Chapter 137 Killing Emperor Saren
At the end of the game, the players of both teams hugged each other.
The Bayern players were all depressed, while the Lyon players were all smiling.
When hugging Bayern coach Pep Guardiola, the big bald head patted Zhang Chaoqiang's back hard, and said: "Little guy, you did a good job tonight." ”
"Thank you." Zhang Chaoqiang couldn't hold back the itching of his hands and didn't touch the big sparkling bald head.
In the post-match press conference, Pep Guardiola was the absolute favourite.
As early as the winter break, Guardiola and Bayern completed a two-way breakup, and both sides announced that they would not renew their contracts and break up peacefully at the end of the season.
So this season is Pep Guardiola's last season in charge of Bayern.
The main reason why the two sides broke up was that the Champions League results were not satisfactory.
For other teams, reaching the semi-finals of the Champions League every year is a good result.
But for Huang Saren's level, as long as he doesn't win the Champions League, it won't be a success.
In the first two seasons, Bayern lost to Real Madrid Barcelona in the semi-finals of the Champions League.
This season is even worse, and it was eliminated by Lyon, the dark horse in the quarterfinals of the Champions League.
Of course, the media will not let go of the bald head and continue to ask him difficult questions.
Pep Guardiola was forced to praise Lyon's performance.
'Lyon are a great team, they have a lot of Champions League experience and in this series they were perfect, so they ended up qualifying.
"Super Zhang is undoubtedly a phenomenal player, his performance reminds me of Shevchenko back then, who just debuted but killed all sides in the Champions League, and the more he faced strong teams, the better his performance became."
"Maybe in a few years, Zhang is expected to be the best player in the world."
The so-called best player in the world naturally refers to the Ballon d'Or or the World Footballer of the Year, which can win the highest honor for a player.
If you win that thing, you can call the first person in world football of the year.
That's quite a compliment.
However, it was Lyon's turn to press conference, and Lyon's captain Gonarons said even more exaggeratedly:
"Zhang has a cool head, a lot of speed, always comes to be sensible and smart on the pitch, and he always leads the team to some crazy goals and incredible wins."
"I think he's going to be another of the best players of all time in football......"
The best player of all time is the king of the ball.
The king of the ball is the name of the best player in history by Chinese fans, which is the level of Pele Maradona.
This is almost blowing Zhang Chaoqiang into the sky.
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The day after the end of the Champions League quarterfinals, Zhang Chaoqiang once again made the front page headlines of the "Team Newspaper".
"The Lion King reverses Bayern at home, and the crazy super Zhang Tong kills the emperor Saren"
In all competitions this season, Zhang has indeed led the team to Lyon's victory against Saren.
In the UEFA Super Cup, Zhang Chaoqiang led the team to defeat Barcelona 5:4 with a hat trick and assists to win the championship.
In the Champions League group stage, although Lyon failed to compete for Real Madrid and only finished second in the group, Lyon successfully defeated Real Madrid 1-0 at home, and Zhang Chaoqiang scored the only goal of the game.
Now in the quarterfinals of the Champions League, Zhang Chaoqiang helped Lyon eliminate Bayern 3:2 with two shots and one pass.
This is the real season of the killing.
In the history of football, no player has ever done something in a single season, and Zhang Chaoqiang has done it.
The closest to this performance was none other than Shevchenko, mentioned by Guardiola.
In the 97/98 season, Shevchenko faced Barcelona in the Champions League group stage and did so at Barcelona's home Camp Nou.
Probably because Guardiola was the captain of Barcelona at the time, he was obsessed with Shevchenko.
However, Dynamo Kyiv was eliminated by Juventus in the quarterfinals of the Champions League that season.
However, in the 98/99 season of the following year, Dynamo Kiev made a comeback, beating Arsenal in the Champions League group stage to advance, and eliminated the defending champion Real Madrid 3:1 in the quarterfinals of the Champions League, and Shevchenko scored three goals in two legs.
Facing Bayern Munich in the Champions League semi-finals, Dynamo Kiev lost 3:4 on aggregate, but Shevchenko still scored a brace at home against Bayern.
It can be said that Shevchenko was absolutely crazy at that time, Barcelona and Real Madrid were poured three goals, and Bayern also scored two goals.
Huang Saren added up to Shevchenko's eight goals.
This is more fierce than Zhang Chaoqiang, and Zhang Chaoqiang also scored six goals for Huang Saren.
But Shevchenko took two seasons to complete this task, while Zhang Chaoqiang did it in one season.
Of course, Shevchenko's kills are all in the Champions League, and Zhang Chaoqiang can only use the UEFA Super Cup to make up the numbers.
In China, fans are once again hotly discussing Zhang Chaoqiang's explosive performance.
'Chelsea: I said Lyon were strong and you still don't believe it.
'Haha, that's what Chelsea fans are saying.
"I can't imagine that Bayern is out of the game and actually let Chelsea get right."
"The main reason is that Brother Qiangzi is too violent."
"It's too violent, a little outrageous."
"Even the first favorite in the Champions League was overturned by Brother Qiangzi, I just want to ask, who else?"
Gu Xuan: "Huang Saren has been killed, and there is no one left." ”
"Do you think Brother Qiangzi has a chance to lead Leon to the end?"
"There's a chance, but it's not big."
"Barcelona is also out of the competition, and now there is only one Real Madrid left in the Champions League semi-finals, and I think Lyon has a good chance."
"Let's wait for the draw for the Champions League semi-finals."
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In other matches in the quarterfinals of the Champions League, Atletico Madrid also completed a counterattack.
They beat Barcelona 2-0 at home thanks to a brace from Antoine Griezmann and beat Barcelona 3-2 on aggregate over the two legs to advance.
It was also an upset match.
After all, Barcelona are the defending champions and the second favourites to win the title.
However, compared to Lyon's elimination of Bayern, Atletico Madrid's upset is relatively low.
According to the comparison of the strength of the teams in the quarterfinals of the Champions League, Lyon eliminated Bayern in seventh and eliminated first, while Atletico Madrid eliminated Barcelona in fourth and second.
According to the probability of winning the championship, Lyon beat 24% with 7%, and Atletico Madrid beat 22% with 10%.
The three top giants of Real Saren are now only one Real Madrid.
Real Madrid suffered a big upset in the first leg of the Champions League quarter-finals, losing 0-2 away to Wolfsburg.
Everyone thinks it's a sign that there is no championship.
After all, compared with Bayern Barcelona, which won the first leg smoothly, Real Madrid's upset loss is indeed a bit spicy.
Unexpectedly, the second round was a two-level reversal.
Barcelona and Bayern were all upset, while Real Madrid defeated Wolfsburg 3-0 with Ronaldo's hat trick and advanced with an aggregate score of 3-2.
Real Madrid immediately became the favourites to win the Champions League.
In the last group of local tyrant battles between Manchester City and Grand Paris, in the end, Manchester City had the last laugh.
Manchester City returned home to beat Paris 1-0 and qualified for the semi-finals of the Champions League for the first time in their history.
I have to say that the performance of Grand Paris was a bit disappointing.
In terms of overall strength, they are not inferior to Manchester City.
In terms of Champions League experience, they have more experience than Manchester City.
In the Champions League in previous years, Manchester City was out early every year, but Paris entered the quarterfinals every year.
This year's quarterfinals happened to be drawn with Manchester City, and Grand Paris actually habitually stopped again, and could only watch Manchester City set a record.
This has led to Ibrahimovic's Champions League soft attributes being mentioned again.
In the first leg of the home game in Paris, Ibrahimovic missed a penalty in the opening period.
Now that Grand Paris has been eliminated, fans have made assumptions again.
If Ibrahimovic had been able to convert that penalty, the whole series could have gone in a completely different direction.
With the end of the Champions League quarterfinals, Blanco and Pep Guardiola's two losing coaches were continuously named by the media.
Blanco is because he led the team to the Champions League quarterfinals for three consecutive years, and many French media have said that the Qataris have completely lost patience and will soon get rid of Blanco and re-select the coach.
Pep Guardiola was eliminated because he was eliminated, but the new club managed to advance.
After officially announcing his parting with Bayern, Pep Guardiola quickly confirmed that he will go to the Premier League next season to coach Manchester City.
But the situation is a bit embarrassing now, Pep Guardiola led Bayern to the quarterfinals of the Champions League, while Manchester City managed to advance to the semi-finals.
So the English media frantically dissed Guardiola, and even proposed that Manchester City break the contract quickly, and it was the right decision to renew the contract with the current coach Pellegrini.
Many fans also joined in the fun, suggesting that UEFA let Lyon and Manchester City meet in the Champions League semi-finals, which would be more topical.
If Manchester City knock out Lyon, Pep Guardiola will be even more embarrassed.
The media also noticed that the four groups of Champions League quarterfinals this season actually played a total score of 3:2, and they were played 3:2 in different ways.
Lyon and Bayern were 0:1 in the first leg and 3:1 in the second leg.
Real Madrid and Wolfsburg were 0:2 in the first leg and 3:0 in the second leg.
Atletico Madrid and Barcelona were 1:2 in the first leg and 2:0 in the second leg.
Manchester City and Paris were 2:2 in the first leg and 1:0 in the second leg.
For the first time in the history of the Champions League, all quarter-finals were played with the same aggregate scoreline.
In addition, in the Champions League scorer list, Cristiano Ronaldo, who wore a hat at home, has scored 16 goals and continues to lead far ahead.
16 goals in the Champions League in a single season, which is the second record in the history of the Champions League.
The first record was 17 goals, also set by Cristiano Ronaldo in the Champions League in 13/14.
After scoring twice in the second leg of the quarterfinals, Zhang Chaoqiang tied with Lewandowski for second place in the scorer list with 9 goals.
Because he is too far behind Ronaldo, it is basically impossible for Zhang Chaoqiang to covet the Champions League Golden Boot.
But with at least two games to go, he has a chance to overtake Lewandowski to claim second place exclusively.