Chapter 748: The Dust Settles at the End of the Season
In this enthusiastic month of May, European football is set to have a sixth treble. AC Milan and Barcelona, who will meet in the Champions League final, are the two best teams of the season, as well as a League and Cup double in their respective countries.
AC Milan won the Serie A title and the Italian FA Cup, while Barcelona achieved Spain's double dominance ahead of them. Two days before Milan's win over Sampdoria, Barcelona beat Athletic Bilbao 4-1 in the Copa del Rey final. In the league title, Barcelona also settled earlier than Milan, they were two rounds ahead.
In this way, after Celtic in 1967, Ajax in 1972, PSV Eindhoven in 1988, Manchester United in 1999 and Madiburg in 2006, world football has opened its eyes to the birth of a sixth treble.
The 2008-09 Serie A season was over, and in the final round, Carlo Ancelotti headed away with a group of substitutes to play a friendly match against Fiorentina, who were also desperate. In the penultimate round, AC Milan reversed Roma 4:3 at home to win the championship, and Fiorentina also stabbed Lecce 2:1 at home. After that round, Fiorentina were five points ahead of Roma in the race for fourth place with 65, and Genoa also caught up with 61 points ahead of Roma. After the penultimate round, the top four seats have been fully settled.
The substitutes continued their illustrious season for AC Milan, with goals from Shevchenko and Borriello to make it 2-0. The season has settled, AC Milan 26 wins, 11 draws and one loss with 89 points, Inter Milan 85, Juventus 72, Fiorentina 65, Genoa 64. Roma finished sixth in a woeful finish, not only did they fail to qualify for next season's Champions League, but even the UEFA Cup could only start from qualifying, while fifth-placed Genoa and FA Cup runners-up Sampdoria went straight into the group stage of the UEFA Cup.
By the way, next season's UEFA Cup will be reformed and the name will be changed to the Europa League. On May 21, Shakhtar Donetsk of Ukraine defeated Werder Bremen 2-1 at the Salakoglu Stadium in Istanbul to win the last edition of the UEFA Cup, ending the 38-year history of the UEFA Cup. However, although the name has changed, it is still customary to refer to it as the 'League Cup'.
With 36 goals, Inzaghi beat Zhuo Yang's 35 to become the top scorer in Serie A and the top scorer in Europe this season. The 36 goals are second only to last season's 47 single-season goals by Zhuo Yang in Serie A's history, surpassing the 35 of Milan's legendary goalscorer Nodal, who have always been beaten only by the Milanese themselves. Many journalists are asking Zhuo Yang: Why did you pass to Inzaghi in the last minute against Roma?
Zhuo Yang's answer was: At that time, Jiu Ye pushed an empty goal much more than I passed the goalkeeper to shoot and score, and Milan needed to win.
He has been answering like this for many years after that, but what he thought in his heart at that moment, only he knows, and maybe the ninth master also knows.
Kaka has scored 21 goals this season, which is his second-highest earning since being named top scorer in 06-07, but he is only sixth in the scorer list. Behind Jiu Ye and Zhuo Yang, Ibrahimovic ranked third with 25 goals, while Milito and Di Vaio shared with 24 goals.
For the third year in a row, Zhuo Yang won the MVP of the best player in Serie A and the best foreign player, and Inzaghi became the best player of the Oscars of Serie A (the best in Italy). In the best team, champion AC Milan won six seats, accounting for half of the country.
Inzaghi, Ibrahimovic; Zhuoyang, Kaka, Flamini, Cambiaso; Chiellini, Mex, McConn, Maldini; Goalkeeper Cesar.
In this best team, Pompong David Luiz has a bit of a loss, his average score is higher than that of the horse team and McConn, but not as good as Jiaojiao and Mexes in central defenders, and in the performance of right-back, McCone is indeed the first in Serie A. The selection of the horse team is somewhat emotional, and it also coincides with the general mediocre performance of the left-back in Serie A this season, so the left-back of the best team was given to the greatest left-back in football history, Paolo Maldini.
Although Zhuo Yang was not re-elected as the top scorer, and his 35 goals seemed to be a drop from his 47 goals last season, he once again set a new high for Serie A assists, with 25 assists surpassing the 24 in the 06-07 season when he first entered Serie A.
Just look at Fini (Cagliari, 13), Cassano (Sampdoria, 12) and Andre Cosu (Cagliari, 10) in second place.
In the three seasons of Serie A, Zhuo Yang monopolized the assist title for three years, and when he found the most reasonable and comfortable position between goals and assists in the 08-09 season, AC Milan became the Apennine double.
In terms of other leagues, not to mention La Liga, Barcelona is proud of the Iberian Peninsula, and Real Madrid is once again empty-handed. In the middle of the season, after Schuster was sacked due to poor results, Juan de Ramos, who rushed to the game, failed to save Real Madrid, and in the summer, Real Madrid also needed to find a new manager.
Manchester United won the Premier League title for the second time, and although Ribery injured the knife, Chelsea stopped the decline under Hiddink's fire, and finally settled in third place, retaining a place in next season's Champions League, and also beat Everton to snatch the FA Cup, and Carlo Ancelotti inherited more than a mess.
The Bundesliga is more lively, and no one thought that Bayern Munich would be empty-handed. Uncle Madigorg's Madiburg made rapid progress from the second half of the schedule, but he didn't expect to meet Wolfsburg, and finally fell two points behind Wolfsburg to second place, and Bayern was squeezed out of third.
VfL Wolfsburg's victory was a big upset, but Madiburg's 1-0 win over Bayer Leverkusen to regain the German Cup was not an upset. Madibao finally had his first championship trophy in the third year after Zhuo Yang left, and Zhuo Yang was very relieved.
Trollboy Gomez became the Bundesliga Golden Boot with 29 goals, and he finally fulfilled his dream of being the top scorer. But in the German Cup, it was Ibisevic who came out on top, he scored 8, plus 18 in the league, even if Ibische was out of action on and off for nearly three months due to injury, in fact, his efficiency is higher than that of a troll.
In 2008-09, the best players of the five major leagues: Zhuo Yang in Serie A, Cristiano Ronaldo in the Premier League, Messi in La Liga, Grafitte (Wolfsburg) in the Bundesliga, and Gourcuff (Bordeaux) in Ligue 1.
Gourcuff was on fire, and he became the heart of Bordeaux's midfield after returning to Ligue 1 on loan from AC Milan, and the team's double-double of 12 goals and 13 assists was instrumental in the team's victory over Marseille and Lyon, as well as Paris Saint-Germain. Rumor has it that Leonardo is advocating the repossession of Gourcuff, but he himself is unwilling to live or die.
With Europe's major leagues coming to an end, all eyes are on the final game of the season, the Champions Cup final. This is the battle of the kings of AC Milan and Barcelona, and it is also the farewell battle of Maldini. It is a battle that Ronaldinho is tangled in, and it is the battle that Zhuo Yang and Messi named in 2009.