346 Dark Horse Rampant Thank you, we did it!
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4 to 3, at Anfield, Liverpool and Real Madrid played a goal battle with ups and downs!
The final two-legged aggregate score was 6-5, which is also a rare situation in the Champions League knockout round over the years!
After the game, major European media also reported on the game at great length. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
"The six superstars are defeated by the Red Army's Three Musketeers, all because the Red Army has super killers!"
The Guardian, as a large comprehensive newspaper in the UK, naturally spared no effort to report on the game. In this article, the conversation between Liverpool and Real Madrid is seen as a dialogue between the Red Army's three musketeers and Real Madrid's six superstars.
Originally, the Red Army Three Musketeers could not be compared with Real Madrid's six superstars in terms of qualifications, fame or even numbers, but after two rounds of matches, it was the Red Army Three Musketeers who had the last laugh!
The reason for this is that they think it is because Liverpool has Chen Xi, the number one "killer" in the Premier League!
The reason why Chen Xi is called a "killer" is because combined with Chen Xi's previous performance, they found that this young man who is less than a second team is definitely born for a big scene. The more important the scene, the stronger the opponent, the more excited Chen Xi will be!
Let's take this match with Real Madrid as an example, in the two-legged match between the Bernabeu and Anfield, Chen Xi scored twice and scored a total of four goals, in addition to Owen and Gerrard's two goals also came from Chen Xi's assist. It can be said that Liverpool's six goals in the two legs were completely created by Chen Xi alone!
Such a performance is undoubtedly dominant!
But Ben-Christ, the sports editor of The Guardian, found that whether it was the Champions League group stage against AC Milan twice, or the strong dialogue with Arsenal, Manchester United and Chelsea in the league, Chen Xi often performed very eye-catching!
Relatively speaking, Chen Xi performed relatively flat in the game against some weak teams. It's rare to see him deliberately brushing goals and statistics in some games against weak teams.
This also proves that Chen Xi prefers to play all his strength in big scenes and important competitions!
Finally, in this article, Ben? Crist also reminded the Premier League and European giants, "Beware, the killer is coming!" ”
"The Record Terminator is in a big way, shooting down the Galactic Battleship and breaking the record again!"
Johnson, the sports editor of The Telegraph, once again "waved the flag" for Chen Xi to break the record, and in his column, he once again spent a lot of space describing Chen Xi's performance in this game.
Johnson's biggest concern is obviously Chen Xi's breaking the single-season goal record in the European Champions Cup.
This time, Chen Xi broke a record that had been sealed for 40 years.
In the past 40 years, there have been countless top scorers in European football, but this record was not broken until the emergence of Chen Xi, a young man. I'm afraid Altafini himself didn't expect that it was a full-back who broke his record!
Of course, now with Chen Xi's fame. The outside world has paid more attention to him, and people have found that Chen Xi cannot be positioned with traditional full-edgers.
In fact, he was more of a winger, only in Liverpool's traditional 442 formation, he was placed as a wing-back.
Many media compared Chen Xi to George Best back then. At the same time, they believe that Chen Xi's performance is even more dominant than Best back then!
Johnson also mentioned in the article that breaking Altafini's single-season Champions League goal record is by no means the end. In the following season, Chen Xi still forgot to break a number of records!
For example, he holds his own single-season goal record of 18 goals in the three major European Cups, and Liverpool's all-time league single-season goal record of 41 goals.
In addition to his personal record, Chen Xi's Liverpool is unbeaten in 32 consecutive rounds of the league, which has broken the team's history of 29 unbeaten games at the beginning of the season!
The unbeaten opening 32 rounds is also a new record in English football. However, because Liverpool's champion opponent Arsenal is also undefeated, this record is not exclusive to Liverpool, and in the last few rounds, in the direct dialogue between Liverpool and Arsenal, if the winner is decided, the winning team will be able to enjoy the record alone!
While the British media are constantly praising Liverpool, Spain's Marca newspaper is speaking for Real Madrid as usual.
In their opinion, the reason why Real Madrid was eliminated was completely defeated at the back!
The attacking line led by Real Madrid's six superstars cannot be worse than any team, but Real Madrid's tofu scum defense line is a notch worse than Liverpool.
In this way, with the two teams evenly matched in attack, the solidity of the backline played a crucial role.
Although Liverpool's backline was also breached by Real Madrid five times in two legs, their overall defensive ability was still reflected. Real Madrid, on the other hand, relied entirely on Casillas' left and right blocks to resolve the crisis. But Casillas was a man, not a god, after all. He could have made good saves after good saves but he couldn't deny Liverpool's threatening shots again and again.
Therefore, "Marca" believes that after being eliminated by Liverpool, it is very likely that Real Madrid, which will face a season without results, it is time to completely improve the backline!
The elimination of the Galaxy caused some stir in European football. However, because they were eliminated by Liverpool, who are unbeaten so far this season, it is not an upset.
In the other quarter-final, it was a big upset. In addition to being an upset, this game was also a super comeback that will go down in UEFA history!
This quarter-final is between defending champions AC Milan and La Liga side Deportivo La Coruna.
As early as the quarter-final draw ceremony, when AC Milan drew Deportivo La Coruna, the outside world was lamenting the good luck of the Italians, and thought that AC Milan had no suspense to advance to the semi-finals.
Deportivo La Coruna have performed well in La Liga these seasons, but they have just lost their top scorer Mackay this season. They haven't been particularly consistent in the league this season.
The first round at the San Siro also confirmed the speculation. AC Milan, who are at home, won 4-1 cleanly against Deportivo La Coruna.
After the match, it was even thought that the second leg at the Riazor Stadium had lost its meaning. Even the hardcore Deportivo fans are already losing hope for the semi-finals.
But Iruetta doesn't think so!
During the two-week preparation period, he had reservations in the league and spent half a month studying how to deal with AC Milan.
The Laco players who had already given up also found the courage to give it a go after the continuous encouragement of the Spanish coach.
In addition to this, Irueta also called on the Laco fans not to give up on the team and go to Riazor to cheer for the team on the day of the match!
When everything is ready, AC Milan will be greeted by the famous devil's home stadium of La Liga!
Deportivo La Coruna also showed their determination to win from the start of the game, with Uruguayan striker Pandiani scoring the first goal in the sixth minute.
The goal lifted the spirits of the AC Milan players, who thought they were only here for a tourist trip.
After that, Deportivo La Coruna's attack was thunderous and rainy.
However, just when AC Milan thought that Deportivo La Coruna was about to give up, "Super Laco" scored two goals in a row ten minutes before half-time!
The score was 3-0, the aggregate score was 4-4 and Deportivo had a valuable away goal!
This made the Riazor Stadium completely crazy!
The defending champions also woke up from a dream, launching a ferocious attack in the second half.
But the game had clearly fallen into the rhythm of the Lacos, who scored another goal halfway through the second half to kick the defending champions into the abyss!
In the end, Deportivo La Coruna completed an incredible super comeback from 1-4 to 5-4!
The nickname "Super Laco" resounded throughout the continent!
The greatest and most dramatic comeback in the history of the Champions League also stole some of the limelight from the match between Liverpool and Real Madrid after the game. It has become the object of media scrambling to report!
Iruetta, who single-handedly created this classic reversal, has also become the focus of the whole of Europe!
In fact, on the European stage, Laco has staged a miracle of reversal. In March 2001, they were 3-0 down to Paris Saint-Germain, but came back 4-3 in a single game.
Moreover, this time they are facing the powerful defending champion AC Milan!
AC Milan's elimination also left this season's Champions League semi-finals without a single Serie A team, in stark contrast to last season's Serie A dominance of three places in the semi-finals!
In addition to AC Milan, Arsenal's elimination by Monaco is also a big upset in this round!
Mourinho's Porto elimination of Lyon also brought this Portuguese team into the media's field of vision again!
This year's Champions League semi-finals are also occupied by dark horses, among the four teams, only Liverpool can be regarded as a traditional European giant, and before this season, it can only be regarded as a lonely giant!
The result of such a dark horse rampant has surprised the experts, and it has also made the bookmaker make a lot of money.
Of course, after watching the situation of the semi-finals, the British media believe that this is God's help to Liverpool, and even some Liverpool media have begun to celebrate Liverpool's championship early.
(To be continued)