Chapter 116: Champion Reaper, Pre-World Cup Warm-up Match
With the referee on duty Milora Demazic three long whistles, the 2017-2018 UEFA Champions League final officially ended, Real Madrid finally defeated Liverpool 4:2 with Tang Zheng's two goals and goals from Benzema and Bale to win the final championship.
The impact of the end of the game is very great, because Tang Zheng has won five Champions League titles for Dortmund and Real Madrid in just six seasons, if it were not for the conflict with Cristiano Ronaldo in the 2015-2016 season, which led to the sluggish state of the whole team, he may even become a miracle at the beginning of the Champions League on behalf of Real Madrid The Champions League has started for five consecutive years!
Still, Tang Zheng's achievements are amazing.
At the beginning of the Champions League, the participating teams had uneven abilities, not at all like the current blooming of a hundred flowers, and the big teams in the four major leagues have the possibility of winning the Champions League.
Otherwise, how could Real Madrid wait until the 2013-2014 and 2014-2015 seasons to become the first team to successfully defend the Champions League since its restructuring?
The Champions League is much more competitive now than it was in the past.
In addition, Tang Zheng's five Champions League titles were all won by his hard work, which is admirable.
While winning the fifth Champions League title of his career, Tang Zheng also surpassed Di Stéfano to become the player with the most goals in the history of the Champions League final.
As Xu Yang, a guest commentator of Yang 5, said, Tang Zheng, who has not reached the age of 29, still has a long career, and the current strength of Real Madrid is outstanding in the whole of Europe, not to mention that it can achieve three consecutive Champions League championships next season, as long as Tang Zheng does not change his court, Real Madrid does not peddle players, Real Madrid is really likely to continue to stage miracles and become the first team to win the Champions League for three consecutive seasons since the Champions League was restructured!
Including commentators from the United Kingdom, they are all singing Tang Zheng, believing that he is a well-deserved number one superstar in world football today.
Cristiano Ronaldo is three years old Chinese New Year's Eve this year, and Messi is thirty-one years old, whether it is their contribution to the team or their personal and overall glory, there is no way to compare with Tang Zheng.
You must know that Tang Zheng has become the player who has won the most Champions League in the current team, and at the same time led Real Madrid to win three championships again, becoming the first team in European football to successfully defend the treble, if it can beat Barcelona and Atletico Madrid in the Spanish Super Cup and European Super Cup before the start of the 2018-2019 season, Real Madrid will set a new record again and defend five titles.
According to the overall strength of Real Madrid, it is very likely to win the final championship.
In the case of winning the Club World Cup, Real Madrid has defended six titles in a calendar year, in addition to the unprecedented three consecutive Club World Cup titles.
Although the prospects of winning against Barcelona and Atletico Madrid before the start of next season are not particularly optimistic, many commentators believe that it will not be difficult for Real Madrid to beat Barcelona and Atletico Madrid as long as they play normally.
After all...... Hasn't Real Madrid won like this in the past few seasons?
At the end of the game, Tang Zheng became the one who attracted the most attention in the audience.
A veritable champion reaper!
But I don't think I'm so dazzling, after all, he's not the fledgling young lad now, and he's been numb to the glory he's won in recent seasons.
Yang 5 commentator He Wei is still frantically introducing Tang Zheng, because this Champions League championship is a new record for Tang Zheng's career.
Starting at River Plate, to Borussia Dortmund, to Real Madrid, he has now reaped thirty-five titles.
River Plate's four titles, Dortmund's thirteen titles, Real Madrid's eighteen titles, exactly 35 titles, tied with Manchester United star Ryan Giggs, tied for the most titles in world football.
But...... Ryan Giggs has played more than 1,000 games for Manchester United, but what about Tang Zheng?
In eleven seasons, the club played less than 600 games.
It is unthinkable to reach the heights achieved by Giggs in less than 600 club games in more than 1,000 games.
Don't forget, he has not yet reached the age of twenty-nine, and his career is still long, so He Wei, as the CCTV 5 commentator of the national television station, is particularly crazy, mouthful, hysterical, so that the fans in front of the TV are a little drunk.
Such a person who makes all professional football players look up to is Chinese!
If you say you're not proud, it's all fake.
Next month's World Cup in Russia is about to kick off, and the Chinese men's football team led by Tang Zheng is likely to set a new record......
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Real Madrid defended the Champions League and the treble at the same time, becoming the most dazzling team in world football today.
As the protagonist of Tang Zheng, who led Real Madrid to the peak again, he was a player praised by the commentators on the spot, because without Tang Zheng, Real Madrid would not have won so many championships.
Tang Zheng joined Real Madrid in the summer of 2013 and has been exactly five years now.
Who would have thought that Real Madrid would win eighteen titles in just five years?
No one would have thought of it!
Including the party Tang Zheng, he didn't expect that his efforts would be rewarded so much.
In a short time, the staff at the Olympic Stadium in Kyiv were extremely efficient, putting together the podium for the 2017-2018 UEFA Champions League winners.
According to international practice, the Serbian referees first came to the stage to receive the commemorative medal, and then the runners-up took the stage to receive the award.
Finally, there are the Real Madrid players who won the title.
The most frenzied moment of the atmosphere was the moment when Real Madrid captain Sergio Ramos lifted the trophy, and the Real Madrid fans who came to the scene chanted almost wildly, so that the whole stadium was in an extremely frenzied atmosphere for a long time.
The white confetti sprayed out, then flew to the highest place and then fell slowly and slowly, these confetti looked particularly beautiful under the illumination of the light, like a pair of big watery eyes blinking non-stop, very beautiful.
"喏~"
Bell handed the trophy in his hand to Tang Zheng and shook it, and then found that Tang Zheng was distracted in this extremely excited atmosphere, and was a little curious: "Tang?"
Tang Zheng reacted quickly, took the trophy with a smile, and held it high in a frenzied atmosphere.
The on-site director has a very high level of professionalism, noticed Tang Zheng's distraction, and gave a close-up shot to his face for the first time, but Tang Zheng's expression changed quickly, and he smiled and handed it to his teammate Carvajal on the right.
Although the on-site commentator was a little interested in Tang Zheng's distraction, Tang Zheng's expression changed very quickly, and the top priority was to take the championship-winning Real Madrid as a whole, so few commentators paid attention to Tang Zheng's distraction.
However, if anyone knew the reason for Tang Zheng's distraction, they would probably roll their eyes.
Because of this kind of championship-winning situation, he has experienced too many in Tang Zheng's career, and he has developed antibodies.
His distraction was to focus on next month's World Cup in Russia, having lost to the Netherlands in the quarter-finals four years ago, so ...... Will this year's World Cup in Russia go further?
According to the overall strength ranking of the team, it may be difficult for the Chinese team to enter the top ten, so it is undoubtedly a fool's dream to advance to the semi-finals, but the victory or defeat of football matches has never been decided by strength, but by 90 minutes of play.
The draw of the Chinese team in the World Cup in Russia is not bad, except for France's overall strength in the group, the chance of winning is small, and the face of Peru and Denmark has a great chance of winning, which means that advancing to the knockout round is not a problem.
Coupled with a little luck, if you can go to Costa Rica, which is a big upset in the World Cup in Brazil, in the 1/8 finals, it is very likely to advance to the quarterfinals.
Take it a step further, it's the top four!
Think about it...... It's also possible.
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The whole Real Madrid team returned to the hotel in the early hours of the morning, but there was no psychological baggage for the Real Madrid players, because the 2017-2018 season is over, and this season has won the treble, who can hold back the excitement that sprouts from the depths of their hearts?
At this time, Tang Zheng temporarily forgot about the World Cup next month and devoted himself wholeheartedly to the catharsis of madness.
The Real Madrid players with the World Cup mandate were not disbanded on the spot and returned to Madrid.
In the afternoon, the Real Madrid team rode in a double-decker open-top bus to show the city's fans their three titles in the past 2017-2018 season.
League Championship Trophy, Copa del Rey Trophy and Champions League Trophy!
And each trophy is also a testament to Real Madrid's efforts in the 2017-2018 season.
The next day, the entire Real Madrid team was disbanded on the spot.
Players with World Cup assignments report from where their respective national teams are preparing for their matches, while those who do not have World Cup assignments go on personal leave as those with World Cup assignments receive longer vacations, while those who do not have World Cup assignments return to the team's training base early to prepare for the new season.
Getting back to the point, Tang Zheng took a four-man plane to Dortmund early to meet the national team and prepare for the pre-World Cup warm-up match with the German team at the Westphaladium Stadium.
In a friendly match played yesterday at the Juventus Arena in Turin, Italy, the Chinese team drew 1:1 with Norway without Tang Zheng and Lu Liang.
Tang Zheng was the latest international player to meet with the national team, but no one was dissatisfied, because he led Real Madrid to achieve an unprecedented treble, and the schedule of the friendly match conflicted with the Champions League final.
Thousands of fans came to the airport to greet Tang Zheng, and in the familiar training base where the national team prepared for the friendly match, there were a large number of fans waiting to watch Tang Zheng's training up close.
In the past, Tang Zheng made a huge contribution to Dortmund, and no Dortmund fan has forgotten, so when they have the opportunity to see Tang Zheng, they will never be stingy with their cheers, even if the Chinese team is preparing for an international friendly match with the German national team.
The international friendly match between the Chinese team and the German team was played at 7 p.m. local time in Germany, that is, at 1 a.m. Beijing time.
This time period is not a very good time for Chinese fans to watch the game, but this game is a match between the Chinese men's football team and the world-class German team, so hundreds of millions of fans sit in front of the TV or computer to watch the game.
It is worth mentioning that the Westfalfa Stadium, which can accommodate 83,000 fans, is full, in addition to most of the home team fans who support the German team and the 'Dragon Team Fan Club', there are many local Dortmund fans, who wore the Dortmund '10' shirt in the 2012-2013 season, cheering for Tang Zheng.
In the minds of many Dortmund fans, Tang Zheng is the supreme existence, even if the home team is the German team, they also choose to support Tang Zheng.
Of course, they only support Tang Zheng, not the Chinese team.
The Chinese team advanced to the quarterfinals of the World Cup in Brazil four years ago, but it does not mean that the Chinese team has the ability to wrestle with the German team, so head coach Lippi arranged a set of defensive counterattack tactics for the Chinese team that are very in line with the Chinese team's situation.
However, the Chinese team did not fully send the main lineup in this campaign, and the captains Tang Zheng and Lu Liang, who participated in the Champions League final six days ago, did not appear in the starting list.
Without Tang Zheng and Lu Liang, the Chinese team has a lot of problems at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends, which is an opportunity that cannot be ignored by the German team, the last World Cup winners, even if the German team also did not send a full main lineup, they have the advantage of home with Sane and Ozil goals to lead the Chinese team 2:0 in the first half.
The fifteen-minute halftime break passed quickly, and the Chinese team took the lead in making substitution adjustments before the rematch in the second half, and the long-awaited Tang Zheng replaced Wu Xi on the debut.
Although Lu Liang has not yet been put on the battlefield, for Chinese fans, this is already the strongest lineup of the Chinese team.
The Chinese team mainly plays the 4231 formation, goalkeeper Yan Junling, defenders Jiang Zhipeng, Gao Zhunyi, Feng Xiaoting and **, double back Tang Zheng partners Li Kui, three forwards Wu Sanshi, Hao Junmin and Sun Jingbo, Gao Lin is at the front of the front line.
The German team also set up a four-two-three-one formation in the first half, with goalkeeper Manuel Neuer, four defenders Hector, Jule, Rudiger and Kimmich, two midfielders Gundogan partnering Khedira, three defenders Brandt, Mesut Ozil and Sane, and Petersen playing for Freiburg at the front.
With Tang Zheng on the field, the overall mental outlook of the Chinese team has changed dramatically, and even used the advantage of the kick-off to quickly bring a huge threat to Neuer's goal.
If it weren't for Neuer's concentration, Sun Jingbo's shot on the right side of the penalty area would likely have resulted in a goal.
Germany's head coach Loew frowned, but did not make any targeted adjustments immediately, but made adjustments to the following dead ball.
Rudi replaces Khedira to strengthen the attacking organization in the middle.
Yang 5 commentator He Wei commented on Loew's adjustment: "If I guessed correctly, Loew's adjustment is to strengthen the offensive organization in the middle and limit the counterattack of the Chinese team, but can Rudy, who came off the bench, complete the task assigned by Loew?"
Obviously, the German international, who has not been particularly consistent in Bayern Munich, has not strengthened the link between central and midfield, and the attacking organization is still done by Gundogan and Mesut Ozil, who is more of a defensive midfielder to protect football in attack and space in defence.
But Rudy is clearly not the kind of defensive midfielder who is alone, he is more than a notch behind Khedira, so the Chinese team has a lot of opportunities.