Chapter 585: Tottenham's Championship Declaration
On the second match day of the first leg of the 2007-2008 UEFA Champions League 1/8 finals, the headlines in the mainstream European media were basically on Iello who scored a hat-trick.
Three away goals are enough to ensure that the second leg of the Champions League 1/8 final is out of suspense, because no team on the planet has been able to score three goals at Chelsea's home stadium, even if 10,000 steps back, Olympiacos can return three away goals in the second leg of the Champions League 1/8 final, but can they guarantee that their goal does not concede?
The answer is clearly no!
You know, Chelsea have a top scorer in the squad!
It's impossible to get out of Stamford Bridge!
Therefore, many media have announced in advance that Chelsea have advanced to the quarter-finals!
On the evening of the second match day of the first leg of the Champions League 1/8 knockout round, I don't know if Cristiano Ronaldo and Leo Messi were stimulated by Airo's three goals in the first leg, and they scored two goals in their respective Champions League away games to help the team win the game!
Barcelona beat Celtic 3-2 away, Manchester United won Lyon 2-1 away!
It is worth mentioning that Lyon's face-saving goal at home was Zhao Xuri's powerful shot from 30 yards out, and Manchester United goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar was stunned!
Therefore, after the two match days of the first leg of the 1/8 finals of the Champions League knockout round, there are many topics reported by the mainstream media in Europe and some media in the world.
From the first group stage of the Champions League in the new season to the first leg of the Champions League 1/8 finals in the seventh game now, a total of seven games, and the current Champions League scorer ranked first Iroh has scored ten goals, and the tied second Chris Ronaldo and Leo Messi have scored nine goals each, which has never happened since the Champions League was restructured......
It's only seven games!
The top two players in the Champions League scorer list scored 10 and 9 goals respectively, with a difference of only one goal!
I have to say...... This season's Champions League scorers are hotly contested.
And what is surprising is that the average age of the top three scorers is less than 22 years old, which also refreshes the average age of the top three scorers in the Champions League.
The headline of the day in the rigorous German newspaper Bild was: Unbelievable Scorers!
"If we hadn't seen it with our own eyes, it would have been hard for us to believe that the top three scorers in the Champions League have scored a total of 28 goals, and the difference between the top two is only one, but at this time the public fans took it for granted that Ai was able to score ten goals, and some fans even questioned his form for a dip because he only scored seven goals in six group games, but it turned out that was not the case......
The 23-year-old Manchester United star Cristiano Ronaldo also has a scoring ability that is not inferior to Ai, scoring nine goals in seven games, and also contributing three assists, which means that he alone contributed twelve goals to the team's seven games, which is a rare number for a player who is only 23 years old, and the 21-year-old Leo Messi, also from Barcelona, also amazed the majority of fans, and his table Xiàn even let us see Ai two years ago. The same nine goals in seven games, I have to say...... This season's Champions League and Champions League scorers will be extremely competitive because of the three......"
"French Football" also has a key comment: "Starting from the Champions League youth storm staged by Kaka, Ai and Cristiano Ronaldo last season, with the invasion of injuries this season's Kaka, Leao Messi in this season's Champions League perfectly took over the mantle of Kaka, who is also a South American player, and became the new leader of the Champions League youth storm, scoring ten goals in seven games and nine goals in seven games respectively, with an average of more than one goal per game, which also indirectly makes this season's Champions League full of highlights......"
Even the three major European bookmakers, William Hill, BWIN, and BET have readjusted their odds for this season's Champions League top scorer and best player.
In addition to the fine-tuning of the odds for the Champions League Golden Boot and the best player in the Eello Champions League, the odds for Cristiano Ronaldo and Leo Messi have been significantly reduced.
Cristiano Ronaldo's Champions League Golden Boot has been lowered from 8 to 8 to 1 to 3 to 50, and the best player has been reduced from 8 to 30 to 5
Messi's Champions League Golden Boot has been lowered from 9.70 to 3.50 at 1 to 50, and the best player has also been reduced from 10 to 30 to 6 to 6
The big three European bookmakers have drastically lowered the odds for the Champions League Golden Boot and the best player, and it can be seen that their actuaries have calculated for a long time that these three are the best players in the Champions League this season.
With the two best odds for the trio reduced, so did the odds for Chelsea, Manchester United and Barcelona in the Champions League this season.
Chelsea have gone from 5.00 to 1 to 3.50 before the start of the Champions League, while Manchester United and Barcelona have been reduced from 7.00 to 1 to 5.00
And this is still the adjustment after the first leg of the Champions League 1/8 finals, I believe that when the Champions League is in the white-hot stage, this odds will be fine-tuned, and when the time comes, ...... The odds for the Champions League are more convincing.
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After all the matches in the first leg of the Champions League quarter-finals, the European media will also turn their attention back to their respective leagues for the time being, as the second leg will not be until March.
The media in England, for example, are focused on the upcoming League Cup final, with Chelsea taking on fellow London-based side Tottenham Hotspur at the new Wembley Stadium.
Before the game, no media was optimistic about Tottenham Hotspur, because Chelsea were in good form, as can be seen from the first leg of the Champions League quarter-finals that ended away, and the away team won 3:0 bloodlessly, thus making the second leg of the game a chicken rib game.
Iro, who scored a hat-trick in the first leg of the Champions League quarter-finals, has become Chelsea's biggest nuclear deterrent, basically as long as he is in the game, no matter how hard the opponent's defensive forces try against him, he will always give him one or two chances to put the ball in the net, for a player of this level, Tottenham Hotspur is difficult to defend.
Even Chelsea's league title rivals Manchester United, Liverpool and Arsenal this season are helpless against him, let alone Tottenham, who can only be regarded as a first-class team in the Premier League.
This result can be seen in the odds before the start of the game.
William Hill, one of the three largest bookmakers in Europe, opened the game with Chelsea allowing Tottenham 2 or 5 goals, which means that Chelsea can only win by three or more goals, which shows how big Chelsea's hope of winning the championship is.
Even Juan de Ramos, who took over Tottenham in the second half of the season, was not optimistic about the final, saying in an interview with reporters: "Chelsea are the league leaders, they are seven points clear of second-placed Manchester United, which is a big boost for the league to enter the white-hot stage of the league to win the Premier League this season, and they are also the favourites to win the Carabao Cup final, so in order to keep the team in the UEFA Cup." Our focus should be on the league and not the Carabao Cup final because we will face our arch-rivals Arsenal in the next round......
Suddenly, Juan de Ramos was subjected to a wave of abuse from die-hard Tottenham fans, who felt that Juan Ramos, as manager, should be a good time to cheer up the team rather than say something discouraged, and in their minds, Tottenham was quite noble......
Of course, many London media do not see it that way, believing that Juan Ramos is doing this to confuse Chelsea, because the winner of the Carabao Cup also qualifies for the third round of the UEFA Cup qualifiers, which further confirms Tottenham manager Juan de Ramos' weakness and confusion.
After the analysis of the media, the die-hard fans of Tottenham Hotspur have become relieved and renewed their hopes for this Carabao Cup final.
For the media's debunking strategy, Juander Ramos shook his head with a wry smile, originally he wanted to use the power of the media to confuse Chelsea, but what he didn't expect was that the damn media didn't mention which pot, and actually analyzed his weaker opponent to catch Chelsea off guard, which ...... How to play in the final?
You must know that Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich has offered four titles with a whopping 50 million pounds! Juan Ramos doesn't think Chelsea's players can withstand the money offensive.
In addition, Chelsea has a healthy Ello in the squad, and he already knows how powerful Ello is in charge of Sevilla in previous seasons, he is like a god in a football game, as long as he is in the game, the team's winning rate is very terrifying!
Isn't that what Chelsea have been like this season? The league has an unbeaten record of 22 wins and 4 draws in the 26th round! Seven wins in seven games in the Champions League, all of which were won in the League Cup and FA Cup......
For such an opponent, can you still afford to fight?
Unless...... Tottenham also have a generous boss!
In fact, Tottenham's squad is still very good this season, goalkeeper Robinson is the current England international goalkeeper, Lennon on the wing is also an England international, plus there are also strong stars Berbatov and Robbie Keane in the forward line.
In addition to the level of the star inferior to Chelsea, if the real knife and gun fight, it is really uncertain who will die.
In the pre-match interview, Bulgarian international Dimitar Berbatov said in an interview with reporters: "The first leg of this season is because I was injured and not in the starting lineup, so I am present in this game, and I firmly believe that the final result will definitely be different, and the final will be full of suspense!" ”
Captain Robbie Keane also cheered on his team and decompressed his team-mates: "We are the great Tottenham Hotspur and we are never afraid of any opponent! As a championship trophy that has a chance to get our hands on it, we should not give it up lightly! We will definitely use our own efforts to let everyone know that the stronger side in the football match is not the stronger side to win the game! Because the game was won by the concerted efforts of eleven players in Tongguò......"
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