Probably no one expected that in the 2007/2008 season of the five major European leagues, the first league champion born would be Fiorentina, among the other four national leagues, the hegemony of Lyon in the French league is unshakable, Bayern Munich in the Bundesliga, Manchester United in the Premier League, and Real Madrid in La Liga, have accumulated a lot of advantages, but the first to climb to the top of the championship is actually unknown, and in the past it can only be strong in Italy Florence.

People suddenly felt that European football was really about to change.

In the Champions League, which symbolizes the top competition of European football, the traditional giants are gradually declining, and the new aristocracy is rising strongly, which has become the main theme of this season.

The Bundesliga has inevitably hit a low point, and while the Champions League is not over yet, for the Bundesliga side, their Champions League journey this season has come to an early end with Schalke 04's exit. But even so, Schalke's run to the quarter-finals is still something the Germans can be proud of.

It's just a pity that they have had too few surprises this season, Bremen and Stuttgart both failed in the group stage and lamented, and this year's Champions League is missing Bayern, which is the first time in 10 years that the Bundesliga has been without their standard-bearers in the Champions League, and Stuttgart, Bremen and Schalke have to shoulder the load.

However, it was disappointing that Stuttgart, who were the champions of the league last season, finished bottom of the group stage with 5 losses and 1 win. It was another humiliation for the Bundesliga side after last season's Hamburg. Although Stuttgart is not as strong as Barcelona and Lyon, the result of a double defeat at home and away is still a little difficult to accept. In the end, they couldn't even compete with Scotland's Glasgow Rangers and could only watch their opponents snatch their place in the UEFA Cup, and Stuttgart's Champions League campaign this season was a complete defeat.

Bremen's performance has been similarly unsatisfactory, and in a group with Real Madrid, Lazio and Olympiacos, it should be said that Bremen are still capable of fighting for a knockout spot. Sadly, Bremen have beaten the likes of Lazio and Real Madrid at home, but have suffered two consecutive defeats against the likes of Olympiacos. In the end, they only finished third in the group and could only participate in the League Cup for the second year in a row. Such a result is inevitably sighing, and it also leaves Schalke 04 alone in the knockout stage of the Champions League.

The only surprise in the Bundesliga came from Schalke 04, a Bundesliga team that was the least regarded in the Champions League before the season, but they did a miracle when they managed to break through in the group stage with a record of 2 wins, 2 draws and 2 losses, and advanced to the last 16 of the Champions League as the second in the group, which is impressive. In the knockout round, they also continued their magic, and in the quarter-finals with Porto, Schalke finally eliminated Porto through a penalty shootout with Kuranyi's goal and Neuer's magical performance, helping the club reach the quarterfinals of the Champions League for the first time in history, and also avoided the embarrassment of the Bundesliga team saying goodbye to European competition too early.

Although they lost to Liverpool in the end, their performance undoubtedly earned people's respect.

Looking at the overall performance of the Bundesliga team in the Champions League this season, Schalke 04's improvement is certainly encouraging. But Bremen is still stagnant, while Stuttgart continues the embarrassing "tradition" that every year a Bundesliga team must lose face in the Champions League.

Therefore, it can be said that in this season's Champions League, the "answer sheet" handed over by the Bundesliga team is still unsatisfactory. Even Schalke 04 has exposed the shortcomings of lack of attacking power and lack of experience in the Champions League, so the level of the Bundesliga teams in the Champions League still needs to be improved.

Now that the Bundesliga is coming to an end, Bremen and Schalke 04 have secured two places in the Champions League ahead of schedule, and it is believed that after the experience and lessons of previous seasons, they will become more mature next season, and there is reason to expect them to contribute more results.

And what is even more worth looking forward to is the Bundesliga hegemon Bayern Munich, who will return to the Champions League next season, and they will also march towards new glory and glory under the leadership of Klinsmann.

It is no exaggeration to say that with Bayern's current squad and this summer's transfer recruitment, they are fully capable of competing with any opponent next season, and Bayern next season is also fully likely to lead Bremen and Schalke 04 to achieve the revival of the Bundesliga team in the Champions League.

Compared to the sinking of the Bundesliga, the performance of La Liga teams in the Champions League this season can only be described as weak.

In the summer of 2000, Real Madrid, Barcelona and Valencia met in the last four of the Champions League. The final turned into a civil war in La Liga, with the Galacticos finally beating the Bats 3-0 to reach the top for the eighth time, and the Matadors were in the limelight for a while, and La Liga also took pole position in the Europa League standings and dominated Europe.

After leading for eight years, La Liga finally handed over the "pennant" to the Premier League, and the end of the strong crossbow has become the most haode adjective for the Iberian heroes.

La Liga's greatest moment was at the turn of the century, with three La Liga teams in the quarter-finals of the Champions League for four consecutive years since the start of the 99/00 season. Since the beginning of the 99/00 season, La Liga teams have won the Champions League twice in three years and won two runners-up, and the gorgeous style of attacking, attacking, and attacking again has made all Shijie fans fall in love with it.

However, the prosperity must decline, starting from the 03/04 season, there have been no three La Liga teams in a single season in the Champions League quarterfinals, and there is no La Liga team in the Champions League quarterfinals in the 04/05 season, although Barcelona reached the semifinals in the 05/06 season, but the appearance of Degan has made the dream team reach the top of Europe a fantasy, and then the rapid collapse of Barcelona is far more shocking than exciting.

Valencia is the first La Liga team to say goodbye to Europe this season, the Bat Army defeated the biggest rival Schalke 04 in the first round of the group stage, but then bid farewell to the Champions League with a record of 3 draws and 2 losses, Zuihou failed to score a goal in four games against Valencia! Turmoil has been a key word for Valencia this season, with the players teaming up to get rid of Flores and Koeman's purge ending with his departure. In addition to internal factors, the complete transfer failure is also one of the keys to Wallen's sharp decline this season, and key reinforcements such as Zikic and Fernandez have not been of any use.

Real Madrid and Sevilla FC have been in the quarter-finals in quick succession, and as a first-time Champions League finalist, Sevilla's performances are enough to earn respect, and the Andalusian's sexy attacking football is a sight to behold. But the lack of experience has become Sevilla's fatal wound, and the death of Puerta and Ramos has also devastated the team's vitality. Sevilla FC were overturned against Fenerbahce, who were considered weak in the round of 16, and how to strike a balance between attack and defense became a problem that the Andalusians could never solve. Now that Sevilla have become a supermarket of stars, this new army that has risen rapidly in the past three years is likely to fall rapidly.

If Sevilla are left with regrets, then Real Madrid can only blame themselves for their inferiority. This is the fourth consecutive season in a row that Real Madrid have dropped outside the quarter-finals of the Champions League, which is the worst record in the club's history. Calderón shouts for the treble every year, but in terms of the composition of this Real Madrid team, it is not enough to advance in three lines. In the second leg against Roma, Ruud van Nistelrooy and Arjen Robben were injured, Ramos was suspended, and Higuain and Drenthe were not up to the level of their brothers. To make a real breakthrough in Europe next season, Real Madrid will need to do their homework in the transfer market this summer.

Although Barcelona easily qualified from the group, they met Fiorentina, the reddest team in Europe, in the first round of the knockout round, and the red and blue team were really unlucky. The battle pays attention to the right time, place and people, and Barcelona has the upper hand in all three aspects. Against Fiorentina, Barcelona had largely missed out on the La Liga title, and the hope and despair of the whole season were condensed in the Camp Nou game, and the pressure made the players perform badly. Barcelona are full of gangs and contradictions, and Camp Nou have become accustomed to entertaining players with boos and white handkerchiefs, and the location is obviously out of the question. And people? Just look at Ronaldo, Barcelona will officially rebuild this summer, and the pain is inevitable, and next season the red and blue will find it difficult to maintain the strong competitiveness they have been in in the Champions League for nearly three years.

Real Madrid and Barcelona have their own difficult scriptures, and upstarts Villarreal and Atletico Madrid are also difficult to hope for. Villarreal relied on a group of balloon stars eliminated by the giants, and the depth of the yellow submarine's squad was difficult to cope with the two-front battle. Atletico Madrid have always played second-rate football with a big club mentality, and the impetuousness of the club's hierarchy and fans is also among the best in Europe. If nothing else, the fall of La Liga has only just begun.

After the 2000 and 2003 Champions League finals, the All England Open was the third civil war in this season's Champions League semi-finals. With a strong performance in the European competition, England has once again surpassed La Liga in the UEFA league coefficient ranking for the first time in 22 years.

Both financially and athletically, Premier League teams have been at their peak this season. What's even more terrifying is that, in addition to Manchester United, the other three Premier League teams have also maintained a strong fighting power in the knockout round.

There has long been a saying among the people that there is a "food chain" in European football, that is, the Premier League and Serie A, Serie A and La Liga, and La Liga and the Premier League, and this law has been fulfilled again this season.

Manchester United won 3 and drew 1 in four meetings with Roma, keeping the Serie A runners-up out of the semi-finals, and the old revenge of Roma 1:7 was not avenged, but it could only add a few more blood debts.

Liverpool beat the defending Serie A champion Inter Milan in the round of 16, and Arsenal also knocked out the defending Champions League champion AC Milan in the first knockout stage, and kept the Rossoneri clean in two legs. It can be said that Serie A's worst all-round defeat in the Champions League in the last four seasons is directly related to the Premier League teams.

Some fans joked that the rules mentioned above were still applicable in previous seasons, and the rules of this season were: Premier League Serie A, Premier League La Liga, Premier League Bundesliga, Premier League Ligue 1. It's an exaggeration, but it's not without truth.

The Premier League's strength in the Champions League is not a sudden explosion this season, since the 2004/05 season, there have been four consecutive Champions League finals featuring English clubs, and the last two seasons have seen the Premier League snatch three places in the last four of the Champions League.

Chelsea have failed to reach the semi-finals, but they have been the most consistent team in the Champions League in the last five seasons and it will not be easy to reach the semi-finals at least three times. Liverpool have reached the semi-finals three times in the last four seasons, including two finals and one trophy, almost on par with AC Milan.

Kevin. Keegan had said at the end of the season that the Premier League was boring, meaning that the "Big Four" always dominated the top four in the domestic league.

It is true that this has happened four times in the last five seasons in the Premier League, and the only exception in 2004/05 was because Liverpool received special care from UEFA, allowing the four families to still play side by side in the Champions League.

Such a stable campaign in Europe's top leagues has enabled the "four families" to accumulate rich experience in European, double-line and even multi-front operations, which is the key to the Premier League's stable and excellent results in the Champions League in recent years.

The Premier League has turned the Champions League semi-finals into a civil war in the Premier League, which has finally achieved domination of the highest level of European clubs after snatching three of the last four places in a row for the second year in a row, while Serie A, which once built a dynasty, is now reminiscent of its past glory.

For the past 20 years, Serie A has been regarded as one of the highest level football leagues in Shijie, and in the 90s it was even known as the "Little Shijie Cup", and it was their success on the European stage that made Serie A so famous.

From the 1992/93 season to the 1997/98 season, Serie A teams have been involved in six consecutive Champions League finals, and in 20 years, Serie A teams have won the Champions League seven times in the same period in Europe.

In the 2002/03 season, the traditional three Serie A finalists reached the semi-finals of the Champions League at the same time, and AC Milan and Juventus met in the final, just as the Premier League is in its prime.

However, dynasties will rise and fall, and after their greatest prosperity they will fall. In the 2003/04 Champions League, only one Serie A side, AC Milan, qualified for the last eight, but the Rossoneri came to an end.

Constrained by the contraction of the Italian economy and the subsequent blow to Serie A by the "phonegate" scandal, the competitiveness of Serie A teams in Europe continued to decline, and was first surpassed by La Liga in league points, and then fell behind the Premier League, the former "Little Shijie Cup" has been reduced to the third league in Europe.

Although AC Milan broke through the Premier League blockade in 2005/2006 and 2006/07 in 2006/07 to win the Champions League in one fell swoop, it was more like a return to the glory of the giant's death.

This season's traditional giants of Serie A bowed their heads at the same time in the Champions Cup, which is a true portrayal of Serie A's status in Europe today.

Lazio is a testament to the decline in Serie A's overall strength in the past two years, and although it is not as laughable as Chievo's Champions Cup in the 2006/07 season, the Blue Eagles also took advantage of the phone door to attack a large number of Serie A powerhouses, and only "successfully" took the last train to the Champions League, and they did not have the strength to compete in the Champions League. Although the fighting spirit of the Blue Eagles was commendable, they were unable to break through from Group C, which is almost the weakest. It wasn't until the fourth game that Lazio claimed a victory, followed by two consecutive defeats, and Lazio, who finished bottom of the group, failed to even secure a place in the UEFA Cup.

Lazio's entry came as a surprise, so their exit was a no-brainer. Relatively stronger, the Milan duo was generally seen at the beginning of the season but disappointed all Serie A fans.

AC Milan with the defending champions, is the favorite to win the championship, but the group stage played extremely difficult, two defeats to Fiorentina, if it is not for zuihou with Kaka's excellent performance, maybe after the group stage, the Rossoneri can rest early, but AC Milan finally broke through from the group, and also let AC Milan, which was sluggish in the league, once again bet on the Champions Cup. However, AC Milan, who are too old on average, won the title last season, but they are already at the end of their game. The Rossoneri, who did not strengthen in the summer, no longer have an advantage in Europe, and Kaka has also lost the sharpness of a year ago due to injury and fatigue, so that in the 1/8 finals against Arsenal, who were in the limelight at the time, AC Milan was beaten to the ground. In the end, "experience" failed to overcome "physical strength", and AC Milan lost without any excuses, only to say that the blind arrogance of the Rossoneri management ruined their entire season.

There are still reasons for AC Milan's defeat, and Inter Milan's resentment can only make people angry. As the season celebrates its centenary, Moratti has made it clear that he aims to make a breakthrough in the Champions League.

Inter Milan have upgraded their squad in the summer arms race to boast the brightest starting line-up and the deepest bench depth in Europe, and they have also played at a very high level in the group stage, reaching the round of 16 with their best record behind Manchester United.

At this time, Italy was full of praise, and many celebrities were optimistic that the Nerazzurri would go to the top, but they didn't expect Inter Milan to lose to Liverpool in the 1/8 finals in shame, and the Champions Cup journey was suspended with lightning.

Injuries are an excuse for Inter, but they are not the root cause. The imbalance in the team's mentality ahead of the crucial game and the manager's poor command on the spot are the problems that the Nerazzurri have not been able to go any further. It is no accident that Inter Milan has been competing in the Champions League year after year, but has never broken through.

At the same time as the Milan duo suffered setbacks, Roma surprised Italian football, and the team that was swept by Manchester United 7-1 last season performed steadily this time around, following Manchester United to the round of 16, and eliminated La Liga giants Real Madrid in the quarter-finals to advance to the quarter-finals, bringing a touch of joy to the Apennines who were frustrated by Milan's withering in the quarter-finals. In particular, the defeat of Real Madrid at the Santiago Bernabeu gave the world a glimpse into the fighting power of the Roma youth army. Although in the subsequent quarter-finals, Roma fell at the feet of Manchester United again, but this can only be said to be really inferior. Judging from the style of play, Jishuliu's Roma has always been afraid of English teams, and it is not surprising to lose when they meet Manchester United, which is in full swing. And the elimination of European giants such as Lyon and Real Madrid for two consecutive seasons proves that Roma have the quality to make a comeback next season.

Of course, the biggest surprise came from Fiorentina, who won all six games in the group stage, slaughtered Barcelona away in the quarter-finals, swept Chelsea at home in the quarter-finals, and entered the semi-finals, becoming the only non-Premier League team in the semi-finals, avoiding the Premier League semi-finals to monopolize the Champions League.

However, the rise of Fiorentina does not represent the overall strength of Italian football, especially in the league, and winning the championship five rounds ahead of schedule proves the fact that the overall competitiveness of Serie A is declining. The kind of scene of competing for the best in Italian football may never be achieved again.

Although there were surprises brought by Fiorentina and Roma, in any case, this season's Champions League is still a disappointing journey for the Serie A powers, and the root cause is the big decline in the overall strength of Serie A.

In the era of the Seven Sisters, no one would have pinned the glory of Serie A on a certain team, but now there is only one team in Italy, Fiorentina, which really has enough strength to compete for hegemony in Europe.

In fact, Serie A, dominated by an upstart like Fiorentina, may itself be a reflection of Serie A's regression.

Next season, the future of Serie A in the Champions League remains bleak, although Juventus is very likely to return to the Champions League, the Bianconeri are still in the process of rebuilding, and the most experienced AC Milan are still struggling with a Champions League squad, and there is a good chance that they will be relegated to the UEFA Cup, and the only hope in Serie A is Fiorentina.

Next season's things aside, in the Champions League semi-finals, Fiorentina has to face being surrounded by the top three of the Premier League, whether it can break through, whether it can reach the Champions League final for the second time after 51 years, it is a big challenge for the Fiorentina Youth Guard.

Fiorentina will face Arsenal immediately after the celebrations, and the Gunners led by Arsene Wenger have not performed well in the league this season, but for the first time in the Champions League, they have shown their dominance, especially in the two-legged match against AC Milan, where the Gunners have made the defending champions lose face.

On the day of his arrival in Fiorentina, Arsene Wenger spoke to the Italian media: "Italy is a blessed place for Arsenal, we rarely lose here, Inter Milan, AC Milan, now Fiorentina, I am very much looking forward to a satisfactory result after 90 minutes of play!" ”