Monaco's promotion to the last four of this season's Champions League has shocked the city-state beyond expectations. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Grand Duke Rainier of Monaco was not even in the mood to watch last Sunday's F1 Grand Prix de Monaco, mobilizing his family to travel to England early. Before attending the wedding of Prince Felipe of Spain, Princess Caroline made a special trip to Blackburn with her two little princes and Princess Charlotte, who had hardly appeared in public recently because she was concentrating on horse racing.

Of course, Princess Stephanie, who has always been a maverick, did not disappoint her old father this time, and her two children quietly stood by their mother's side.

Members of the royal family arrived, and the enthusiasm of the Monaco fans did not disappoint Prince Albert. The Monegasques just treat the race as a city-wide carnival, but their enthusiasm for the party is also very high. Albert was also delighted by the 1,000-member fan club, with nearly 1,000 away fans from Monaco at Ewood Park setting a record for the club's fan journey.

To be able to reach the semi-finals, there are no losers, only lucky ones.

Prince Albert knows that after this season, his team will not be able to surprise him again. To keep the champions, it's as simple as raising a budget of €45 million for Monaco. But even this promise, Albert has no way to fulfill.

But fans only believe the facts: Sochaux's manager Lakombe has reached an initial agreement with the club, while Monaco have rushed to sign 21-year-old midfielder Hilson, defender Sergio Ramos and 20-year-old midfielder Juan from the youth team, who are in the team's most talked-about midfield.

So for this last glory, even if it was just a flash in the pan, all the Monegasque soldiers were desperately prepared.

Blackburn, who were at home in the first leg, had to beat Monaco to hold the initiative to qualify.

"The favorite to win the championship is facing the opponent's vow to fight, why is it a bit hot and dying?" Arthur had just sent the Monegasque royal family into the VIP box, and when he returned to his box for some reason, he suddenly felt a pang of nervousness.

"Trust Jose and the boys!"

In this game, Blackburn Rovers and Monaco both played their main forces without reservation.

Blackburn Rovers starting XI (4-2-3-1):

Goalkeeper: Friedel.

Defenders: Ashley Cole, Stam, Carvalho, Finnan

Defenders: Alonso, Claude Makelle

Midfielders: Gyuli, Lampard, Damian Duff.

Forward: Ibrahimovic

Monaco starting XI (4-4-2):

Goalkeeper: Roma

Defenders: Patrice Evra, Rodriguez, Givi, Ibarra

Midfielders: Cisse, Bernardi, Zikos, Roten

Forwards: Poelau, Morientes

When Blackburn kicked off, the forward trident of Duff, Ibrahimovic and Gyuli rushed to Monaco's half for the first time, with Alonso and Frank Lampard dragging behind and Blackburn's attack was soon in full swing.

Frank Lampard quickly flicked the ball to the feet of Giuli in front of the field, slotted himself into the front of the Monaco penalty area and handed the play to the wing.

Gyuli faced his old club today, the state is still quite excited, from the Lyon academy Giuli did not have too deep feelings for Monaco who played for less than four seasons, and quickly settled in his position, the ball was sent to his feet, turned around with his right foot, and quickly sent the ball to the left side, his body burst out, and he started quickly.

Monaco full-back Patrice Evra took the first step to move his centre of gravity, stuck on his left side, felt his chest sink and his centre of gravity was a little unstable.

After Giuli started at high speed, he found that Evra had appeared on the route he had broken through, and with a left-footed arch, he shook his body and pulled the ball with his right foot, quickly passing through the other side of Evra, changing direction again, and cutting straight into the middle.

Patrice Evra, who is still immature, is not the left-sided king of Manchester United in the future, and he can't stop Jiuli at his peak.

But after all, Evra has great potential, and his reaction is extremely fast, and he hurriedly takes advantage of the situation, quickly pounces on Jiuli, who cuts in, and desperately pursues the defense.

And after passing Evra, Giuli has to face Rodriguez, he has already noticed Giuli early in the morning, and when he saw Gyuli cut in, Rodriguez stepped forward in time.

Gyuli didn't hesitate to dribble the ball, and the moment he got closer, he pushed the ball with the arch of his foot and stuffed the ball to Duff who received it on the other side.

Ibarra, who had been following Duff closely, saw that the former had taken the football away, and did not dare to be careless, so he clung to it.

Duff saw Ibarra's movements out of the corner of his eye, his feet did not stop, suddenly smashed the ball with his right foot, flicked his left foot, and his body was like a strong bow with momentum, without any reaction from Ibarra, he rushed straight through his right side, and rushed into the penalty area before Bernardi was clamped.

After Duff passed Ibarra, the entire Monaco backline has become a little thin at this time, and Duff, who has ridden alone, is like a swimming dragon, causing chaos in the Monaco backline, which is already a rumor.

Monaco goalkeeper Roma has also saved, and Duff is almost half a single knife sideways facing the goalkeeper, and at this time Ibarra on his side and Bernardi behind him have also been surrounded, Blackburn's captain seems to be surrounded by Monaco players, and Blackburn seems to be about to lose the opportunity to attack.

But I saw Duff rub his left foot and hit the ground, and Roma Dachang's body subconsciously fell to the ground, trying to lock his goal range, but found that the football did not fly to the direction of the goal, Duff chose the ball in front of the goal.

Ibrahimovic has been entangled with Monaco central defender Giwi near the penalty spot, waiting for his teammates' pass or opportunity to shoot at any time, and the moment he saw Duff's ball, Ibrahimovic immediately burst out of the energy of his whole body, and Givi was not to be outdone, relying on his advantage in front of Ibrahimovic, wanting to interfere with Ibrahimovic's catch.

But at this time, Ibrahimovic's height and leg length advantage is revealed, Ibrahimovic is now 195cm tall, while Givi is only 181cm, and the difference of 15cm allows Ibrahimovic to be able to touch the football for a moment when he and Givi make a sliding tackle at the same time, and this is enough.

“goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooal！”

1:0！

When Ibrahimovic slid his sliding tackle shot, Monaco goalkeeper Roma had already been drawn to the left side of the goal by Duff, facing a big empty goal, Ibrahimovic's shot was too high, but it was enough to leap over the goal line!

"Good shot!" The moment Ibrahimovic broke the goal, he excitedly rushed to Duff and Gyuli with open arms, and Blackburn's front trident was hugged.

At this moment, the 195cm Ibu, the 164cm Gyuli and the 178cm Duff hugged each other, but the three people with obvious height differences did not have the slightest sense of disobedience.

The goal conceded less than two minutes after the opening kick-off stunned Monaco fans. The Blackburn generals were all elated, and this goal made this originally difficult game for Blackburn immediately become a smooth road.

The game started again, and the Monaco players were a little nervous under the spurring of the goal, but after all, the game had just begun, and it was difficult for them to find their best form at once.

It is Monaco's habitual slow heat that will make Mourinho repeatedly emphasize the need to break the deadlock quickly and gain an advantage in the pre-match arrangement, and sure enough, Blake took advantage of the opponent's weakness to take the lead!

Although Monaco tried to equalise as soon as possible, Blackburn, who opened the scoring, were increasingly excited and encouraged by the goal, and Blackburn took advantage of the win.

Less than two minutes after Blackburn's goal, Giwi was helpless at the back to foul his former team-mate Gyuli, who had been particularly active today, and Lampard volleyed a free-kick from 31 yards down the middle that went just wide of the post.

After all, Monaco is also a strong team that eliminated Real Madrid and many other giants to reach the last four of the Champions League, and also had a wonderful performance, in the 8th minute, Pulshaw passed the ball from the left, and Morientes fired a powerful shot from 25 yards in the middle.

In this game, Mourinho developed a special defensive strategy for the characteristics of Morientes, not only because he is Ibrahimovic's biggest rival for winning the Champions League Golden Boot this season, but also as a bridgehead for Monaco, once Morientes cannot open, then Monaco's attack will be half useless.

After scoring the first goal by Ibrahimovic, Monaco changed their choice to mark Ibrahimovic, and Rodriguez, who is 190cm tall, is clearly more suitable for watching Ibrahimovic in terms of size.

However, since he no longer has a clear advantage physically, he can only rely on technique and reaction, Ibrahimovic is not the kind of shooter with fresh moves, how easy is it to see him die?

Ibrahimovic received Frank Lampard's ball and faced Rodriguez, who changed the frequency of his touches when he dribbled at his feet, fiddling with the ball at his feet in an attempt not to let Rodriguez guess the time of his touch.

Rodriguez was cautious, did not rush up, and used his body to block Ibrahimovic's breakthrough and shooting path without extending his legs.

Rodriguez's defensive coverage is indeed large, but not so big that it is not so big that Ibrahimovic is at a loss, Ibrahimovic saw that he could not form a breakthrough at the first time, did not stick to the ball, but with a flick of his ankle, the ball was split and given to the feet of Duff, who was ready to cut inside, and Ibrahimovic quickly flashed past Rodriguez.

Just when Rodriguez was still hesitating to step forward and steal the football at Duff's feet with Ibarra, the Blackburn captain did not hesitate, and made a collision with Ibrahimovic, and directly passed a short pass over the top, and the football was flying towards Ibrahimovic who was running.

Almost no player in football is taller than Ibrahimovic at 190cm, and Rodriguez is no surprise.

Rodriguez pounced and wanted to immediately turn back and chase back, but because he was too big and rushed too hard, he didn't have time to stabilize his center of gravity and slipped to the ground.

Ibrahimovic had already burst into the box from the left side of the box the moment he got the ball, and at this time, another Monaco central defender, Giwi, had already let Giuli on the other side take away, and he couldn't make up for it for a while.

And even if Evra kept running wildly to get closer to the middle, he had two or three seconds to spare. But it was just a brief moment of panic, and Ibu saw the loophole.

Ibrahimovic faced the two defenders before the bag was in place, and before Roma stood in the near corner to seal the angle, Ibrahimovic shot vigorously, and the football was like a meteor, directly penetrating the door of Monaco!

It's easy, it's easy until!

2:0！

Ibrahimovic laughed wildly and hugged Duff to celebrate, for this young and famous madman, such an easy goal simply could not make him so ecstatic, but in the life-and-death battle to decide the right to the Champions League final, he was able to score and score twice, and 10 Champions League goals also made Ibrahimovic almost lock up this season's Champions League Golden Boot in advance, how can this not make him laugh uncontrollably?

In less than 30 minutes of the first half, Monaco was two goals behind, the faces of the players on the pitch were much more ugly, and the stadium could not hear the slightest cheering from the visiting fans, they were completely stunned by Blackburn's sharp blitzkrieg!

Monaco's players and supporters were all stupid, they could not have imagined that their defence had been excellent in the previous Champions League journey, but they were a bit of a habitual slow heat, but now they were caught by the opponent for this weakness and scored two goals in a row.

At this time, the camera lens of the scene swept over the Monaco bench, and saw Monaco coach Deschamps expressionless, just muttering something in his mouth.

Deschamps completely felt that his fate was not in his control, and even at this time he didn't dare to think about the equalizer in this game, but hoped that the team would not concede any more goals in the next time and return to home with a score of 0:2, so that Monaco would have a chance to turn the tables.

In the second half, Monaco tried to make a final effort through substitutions, but Monaco was able to eliminate Real Madrid and many other giants, not based on this forced defensive counterattack, the collapse of the backline, allowing Blackburn to make full use of it.

Mourinho's football philosophy does not have too much luxury and beauty, once he sees a little loophole in the opponent, he will seize this weakness and continue to attack until he completely collapses the opponent!

In the second half, Blackburn Rovers staged another "blitzkrieg".

Blackburn Rovers continued to expand their results in the 48th minute, Roma's kick-off was cut off by Ashley Cole on the wing, and then Blackburn's left-sided king staged a one-man assault on the side, and then crossed from the left, and the anti-offside position was successfully stabbed in the penalty area, shook off the goalkeeper and then pushed the empty goal to score, and stabbed the old club again.

In the following game, as Mourinho replaced Giuli with Cambiaso, a clear signal that the team strengthened its defense, Blackburn returned to a conservative defensive counterattack tactic, and Monaco was also frightened by Blackburn's attack, and did not have the courage to attack, and the final score was fixed at 3:0.

Winner, Blackburn!

"I'm proud of Jose, the players and the fans." Speaking to the aftermath of the game, Arthur, one of the hottest young presidents in European football, said: "All the players on the pitch gave amazing performances and I would like to assure the fans that we will continue this game and give you a satisfactory result. (To be continued.) )