Chapter 230: The Group Stage Ends
After the league game, Bordeaux stepped on a plane heading north, landing on the west coast of Sweden four hours later. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
It was the penultimate match of the group stage of the UEFA Champions League, with Bordeaux away to Gothenburg. Gothenburg is located on the west coast of Sweden in the Kattegat Strait, the mouth of Sweden's largest river, the Jöta River, with a population of about 900,000.
Although Gothenburg is 10 degrees higher latitude than Bordeaux, the weather in the two places is about the same, and Bordeaux is completely uncomfortable with going to Russia and Ukraine to play.
Because of this, Gothenburg's home advantage has been greatly diminished, with Bordeaux winning 2-1 at home in Gothenburg and winning four and drawing one in the group stage of the UEFA Champions League, which is enough to proudly put Bordeaux at the top of the group. Of course, Bordeaux have already secured the only fixed qualification spot in this group one round earlier.
The rest of the group will be even easier to see how many points Bayern Munich can score as they finish second in the group, with 10 points after this round and they will host Gothenburg in their next game, a 13-point win would give them a big advantage in the fight for the top two group finishes.
The other groups also had early progression, with defending champions Borussia Dortmund now four points ahead of second-placed Parma to top the group.
Manchester United in Group B are similarly six points ahead of second-placed Juventus, so they also qualified early.
In Group C, Dynamo Kyiv without Shevchenko still remains a dark horse, and they are now at the top of the group, taking three points from second-placed Feynold, and as long as they are unbeaten in the final round, they can successfully advance. And the most surprising thing about this group is Barcelona, the Spanish giants only have 4 points after the end, and they are at the bottom of the group, although they are now in a transition period, but in terms of their own strength, it will definitely not be so miserable.
Group D is more complex than the previous ones, with Real Madrid and Rosenborg on 10 points, depending on the outcome of the final round of matches, and Real Madrid are now at the top of the table on goal difference.
Group E is Bordeaux's group, although Fan Shang feels that the results are deserved, but in the eyes of the outside world, Bordeaux and Dynamo Kyiv and Rosenborg are the same as the dark horses of this event.
Group F also saw the two teams level on points, with Monaco and Lewukusen tied on 12 points, and the final round of matches between the two teams will determine the top spot in this group. Monaco are the clear dominant side right now, with three more goal difference than Lewukusen.
Although Bordeaux have already qualified from the group, Fan Shang did not want to let them go in the final round of the home game against Besiktas.
Bordeaux had a league game ahead of this game, but the result was not satisfactory to Vincent as they were held to a 2-2 draw at home by the challenged Metz. Bordeaux scored goals from Shevchenko and Papan, who had returned from injury.
Vincent was most dissatisfied with Chilavert's form today, with both goals he had to take responsibility for, the first being that he didn't shoot the ball wide when defending a corner, which led to an empty goal for Maze, and the second was caused by him saving the ball.
But there is no way, Chilavert has not rested for a game since the beginning of the season, although he is a goalkeeper, but even the gods have times when they are not in good shape, and Fan Shang is also relieved to be here. Vincent actually wanted Chilavert to take a break, but looking at the young goalkeeper Alduni on the bench, Vincent decisively gave up the idea.
Fan Shang now suddenly wants to add a substitute goalkeeper to the reinforcement plan during the winter break, the key is a willing substitute goalkeeper, and the level must be passable. To be honest, the most difficult thing to find in the team is a good substitute goalkeeper, and generally a goalkeeper with some ability would rather be the main force in a slightly worse team than play as a substitute in a big club.
Next is the home game with Besiktas, this game Fan Shang is not all the main force sent, Fan Shang once again sacrificed the kitchen knife team, one by one the butchers were arranged on the field by Fan Shang, whether it is black and hard or tall and strong, anyway, Bordeaux lethal people were thrown on the field by Fan Shang, La Motte, Gattuso, Makelle and others, and in this game Fan Shang players play casually, the most important and key is to confront the Turkish players to the maximum extent without eating a red card, And Fan Shang's game made the players take out all their dirty methods to press the bottom of the box.
Obviously, Fan Shang doesn't care about the outcome of this game at all, as long as the momentum is played, the result doesn't matter, anyway, he has already qualified in advance, it just depends on your Besiktas is not pleasing to the eye, what can you do!
Sure enough, the players also followed Fan Shang's intentions today, and they didn't look like they were going to play football at all, and they looked like they were fighting on the street, and within two minutes of the game, Gattuso received a yellow card in the midfield for tackling a Turkish player.
The yellow card allowed Gattuso to rest in the stands in the first game of the knockout stage. However, it may be that Gattuso was not very satisfied with this yellow card, and in the following games, his actions did not converge for half a point, so Gattuso was sent off for two yellow cards before the halfway point of the second half.
"It's a good deal," said Vincent and Gattuso, who walked off the field, "the red card and the yellow card suspension are combined in one game." ”
Gattuso could hear that Fan Shang's tone was a little unkind, so he didn't dare to speak.
"What did I tell you before the game, I don't care about the rest, just don't give me a red card, you" Fan Shang shouted angrily at Gattuso, his hand kept pointing at him, and then he waved his hand helplessly, making Gattuso disappear from front of him quickly.
Gattuso was pardoned at this time, and quickly sat back on the bench with his head down.
It was all like a fight on the court today, and the two teams didn't seem to have any other skills to play except fouls. Minutes after Gattuso was sent off, Turkey's Taivor was also sent off for a second yellow card for pulling Toney in the box.
Bordeaux, on the other hand, won the hand-to-hand battle with a score of 1-0 thanks to a penalty kick that was taken by goalkeeper Chilavert.
And in this game, in addition to Gattuso in Bordeaux, Ducket also received a yellow card, and the next game will be in the stands with Gattuso.