Rebirth 1994: Football Situation

Chapter 654
After the away draw with Real Sociedad, Newcastle's luck seemed to improve.

In the two league games before the home game against Real Sociedad, the Newcastle team showed an excellent competitive state. Although Newcastle did not send all the main lineup in these two games, Mourinho adopted a lot of rotation , but they still won two games in a row!
On March 27th, Newcastle completed a major reversal after conceding a goal in the opening 4 minutes. Ibrahimovic's goal blew the horn of the counterattack. Viduka scored twice in the second half. A Lectra Bolton, and in another round of the game at the same time, Arsenal was tied [-]-[-] at home by Manchester United, and the nine-game winning streak came to an end.

Although Henry opened the scoring after receiving Adriano's header in the second half, Manchester United striker Saha equalized the score in No. 806 minutes. This draw was not a good result for both sides. Arsenal's The lead was cut to five points, but Manchester United was overtaken by Chelsea, who won this round, and slipped to fourth place.

A week later, Newcastle ushered in Everton at home. Due to the FA Cup match, Arsenal's game was postponed. Newcastle did not miss this opportunity. Opened the scoring for Newcastle, although Everton relied on Gravesen's goal to equalize the score after 5 minutes, but soon, Dyer's volley from the penalty area once again helped Newcastle expand its lead.

After entering the second half, Shearer extended the lead to two goals with a powerful header in the second minute. The tenacious Everton narrowed the gap again in the No. 806 minute relying on Yabo's back assist, but No. 90 minutes , Shearer scored twice to help Newcastle completely seal the victory.

After this campaign, Newcastle played one more game with 22 wins, six draws and three losses with 72 points, only two points behind Arsenal with 22 wins, eight draws and 74 points, leading Chelsea and Manchester United by six points and ten points respectively, with seven remaining in the league. In the case of the second round, he has almost secured at least the second position!

After winning two consecutive victories in the league, Newcastle's players greeted the arrival of their opponents Real Sociedad in their best form.

Whether it is Newcastle fans or their players, they have enough confidence in defeating their opponents to enter the Champions League semi-finals-they have been in good form recently, and the main players have also been fully rested under the rotation of Mourinho. Sitting at home, they are greeted by a tired team - so many advantages are on their side, why not win?
But what makes Newcastle fans a little regretful is that Newcastle's home game against Real Sociedad is scheduled for Wednesday. After the most interesting quarter-finals, the Newcastle-Real Sociedad and Deportivo-AC Milan games obviously won't attract so much attention.

For these two games, they are generally optimistic about the two strong teams, Arsenal and Real Madrid. In the league, Arsenal leads Chelsea by as much as eight points, and they still have one game less. The ball drew Chelsea one to one. As long as they can get a zero-to-zero draw at home, they are enough to qualify. Naturally, they have quite a lot of advantages.

But the result of the game was beyond the expectations of many people.

The game was extremely intense from the very beginning. Arsenal took advantage of the home court to attack aggressively. Their luxurious attack line kept Chelsea's defense upside down. However, after the Italian Ranieri who also focused on defense Under Chelsea, the defense is still very tenacious. In the case of being pressed by the opponent most of the time in the first half, they still tried their best to keep the goal clean.

The madly attacking Arsenal finally opened the scoring before the end of the first half. After Henry and Pires shot twice in a row, they just transferred from La Liga Sevilla during the winter break. This game replaced the suspended Adriano. Spain's talented striker Reyes finally put the ball in front of the goal, [-]-[-], Arsenal lead, and they also turned the total score into [-]-[-].

If the first half was Arsenal's world, then the second half was Chelsea's world-the Arsenal players consumed too much energy in the first half's mad attack, and the Blue Lions, who had been persevering, showed their strength at this time. They saw their sharp teeth——the gunners' firepower was insufficient, and now, it was time for the blue lions to counterattack!
In just 8 minutes of the second half, Lampard opened the gate guarded by Lehmann with a powerful long-range shot, tying the total score to [-]-[-] and bringing the two sides back to the same starting line!

At this time, I can see the disadvantages of being unbeaten since the beginning of this season-the mentality of Arsenal's players has begun to become a little unbalanced. After all, at this time, they have no advantage at all!
At this time, Chelsea looked like a real Italian team, with solid defense and sharp counterattacks. They were not afraid of waves of attacks from Arsenal!

Before the game was about to end, Bridge, who assisted from the back, helped Chelsea score a golden goal!The Highbury Stadium fell silent, and everyone knew what this goal meant-even if Arsenal could score another goal in the remaining minutes, they would be eliminated from the semi-finals because of fewer away goals!

Obviously, it is impossible for Chelsea to give Arsenal a chance to score two goals in the remaining time. In the remaining few minutes, Chelsea, who returned to defense with all their members, stubbornly kept the score until the end, [-] to [-], Chelsea Eliminated Arsenal and entered the semi-finals of the European Champions Cup for the first time in history!

Amidst the cheers of more than 2000 Chelsea fans, Ranieri cheered and hugged his players, and Abramovich smiled cheerfully in the stands. At this moment, it all disappeared.

Wenger shook his head helplessly. Arsenal wasted too many opportunities in the first half, and Henry's performance didn't seem to be exciting enough. If Adriano hadn't been suspended, maybe it would have been another result.

Sadly, ifs are always just ifs.

"Ranieri... is also very good." After watching the whole game, Mourinho sighed and said: "The professor's arrangement in the game seemed a little too confident. If Arsenal didn't attack in the first half If you hit too hard and consume too much energy, Chelsea may not have so many chances in the second half."

"Don't underestimate the patience of Italian coaches." Pei Wei said with a smile: "Italian tactics require a lot of patience. At least on the scene, they are never good-looking, but they often win."

Mourinho nodded thoughtfully.

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If Chelsea's victory is not unpopular - after all, they were only tied at home in the first game, and they also have the ability to win away - then the match between Monaco and Real Madrid is really unpopular .

Few would have thought Real Madrid would be knocked out after a [-]-[-] home sweep of Monaco - but it happened, with 'Europe's best club of the century' beaten at Monaco's Stade Louis II Crushed!
In the first half of the game, Real Madrid also had a certain advantage, and at the No. 305th minute of the first half, they relied on their captain Raul's goal to lead Morocco, and extended the total score to [-]-[-]. It also means that if Monaco wants to qualify, it must score three goals in the remaining time, and it must not concede a goal.

This is a very difficult thing to do, scoring goals is fine, facing Real Madrid's offense without conceding a goal, no team in Europe dares to say that it will be able to do it.

But Monaco did it, and before the end of the first half, Giuly recovered a point with a counter-attack that sent the ball into the goal of Casillas, and then just three minutes into the second half, Morientes put in a goal in front of the goal. A powerful header gave Monaco the lead!And in the first round, it was this center, whose contract still belongs to Real Madrid, who scored Monaco's second goal before the end of the game, keeping Monaco's hope of qualifying!
Real Madrid's players began to panic, and their physical fitness began to have problems-Queiroz used them too hard in the previous game. Many of them have almost participated in the competition from the beginning of the season to the present. of all games.

Giuly scored a key goal for Monaco in the 606th minute. Morientes' header was saved by Casillas, and Giuly cleverly made up the ball in front of the goal-three to one!

This score is not enough to make Real Madrid feel desperate, after all, they still have time to attack, but for the already exhausted Real Madrid players, they have not much room to attack.

And the crazy Monaco did not give Real Madrid any chance. They still suppressed Real Madrid with crazy offense in the rest of the game. It was useless for Queiroz to dispatch troops frequently. The rest of the time quickly left. In the past, when the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game, Real Madrid's superstars could only accept the fact that they were eliminated from the Champions League semi-finals.

They had gained a certain advantage before the game, and the two favored teams were both eliminated. Chelsea and Monaco proved with their courage that even if they were at a disadvantage in the first round, as long as they worked hard, they could still win the game!

The upset in the two quarter-finals in advance reminded the other two games that there are no underdogs in Europe, especially at the moment of the quarter-finals of the Champions League, no team will Easily defeated - no matter who.

(End of this chapter)