Chapter 138: Derby Draw

The day after the second leg of Arsenal's Champions League tie with Atletico Madrid, the last two teams to reach the quarter-finals of this season's Champions League have also been decided: Manchester United from the Premier League and Juventus from Serie A. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

The former advanced to the quarterfinals of the Champions League with an aggregate score of 2:1 in the two-legged match in Bayer Leverkusen, Germany. In the league, Manchester United's performance was extremely unsatisfactory, but in the Champions League, although they stumbled, and the current Bayer Leverkusen is indeed not a strong team, so in the first leg of the away game they lost by a small goal, after returning home, under the leadership of the newly appointed acting coach Ryan Giggs, 2:1 reversal to advance.

Manchester United's road to promotion can be described as difficult and rugged, and in the other game on the same day, Juventus, a Serie A giant, known as the old woman, played smoothly, easily defeated Premier League upstart Manchester City 2-0 at home in the first leg, did not bury the good situation, and won 1-0 at the Etihad Stadium, and advanced 3-0 on aggregate.

It is worth mentioning that in this game, Manchester City dominated the overall situation on the pitch, with possession and shots on goal far ahead, but the final winner was the more spicy old woman, who played Italy's chain defense to the fullest, almost suffocating Manchester City to death.

So far, all the teams that have reached the quarterfinals of this season's UEFA Champions League have been decided, with three teams from the Premier League being Arsenal, Chelsea and Manchester United, and two teams in La Liga advancing to the quarterfinals, Real Madrid and Barcelona.

The Premier League and La Liga almost share most of the places and occupy half of the country, which can be described as still strong.

In addition, the remaining three quarter-finals are divided between Bayern Munich in the Bundesliga, Paris Saint-Germain in Ligue 1 and Juventus in Serie A.

These eight teams are the most representative teams in European football today, and it can also be seen from them that the pattern of today's football can be seen, La Liga and the Premier League can be said to be two solitary teams, and they are very strong. Other leagues are a little less competitive, and even the Bundesliga, which has developed very well in recent years, is the only one left to carry the banner of its own league this season.

As for Ligue 1 and Serie A, the former is only barely classified as one of the top five European leagues, and both the gold content and the excitement of the league are inferior to the Premier League, La Liga and Bundesliga. The Serie A league has continued to decline after the phonegate incident, and now it has not slowed down, and the former mini-World Cup, now only Juventus has reached the quarterfinals, and its decline can be seen.

After the release of the quarter-finals, a large number of media and professionals began to speculate and speculate about the draw for the quarter-finals of the Champions League and which four teams would be more favourable to reach the semi-finals. But no matter how you reason, the final result is still that this season's Champions League winner belongs to either the Premier League or La Liga.

In other words, the battle between the Premier League and La Liga for the world's first league will continue to the Champions League, both leagues are so strong, teams in other leagues are likely to continue to play the role of accompanying the prince to study, and the competition for the Champions League final will be a battle between the Premier League team and the La Liga team.

It is also under such circumstances that the media of the United Kingdom and Spain have launched a new round of verbal competition, and the media of the two countries have been arguing endlessly about which league is stronger and more competitive and who is the number one league in world football.

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Arsenal's attention is not on this, and after successfully qualifying for the quarter-finals of the Champions League, Arsenal's focus can temporarily return to the league. Because the quarterfinals of the Champions League begin, there is still nearly half a month between them, which means that during this period of time, Arsenal can concentrate on winning the league and completely establish their championship advantage.

However, the desire to focus on the league fell short a few days later, and the substitutes were mainly substitutes for the fifth round of the FA Cup, but unexpectedly, the substitutes once again surprised Wenger, or rather, the club, as they comfortably beat Millwall 4-0 away from home and advanced to the sixth round of the FA Cup, which is the semi-final.

Originally, the club did not pay attention to the FA Cup, after all, the depth of the team's bench is so thick, and the double-line battle is already a little stretched.

But now...... Well, the mixed force of substitutes and a youth team on the reserve team made it all the way to the semi-finals, so that the club just wanted to be indifferent, and it was impossible.

This is the semi-finals, only one game away from the final, even if it is from the championship trophy, a total of only two games, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is one step away.

No matter how low the trophy content of this event is, no matter how frivolous it is, to put it simply, it is still a real champion. Even if the gold content is not enough, it can still be used to make a name, and a double crown always sounds more bluffing and more glorious than a single championship, right?

The FA Cup has reached this point, it is impossible to give up, and in desperation, Wenger has no choice but to let his team go all out, adding an FA Cup match task to this season's task list, in addition to the league and the Champions League.

After reaching the semi-finals of the FA Cup, Arsenal travelled to White Hart Lane to face the challenge of local rivals Tottenham Hotspur.

Tottenham are currently fifth in the league table, which is a decent position and could be a step further to qualify for next season's Champions League. In terms of Tottenham's overall strength and player ability, it is already a victory to achieve such a result, but this is also a score compared to whom, as the saying goes, people are more popular than people, and this is the reason.

Tottenham, which has always regarded itself as the orthodox North London, was originally complacent about the current results, but seeing the sworn rivals Arsenal in the league and leading the group in the league is full of resentment and envy, jealousy and hatred, and when Arsenal arrived at the White Hart Lane stadium, this unhappy feeling reached a peak.

We're the oldest team in north London, right? We're the best team in north London, right? You latecomers, not only robbed us of our glory, robbed us of our territory, and even snatched away the naming rights of the subway station, and now you are still coming to our territory to show off your might, how can this evil breath be unbearable!

The rivalry between Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur has a long history, and in the history of the two teams, there have been many incidents of attacking and insulting each other. As for who is right and who is wrong, there is no way to verify, anyway, in the hearts of their respective fans, the other side is shameful and despicable, and therefore, the north London derby has become the hottest game in Premier League football, and both sides are eager to stomp each other under their feet, desperately humiliating and ravaging.

Now that Arsenal are in the league and riding the dust, Tottenham are naturally full of displeasure, so in this game, they are extremely fierce and positive, their plan is simple and clear, even if they do their best, they have to drag you forward.

In fact, Tottenham also knows very well that the current Arsenal has thrown them out more than one street in terms of strength, so they have no intention of winning this derby at all, they have become a group of crazy people, and they are sabotaging on the pitch, whether attacking or defending, the action can be described in two words: rough.

Their aim is to give up their own attack and defense, and then destroy Arsenal's attack, anyway, even if they can't score, at least Arsenal can't score, a draw is a victory, Arsenal's points have not increased much, which gives Liverpool, who is chasing behind, a chance.

Although it doesn't matter to them that Liverpool or any other team wins the title, if they can get Arsenal's duck to fly, they will feel extremely comfortable.

With the idea of "I'm not happy, don't think about it", Tottenham almost turned the game into a wrestling ring, and when the whole game was almost not smooth, the Arsenal players hated it, and Wenger protested to the fourth official from time to time on the sidelines, but the final result still allowed Tottenham to get their wish, and under their stalking, Arsenal finally failed to score. Of course, there was only one shot on goal in the whole game, and Tottenham, who had put almost all their energy into wreathing, could not score, and the final score was 0:0.

Although the game was dirty and ugly, the 0-0 result made the Tottenham fans happy, hurting others and not benefiting ourselves, we just did it, we were happy, just because the opponent was Arsenal, so we were happy.

However, this excitement did not last long, and in the following league game, Liverpool were beaten 0-1 by Stoke City at home, which means that Liverpool did not close the gap with Arsenal, on the contrary, the gap widened a little again.

This result makes the whole Tottenham feel as if they have eaten a fly, Nima, in order to help you hold Arsenal back, we don't even want face, and you respond with a defeat?

It's really unassuming, you deserve to never win the league championship in your life!

On the other hand, Arsenal was all happy, and some players even expressed their ridicule of Tottenham in public. Although Tottenham was very unhappy, there was no response in the end, and this time it did shoot itself in the foot, and it was a big shame and shame, and I can only know that I have bitterness.

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