Leverkusen fans who came with the team could hear Lazio fans bragging everywhere on the spot, and they all thought that Lazio could easily beat Bayer Leverkusen at home.

"Are we bad?"

Bayer Leverkusen fans can't help but ask themselves.

"We played this game this season, didn't we just lose one game? Tied two? ”

"Damn, Lazio is the best in Europe, even if you are the best, Leverkusen is not bad."

Bayer Leverkusen fans don't understand why their opponents think so badly about the team.

Just before the start of this round of the Champions Cup, UEFA announced the latest edition of the European team rankings, and Bayer Leverkusen is in fourth place!

The European Club Rankings are measured only by the results of the season's matches and are mainly based on domestic leagues, including win percentage, defeat percentage, goals scored and goals conceded; Teams competing in the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Cup receive extra points.

Lazio's 4-0 win over Verona in the Italian Serie A on Sunday and Dynamo Kyiv 4-0 in the UEFA Champions League last Wednesday kept the team top of the published European Football Club Rankings.

Bayer Leverkusen, on the other hand, beat Maribo in the Champions Cup, but lost 3-1 to Wolfsburg in the league, slipping one place in the European rankings, and they were originally third.

Latest European Club Top 20 Rankings:

1 Lazio, Italy 109.59

2 Rangers Scotland 93.32

3 Eindhoven, Netherlands 90.64

4 Bayer Leverkusen, Germany 90.07

5 AC Milan Italy 93.74

6 Rome, Italy 87.06

7 Barcelona, Spain 86.40

8 Bayern Munich Germany 85.32

9 Olympiacos, Greece 84.62

10 Juventus Italy 84.31

11 Manchester United England 82.19

12 Anderlecht, Belgium 81.11

13 Moscow, Spartak, Russia 79.55

14 Borussia Dortmund, Germany 78.87

15 Zaragoza, Spain 78.46

16 Monaco, France 78.26

17 Bayer Leverkusen, Germany 77.75

18 Celtic Scotland 77.19

19 Bucharest Dinamo Romania 76.90

20 Sparta Prague, Czech Republic 76.70

It can be seen that Bayer Leverkusen is very competitive in the whole of Europe, and a big reason why Glasgow Rangers in the Soviet Super League and PSV Eindhoven in the Eredivisie are in front of them is because their league is not very competitive, otherwise Bayer Leverkusen could be in second place.

Of course, Lazio's current squad is one of the best in Europe, and their strength is indeed perverted, but this does not mean that Leverkusen is weak.

The fans walked into the Stadio Olimpico in Rome two hours early, only to be blown away.

"It's huge!"

What they saw was completely beyond their imagination.

For the first time in your life, can you see a stadium that can accommodate 105,000 fans, can you not be shocked? You can't find a stadium of this size in the whole of Germany, not even the Wester Stadium in Dortmund.

The point is that there were too many Lazio fans in the stadium.

Buzz Buzz,

It was all blue Lazio fans, and there were many shirtless fans, who sat in the front row, holding portraits of many players. Roberto Mancini, Salas and Veron have already conquered the Blue Eagles fans.

Duang，

Duang，

Duang，

The stadium reverberates with the sound of passion, as if the roaring waves crash against the shore. Leverkusen fans can only sit obediently in their own small stands and basically do not dare to make a sound.

Inferiority.

It's really a bit inferior.

I've never seen such a big scene.

In the players' tunnel, players from both sides rushed out.

On Lazio's side, Macieginha, Negro, Mihajnovic, Ferdiodo, Pancaro, Almeida, Stankovic, Veron, Nedved, Mancini and Salas all played.

Bayer Leverkusen, Matisek, Kovacs, Novotny, Lucio, Gresco, Emerson, Ze Roberto, Ballack, Beinrich, Kirsten, Zheng Zhi!

When Zheng Zhi was the last to run out, there was immediately a lot of uproar at the scene.

"Walter?"

"Didn't you say this guy was injured and didn't play?"

"Why is he in the starting line-up?"

"Ah, damn the Germans, when did they become so cunning?"

Lazio fans were stunned, and they had the impression that the Germans were very forbidden, and they would not be so tricky, but today Worrall obviously put them together.

In fact, Eriksen's face had been so dark a few minutes ago that it couldn't have been darker. Because he felt that something had changed, he didn't look into Bayer Leverkusen's starting lineup again, and he didn't even look at the previous squad again.

When he saw Zheng Zhi's figure in the players' tunnel, he was startled.

Properly deceived by Worrall!

Paralyzed, Zheng Zhi started, but his favorite Simeone was on the bench, Favalli and captain Nesta did not start, and even Mancini was in the striker, not Boksic.

Now it's okay, there's no time to adjust anymore, so I can only fight with the current 11 people......

Carelessness for a while, regret is beyond reach.

However, Eriksen readjusted his mood and walked to the dugout.

So what?

Lazio is the strongest, if not the strongest main lineup, Bayer Leverkusen's form is so bad, the home team will definitely be able to eat them!

On Sky Italia, Inter legend Bergomi bluntly said: "Eriksen has been deceived, and the Swedes will now regret this lineup." Worrall set off a smoke bomb, and his core had returned from injury. ”

"I don't think Lazio will win at home."

"The lows are followed by the highs, and Bayer Leverkusen will surprise them."

Maroch, the partner next to him, shook his head, "A Chinese can't change anything." ”

"It's possible at the start of the season."

'But now Lazio is stable and won't have any problems at home.'

"Lazio has Veron, that's enough."

"Hehe, maybe, but you know, he's the real core of this team, just like Veron is to Lazio, it's like Inter Milan, with Ronaldo and Vieri in front, it's very different!" Bergomi shook his head, "They lined up a 451 formation today, a typical defensive counterattack, and Lazio may not be able to rush in. ”

"Perhaps, the Chinese are going into battle with injuries, which is reluctant."

"Worrall is in a hurry?"

……

……

Strange courts, familiar figures,

It's going to be a dream game! Zheng Zhi inhaled the air of the Rome Olympics deeply and looked forward to this game.

After a three-game break, he was finally able to get back on the pitch and play against the great teams and greatest players of our time.

Although there is less Nesta, less Favali, less Simeone.

In the players' tunnel just now, Veron also said hello to Zheng Zhi and asked Zheng Zhi if he was injured? As a result, Zheng Zhi directly told him that this was a lie to them, and Belon laughed instead. But Ballack was a little disappointed, Simeone didn't start tonight, he wanted to continue to play with Simeone, in the first round of the group stage, Simeone taught Ballack how to play, but today Simeone sat on the bench. He wanted to get Ballack to play today......

Come on......

Beep

The battle is on! Lazio kick off first.

The veteran Mancini knocked the ball lightly, and Salas immediately gave the ball to Veron, who split the left side, and the blonde Nedved immediately accelerated down the left side!

Kovac chased him all the way to the baseline and couldn't stand Nedved, near the baseline, Kovac felt like he had exhausted his strength, but Nedved was a powerful dunk, easily got rid of his entanglement, and then sent an inverted triangle pass with his right foot, and then immediately cut into the big box, and Kovac was still a step too late.

Although Belon, who followed up in the middle, protected the ball under Zheng Zhi's entanglement, he couldn't break through Zheng Zhi head-on, so he could only divide the ball to the right. Stankovic saw the stitches, took advantage of Emerson's failure to block it at the first time, and hit the goal with his left foot!

Knock –

He took a sharp shot with his left foot, but in the next moment, Ballack's figure flashed and blocked the ball.

！

Stankovic's shot was blocked, but the ball still bounced to Veron and Zheng Zhi, both of whom rushed to the ball at the same time, and their left and right feet touched the ball almost at the same time, Zheng Zhi took a step faster, and picked the bottom of the ball with his right foot first, but Veron's left foot was not slow, just rubbed the side of the ball, but the ball did not fly out, but bounced into the left side of Leverkusen's penalty area.

In the chaos, a golden retriever kills and shoots with his left foot in the air!

Boom –

The ball hangs straight into the top left corner of the goal!

Matisek didn't react at all!

Less than a minute into the game, just 45 seconds, Nedved scored the goal!

“goooooooooooooooooooooooal!”

“goooooooooooooooooooooooal!”

“goooooooooooooooooooooooooooal!”

"Nedved!"

"The Czechs killed any suspense in the opening 45 seconds."

"1-0, Lazio got off to a dream start."

"That's how powerful Lazio is, and at this moment, the whole of Rome is cheering for them."

"Rome is unconquerable!"

"Where we are closest to God, we are always luckier than our opponents."

The 27-year-old Nedved rushed to the Olympic track and waved his right arm in celebration with the fans, with a wave of uncertainty behind him, and Zheng Zhi's teammates seemed to smell another losing race coming.

It's not surprising that the opponent is the mighty Lazio, known as the strongest in Europe, is still playing away from home, conceding a goal in less than a minute of the opening game, so many factors combine to definitely play a psychological role.

In this smashing stadium, Bayer Leverkusen felt Lazio's strong aura from the start......

Worrall touched the back of his head, but a sentence popped into his mind.

Shouldn't I have let Emerson play? Why is it so unlucky?

Subconsciously, he felt as if the goal had something to do with Emerson again. However, Emerson really didn't have much responsibility this time, although he didn't block Stankovic's shot, but it was Nedved who scored in the end. If there is ever to be accountability, it should be Kovacs' business......