Heroes of the Restricted Zone

Chapter 434 All for the Champions League

When the time entered February, even the smell in the air changed.

The UEFA Champions League!

This began to appear frequently in major media.

On February [-]th, the knockout stage of the UEFA Champions League will start in full swing. The teams will fight each other to compete for the highest honor of European clubs - the European Champions Cup.

This world-renowned event is actually officially started from this time.

After the European Champions Cup has been restructured many times, it is now called the UEFA Champions League. After the number of participating teams has increased, there has been a significant change that many teams from second- and third-tier leagues have entered the group stage.Of course, this has brought good news to those second- and third-tier league teams, giving them the opportunity to go to the Champions League and earn some appearance fees.But at the same time, the side effect is that the gold content of the group stage has plummeted, while the water content has soared. Many fans have never heard of teams that have been shortlisted for the group stage. They never expected to be in this great football event. Leave their names, they are purely here to play soy sauce, they just want to be defeated after six games.There are very few teams that enter the Champions League and then desperately want to prove themselves in this competition.

Even Serie A teams like Udinese only regard the UEFA Champions League as an opportunity to raise the value of their players and sell them at a good price, let alone the teams in the Bulgarian League, Romanian League, and Israeli League... …

Of course, it’s not that many teams don’t want to fight hard in the UEFA Champions League, but the price of fighting hard is too high-this time fighting hard to win a strong team, maybe they will be relegated at the end of the season It's... that's really not worth the candle.

But in any case, the decline in the viewing level of the Champions League group stage is recognized, and many games are simply tasteless.Many strong teams are unwilling to go to distant Eastern Europe to fight early in the winter, so the conflict between the giants and UEFA has never disappeared. Although G14 is dead, the idea of ​​​​establishing a game belonging to the giants-the European Super League is the same are still there.

In today's UEFA Champions League, the real "Champions League" will not be until the knockout stage. Almost all teams that can enter the top [-] have two teams...Of course, Mr. Nan Guo also has them, but they usually go not too far away...

The quarter-finals of the Champions League will start in half a month, which makes many fans become active.

Pay more attention to the sixteen teams participating in the UEFA Champions League quarter-finals.

Not only fans but also many professionals follow them.Even scouts from participating teams...

From the recent league matches of each team, we can infer the state of the team, especially the state of several main players.

This is part of analyzing your opponent.

But for the opponents of Naples and Real Madrid, there is no need for this at all.Real Madrid is a giant among the giants. Their games are everywhere, and the media reports on them all day long. Even the brand of clothes their players wear on the street can be gossiped by the media, so there is no need for Naples to send players. Go to Spain to observe the opponent's recent state.

And what about Real Madrid?They obviously don't need to know what is going on in Naples.

Everyone understands that whether Real Madrid can break the eight curses depends entirely on themselves.It can even be said that whether they can win the tenth Champions League trophy in the history of the club depends entirely on themselves.In this world, as long as they are serious and perform normally, there are almost no teams that can beat them.

But that's bullshit... meaningless.

Because in recent years, Real Madrid has not been normal!Judging from this season, their chances of being normal are also very small...

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After entering February, not only the fans and the media put their minds on the Champions League, but even the players themselves seemed a little absent-minded.

Their absent-mindedness is reflected in the fact that Naples, who played with all the main players, lost 1:3 to Udinese in the away game.

Even Chen Yingxiong was out of form in this game.

The absent-mindedness of the Naples team can also be understood by the commentator: "It can be seen that the players in Naples are already thinking about the Champions League quarter-finals, even though they are still ten days away from the game..."

Therefore, the Naples players who lost the game did not feel any frustration and sadness. If they lost, they lost. It didn't matter if they fell from third in the league to fourth in the league.

Even Mazari expressed his understanding of the performance of the players in the post-match press conference.

"...the players want the Champions League? It's normal and I don't think it's a bad thing. Because it shows that our players have enough motivation and fighting spirit, they are not intimidated by the names of our opponents..."

Don't think that Mazari is just wiping the players' ass in front of the media for their poor performance.

In fact, Mazari has been clear about this for a long time-he is the head coach of the team, how could he not know the internal trends of the team?

Even the result of losing to Udinese, he has long been mentally prepared.

The temporary strategy of abandoning the domestic league is basically his arrangement.

So the team lost to Udinese, of course he would not have any surprises or angry thoughts.

Ten days until the Champions League?so what?Napoli's opponent is Real Madrid... no, farther away, maybe the whole of UEFA.

Therefore, it is completely normal to start preparing for these two quarter-finals more than ten days in advance, and Mazari didn't think there was anything wrong.

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On February 20th, the No.0 fourth round of Serie A, Naples continued their away trip.As a result, they drew with Siena 0:20 in the away game, and Siena is currently ranked No.[-] in the league. There are a total of [-] teams in Serie A, which means that Siena is currently the bottom one...

It is far from the time for a relegation battle, and Siena still has a chance to come back.So Naples was able to draw with Siena in the away game, it was really intentional.

Three days later, it was the team's game against Real Madrid.

According to the schedule, they have to go away first.

Naples will go to the Bernabéu Stadium, the temple of football, to challenge the overlord there.

Although Mazzarri kept instilling propaganda to the players at the beginning of the season, telling them that the real Naples should be the kind of team that "fears nothing and fears nothing, and walks across the boundaries of Europe", but the spirit is one thing, and the advantages of actual examples are another. Code matters.

In terms of strength, Naples is really not comparable to Real Madrid.People don't know how many times their annual budget is that of Naples.To give the biggest and simplest example, Real Madrid's head star Cristiano Ronaldo's annual salary is almost equal to the annual salary budget of the Naples team...

In terms of strength, Naples is weaker than Real Madrid, but this is definitely not a reason to admit defeat in advance.

Since you are determined to compete with Real Madrid, you have to make adequate preparations.

Naples is not Real Madrid, so they cannot "maintain me", of course they have to study their opponents.It is normal to start preparations half a month in advance.

Anyway, the team's current ranking is not bad, and it has always been in the first team of the league.Give up the league for a while, and Mazari is also confident that he will catch up later, at least it will be no problem to keep a place in the European competition.

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Having failed to win two consecutive games, the Italian media also knew that Naples was really preparing for a match against Real Madrid.

After all, the opponent is too strong, so it is normal to start preparations two games in advance.

Next, Naples has to go to the Bernabéu Stadium to challenge the mighty Real Madrid.

The white giant is completely different from their team...

After the game against Siena, the Naples team flew to Madrid to prepare for the first round of the Champions League quarter-final against Real Madrid in the middle of the week.

"We can only wish them good luck, because their opponents are suffocating - Manuel Pellegrini's Real Madrid have scored 22 goals in 53 league rounds so far, and they are tied with Barcelona for the most attacking team in La Liga. This number of goals also makes them proud of the entire European football. As for Naples' defense, it has always been weak. Although the team introduced the former Italian No. Whether Real Madrid can withstand it is still very worrying..."

When Naples set off, some local media in Naples said so with concern.

In the eyes of many people, this signing basically announced the end of Naples' return to the Champions League after 18 years.

The chances of Napoli wanting to beat Real Madrid are too slim.

Now they can only hope that Naples can be a little bit more manly at the Bernabeu, and it's just that they don't lose when they lose...

In any case, we are also Maradona's team. How could the team of such a rebellious person bow to the powerful?Not to mention that Maradona once played for Barcelona, ​​​​and Real Madrid are sworn enemies.

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"Bernaeu!" On the plane to Madrid, many players were very excited to go to the Bernabeu, especially Hamsik.He once expressed his yearning for Real Madrid when chatting with Chen Yingxiong in private, saying that if he has the opportunity to go to a wealthy club in the future, his first choice must be Real Madrid.

Compared with the excited teammates, Cassano's performance is relatively dull.First of all, he has already played many games at the Bernabeu, because he was a Real Madrid player before.Secondly, his career in Real Madrid can be described as "terrible", so he has no deep feelings for this team or this stadium.

Before boarding the plane, a reporter came to ask him if he had any special feelings about going to the Bernabeu. The reporter suggested that he could say something similar to "a wanderer returning to his hometown" and "returning to his hometown". As a result, Cassano said with a cold face: " It's just a normal Champions League game."

The reporter who had prepared a lot of things was choked on all the next questions...

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