Chapter 671: Winning the Championship in a Hasty Manner
The UEFA Champions League is a competition that attracts the attention of the whole world.
When the tournament reaches the knockout stage, there is no conflict between the various matches, and the result of one game will not affect the other, so it is natural to play the matches separately for many days in order to maximize the revenue of the TV broadcast.
The two matches in the second leg of the Champions League semi-finals were also played over two days, with Newcastle United and Arsenal playing on the first day and Manchester United hosting Barcelona on the second day.
This one is also crucial.
The winner of Manchester United and Barcelona will get their next ticket to the final, with the loser eliminated.
Football is so brutal.
From the perspective of the situation of both sides of the game, most of the media are still optimistic about Barcelona, because Manchester United did not play well in the first leg, and in a head-on collision with Barcelona, they can almost only retreat from the backfield to play defensive counterattacks.
It's the same for this round.
In the face of Barcelona, who has strong technology and cooperation, Manchester United can only passively play defensive counterattacks.
Although they performed well throughout the game and scored early, the final score was only 1-1, and with the 2-1 win in the first leg, Barcelona beat Manchester United 3-2 and secured the remaining ticket to the final.
The final match in the Champions League is Newcastle United vs Barcelona.
This match is also what the European media and fans are looking forward to.
In this season's Champions League, Newcastle United and Barcelona are very close to each other, they are opponents in the group stage, Barcelona lost both games to Newcastle United, so that they almost suffered elimination in the group stage.
Now they have worked their way to the final and they still have to face Newcastle United.
Spain's "El Monde Sport" said a similar classic example, "Many people still remember the 1998-1999 season, when Manchester United and Bayern Munich were in the same group, and in the end Bayern Munich won the group with an advantage of eleven points, and Manchester United had ten points, which could only rank second, and was even almost eliminated by the third place." ”
"After that, Manchester United went all the way to the Champions League final, where they beat Bayern Munich to win the Champions League!"
"Newcastle United and Barcelona are in a similar situation right now, the two teams are in the same group, Newcastle United are in first place and Barcelona are second, and this is perhaps a classic matchup of fate......
Le Monde Sport has always been a supporter of Barcelona, citing the example of Manchester United's triumph in 1999 to show that they finished second in the group and won the title, and the situation was indeed very similar to now, Barcelona and Manchester United were almost in the same situation at that time, both of them were almost eliminated in the group stage. It's just that what "World Sports" didn't say was that the third place in the group at that time happened to be Barcelona, and Barcelona suffered an embarrassing elimination.
In addition to "World Sports", other major media have also made reports, predicting the final winning team.
"World Sports" is to support Barcelona to make a report, but there are many media that make similar reports, because the process of Manchester United winning the championship in 1999 is indeed very similar to Barcelona this season, the only thing is that these media are not shy about pointing out, "Barcelona and Manchester United, Bayern Munich were in the same group that year, Barcelona is like Inter Milan this year, they only accumulated eight points and ranked third in the group." ”
If you don't talk about history, many media are also optimistic about Newcastle United.
Newcastle United's squad strength can't catch up with Barcelona, but they beat Barcelona in two games in the group stage, Zhen Shaolong left Barcelona with no way, and they didn't show the ability to defend Zhen Shaolong.
"Everything depends on Zhen Shaolong!"
"If Zhen Shaolong can play well in the final, Newcastle United have a good chance of winning, otherwise Barcelona have a better chance of winning."
"Barcelona should probably pray that Zhen Shaolong is not in form......"
Barcelona is not just 'praying', as soon as the game against Manchester United is over and most of the players are still celebrating the final, the Barcelona hierarchy has taken action to put pressure on UEFA in various ways, hoping that the group they have formed will give results as soon as possible, and it is best to limit Zhen Shaolong's use of 'overhead charge'.
This is important.
Anyone knows that the ban on 'overhead charge' to complete a goal will not have much impact on Zhen Shaolong's personal ability, because he has not scored similar goals very often, but Barcelona president Joan Laporta believes that as long as the result of UEFA's ruling is unfavorable to Zhen Shaolong, it will definitely affect the opponent's mentality, whether the opponent is very angry, angry, or what other reaction, the mentality may be affected and the performance may be affected.
That's what Laporta is for.
Zhen Shaolong learned that the opponent in the Champions League final was Barcelona, and he didn't care at all, whether it was Manchester United or Barcelona, they were both opponents who were not easy to deal with, but in fact, there was not much difference.
It seems good that the opponent is Barcelona.
Like what.
In the next round of the league and Middlesbrough, Zhen Shaolong talked about the final in an interview before the opening, "Barcelona, very good. I'm looking forward to playing against them, and I want to give one person a special encouragement, 'Messi, come on, you're the best'! ”
Zhen Shaolong gave a thumbs up as he spoke, and showed a piece of white teeth, as if he was encouraging from the heart.
The media was somewhat incomprehensible.
Messi, who was far away in Spain, saw the TV screen of Zhen Shaolong 'encouraging' himself, and almost vomited three liters of blood out of breath.
"This bastard!"
"Damn it!"
Messi felt that his temper was good enough, and he felt very angry in his heart, starting from playing with Zhen Shaolong, whether it was in the Argentine national team or Barcelona, the other party would express 'encouragement' every time he met, at first Messi felt kind, and after a few times, he knew that the other party was provoking, because every time the other party had to behave much better.
"Leo, keep your mind and ignore him!"
Xavi noticed the angry Messi and comforted, "Don't care, all we have to do is prepare for the game, only the victory or defeat will tell everything." If you get angry about it, you'll let his plot succeed! ”
The other side.
Zhen Shaolong just made a small joke with Messi in front of the media, and then threw himself into the game against Middlesbrough.
In this game, he only played 45 minutes.
Keegan is considering letting Zhen Shaolong rest more in order to wait for the final finals, but the league plays a dozen normally, as long as there are no big mistakes, it is no problem to win the championship.
Zhen Shaolong only played well in the first half, he completed a goal and gave Owen an assist.
In the second half, Zhen Shaolong was replaced, sat on the sidelines for a long time, and was even bored enough to pick up his mobile phone to play games, and the game time finally passed quickly.
The final score was 3-1.
Newcastle United beat Middlesbrough to secure their 36th Premier League win and the win cemented their points advantage.
When the Newcastle United players had already walked out of the field, there was a sudden burst of violent cheers in the stands, and many people did not know why, they saw Keegan, Cavro and everyone in the Newcastle United stands rushing to the stadium in one breath.
"Won the championship!"
"We're champions!"
"Don't play the rest of the game! We've already won the championship! ”
Before many people came to their senses, others had already helped explain, "Liverpool lost!" They lost to Tottenham! So we won early! ”
"Haha, the championship is here!"
"We can relax and celebrate the championship, and there will be awards later!"
Another game.
Tottenham Hotspur hosts Liverpool, for Liverpool, the game must be won, they didn't even put Tottenham in their eyes before, but losing the game with Newcastle United is undoubtedly a huge blow to morale, some players to the game, completely unable to see the state, fortunately, the core Gerrard performed well, with individual performance to drive the performance of the whole team.
Eighty-five minutes.
Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur drew 3-3.
With the clock ticking down the last five minutes, Liverpool were still on the offensive and Tottenham seized the opportunity to counter-attack, with Modris rushing forward to hand the ball to Darren Bent, who delivered the fatal blow to Liverpool.
4 to 3!
In the end, Tottenham won at home to Liverpool.
The result means that Liverpool and Newcastle United are seven points apart, and with only two league games remaining, they have no chance to catch up on the points.
Newcastle United are also confirmed to win the title.
After the game.
St James' Park was long filled with enthusiastic cheers, with every fan shouting for the champion.
This championship came as a surprise.
Newcastle United were originally 'planning' to win the title at home to Fulham in the next round, but the club did not have much preparation for winning the championship early, so they could only come up with celebratory items for the awards, and the award ceremony was simply set on the rostrum.
FA officials and award presenters are here.
The FA has arranged it very reasonably, because the Premier League awards have always been in the round when the championship is determined, and as long as there is a theoretical possibility, they will arrive with a 'trophy for the award' and be ready for the award ceremony at any time.
Newcastle United felt it was a rush to win the title.
There's nothing wrong with the FA and they don't need any preparation.
When the Newcastle United team was sorted out and returned to the playing field, the championship trophy had been placed in place, and the players lined up in turn to receive their own medals, and then Zhen Shaolong and Smith were on both sides of the trophy.
The presenter gently held up the trophy.
Zhen Shaolong and Smith raised the trophy high with both hands, while James Park fell into the extreme of madness -
"Champion! Champion! ”
"Newcastle United are league champions, we have successfully defended the Premier League title, the Magpies are the strongest team and we are back at the top!"
"Champions, glory, all Newcastle!"
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