On May 16, the first heavyweight champion of the European competition was announced!

Lecce and Paris Saint-Germain, who have gone all the way, will meet at Celtic Park in Glasgow to compete for the UEFA Cup trophy!

The two sides played 1:1 in the 90 minutes of the regular season, scored one goal each in overtime, and finally entered the penalty shootout, and the last laugh was the Parisians, who beat Lecce with a penalty score of 5:4 and a total score of 7:6 to win the League Cup trophy!

The UEFA Cup trophy of the 06-07 season finally came to an end in Ligue 1!

After a brief report on the match, the European media will focus on the Greek Olympic Stadium, where Real Madrid and Arsenal will battle it out on the night of May 23 for the Champions League, the highest honour in European club competition.

And before that, Crazy Lee and his Real Madrid have one more league game to play - on May 19, they will face Osasuna, a small dark horse ranked seventh in the league, at the Bernabeu at home!

For the first time this season, Real Madrid's home Bernabeu had empty seats, as at least half of Madrid's fans had already booked tickets online to travel to Greece three days in advance to prepare for the Champions League final, visiting Greek mythological monuments!

Although the stadium was not full, and it rained moderately on the night of the game, it could not stop Real Madrid from winning, Argentine teenager Higuain shined, with the help of compatriot Gago staged a big four, the Galaxy Battleship defeated the dark horse 4:0, and played a good start for the upcoming Champions League final!

After the end of the 37th round of the league, the first relegated team of the La Liga 06-07 season was born, and Mallorca, the opponent of Li Tongfan's debut in La Liga, said goodbye to the first division with tears and was relegated to the league as well. The team's head coach Manzano was fired by the club for his poor results!

It is worth mentioning that Manzano is not the first manager to be sacked after the end of this round of the league, Celta "lifted his belt and turned his face" after the successful relegation and fired the meritorious coach Fernando Vaques! This is also the usual trick of many clubs in Europe's top five leagues, sacking the unsatisfactory manager when there is no danger of relegation and no hope of moving forward, and planning ahead for the next season!

However, none of this has anything to do with Real Madrid, because from the first second of the match against Osasuna, the Galaxy Battleship is on the track of the Champions League final!

After a hard season, the harvest season is coming, at this most critical moment, if anyone dares to relax, they can't get along with the trophy honor! On this planet, no professional footballer can refuse the "seduction" of the Champions League Big Ears Cup - not even Raul, the Lord of the Rings who has already won this honor!

On May 20th, Real Madrid flew to Greece to prepare for the final battle of supreme honor! And Arsenal, the final opponent of the Galaxy Battleship, arrived there 2 days ahead of Real Madrid, and they are ready for it!

Battle for the Acropolis!

Countdown, 3 days, 7 hours and 59 minutes!

…… The population of Athens has exploded by more than 100,000 during this time, and all the hotels are already full, so some fans who don't plan to watch in advance have to set up camping tents in parks or open areas on the outskirts of the city for a few nights! Fortunately, it was almost June, and the temperature rose to about -15 degrees, so even if you were camping, you wouldn't be guilty!

Greece regarded the final as a grand event, and in order to maintain the security of the city of Athens, more than 1,000 police officers from all over the country were urgently selected to enter the city to maintain the order of life of local names and tourists!

The venue of the decisive battle, the Olympic Stadium, located in Marosi, a northern suburb of Athens, is a new complex stadium built in Greece for the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, which was only completed in July 2004 and can accommodate 55,000 fans to watch the game! The competition was sold out a month ago, and the online "foreign scalpers" have hyped up the final ticket to 2,000 euros, but it is still in short supply!

Real Madrid arrives in Athens and stays at the famous Blue Sky Hotel in Athens.

Although it is a 3-star hotel, it is located on the outskirts of Athens, close to the Apollo Coast, quiet and elegant, and the hotel is surrounded by excellent shopping malls and golf courses, which is perfect for the team to rest and relax!

On the morning of May 21, the team came to the Olympic Stadium for the first time for acclimatization training, the stadium has been replaced with a new lawn, Real Madrid only has about 4 hours to light training, because the afternoon final opponent Arsenal will also have pre-match training here!

Before the start of the game at 20:00 on the evening of May 23, the course will be replaced with turf again to provide the best service for this world-renowned game!

At this time, the city of Athens was already filled with tension and joy before the final, and the streets were full of elated fans, with red for Arsenal and white for Real Madrid becoming the main colors of this world-famous tourist city!

“…… Wow, it seems that there are a lot of beautiful women who like me," Luo Fatzi sat on the bus back to the hotel, pointed to a blonde and blue-eyed beauty fan wearing an R9 Real Madrid jersey outside the car with a silver smile, and began to show off: "A man like me is really the most popular person...... I feel energized right now...... Ten goals can be scored in the final! ”

"Really? Look there......" Robert Carlos pouted with disdain, "Why do I think David is more popular than you?" ”

Sure enough, more than a dozen tall and tall hot girls quickly came out of the line, all wearing Beckham's No. 23 uniform, holding a sign of "David, please have a one-night stand with me" to show their love to Bei Shuai, and screamed and jumped up with excitement after seeing Real Madrid's bus coming, and one of them even covered his chest when he saw Beckham waving and smiling through the window, and fainted because of excessive excitement...... The alien fat man who was still triumphant just now was suddenly dumbfounded: "Okay, I admit that David can score 100 goals in the final...... The hammers laughed out loud and sang and laughed all the way back to the Blue Sky Hotel!

…… When the two teams were nervously preparing for the game, the major media were not idle, countless experts and professors jumped out to analyze and predict the game, and the French "Team Daily" even conducted a large-scale online questionnaire survey, after a three-day statistics, 68 percent of the 870,000 fans from all over the world who participated in the survey believed that Real Madrid would undoubtedly lift the Champions League trophy for the 10th time, and only 32 percent of the fans believed that Arsenal had a chance to make history, Won the first Big Ears Cup in history after the Champions League restructuring!

In addition, 90% of fans believe that the most threatening figure in the Real Madrid team is the alien Ronaldo, and the remaining 10% are divided between Beckham and Raul, and the most noteworthy figure in the Arsenal team is, of course, the gun king Thierry Henry!

In terms of the lineup, most of the injured players in the Real Madrid squad have returned from injury, and captain Raul and the main center Van Nistelrooy are on standby at any time, which can be regarded as a complete lineup! The only pity is that the Mexican teenager Carlos Vela, who played well in the second half of the season, was recruited into the Mexican national team again and represented his country in the Central and North American Gold Cup, and missed the squad!

Arsenal captain Gilberto Silva was unable to play because of the accumulation of yellow cards in the semi-finals, which greatly reduced the strength of Arsenal, because the Brazilian midfielder has scored 3 goals and provided 3 assists in 13 appearances for Arsenal in this season's Champions League, and most importantly, Gilberto Silva's average of 6 effective interceptions per game and 81% pass success rate have long made him one of the team's most indispensable iron waists!

With the presence of the Brazilian, 20-year-old talented midfielder Sesc Fabregas will be able to devote more energy to attacking. Therefore, in the absence of Gilberto Silva, teaching Wenger how to solve the team's "waist weakness" problem has become the focus of fans and media!

The famous sports betting company bwin offered odds for the game on May 23, Real Madrid won 5-4, the two sides played 90 minutes of regular season and extra time to draw 11-5, and Arsenal won 7-4!

In an interview with reporters, Bwin Chief Consultant William Cobain believes that Real Madrid, the new champion of La Liga, and Arsenal, which represents the highest level of the Premier League, should be between the best in terms of lineup! Therefore, it is difficult to say who will win, but considering the bizarre record of Crazy Lee's invincibility this season, the company is a little more optimistic about the Galaxy Battleship...... May 23rd!

The time for the decisive battle is coming!

The festive atmosphere in Athens City has dropped a little, and the tension before the tournament has made the fans on both sides no longer have the harmony and camaraderie they had a few days ago, and if they see the fans wearing enemy uniforms, they will ignore them directly, while the grumpy guys will deliberately run in front of the opposing fans and stretch out the club scarves in their hands and shout "Long live Real Madrid" or "The championship belongs to Arsenal...... The saber is tense, and the big battle is about to break out!

The road leading from the city of Athens to the northern suburb of Marosi became bustling from early in the morning, and the road less than 5 kilometers from the city center was filled with fans in red and white jerseys, and because the parking lot near the Olympic Stadium could not accommodate too many vehicles, fans walked to the stadium to watch the game at the initiative of the Athens Municipal Axe!

The Spanish national television special film crew sat in a helicopter to shoot the aerial film, only to see the dense flow of people from Athens and the surrounding towns like ants moving, converging on the Olympic Stadium!

Lee Tong-beom's "old acquaintance", the beautiful host Elizabeth Calelina, wearing a seat belt, introduced to the camera to the fans who were sitting in front of the TV in Spain watching the pre-match special: "...... The spectacle was spectacular, with the best two teams of the 06-07 season playing a great match in the stadium five hours later for fans around the world...... Look below, the fans rushed to the stadium like a pilgrimage......"

The camera focuses on the Olympic Stadium below, like a giant bird's nest lying quietly on the Apollo coastline, waiting for the hustle and bustle of the Athenian night to begin!

(To be continued)