Chapter 127: The aftermath of the game

The end of the match between Liverpool and Real Madrid was like dropping an atomic bomb in European football, it was a game that shocked Europe, no one expected that the two teams with a total of 14 Champions League titles would meet like this, and no one expected Real Madrid to be slaughtered in such a humiliation when they visited Anfield Stadium for the first time.

Real Madrid have won the Champions League nine times in their history, while Liverpool have won five times, but the two teams have only met once before, in the Champions League final in Paris, France, and Real Madrid have never been to Anfield before, so this is their first visit, which is believed to have impressed them.

After the game, Liu Ting and Gerrard both scored the highest 9 points, and in the end, the best of the game was taken away by Gerrard, who scored twice, and only Casillas in the Real Madrid team scored 7 points, and everyone else failed.

Major media have come out to find the reason for Real Madrid's loss, and the "Liverpool Echo" directly praised Liverpool: "From the data of the two teams' possession rate, shots on goal, corner kicks, fouls, red and yellow cards in this game, the two teams are not much different, but there is a data difference that is particularly large, that is, the number of shots on target, Liverpool has 14 shots on target from 19 shots in the whole game, and Real Madrid has 4 shots on target from 17 shots in the whole game. This is due to the fact that TNT and Steven Gerrard are in great form. ”

Spain's "Marca" newspaper criticized the manager: "Juan de Ramos has always had the problem of not being able to use troops on the field against strong teams, in the first leg of the match with Liverpool, he only used one substitution in the whole game, Guti came on to replace Marcelo, Guti did not perform after coming on the field, and finally Real Madrid lost to Liverpool by one goal at home." In the second leg at Anfield, he switched to attacking players, thinking that his team's attack could completely defeat Liverpool, but his team was completely defeated by the opponent and played the biggest defeat in Real Madrid's Champions League history. ”

Real Madrid's biggest defeat in Champions League history came in the 88/89 Champions League semi-finals, when Real Madrid drew 1-1 at home to AC Milan and were slaughtered 5-0 by the Rossoneri at the San Siro with the Dutch troika.

The match now equals Real Madrid's biggest defeat in Champions League history.

If you only count the Champions League restructuring, Real Madrid has never lost four goals in the Champions League, the biggest score is the 99/00 season group stage 1:4 loss to Bayern, but that season in the group stage Bayern defeated Real Madrid, to the semi-finals Real Madrid eliminated Bayern and finally won the Champions League that year.

The 0:5 loss to Liverpool brought the record after the Champions League restructuring to five.

Juan de Ramos can be said to have left the class early, just waiting for the end of the season to leave.

Germany's "Bild" took a different approach: "This is a revenge of Heynckes, 11 years ago Heynckes led Real Madrid to win the Champions League again after 32 years, but was sacked because of the last-minute defeat to Barcelona in the league, and now Heynckes has finally found a chance for revenge, he led a murderous revenge that shocked the world."

Everything in the world is like this, when something that attracts attention, there are immediately various interpretations, and in fact many times these things just happen by accident.

Liu Ting said in front of reporters: "This is a very normal game, we just think this is a weekend and Manchester United league life and death battle in advance warm-up."

The journalist asked: "Do you think you deserve to beat Real Madrid?"

Liu Ting: "Of course, you can look at the European standings, isn't it normal for the No. 1 team to beat the No. 13 team?"

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This round of the Champions League is over, and all the teams that have advanced to the quarterfinals of the Champions League have been released.

Villarreal eliminated Panathinaikos 3:2 on aggregate, Porto eliminated Atletico Madrid 2:2 on aggregate and relied on away goals, Barcelona eliminated Lyon 6:3 on aggregate, and Bayern Munich eliminated Sporting Lisbon 12:1 on aggregate.

In addition to Liverpool, the hottest in this round of knockout matches is Bayern, first slaughtered Sporting Lisbon 5:0 away, and Bayern slaughtered again 7:1 in the second leg, and the score of 12:1 is the largest total score of the two legs of the knockout round since the Champions League was restructured, and Benitez's famous aura is even brighter. Fortunately, Liverpool also played a big score, otherwise they would definitely be considered to have no eyes to drive away a good coach.

Sporting Lisbon was originally a soft persimmon in the Champions League, but Real Madrid was the best club of the century, and it was always Liverpool's game that was more influential.

The other three giants of the Premier League have also qualified, Chelsea eliminated Juventus 3-2 on aggregate, and Hiddink's guarantee task since taking charge has been completed; Manchester United eliminated Inter Milan 2-0 on aggregate, with Ferguson beating Jose Mourinho, who had been boasting of an advantage over him; Arsenal drew 1-1 on aggregate with Roma over the two legs and finally beat Roma on penalties to advance.

The four Premier League teams in the quarterfinals of the Champions League occupy half, leaving two La Liga teams, a Bundesliga team and a Portuguese Super League team, and the three teams of Serie A and the three teams of the Premier League that were once in the small World Cup have been head-to-head, and Serie A has been wiped out, and no Serie A team has advanced to the quarterfinals of the Champions League for the first time in 7 years.

This is the second year in a row that the Premier League has won half of the quarter-finals of the Champions League, and the strength of the Premier League team is obvious, and the British media continue to boast about the Premier League's prosperity.

In fact, only the big4 in the Premier League is supported in the Champions League, and other teams other than the big four are not good in Europe.

The reason why Spain ranks first in Europe in the league European points, in addition to the results of the teams playing in the Champions League, many second-rate teams keep brushing points in the Europa League is also very important.

This season, UEFA has deliberately prepared a 'good opponent' for the Premier League team, the opponents of the Premier League team are all strong teams, Liverpool vs. Real Madrid, Chelsea vs. Juventus, Manchester United vs. Inter, Arsenal's opponent Roma is not a giant, but Arsenal itself is also weak and comparable to Roma, but the four teams in the Premier League are still all out of the encirclement, and then UEFA has a headache.

Soon after the quarterfinals were announced, the draw was made, and Liu Ting watched the draw with his teammates in Liverpool.

Liu Ting knew that if there was no change, Liverpool would draw Chelsea, forming a Premier League civil war plus five consecutive years of Champions League Liverpool playing Chelsea, and finally Liverpool was eliminated by Chelsea.

This is also what it should mean, half of the top eight of the Premier League, there must be a civil war, UEFA does not dare to separate them, if they are separated, if they accidentally all four teams in the Premier League advance to the semi-finals, then others are still playing a fart?

The Champions League was directly renamed the English FA Cup.

UEFA will definitely arrange a set of Premier League civil wars, and for the gimmick of Liverpool playing Chelsea in the Champions League for several years in a row, those guys make it very likely that Liverpool and Chelsea will meet.

Liu Ting doesn't want to encounter Chelsea, the current Chelsea is still in its prime, it is really difficult to play, although Liverpool has beaten Chelsea twice in the league this season, but that was Scolari asked Chelsea to change to offensive football and a little luck to complete, now Hiddink has arrived Chelsea has returned to the previous defensive play, and it is difficult for anyone to meet Chelsea.

However, Liverpool may not necessarily draw Chelsea, after all, the grudge between Liverpool and Chelsea was caused by Mourinho and Benitez, and now that both have left the Premier League, the gimmick is much smaller, but Liverpool is not small to draw Bayern Munich, Benitez, who was innocently fired, takes revenge on his old club, and Heynckes also coached Bayern, a very interesting game, isn't it?

In the end, the draw results came out, which made Liu Ting breathe a sigh of relief, Liverpool 'just happened' to draw Bayern Munich, and the managers of both teams were ready to return to their old clubs.

The other three sets of matchups are Chelsea vs. Arsenal, and the necessary Premier League civil war has been replaced by the London derby, which is also full of highlights; Manchester United against Porto, Barcelona against Villarreal, Manchester United and Barcelona are almost guaranteed to reach the last four.

However, Manchester United Porto and Liverpool Bayern Munich are in one and a half zones, and Manchester United may not be easy to play no matter who they face in the semi-finals, and on the other side is naturally Barcelona Villarreal and Chelsea Arsenal in a half zone.

Compared with Chelsea, Liu Ting knows that Bayern Munich is obviously easier to deal with, and Bayern's defense is their biggest weakness, so Bayern will lose the Bundesliga championship this season and be humiliated by Magath for a goalkeeper.

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The Champions League draw has been made, but the game won't start until next month, and the most important thing for Liverpool at the moment is to take on Manchester United away at the weekend, which will be a Premier League title game.

There are 10 rounds left in the league, Liverpool is 4 points behind Manchester United with one less round, if it loses in this direct encounter, it will be 7 points behind with one less round, Manchester United is 10 points behind if it wins the supplementary game, and Manchester United can have 3 games of room for maneuver in the remaining 9 rounds of the league, and Liverpool basically loses the championship this season.

Even if there is little hope of winning the Metropolitan Championships, only by beating Manchester United can they catch up, and if Manchester United make a mistake in the hurry, Liverpool will have a chance to overtake them.

Before the start of the game, all kinds of spit were naturally indispensable, and Manchester United directly came out to amplify the move, Manchester United announced that Manchester United would have a prize of 9 million pounds to win all the titles this season.

Abu has said in the past that if he wins all the trophies in a season (Champions League, Premier League, FA Cup and EFL Cup), he will give the players £14 million in bonuses, but unfortunately he has not been able to give out the bonuses, even in the history of England, no team has ever done this.

Manchester United made a big move, and Liverpool was not to be outdone, Xu Zhengxin stood up and said: If you get one of the Premier League or the Champions League, you can have a bonus of 5 million pounds, and if you get two together, you will have a bonus of 10 million pounds.

The prize money is £1 million higher than Manchester United's, and Liverpool only need two league and Champions League titles to complete, and Manchester United need all the titles.

Manchester United and Liverpool have come out to express their positions, Chelsea is Abu said that his previous commitment continues to be valid, Abu has recently been affected by the financial crisis to shrink his assets by half, only dare to say things before, because Chelsea this season has been impossible to complete the task of all the championships, the EFL Cup has been taken away by Manchester United, and all the championships can not be made.

The Chelsea players still have a thought, what if they are lucky to get it next season?

Arsenal, for their part, pretended not to understand what you were saying.

What bonuses?

Isn't it true that players are born to strive for glory when they play football?

What more bikes?

The bonus announcement of the Premier League has also triggered the bonus arrangement of other European giants, entering the Champions League quarterfinals Bayern and Barcelona have also announced bonuses, the Bundesliga has a financial fair play policy Bayern can not pay a big bonus although it has money, Barcelona has opened the highest bonus in Europe in one breath, and the whole team of Barcelona will have a bonus of 20 million euros to win the treble this season, which is about 15 million euros when converted into pounds, which is the highest bonus offered by European clubs at present. And this season, Barcelona is really likely to win the treble in three lines, and there are basically not too many obstacles in the domestic league and cup, only the Champions League is more suspenseful.

Watching one club after another come out to open bonuses, Real Madrid, the most wealthy club in Europe, is silent, because they have basically lost nothing this season, the Champions League and the Copa del Rey have been eliminated, and the league is also a lot behind Barcelona.

As Barcelona's mouthpiece Le Monde Sport mocked Real Madrid: it's only March, and Real Madrid's season has ended early.