199 The Future of Chinese Football and Sun Xiang
In the other game, Monaco drew 3-3 home and away with Borussia Dortmund, but with three away goals they managed to progress to the quarter-finals against Arsenal.
On April 14, Arsenal will start the home game, and in the second week of the same month, Arsenal will travel to France for the second leg of the match.
At the same time, with the end of the match between Arsenal and Juventus, all one-eighth of the Champions League matches have also ended, resulting in eight teams that have qualified.
On April 14, two matches will be played at the same time, and in addition to Arsenal's match against Morocco, there is also a much-watched derby, the Madrid derby between Atletico Madrid and Real Madrid.
Prior to this match, the two sides had met a staggering five times on the Champions League stage, with the most coincidental being four consecutive years starting in 2013.
Champions League final in 2013-14, Champions League quarter-finals in 2014-15, Champions League final 15-16, Champions League semi-finals 16-17. Atletico have not won any of these four matches. The only win was back in the distant 58/59 season, when the Madrid duo met in the semi-finals of the Champions League, when Real Madrid beat Atletico 2-1 at home thanks to goals from Di Stefano and Puskas, but lost 1-0 away in the second leg and drew 2-2 on aggregate. Since there was no Champions League and no away goals rule was implemented, the two teams had to choose a neutral venue for an extra game, and in the end, Real Madrid won 2-1 to reach the final.
Leaving aside the games played more than 50 years ago, the back-to-back meetings in recent years have given Real Madrid the absolute psychological initiative, so the outside world is generally optimistic that they will beat Atletico Madrid again. And this is also the reason why this Champions League quarter-final is the most watched game.
The other two matches, which start on the 15th, are Paris at home against Barcelona and Porto at home against Bayern Munich.
The match on the 15th is actually more interesting, because the story between Paris Saint-Germain and Barcelona is already clear. In the quarter-finals of the 2016-17 season, Paris beat Barcelona 4-0 at home, and it was only good to travel to Camp Nou with a four-goal advantage, as they only need to prevent the opposition from scoring five goals in a row to have a chance of progressing.
On March 9th, they finally arrived in Barcelona, Spain, the second largest city in Spain, known as the "Pearl of the Iberian Peninsula".
However, the trend of the game is indeed disproportionate.
In the third minute of the opening game, Suarez scored a goal with a header and sounded the horn of a counterattack.
Towards the end of the first half, Andres Iniesta's back-heel cross resulted in Kurzava's own goal, and Barcelona were lucky to score twice.
In the second half, it was also in the third minute, Neymar's breakthrough was tripped by the slippery Meunier unintentionally, and the referee pointed to the penalty spot after communicating with the referee on the bottom line, and Messi took the penalty in one fell swoop, and they chased the score to 4:3.
There is one more goal, and Barcelona only need to score two more goals to advance, and their fans see hope.
But Cavani then shattered their hopes with a 63-minute volley that sent the Parisian fans cheering and boiling with a prized away goal.
Three goals, they need to score three more goals.
At a time when the whole world is not looking favorably on them, only themselves and their fans have always believed in the hope of qualifying.
Then, in the seventy-sixth minute, Roberto came on in place of Raphinha, and a magical script began to be rewritten.
In the 88th minute, Neymar's free kick on the left side of the penalty area went directly into Trapp's goal; Just two minutes later, Suarez was tripped in the box and Neymar converted the penalty to a 5-5 draw on aggregate, with five minutes of stoppage time remaining.
In the 94th minute, it was Neymar again, after shaking on the right side and picking up a pass with his left foot, Roberto suddenly came out of the crowd and volleyed home. In the end, Barcelona miraculously reversed the big Paris at home, creating a football myth.
So this reunion is also attracting much attention.
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On March 21, Arsenal returned to the domestic arena after the Champions League journey, and they went to St James' Park to challenge the "Magpies" Newcastle United away.
Newcastle have lost two in a row this season, losing at home to Manchester United in round 28 and Everton 0-3 away in round 29, and the points are also in the middle and lower reaches of the league. And this time against Arsenal, Sun Xiang returned from injury, and it must be a difficult game.
Sun Xiang returned to play as a striker after his return, and Mkhitaryan, who performed well in the Champions League, appeared in the starting line-up, which was also one of the few times that the two men played together.
As a result, the two showed chemistry as soon as they came up, and Mkhitaryan assisted Sun Xiang to score twice in the 24th and 28th minutes respectively. Newcastle soon pulled one back thanks to a goal from their striker Gael, but they never had a chance to break down Cech's ten-finger pass in the following period, and after having to swallow the bitter fruit of three consecutive defeats, they also entered the relegation zone.
From March 22 to April 2, it is the international break that FIFA has opened. Arsenal, who have just completed an 11-game winning streak on all fronts, have also sent their players back to their home countries to play.
Because of Arsenal's recent performances, almost all the players in the Arsenal squad have been selected for this international break, with only one exception, that is, Sun Xiang.
The Chinese Super League, which is in its opening stages, unexpectedly played an international match on this match day, against India and Malaysia.
With Zheng Zhi leaving the national team, the successor of the national football team in the back position has been vacant, and Zhang Xizhe, Huang Bowen and other players of the golden generation have not been able to take over the responsibilities left by the old captain.
Once, Sun Xiang was regarded as the most likely person in the history of the national football team to lead the team out of Asia to the world, and Sun Xiang, who served as a defender at that time, was also regarded as Zheng Zhi's successor. However, an unwarranted severe punishment has made this core player of China for the next nearly two decades no longer have the right to serve the country.
With this regrouping, people expect the national football team to give them a little hope, even if the opponent is just a fish belly in Southeast Asia.
But the final result was exciting, the national football team lost 0:1 at home to India, and three days later, although the home team won against Malaysia, but the scene was not good, and there was no difference of nearly 100 places. Overall, the fans are still disappointed.
For a while, the call for Sun Xiang to return to the national football team was everywhere, and the Weibo of the Chinese Football Association was also full of comments, and finally the Football Association had to close the comment channel, so that "out of sight and out of mind".
If Sun Xiang was really forced to be expelled for personal reasons, the Football Association would not have to make such a move, and since they did so, it means that they have a ghost in their hearts.
But there are ghosts and ghosts, the comment channel has been closed, and fans have no place to express their opinions, and for some ordinary people, all they can do is make suggestions on Weibo, and nothing else can be done at all.
"It's really hurtful for the Football Association to do that."
"There must be a reason for Sun Xiang's departure, and the Football Association has a loss in their hearts!"
"Give us back a national football team on the right line, and give us a Sun Xiang!"
On the second day after the comments were closed, many fans spontaneously began to write Weibo, and the Football Association would definitely find out. And even more, if the Football Association can't do it, go to ***, and now *** will pay close attention to football, and it will definitely not sit idly by.
And it was this Weibo, I don't know which senior executive of the Football Association found out and told the chairman of the Football Association, and all of a sudden, the Football Association exploded.
Although they don't believe that the people can attract the attention of ***, but if it is like now, one person sees it and passes it to two people, and two people pass it to four people, and one person passes it on to a hundred, I am afraid that if it is found and investigated, some of them will definitely be the first duck to enter the water.
And they come in to charge a high luxury tax, and all this money goes into the wallet of the Football Association, and where the money ends up is probably only known to them.