Section 476 Tough battles
Winning over Chelsea, a seemingly simple matter, is now all Wolfsburg is all they are looking for. In this round of the league, for this purpose, they are indeed doing their own workouts as Simon expected. However, there is a price to be paid for the team that has trained them, and in the middle of the game, they were perfunctory to Dortmund for the sake of Chelsea, which also made Wolfsburg suffer a big loss in this game.
In the match with Dortmund, Wolfsburg still lost in the end. Borussia Dortmund doubled the lead with a dribbling break in the box before the end of the game by Lewandowski, who had a dribble in the box. Wolfsburg ended the second round against Borussia Dortmund with a slightly tragic 2O.
At this point, the score difference between Wolfsburg and Bayern has finally reached more than 1o points. At the end of 29 rounds, a gap of 12 points, such a difference basically declares that Wolfsburg has absolutely no possibility of counterattacking. No matter how stupid Bayern is, it is impossible to concede more than 12 points in a row in the remaining rounds. And if all goes well, there are two more games, or even just one game, and Bayern can already celebrate the championship in advance, and the Bundesliga title is already destined to be in their pocket, and there is no suspense anymore.
The defeat at Wolfsburg became the biggest news in the Bundesliga this week. In this regard, the German media are also full of emotion. People lamented that Wolfsburg still lost in the double-front battle after all, and they also lamented that Bayern's advantage this season was really amazing.
At this moment, there is not much media to praise Bayern, because of the defeat of Wolfsburg, it is also announced that from this season, Bayern has officially become an unrivaled league in the Bundesliga with 34 rounds of games, and they may win the championship four rounds in advance, such an advantage is definitely a hegemonic level.
And the birth of this hegemon. It also made the Bundesliga media sigh. After so many years of ups and downs in the Bundesliga, Bayern has finally established itself as supremacy. The Bundesliga's long period of chaos has finally come to an end, when other leagues are starting to become turbulent. The hegemony of the Bundesliga was born.
This season, the major leagues have changed just too quickly. Manchester United, the overlord of the British side, collapsed, and fell from the original British hegemony to a team that even the Europa League has to work hard to grab. On the La Liga side, the two-man turnaround that seems to have lasted for several seasons has also come to an end, and Atletico Madrid is in the league. It has a tendency to go head-to-head with the West Giants, and maybe even win the championship in the end. If you want to talk about the real hegemon, it seems that only Juventus in Serie A this season is still unusually stable, and their supremacy has not wavered.
Except for Serie A, which seems to be a backwater and has no waves due to financial problems, several other leagues have had great turmoil and changes this season. And now. The Bundesliga has finally begun to put an end to the chaos that has been going on for years. After three seasons of second place in the league, Bayern finally saw the dawn of the league title this season. Everyone knows that a team like Bayern, once it is on the throne, it is impossible to come down easily. Wolfsburg and Borussia Dortmund held them back for three years, but in the end, they managed to reach the top.
And seeing the birth of such a hegemon in its own league, the German media also has various feelings. On the one hand, they want to see their league team get stronger, but on the other hand. There are too many opponents in the league who are stronger than other teams, which is also detrimental to the overall performance of the league. Especially in the Bundesliga, they can't even give birth to a second similar powerhouse, like La Liga's two-person turn. I can't sing it in the Bundesliga, and no one can say whether it's good or bad for the league exhibition.
If it goes on like this, the league is basically boring. But if it goes on like this, they will at least have a very competitive team in the Champions League. To put it this way. Maybe the rise of Bayern is a good thing for the European competition of the Bundesliga, but if you want to determine this, the prerequisite must also be determined, and the rise of Bayern will not let the European strength of other teams suffer a blow.
Sometimes, the rise of a team comes with the decline of other competitors in its own league. Such an example, in the distance, has the exploitation of Serie A teams by the top three in the north, and in the near future, the most typical is Manchester City.
Since having the money, Manchester City have embarked on their player buying spree. In the process of their acquisition, Manchester United's Carlos Tevez, Chelsea's Bridge, etc., they also poached a lot, and as for Arsenal's players, they were even more ruthless. The final result of this behavior is that several teams in the UK have declined to varying degrees, and just in time for the tax reform, the UK's European results have also declined sharply, compared to before, it is no longer at the same level.
It's good for a strong team to rise, but sometimes the team poachs its rivals and weakens them. And such a weakening is good for maintaining the hegemony of the league, but it is definitely not good news for the European results of the entire league.
And whether Bayern's rise will bring the same effect as Manchester City's rise is also the thing that people are most afraid of. After all, this kind of thing of poaching the same league, Bayern has done not less. Look at Götze in their current squad, think about Lewandowski's confirmation that he will move to Bayern after this season, and then look back, look at the current decline in Dortmund's results, the media naturally has a very bad worry, they are worried that from now on, Bayern has become stronger, but the other teams in the league have all become very weak.
That's definitely not a good thing. First of all, it is impossible to expect only one team in the European competition of a league, no matter how strong a team is, it is impossible to move forward with the results of a league to look at Ligue 1, and now Paris is so noisy, but Ligue 1 is not even as good as Portugal's results, this is the best example. Secondly, if the overall level of a league has repeatedly declined, then it is difficult to say how good Lee's team at the top will be Looking at Serie A, Juventus is certainly a small picture, but no one thinks they have any possibility of winning the Champions League, which is the best example. If Bayern continues to play like this, the final result is likely to put the Bundesliga on their path, which naturally causes many people to worry.
It's just that the media's worries are still not too obvious, after all, Bayern's current results are very good, and they have no reason to blame Bayern for destroying the league with trumped-up charges. After all, you have to watch how the rest of the league teams are doing in Europe, and if they really don't perform well, it's not too late to blame Bayern.
And it is precisely because of this idea that the second round match between Wolfsburg and Chelsea has also attracted people's attention. It will be interesting to see if the Wolfsburg players will be able to do their best to win the Champions League for their team after Bayern have started to rise to the top and become unbeatable.
Against Chelsea, they were able to achieve something that was very impressive.
Wolfsburg definitely doesn't want to lose this game, and they do have too many reasons why they shouldn't lose. Their players are very good and they have been preparing for the game against Borussia Dortmund in their most recent game. With these preparations, they have no reason to fail, they have to go for victory.
And the idea is good, but in terms of ability, can they keep up?
Their opponents, Chelsea, are also poised for this time. Unlike Wolfsburg, Chelsea won against their own Stoke City at the weekend and have been fighting in both the league and the Champions League, and they don't want to give up on either front.
In this game, Chelsea's squad has obviously been adjusted. Up front, they didn't use Schurrle as a central striker as they did in the previous game, and in this game, Chelsea used Samuel Eto'o. In midfield, their combination of Oscar and Eden Hazard remains the same, but in the other selection, they use Ramirez. In the midfield, Nemanja Nemanja's partner is no longer David Luiz, but Frank Lampard, and this lineup has changed the position of three people at once compared to the previous game.
The three substitutions can also be said to be significant: there was nothing surprising about Eto'o's appearance. He couldn't play in the last game because of an injury, and now that the injury has healed, he is still Chelsea's main striker. Ramirez is a little less skilled than Willian, but he has more experience and may provide more attacking convenience for Chelsea. In the end, Frank Lampard, who was not very physically strong, came on instead of using Ruiz, and it was clear that Mourinho seemed to have to fight hard in this game, even if it required the veteran players to consume physical strength, he did not hesitate to do so.
After analyzing, people can quickly conclude that Chelsea's attack is stronger, the squad is more complete, and they are ready to give it a go and let go of a tough battle with Wolfsburg. In the face of such Chelsea, Wolfsburg must also show all their strength, because this game is definitely a tough battle. To be continued.