Chapter 375: Top Eight Opponents

With Bayern Munich eliminated by Inter Milan, all the quarter-finals of the Champions League were born. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Because of Bayern Munich's exit, the representatives of the Bundesliga this season have become Borussia Dortmund and Schalke 04, both of whom have reached the quarterfinals.

In addition to the two Bundesliga teams, La Liga also has two teams that have reached the quarterfinals, namely Real Madrid and Barcelona.

The other four teams have two in the Premier League, Chelsea and Manchester United, Inter Milan in Serie A and Shakhtar Donetsk from Ukraine.

These eight teams will have to draw lots to match each other and fight each other.

After the quarterfinals, the rule that teams from the same country cannot meet no longer exists.

So there is a possibility of a civil war.

And there is no such thing as the first group against the second in the group, and it is likely that there will be a strong dialogue.

Of the eight teams, Shakhtar Donetsk is the weakest and one that all seven other teams want to face.

Whoever meets them is equivalent to being escorted to the final four.

Dortmund fans can't help but hope to be with Shakhtar Donetsk.

The draw took place at UEFA headquarters in Bern over the weekend.

To the regret of Borussia Dortmund fans, Shakhtar Donetsk did not split up with Borussia Dortmund, and the Ukrainian team's opponent was Barcelona......

As soon as this result came out, conspiracy theories began to spread again, and many people thought that UEFA was going to escort Barcelona.

Because of the match between Barcelona and Chelsea in the Champions League last year, some people have always thought that UEFA is biased towards Barcelona, because UEFA President Platini has expressed his appreciation for Barcelona more than once, so some people jokingly call Platini Barcelona's "godfather".

This year's draw seems to be another confirmation of UEFA's care for Barcelona......

However, for Dortmund, they don't care if UEFA is Barcelona's godfather, because they won't run into Barcelona now anyway.

Their opponents in the quarter-finals are another La Liga team...... Real madrid.

A very strong opponent to deal with.

In fact, if you want to talk about the historical record in the past few years, Real Madrid should not become a roadblock for Dortmund, because in the past six years, Real Madrid was eliminated in the first round of the Champions League, so they are also called "Champions League Sixteen" by Chinese fans, which is to ironize that although Real Madrid invests so much money every year to dig up stars, known as the Galaxy Battleship, it can't even reach the Champions League quarterfinals, and can only do the top 16 every year.

Real Madrid's black history seems to have started after losing to Juventus in the quarterfinals of the 2004-2005 season, when Real Madrid, which had seven superstars of Zidane, Figo, Raul, Beckham, Robert Carlos, Ronaldo and Casillas, lost 0:2 away to Juventus and was eliminated with a score of 1:2. Figo also missed a crucial penalty.

Since then, Real Madrid have faced Arsenal, Bayern Munich, Roma, Liverpool and Lyon in the quarter-finals of the Champions League for five consecutive years, all of which have been eliminated.

From this data, Real Madrid also has no experience in the quarterfinals of the Champions League for six years.

But football matches are not such simple data analysis, it doesn't mean that the combined ability value of my eleven players on the field is greater than your ability value, and I can definitely win.

This season's Real Madrid has been reborn from before, because they have changed a very good manager this season.

Jose Mourinho, the legendary coach who led Porto and Inter Milan to Champions League titles respectively.

After leading Inter Milan to the treble, he was poached by Real Madrid to the Bernabeu, and his arrival brought the will to fight to the aristocratic team of Real Madrid. The most obvious change is that Real Madrid have shed the stigmatizing nickname of "Champions League Sixteen". They knocked out their former bitter rivals Lyon in the quarter-finals and reached the quarter-finals, where they were Dortmund's opponents.

Real Madrid and Borussia Dortmund were drawn together, and there must be a very mixed mood for one person.

That man is Real Madrid's young midfielder Nuri Shahin.

When he switched from Borussia Dortmund to Real Madrid at the beginning of this season, he certainly didn't expect to see his old club again so soon......

And it was in this situation that he met his old club - he didn't play much of a game at Real Madrid after he came to Real Madrid, and Mourinho didn't trust him, especially because he was not happy with his defensive attitude in the game.

So Shaheen is now either a substitute or can't even play as a substitute.

This must have been something he had not expected when he left Dortmund in the first place.

He thought that Real Madrid pursued his pursuit with such enthusiasm, and with his performance in Dortmund, it would be no problem to go to Real Madrid to play as a main player.

Outcome......

On the other hand, Dortmund after his departure, and his original midfield rival and partner Zhou Yi in Dortmund.

His departure prompted Klopp to make up his mind to thoroughly identify Zhou Yi as the core and the only core of Dortmund.

Without Shahin, Zhou Yi is playing better and better in Dortmund, and Dortmund can rank first in the league this season, and lead the opponent by as much as ten times, which is inseparable from Zhou Yi. In the Champions League, the importance of Zhou Yi is not to mention, if it were not for Zhou Yi, Dortmund would definitely not be as easy and simple as it is now to qualify from the group, let alone reach the quarterfinals of the Champions League.

Zhou Yi is a good player in Dortmund, and the more mixed the better.

Shahin himself is rotting on the bench at Real Madrid, and he hasn't played even a minute in almost three months...... His last appearance was in a Copa del Rey match on December 20 last year.

In these two Champions League quarter-finals, there is a chance that they will not play, and it is uncertain whether they can enter the squad......

No one knows if Shaheen has regretted his decision to leave Borussia Dortmund and join Real Madrid, as Shaheen has never mentioned it in public.

But he must have had an unpleasant time at Real Madrid......

It was as if he had been forgotten.

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But not everyone will forget him.

After the draw came out, Jurgen Klopp said of Shahin: "I know where Nouri is doing, it's not particularly good, I'm not trying to criticize anyone, but I hope he gets more chances. He has quality, but he needs games to play to his strength. If he can return to West**** with Real Madrid, I think every Dortmund fan will be very happy, and of course I am. ”

However, some people do not have the same reasons as Sahin used to.

For example, a Chinese media reporter ran to ask Zhou Yi that Shahin chose to transfer to Real Madrid, which looked very beautiful, but now he is not satisfied, and asked Zhou Yi what he thinks about it.

This is a schadenfreude mentality, because Shahin and Zhou Yi were also competitors to some extent at the beginning.

Seeing that competitors are not satisfactory, many people will have pleasure.

But Zhou Yi doesn't see it that way.

"Everyone has their own choices, and that's no surprise. Besides, when Nuri transferred to Real Madrid, how could he have thought that he would definitely be a substitute?" Zhou Yi spread his hands and shook his head. "I don't think this question makes much sense, next. “

That's how he got the problem to light.

Although the reporters were unwilling and wanted to continue to ask, they saw that Zhou Yi didn't want to answer this question, so they didn't want to ask again, because although Zhou Yi usually had a good relationship with reporters, after contacting him for a long time, he would find that this young man was a very principled person, and if he didn't want to do something, don't force him to go, if he is forced to do it, he will turn his face and deny people every minute......

However, in private, Zhou Yi still used Shahin and Sun Pan as examples in the group, suggesting that everyone should not be superstitious about the giants, and if they find it difficult to play in the first team, then they should leave, whether it is by loan or transfer. At this time, the most important thing is to play consistently and consistently.

In fact, this was said by He Ying.

As the most talented person among the five, He Ying's future is the most optimistic. But after he accepted La Masia's invitation, he has not talked about the Barcelona first team so far, and he has not even been able to play the second team consistently.

Zhou Yi won't talk about it.

Now Sun Pan is the main goalkeeper in the first team of Offenbach kickers, although it is a German team, it is also a first-team game, and the key is to be the main team, with his outstanding performance in this team, he has attracted the attention of some teams. Even if he returns to Chelsea and still can't get a labor certificate, he doesn't have to worry about where to go.

Yang Muge is also the main force in Schalke 04's U19, starting every game. In the Bundesliga, although there are reserves, the reserves of the Bundesliga teams are very embarrassing, and it is not the reserves that really send talent to the first team, but the U19s of the youth team. If you can play in the Under-19s and perform well, there is a good chance that you will be drawn to the first team to train. If you can still perform well during your first-team training sessions, you could be featured in some of the less important games of the first team, and if you do well in those games, you can stay in the first team......

Zhou Yi basically went from the Dortmund academy to the first team in this way, and Yang Muge is also walking the path he has walked.

Guo Nu's situation is also good, Zhou Yi talked about his situation when he met him in Milan last time, and he is now also the main force in Inter Milan's U19.

And what about Ho Ying?

La Masia U19 is the main force, but considering Barcelona's terrifying first-team lineup and some lessons from the past, Zhou Yi is actually not optimistic about He Ying's future in Barcelona......

In terms of his performance in La Masia, He Ying is not as good as the popular fried chicken Bojan and Dos Santos.

With their achievements in the youth team, it is difficult to play in the first team, let alone He Ying.

He Ying is a striker, and in the forward position, there is not fierce competition, but there is no competition at all.

The main striker combination of the Barcelona first team is very fixed, that is, Villa is in the middle, Pedro is on the left, and Messi is on the right.

This line-up is Barcelona's top attacking combination, and the other young strikers, even if they play in the first team, are only substitutes, and they are unlikely to pose any threat to this line-up at all.

He Ying is even more difficult.

If he wants to wait for his chance in Barcelona all the time, he is afraid that he will not achieve anything until he is twenty-five......

Zhou Yike didn't want He Ying to become the second Shahin.