At 8:45 p.m. on the second matchday of the second leg of the Champions League quarter-finals, Bayern Munich vs Arsenal and Shakhtar Donetsk vs Barcelona kicked off at the same time.

There is no doubt that Bayern Munich's second leg of the Champions League quarter-final match with Arsenal at home attracts more attention, after all, it is a strong dialogue and more highlights.

On the other hand, Barcelona's away game against Shakhtar Donetsk was much more boring.

A 5-0 win at home in the first leg knew Barcelona had to qualify for the semi-finals this season......

However, in order to prepare for the Spanish national derby at the Bernabeu at the weekend, Barcelona made a wide range of rotations in the second leg of the Champions League quarterfinals that almost lost suspense, leaving only Messi and Iniesta who have a strong desire to fight to lead the starting lineup.

Although most of Barcelona's players are substitute rotation players, Messi continued his good scoring form, scoring two goals away from home, helping Barcelona beat Shakhtar Donesk 2-1 away and advanced to the semi-finals of this season's Champions League with an aggregate score of 7-1.

In another key match at the same time, Bayern Munich beat Arsenal by two goals at home thanks to goals from Arjen Robben and teenager Muller, and will meet Barcelona in the semi-finals of this season's Champions League.

This week, all four teams have qualified for the Champions League semi-finals: Real Madrid vs Valencia and Bayern Munich vs Barcelona.

The four teams are in high standing in world football at the moment, so a total of four semi-finals will certainly attract huge attention, and with the Champions League reaching the point of semi-finals, no team will have any slack, after all, the title is close at hand, which is destined to be extremely exciting.

The European mainstream media first congratulated the four teams on entering the semi-finals of the Champions League, and then talked about three La Liga teams among the four teams that have qualified for the Champions League this season, and they are more worried that the focus of the Champions League will move closer to La Liga in the future.

Valencia, Real Madrid and Barcelona are all strong now, and Iro, Cristiano Ronaldo and Messi have just reached their golden age, and there are at least five years before the age of physical decline, which means that as long as Valencia, Real Madrid and Barcelona have too big squad changes in the future, then the situation of three La Liga teams advancing to the Champions League semifinals this season will often occur in the future.

In this regard, the Spanish media naturally wanted to report and publicize it in a big way.

The Champions League in previous seasons has been monopolized by Premier League teams, and now the feng shui is turning, and it is finally the turn of the Spanish team to monopolize.

This situation is a huge blow to the Italian media without a Serie A team to enter the Champions League quarterfinals, and the media led by the "Torino Sport" newspaper said with jealousy: "No one thought that AC Milan entered the Champions League final in the 2006-2007 season, and then no Italian team entered the Champions League final, and even the semi-finals are difficult to see, this is Italy's sadness, and this situation will continue as the influence of Serie A declines......

The English media The Times also said of this: "With the departure of the stars of Ai, Cristiano Ronaldo and Cesc Fabregas, it is very clear that the trade-offs are very obvious, except for Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur in the quarter-finals, Manchester United and Chelsea are all blocked in the quarter-finals, which is an unthinkable end for the Premier League teams who have dominated the Champions League final in previous seasons...... But we have to get used to that, because it's going to continue to be like that for a long time to come......"

Of course, the opinion of the German media is not optimistic.

Although Bayern Munich reached the semi-finals of this season's Champions League, he faces a very strong Barcelona, a team that is considered to be a team of the universe, and only Valencia, who have Elo, can compete with it.

Even if they can reach the final, they will not be able to take advantage of Real Madrid or Valencia.

And as the season enters the second half of the Bundesliga, the pressure is also very high, and they are now two points clear of Borussia Dortmund at the top of the table.

There will be a Bundesliga title tie between the two teams between the two legs of the Champions League semi-finals, which will inevitably lead to a distraction and it is still unclear whether they will be able to maintain 100 per cent of their fighting power in the Champions League.

However, Barcelona also have this situation and must be distracted in the league to keep their hopes of the league title alive.

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While the mainstream European media were still analysing the Champions League semi-final fixtures and complaining about the Spanish team's purchasing power and the domestic league, the Spanish media began to turn their attention to the Spanish derby between Real Madrid and Barcelona at the weekend.

This Spanish national derby is also the fifth national derby for Spain this season.

Now the La Liga standings are a bit delicate, Valencia with 29 wins, 2 draws and 89 points, Barcelona is second with 27 wins, 1 draw and 3 losses with 82 points, and the third place in the league is Real Madrid with 81 points from 26 wins, 3 draws and 2 losses.

Real Madrid are just one point behind Barcelona and can beat Barcelona at home to become second in La Liga this season.

If they beat Valencia in the next back-to-back league games, the gap between Real Madrid and Valencia will be only five points, and Valencia will have to be distracted by the time they prepare for the Champions League semi-finals......

Therefore, many Real Madrid fans began to expect Real Madrid to beat Barcelona at home, and then defeat Valencia away from home to return to the title race.

However, manager Jose Mourinho does not have much hope for this, this season is his first season with Pope Madrid, and if he is too distracted, it will definitely lead to his big four in the season.

But then again, as the most popular manager in world football today, he would still be happy to change the focus of his squad if he did beat Barcelona and Valencia in the next national derby.

After all, the league title is not tied to Valencia.

At the same time, back to Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola is discussing with assistant coach Vilanova what to do for the next fixture, and the away game against Real Madrid is certainly not to be missed, but the problem is that next week will be a trip to the Mestalla Stadium to play Valencia in this season's Copa del Rey final.

If too much effort is put into the Bernabeu, it will inevitably affect the Copa del Rey final at the Mestalla in midweek.

However, playing Real Madrid away from home may not be able to beat Real Madrid, who are bound to win at home......

For Pep Guardiola, this is indeed a very headache.

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Against the backdrop of a headache for the coaches of both sides of the national derby, Real Madrid's home national derby against Barcelona is quietly coming.

The two teams have met 161 times before, Real Madrid has a slight advantage with 68 wins, 30 draws and 63 losses, and the home advantage is even more obvious, with 50 wins, 14 draws and 16 losses occupying the absolute upper hand.

It's just that Real Madrid lost to Barcelona in the first five meetings, and in the first leg of this season's national derby at Camp Nou, Cristiano Ronaldo scored six goals in a row when Cristiano Ronaldo scored two goals, and lost 2:6.

The defeat in that game also became a lingering pain for Real Madrid fans.

So Real Madrid fans hope that Real Madrid can beat Barcelona at home to wash away the heavy defeat in the first half of the season.

Under the pressure of Real Madrid fans and Real Madrid management, Mourinho had to take one step at a time and take the lead in this round of home matches against Barcelona.

Cristiano Ronaldo, who spent £80 million on Real Madrid's transfer fee last summer, spoke to reporters before the game full of confidence and expressed his personal thoughts on the future three tough games against Valencia.

As Barcelona's leading star and leading goalscorer, Messi naturally will not let Cristiano Ronaldo sing a one-man show, and he is at a disadvantage in the competition with Aillo, but compared to Cristiano Ronaldo, he still has enough confidence.

So the game hasn't started yet, and the two sides of the game are engaged in a wave of verbal warfare.

Real Madrid's evil man Pepe hinted that Messi should be careful in the game!

Then Barcelona defender Keita warned Pepe viciously.

This shows how hot this round of the Spanish national derby is.

Coupled with the fact that the result of this round of the league is very likely to change the competition for the league title this season, it has become the most concerned in the whole of Europe.

If Real Madrid and Valencia are separated, the winner will still be able to keep their hopes of winning the league title alive.

But if they fail to decide the winner, and Valencia win at home to Almeria, there will be no more surprises in this season's title.

In fact, Valencia are hoping for a draw between Real Madrid and Barcelona, as Almeria will not be able to pose any threat to them at all, and a win will open up the gap between Real Madrid and Barcelona completely.

With six rounds left in the league, the difference of nine points and ten points is basically irretrievable.

Therefore, the national derby at the Bernabeu was very hot, and in just 20 minutes, Real Madrid and Barcelona contributed a total of seven yellow cards, including four for the home team Real Madrid and three for the away team Barcelona.

Barcelona has a strong ability to control the ball because of the traditional style of play, but Real Madrid has been adjusted by Mourinho for most of the season, and the defensive ability has skyrocketed, and the counter-attacking ability is stronger than before.

Although the game looked like Barcelona had the upper hand, Barcelona's backline was still in jeopardy when there was an opportunity to counter-attack.

The three yellow cards in the first 20 minutes of the game were all used on Real Madrid's counter-attacking players......