The 2013-2014 Bundesliga season has come to an end.

In the end, Dortmund won the league and won the championship for four consecutive seasons.

Bayern Munich, on the other hand, played perfectly throughout the season, with three games missing and Dortmund seizing their chances. Now they can only accept such an outcome.

Schalke 04 ended the season with a win by beating Nuremberg 4-1 at home in the final round. They finished third in the league and qualified for next season's Champions League.

VfL Wolfsburg beat Borussia Mönchengladbach 3-1 at home, and although Bayer Leverkusen beat Werder Bremen 2-1 at home, they could not overtake Wolfsburg, so Wolfsburg picked up a last-minute bargain and qualified for the Champions League.

Bayer Leverkusen can only go to the Europa League with hatred.

Borussia Mönchengladbach finished sixth and qualified for next season's Europa League.

In terms of personal honors, Zhou Yi became the assist king of the Bundesliga with 25 assists.

Marc Wagner was the top scorer in the Bundesliga with 22 goals.

Borussia Dortmund had a bumper harvest.

However, for Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund, the season is not over yet.

On 17 May, Bayern Munich will play in the final of the German Cup, against Wolfsburg.

This is the only game in which Bayern Munich can fight for honours, and they will avoid a lack of basketry this season.

Borussia Dortmund will play in the Champions League final on May 24 against Real Madrid.

Real Madrid have not performed well in La Liga this season, but they have made it all the way to the final in the Champions League.

In fact, many people are not very optimistic about Dortmund.

I think it's good that they can reach the Champions League final, but with the current situation of the team, it is very difficult to beat Real Madrid.

The bottom line is that no team has been able to successfully defend the title since the Champions League was restructured, which is basically like a curse.

It is not without the defending champions that they have reached the final.

Before the Champions League was restructured, there had been 12 successful title defending. But since the restructuring, there has been no such good thing.

Four champions reached the Champions League final the following year, AC Milan in 1995 and lost to the then youth defenders Ajax in the final.

The following year, in 1996, Ajax reached the Champions League final as the defending champions, losing to Juventus on penalties in the final.

A year later, in 1997, defending champions Juventus had a chance to defend their title, having met Borussia Dortmund in the final. As a result, the final was a stunning winner from super substitute Ricken, helping Borussia Dortmund beat Juventus 3-1.

Borussia Dortmund won their first Champions League title in their club's history, while Juventus lost the chance to defend their title.

From 1995 to 1997, three Champions League finals, all of which were won by the previous champions, were defeated, and the same thing happened three times in a row, and the curse of not being able to defend the title after the Champions League restructuring appeared.

There were no defending champions who made it to the final for many years, and they were always eliminated before the final.

It wasn't until 2009 that last season's Champions League champions Manchester United finally reached the final against Pep Guardiola's Barcelona, who lost 2-0 to Barcelona.

Pep Guardiola ushered in the era of the Dream Three, a year in which he led Barcelona to six titles.

Of course, such a powerful "Cosmos Team" has not been able to break the curse of defending the Champions League.

The following year, they were held out of the final by Jose Mourinho's Inter Milan in the semi-finals - many Barcelona fans were still expecting them to go to the Bernabeu to lift the Champions League trophy and slap Real Madrid in the face......

In the world of football, many times what you analyze and analyze may not be as convincing as a "curse".

Soccer balls are round, so the likelihood of various "superstitions" is also higher.

Superstitions such as "curses" are always more marketable in football.

Sometimes it does make people have to think about the "curse", because some of the defending champions are really out of the game.

In 1991, last season's Champions League winners AC Milan would have won the Champions League for the third time in a row if they won it again – last season's AC Milan were the last team to successfully defend their Champions League title.

They met Marseille in the quarter-finals.

The first leg ended at the San Siro Stadium with a score of 1:1. In the second leg, AC Milan were unable to salvage the situation with a strategy of strategy, unable to withstand a goal from Chris Waddell, who had even had a slight concussion in a previous confrontation, but he recovered to give Marcel a 2-1 lead.

That scoreline remained until stoppage time, and AC Milan were not without hope as they needed one more goal to equalise on aggregate and beat Marseille on away goals. But at this time, several lighting problems suddenly appeared at the stadium of Verodlom, home of Marseille.

The referee thought it was okay to continue, but AC Milan seemed to feel it was a great opportunity to call for a replay on the pretext of a lighting issue.

The team retreated to the locker room and refused to return to play.

The referee was also unkind, flatly rejecting AC Milan's request for a replay. In the end, Marseille were awarded a 3-0 victory, and AC Milan not only lost the chance to defend their title, but were even banned by UEFA from participating in next season's European competition because of this wayward replay demand.

So the brilliant AC Milan bid farewell to the Champions League. In the season they were not allowed to play in the Champions League, Barcelona beat Sampdoria to claim their first Champions League trophy in club history. That Cruyff-led team is also known as the "Dream Team".

However, it is such a dream team, but it lost 0:4 to AC Milan in the Champions League final two years later.

At the same time, AC Milan also reached the Champions League final in the 1992-1993 season, when they resumed their participation in the Champions League, only to lose to Marseille. Of course, Marseille later exposed the match-fixing scandal, although the Champions League was not canceled, but it was disqualified from participating in the Toyota Cup, and it was AC Milan who replaced the Toyota Cup, which made people think that the Champions League championship that year was changed to AC Milan, but in fact it was not. The reason given by UEFA is that the appeal period has passed, so the Champions League title still belongs to Marseille.

In the 2006-2007 season, defending champions Barcelona were knocked out by Liverpool in the quarter-finals. And Liverpool, who eliminated them, also broke out in infighting before the game. Bellamy and Reeser not only went to the bar to drink before the game, but also had a conflict because they had drunk too much, and after returning to the hotel, Bellamy took out a golf club and went to Reese's room to give him a stick.

But that's it, in the next game, Liverpool beat Barcelona 2-1 away, and the scorers were Bellamy and Reese......

Red Star Belgrade, who won the Champions League in 1991 by beating Marcel in the final, would have had a chance to defend their title. However, the Yugoslav Civil War broke out, and many of the team's stars left the team to seek development in Western Europe. The team's vitality was devastated, coupled with the United Nations sanctions, the Yugoslav team was banned from the Champions League, the national team was unable to participate in the European Championship, and the powerful Yugoslav football was ruined......

In 2003, AC Milan beat Juventus on penalties to win the Champions League again. However, the following year, when they beat Deportivo La Coruna 4-1 at home in the first leg of the quarter-finals, they lost to Deportivo La Coruna inexplicably 0-4 in the second leg and were eliminated.

In 2010, Pep Guardiola's Barcelona was in full swing, and everyone felt that if there was a team that could break the curse, it must be the "Cosmos Team" led by Pep Guardiola. As a result, such a Barcelona team was suffocated in their home stadium by Mourinho's bus in the semi-finals......

Of course, the worst defending champions were Chelsea, who beat Bayern Munich at the Allianz Arena in 2012 to win the first Champions League in the club's history, but were eliminated the following year without even making it past the group stage......

All of the above examples illustrate just how powerful the curse of "the defending champion can't defend his title" is.

It was said before that there were so many reasons why it would be difficult for Dortmund to win the Champions League, and it was not as effective as saying "the Champions League is not defending, this is a curse".

The odds offered by the bookmaker are also obviously more optimistic about Real Madrid.

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After winning the league title, Jurgen Klopp gave the team a full day off to give them a good rest and recover.

After a day's rest, the Borussia Dortmund players returned to Bracker's training base to begin preparations for the Champions League final.

A reporter blocked the door of the training base and asked Zhou Yi what he thought of the defending champion's inability to defend the curse.

Zhou Yi waved his hand with a smile: "I believe in science, not superstition." ”

The reporter said: "But you have also said before that Real Madrid can't win against the German team away is a curse......

Zhou Yi spread his hands: "When did I say this? I said that it was Murphy's Law, science, not superstition." ”

The reporter seemed to have known that Zhou Yi would say this, and asked triumphantly: "But Real Madrid defeated Schalke 04 6:1 away this season and Bayern Munich 4:0, both of which are German teams......

Zhou Yi nodded: "That's right." So Real Madrid have proven that there is no magic spell, right?"

The reporter who asked the question was dumbfounded and speechless.

He really didn't expect that Zhou Yi's face could be so thick, and he could change his face so quickly......

A Chinese reporter next to him couldn't help but let out a barbell-like laugh when he saw this foreign reporter stunned -- didn't this benevolent brother do his homework before he came to interview Zhou Yi? Don't you know who Zhou Yi is?