"Brother Zhuo, this team is harder to play than Bayern Munich." Sami Khedira said to Zhuo Yang.

He was talking about the opponent on the field now, CSKA Moscow. In the first leg of the 2004-05 League Cup semifinals, Madiburg played at home to Victor, and in the 16th minute of the second half, the score was 1:2, and Madiburg fell behind.

Madiborg was a bit of a dismissive opponent before the game, and CSKA Moscow was a dark horse that was not a dark horse in this year's UEFA Cup.

He is said to be a dark horse because almost no one is optimistic about him, they don't have any big names in the team, and the Russian team has not made a big splash in the two major European cups. He is not a dark horse, and because CSKA Moscow came from the Champions Cup, where he was in the same group as Chelsea and defending champions Porto, who finished third by just one point. CSKA came to the UEFA Cup and eliminated France's Auxerre, Portugal's Benfica and Spain's Valencia, and their opponents were not weak.

Moreover, CSKA Moscow Club is strong, and the boss behind them is the Chelsea owner and Russian oil oligarch Abramovich, who has stirred up the climax of world football in the past two years.

UEFA rules that a person can't own two clubs at the same time, but it's a man-made thing, at least on the books CSKA and Abu don't have a dime to do with it, but everyone knows the trick. But can you bite him?

Absolutely! UEFA privately warned Abu: Don't play those little cleverness, we all know who is the king and who is the turtle, we all know what you want to do in the mainstream of European society, don't force us to be unparticular to you. When it comes to playing shady means, who have we served in UEFA?

So it was only natural that CSKA and Chelsea would be in the same group in the Champions League. Who do you want to protect? Take your pick! As a result, it became a matter of course that CSKA was eliminated.

Abbu has a deep political background in investing in football, and to put it simply, buying Chelsea and spending a lot of money is to integrate into the mainstream of European society as quickly as possible, borrowing European attention and public opinion, so that President Putin, who is liquidating domestic oligarchs in Russia, has some concerns when he moves. That is, Abramovich is using money to buy fame, form a protective coat and at the same time transfer part of his assets out of Russia.

The petty oligarch Abramovich is smarter than the seven oligarchs of Russia, he does not underestimate the power of Russia, nor does he overestimate the capabilities of exaggerating the capabilities of Western countries, and does not think that everything will be fine by hiding in the UK. Putin, who came from the KGB, has nothing he doesn't dare to do.

So investing in CSKA Moscow is a kind of overture by Abu to Putin, and it is also a kind of convincing: Look, I am willing to spend my money at home, I am willing to invest in our own sports business, as long as you nod your head, I can invest my money in the motherland. I'm not trying to run, I'm just afraid of you, I'll admit that you're the boss, I promise to listen to you, as long as you leave me a way out, I'll listen to you for everything.

Roman Abramovich, who is only 39 years old this year, is a highly intelligent person, and in order to show his posture to Uncle Putin, he must choose to be the most suitable target for UEFA, which has just been established by a certain Western power, and is a prestigious but in fact only a sports business organization. Therefore, Abu's covert possession of CSKA Moscow is a clever strategy to kill two birds with one stone.

As long as I can get Boss Putin to let me go, I can do anything, isn't it just spending some money! When I go back and wait for Pu Ye to get his temper, it's not too late for me to appease the UEFA's money fans, isn't it just spending some money!

UEFA's petty tactics fell into Abu's preconceived vision, and last year's Russian Premier League champions CSKA fell into the UEFA Cup. What could have given him more rapid prominence than having Chelsea win the Champions League and CSKA winning the League Cup at the same time? UEFA's rotten bureaucrats are too young compared to the capitalist oligarchs who emerged from the upheavals of the collapse of the former Soviet Union.

Talking so much, in fact, it means that CSKA Moscow is very rich, so it is also very powerful.

Madiburg Club did not see the complex political factors behind this game and Abramovich's ambitions and ambitions, everyone just habitually ignored this strange team, although the intelligence department provided very detailed technical and tactical information, but it is obviously against human nature to let Uncle Scum and Zhuo Yang and others put CSKA and the five major league teams at the same level before the game.

As a result, Madiburg was beaten by his opponent at the beginning.

In the third minute of the first half, the 19-year-old Russian international Akinfeev confiscated the cold shot of musketeer Gomez, and then threw the ball to striker and Croatian international Olic with a strong hand, Olic rushed all the way to the fire, and his low cross was blocked by Ackerman who fell to the ground.

Brazilian midfielder Daniel Carvalho whipped in a corner from the right, and 1.90m defender A. Berezouski headed Westermann seven yards in front of goal, and the ball bounced off the ground and drilled into the far corner. As simple as that, Madiburg fell behind 0:1.

Then CSKA Moscow, under the command of the old coach Gazaev, very patiently played around Madiburg, and the extremely strong defense gave them a solid foundation for defensive counterattacks away from home, giving up possession in exchange for tactical initiative, showing the deep skills of the former Soviet football coach.

In the past two years, CSKA Moscow has been throwing money everywhere, attracting many unknown but equally powerful players, and it can be said that there is no mediocrity in every position in the team, and there is no way to fall behind the talented Madiburg.

Madiburg played awkwardly and was restricted once he reached the 40-metre zone, and Zhuo Yang was also stumbled by the split tactics of Nigeria international Odiah and Russian international Altonin.

Honestly, CSKA Moscow are the toughest opponents Madiborg have faced in the UEFA Cup this season, and even because of their style, as Khedira said, they are even tougher than Bayern Munich.

And Akinfeev, who is one year younger than Zhuo Yang, deserves to be the most promising goalkeeper demon in European football today, he inherited the steady and comprehensive technical style of the former Soviet goalkeeper, Zhuo Yang's many sharp shots were held by Akinfeev, and he didn't even get rid of it, he was simply not human.

In this way, it was a stalemate until the 44th minute, or Altonin was tired of Zhuo Yang's walk to become the third grandson, and finally half a footstep did not keep up, when Arshavin's cross flew in, Zhuo Yang swooped out first, and pressed sideways against the turf to push out a scurrying monkey, Akinfeev finally failed to block. The goal was very difficult, and Zhuo Yang collapsed when he dived.

It was 1-1 in the first half, and Zhuo Yang also scored his 22nd goal in this League Cup. However, not long after the start of the second half, Madiburg fell behind again.