Chapter 0164 Undefeated at home, preparing for the Copa Libertadores final

As soon as River Plate's athletic director, Enzo Francescoli, returned to the office when the beautiful secretary pushed open his office door with a smile on her face. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

Don't think crookedly, the beautiful secretary just took the relevant quotation information and put it on the table: "Mr. Enzo, these are today's latest quotations." ”

With a cold slam of the door, Enzo Francescoli's attention was drawn from his plump ass and he looked down at the quote on the table.

Porto bundled Tang Zheng and Falcao together with 14 million euros, Benfica offered Falcao 6 million euros, Villarreal offered Tang Zheng 8 million euros, Shakhtar Donetsk offered Bonanotte 5 million euros, and Celta Celta offered Mousacchio 3 million euros......

These offers were only a little higher than the ones he saw yesterday, not too much, until he saw the latest offers from Wolfsburg and Bayern Munich that he rubbed his eyes and subconsciously exclaimed: "God, Wolfsburg is willing to pay 10 million euros for Don for a transfer fee, Bayern is more sincere, it turned out to be 12 million euros!"

Oh, my God!

Immediately, Enzo Francescoli went to the office of President Aquilar as soon as possible, and the 12 million euros was beyond Tang Zheng's termination clause, and it must be carefully considered!

However, Aquilar did not agree to the offer, but said meaningfully: "No hurry, this is a critical period for the Copa Libertadores, and revealing the transfer information too early is not good for the team's preparations, and it is ...... If Bayern are willing to shell out 12 million euros at this time, what about after the Copa Libertadores final?

Enzo Francescoli, who was known for his intelligence as a player, has also been able to use his brains since becoming the team's sporting director, Tang Zheng is now one of the team's biggest treasures, and as he gets better and better, the stage of the Liga League and the Copa Libertadores has been difficult to satisfy him, and the odds of leaving Europe this summer are infinitely close to 100%.

As President Aquilar said, after the Copa Libertadores final, Tang Zheng's value will definitely increase, and the Chinese market behind Tang Zheng will not be ignored by any team.

But he thought of Tang Zheng's agent Rodrigo and expressed his worries: "It's not easy to explain to the agent, I heard that he recently went to Germany, and I guess Wolfsburg and Bayern have something to do with him." ”

"It's okay, I have a way to stop him, you can rest assured of this. Sitting on the luxurious leather sofa, Aquilar said meaningfully: "You just have to do a good job of secrecy, and the team's results in the Copa Libertadores must be guaranteed, we have not won the title for 12 years, and this year's hopes are very high." ”

Aquilar didn't say anything clearly, and Enzo Francesco could guess that when River Plate won the Copa Libertadores, the opening of River Plate would be more profitable.

The last time River Plate won the Copa Libertadores was in the penultimate season of his career, and in the blink of an eye, twelve years later, it was time to be crowned the long-awaited champion.

In both public and private, he hopes that River Plate can win the Copa Libertadores.

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Due to the convenience of the schedule, River Plate has no league assignments on the weekend, so they can concentrate on preparing for the second leg of the Copa Libertadores semi-finals.

However, this is only the surface meaning, the real meaning is known to everyone, and the 4-1 home win over Gremio basically means that they have advanced to this season's Copa Libertadores final.

As for the opponent in the final, I don't know if it is Cruzeiro who has played in the group, or the national team from Uruguay, but no matter who the opponent of the final is in the future, Simeone will not dare to slack off, after all, being able to enter the final means that they have a certain strength.

Judging from the first leg between Cruzeiro and the national team, the victorious Cruzeiro have a better chance of advancing to the final, as they won 3-1 at home, and as long as they don't make too many mistakes when they travel to the road, the final against River Plate is very promising.

Of course, from the subjective consciousness, everyone prefers to meet the nation from Uruguay, after all, the opponent is limited, and the hope of winning the game in the final is greater.

However, in the second leg of the semi-finals of the Copa Libertadores, the visiting Cruzeiro had no surprises, and they drew 2:2 away to the nation, thus eliminating the opponent with an aggregate score of 5:3 and advancing to the final.

All the media and fans who follow the Copa Libertadores final know that the 2009 Copa Libertadores final has been decided, and even if the Brazilian media would prefer to see the Brazilian derby of the Copa Libertadores final, they have to admit that River Plate did emerge from the top four of the Brazilian Liga and meet Cruzeiro in this season's Copa Libertadores final.

The second leg of the Copa Libertadores semi-final in Porto Alegre had not even begun, and many media outlets had already claimed that the final had been played by both sides, which in itself was an insult to Gremio.

However, when it comes to their 1:4 defeat to River Plate in the first leg, the media can't blame the media for guessing in advance the places to enter the final.

Head coach Marcelo Rothside admitted in a regular press conference before the game that the game was meaningless, but at the same time believed that there was still hope for this game, and his players would fight until the last second!

It is true that they did well in the match at the Gremio Arena, but River Plate did even better.

Even though Gremio had home advantage and River Plate, who were in better form, were the first to break the deadlock, it was midfielder Tang Zheng who scored with a header on the half-hour mark.

The goal also meant that Gremio's last hope was gone, as they had to score four goals in the remaining hour to qualify for the final.

In the second half, both sides consciously replaced the main players, and Tang Zheng, Falcao and Ortega were replaced one after another.

In the end, the visiting River Plate defeated the home team Gremio 1:0 with Tang Zheng's goal, thus eliminating the opponent with an aggregate score of 5:1 and advancing to the final.

They will face Cruzeiro, who has a record of going to town in the group stage, for this season's Copa Libertadores.

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This season's Copa Libertadores is 16 into eight, and the Aliga is only one seedling left in River Plate, and all four teams in the Brazilian Liga have defeated their respective opponents to advance to the quarterfinals, and many Brazilian media believe that this year's Copa Libertadores will be reduced to a civil war in the Brazilian Liga.

But it turned out that River Plate was united, facing São Paulo in the quarterfinals and then Gremio in the semifinals, they directly won four consecutive victories to advance to the finals.

This will be the eleventh meeting between a team from the Brazilian side and the Arab League in the history of the Copa Libertadores, with the Arab League winning eight titles ahead of the Brazilian Liga three times, and the last three of the Liga have been won back in the last century, and there are even two more titles dating back to 1963 and 1976.

In terms of psychological advantage, it is definitely River Plate that has the advantage.

They beat Cruzeiro 5-0 at home in the fifth round of the group stage, and River Plate fans have every reason to believe that River Plate will win in the end!

And the final, just a week later.

River Plate are better than Cruzeiro in terms of fixtures, with them coming away and then hosting.

However, with the unbearable experience of losing 0:3 to Cruzeiro in the first leg, coach Simeone still did not dare to slack off his opponent, and there was also a certain element of luck in defeating Cruzeiro 5:0 at home.

The first away leg will dictate River Plate's strategy to return to home in the second leg, so Simeone has decided to focus on defence.

The world of football has always been about winning and losing, no one cares what tactics you use to win, they only judge heroes by their results.

The players also know that the next Copa Libertadores final is the top priority, and there is no objection to the tactical choice of coach Simeone, and the concept of defense deciding the championship has been deeply rooted in everyone's soul.

After the second leg of the Copa Libertadores semi-finals, River Plate still has the last round of the autumn league, but River Plate, which has already won the championship in advance, has no need to waste the energy of the main players for this game, so the lineup of substitutes + youth team + reserve team should cope with the last round of the league.

During the period of preparation for the away game against Cruzeiro, the coaches of both sides seemed to have reached a certain awareness, did not give interviews to the media, and were very low-key to prepare for the next final.

But the players are a little uneasy, especially Cruzeiro's midfield core Ramirez, the 0:5 defeat once made him a public enemy, but fortunately, coach Battista trusted him very much, and he did not live up to the manager's expectations, helping Cruzeiro sweep away the haze of defeat and enter the Copa Libertadores final in one fell swoop.

Ramirez, who once again became the darling of Cruzeiro fans, took the initiative to say in an interview with local Brazilian media: "In the past we were able to beat River Plate 3-0 at home, and after five months, we can also beat River Plate again and win the third Copa Libertadores title in our history!"

"But you lost 5-0 at Monument. ”

The Argentine media listened very unpleasantly, a middle-aged chubby reporter from the newspaper "Clarion" asked.

Ramirez was unhappy, and the fiasco was arguably the worst game of his career so far, and the Clarion reporter really shouldn't mention it now.

Of course, he knows that the most important thing at this time is momentum, so he said with gusto: "There is no reference in the past games, and I and my teammates, coaches and fans believe that we will win the games. ”

The Brazilians were extremely pleased with Ramirez's words, but the Argentines were not impressed, believing that it was nothing more than Ramirez deceiving himself.

On July 5, River Plate ended the final round of the 2008-2009 Autumn League at home to a draw with Estudiantes de La Plata with an all-bench lineup.

It is worth mentioning that it was the 92-year-old Lamela who excelled, and it was his maiden goal that helped River Plate to a draw at home.

Also outstanding was Jonas, whose goal came from his exquisite through-ball.

River Plate are unbeaten at home for two consecutive seasons, and River Plate fans have even more reason to believe that the Copa Libertadores are ...... It's set!

(To be continued.) )