The Ball at Your Feet

Episode 812 Champions League Team

Updated: 2013-10-08

At this time, the Champions League round of sixteen matches have ended, and the qualified teams have also emerged.

Manchester United has succeeded without a doubt: their strength is unquestionable first. This season, Ronaldinho played the best season of his career, and Manchester United’s three-headed monster began to become famous in the league. Played all over the league invincible, and in the Champions League, it is just as easy to cut opponents under the horse. Their style of play has finally begun to take shape. On the offensive end, Ronaldinho, Carlos Tevez and Rooney's cooperation have begun to show their vigorous side, and the whole of Europe has begun to feel uneasy for their toughness.

And Chelsea is also qualifying: in fact, these years, Chelsea's signing has been good, except to provoke Barcelona on their own, they have hardly met other giants in their heyday when drawing lots. The giants they met were either Bayern in the Bundesliga, or Juventus behind the phone. Although they shouted every day that they had suffered UEFA persecution, in fact, their lottery was not bad at all. This time too, Olympiacos as their opponent, let them win effortlessly.

Arsenal and Liverpool also defeated their opponents side by side. This also means that the two Big Mac teams, Milan and Barcelona, ​​were eliminated.

Milan's fall came faster than people thought. Last season they have already begun to show signs of decline, but relying on their outstanding Champions League results, they are still not considered to be a dead end. But since this season, they can't maintain the top three results in the league, not to mention, even their always good Champions League results have also been problematic. After the 0-0 away game, they thought they would be able to win back at home, but who knows, after arriving at home, they lost 0-2 in their own stadium, and there was no hope.

Even they themselves did not think too much about the issue of winning. After the game, they were busy contacting Flamini, who played well in the game, and wanted to sign the Arsenal player. The practice is quite embarrassing. Once Milan was also a big European giant, and the buying hand was much stronger than other teams. But now it's reduced to a visa-free purchase of opponent players. This approach makes people a little confused about what to say.

What is even more surprising is that Milan's poor performance in the league this season is also obvious, and it may even fall into a dilemma of not being able to enter the Champions League. How shocking would it be if such a situation happened a little bit?

Compared with the decline of Milan, Barcelona's exit is amazing. This season, Liverpool left Zhao Yaning, fourth in the league and second in the group. It seems to many people that they have lost their status as a strong team. Barcelona beat them and thought it was a good thing to do, who knows When they really met, they realized that it was not the case: Liverpool played in a mess in the league, but in the Champions League, they immediately changed their appearance. This kind of league can be lost, the Champions League must win, so that Barcelona complains-how can a team play this way? The league played so badly, but in the Champions League it was so crazy and perverted.

In fact, if the analysis is done afterwards, it would not be surprising: Liverpool has gone with Zhao Yaning, without a good wing, in the Premier League environment, it is naturally impossible to play in the league. But in the Champions League, they still have an excellent central axis, Torres, Gerrard, Mascherano, Alonso, these people's outstanding performance, enough to ensure that they will not lose to anyone. Although the bench lineup is not good, Liverpool, which lost the ability to compete early, simply gave up the league and only played in the Champions League in rotation. The physical strength and personnel were sufficient. This made Barcelona naturally complain after encountering it.

After losing 1-4 away at home, Barcelona has not been able to reverse the situation. After a 1-2 defeat, Barcelona had a total score of 2-6 at home and away, completely tasted the bitter fruit of the defeat.

Lost in the Champions League round of sixteen, the league was too much to be suppressed by Real Madrid. At this time, Barcelona also spread the idea of ​​changing coach for the first time-this season, after the collapse of Sevilla and Valencia. , Real Madrid's last formidable enemy, also fell into a crash at this time.

But speaking of it, this is not a good thing either. The Premier League semi-finals have qualified, but La Liga is only left with a single seed. On another battlefield, Lyon under Mourinho defeated Sevilla and reached the quarterfinals, making Real Madrid the last hope of La Liga this year.

And like La Liga, Bundesliga, Ligue 1 and Serie A are the only ones left.

Needless to say, Ligue 1 is that Lyon's strength in France is now dominating. When it comes to promotion, it is naturally them. The Bundesliga advancement is Schalke 04. They defeated Porto. Although in terms of overall strength, Schalke 04’s strength is slightly worse than that of the Portuguese super giants Porto, but they were lucky to meet their goalkeeper in excellent condition: their young goalkeeper No. Ill has always been a well-known candidate for Germany's international football team, but his overall strength has always been considered lower than Leverkusen's Adler. However, in these two rounds, he played extremely well. Relying on his outstanding ability, he made Schalke 04 only conceded one goal in two games, and also allowed Schalke 04 to successfully drag the game. In overtime, and then through a penalty shootout, advance to the Champions League quarter-finals.

Serie A advanced, it is Serie A's top Inter Milan. As the most powerful team in Italy, their opponent is Fenerbahçe of Turkey. Such a duel is still very easy to deal with for Inter Milan. They defeated their opponents and advanced to the quarterfinals.

The Champions League quarter-finals, 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 era.

"Should it be four teams, each draw a Premier League team, and then fight each other, and then see who advances?"

In the Real Madrid team, everyone is not without speculation about this, but no one believes this idea.

"There should be two Premier League teams fighting each other, and then the remaining two teams from the four major leagues fighting each other. Otherwise, if the semi-finals are all Premier League teams, what is the UEFA Champions League? Wouldn't the total cup be better."

Raul said his opinion directly without any disguise. Although it is a lottery in name, everyone knows that UEFA has its own interest considerations. It is true that the Premier League team has entered the semi-finals. Then, UEFA will simply be included by the FA. In order to make money, they will not do that-UEFA still has to eat after all.

"Then which team will we have?"

Everyone is discussing this issue now. If it's the other three teams, Real Madrid is not afraid, but if it is Manchester United, Liverpool and Chelsea, Liverpool is really afraid.

"Don't worry about so much, whether it is the semi-finals or the eighths, are they all a loss? It makes no difference." Raul said, "I've played the game every time, looking at it, it’s better than anything else. Great."

After playing the Champions League, Real Madrid's next game is against Valencia. In this game, Real Madrid's frontcourt was rotated, Guti and Higuain both got the starting opportunities, Raul and Mata took a break again. In fact, up to now, except for Zhao Yaning who still maintains a very good physical strength, there is no problem, the other members of the team have more or less physical problems. At this time, they are not comfortable with the double matches in a week, especially the frontcourt players need to be rotated appropriately.

In this game, Real Madrid won without difficulty. Although Valencia's striker Villa played very well in the game, scoring a goal in the second half, but the final victory of this game still belongs 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 corner kick to help Pepe score. In the end, Zhao Yaning broke through the penalty area and was brought down. Completely locked in 4-2, this game, Real Madrid still won.

After a series of draws, it is still very happy for Real Madrid to be able to defeat a deadly enemy and win a key game. At this time, Zhao Yaning also left the team and went back to China to participate in the World Preliminaries.

"In this game, you sit on the bench first, don't play."

Although it is an away game, because the opponent is Oman, coach Gao is also a little bit courageous. He knows that Zhao Yaning has been tired from running back and forth recently. Instead of letting Zhao Yaning play again, he let Zhao Yaning sit on the bench. For China, the argument is naturally to protect the players, but Zhao Yaning always feels that he somewhat wants to try. , Without Zhao Yaning, what level can he bring the team to. As a coach, he has been coaching for so long, but he has always relied on the performance of 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 courageous enough and only dared to let Zhao Yaning sit on the bench instead of letting Zhao Yaning not come back at all. However, it is not a bad thing to be cautious. Zhao Yaning also sat on the bench and watched the game with great interest.

The game was okay. The only problem was that the game still seemed a little dull. The current Chinese team, to a certain extent, is also suffering from Zhao Yaning's dependence. When Zhao Yaning is on the field and when he is not on the field, they play two completely different games~www.wuxiaspot.com~ However, Oman is not after all. What a strong team, 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 said, "If you don't coach the national football team in the future, you should go abroad to see it."

"Are you banging me away?"

"I said in the future—for example, 10 years later. I think going abroad will help you a lot. I'm not talking about that kind of study or visit, I'm talking about finding a team and trying to coach a foreign country. The team. I find that it is rare to see Chinese coaches going abroad to make a living, why not try? I always mix in my own small circle, and there is always no improvement."

Coach Gao smiled, but didn't answer. Zhao Yaning estimated that he had his own ideas, so he didn't have to ask too much. He just said a few words and didn't ask more.

This season, there were only two national team matches, and the remaining four group matches will be after the end of the season. Zhao Yaning's national team mission was over, and he returned to Spain quietly.

"Two news, one good news, one bad news, which one do you want to hear first?"

Looking at Guti’s smile, Zhao Yaning estimated that the bad news would not be too bad, "What's the bad thing?"

"Bad? Of course we were eliminated in the Copa del Rey."

Oh, there is also a Copa del Rey...Zhao Yaning suddenly discovered that Spain really doesn't pay much attention to the Cup. At this time, Zhao Yaning remembered that he had never related to the Copa del Rey.

"And the good news..." Guti didn't wait for him to speak, and went on. "The results of the UEFA Champions League draw are out. We are lucky enough, Inter Milan-we have drawn a suitable opponent!"