Section 242 Bayern
Unlike Li Bin's happiness, as soon as the Champions League quarterfinals table came out, the teams in Serie A were wailing everywhere.
There are three teams in Serie A that have entered the quarterfinals, and it stands to reason that there should be hope for further progress, but seeing the draw match, the hearts of the Italian media are half cold.
Milan vs. Chelsea, Liverpool vs. Valencia, Manchester United vs. Roma, Parma vs. Bayern Munich - after the four teams in the quarterfinals come out, how to look at the results, it is also very important to say that there is any hope for Serie A.
Yes, Manchester United has been very depressed in the past two years, and last year they were even unlucky to be at the bottom of the group, and they didn't even have to play in the League Cup, so they went home to rest. However, no matter how down, they are also Manchester United, and this year Chelsea has a little problem, and Manchester United will immediately rise to the top of the table? Roma meet Manchester United, what are the odds? No one can say this, but no one dares to have too much confidence.
Milan drew Chelsea, which was even more desperate. Chelsea have been the most eye-catching presence in the Champions League for the first two seasons, and while they have been choked by Liverpool and Barcelona, no one can deny that they are the best team in the world. Although this season, they may be slightly worse because of Cech's injury, but Milan is now also full of injuries, in this game, what will Milan fight Chelsea?
And the most reluctant Parma is the same when he plays Bayern: Bayern is not good or bad, it is the hegemon of the Bundesliga, and its experience is far greater than Parma. Parma have only beaten Arsenal once, but compared to a team like Bayern that once won the honor of European hegemony, it is still too far behind.
"I'm afraid that no one in Serie A will enter the top four this year."
The predictions made by the media are not optimistic.
However, Li Bin was overjoyed after winning the lot.
Won the draw of Bayern Munich, which can really be said to be the best sign that Parma can encounter now.
Of course, Valencia and Roma may be better if they can draw Parma, but Valencia has just finished playing with Inter Milan, and Li Bin estimates that the UEFA gang, even if it is for a little more broadcast fees, will not let them touch Serie A teams again. Although Rome is good, it can fight with the same country, unless all four teams of a country enter the quarterfinals, it is also difficult to encounter, and if you do that, it will inevitably be suspected of being escorted. And in addition to them, it is the remaining three hard bones of Milan and the Premier League, playing with these teams, Parma is difficult to deal with, but it is with Bayern Mourini Black, and there is more hope. Li Bin doesn't think that his character is strong to the point that he is always a good man in the ninth century, and he doesn't count on Valencia and Rome, Bayern Munich, which is the best opponent he identifies.
Compared with the prosperity of the Premier League, the current Bundesliga is in decline, and they are now the fifth league in Europe because of their poor results, and they are overtaken by Ligue 1. It's still 2007, the financial crisis has not yet arrived, the superiority of the Bundesliga system is not reflected, the money is stretched is very obvious, and their league competitiveness and overall level are far worse than other leagues. There are stupid big money in the Premier League that keep making money, the aftermath of the family-style operation on the side of Serie A is still there, and the two giants in La Liga have different personalities and statuses, and these teams are not bad for money, but the Bundesliga has a break-even policy, and they can't make money, and now they are also very poor, and their strength is naturally not good.
And, in addition to the overall environment, Bayern is not strong now: if they were strong, they would not have finished fourth in the league after half a season, and they would not have rioted in the dressing room in the team last month, on the eve of the start of the Champions League knockout round, sacking Magath, the first defending domestic double in the history of the Bundesliga, and replacing him with Heathfield as a coach. It is not a good sign for a team to change its coach, and it is conceivable how strong they are.
Moreover, this season, Bayern Munich has just experienced Ballack's betrayal, and his strength has been greatly shaken, and he can't show the domineering he should have in the league, and Bayern's management doesn't know what crazy his head is, and at the same time as dismissing Magat, he also announced that he would carry out a purge after the season, Mackay, Van Bitten, Pizarro, Santa Cruz, Lyle and others are all purged by the media, plus Hargreaves, who has been seduced by Manchester United, announced his retirement after the season, Sauer, A small percentage of a team's personnel can leave after the season, and after such a massive upheaval, it's hard to play well again.
"It's the best signing, the worst is that I'm ready to play Liverpool and Chelsea, home and away. In that case, we would have to really defend our home stadium, and now that it's Bayern, we can try to counter-attack at home. If we play well on the counter-attack, maybe we can really make it to the last four. ”
"Bayern are not that easy to deal with, and our signings are not good."
Esposito retorted. Everyone understands that in the Champions League knockout round, the best draw is better to play away first and then home, and the atmosphere is always much better with the support of your own fans at your own home stadium. Li Bin also knows this, in his memory, the old enemies of the Premier League, Liverpool and Chelsea, who can win, basically depends on who draws the first away and then the home sign - the sad thing is that when Mourinho was at Chelsea, he has always been Liverpool's first away and then the home, and after he left, he became Chelsea's first away and then the home, so his record against Liverpool is quite miserable, and Grant, a person who does nothing, has become a meritorious coach who defeated Liverpool - the first away and then the home, It's a good sign for the team.
However, Li Bin only sighed in this regard, "Lorenzo, think about it yourself, you also know the composition of UEFA, are those of them really willing to let us draw a good lottery before the host?" In our team, Rossi, the biggest name, endorses Nike, and the others endorse even more sadly...... The sponsors of UEFA, but Adidas, they will not let us draw a good lottery. Let's have fun in the midst of suffering, and that's pretty good. ”
"But Bayern is not as weak as we thought, they still made it to the quarter-finals."
"It was Real Madrid who was beaten." Li Bin opened his mouth and said, "You have also seen the current level of Real Madrid, to put it mildly, when you meet them, it is strange not to advance." No matter how bad Heathfield is, it will not lose to the current Real Madrid. ”
Esposito wanted to defend Capello, but when the words came to his lips, he didn't know what to say.
"Very good, if we play against Bayern, we can probably get a win. Bayern is a typical team with weak midfield, their current midfield, Sauer is retiring, Ballack is gone, Karimi's state comes and goes, Hargreaves always wants to go to Manchester United, the new Van Bommel is in average condition, Dos Santos has not played out at all, such a team, even if we retreat from the whole line, it will be difficult to break through our door, this is the most suitable opponent for us. ”
Bayern have had some trouble in recent seasons. Deisler had to retire at a young age, and Ballack thought he could not get more honours at Bayern and wanted to go to Chelsea to compete for honours - tragically, he was between Chelsea, and the honours were also ugly, but he left Chelsea to win the Champions League. Among the remaining players, Sauer is also facing the problem of retirement, and Hargreaves, who grew up in Canada, was born in the Bayern academy, and never returned to England to live, after becoming an English citizen, through the help of sponsors, has always hoped to join Manchester United and 'return' to the British Empire, where he never really lived. Such a lot of problems, not including a few other people: Schweinsteiger is not in good shape now, and Van Bommel has been unable to integrate for a long time, the new Podolski proved that the best newcomer in the World Cup can steal Ronaldo, but the strength of him and Ronaldo is not comparable at all, plus Pizarro is ready to leave, Demichaelis once wanted to retire after the World Cup because of the failure of the national team, and now Bayern is a rag pocket that leaks on all sides, no matter how he plays, he only got the fourth halfway, It's already extremely embarrassing.
Moreover, during the winter break, they had just experienced an infighting: because Magath trained too harshly, he was knocked off the stage by the players - Magath, the coach, the training method is not enough to describe the cruelty, he was accused of harsh training, and his own defense is: No one under my command has ever been tired to death - physical training with the goal of not tiring people to death, probably just such a strange thing, the players who have been coached by him have publicly said: If Magath is the captain of the Titanic, I don't guarantee that the boat won't sink, but I do guarantee that all passengers will have enough energy to swim back to Southampton......
It was precisely because he was so harsh that the Bayern players knocked him down. Although the Germans have always prided themselves on their willpower, it is clear that the Bayern players are not the time when the lion and tiger were in charge, and since their heads are squirrels and pigs, they obviously think that it is more important to rest, and they do not hesitate to launch another trick of German football: infighting. And it turns out that even if Magath is the coach who defended the Bundesliga domestic double for the first time in the Bundesliga, even if Bayern can still beat Inter Milan in the group to win the first place in the Champions League group, but, in the face of the unanimous opposition of the players, the so-called meritorious coach, the champion coach is a fart, the battle between players and coaches, the club will always favor the player rather than the coach, even Mourinho in the 07-08 season was dismissed for offending the dressing room, not to mention just a Magath?
After the dismissal of Magath, Bayern had no choice but to bring back the old coach Heathfield, after Heathfield took over, the first game was 0-3 defeat to Nuremberg, even the old coach who was used to the wind and rain said that he did not expect the team's problems to be so serious.
After Heathfield came to power, they carried out some reshuffling, so that the team was slightly better, in the Champions League, they eliminated Real Madrid, reached the quarterfinals, but in essence, their strength is still not very good, in memory, after this season, Bayern only won the fourth place in the league, angry They finally changed their stingy style, began to pay for people, bought Ribery and Toney, but, even if there are people, they don't even play in the Champions League, they can only play in the League Cup - but, Memories of them being defeated by Zenit St. Petersburg led by Arshavin in the League Cup, and now that Arshavin is no longer at Zenit St. Petersburg, maybe they can win one more title.
But that's all for later.
The problem now is that they are only weaker than Parma. Against teams that can't win the top three in the Bundesliga, Parma have to win no matter what they say.
"Inter Milan, Bayern Munich...... It's good to have two games a week, it's good for me to become famous, it's up to me how I am, win them all! ”