The Glory of the Godfather

Chapter 793 Champions League! Champions League! (Seeking subscription monthly pass)

September 12.

The Business School of the University of Reading in the United Kingdom announced the latest market value rankings of the 20 Premier League teams.

This list is calculated from the 2003/2004 season until the 2010/2011 season. The income, profitability, loss data, net assets, stadium coverage, brand awareness and other items of the 20 Premier League clubs are included in the calculation range. .

The final result showed that the club with the highest market value in the Premier League top 20 was Manchester United.

The total value of the Red Devils reached 1.0604 billion pounds.

Arsenal ranked second, with a total market capitalization of £942.9 million.

Aston Villa ranked third, with a total market value of £560.3 million.

Chelsea ranked fourth with a total market value of 510.5 million pounds.

Aston Villa squeezed out Chelsea, Liverpool, Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester City to reach the top three, which is shocking.

The Independent, which disclosed the ranking of this list, believes that the total market value of Aston Villa is actually higher than the value recognized by the list.

The total market value of Aston Villa was ‘underestimated’ because it was dragged down by Fang Jue’s performance before taking over the team. In fact, the total market value of Aston Villa may have exceeded 600 million pounds.

With a group of talented stars, the team's salary control is relatively successful.

Won the Premier League championship for two consecutive seasons.

Especially winning the UEFA Champions League, which makes Aston Villa one of the most valuable clubs in the Premier League.

In addition, the "Independent" believes that when this list was written, the transfer transactions of Aston Villa's Senegalese players of close to 40 million pounds were not counted.

Reports from the UK have also attracted huge attention in China.

Mainstream sports websites even used the headline "Six Billionaires" to report the incident.

CCTV is also very interested in this and wants to invite Fang Jue to do a talk show. This is not a sports channel, but an international channel with considerable weight.

...

Germany.

Dortmund Airport.

The Aston Villa team arrived in Dortmund, and the arrival of the defending champion received great attention from the German media.

The confrontation between German clubs and Premier League teams was originally a high-profile confrontation in the Champions League.

Anglo-Germany, which was a rival to each other in the two world wars, is a traditional European rival, and this confrontation has even continued from the political level to football.

The battle between Britain and Germany is always a classic on the green field.

In the UEFA Champions League group stage this season, all three Bundesliga teams were blocked by Premier League powerhouses in the group, and Anglo-German pk once again became a topic throughout.

Although England is inferior to Germany at the national team level, last year the South Africa World Cup was slaughtered by Germany four to one.

But in the history of the Champions League, the English team has to overwhelm the German team.

From a long-term perspective, the number of times the English club will win the cup (12 times) is exactly twice that of the Germans (6 times).

More recently, the Premier League teams from the last 7 Champions League finals have participated in 6 sessions.

In 2008, there was also a civil war between Manchester United and Chelsea, but the Bundesliga team had only Bayern to reach the end in 2010 and finally lost to Inter Milan.

In recent years in the Champions League group stage, the Premier League team and the Bundesliga team have not met many times, but whenever they meet, the Bundesliga team is always difficult to please.

Manchester United overwhelmed Wolfsburg.

Chelsea insulted Bremen and Schalke.

Arsenal stepped on burgers.

Such a large-scale direct dialogue between the British and German teams in the group stage this season is quite rare in the UEFA Champions League in the new century, and the result of the grouping, at least on paper, once again the Bundesliga team is notorious.

Bayern Munich, with the strongest overall ability in the European war, is the only seeded team in the Bundesliga, but they have encountered Manchester City, the third-tier team that they don't want to touch.

Although Manchester City is a new player in the Champions League in the Premier League, they are not inferior to any giants.

Encircled by Manchester City, Villaril and Naples, Bayern not only has a hard time guaranteeing the top spot in the group, but even the slightest attention to qualifying tickets may be lost.

Last season, the Bundesliga champion Dortmund played good offensive football.

What's interesting is that both the German media and the English media believe that the tactics of the two teams are very similar.

From a tactical point of view, Klopp's Dortmund attaches great importance to the transitional moment of offensive and defensive transition.

The Germans pay particular attention to perfecting the team's defensive transition.

The specific method is to quickly press the opponent after conceding the ball in order to regain possession of the ball.

This concept is called "Gegenpressing" or high-pressure pressing.

In short, the rhythm will be disrupted immediately after the opponent gets the ball.

This can help Dortmund quickly switch from defensive to offensive mode: if the pressing is done well, then this chaotic situation can be used to regain the ball.

In order to execute their typical high-pressure press, the Hornets attack in a fairly narrow formation.

They often attack through a wing of the court, the goal is to break through this side, or use a compact formation to regain possession of the ball after losing the ball.

This sideline even increases the effect of pressure because it reduces the opponent's pass options.

This is very similar to Aston Villa.

When Aston Villa played away against defending champion Inter Milan last season, Bell scored a goal that Aston Villa's counterattack succeeded in a crazy press against Inter Milan on the left.

Aston Villa's style of play is to prevent the opponent from making any penetrating passes, and then immediately launch a high-pressure press when appropriate.

An opponent's low-quality pass, a ball-handling error, or a slow receiver movement means that they are about to face a crazy press from Aston Villa.

In this regard, Dortmund has also done quite well.

The English media even directly stated that Klopp was imitating and learning from Fang Jue's tactical style.

Of course, this kind of remarks made Klopp very unhappy.

In addition, due to the collision between Aston Villa and Dortmund, many of the Dortmund team members Fang Jue were in the old department of Ibiza.

Hummels, Royce and Lewandowski, these three players are the absolute main players of Dortmund, and can even be said to be important core players.

In a sense, when the three players joined Ibiza, they were all unknown.

Fang Jue excavated and cultivated them with one hand, it was their Bole.

This is also a major attraction of this game.

...

The day of the match.

The Aston Villa team arrived at Iduna Signal Park.

In the corridor of the locker room, Fang Jue met the Dortmund players who were ready to go out to warm up.

Royce and Hummels both came to hug Fang Jue enthusiastically.

Lewandowski hesitated and finally walked over to hug Fang Jue.

"Robert, aren't you angry?" Fang Jue said with a smile.

Royce and Hummels are happy to return to Dortmund from Ibiza.

German players are generally willing to play in the Bundesliga, and the two players do not want to continue to follow Fang Jue's wishes.

Lewandowski is not the case. Compared with the two German teammates, he is more grass-rooted, and he is more grateful to Fang Jue for his appreciation and training.

The Polish center is eager to continue to follow Fang Jue.

After Greno joined Aston Villa, when chatting with Fang Jue, he mentioned that Lewandowski had previously complained when he was in Ibiza. He said that Fang Jue did not bring him to Aston Villa. Pull, there are opinions.

Hearing Fang Jue's words, Lewandowski scratched his head in embarrassment.

After a brief greeting, the Dortmund people went to warm up.

Aston Villa soon came to the stadium to warm up.

Fang Jue stood on the sidelines watching.

He was observing Dortmund.

"Robert is serious." Ceballos said to the other side.

Fang Jue smiled. Of course he could see it and guessed Lewandowski’s psychology. This kid must be holding his breath. In this game, he must give Aston Villa as much as possible. trouble.

This guy wanted to tell Fang Jue in this way: it was wrong to not take him to Vera and choose him.

...

CCTV broadcasted the game live.

When the live broadcast signal cut in, the players of both sides had already entered.

"This is the Champions League debut of the defending Champions League champion Aston Villa this season, the Premier League champion and the Bundesliga champion, the collision of two teams with very similar play styles."

"Let's take a look at the starting lineup of both sides." He Wei said. ,

"Aston Villa, the goalkeeper is the old American goalkeeper Friedel."

"The central defender is a new combination of Senderos and Papasta Sopoulos. Aston Villa let go of the Senegalese when the transfer window was about to close, which also made the Greek defender the main central defender of Villa. ."

"Left back is Milner."

"The right back is Kyle Walker."

"The midfielders are Clement, Modric, Gareth Bale and Mane."

"The front line is Suarez and veteran Klose."

"Aston Villa can be said to be the main force."

"On Dortmund's side, the goalkeeper is Weidenfeller."

"The central defender is a combination of Hummels and Subotic."

"The right back is Pišček."

"Left back is Schmelzer."

"The midfielders are Kyle, Gotze, Shinji Kagawa and Svende."

"On the front line are Royce and Lewandowski."

Two teams, one is the Premier League for two consecutive championships, the other is the Bundesliga new division champion, the general opinion of the commentators from various countries who explain this game is that this represents the collision between the strongest Bundesliga and the strongest Premier League.

Some commentators even joked that this is a collision with the level of the Champions League final.

Fang Jue shook hands with Klopp.

The two people just greeted each other, then let go of their hands, turned and walked towards their respective coaching benches.

"Interesting." Fang Jue said with a smile.

"What's the matter?" Ceballos asked.

Fang Jue shook his head and said nothing.

He saw a strong fighting spirit in Klopp's eyes.

Fang Jue has encountered many such challenging eyes. It is no surprise that he has seen so many, but it is the first time that Klopp has seen such a strong one. This one can almost say that he has not concealed it. A desire to defeat Fang Jue means.

"I want to beat this guy." Klopp said to his assistant.

"You have said this many times." Pete Kravitz said.

The origin of Kravitz and Klopp goes back to when the latter was still a player in Mainz. At that time Kravitz was a video analyst in the team. One of his tasks was to point out his presence to Klopp. Where improvement is needed on the above, the exchange of skills and tactics between the two began.

After becoming a coach, Klopp quickly absorbed Kravitz into the coaching team. From Mainz to Dortmund, Kravitz has been working alongside Klopp and has proven his ability to assist a champion coach.

Analyzing skills and tactics through video and other analysis methods, finding the weaknesses of players and teams, and designing targeted exercises with reasonable design...This has been Kravitz's main work for a long time, and his work is indeed quite good.

In order to prepare for this game, Kravitz compiled Aston Villa's massive video analysis and conducted in-depth research with Klopp.

Klopp didn't say anything. He had a feeling that this Chinese coach would become his longest enemy.

Moreover, facing Fang Jue, Klopp always felt that his luck was robbed by his opponent.

Then he turned his head and saw Aston Villa's Senegalese player Mane, and Klopp made no secret of his appreciation for this black player.

"Pete, you said, if we buy Mane from Aston Villa, will Fang Jue let go?" Klopp asked.

"I don't know." Kravitz shook his head. "But, I'm sure about one thing."

"What?" Klopp asked.

"We can't afford it," Kravitz said.

Klopp:...

...

The game has started.

The guest Aston Villa kicked off first.

Aston Villa was not conservative, but rebelled against the goal, and attacked Dortmund's goal at the beginning of the game.

Modric passed the football straight from midfield to Suarez in front.

Suarez leaned on Dortmund's central defender Subotic.

He stamped the football under his feet.

Subotic was behind Suarez, and he stretched out his long leg to steal the ball.

Suarez held Subotic, he was about to turn around, but knocked the football.

Klose takes the ball.

Hummels approached Klose immediately.

Just when Hummels was about to break the ball, Klose pulled the football back.

He gave the football to his side and told Gareth Bale who was inserted.

"Bell received a wonderful pass from Klose! Breakthrough!"

Bell directly changed direction in an accelerating manner and deducted the Svende who had intercepted him.

Fortunately, Dortmund's right back Pishček came forward at this critical moment.

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Pišček shot from the side.

A clean tackle.

The football was shoveled out of the sideline!

There was a burst of applause and cheers from the stands of the Iduna Signal Park Stadium, applauding Pišček for this precise tackle.

Fang Jue waved his hand regretfully from the sidelines. If Bell rushes past, he will enter the penalty area. If he can start the game and score, it will be a dream start.

He stared at Pišček. When he was in Ibiza that year, Fang Jue wanted to introduce Pišček. Dortmund did not let anyone go, and at that time Ibiza could not afford it.

The Polish full-back is indeed very good, not well-known, but he has good strength and is very useful.

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