Chapter 363: What a Weng Son-in-law Derby
On the day of their return to London from Paris, Eden Hazard and Marcos Alonso, who were injured during the game, were both sent to hospital for examination.
The results of the examination are neither good nor bad.
Eden Hazard suffered a soleus muscle strain in the back of his calf and is expected to recuperate for a month.
Marcos Alonso, on the other hand, has a hamstring injury in his thigh and will have to rest for three weeks.
To say "not good", of course, because of their injury, means that they will definitely not be able to play in the second leg against Paris, and Chelsea's line-up will be affected to a certain extent.
Saying "not bad" means that their injuries are not particularly serious, and a month later they will be good again!
Now Chelsea only have Premier League and Champions League matches, the Premier League title is already within reach, and the Champions League, the first leg against Paris Saint-Germain 4-2, also minimizes the impact of the two's absence.
After all, with a two-goal lead on the road and four away goals in hand, it would be too difficult for Paris to turn the tables at Stamford Bridge.
Not to mention that Grand Paris also lost Yin Bu, the core of the attack!
Therefore, in the eyes of many, Chelsea have already secured a place in the last eight.
Of course, the only one who really dares to pat his chest and say that he has advanced ahead of schedule may be Bayern Munich.
They swept Shakhtar Donetsk 7:0! I really invited the Ukrainians to drink a bottle of 7-Up.
Anyway, there are a lot of teams that have been drinking 7-up recently......
With such a disparity in scores, if it will be overturned, then Nanda Wang will not have to mix up in the rivers and lakes.
Arsenal suffered a slightly unexpected 3-1 defeat at home to Monaco.
Of course, this Monaco team is actually full of famous players.
They have Dimitar Berbatov, Moutinho, Kondogbia, Fabinho, Subaic, Carrasco, Kurzava...... Wait a minute.
There is even the future successor of Henry, Martial, who has not yet grown into the "Horse Factory Director"!
Therefore, Arsenal's loss to them is indeed not particularly unjust.
There were no major surprises in the other games.
Basel 1:1 Porto.
Schalke 04 lost 0-2 to Real Madrid.
Manchester City lost at home to Barcelona with a score of 1:2.
Juventus beat Borussia Dortmund 2-1.
Hamburg defeated Atletico Madrid 1:0, and Wu Lei scored the only goal of the game, which was also the first opportunity.
For the British media, they are of course more concerned about the performance of the English team in the game.
Among them, Chelsea, which defeated the strong Paris Saint-Germain 4-2 away and almost advanced to the quarterfinals in advance, was naturally touted fiercely.
Pan Yi's Chelsea are the only team in the top five leagues to be unbeaten so far, and they are also the team with the highest points!
Their results have been very consistent and their squad is quite complete, which makes it clear that Chelsea will be the strongest contenders for the Champions League trophy this season.
What's more, Pan Yi has always been consistent in important games, as his performances in the Champions League have proven during his coaching career.
Then, under the backdrop of Chelsea, Manchester City and Arsenal, who lost the first leg, will inevitably be criticized by the "meeting".
'There's no way for Pellegrini and Arsene Wenger to put their teams up against the continents.'
"England still have to rely on Chelsea to earn points in Europe!"
"It's against Huang Sajen, it's up to Chelsea!"
Real Madrid, Barcelona, and Bayern are the three most powerful, best and most stable teams in European football today.
And Chelsea also inserted into the top three with their own play, becoming the "Samarachi" semi-final.
In this year's latest Champions League odds, it is also these four teams that show a cliff-like lead.
For Pan Yi and his Chelsea, the focus of their research in the next game is, of course, the three teams of Huang Saren.
Especially Barcelona, which has a BB.
Now the line-up of these two teams has really come to perfection.
Real Madrid is the BBC and the ceremony three midfielders have been gathered, as well as J Ronaldo such a new World Cup star, and the backfield is also Marcelo, Ramos, Varane, Carvajal, Pepe, Casillas...... All of them are the best players in the world.
Barcelona's MSN and Habaib are also in contention for the best striker and midfield combination of all time, and they still have stars such as Rakitic, Pedro, Alba, Mascherano, Pique, Alves, and Ter Stegen.
How to put it, it's almost all All-Star lineup.
In the face of such a team, even the current Chelsea team really dare not pack a ticket and say that it can be safe.
Therefore, Pan Yi and his coaching team still have to prepare in advance.
Of course, this is not particularly difficult for Pan Yi.
In addition to conducting more detailed research on the tactics of these coaches in the system, he sent a technical team to watch the latest games of these teams, and then summarized them into tactical reports and fed them back.
Then the two sides will be compared to see if there is any deviation from "history", and then Pan Yi will make certain corrections.
And now is the stage of intelligence collection for the technical team, and Pan Yi doesn't need to rush to start work.
After all, it's still too late to wait for round after round of opponents to come out and then do detailed polishing!
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February 21, the twenty-sixth round of the Premier League.
Chelsea take on Burnley at Stamford Bridge.
As it was the second game in three days, Pan Yi rotated the starting line-up, but Chelsea, who were playing at home, still had the initiative firmly in control from the start.
But it was Burnley who shot first and got a chance on goal in the sixth minute with a counter-attack.
Chelsea went until the 30th minute when Willian pulled to the left flank to receive a through ball from Loftus-Cheek, then turned and slid a diagonal pass to Bamford in the middle.
The two centre-backs made a mistake when they were playing around Bamford, and Bamford took advantage of the situation to send a left-footed volley into the Burnley goal.
Both sides played patiently afterwards, with Chelsea firmly in possession and a high pass and reception rate, with Burnley retreating across the board and it wasn't until the second half that Chelsea once again threatened.
In the 70th minute, Mikel crossed, after Cancelo broke through on the left, he calmly crossed unguarded, and Lingard scored with a powerful volley at the back post to rewrite the score to 2-0.
This is also the third consecutive game in which Lingard has scored!
The score was maintained until the end of the game.
Jesse Lingard kept scoring goals and Manchester United lost again.
They lost 1-2 away to Swansea City.
Although United took the lead in the 28th minute through Ander Herrera's goal, it was Chi Chengyong and Gomi who put Swansea ahead of the scoreline.
Such a contrast makes Manchester United fans not know how to spray.
After all, when Jesse Lingard didn't play well in a game at Manchester United, it was the Manchester United fans who sprayed him the most......
The other key matches are Crystal Palace 1:2 Arsenal, Tottenham 2:2 West Ham United and Southampton 0:2 Liverpool.
Manchester City, on the other hand, beat Newcastle United 5-0 at home.
Therefore, after this round of matches, Chelsea are still at the top of the table with 25 wins and one draw and 76 points, and are far ahead.
In second place is Manchester City with 55 points, followed by Arsenal with 48 and Manchester United with 47.
Further up are Southampton, Liverpool, Tottenham and West Ham United.
With a 21-point lead, Chelsea's early title is a foregone conclusion, and the biggest suspense is how long Manchester City will be able to chase it, or how big the gap between first and second place will be.
And such a so-called "suspense" was quickly "revealed" in the next 27th round.
Chelsea beat West Ham United 1-0 away to earn a comfortable win and all three points.
Manchester City, on the other hand, were defeated in a strong conversation.
At Anfield, Liverpool beat Manchester City 2:1 thanks to goals from Jordan Henderson and Philippe Coutinho!
This result also widened the gap between Chelsea and Manchester City to a terrifying 24 points!
Considering Chelsea's equally terrifying goal difference, the media have suggested that Chelsea are likely to win the title early in March!
And this will also make Chelsea the first team in the history of the Premier League to win the title!
It's just that it's still a bit difficult to achieve this goal.
Due to the Champions League and the international break, there are not enough Premier League games scheduled for March, which means that Chelsea will not be able to pick up enough points.
After West Ham United, Chelsea are back at Stamford Bridge for the second leg of the Champions League last-16 knockout round.
At this time, their opponents Paris Saint-Germain are a bit of a bad year.
In the last few rounds of Ligue 1, Paris Saint-Germain first drew 1-1 with the league's biggest rivals, Lyon, then 2-2 with Caen and 0-0 with Monaco......
This led to the fact that after the 28th round of Ligue 1, their leading position was not guaranteed!
At this time, the first place in the Ligue 1 standings is Lyon, with 17 wins, 6 draws and 5 losses, with 57 points.
Although Paris Saint-Germain only lost two games, due to too many draws, it could only accumulate 56 points with 15 wins, 11 draws and 2 losses, ranking behind Lyon by one point.
In other words, they could even lose the Ligue 1 title!
This puts head coach Blanco under a lot of pressure.
You know, the Champions League is important, but the league is the basic game!
And three days after the second leg of the Champions League round of 16 against Chelsea, on March 14, Paris Saint-Germain will welcome the French national derby and face Marseille away.
It's a game you can't lose!
As we all know, there is really no friendship between Paris and Marseille.
The reason for the feud between the two can be traced back to the clash of cultures that began hundreds of years ago, first of all, Paris and Marseille are the first and second largest cities in France, and the two cities are full of mutual contempt and prejudice, and the people of the two cities are also competing with each other, in every aspect.
On the football field, the hatred between the two officially originated from the collision between the rise of Paris and Marseille on the pitch in the 90s, intensified by the fanning of the media on the sidelines, and constantly deepened every friction between fans, every encounter between teams and even every physical contact and trash talk between players.
In the 1988-1989 season, Marseille was relegated in 1993 after Paris president Francis Borrell accused Marseille president Bernard Tappi of manipulating the game.
Marseille's hierarchy took this revenge to heart and instilled it in the first team and the players at all levels, not to mention the fans, who hated the "Parisians".
Marseille is true for Paris, and Paris is for Marseille in turn.
Therefore, at such a critical moment in the championship race, if Blanco loses the much-anticipated French national derby, it is possible to leave immediately.
In this contrast, Blanco made a difficult decision.
That's to abandon the Champions League and keep the league! - Actually, it is the position of the commander.
After all, they lost the first leg at home by two goals and gave Chelsea four away goals, which means that Paris must win by three goals on the road to advance, which is undoubtedly an impossible task.
In addition, Paris Saint-Germain, although they are eager for the Champions League, is indeed not a hard indicator at the moment.
After all, the Qatari consortium has only been in charge of Grand Paris since 2011, and everyone knows that it takes time to become a real giant.
It would be unrealistic to expect any coach to win the Champions League in just a few years.
In terms of the normal timeline of Pan Yi's previous life, several local tyrant teams, that is, Chelsea, won the first Champions League trophy in team history nearly ten years after Abou took over.
And teams like Paris and Manchester City, although they have also reached the finals, are always one step away from the goal.
Therefore, Blanco's decision is actually quite understandable.
Therefore, Paris Saint-Germain did not give their best at Stamford Bridge, but used a lot of young players to train, and finally lost 0:3 directly, and was eliminated with an aggregate score of 2:7.
Of course, Blanco's choice proved to be justified in hindsight.
Three days later, at the Velodrome Stadium, Paris Saint-Germain, playing away, withstood the pressure.
In the unfavorable situation of Marseille's French striker Gignac scoring two goals in a row to take the lead, Grand Paris fought back and dominated the opponent, successively scored three goals in a row by Yin Bu, Matu Yindi, and Marquinhos, and finally reversed the score 3:2.
Paris Saint-Germain won the French derby and regained the top spot in the standings by overtaking Lyon, who lost to Nice, in points.
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The two-legged matches of the Champions League round of 16 knockout rounds are completely over, and the Champions League quarterfinals are freshly released.
In addition to Chelsea's 7-2 aggregate win over Paris Saint-Germain, the other two Premier League sides were defeated in the round of 16.
Manchester City suffered another 1-0 defeat to Barcelona, while Arsenal beat Monaco 2-0 but were eliminated due to a lack of away goals.
In the other games, Bayern clearly withdrew, winning 0:0 Shakhtar Donetsk and advancing with an aggregate score of 7:0;
Porto beat Basel 4-0 and won 5-1 on aggregate;
Real Madrid and Schalke 04 had a goal battle with ups and downs, and in the end Real Madrid 3:4 Schalke 04, but still passed with an aggregate score of 5:4;
Juventus beat Borussia Dortmund 3-0 and advanced 5-1 on aggregate.
Pan Yi's old club Hamburg lost 0:1 away to Atletico Madrid.
As Hamburg also won 1-0 in the first leg, the two sides went into extra time and went to penalty shoot-outs after no success.
But it's a pity that Wu Lei and Lin Zhijian missed penalties one after another, while Atletico Madrid hit them all.
As a result, Atletico Madrid eliminated Hamburg in a thrilling way to secure the last quarter-final spot!
This also made the drama that many people were looking forward to Pan Yi against his old club come to naught.
However, although Hamburg are out of the tournament as the defending champions, it will not be easy considering they have managed to get here despite the heavy blood loss this season.
Head coach Nagelsmann also said that although Wu Lei and Lin Zhijian missed penalties, they performed very well in the game.
Hamburg are still fighting for European qualification in the Bundesliga and he believes the team will quickly emerge from the shadow of Champions League elimination and continue to move forward towards the goal of the season!
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After the Champions League quarterfinals were decided, everyone's eyes naturally focused on the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.
On March 20 at 12 noon CET, the draw for the quarter-finals of the 2014-15 Champions League will take place here.
Among the quarter-finals, La Liga emerged as the biggest winners, with three teams progressing, namely Real Madrid, Barcelona and Atletico Madrid, while Chelsea emerged as the Premier League seedling.
In addition, Juventus in Serie A, Porto in the Portuguese Super League, Bayern Munich in the Bundesliga, and Monaco in Ligue 1 have all become representative teams in their respective leagues.
Of course, the most eye-catching highlight of the 1/4 finals is the strong dialogue.
Chelsea, who have been breaking through all the way, is naturally attracting attention, and as the three most powerful "cosmic teams" in European football today, it is worth looking forward to whether Real Madrid, Barcelona and Bayern Munich will stage a peak showdown.
In addition, as well as Tevez, Pogba, and Vidal's Juventus, there are also some people who are optimistic.
And Porto and Monaco will become "sweet and sweet", everyone doesn't say it, but they all hope to meet them in the quarterfinals.
According to the Champions League draw rules, there will be no circumvention of the draw for the quarter-finals, and teams in the same league and teams in the same group may meet each other in a narrow way.
The schedule after the quarterfinals has also been announced in advance.
This season's Champions League quarter-finals will be played on April 14, 15 and 21 and 22.
After the semi-finals have been decided, the draw for the semi-finals will take place on 24 April, with the semi-finals taking place on 5 and 6 May and 12 and 13 May.
The final two finalists will compete for the championship trophy at the Olympic Arena in Berlin, Germany, on June 6th!
Bayern Munich coach Pep Guardiola said in an interview with the media before the draw that he was not surprised that his team could advance to the quarter-finals, because he was sure that the team had enough quality to qualify and go even further.
'Last season we didn't have a good result in the Champions League, so this season we have a higher demand for ourselves and that's to be the winner.
"This year's final will be played in Germany, which is good for us. Because it's much easier to get from Munich to Berlin than to Madrid, Barcelona or London. ”
Pep Guardiola's bold declaration also attracted a lot of media attention, and for the other seven opponents in the quarter-finals, Guardiola said he did not feel any pressure.
'There's no doubt that the teams that make it to the quarter-finals are very good, but we believe Bayern are the best team.
'A lot of people are praying that it's better to avoid Chelsea, but I don't think it's necessary.
'Chelsea are not as strong as we thought they would be and we have enough quality to ensure we have a chance to progress against any opponent.
Pep Guardiola has not denied what media reporters have said about the idea of wanting to draw Chelsea.
'There are only eight teams left in the Champions League and it is possible to run against any opponent and all I can say is that we don't mind drawing any team, including Chelsea.
Guardiola's remarks were quickly reported by the outside media, and they were interpreted as another invitation to Pan Yi.
After all, when Pan Yi was in the Bundesliga, he caused a lot of "damage" to Guardiola, and even snatched the Bundesliga championship that everyone thought was in his hands.
But this season, Guardiola poached Pan Yi's favorite De Bruyne, and the team's strength has been further improved.
Therefore, Gua Shuai now has the confidence to challenge Pan Yi again!
And Guardiola vs Pan Yi is obviously full of highlights, so the media has also hyped it up.
It's just that this time, the final lottery result did not choose this "most trafficked lottery method".
Bayern Munich drew the "soft persimmon" Porto.
Barcelona got another "gift package" Monaco.
Of the remaining four teams, two teams from Madrid have been drawn together and they are about to stage a local derby!
This will be the most anticipated highlight of the quarter-finals.
Well, the final pair is Chelsea vs Juventus.
In fact, this pair is also very interesting.
Because the current manager of Juventus is none other than Allegri!
A direct confrontation between the former Milan coach and the former Milan assistant coach.
This knockout match also seems to prove who was the team's hegemon when AC Milan won the treble! – although it seems to have been proven in the first time when Hamburg played Milan.
But of course, the media will continue to hype up such topics.
In addition, there are gossip news that Alegri's daughter Valentina is "living together" with Pan Yi, this is another Weng son-in-law derby! The topic is also full.
However, after the draw against Chelsea, Allegri did not show the "ambition" he deserved.
He believes Chelsea's form this season has been unbelievably good and it will be difficult for any team to meet them.
Although Juventus are now riding well in Serie A and have successfully left their biggest rivals Roma behind, it is really unpleasant to encounter such a hard stubble in the Champions League.
Allegri's words also hint at pessimism about the quarter-finals.
In fact, this is also a portrayal of the recent decline of Serie A teams in the European arena, and even Allegri is a little unconfident.
Among other things, Juventus' reach for the quarter-finals this season is already the best result of a Serie A team in recent years – and before that was when Milan won the treble.
What's a saying you've been saying lately?
If you don't work hard, you will go international when you grow up; If you have difficulties in life, you will go to Milan; Only defend but not attack, join the big Juventus......
However, Pan Yi said in an interview with the media that Allegri's team should not be underestimated.
'He's one of the most experienced managers in Europe and the Treble experience is not something anyone can have. And the stronger they are, Juventus will be a headache. ”
When asked about Guardiola's remarks, Pan Yi smiled:
"I never thought what Guardiola was saying in the media as what he was saying, I understood it as a bluff. He didn't pull us together, maybe he should be relieved by now. ”
This can actually be regarded as Pan Yi's ridicule of Guardiola.
After all, the relationship between the two is still very good in private, and they often chat through social software, and sometimes Gua Shuai will suddenly call Pan Yi because of some tactical problems.
As for why the lip bang in the media? Work needs to be!
After the results of the draw for the quarterfinals of the Champions League were released, major European bookmakers have offered the latest odds.
With Bayern and Barcelona drawing weaker opponents each, they immediately became the favourites to win the title.
Then there are Chelsea, then Real Madrid.
Mainly compared to Huang Sajen, whether it is the media or professional bookmakers, they still think that Chelsea's squad is still a little immature.
Chelsea's performance in the Premier League has also become a weakness at this time, and some people think that the young people have not been tested harshly, and will not be able to withstand the pressure when they really meet strong teams in the Champions League.
There are also many people who believe that it will be difficult for Chelsea to cross the Juventus hurdle.
After all, Allegri has grasped Juventus' attack and defense very well this season, although his back three system is a bit of Pan Yi's Chelsea shadow no matter how you look at it, but it has also played a good effect.
Juventus can reach the quarter-finals of the Champions League and also throw 10 points behind Roma in Serie A, definitely not by luck.
If those Chelsea recruits can't hold their breath after touching the old Serie A fritters, anything can happen.
Old woman.
What he is best at is to use his rich experience to toss and impress the young man with various postures......