Chapter 326: Prospects for the Top Tournament
Inter Milan still failed to win the title, with Juventus beating Bologna 3-2 at home to win the Scudetto 97-98 season.
When the news came, Inter was full of lamentation.
The crowd waiting for the news at the Meazza Stadium bowed their heads in regret.
They were far ahead at the start of the season, but Ronaldo lost the lead when he went to a domestic competition; At the end of the season, they lost an important battle because of the referee's "misjudgment"; However, God did not give up on them, and Napoli helped them snipe Juventus again at the end.
But as a result...
Facing the half-mocking and half-annoyed fans on the pitch, Ronaldo also sighed.
"It's another season empty-handed!"
"Nope! It's not over yet! Ivan patted the alien on the shoulder, "We still have a game to play!" ”
After the end of the league, although Napoli had a holiday, Ouchulian did not return to China immediately.
It's also important for a player to watch the game.
From the 90s to the beginning of the 21st century, Serie A was the world's No. 1 league and was also known as the "Little World Cup".
Milan, Roma, Juventus, Parma and Fiorentina are very competitive in the league, with all seven teams in contention for the title.
However, in the Champions League, Serie A teams do not have an absolute advantage.
Barcelona, Real Madrid, Ajax, Bayern Munich, including the newly rising Manchester United also won and lost each other, which also caused many misunderstandings for many fans, thinking that the strength of the Serie A team was just their own boasting.
But in reality, it's not.
The strength of Serie A is mainly reflected in the UEFA Cup, and every season, almost all the teams in Serie A participate in the League Cup are hanging opponents.
Just like this season's UEFA Cup final, the two sides are from Serie A. The match between the veteran giants Inter Milan and the upstart Lazio of Serie A was held at the Stade des Princes in Paris, France.
The coaches of both sides are Luigi Simeone, who has just "lost" the league title, and Eriksen, who has already led the team to the Coppa Italia title.
Although they reached the Coppa Italia final, Milan ended up empty-handed this season. And while this is true for Inter, they still have this last title to fight for.
Lazio lined up the traditional 442 parallel position, with Favali, Nesta, Negro and Grandoni at the back from left to right, with Nesta at the heart of the defence.
The two midfielders Venturin are responsible for the defense, playing the role of sapper, doing the dirty work, Jugovic is responsible for organizing and scheduling, the right midfielder Forsel mainly plays the outside line and crosses, and the left wing-back Nedved leans inside.
The two Italian strikers up front, Casirachi and Roberto Mancini, often switch positions and take turns attacking the ribs of Inter's backline.
Inter are fielding a formation similar to 4312. The two centre-backs were in charge of the mark-to-man defence, with Frési sweeping up the backline, similar to the sweepers.
The midfield three from left to right are Diego Simeone, Ze Elias, and Winter, but Simeone is more involved in attacking and defending in the middle, and Winter runs up and down the right side of the midfield.
The attacking trio of Djokaef ambushed behind Ronaldo and Zamorano as shadow strikers, while Ronaldo was more agile and interspersed with movement up front.
From the perspective of the lineup, Inter clearly has the advantage.
Inter also had a lot of cards available on the bench. Attacking players such as Recoba, Canu and Morello are always on standby. On Lazio's side, the variables on the bench are mainly in central midfield.
Once the game started, both sides were hoping to get off to a start, but after just five minutes, Inter seized a chance to counter-attack.
After breaking the ball at the back, Zanetti made a long-range through-ball shot. The ball penetrated the Lazio trio on the turf and came into a vacuum at the back.
"Ivan the Horror" Zamorano arrived and showed his killer nature in front of fans all over the world, catching up with the ball and stabbing to score and make the score 1:0.
After falling behind by one goal, Lazio continued to attack in an attempt to equalise. Inter is to fight against you defensively.
Lazio came close to equalising on several occasions, but Pagliuca played brilliantly and denied Lazio's shots again and again.
"Pagliuca pounced today! It's quite a shadow of Sampdoria a few years ago! ”
"Who's to say it isn't! But isn't it too late to do the hard work? If you play bravely in the league, maybe you will already be the champion of Serie A! ”
"It's a pity that Pagliuca is a little late to make a name for herself? Moratti has already opened his mouth to spend money to buy the Chinese goalkeeper from Napoli. That Chinese goalkeeper is menopausal, more stable ......"
"That's right, it's said that I can also use Chinese kung fu, hahaha......"
Hearing someone discuss himself, Ou Chuliang pressed the brim of his hat that was buckled on his head even lower.
At the end of the first half, Inter went into the second half with a score of 1-0, and both sides were well prepared at half-time before changing tactics at the start of the second half.
Lazio pushed Casirachi into the centre-forward position and attacked the Inter backline, with Mancini dropping back slightly to bring the two-point Nedved, Fausel and even Jugovic closer to goal.
On Inter's side, Ronaldo dropped deep and often organized near midfield, trying to take away the Lazio defenders who defended him and create space for Zamorano and Djokaeau.
Inter's trick really worked, just because of four words, Ronaldo!
In the 60th minute, Inter won a free kick on the counter-attack, the ball was sent into the penalty area, Zamorano showed his murderous spirit and jumped high to head the ball. With Lazio's defensive focus on Ronaldo, Zanetti, who was inserted in the back row, met the ball unguarded and fired a furious shot to make it 2:0.
Then Lazio deployed troops to attack, Inter Milan in front of the goal, in the 70th minute, Ronaldo retreated to the midfield, and brought the opposing defender out, and he quickly reversed, received a pass from the substitute Coe to successfully counter offside.
The pendulum shook off Lazio goalkeeper Maciegiani and scored with an empty goal, a classic Ronaldo-esque goal that made it 3-0.
Inter Milan lifted the trophy as their third UEFA Cup triumph in the 90s.
Watching Ronaldo enjoy the double joy of victory and championship in the gold leaf, Ou Chuliang's blood couldn't help but churn.
When will I be able to get on such a stage and enjoy the joy of standing on the top stage in Europe?
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On May 20, Acchulian returned to the Amsterdam Athletic Stadium to watch another match at the top of Europe.
In this Champions League final, the protagonists are from Serie A and La Liga.
As the champion of the Champions League in ancient times, Real Madrid has not touched the Champions League trophy for 32 years.
As for Juventus, who reached the Champions League final for the third year in a row, they only won the title once before.
As we all know, the 36 seasons of the Champions League since its birth were played entirely in the form of knockout rounds, until UEFA restructured and added knockout rounds in 1992 under pressure from the giants.
With the rapid development of the football industry, the "Champions Cup" became the "Champions League", and the format was changed several times in the 90s. And the epoch-making significance is this year's restructuring.
In December 1995, with the enactment of the Boseman Act, the movement of players across Europe accelerated, and the top teams in the top leagues gained more resources, and polarization gradually took shape.
In order to adapt to this trend, UEFA began to allow runners-up teams in some leagues to participate in 1997, and the top five leagues got more of the pie, and the competition became a wrestling between the great powers. What followed was the expansion of the Champions League.
In this season's Champions League, the number of teams in the main competition has expanded from 16 to 24, and the qualifiers have changed from one round to two rounds. The main competition was expanded to six groups, with the group winners and the two groups with better results advancing to the quarterfinals.
It's also easy to set up a seeded team, with the defending champion plus the champions of the top five leagues being seeded.
Football is constantly evolving, just as social resources cannot be equal, and the era of belonging to giants is also destined to come. The Boseman Act of 1995 was a watershed moment for modern football, and the expansion of the Champions League accelerated the process.
The expansion of the Champions League is the general trend of commercialization, and the monopoly of the big league is an inevitable process of the Champions League.
"It's easy to get into the main competition, but if you want to get to the top, it's basically a competition for the giants."
Ou Chuliang looked at the two teams off the field, and suddenly understood the meaning of what Raiola meant when he said to him.
Now that you have decided to leave Napoli, why not find yourself a giant who has the strength to reach the top?
As now, the champions of UEFA's top eight leagues have qualified for the Champions League, but the runners-up (in the case of the Turkish Super League) have to play from the second round of the play-offs.
However, this is not a problem for the major league teams, they all passed, except for a few teams who encountered resistance, and easy promotion was the mainstream.
For example, Galatasaray swept Swiss champion Sion 8-2, Parma humiliated Polish champion Lodz 7-1, Feyenoord defeated Finnish champion Shespoli 8-3, and Bayer Leverkusen crushed Georgian champion Dynamo Tbilisi 6-2......
In the Champions League, these long-established teams have an unparalleled advantage against the Champions League newcomers.
Due to the harsh conditions for qualification, it will be even more difficult for the young club to survive in the group stage, with the exception of Dynamo Kiev, who has Shevchenko's peak, beating PSV Eindhoven, Newcastle United and Barcelona to top the group, and the rest of the quarter-finals are all won by teams from the top five leagues.
The closest to a "counterattack" was Norwegian side Rosenborg, who beat Real Madrid, Porto and Olympiacos respectively, but were eliminated by being behind the Galacticos.
However, Kyiv's mark is glorious enough, and the fledgling Ukrainian nuclear warhead scored a hat-trick at the Camp Nou in the first half and became famous.
The two best teams are second placed, one in Serie A and one in the Bundesliga. This year's Champions League is the first time in history, with three Bundesliga teams in the Champions League: defending champions Borussia Dortmund, Bundesliga champions Bayern Munich and Bundesliga runners-up Bayer Leverkusen. They were also competitive enough to make it past the brutal group stage to reach the quarter-finals.
In this era of Champions League reform and football upgrading, the four major leagues have given birth to a number of classic teams that can shake the status of traditional giants, and in Germany, it is Bayer Leverkusen who plays this role.
Under the leadership of Bundesliga coach Daum, the pharmaceutical company was reborn, with stars such as Kirsten, Kovac brothers, Emerson and other stars in the team, and performed well in the Champions League for the first time, with 4 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss in the group stage, accumulating 13 points, only second on goal difference, but it was still better than the second in other groups and successfully qualified.
It's a pity that the strength of the Bundesliga team ended here, Bayern and Dort staged a civil war in the quarterfinals, and Chap Issat's stunner helped the Hornets eliminate the opponent 1-0 on aggregate.
On the other side, Bayer Leverkusen drew 1-1 at home to Real Madrid, but lost 3-0 away. Real Madrid has become a killer in the Bundesliga, and with goals from Morientes and Karembo, they eliminated Dort 2-0 and entered the final.
On the other side, Juve's new forward combination immediately exploded with power.
Piero scored a lightning goal in the opening 20 seconds against Manchester United and continued to shine throughout the season, leading the way with 10 goals and being the most likely to win the Golden Boot this season.
The young talent Inzaghi is also in high spirits, scoring six Champions League goals for Juve.
In fact, this year's Champions League scorers list features a number of names that would go on to become big names in football, such as Thierry Henry with Monaco with seven goals, and Kyiv's talented Shevchenko, who also scored five.
Juventus, who have shone in the attacking duo, did have plenty of capital to move forward, and they also handed Manchester United their only defeat in the group stage. However, they lost to Manchester United and Feyenoord in quick succession, and could only settle for second place in the group, relying on goal difference to beat the other group's second-largest group, Paris, to qualify.
The top team of the group did not go well for Manchester United, who were knocked out by Monaco in an upset, with Trezeguet netting a golden away goal.
Kyiv and Monaco were stunning this season, with Rebrov and Thierry Henry both impressive, only they ended up being stepping stones for the old lady to run wild.
In the 1/4 finals, Juventus drew 1-1 at home to Kiev and completed redemption 4-1 away, and Inzaghi scored a hat trick; The Old Lady semi-final opponents Monaco were not soft persimmons, the "three musketeers" of Henry, Trezeguet and Ikpeba should not be underestimated, and there was also butter player Barthez on the goal line, this time Juve's hero was Piero, who sent the team to the final with a hat-trick at home.
It is precisely because Inzaghi and Piero shined in the Champions League that Napoli's defeat at the end of the league caused a stir in Serie A.
It is not so much that Ou Chuliang is famous in Serie A with his own ability, but that he is putting on the shoulders of giants and letting himself shine.
It is precisely because Juve's forward line this season is too BT that some other Serie A teams are desperate to get this goalkeeper who can keep a clean sheet against Juve.
Ou Chuliang sat in the stands, looking at Juventus, who almost pressed Real Madrid in the whole field, and couldn't help but have some heart palpitations.
Is it the "new king" of the Champions League, Juventus will have the last laugh? Or will Real Madrid, the "king" of the Champions League, regain its glory?
After the game, it is destined that one of the giants will be the background board.
Judging from the historical Champions League records of the two teams, Real Madrid is a well-deserved hegemon in the Champions League.
In the first five years of the Champions Cup, they never let the trophy go unnoticed, and in the 65/66 season they were crowned champions of the competition for the sixth time, leaving the continent's powerhouses out of sight.
However, from 1966 onwards, Real Madrid's Champions League journey ended in failure, and in 1981 they reached the final, but lost to Liverpool at their peak. For most of the rest of the year, Real Madrid's Champions League journey has been full of loss, including the black memories of being bloodied 5-0 by AC Milan in the 88/89 season.
And all the changes have to start with Real Madrid president Sanz.
The legend, known as the "Fighter", became president of the club in 1995, and a year later asked Italian coach Fabio Capello to coach the team, buying players such as Suker, Mijatovic, Seedorf and Carlos, creating a framework for the team to compete in Europe. Last season, Real Madrid won the La Liga title, and then, Heynckes took over, and a new era for the Galaxy officially began.
Sometimes, you have to sigh at the power of Real Madrid's "Champions League DNA"!
This great white team seems to have been born for the Champions League.
Despite the strength of Real Madrid, which has elite players such as Hierro, Carlos, Raul, Seedorf and Morientes, Juventus is still the favored side this year.
The Bianconeri have reached the final for the third year in a row and are clearly more experienced; Secondly, the Serie A hegemons are staffed with top stars such as Inzaghi, Piero, Davies, Zinedine Zidane and Didier Deschamps, and they have just won the Serie A title.
With such a Juventus, no one seems to think that they will lose.
The game went as expected, with Juve dominating midfield from the start and Inzaghi missing two great chances – a microcosm of the game. But with the exception of Zinedine Zidane, the Bianconeri's stars are all in mediocre form.
It was an atypical encounter, with the Italian side being the main attackers, and the tenacious defence being the winning formula for the Spanish side.
In the 66th minute, Carlos' shot was blocked and fell to the feet of Mijatovic, who flicked past Peruzzi and scored the only goal of the game from a tight angle!
When the 1-0 score was fixed at the final whistle, Juventus were devastated and Real Madrid fell into a frenzy.
"It's like a remake against Napoli!" The disappointed Juventus fan said sadly to the camera, "We took the initiative in the whole game, but in the end we didn't score a goal!" ”
In his post-match interview, Heynckes also said frankly: "Juventus' defeat to Napoli in the league inspired me. ”
'The Serie A giants seem to be helpless against a team that is desperate for victory and willing to spend most of the game defending.'
"And after such an opponent scores a goal to take the lead, he still doesn't know how to save the game and make up for the mistakes he made on the pitch."
"Look, in the end, they are like a replay of history, they can only watch the game end and the victory is taken away by the other party!"
Although Lippi was once again named Europe's best coach of the season after the game, back-to-back runners-up in the Champions League left the Serie A coach sad.
When a reporter asked him what he thought about the game, which the opposing coach saw as a copy of the game against Napoli, Lippi suddenly became furious: "This is complete nonsense! ”
"What kind of team is Napoli? What kind of team is Real Madrid? ”
"Do you think Real Madrid is a team that relies only on Ignaar? No kidding! ”
Real Madrid is naturally not a team that only relies on goalkeepers to defend itself, and Lippi's words have indirectly enhanced Ou Chuliang's status in Serie A.
The Champions League is over, and so is the season.
The Emperors of Europe have ended their 32-year wait, and they can finally add another dust-free European championship trophy to their Hall of Honor.
Amid the excited voice of the host at the scene, the 33-year-old Manolo Sanches lifted the Big Ears Cup as captain. Thirty-two years ago, his father followed Real Madrid to the top of Europe.
The legendary story of father and son is being inherited, and the heritage of the wealthy family is also inherited.
Some say that Real Madrid will set sail again and will once again throw the Champions League pursuers out of sight of the taillights.
Ou Chuliang looked at the crazy Real Madrid people in the audience, and suddenly felt that it seemed good to be able to join a wealthy family.
You must know that before this, Ou Chuliang had never had such an idea.