Young Football Player

After the weekend's league games, the next step is the much-watched Champions League semi-finals.

However, in the weekend's league, Manchester United led by Moyes in the Premier League lost to his old club Everton in an away game, which caused the team to completely miss the Champions League next season, so they were fired.

Manchester United fired the head coach, and the next step is to hype the question of new coach candidates.

At present, Louis van Gaal of the Dutch national team, Guardiola of Bayern, Klopp of Dortmund, etc., have been widely reported by the English media.

There are Simeone of Atletico Madrid and Stevens of Schalke. It is said that these two are also the goals of Manchester United.

The English media also said that it was quite decent, saying that Manchester United wanted to invite Stevens to coach, and by the way let the Dutchman do ideological work for Lee Chenglong and bring him to Manchester United.

In other words, Manchester United wants to pack Jackie Chan and Stevens at the same time.

However, at this important moment when the Champions League semi-final is approaching, neither Lee Jackie Chan nor Stevens stepped forward to respond to this matter.

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On April 21st, the Atletico Madrid team came to Gelsenkirchen under the leadership of the bandit coach Simeone. The battle between the two dark polo teams can be said to be on the verge of breaking out.

Atletico Madrid Chairman Cerezo, who came with the team, was very confident in an interview with a German reporter: "We will not be eliminated by Schalke 04, no matter in terms of historical record or the overall strength of the team. of."

"And every time Atletico Madrid has reached the Champions League semi-finals in history, they will not lose to simple opponents..."

This time is the fourth time in the history of the Atletico Madrid team to reach the semi-finals of the Champions League, and it has been 40 years since they reached the semi-finals of the Champions League last time. opponent.

In the 58/59 season, both Atletico Madrid and Schalke participated in the Champions League for the first time. Then Atletico Madrid stepped on Schalke and reached the semi-finals, and then lost to their rivals in the same city. At that time, they were completing the five consecutive Champions League championships. Real Madrid.

Speaking of which, Atletico Madrid lost 1:2 at the away game and won 1:0 at home. However, at that time, the Champions League did not have the rule that away goals dominated, so even if the two sides drew 2:2, then In the rematch on another day, Atletico Madrid was eliminated 1:2.

If there was a rule that away goals were dominant at that time, it should be Atletico Madrid that eliminated Real Madrid.

In the UEFA Champions League in the 70/71 season, Atletico Madrid reached the Champions League semi-finals for the second time. This time they met Ajax led by Cruyff, the Eredivisie overlord who is in the Champions League for three consecutive times.

Even in the face of the mighty Ajax, Atletico Madrid still won the opponent 1:0 at home first, but they failed to withstand the second round and were turned over by the opponent 3:0.

Then in the 73/74 season, Atletico Madrid reached the semi-finals of the Champions League for the third time. This time they met the Celtics in the semi-finals, a not-so-strong opponent, so they successfully defeated each other by 2:0 Advance to the final.

Then they met Bayern Munich in the final, led by Beckenbauer, Gerd Müller and others, the Bundesliga southern stars who are completing the task of winning three consecutive Champions League titles.

Atletico Madrid lost even more wrongly this time. They made full preparations for the final. In the final, relying on their tenacious defense, Bayern had nothing to do. A goal, but at the end of overtime, it was equalized by a shocking long-range shot from the Bayern defender.

According to today's game rules, then the next step is a penalty shootout, which is basically a 50-50 tiebreaker. Even if you have a clear advantage in Bayern,

In the penalty shootout, there is no advantage.

Under such circumstances, it is the strong teams that are prone to psychological fluctuations due to an unexpected draw, which leads to abnormal performance in penalty shootouts, and thus many lose the championship. starter

The most typical example is the UEFA Champions League final in 1986. The obviously stronger Barcelona was tied 0:0 by the Romanian team Steaua Bucharest in the final, which caused the mentality of the Barcelona team to explode in the penalty shootout, and there were exaggerated four free throws. Lost, let Steaua Bucharest win the championship directly with two of four free throws.

You know, Barcelona has always been labeled as a technical football. Their players have very solid basic skills, but when their mentality is exploding, they can't make a single penalty.

But it is a pity that in European football in 1974, penalty shootouts had not yet been invented. If there was a tie after overtime, the way to deal with it was to choose a rematch.

So in the rematch, Bayern, which was obviously stronger, made preparations and directly slaughtered Atletico Madrid 4:0, winning the championship that year.

Before the birth of the penalty shootout, the rules of football were obviously more beneficial to the strong teams, at least that is the case for a tie and a rematch at another day, and at the same time, it also prevented some weak teams from relying on reasonable tactics to complete An upset counterattack.

In fact, it is difficult to say clearly which of the two rules is better.

Atletico Madrid's first three Champions League semi-finals in team history were lost to very strong teams, Real Madrid for five consecutive championships, Ajax for three consecutive championships, and Bayern for three consecutive championships.

The only three three-peat teams in the history of the Champions League have all been hit by Atletico Madrid, which is also enough.

That's why their chairman said that Atletico Madrid will not lose to Schalke or weak teams.

Faced with such a statement, Li Chenglong also responded in front of reporters.

"Reassure them that Schalke will give them what they want."

"Believe me, after this season Schalke will be a legend."

"Losing to a legend, it doesn't make them lose face."

Jackie Lee said that Schalke will become a legend this season, which is undoubtedly to say that Schalke will eventually win the Champions League.

Only by winning the Champions League can one be called a legend.

If a team like Schalke 04 can really win the UEFA Champions League, especially in this kind of championship that was picked up from the cracks of many powerful players, not because all the powerful players were upset and out of the game, then it will It can indeed be called a legend.

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At 8:45 p.m. on April 22nd local time in Germany, on Tuesday night, Schalke's home game against Atletico Madrid will start at the Aofu Schalke Stadium.

At present, there are no important players in the two teams injured or suspended, so they have arranged their own strongest lineups.

Schalke is still the most commonly used 442 formation,

Goalkeeper: Keylor Navas;

Defenders: Kolasinac, Matip, Höwedes, Uchida Atsuto;

Midfielders: Kante, Neustedt, Kevin Boateng, Draxler;

Forwards: Huntelaar, Jackie Lee.

The visiting Atletico Madrid is a 4411 formation,

Goalkeeper: Courtois

Defenders: Felipe, Godin, Miranda, Juanfran;

DM: Koke, Mario Suarez, Gabi, Raul Garcia;

Attacking midfielder: Diego;

Forward: Diego Costa.

Atletico Madrid directly arranged a four-back midfielder formation. The intention is obvious, that is, they want to focus on defense in Schalke, which is what they are best at.

In the past two seasons, Atletico Madrid has sprung up under the leadership of Simeone, and their fierce defense is their biggest label.

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