In the end, Bayer Leverkusen's counter-attack failed to break the Bordeaux goal, and Blanco used a substitution in stoppage time to delay time.

"Bordeaux and Bayer Leverkusen drew 2-2 on aggregate in the Europa League knockout round, Bordeaux relied on Liu Ting's valuable away goal to advance to the next round, and we congratulate Bordeaux for continuing to move forward in both Ligue 1 and Europa League." Liu Jianhong was also happy for Bordeaux's promotion.

Liu Ting, who was the hero of the best team in the game, was the focus of the reporters after the game, and he was asked any questions.

'We're happy to have progressed to the next round and it's a credit to the whole team and the hard work of the manager and all the team-mates that made it possible.

"That bike on the field? I've always pedaled my bike, I've actually used it in team training, but I haven't used it in competitions, and my favorite and most proficient thing is the Marseille slalom, but sometimes I can confuse my opponent by surprise. ”

"Why do you choose to wear a crotch when you shoot? This is just a football common sense, when learning football, the coach said, the probability of scoring a single goal is very high, but there is also the danger of being saved, a single knife shakes the goalkeeper to hit the empty goal or directly hit the goalkeeper's crotch is the most likely to score, provided that you have the ability to shake the goalkeeper or hit the goalkeeper's crotch, shake the goalkeeper and the ball can not enter the empty goal, which requires a high technical content, and the goalkeeper has a high center of gravity when attacking, as long as he hits the crotch he can not react. ”

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Although this round of Europa League knockout rounds has passed, it is very thrilling, Liu Ting feels that Blanco's strategic focus has a great impact on the league, Blanco gives priority to the league and the Europa League is raised by his stepmother, maybe you can talk to him.

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After the game against Bayer Leverkusen, Liu Ting and his teammates returned to Bordeaux, but coach Blanco needs to go to UEFA headquarters to draw lots, and who will be the opponents in the next round depends on this draw.

At present, there are only three teams in Ligue 1 participating in the European competition, and Lyon has entered the knockout stage of the Champions League, but it can only stop at the round of 16, because the opponent drawn by Lyon in the round of 16 is Manchester United, and it is difficult for Lyon to pass this hurdle. The Europa League knockout round has two Ligue 1 teams, Bordeaux who advanced through the group stage and Marseille who fell out of the Champions League group stage, and now both teams have passed the round of 32 and entered the round of 16, and Marseille is the eliminated Russian team Spartak Moscow to advance.

The bad thing for Bordeaux is that Lyon is likely to be out of the Champions League immediately, so that they will go all out to compete for the league title, and Bordeaux also scored the Europa League game, in fact, Blanco's idea of giving up the Europa League is not bad, and concentrating on entanglement with Lyon can ensure that he wins the league title.

Soon the draw results came out, the opponents of the two Europa League French teams were opponents of the same country as the previous round, Marseille met the Russian team again, this time it was Zenit St. Petersburg, Bordeaux also met the German team again, the team Hamburg, Germany's second largest city, but on the whole, Hamburg should be slightly weaker than Bayer Leverkusen, but Bordeaux has an unfavorable schedule.

European matches are played on Wednesdays and Thursdays in the middle of the week, while most of the domestic leagues are played on Saturdays and Sundays, although there are also some leagues that are scheduled to be played in midweek when the schedule is tight.

Bordeaux's last round of Europa League knockout matches was home and away against Bayer Leverkusen, and sandwiched between the two legs of the Europa League is to go away to challenge the French powerhouse Monaco on the weekend, that is, almost a three-day tough game, this midweek at home to Leverkusen, away to Monaco on the weekend, and away to Germany to play Leverkusen in the middle of next week, fortunately Monaco is not strong, but Bordeaux was almost overturned by Bayer Leverkusen in the second leg. And this time it is still a home and away schedule, sandwiched between the two legs of the weekend league is to go away to Lyon on the weekend, away to play Lyon This game can be said to be a decisive game for this season's league championship, Bordeaux must go all out to prepare, the two games with Hamburg will become dangerous, before playing Hamburg there is a home game against Paris Saint-Germain, Paris Saint-Germain has been in decline for a few years, but this old strong team will play a decisive role if it is not good.

Just like last season's Bundesliga, the declining Dortmund has no ability to compete for the championship and even has no chance of a European place, but it will pit Schalke 04 at a critical moment to make the other party lose the championship, so playing Paris can not be taken lightly, otherwise it may overturn, and meet a strong team in four consecutive games within two weeks, such a schedule is clearly to ask Bordeaux to give up the Europa League and concentrate on the league.

Laurent Blanco said in an interview when he returned to France: "Bordeaux has a tight schedule right now, we will consider giving up some less important games when the time is right, the main goal of Bordeaux this season is the Ligue 1 title, Bordeaux's last Ligue 1 title was nine years ago, and now it's time for Bordeaux to win the title." ”

Blanco is a traditional coach, he doesn't like to fight with people, and he arranges games mainly to be safe, he doesn't like to take risks, he believes that two birds are not as good as one bird in the forest, and it is good to be able to win the Ligue 1 championship safely.

The rest of the media think that Blanco is right, now Bordeaux has a tight schedule and gives up the Europa League to compete for the league title, such an arrangement is understandable, only the media in Lyon are saying that Bordeaux should go to fight for the honor of the French team, this is of course to want Bordeaux to be dragged down by the front, this year Lyon has not been so dominant, and if you want to win the championship, it really depends on the opponent's own mistakes.

No one cared about what the Lyon media said, but Liu Ting decided to talk to Blanco.

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When Liu Ting entered Blanco's coaching room, the room was filled with smoke and there were a lot of cigarette butts on the floor, and it looked like Blanco was worried about the team's situation.

"Liu, what's the matter?" Blanco asked strangely, Liu Ting rarely went to find him alone.

"Coach, I wanted to ask you about the recent schedule."

"Just call me Laurent, you mean I'm going to give up those games, right?"

"Yes, Laurent."

"I plan to play the two legs against Hamburg on the bench and try my best to win against Paris Saint-Germain and Lyon."

"Laurent, I think we are more than capable of competing for a European title, we are the fifth favourites in the newly updated UEFA Cup odds, behind Bayern Munich, Fiorentina in Serie A, Tottenham Hotspur and Everton in the Premier League, and in the next round of knockout Everton and Fiorentina are in a hot fight, in fact we are the fourth favourite." This is the ranking of the favorites just given by European bookmakers, and bookmakers rely on this ranking to arrange odds to make money, and most of the time they are very reliable.

Blanco also has a bit of a headache, he doesn't know why his disciple is so concerned about the Europa League, which doesn't have much gold content, but he is the most important player in the team right now, and if he doesn't calm his emotions, it will definitely have an impact on the championship with Lyon.

It's no wonder that Blanco doesn't value the Europa League, in fact, the Europa League has become less and less important since the Champions League was restructured, and UEFA's several Europa League restructurings have not been able to restore the attention of the Europa League. In the past, there were three major cups in Europe - the European Champions Cup, the UEFA Cup and the European Cup Winners' Cup, all three major cups are very popular, the Champions Cup has always been the boss's most influential, but which club wins one of the three major cups is also a great honor.

This is mainly due to the fact that there were not too many teams participating in the three major cups at that time, for example, the Champions Cup was only the champion of each league to participate, and a league often had more than one giant, and there were always many giants who fell to participate in the League Cup and the Winners' Cup, which made the gold content of the three major cups very high, and it was a huge honor to win the championship.

Later, the three major cup competitions were restructured, the Champions League was expanded, and the Winners' Cup was merged into the Europa League, which is equivalent to the fact that all the giants and strong teams who participated in the three major cups were transferred to participate in the Champions League. The remaining Europa League has become a rookie pecking at each other, occasionally a giant team falls off the Europa League is not at all concerned, the main energy is still in the domestic league in order to obtain the next year's Champions League qualification, this is the main reason why the Europa League is not concerned, and the practice of UEFA giving the Europa League champion a Champions League qualification to gain attention is actually to rub the heat of the Champions League.

So it's not wrong for Laurent Blanco to want to concentrate on the league, but he has to find a way to convince Liu Ting.