The World Youth Championship and the Confederations Cup have just ended, the South American and European leagues have not yet begun, and the third round of the Champions League qualification has become the focus of attention in world football.

In China, cup competitions are often a hotbed of upsets, but in the Champions League, it is not easy to cool down, because domestic cups are chicken ribs, and the income brought by the Champions League is too rich.

According to the UEFA Champions Cup prize distribution principle, teams participating in the first phase of the group stage can receive a basic prize of 1.7 million euros and a cost of 340,000 euros per game, so that they can guarantee at least 3.7 million euros after participating in all six group games. In addition, you can get another 340,000 euros for each win, 170,000 euros for a draw, and there is no money for losing; If you win all the group stages, you can get close to UUU million euros; If you enter the second stage, you will add a basic bonus of 00,000 euros, plus a double of the winning bonus; Entering the quarterfinals will add 00,000 euros, entering the semifinals will add 3.4 million euros, entering the final plus 4.1 million euros, the champion team will receive another 00,000 euros, and the winning bonus will also be doubled, just past the Champions League final, Benitez led Liverpool to win the Champions League, and the team's total income reached UU million euros

What's more, in addition to the prize money, the team also has many benefits such as tickets, jerseys, souvenir sales, etc.

Like the small clubs of the five major leagues, the total expenditure of a season is only a few million euros, and the income is even lower than the expenditure, and the Champions League can get such a huge income, so that every team has to go all out, and its degree of care is even more than that of the league.

The most watched teams in the third round of qualifying are, of course, defending champions Liverpool, Premier League giants Manchester United, Serie A giants Inter Milan, as well as Fiorentina, Villarreal, Everton, Bremen and other giants and powerhouses.

According to the psychology of human sympathy for the weak, many people want to see the plot of the wealthy family overturning the ship and successfully counterattacking, but the result disappointed these people.

Defending champions Liverpool beat CSKA Sofia 3-l away at home.

Fiorentina defeated Sporting Lisbon 1-0 away.

Inter Milan beat Sakda.

Manchester United comfortably beat Debreceni 3-0.

Villarreal beat Everton away.

And if there's one thing that can be called an upset, it's Bremen's away L: defeat to Bassoli. The other two rival Champions League powers, Everton and Villarreal, and Sporting Lisbon Fiorentina, were won by the yellow submarines Villarreal and Fiorentina.

Inter Milan, Manchester United and Liverpool are too weak for reporters and fans to know the worst of the results, and there is no interest in the process, Everton and Villarreal are evenly matched, but compared to Fiorentina and Sporting Lisbon, the two teams are much smaller.

Sporting Lisbon has a good gimmick, the runner-up of the last League Cup, and Fiorentina was a Serie A powerhouse and a quasi-giant before the relegation to C, and after the relegation to C, Fiorentina rose rapidly, promoted to three levels in two years, and created a miracle in European football.

In addition to the miraculous promotion, Fiorentina has surpassed other teams because he has a legendary striker, Chen Yu, and a legendary manager, Prandelli.

It was the first Champions League match between Fiorentina core Chen Yu and Prandelli.

Chen Yu attracted attention before Fiorentina was promoted to Serie A, not purely because he could score goals, in the lower leagues, it is not for nothing that strikers who scored thirty or forty goals received so much attention. Mainly because he comes from the football desert of China, and everyone doesn't believe that there is such a genius in such a place as China

After being promoted to Serie A, Chen Yu still maintained an average goal per game goal efficiency and won the European Golden Boot, which made him truly surpass curiosity and become a star player in the spotlight.

Prandelli earned a reputation as a young coach as early as Parma, and his reputation was further enhanced by his Roma coach, while his wife Manluella suffered from breast cancer, and Prandelli gave up his first million-euro contract as a coach and resigned to go home to care for his wife.

In the midst of glory and glory, in the center of fame and light, a man at the most sophisticated age does not hesitate to turn away just to take care of his beloved wife, which moves the entire world of football.

This season, Manluella's illness was cured, and Prandelli was moved by the Fiorentina president de la Valle, who had been struggling to "pursue" him, and finally decided to go out again to coach Fiorentina, which performed well last season.

Prandelli and Chen Yu proved to be a perfect combination, not only in the warm-up matches in the Far East, but also in their first official Champions League game, beating the UEFA Cup runners-up away from home to lay a solid foundation for qualifying for the group stage.

After the game, the head coach of Sporting Lisbon lamented that Fiorentina defended well and the strikers were too good at seizing opportunities.

"Prandelli has only been in charge for a month, but their defense has done a perfect job, the whole game only gave us three chances to score, unfortunately we didn't take any of them, the opponent has a good goalkeeper, he blocked our two must-score opportunities, they also have a magical striker, we have made an all-round defense against Chen Yu in this game, but he still scored a goal, if we have a striker of this level, the result of the game should be 3:I we win."

The opponents praised Chen Yu and goalkeeper Frey like this, and the media naturally praised it even more.

Portugal's El Record commented: "On Sporting Lisbon's doorstep, Fiorentina played a typical Italian game, they were passive defensively for most of the half, but in the end they took three points away from Lisbon thanks to the magic of the goalkeeper and striker."

Sporting Lisbon once again showed their biggest shortcoming, with possession but lacking the ability to strike a lethal blow. In last year's UEFA Cup final, we lost to CSKA Moscow because of this, and now, we may still be eliminated from the Champions League group stage because of this. “

Italy's "Milan Sport" praised Fiorentina and said: "Before the game, everyone thought that Fiorentina had a problem, Prandelli had just been in charge for a month, and they had to play two life-and-death battles with the last UEFA Cup runner-up, many people thought that Fiorentina's chances of promotion were even less than 50%, but after the first round, everything changed, Fiorentina actually beat Sporting Lisbon away and grasped the initiative to advance."

In this match, the performance of three men determined the final result, Prandelli with pragmatism, Chen Yu who scored at the slightest chance, and Frey who made two miraculous saves.

Everyone knows that Plandelli's style is gorgeous, playing a kind of attacking football, Fiorentina coach invited him out of the mountain is also fancy him, but in this game, Prandelli is not too idealistic, he knows that he does not play much role in his less than a month of training, so in the backline, except for Pancaro to replace Chiellini who left, he has hardly made any changes, and put two defenders in the back, and in the whole game, three talented teenagers Bodinov, Neither Montolivo nor Pazzini played, and it was this cautious attitude that allowed Fiorentina to achieve the desired result on the road.

The reason why many people are suspicious of Fiorentina's fate is that in addition to the fact that the coach has been in office for too short a time, but also because Chen Yu has never played in the Champions League, this is his Champions League debut, many people are worried that Chen Yu's scoring ability in Serie A cannot be reflected in the Champions League, this situation is not uncommon, many good strikers score goals in the league, but once they arrive in the Champions League or the national team, they don't score, and Chen Yu proves with his goals that he is an all-weather all-terrain superweapon, and he is the guarantee of Florence's victory.

Frei's magical play was also not expected by the media and fans before the game, Frei's strength must be stronger than Cejas, which is recognized, he was able to come to Fiorentina from Parma, mainly because Prandelli is the former head coach of Parma, but no one thought that in the first official game, Frei's performance was so eye-catching, and at the last moment, he even covered up Chen Yu's limelight. A good goalkeeper is half a team, and Frei proved it with facts. ”

Germany's "Bild" believes that Fiorentina has one foot in the final, "although there is still one game, but the L:0 advantage allows Fiorentina to control their own destiny, as long as Fiorentina does not make a fatal mistake in the next game, they will become a member of the Champions League 32." ”

On Chen Yu's performance, "Bild" commented: "This is Chen's Champions League debut, Chen Yu did not let his first Champions League leave regrets, he scored the winning goal, led the Purple Lily to attack Lisbon, counting the warm-up game, this is already Chen Yu's first goal for Fiorentina this season, an average of nearly three goals per game, Chen is stepping towards success and legend."

The British newspaper "Times" praised Fiorentina for playing a smart game, they did not fight with the Portuguese team for possession, but spent more energy on the quality of the counter-attack, this kind of counter-attack than the size of the probability depends on excellent strikers, and Fiorentina happened to have such a striker Chen, in the few scoring opportunities, Chen took one, and kept the score until the end.

Chen Yu's outstanding performance in the Champions League was comprehensively reported by the domestic media, and dozens of Asian journalists came to Portugal for this game, including half of the Chinese journalists.

The media used the Champions League pioneer, the benchmark of Chinese football, and the first person in Asia to compare Chen Yu, believing that every step and every goal he made history and created the history of his own and Chinese players.