Chapter 313: Super Devil Schedule

With the second matchday of the fourth round of the 2012-2013 Champions League group stage over, it is clear that most of the groups will qualify. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The first-ranked Porto in Group A have 10 points from 4 games, 3 wins and 1 draw, Grand Paris has 9 points from 4 games, 3 wins and 1 loss, and are in the top two, Dynamo Kyiv is third with 4 points from 4 games, and Dinamo Zagreb is at the bottom of the group with 4 losses.

In Group B, except for Montpellier, who has four games, one draw and three losses, the bottom of the points has no chance of qualifying, and the other three teams have a chance to advance to the last 16 of the Champions League.

Schalke 04 has eight points, Arsenal has seven, and Olympiacos, who lost the first two rounds of the group, has six points by beating Montpellier home and away, only two points and one point away from Schalke 04 and Arsenal.

In Group C, except for Malaga with three wins and one draw, AC Milan, who won the Champions League seven times, has been underperforming after a big loss of blood this summer, with only five points in the first four rounds of the group stage, one win, two draws and one loss.

Surprisingly, Anderlecht finished third in the group ahead of Zenit St. Petersburg, with one win and one draw in four rounds.

Group toppers Malaga beat third-placed Anderlecht by three goals away in the second round, and they are almost certain to qualify for a group, which means that the other three teams are competing for another place with two rounds left in the group.

It is worth mentioning that the result of this match was exciting for the Chinese media and fans, and the reason why Anderlecht was able to win at home to Zenit St. Petersburg was entirely due to the second-half substitution of Chinese teenager Lu Liang, who was on loan from Borussia Dortmund to Anderlecht this summer.

Late in the second half, he scored the only goal of the game with a three-man cut inside from the right side of the attack and fired into the far corner.

Group D is the deadliest group of super-deaths in the history of the Champions League, with Borussia Dortmund eight points, Real Madrid seven, Ajax four and Manchester City two.

With the final two rounds of the group stage remaining, all four teams have a chance to qualify.

However, Borussia Dortmund have the best chance of qualifying, with four points from home and away against Real Madrid, the strongest side in the group, and a good chance of winning the group stage against Ajax and Manchester City with two games remaining.

With just one of these games, advancing to the round of 16 is a certainty.

Moreover, there is another point that must be faced, Ajax and Manchester City will face Real Madrid's 'baptism' in the remaining two rounds of the group stage, while Dortmund only need to challenge Ajax away and Manchester City at home......

Therefore, whether it is the odds of the group offered by the three major European bookmakers, or the mainstream media in Europe, they are very optimistic about Dortmund and Real Madrid joining hands to qualify.

The remaining Manchester City and Ajax will have to fight for a place in the Europa League.

Group E is a complicated one-point finish, with two rounds remaining in the group stage, and even North Zealand, the bottom team with one point, will be looking to qualify from the group.

Shakhtar Donetsk and Chelsea also have seven points from the first four rounds, but Shakhtar Donetsk and Chelsea have the advantage of scoring more away goals in their home and away games and are therefore top of the group.

Defending Champions League champions Chelsea are second, Juventus are third with six points from four games, one win and four draws, and North Zealand is bottom with one point from one draw and three defeats.

Group F is a clearer picture, with seeded Bayern Munich and Valencia on nine points, Borisov on six and Lille at the bottom of the table with four defeats.

If nothing else, Bayern Munich and Valencia will qualify together.

Seeded Barcelona in Group G had a chance to qualify early, but they suffered a 2-1 upset defeat at home Celtic, leaving all four teams with a chance to qualify.

Looking at the eight groups of the Champions League this season, only the Red Devils Manchester United in Group H have won all four games in the group, and they have locked up the top spot in the group despite qualifying from the group early, which means that the remaining two rounds of the group stage can be left for substitutes and young players who lack experience in Champions League games.

At the same time, Manchester United, who have secured top spot in the group, can also focus more on the domestic league.

There may be a lot of rebuttals to saying that the Premier League is the first league in Europe, but there are certainly a lot of voices to say that the Premier League is the most competitive league in the world.

Especially now Manchester United is not as dominant in the Premier League as before, so you have to give your best in every game.

If Manchester United want to do well enough in the Champions League, it is essential to get enough points in the first half of the league......

The focus returned to the just-concluded Champions League group stage focus battle, Dortmund drew 2:2 away to the Galacticos Real Madrid.

Whether it is after the game or at the regular press conference after the game, Dortmund player Tang Zheng, who has scored two goals, has become the focus of everyone's attention, and the coaches of both sides, Jose Mourinho and Klopp, have praised Tang Zheng.

However, the person concerned, Tang Zheng, seemed quite low-key, and he carefully analyzed that the two goals of the game in the face of the compliments of the media were not his own credit, but the whole team worked hard to get the opportunity to score......

For Tang Zheng's answer, head coach Klopp was quite satisfied.

The team is now on the cusp of the storm, and any inappropriate remarks may be seized by the media, taken out of context, and affect the unity of the team.

Tang Zheng was able to attribute the credit to the whole team, which was very conducive to the unity of the team.

Klopp, who was sitting next to him, had a feeling for the second time - this season's Champions League competition, maybe he will go further!

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The next morning, the entire Dortmund squad boarded a flight to Cologne and then took the train back to Dortmund in Cologne to prepare for the weekend's league challenge against Bavarian side Augsburg.

In the last ten rounds of the 2012-2013 Bundesliga season, Borussia Dortmund have risen to second place in the league table, but they are still six points away from Bayern Munich at the top of the table.

A winless away game in the early stages of the league has cost them too many points.

It is reassuring to note that the German national derby has not yet started this season, which means that the six-point difference still has to be chased.

Everyone knows that Dortmund has been unbeaten in 10 games against Bayern in the past three seasons, winning all the last eight meetings, and has a clear psychological advantage.

However, Borussia Dortmund manager Jurgen Klopp was in a bad mood and had a rare respite in midweek after this weekend's league game, but the away league game against Augsburg is about to usher in an international break.

The 2014 World Cup qualifiers in Brazil are about to kick off again.

European internationals such as Germany, Poland and Serbia are better to say, after all, Europe is so big.

Klopp's headache is Tang Zheng, who will fly to Australia non-stop after the league to prepare for the Chinese team's World Cup Asian qualifiers......

The distance between Germany and Australia is 20,800 kilometers, which is equivalent to saying that Tang Zheng needs to fly more than half the world, and the round trip is 41,600 kilometers.

Shocking numbers!

Therefore, some media in China petitioned, and they hoped that the Chinese Football Association would not recruit Tang Zheng in the qualifiers for the away challenge to the seeded team Australia, after all, it is not easy for Chinese football to have a Tang Zheng as a reference.

Moreover, the Chinese team is currently top of the group and has room for mistakes.

Long flights are already physically and mentally exhausting, and even more so with a crucial World Cup qualifier in midweek.

It is equivalent to for Tang Zheng, the Champions League group stage of Real Madrid away will enter his upgraded version of the devil's schedule.

In fact, as early as the end of the international break in October, Dortmund had already entered the devil's schedule.

Four games were played in 10 days at the end of October, and seven more throughout November, meaning that Dortmund will play 11 games in the 40 days after the international break in October.

On average, a game is played in less than four days.

The problem is that the November game is not over yet, with Dortmund still having two more double-headers at the start of December.

Among them, the 15th round of the Bundesliga away against Bayern Munich on December 2 is crucial!

The two matches in a row were originally a burden on the team, and Tang Zheng had to fly to distant Australia again.

So Klopp has a big headache, and he feels that the 2012-2013 season will be a huge test for Borussia Dortmund, and the old confidence that came with drawing away at Real Madrid has disappeared......

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Perhaps it was Borussia Dortmund's draw at the Bernabeu that worried Bayern's pro-Bayern media, who analysed in detail the problems Dortmund will face.

Super Devil Schedule: Where is the defending champion Borussia Dortmund headed?

Suddenly, it caused an uproar in German football circles.

Borussia Dortmund are a catch-up at the moment, and what they have to do is to keep a low profile and coach Jurgen Klopp has kept a low profile when he is interviewed by the media.

As the report of "Süddeutsche Süddeutsch" came out, Dortmund fans began to feel a little panic.

This bad atmosphere quickly spread from the fandom to the Stoberlari training center at Dortmund's training base in preparation.

Jurgen Klopp was keenly aware that the morale of the players returning to training was a bit sluggish, and he completely lost the positive mentality of the away draw with Real Madrid.

After the regular training session of the day before the whole team of Dortmund left for Augsburg, to Klopp's surprise, captain Kyle and vice-captain Kyle were anxious together, and the team had a whole team exchange in the dressing room.

As for what was said in the dressing room, Klopp didn't know, anyway, Dortmund won 3-1 in the league away to Augsburg the next day, with Tang Zheng contributing a goal and an assist.

The end of the league was half past four in the afternoon, Tang Zheng immediately returned to the locker room to take a shower, and then took a train to Munich, the capital of Bavaria, and then took a flight from Munich International Airport to Sydney, Australia's largest city.