Chapter 160: The Chinese Derby
Shen Lang's matter did not appear in the domestic news, and during this time, the domestic media almost gave limited strokes to Wu Jie and Chen Haonan in reporting on sports.
The reason, of course, is that these two people are competing!
Wu Jie originally wanted to continue to play the British team, but the draw for the Champions League semifinals was very interesting.
Bayern drew Bulgaria's CSKA Sofia, which is a team similar to the Bayi team, relying on absorbing the essence of the national team to fight on the European continent, basically most of the Bulgarian national team, not famous but the strength cannot be underestimated.
Real Madrid drew Aston Villa, last season's League One champions and another dark horse similar to Nottingham Forest.
I have to say that there was indeed something about English football in the late seventies and early eighties, and there were always dark horses that shocked Europe!
Wu Jie couldn't smile bitterly, of course he hoped that Real Madrid could win, but then the Champions League final would turn into a Chinese derby.
The Chinese media has spent their limited resources on these two teams during this period of time, just looking forward to seeing the Chinese derby play out in Europe.
This sense of national pride and accomplishment, no matter where it is placed in the next 40 years, will make almost all the people of the whole country overjoyed.
On April 12, Bayern was held to a 2-2 draw away by CSKA Sofia.
This result exceeded media expectations, but in fact it was reasonable.
Before the Boseman Act was introduced, the top giants of such small European countries were often able to rely on internal blood sucking to form a national team to compete in the Champions League, and the original Real Madrid overturned on this team.
Most of these little-known Bulgarian players are unpretentious and powerful, and their tactical execution and fighting will are also excellent, and Bayern also almost overturned on the road.
But even so, an away draw is still acceptable, and two away goals are invaluable.
But Bayern's fame is too great now, and the away draw can only be regarded as barely qualified, but the news from Real Madrid really makes Chinese fans happy.
The first leg between Real Madrid and Aston Villa was played at the Bernabeu, and although the Englishman was on the back foot, Real Madrid were always a little unlucky with the goal.
The two teams played 1-1 in the first half, which was not a good result for Real Madrid.
In the second half, Real Madrid coach Boskov replaced Chen Haonan again, and the situation on the field quickly changed.
Real Madrid exposed their midfield problems as early as last year, with the exception of German Uli Stillik, Bosque is more suitable to be a coach, and Los Santos is a bit of a bastard.
This is also every time Real Madrid replaces Chen Haonan, Real Madrid's midfield not only immediately hardens, but also greatly strengthens the fluency of the attack, and Bosque, a low-profile version of Fabregas, can also show his ingenuity.
Chen Haonan tried two positions in the back and forward positions at Real Madrid, and in the end, according to his own wishes, Real Madrid still agreed to let him stand a little further back, using his excellent big picture and long passing to play the role of the team's commander and metronome, while the German Uli used his excellent breakthrough and short pass in the front court to attack the city.
The combination of these two men is reasonable, and with Bosque, who always has a genius, Real Madrid completely suppressed Aston Villa in midfield, and then it was a matter of time before he scored.
In the end, thanks to goals from Santilana and Cunningham, Real Madrid beat Aston Villa 3-1 at home.
This made their next trip on the road much easier, with most of the European media already sentencing Aston Villa to death in advance, and expecting Real Madrid and Bayern Munich to collide again.
Chen Haonan also became the hero of the team's victory again, although he did not score or assist in this game, he gave full play to the threat of the two wingers in the organization and scheduling at the back, and at the same time, the high mobility and wide range of defense at the defensive end also made Real Madrid's midfield much harder.
Now not only does the Spanish media think that Chen Haonan should be allowed to start completely, but even the Real Madrid team believes that although Chen Haonan is young, he can become the team's backfield commander, and everyone trusts this low-key little guy.
Although black star Cunningham was very uninterested in Chen Haonan at first, because he was still worried about Wu Jie's revenge for shoveling him last season.
But after half a season of getting along, he has now become Chen Haonan's number one supporter, and completely regards Chen Haonan as a brother.
Of course, Chen Haonan will not be cold-faced, he does regard An Ningan as one of the best surface brothers.
Not only did he win Cunningham's affection, but Uli Stillik was full of praise for the little guy who made him feel extremely safe in his ass.
Even Juanito, who is somewhat discriminatory against Chinese, feels that Chen Haonan is an important piece of the puzzle to make up for Real Madrid's shortcomings, at least this Chinese who is diligent in training, active and serious in the game, and self-disciplined in his private life off the field, is far more pleasing to the eye than the peace and security of fooling around outside the field, often being late for training, and extremely undisciplined in his private life.
This is also the opinion of the Madrid media and fans, Chen Haonan really can't find any shortcomings in his private life, his strict and self-disciplined private life is simply an example for any professional player.
So in the past six months, the media and fans in Madrid, including the Spanish media, have loved this Chinese, and his reputation is much better than Cunningham.
In addition, although Chen Haonan's style of play is not the kind of player who is very good-looking in terms of statistics, everyone who plays with him can feel his role, including fans and the media, and they can also feel the difference between him being present and not being on the field.
Boskov, of course, has no prejudice against Chen Haonan, and the reason why he did not let Chen Haonan start is the opposite, which is entirely for the purpose of protection.
A 16-year-old future star, no matter how mature and old, is unlikely to be as good physically as an adult player.
La Liga's defence, while not as brutal and brutal as League One and Serie A, is not without all sorts of dangerous tackles and fouls.
If Chen Haonan suffers a serious injury in the game, it is likely that there will be an ending that everyone regrets at this age.
So he has always controlled Chen Haonan's playing time, and in the face of those teams whose defense is rough and savage, he also tries not to let Chen Haonan go up to take risks.
But this protection seems to have been a little out of step with Chen's development, which had grown to 164cm by mid-April.
This height is actually not shorter than Maradona, and even a little higher, because the debate about whether the old horse is 163cm or 165cm has never been clear in the original plane.
Chen Haonan of this meeting not only reached the level of the king of the ball, but his attributes were also much higher than half a year ago.
Chen Haonan: height 164cm↑, weight 61kg↑, athletic talent (???? )
"Comprehensive ability": 85 ↑
"Offensive": 81 ↑
"Defense": 83↑
"Tricks": 88↑
"Move": 82 ↑
"Physical fitness": 77↑
"Gatekeeping": 20 ↑
"Psychological": 90↑
Special Abilities –
[Shelter from the wind and rain]: ????
[Every inch of land is up for grabs]: ????
[100 steps through Yang]: ???
Originally, Chen Haonan also had a special ability of "Bright Sword", but Wu Jie felt that it was a bit silly to let the backfield commander show the sword to others, so he directly sold this special talent, and then added money to exchange it for a three-star [Hundred Steps Through Yang], which is obviously a special ability to increase long-range shots.
His positioning for Chen Haonan is also basically clear, with top-level backcourt scheduling + metronome, and top-level defense, as well as first-class breakthrough and long-range shooting ability.
At the end of April, Wu Jie helped Bayern defeat Hamburg in the league and finally returned to second place in the league, only one point away from Hamburg at the top of the table.
His personal tally has also increased to 26, three ahead of second-placed Hrubesch.
But Hamburg were very cunning and only sent a semi-main squad to play Bayern in this game.
Because in three days' time, the two teams will meet again in the semi-finals of the German Cup.
This season, Hamburg have been driven home early in Europe, but it is precisely because they do not need to be distracted from Europe that they can focus on the league and the German Cup, which has made their league record consistent.
Wu Jie is also feeling tricky now, although they have been trying to catch up, but they lost too much in the early part of the season, and they have only now just surpassed Cologne.
Now there is another hurdle, after playing Hamburg in the league on April 28, they will face Hamburg again in the semi-finals of the German Cup on May 1, then CSKA Sofia in the Champions League on May 4, and they will return to the league against Stuttgart on the 6th.
That's why Hamburg dared to deliberately lose one game in the league, they were forcing Bayern to make a choice.
In the semi-finals of the German Cup on May 1, if Bayern do not give up, then they are likely to lose to a physically fit Hamburg.
This defeat is very likely to have a ripple effect, because the second leg of the Champions League semi-final is two days away, and Bayern only won a 2-2 draw on the road, and there is no guarantee that they will not overturn at home, especially if they fight Hamburg.
Wu Jie looked at the schedule and was speechless for a while, this loss is not good, it is a three-game losing streak, because the Champions League is a league two days later, and Stuttgart is not a weak team!
Even if he can use a diamond-level card to recover his physical strength, he can't buy a card of this level for the whole team, and this kind of card below the diamond level of the schedule will no longer work.
As for using cards to assassinate opponents, this has long proven to be unfeasible.
Cards sold by the system cannot be used against active players and coaches, including referees during matches.
At most, he will get a referee after the game, otherwise the game will not have to be played, and it will be over by sticking cards to the Hamburg players.
Bayern's coaching staff finally made a decision for him, since Hamburg chose to play semi-main in the previous game, then Bayern also chose to play semi-main.
Wu Jie was originally taken out of the starting lineup, but Bayern's management still made the decision to limit the "league" and "Champions League", and it is indeed too difficult for the "treble" to defend the title.
But in the end, at Wu Jie's own request, the team still let him play half the game.
Wu Jie did everything he needed to do in the first half, and he helped Bayern lead 1:0 in the first half with one goal.
But in the second half, Bayern lost him and became unable to play football again.
The final score was 2:1, Bayern still failed to hold on to the victory left by Wu Jie, and Hamburg finally defeated Bayern in one event.
This season's treble is gone, Wu Jie is a pity in his heart, but it can't be said to be a heavy blow.
There has never been a treble in European football, and this year is certainly not a good time to do so.
There is no World Cup and Olympics next year, Wu Jie can not return to China to play those small games, and then he can help Bayern play a full season, and then it will be the opportunity to re-attack the treble.
In that case, let's go all out to sprint in the league and the Champions League.
On May 4, Wu Jie led Bayern to a 4-1 victory over CSKA Fia at home and entered the Champions League final first.
Two days later, they beat the visiting Stuttgart again and continued to keep the pressure on Hamburg.
The situation is very similar to last season, when Hamburg just couldn't withstand the pressure of being chased, dropping back-to-back points after being beaten by Bayern, and finally allowing Bayern to complete the comeback in the sprint stage.
This time things were a little different, Hamburg were strategically dropping points and managed to snatch a ticket to the German Cup final from Bayern.
So will they repeat the same mistakes this time?
If the German media does not report it overwhelmingly, then Hamburg will really make Bayern's big four in the country empty.
But the rush of coverage in the German media has put the pressure on the Hamburg players, who do remember last season's woe.
On 5 May, Hamburg played away to Eintracht Frankfurt.
Hamburg led 1-0 until stoppage time in the second half, but no one expected a Chinese to step up before the end of the game and give Hamburg a heavy blow.
Shen Xiangfu, who was only replaced in the 77th minute of the second half, was very active on the left side as soon as he came on the field.
Hamburg didn't particularly care about Shen Xiangfu, they knew that he was good at crosses after breaking, but his ability to cut inside was average, and he has been between the main and semi-main players since joining Eintracht Frankfurt during the winter break, but he has not scored a goal so far.
But even Wu Jie didn't expect that Shen Xiangfu suddenly completed the inward cut with a "foot change direction" that was taught to him before the end of regular time.
To be honest, Shen Xiangfu's "change of direction behind his feet" is so-so, but it is better than a "sudden"!
The Hamburg players did not expect that this Chinese winger, who is more suitable for playing in League One, would be able to make such a show of technical moves at the end of the game, and the entire back line was lost in an instant.
After Shen Xiangfu entered the penalty area, he calmly volleyed into the near corner of the goal.
The Hamburg goalkeeper made a save, but the shot was angled and refracted to the ground, and Shen Xiangfu turned a win into a draw.
"It turns out that this is how the little brother uses it!"
After Wu Jie and his teammates saw Shen Xiangfu helping Bayern complete the overtake in front of the TV, a shout of "Long live China" soon sounded around them!
Shen Xiangfu's kick did send Bayern to the top of the league table, at this moment they are already equal with Hamburg, and the two teams have won each other, so the competition is goal difference.
Bayern have the upper hand in this regard, with four more goal difference than Hamburg.
That means that as long as Bayern win their last four league games and score a few more goals, they can once again put Hamburg in the sprint.
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