Chapter 41: Champions League Round of 8

One eighth leg of the Champions League, AC Milan went away to play against Chelsea, due to the butterfly effect brought about by the rebirth of Lieborn, Romanian foreign aid Petrescu and Frenchman Desailly, who were supposed to play for the Blues, at this time one went to the Chinese Super League, one still stayed in the Rossoneri, plus Vialli, who left two seasons earlier, the current Chelsea team is still relying on Zola, Di Matteo and other veterans, last season's single-line team played to ensure the top 3 in the league and got the Champions League seat, However, the lack of reinforcements has made it difficult for the team to cope with the third-line battle this season.

After losing 1:3 away to Milan in the first leg, the second leg back to Stamford Bridge was still powerless in the cheers of tens of thousands of fans, and finally lost 0:2 to AC Milan, which played half the main team. It seems that if this Chelsea team wants nirvana, it still depends on those two destined nobles! It's just a pity that that was 4 years later. It is worth mentioning that the Champions League Chinese derby, which was originally pinned on by the media, was missed due to Sun Jihai's injury in the FA Cup.

Bayer Leverkusen basically gave up this season's Champions League after returning to Germany due to four clean shots in their first game at the Bernabeu, and teamed up with Real Madrid to give up a dull game, with the two sides tacitly sending most of the substitutes to end the game 0-0.

Manchester United, who returned to Old Trafford with three points and two away goals, saw off Atletico Madrid with the same score of 2:1 to advance to the last eight.

Bayern Munich defeated Porto 2-1 and also successfully advanced to the last eight.

Inter Milan almost capsized in the gutter against Feyenoord in the Eredivisie away, and was equalized by the opponent with two goals in the first half, you must know that Feyenoord has an away goal! It's a pity that the Feyenoord coach did not continue to fight for the advantage by taking advantage of the opponent's self-confusion, but chose to give up the attack and strengthen the defense. That gave Inter a chance to adjust, and after 28 minutes of stubborn holding, Recoba's direct free-kick in the 42nd minute of the second half saved the Nerazzurri.

Parma away to Real Sociedad, and the desperate Stanizi took on the responsibility of organising the attack, scoring a goal and an assist to Chiesa to help the Serie A 'yellow horse' advance to the next round of the knockout round.

In addition, Premier League youth defenders Leeds United returned to their home stadium at Elland Road and burst into a perfect game after losing 2-0 at Juventus in the first leg. Aland was a midfield rhythm guru and provided two assists in the game. First of all, in the 41st minute of the first half, Wu Chengying, a Chinese player who started the Champions League for the first time this season, used Alan Smith's cover to cut inside the side, and scored with a left-footed volley in the penalty area. This game caused an uproar in the whole of Europe, you must know that Juventus has reached the Champions League final in the previous three seasons, and won the championship in the 96 season, and even in the case of multi-front battles, Juventus has also won the Serie A championship for two consecutive seasons. I'm afraid that before this game, no one in the world will be optimistic about Leeds United, after all, the opponent is currently the most powerful Bianconeri in the world, and the old lady still has a 2:0 advantage in the first leg.

In addition to the upset Leeds United, there is also a major event between Arsenal and Borussia Dortmund. Due to the first leg of the Hornets to get three away goals, Arsenal in the second leg of the contest is very passive, the opponent scored a goal, their own side has to score one more goal than the opponent, Dortmund hands three away goals to ensure that this game is unlikely to have a draw, and ninety percent of the media think it will be a lethargic game.

As a result, everyone guessed wrong, and the two teams immediately entered the attacking state from the beginning of the game, and in the first half, a 360-degree turn and sweeping shot from outside the Bergkamp penalty area almost changed the score, which directly caused a 60-year-old Dorthouse fan in the south stand of Westpharian Stadium to suffer a heart attack and be rushed to hospital.

The two sides exchanged attacks and defended each other in the first 60 minutes, but unfortunately neither of them scored. Sousa and Arsenal's Patrick Vieira were two of the brightest performers of the game. As the game entered the final 15 minutes, Paul. Sosa's stamina dropped and he began to look lonely in a defensive midfield position, and just when the Dort boss was planning to make a line-up change for the next dead goal, Arsenal made a sneak attack on a counter-attack.

In the 77th minute of the second half, Vieira completed the steal of Hasler under the help of Petit, the former broke the ball and chose to break through by himself, in the case of one-on-one with Sosa, Vieira used his physical advantage to eat the opponent, and after passing the opponent, there was a blank in front of the Dort penalty area. The Hornet's backline is stubbornly guarding the line of the big penalty area, and this formation is clearly to stop the opponent's advance in front of their own penalty area.

In fact, this response is reasonable, after all, the depth of the big penalty area line is not enough, the opponent's striker must be careful of offside, Dort's back line only needs to make sure to block Vieira's direct pass and long-range shooting angle in front of the penalty area, and it is impossible for the defense line to retreat at this time.

But no one expected Vieira to suddenly shoot from the top of the penalty area at a distance of seven or eight meters, and the goalkeeper was only half a beat slower due to the blocked view, and the ball had already flown into the upper left corner. The devil knows how Vieira, who is not good at long-range shots, kicked this god kick!

Dortmund had no choice but to press all over the line to try to recover a goal, for the Hornets at the moment, 1:1 is the victory, 3 away goals in hand! The players did create opportunities, in the 88th minute of the game, Muller on the left side broke through horizontally to Li Jinyu who was inserted forward on the penalty line, and the latter burst into the penalty area and was tackled to the ground by Keown at the moment of his feet, red dot package!

Li Jinyu got up excitedly, picked up the ball and walked towards the penalty spot. Ricken rushed up and signaled that he was going to take the penalty. In fact, the team's first penalty taker is midfielder Hasler, and the second penalty taker is Muller, but these two over 32-year-old veterans are both sitting on the ground gasping for breath at the moment, playing for almost 90 minutes of attack, the two know that their physical fitness at this time to take penalties will be affected to some extent, so they simply gave up the opportunity, they also know that whether it is Ricken or Li Jinyu, the shooting skills are first-class, and the two have scored 4 goals respectively in the league this season.

However, in Da Yu's view, this goal should be his own penalty, first of all, the penalty opportunity is created by himself, and secondly, you Russ. When Ricken won the championship in '97, he had already proved himself in the final, and I had just gained a foothold in the team, and this goal was the number one contributor to the team's promotion, which is of great significance for the future development.

This is also Li Jinyu's personality is different from many Chinese players, the Jianlibao number one striker in Brazil has long proven himself, Da Yu is an extremely confident player, so he will not choose to take the initiative to give up this penalty opportunity.

The two stood at the penalty spot with the ball and discussed for a long time without a result, the referee couldn't stand it, and came up to urge the two to decide as soon as possible, and finally the coach Scala decided on the person to take the penalty - Russ. Riken, the 22-year-old German phenom tasted the pain of Baggio '94 in the World Cup final one minute later.

In the end, Arsenal defeated Borussia Dortmund 1-0 away to secure the last eight places in the Champions League.