203 Europa League final
"Jin Ming, this is self-willing!"
"Jin Ming is stupid. The salary is three million pounds less, which is 30 million yuan. How good it is to go to Manchester City, to get a high salary, and to win the title. â
"Who's going to go to the nouveau riche."
"What qualifications does Manchester City have to bring in Jin Ming."
"Could it be that Arsenal, which is competing for the fourth every year, is qualified to bring in Jin Ming?"
"Die, Manchester City! I don't look at myself, thinking that everyone will kneel down to add you if you have a little money. You're just an upstart at best. â
"Arsenal just died. How many years without a crown. â
Jin Ming's move to Arsenal is boiling. On Chinese social networks, there is even more of a ruckus. Arsenal fans were ecstatic. And Manchester City fans, although small in number, also countered Arsenal fans.
They think that Jin Ming's departure to Arsenal is a fall. Jin Ming has no shortage of titles at Schalke, but what to do at Arsenal. Is it to work hard for the fourth place every year?
What is the purpose of going to Arsenal to ask for money or not, whether you want a championship or not, what is the purpose of going to Arsenal?
And Arsenal fans are defending Jin Ming.
Some people even said that Jin Ming joined Arsenal at the age of 22, and Henry joined Arsenal at the age of 22. Jin Ming will follow the trajectory of Henry's success that year to become the new gun king, and will become an important player for Arsenal to win the championship again.
Of course, no matter how loud the fans are, they can't change the fact that Jin Ming joined Arsenal.
Jin Ming doesn't care about these things himself, because Schalke's game has to continue.
At this time, Schalke really had more games.
Stevens' cup results have always been good. Just like when he first took charge of Schalke, he helped Schalke win the UEFA Cup and two German cups.
It's all cup results.
On the contrary, his league results have been mediocre. In his six years at the helm of Schalke, only one year came close to the Bundesliga title. But in the end, it was only a "four-minute champion". Just got a taste of the Bundesliga title for four minutes. In other years, he was not even qualified to compete for the Bundesliga title.
Mainly because his style is very conservative, his rotation is not good. Every season, a lineup is used to death, and in the end, the main players are tired like dogs, and the substitute players are in no state one by one.
The same is true this season. At the end of the first half of the season, Schalke was not far behind Bayern and Borussia Dortmund. On the contrary, all three teams can chase the Bundesliga title. All have a chance to win the Bundesliga.
Judging from the results in the first half of the season, Schalke's main squad is not bad, and it can compete with Dortmund and Bayern Munich. It is a squad that can chase the Bundesliga title. It's a pity that Stevens' non-rotation policy made Schalke's main squad too tired and slowly fell behind in the long league.
By this time, Dortmund and Bayern Munich were fiercely competing for the Bundesliga title, while Schalke had long since fallen behind and had no chance at all.
However, the poor results in the league did not affect Schalke's cup results.
Schalke has already beaten Borussia Dortmund to reach the final of the German Cup, and his performance in the Europa League is getting better and better.
Quarter-elimination. Schalke met AZ Alkmaar at home.
It's another Eredivisie team.
The Eredivisie team is all about attacking and defending, but any tactic needs to be matched by players. If the players are strong, as long as the tactics are not too bad, the team will not be weak.
It's like Real Madrid.
Although Real Madrid has been constantly suppressed by Barcelona over the years because of its encounters with Dream 2 and Dream 3. But after all, Real Madrid's players are strong, they change coaches so frequently, and their tactics are constantly changing, but they still have good results in La Liga. In addition to not being able to beat Barcelona, the other La Liga teams are still not Real Madrid's opponents.
The reason is simple.
Regardless of the strength of the Real Madrid coach. The Real Madrid players are strong enough. So Real Madrid's strength will not be so weak. The Real Madrid coach tossed Real Madrid back and forth, but Real Madrid is still one of the most important forces in the championship competition.
On the contrary, the weak teams will not work.
Unless they have a coach who is against the sky and can let the underdogs play amazingly. Otherwise, the strength of your players is weak, then it doesn't matter what the tactics are. You can't be as strong as your team.
So in the end, it comes down to the real strength of the team.
The strength of the Eredivisie team has declined rapidly in recent years, of course, mainly because of the impact of the Bosman Act, and the Eredivisie cannot retain good players. Players like Eredivisie giants PSV Eindhoven and Ajax have even been poached by some mid-table teams in the Premier League.
It's a shame.
In the past, it was European football giants who poached PSV Eindhoven and Ajax players. But now even some mid-table teams in the Premier League have the ability to poach players from the Eredivisie giants.
AZ Alkmaar are a strong team in the Eredivisie though. But in terms of strength, it is not even as strong as the mid-stream teams of the Premier League, La Liga, and Bundesliga. If the mid-table teams in the Premier League, La Liga, and Bundesliga poach players, AZ Alkmaar will not be able to stop them at all. Therefore, strength is not good at all.
Although it was the quarter-finals of the Europa League, Schalke won comfortably.
Schalke won 4-0 at home to AZ Alkmaar. Back on the road, AZ Alkmaar is still no match for Schalke and was beaten 5-2 at home.
Europa League quarter-finals.
Schalke beat AZ Alkmaar 9-2 on aggregate.
After two games, Huntelaar scored two, Raul scored two, Farfan scored one, Fuchs scored one and Draxler scored one.
And Jin Ming also scored two goals.
After the quarter-finals of the Europa League, Jin Ming's Europa League goals have reached twelve. They are well ahead of their opponents in the current Europa League scorer charts.
Falcao and Huntelaar have both scored eight Europa League goals so far, four fewer than Kim Ming.
And Raul was even more touted by the European football media after the match with AZ Alkmaar. Because after the end of this game, Raul's European goals have reached 80, leaving Inzaghi behind by ten goals.
Shun lĂŹ reached the semi-finals.
Europa League semi-finals with three Spanish teams. Atletico Madrid, Valencia, Athletic Bilbao, and there is only one Bundesliga team, Schalke. Schalke met Valencia in the semi-finals.
Valencia, around the turn of the new century, is also the top team in European football.
Cooper's time as manager at Valencia saw him reach the Champions League final for two seasons in a row. Later, after Benitez became the manager of Valencia, he won two La Liga titles and a League Cup title. That time was the pinnacle of Valencia's history.
At that time, Valencia was not a big team in European football. But none of the European football giants at the time were willing to touch Valencia. Because Valencia at that time was really difficult to entangle.
Unfortunately, Valencia is not what it used to be.
The battle at the club's top management has also affected Valencia's first-team record. Of course, the bigger reason is that Valencia's economic situation is very bad, and the debts are too strict, and there is no longer the arrogance of the past.
Since then, Valencia has always had outstanding stars, but their results have not improved. People like Villa, Silva and Mata eventually chose to leave Valencia.
However, Valencia is a La Liga powerhouse after all.
The game was still a tough one.
Schalke were held to a 1-1 draw away by Valencia and returned home to beat Valencia 2-1. The best of the two game tables is Farfan.
Two goals were scored in two games, with the other goal assisted by Farfan. It was Schalke's biggest contributor to the promotion.
Jin Ming also scored a goal in both games, which was assisted by Farfan. Jin Ming also scored his thirteenth goal in the Europa League this season. Atletico Madrid's Falcao also scored 10 goals after the semi-finals.
But compared with Jin Ming, there are still three fewer goals in the Europa League.
After the elimination of Valencia in this way. Schalke reached this season's Europa League final.
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May 10, 2012, Bucharest National Stadium.
It's already May, and the Europa League final is due to kick off here. This season's Europa League final was held at the National Stadium in Bucharest. This is the most advanced stadium in Romania and can accommodate more than 55,000 people.
The stadium was already full of fans.
The match was played between Schalke and Atletico Madrid.
Atletico Madrid, Jin Ming This is the first time to play against Atletico Madrid. For Atletico Madrid, Jin Ming is not very familiar. At the current Atletico Madrid, Jin Ming only knows one person. That's Diego, the heart of Atletico's front court.
When Diego was on loan from Juventus to Wolfsburg, Jin Ming and Diego played each other.
Of course, when Jin Ming first arrived in the Bundesliga, the Bundesliga still had the legend of Diego. The legendary Diego can do anything. In the Bundesliga, he used to be the king. However, when Jin Ming came to the Bundesliga, Diego was only left with legends, and his strength dropped a lot.
In the cup finals, Jin Ming played many times.
However, the Europa League final is the first time. Although the gold content is much lower. But the Europa League is also a European competition after all.
"Kim, do you feel like I'm powerful?"
"What's wrong?"
In the players' tunnel, Matip whispered in Jin Ming's ear.
Jin Ming didn't understand what Matip meant. Matip and Papadopoulos have become Schalke's main centre-backs this season, and the table is still very good. After all, at the age of twenty-one, he became Schalke's main central defender. The strength is definitely extraordinary. Schalke was able to reach the Europa League final and of course he contributed a lot.
Could it be that Matip is talking about this?
"Kim, you don't remember what I said last season. I said we won the Europa League this season. â
"Last season?"
Matip spoke. Jin Ming remembered.
Last season, Matip advised Kim against a transfer, and that's what he said at the time. When he heard this, Jin Ming also thought that Matip was talking big. Because at that time, Jin Ming really thought that there were many strong teams in the Europa League, and it was so easy to enter the Europa League final.
But I didn't expect that there were really no strong teams in the Europa League.
Schalke have only met one strong team along the way, and that is Valencia in La Liga. But Valencia is also a strong team that has been in decline for a long time. In addition to Valencia, there are two Eredivisie teams, and then there are a whole bunch of Eastern European clubs.
Now that I think about it, Matip is really a prophecy.
"El, you can go and be a wizard."
"Hahaha."
When Matip heard Jin Ming's words, he suddenly laughed at this time. He smiled like this, and many players looked this way. None of the players, including Atletico, knew why Matip was laughing like that.
However, Matip did not notice any strange gaze from everyone.
Instead, he said to Jin Ming: "Jin, you must win the game." â
"El, be quiet."
Jin Ming really has a headache.
Matip's unbridled laughter made Jin Ming completely the center. Even the referee who was about to walk out in front of him looked at it.
Soon the time was up.
After the opening ceremony of a series of small events, the referee finally blew the whistle to start the game.
"Doodoo-"
"The race is on. The Europa League final of 11-12 began between Schalke from the Bundesliga and Atletico Madrid from La Liga. Both sides will chase the Europa League title here. â
"There's a lot to watch in this game. In addition to who can win the Europa League on both sides, there is also who can win the Europa League top scorer. Schalke's Kim Ming has scored thirteen goals so far, while Atletico Madrid's Falcao has scored ten. At present, Jin Ming has obvious advantages, but no one can guarantee that Falcao will not be able to surpass Jin Ming. (To be continued......)