Chapter 152: The group stage is over

The Champions League group stage has come to an end with this match, and the team that has qualified for the last 16 of the Champions League has been born. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

The four teams in the Premier League, Liverpool, Manchester United, Chelsea, and Arsenal all qualified, showing their strength; La Liga: Real Madrid, Barcelona and Valencia followed; There are also three teams in Serie A, but AC Milan, Inter Milan, and Roma all qualified as second place; Ligue 1 has performed well this year, with Lyon and Lille beating Real Madrid and AC Milan respectively to qualify as group winners; Only the giant Bayern Munich is left in the Bundesliga; The remaining places were divided between Porto, PSV Eindhoven, Celtic and other teams.

Although the group stage is over, Lille's opponents in the final round, AC Milan, have been caught in the media whirlpool.

"Bookmakers don't want to open, and the Champions Cup group stage ended in tacit goals and unseriousness.

The representative of the tacit ball is the match between Porto and Arsenal,

Both sides played carelessly, with Porto having 12 shots on goal and missing the target a whopping 9 times! Arsenal had just four shots on goal and one on target. According to OPTA, Arsenal spent 57.0 per cent of their possession but hovered in their own half of the time they spent 55.5 per cent of their possession...... Even bookmakers don't believe it.

Normally, we don't want to open such a market, because the conspiracy will come true. But for the sake of the company's reputation, we had to give some concessions,' said Sharp, a spokesman for the well-known bookmaker William Hill. The bookmaker's concession is to open normally, but reduce the odds for the draw, which has dropped to a staggering 1.70 before the game, while the odds for a normal match draw are above 3.

I'll admit that the last five minutes didn't play well and can't be a positive piece of football for the game, so try not to let the kids see it. That's what Arsene Wenger said after the game.

The tacit understanding of this game is clear.

And the non-serious representative is the match between AC Milan and Lille,

AC Milan and Real Madrid, Wallen, Chelsea and other teams all sent substitute-based lineups in the final round.

But with different attitudes, the results are naturally different

La Liga giants Real Madrid relied on Ronaldo's last-minute brace to bring the dignity of the giants back to Madrid.

Premier League upstart Chelsea relied on a goal from an out-of-form Shepchenko to close the group stage.

La Liga champions Valencia brought in their youth team and resisted stubbornly for most of the half before losing by one goal.

The ending of the Serie A giants AC Milan was much bleaker, with a number of main players pressing the team, losing 0:4 at home.

It's not terrible to lose, it's the attitude of the game that is terrible.

With the exception of Borriello and Carracci, almost no one was willing to put in the game. As one of the most successful clubs in the history of the Champions League, AC Milan should set an example, even if they are substitutes, they should play seriously, so as to be worthy of the fans who are watching the game, but this game is obviously not worth 1 euro for Milan fans. (The club had already anticipated the game, and fans who had purchased an AC Milan season ticket would have to pay an additional €1 to watch the game.) )

'Our performance was terrible and we are sorry for the fans who came to watch the game. The team lacked fighting spirit, they seemed to forget that it was a Champions League game', and Ancelotti's apology was justified. AC Milan barely made any dangerous shots on goal throughout the game, with only nine fouls in the team, and substitute Seedorf said afterwards: 'I promise you will see another AC Milan on Sunday'.

Football is being gripped by a terrible 'tacit understanding' and a haze of nonchalance. ”

This is not a statement from the team newspaper, and almost all the mainstream media have mentioned it.

Although a number of teams have been slammed for their performances in the final round, the reports about Lille have been positive.

"The win or loss of this game is actually predictable, a large number of injuries have made Ancelotti's lineup stretched, Milan can't afford to fight more, so Ancelotti will definitely not let the players fight hard in such a game, let the injured Kaka and Ambrosini use this to find the rhythm of the game may be his ultimate goal.

But no one expected Milan's form on the field to be so poor, before Kaka came on the field, Milan's squad showed that the strength was only the third rate in Europe, and it was easily scored three goals by the Ligue 1 team.

Lille, who defeated Milan, were one of the few bright spots in the group stage, and despite snatching a ticket to the UEFA Cup from Manchester United last season, no one would have thought that Lille would beat AC Milan to top the group when the group results came in.

But they did it, winning one and drawing one against AC Milan in both games.

The average age of Lille's players on the pitch is only 23 years old, and Reeves, who has scored five goals in two games, is only 17 years old.

The storm of youth has been swept from Ligue 1 to the Champions League.

This needs to be attributed to the hot form of the team's top scorer Reeves,

In 1997/98, at the age of 20, Henry scored seven goals in his Champions League debut season to lead Monaco to the last four of the 1997/98 Champions League.

His junior, 17-year-old Reeves, led Lille to victory with a hat-trick in this round away to AC Milan and advanced to the knockout stage as group winners. Combined with the three goals in this game, Reeves has now scored eight goals in the group stage of his Champions League debut, surpassing Thierry Henry's seven goals in his debut Champions League season. His performance was even applauded by the home fans at the San Siro.

Although it is not known whether Reeves will be able to lead the team to the last four like his predecessor Thierry Henry, he has performed well enough, and his brilliant goal in the second half of this game was Reeves' eighth goal of the season, and the young French striker became the owner of the group stage goal record, although this record is not exclusive to him, and there are three other great strikers who also hold this record, Ruud van Nistelrooy, Inzaghi and Crespo, who won the game in 2004/05 (Ruud van Nistelrooy) and 2002/ respectively. 03 (Crespo and Inzaghi) scored 8 goals in one season.

Reeves had the chance to claim the honour on his own, scoring five goals in two games with Milan but only three in four games against Antlecht and Athens, failing to score in one game, and if he had scored in that game, he would have been the sole holder of the group stage scoring record.

But there is no regret, this season, he has another record to sprint, that is, to become the youngest Champions League goalscorer since the restructuring, the previous record is held by the 22-year-old Shepchenko, and in the 98-99 season he also won the season's top scorer with 11 goals in the nuclear warhead of Dynamo Kyiv.

Reeves has scored eight goals so far, and with five behind him tied for second, Didier Drogba (Chelsea), Morientes (Valencia) and Kaka (AC Milan) all with five, and he has enough of a lead to win the honour. (To be continued.) )