Young Football Player

The results of the UEFA Champions League semi-final draw came out, and naturally the media from all over the world had to release the lottery.

First of all, the result of this year's draw is the opportunity for Real Madrid and Barcelona to meet in the Champions League final.

In the previous Champions League history, Barcelona and Real Madrid have successfully reached the semi-finals in the same Champions League four times, but in the 01/02 season and the 10/11 season, they met in the semi-finals in advance.

In the other two situations where the two sides did not meet in advance, they failed to meet in the final.

In the 99/00 season, this was the first time that both sides reached the Champions League semi-finals at the same time. Real Madrid successfully defeated their opponent Bayern in the semi-finals, but Barcelona lost to Valencia, also a La Liga team.

In the 11/12 season, Barcelona and Real Madrid both reached the semi-finals of the Champions League and did not meet in advance, but they lost to Chelsea and Bayern in the semi-finals respectively, and neither of them made it to the final.

Now this time, it will be a good opportunity for Barcelona and Real Madrid to meet in the Champions League final for the first time.

According to the results of the semi-final draw, Barcelona is superior to Juventus, and Real Madrid is also superior to Liverpool.

So this time Barcelona and Real Madrid want to meet in the final, the chances are quite high.

Especially in this group of finals between Liverpool and Real Madrid, everyone generally believes that Real Madrid's promotion is a high probability event.

In the group stage, Liverpool and Real Madrid were in the same group, but Liverpool was 0:3 at home and 0:1 away, and they were double-killed by Real Madrid in two rounds.

Now that the two sides meet again in the semi-finals, the media certainly believe that Real Madrid will definitely advance.

Even the English media, who always like to create topics, feel that Liverpool have overfulfilled their tasks by reaching the semi-finals of the Champions League, and they will not be ashamed even if they are eliminated.

In short, the current European media are generally pessimistic about Liverpool, thinking that Real Madrid's promotion to the final is just around the corner.

Even the London media has begun to take the rhythm. They deliberately hyped that Liverpool defeated the strongest Chelsea in the Premier League in the UEFA Champions League civil war, but now most of them will walk to Real Madrid in the semi-finals.

When Liverpool is really eliminated in the semi-finals of the Champions League, at least a hat of civil war insider and outsider is indispensable.

For all kinds of sayings, as the star of Liverpool, Lee Chenglong,

I also had to stand up and defend the team.

"The semi-finals of the Champions League have not yet started, I don't think Liverpool will definitely lose to Real Madrid."

"Although we were double-killed by Real Madrid in the group stage, in the history of the Champions League, we were double-killed by the opponent in the group stage, but eliminated each other after meeting again in the knockout round. This situation has happened."

"If everyone else can do it, why can't Liverpool?"

"Also, everyone, don't forget that this season Real Madrid is the team that won all the group matches. In the history of the Champions League, no team that has won the group stage has ever had a good result..."

In fact, in the history of the Champions League, teams from the same group want to meet again in the knockout round, which is really relatively rare.

At the same time, it is even less likely that they will be double-killed in the group stage, and then counter-eliminate the opponent after meeting in the knockout round.

In the history of the UEFA Champions League, there has been one and only one time, that is the 99/00 season. At that time, the UEFA Champions League had two rounds of group matches, that is, the top 32 entered the 16th group stage, and the top 16 entered the 8th round. In the group stage, Real Madrid and Bayern met in the second round of the group stage.

At that time, Bayern beat Real Madrid 4:2 away and 4:1 at home in the group stage, but after the two teams met again in the semi-finals, Real Madrid eliminated Bayern 2:0 at home, 1:2 away, and eliminated Bayern 3:2 in two rounds. Entered the final and successfully won the championship.

Therefore, Real Madrid is the only team that has been double-killed in the group stage but counter-killed the opponent in the knockout stage.

But now, Liverpool's opponent happens to be Real Madrid, and it is more difficult to do the same with them.

In addition, Real Madrid has won all the Champions League group matches this season, which has become an excuse for Li Chenglong to say.

In the history of the Champions League, the teams that maintained a complete victory in the group stage did not achieve good results.

The UEFA Champions League in 1992/93 was the first edition after the restructuring of the UEFA Champions League. The group stage was introduced for the first time, but the number of entries in the UEFA Champions League had not been fully released at that time, and the group stage was arranged for the quarter-finals.

The eight teams in the quarter-finals will be divided into two groups for the group stage, and the first place in each group will directly enter the final.

It was AC Milan's heyday at that time. They kept winning all six games in the group stage, but faced the Ligue 1 team Marseille in the final and lost to the opponent 0:1 unexpectedly.

Marseille is the only team in the history of Ligue 1 that has won the Champions League. Although they were exposed to match-fixing cases shortly after winning the Champions League, since match-fixing cases mainly occurred in Ligue 1, Marseille, although Was forced to relegation, but the Champions League champions retained.

In fact, the match-fixing case back then was also somewhat related to the Champions League. At that time, Marseille was ruling Ligue 1. They had reached the Champions League final two years ago, but because they were distracted by the domestic league, they were defeated by Red Star Belgrade in the Champions League final. 0 draw, the final penalty shootout lost the champion.

So two years later, Marseille reached the Champions League final again. They were smart enough to bribe the players of the league rival Valenciennes, and let the opponent release water so that Marseille could win the Ligue 1 championship in advance, so they could concentrate on preparing for the Champions League final. In the end, he successfully won the Champions League.

Marseille was indeed very strong back then, and it has begun to step out of the regular routine of the previous Ligue 1 teams-the level that trains stars for the four major leagues full-time, gathered a group of very capable players, and completed the Ligue 1. Five consecutive championships, including two finals in three years in the Champions League.

Looking back today, if Marseille’s management hadn’t been smart enough to make those small moves and continued to develop the team step by step, they would definitely be able to rule Ligue 1 for a long time, and it would be a matter of time before they won the Champions League.

After ten or eight years of accumulation, Marseille is likely to develop into the only giant team in Ligue 1, just like Bayern in the Bundesliga.

Unfortunately, nothing if.

AC Milan is the only team in the history of the UEFA Champions League that won the group stage. Although they failed to win the championship that year, reaching the final is already the best result of a team that has won the group stage.

In the UEFA Champions League in the 94/95 season, Paris Saint-Germain led by George Weah won all the group matches, but they were eliminated by AC Milan in the final semi-finals.

In the UEFA Champions League in the 95/96 season, the Russian Super League team Spartak Moscow unexpectedly won the UEFA Champions League group stage. However, their group stage victory was due to weak opponents, so the gold content was not high.

Spartak Moscow's opponents in the group stage are Polish team Legia Warsaw, Norwegian team Rosenborg and Premier League team Blackburn.

This group should have been prepared for the Premier League defending champion Blackburn, but Blackburn, as the newcomers to the Champions League, played very badly in their first Champions League trip, and they were directly eliminated from the bottom of the group, so Sparta Moscow unexpectedly won the group stage Total victory.

And Sparta Moscow was eliminated by the Ligue 1 team Nantes immediately after entering the knockout round, and it really has no combat effectiveness.

In the UEFA Champions League in the 02/03 season, Barcelona was assigned to a simple group in the group stage, with Lokomotiv Moscow, Belgium Bruges, and Galatasaray. They successfully won the group stage, but were sent to Juventus in the quarterfinals of the Champions League Walk.

In the UEFA Champions League in the 11/12 season, Real Madrid won the group stage, but they were eliminated by Bayern in the semi-finals of the Champions League.

Now this is the second time that Real Madrid has won the UEFA Champions League group stage, but it is still unclear what results they can finally achieve.