Chapter 44: Two Consecutive Victories
"The four lottery guests are suspected of having old ugliness in La Liga, and they have teamed up to create a group of death, and Barcelona and Atletico Madrid are deep in the thick of strong rivals!"
"The most frightening and unpredictable group of Champions League veterans of this season has come out – Arsenal, Atletico Madrid, Borussia Dortmund, Napoli...... Four elite teams in each league will fight to the death for the two qualifying places! ”
"Arsenal and Atletico Madrid are a little bit stronger in Group F, but Borussia Dortmund and Napoli are also not to be underestimated. Confusing, the qualifying situation of Group F can only be described in this word! ”
Experts say Arsenal are the best chance of qualifying from the group, with Borussia Dortmund, who beat Bayern Munich to win the Bundesliga last season, likely to secure another spot...... As for Atletico Madrid, I think it will be very difficult for them to qualify from this group. ”
"Benitez said after the draw that he and his team will do their best to play every group game – they don't want to be a-stirring stick, they have what it takes to win a qualifying spot!"
'Jurgen Klopp: It's a tough situation, but I'm confident in my players and I'm sure we'll be in the quarters!
"Simone and Qin hurriedly left the venue after the draw ceremony - is this a sign of their lack of heart? In the face of the other three strong opponents, they are already cowardly? ”
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The day after the draw ceremony, there was a lot of talk about this season's Champions League group grouping. With the exception of a handful of media outlets that were cheered by the fact that some of their country's teams had been drawn, much of the media focused on Groups F and H.
After all, these are two veritable groups of death.
In contrast, the situation of Group F makes the so-called brick beasts talk about it, and they are happy to speculate and look forward.
There is no way, although the four teams in Group H are very good, Barcelona's strength is recognized as the first, and there should be no problem for the Universe Invincible Team to get a qualifying place, and the remaining one. It was selected out of the other three teams.
Choosing one of the three is not as exciting as Group F who doesn't know how to choose and predict, right?
Looking at Group F, Arsenal are the traditional giants of the Premier League, and have always been strong contenders for the title (although they have fought for many years, they have won almost not once this year), and their unique technical flow of play in the Premier League is pleasing to the eye, and they have a large and loyal following around the world.
As for Atletico Madrid, there is nothing to say about this, last season's double winner of the UEFA Super Cup and La Liga can be described as a new upstart in European football. In addition, there are rising superstar players like Qin Shou in the team, and there is no doubt about the strength.
As for Borussia Dortmund, which is also an old powerhouse in the Bundesliga, there are very few teams that can wrestle with Bayern in the Bundesliga, and Dortmund is definitely one of them. Last season, they were able to beat Bundesliga giants Bayern Munich to win the league title, which shows their strength.
As for Napoli, they are the weakest in Group F comparatively. But if you think they're easy to bully. That would be a big mistake, Napoli finished runners-up in Serie A last season under Benitez, a master tactician. Throughout the season, they put a lot of pressure on eventual champions Juventus. And the league championship is really contested in the last round, this tenacity, this strength, no one can ignore.
Such four teams. Each has its own strengths and advantages, so this has caused the confusion of the qualifying situation of this group.
Of course, if you only rely on the overall strength. Arsenal are undoubtedly the favourites to progress from the group. But this season's leading scorer and offensive core Robin Brown. Van Persie switched to rivals Manchester United, and the team was full of injuries, so the team relied on a group of new recruits to fight the world, and now it is two consecutive defeats in the league.
In such a situation, in such a state, I don't know how much strength I can play in the Champions League.
Atletico Madrid's problems are similar to Arsenal's, although they did not sell the team's main players this summer, on the contrary, they brought in a lot of good players to supplement various positions, but their injury roster is also full of names, and now they are playing around with a semi-main and semi-substitute lineup, and it remains to be seen how effective they are.
Borussia Dortmund did not have any injuries in the team, but their situation was not optimistic, and in the summer, a number of key players in the Hornets team left the team, Shinji Kagawa transferred to Manchester United, Barrios went to Qin Shou's home country team Guangzhou Evergrande, Nuno. Shaheen went on loan to Real Madrid and Perisic moved to Wolfsburg...... With so many key players sold, it is also unknown whether the Hornets will be able to make a difference in the Champions League.
Borussia Dortmund and Atletico Madrid are really similar, both teams are very good at developing young players, and they also have to sell the excellent young players they have cultivated to other clubs because of the club's financial situation, in order to arbitrage funds for the team's turnover.
It's just that Atletico Madrid's luck is good, last season's results were excellent, bringing huge commercial profits to the team, coupled with a huge investment in the club, the economic crisis has been temporarily eased. And Dortmund are out of luck, they can only continue to cultivate and sell the "tradition".
As for the last Napoli, there is not much injury trouble, and there is no large-scale fire sale of players, but the competitiveness of Serie A has become less and less in the past ten years, and it is estimated that the ranking of the top five European leagues is not the last, but also the bottom two, so whether they can fight their way out of Group F surrounded by strong opponents also has to be marked with a question mark.
In this way, the reason why Group F is the group of death is because the strength of the four teams is not about the same. And if you want to get a place in this group, it is not a competition to see who is more powerful and who is stronger, but to compete who is more depraved and who is worse.
The worse and more depraved teams can only be kicked out.
It's a bit of an irony.
The whole European football world is predicting and evaluating the qualifying situation for Group F, and the news of the group is back to Spain, and Atletico Madrid's fans are also depressed by such a group of death, and they are complaining, of course, more or scolding, UEFA up and down are once again greeted by many fans of the immediate family.
However, the Champions League has not yet started, and it is still unknown what the team can play, so Atletico Madrid fans are not too pessimistic, after all, the team's performance last season was too good, coupled with Qin Shou's phenomenal performance, it gave them infinite confidence.
Difficulty?
Don't be afraid, we have Qin Shou! He's just a player who has a lot of courage and never compromises.
Grimness?
No problem, we have Qin Shou! His persistence will always give everyone hope!
Yes, we are worried, but we are fearless because we have Qin Shou! It should be the other teams that should be scared, because Qin Shou will lead us...... Go ahead!
The Champions League group was divided into the group of death, and the whole Atletico Madrid team was somewhat depressed. But what they didn't expect was that such a group actually aroused the confidence and fighting spirit of the fans even more, and for a time countless fans poured into Atletico Madrid's official website, or left a message, or encouragement, and even some people said that if Atletico Madrid qualified from the group, he was over eighteen years old, and his beautiful daughter was not married, and he was willing to marry a single player in the Atletico Madrid team. For fear of being caught by this passionate fan......
Not only that, but Atletico Madrid's training ground has also been extremely lively recently, with countless Atletico Madrid fans coming here to watch the team train and cheer for the team at the same time. Flags fluttering and cheering banners were everywhere around the training ground, making Atletico's training as lively as the official matches.
Such a warm scene made the Atletico Madrid players a little moved, and they felt a little embarrassed to face Jiangdong's parents if they couldn't qualify in the group.
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The Champions League group has put Atletico under pressure, but they are not yet fully committed to the Champions League, which is still a month and a half away, as the second round of the league kicks off again.
Atletico Madrid's opponent in the second round of the league is Athletic Bilbao. The team's big defeat to Real Madrid in the first game of the new season can be described as a bad start to the new season, so they have a strong desire to survive in this game, even if they are playing away, they want to win the first league win.
This game was extremely difficult, and Atletico still had a number of main players unable to play, so they were a little timid in the face of the menacing Athletic Bilbao.
Qin Shou's performance is as stable as ever, but his teammates are not very good, after all, there are too many new signings and substitutes on the field, and there are still certain problems with the tacit understanding between each other.
As a result, for most of the game, Atletico Madrid was suppressed by the Basque Lions, but fortunately, Simeone's three-back tactics were indeed very "Bug", and Atletico Madrid's defense was very solid, and the field was down, but the score was not exceeded by the opponent.
The final result of the game was 1:0, taking advantage of a corner kick, Qin Shou jumped up from outside the penalty area and headed Felipe's pass into the opponent's door.
The scoreline was maintained until the end, with Atletico struggling to win at home and win two league games in a row.
The process is difficult, but the ending is good. With Atletico's current predicament, it would be good to be able to maintain the momentum at the beginning of the league, and there is really no need to pursue the rest.
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It may be that I have been sitting in front of the computer for a long time today, and I still don't feel sleepy. Yes, so I got out of bed again and coded the words, I admired myself, with my hand-wrecked speed, I could still drum up the fifth chapter.
Okay, without further ado, the fifth chapter is here!!
Brothers and sisters, where are your tickets!! (To be continued.) )