramovich will change their original ideas if he can bring Chelsea to the top of Europe.

Anyway, the competition between these three people will become the hottest topic in the semi-finals, especially the confrontation between Deschamps and Ranieri.

Unlike the hot topics in the media, after the final list of the top four was finalized, the Porto team seemed very calm and did not celebrate too wildly.

If Mourinho's biggest wish after defeating Manchester United was to bring the team to the Schalke Stadium, then now he is already coveting the final championship. This may be the best time for him to lead the team to the top of the Champions League. If he misses it, it may be his biggest regret.

If Real Madrid, AC Milan and Arsenal occupied the other three seats, Mourinho would definitely not be so arrogant to fantasize about the feeling of the champion.

But now compared with Porto, the other three teams are also on the same starting line, which does not allow Mourinho not to consider the problem of the final.

Deportivo La Coruña, the nerve knife of La Liga, is sharp, but Mourinho is confident that he can successfully defeat the opponent in two rounds of games.

Porto can successfully pass so many levels by relying on stable performance. They do not have too many loopholes in offense and defense.

This is a far cry from the crazy performance of Deportivo La Coruna. Even if the opponent is in high spirits, Mourinho is confident that he can kill the opponent.

It doesn't matter who is the final winner between the other two teams. Porto has won both Ligue 1 and the Premier League.

Especially against the French team, the record of winning all four games can make Porto full of confidence. The victory over Manchester United makes Porto no longer afraid of the strength of the British. Perhaps, lifting the final trophy is really not a dream. The glory of 1986 may really reappear. . .

(I am really sad about Yi Di's recent performance...)