Chapter 944: Champions League 1/4 Final Draw
The Champions League matchday is back and the big teams that have progressed to the last 16 are all focusing on their opponents, especially the likes of Barcelona, Manchester United, Bayern Munich, Inter Milan, Arsenal, Chelsea and AC Milan.
The matches of these teams are the games that fans are looking forward to, especially the early battles of the big teams, and the second leg of the Champions League 1/8 final between Barcelona vs Manchester United and Bayern Munich vs Inter Milan is attracting the attention of the whole world.
The focus of the mainstream media in Europe is also here, and the relatively loose Valencia vs Copenhagen and Real Madrid vs Lyon basically do not pay much attention except for the media in the city where the team is located.
Valencia and Real Madrid, who were at home, did not give the visitors any chance in the second leg of the 1/8 finals, defeating their opponents 5-0 and 2-0 respectively to advance to the quarterfinals of this season's Champions League.
The media didn't do much to see the promotion of the two teams, and in their perception, promotion was a matter of course.
Especially Valencia, the draw for the 1/8 finals of this season's Champions League is really good, and the draw is Copenhagen, which everyone loves.
Although Real Madrid's opponent is their nemesis, Real Madrid has undergone a very big change after Mourinho's transformation in the new season, not only has a solid backline, but also can score a lot of goals, as evidenced by the big win away from Lyon.
It is worth mentioning that in the knockout rounds of Valencia and Real Madrid, Aelo and Cristiano Ronaldo scored three and two goals respectively.
Iello rose to the top of the Champions League scorers list with 11 goals, while Cristiano Ronaldo was second with 10 goals and Lionel Messi was third with nine goals.
After the Champions League fixture, Valencia turned their attention to the league away from Zaragoza.
At this time, Ancelotti looked very far away, he knew that the opponent in the next round of the league was not strong, so he put most of his attention on the next round of the league opponent Sevilla, and guaranteed to win the three points against the strong team, which will help them win the league title this season.
Seven and eight points ahead in the league always gave him the feeling of being a bit unreliable.
On the second night, the second leg of the other two Champions League 1/8 finals that attracted much attention was played at the Camp Nou and Allianz Stadium respectively.
Barcelona at home was very difficult, and in the first half they even allowed Wayne Rooney to score a goal on the counter-attack, which was tantamount to putting Barcelona in a desperate situation.
In the second half, Messi erupted to the cheers of the crowd and his two goals helped the team equalise on aggregate.
Moreover, Bojan, who also assisted as a substitute before the end of the game, expanded the score, and finally fixed the score at 3:1 and advanced to the quarterfinals of the 2010-2011 Champions League with an aggregate score of 5:4.
Another high-profile 1/8 final was really terrifying, in the first half the two teams sent off one person each, and finally relied on Robben's long-distance run before the end of the game to assist Ribery to rewrite the score, and eliminated Inter Milan with a difficult aggregate score of 2:1.
As for the other four Champions League 1/8 finals, Yo Ah will be placed in the middle of next week, so the draw for the 1/4 finals will not be carried out until the other four teams have come out.
After the two high-profile 1/8 finals, it still attracted the attention of the public, especially Messi, who played well, and was widely praised.
But none of this has anything to do with Iroh or Valencia......
Of course, this is only temporary.
On April 20, Valencia will host Barcelona at the Mestalla to decide the 2010-2011 Copa del Rey winner.
If Valencia and Barcelona are drawn together in the knockout stages of the Champions League in the future, there is still a chance to spark.
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In fact, Valencia's end of the second leg of the Champions League 1/8 final match with Copenhagen is equivalent to leaving the double match a week and entering the perfect game atmosphere of one match a week.
As a result, Valencia performed very well, beating Zaragoza 3-1 away and Sevilla 2-0 at home in the next two league games, with Ailo contributing four of those goals to take his tally to 43.
It is worth mentioning that Cristiano Ronaldo and Messi have entered the ups and downs of form after successive outbreaks in the Champions League and the league, which narrowed the gap between Iello and Cristiano Ronaldo and Messi, who are tied for the top scorer, to three goals.
At this stage, the mainstream media in Europe believe that the probability of Iello surpassing Cristiano Ronaldo and Messi to become the league's top scorer has increased again, and it will exceed 70%
Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi, who finished the league, spoke to the media separately at this sensitive time slot, and they both believed that Aylo's high-speed approach was a pressure, but it was also motivation.
Last season's La Liga scorer and Premier League scorer showed their domineering side.
However, the local media in Valencia basically laughed at their confidence and didn't care.
Iroh was able to chase only three goals with six games in hand, so the remaining nine league games can't match those three goals?
Apparently there is nothing wrong with it.
In addition, Valencia still have a big advantage in the schedule, except for Villarreal in the round of 31 and Real Madrid in the round of 33, none of the remaining opponents can pose a threat to them.
And the two league games against Villarreal and Real Madrid were at home, giving Ailo more chances.
Especially in the 33rd round of the league at home against Real Madrid, Valencia's defenders will definitely help Ailo limit Cristiano Ronaldo's play as much as possible, and it will be easy to surpass the scorer list at that time!
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After playing the league in Sevilla, an international break was ushered in, and the Chinese national team did not slack off after winning the Asian Cup, but actively contacted the opponent.
The opponent contacted by the Athletic Department of the Chinese XX Football Association for the Chinese team is the Swedish national team.
The national team, made up of all European players, beat their opponents 3-2 at home in Switzerland, with Aylo contributing a goal and an assist.
There are also eye-catching players in this international A-level competition, such as Shi Ke and Liao Lisheng, who came off the bench in the 93-year-old age group, who played international matches for the senior national team at the age of 18 without any stage fright.
In particular, Shi Ke, the captain of the national youth team, the central defender partnership formed by him and Feng Xiaoting completely restricted 'Lu Fengxian Ibrahimovic' in the last ten minutes, which made Chinese fans happy.
After the international break, the draw for the quarter-finals of the 2010-2011 Champions League season was also held at UEFA headquarters in Nyon.
A slight mention of the teams that have qualified for this season's Champions League quarter-finals are Valencia, Barcelona, Real Madrid, Tottenham, Arsenal, Bayern Munich, Schalke 04 and Shakhtar Donetsk.
There are three dark horses that will advance to the quarter-finals: Tottenham Hotspur who beat AC Milan, Schalke 04 who beat Chelsea and Shakhtar Donetsk who beat Roma.
It is the most dark horse in the quarterfinals of the Champions League.
In this regard, the Italian media is very unhappy, because the teams that have advanced to the quarterfinals do not have a Serie A team, and the quarterfinals are occupied by the champions of La Liga, the Bundesliga of the English Premier League and the little-known Ukrainian Premier League.
So Roma, who were eliminated by Shakhtar Donetsk, were criticized by the Italian media......
Of course, the same is true for AC Milan, who were knocked out of the tournament by Tottenham.
Since there are no evasion rules for the draw for the Champions League quarter-finals, the Spanish media were worried before the game that two of the three La Liga teams would be drawn together, and if they were unlucky, there was a good chance that only one team would make it to the last four......
However, the result of the draw made the Spanish media die, because Barcelona and Shakhtar Donetsk were drawn first, which means that as long as Barcelona plays normally, it is not a problem to advance to the semi-finals.
Next up are Bayern Munich and Arsenal.
At the same time, the winners of the two quarter-finals will no longer be drawn and will go directly to the semi-finals, which is officially called the top half of the UEFA zone.
Valencia were the first to draw in the bottom half, which made the Spanish media nervous, as one of the remaining three teams was Real Madrid.
If UEFA had put Valencia and Real Madrid together, their hopes of a full Champions League semi-final would have been dashed......
Not to mention the hopes of winning the championship and runner-up in the 2007-2008 and 2008-2009 seasons.
However, the result was only a false alarm, and Valencia drew against Tottenham.
As soon as the results came out, the Tottenham players sitting in front of the TV smiled bitterly, and their ideal opponent was the weakest Schalke 04......
At the same time, the Valencia players sitting in front of the TV raised their arms and shouted that they did not want to meet Real Madrid in the quarter-finals.
The two remaining teams in the bottom half are Real Madrid and Schalke 04.
The result of this draw will make Real Madrid fans who follow the draw ceremony extremely worried, because ...... Real Madrid flag: Raul left Real Madrid and went to Schalke 04.
However, in order to draw which team will play at home first, the draw will still be conducted according to the rules, and in the end, Real Madrid will play away first and then home.
The draw results of the four quarter-finals are: Barcelona vs Shakhtar Donetsk, Bayern Munich vs Arsenal, Valencia vs Tottenham, Schalke 04 vs Real Madrid.
After the lottery results came out, it was fashionable to describe it as a few happy and a few sad.
Barcelona and Real Madrid are naturally happy, and many media believe that this draw is really refreshing for the Spanish team.
They all believe that if nothing else, three teams will come from La Liga to qualify for the last four of the Champions League.
It's just that this statement has been fiercely judged by the German media and the British media, who do not consider Tottenham and Schalke 04 to be weaker than Valencia and Real Madrid.
And in a sense, Tottenham and Schalke 04 still have a chance to advance to the last four.