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Ligue 1 teams have not played a significant role in the history of the Champions League, with only Marseille 11 years ago reaching the top of Europe and reaching a handful of finals so far.

Monaco belongs to the French team, and in the strict sense, Monaco is an independent country, so Deschamps' Monaco can reach the semi-finals of the Champions League, which can be said to be writing a new history of Monaco football.

The support for Didier Deschamps and his team was understandable, with even the Monaco royal family coming to the Stade Louis II to cheer them on.

As players from both sides lined up on the pitch, the camera focused on the VIP box, where members of Monaco's royal family were applauding.

"The first leg of the semi-finals of the 2003-2004 UEFA Champions League is about to begin, and Monaco from Ligue 1 will face Ajax from the Netherlands at the Stade Louis II!

Many conservative and traditional fans have lost their attention to the final stage of the Champions League season, and it's easy to see why, let's take a look at the teams that have reached the last four of the Champions League this season: Ajax, Monaco, Deportivo La Coruna and Porto.

There is not a single big team in the top league of our time!

But I think that's the beauty of football, it's not a game of size or logical reasoning.

Football needs fresh blood, new history, new characters to create? New brilliance, leaving us with new memories.

No one is optimistic about Deportivo La Coruna, who lost San Siro 1:4, but defending champion AC Milan was overturned by Deportivo La Coruna 4:0 away from home!

Should Deportivo La Coruna make it to the Final Four?

What is there to doubt?

Even if their fans may not be a fraction of AC Milan's, they won! It was a miraculous reversal. They deserve to be on the stage of the semi-finals.

When Porto met Manchester United in the draw. No one is optimistic about Jose Mourinho's side. However, Jose Mourinho celebrated his side's defeat of Manchester United at Old Trafford!

When the Galacticos arrived at the Stade Louis II with a 4-2 lead, every Monaco fan was worried, and every Real Madrid fan was waiting for the news of the team's semi-finals with a comfortable feeling, but after 90 minutes of play, Monaco's number one striker this season, Morientes, shed sad tears, did Monaco lose? No! Monaco 3:1 against Real Madrid! It was Morientes, the man who was ruthlessly abandoned by Real Madrid, who buried the Galactic Battleship with his own hands! His heart is still at Real Madrid. So he shed tears and Monaco made it to the semi-finals of the season with great passion!

Arsenal, Chelsea, the Premier League's traditional giants and new aristocrats, the young Ajax Guards have deduced a maturity and passion that does not match it, 16 into 8, 8 into 4, they have an excellent record of 4 games, 3 wins and 1 draw to destroy the London duo in a row!

Yes, this season has reached the top four, and there is no big team that is among the best in the world, but. These four teams who reached the last four of the Champions League deserve the respect of the world, and they have each written their own epic on the road to the last four. They didn't come here by luck.

Now, all four teams have a chance to win the final title, and it seems that there is no significant difference in their quality, they are dark horses, but who can make it to the top of Europe?

The decisive battle begins with the semi-finals!

Monaco started 433.

Goalkeeper: Roma.

Defenders: Ibarra, Rodriguez, Givet, Evra.

Midfielders: Cisse, Bernardi, Zikes.

Forwards: Gyuli, Morientes, Roten.

Ajax started 433.

Goalkeeper: Lobonte.

Defenders: Grigra, Heitinga, Escude, Maxwell.

Midfielders: De Jong, Galasek, Qin Xiong.

Forwards: Van der Vaart, Ibrahimovic, Sneijder. ”

Monaco have been a bit magical this season under the leadership of young coach Didier Deschamps.

Three of their main players who started were on loan!

Full-back, Argentine Ibarra, is on loan from Porto.

Cisse at the back is on loan from Paris Saint-Germain.

Striker Morientes is on loan from Real Madrid.

Even so, Monaco's competitiveness in the league and Champions League is obvious to all.

In the league, Ajax has a more relaxed preparation environment than Monaco to win the championship early, and Monaco is still in a tight triumph with Lyon and Paris Saint-Germain, and at the end of the season, every game is a key battle, which makes Ajax better in terms of energy allocation.

It is no accident that Monaco can reach the semi-finals of the Champions League, in addition to the five-legged penetration of the door of the Galaxy in the two legs of the elimination of Real Madrid is enough to prove its strength, including the feat of Deportivo La Coruna, which had an 8:3 massacre of the same semi-final team in the group stage!

However, the problem with Monaco is also obvious, their three main players have to rely on loan acquisition, and it is conceivable that the depth of the team's bench is worrying.

In the final sprint at the end of the season, Deschamps made sacrifices in the league in order to go all out in the Champions League, focusing on the Champions League!

After the battle horn of Louis II sounded, Monaco immediately went into a state of fury as soon as the opening was played.

Although Qin Xiong has watched many games in Monaco from the video, he really experienced it on the field, which are two completely different feelings.

Monaco is on the offensive!

Crazy as a demon!

This is a passionate team with a strong belief in attacking football.

Young Marshal Deschamps, as a young and strong faction in football, is using this passionate power to realize his ambitions and shake the traditional pattern!

It may be that the tactical advancement of football in European football has not yet reached the point of fission, but this season, taking the team that broke into the last four as an example, there is an imagination worth paying attention to, and that is the resurgence of the winger stream.

Ajax, Porto, Monaco and Deportivo La Coruna are not exactly the wingers that used to be or still dominate, just as Vega Giggs Jr. used to be, or Joaquín Vicente simply delivered shells to the centre.

Monaco's Roten and Gyuli, Ajax's Sneijder and Van der Vaart, Deportivo La Coruna's Triangle on the wing, Porto's winger on the counter-attack.

It is precisely because these dark horses use emerging roles in tactics and take the initiative to change that they can exert unexpected power in difficult games, eclipsing the old giants.

Monaco's two-sided strikers are more versatile than the London duo that Ajax have faced before.

This is not based on the individual strength of the players, but on the offensive style, which plays a role in the tactical system.

Monaco dominated the home field and the attack erupted from both wings, with Roten and Giuli feeding Morientes on the flanks, but not just on the flanks.

Like Giuli, who has the speed and dribbling style of the Wind Child, he may lack the wildness and passion of the Wind Child, but he makes waves on the flanks, and even tries to go straight to the Yellow Dragon, which makes the Ajax defence show a panicked side from the start.

Didier Deschamps' side are not as cold and sane as gold, while Monaco are passionate and full of talent.

When the two forwards ravaged the Ajax defence, and all three midfielders were known for their defensive toughness, frantically encircled and pressed Ajax up front, Ajax fell back from the opening and back of the pitch.

There are only two ways to suppress the opponent's passion, either to be more crazy than the opponent and see who collapses in the devastating rhythm, or to suppress the opponent with absolute reason, specifically to reshape the game with defense, so that the opponent cannot attack, and the boiling blood gradually cools, and then stage a Jedi counterattack!

Ajax are clearly unlikely to settle into the game and get into the game faster than their opponents at home in Monaco.

Qin Xiong couldn't connect with his teammates, at least in the attack, Monaco was too wild and unrestrained!

They were like doping beasts, rampage across the pitch and shattered Ajax's attacking formation.

Qin Xiong himself faced the joint defense and pressure of the opponent's three defenders in the midfield, and the space he could exert was very small, which made him decisively retreat, participate in the defense, and beckoned the trident in the front court to also retreat, regardless of whether it can limit the opponent's attack, at least when Ajax should attack, everyone is closer, so that their own possession of the ball can be longer! (To be continued......) R1292