coach legend

Chapter 370
As soon as the list of the quarter-finals of the Champions League came out, England was in a state of excitement.

The most embarrassing thing is Italian football.Serie A, known as the Little World Cup, has only one club that has entered the quarterfinals of the Champions League this season.That is Rome.

It's a pity that Roma's draw was not very good, and they ran into Arsenal, the nemesis of the Serie A club.

Arsenal has faced the Italian team several times in the past few years, and each time they have an absolute upper hand.Even if he faced Juventus twice in the group of death, he stepped on Juventus.

Although Serie A still has many world-class stars, there is no doubt that Serie A's competitiveness has declined.Moreover, Roma's ability to break through the group stage has a lot to do with the fact that Blackburn, who has locked in No.1 in the group stage, did not pay much attention to it in the final round of the group stage.

Barcelona side also count on Blackburn to beat Rome.In this way, they can appear with a goal difference advantage, but George does not have that awareness.Otherwise, as long as George pays attention, it will be really difficult for Rome to break through the group stage.

In the quarter-finals of the Champions League in the 98-99 season, there were still two clubs in Serie A.In the 99-00 season, there was only one club left in the quarter-finals of the Champions League. As for the Champions League last season, none of the clubs broke through the group stage.

Serie A has gradually degenerated from the World Cup since it was a child.

As for other leagues, it varies.

At present, La Liga, the most powerful league in the world, has only one place, which is the powerful Real Madrid.Participating Barcelona and Deportivo all lost in the group stage.

In the Bundesliga, two clubs appeared in the Champions League knockout rounds.Bayern and Leverkusen.

Only the Premier League has three places in the quarter-finals of the Champions League for two consecutive seasons.And these three places happen to be the Premier League places to participate in the Champions League.And starting from next season, the Premier League will have four Champions League spots.

Since Manchester United won the Champions League in 98-99, the Premier League has inadvertently formed a group advantage in the Champions League.

In the past three seasons, among the quarter-finals of the Champions League, the least number of Premier League clubs was the year before last, when there were two clubs.But Blackburn also won a UEFA Cup that year.Since then, there have always been three places.Although Manchester United have not won the Champions League since they won the Champions League in 99.But the strength of the Premier League can be seen.

And for a long time, in the Champions League, Manchester United has carried the flag.Arsenal basically played soy sauce in the past.

But I don't know if Manchester United won the Champions League, which encouraged the English team.Since then, English clubs have played one-on-one in the group stage.Look at Arsenal, which has always been weak in the Champions League. Last year, the two death groups were able to break through.

This season's group of death is drawn together by four strong European teams.But Arsenal stepped on Juventus and Deportivo again and entered the quarterfinals of the Champions League.

Now add such a strong team as Blackburn.

The Premier League is getting stronger and stronger in the Champions League.

So the English media was very excited.

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But after half a month, the English media was not only excited.But crazy.The whole English media went crazy.

Because after half a month, that is, after the second game of the Champions League quarter-finals on April 4, the list of the Champions League semi-finals came out, and the whole of Europe saw what it means to be strong.See what is group advantage.

First Blackburn side, on April 4rd, in the away game against Panathinaikos, a one-to-one draw.

Let many people see that Panathinaikos from Greece is not a bully that everyone bullies.But George was very happy, because he got a draw in the away game and also scored an away goal.George is full of confidence for the home game.

George's self-confidence is definitely not aimless.It is based on the strength of the two teams.

Of course, in order to prevent the same thing as last season, George was very cautious about the second game.

Think about all the things that can happen.Then analyze them one by one, George analyzed almost all kinds of emergencies.There are seven or eight emergency plans, making Evan and Carl next to each other dumbfounded.

But they could understand George.

In such a favorable situation last season, it was turned over by Valencia.Some worries in George's heart are understandable.

Fortunately, the game went very well.

At home, Blackburn didn't give Panathinaikos any leeway.At the end of the first half, it was already a two-to-zero lead.Let George even get on the comeback Klose in the second half.After Klose came back, his state was not very stable.

George hopes that Klose can restore his state as soon as possible.

In the second half, Pires made another victory, beating Panathinaikos [-]-[-] cleanly.

In this way, Blackburn beat Panathinaikos four to one in two rounds.For the first time in history, Blackburn has entered the Champions League semi-finals.

Blackburn can enter the Champions League semi-finals, all the media is expected.After all, Blackburn's strength is there. If a Premier League champion team faces the Greek champion team, it will be unpopular if it cannot appear.

In the other game, it was Manchester United against Bayer Leverkusen.

Ferguson's Manchester United are in poor form this season in the Premier League.Towards the end of the season, [-] points behind Blackburn.What kind of gap is this.But it is still very strong in the Champions League.

In the first game on April 4, they challenged Leverkusen away.In history, Leverkusen is very strong this season.And he is also the famous King of Sanya.Invincible in the Champions League, until the Champions League final.

It's a pity that Leverkusen ran into the old and spicy Ferguson.

Ferguson is really strong.Especially when it comes to such an important game, it is even stronger.In the away game, it turned out to be a [-]-[-] victory over the mighty Leverkusen.

After the second game on April 4, Manchester United defeated Bayer Leverkusen 10-[-] at Old Trafford.

In this way, Leverkusen, who was originally extremely powerful in history, can only stop at the quarterfinals.Manchester United, on the other hand, scored three to one in the two rounds and entered the semi-finals of the Champions League.

This is not the end.

Arsenal faced Rome's game, and Arsenal appeared even more easily.

It should be said that Wenger's Arsenal, facing the big man of utilitarian football Capello, is very difficult to win.But the process is not like that.

Arsenal's first away game against Roma was a [-]-[-] victory over Roma at the Stadio Olimpico.And after returning to the home court, it was [-] to [-], which made Roma go home crying.

Even George couldn't figure out why Capello's Roma lost so badly to Arsenal.

Anyway, when the game was over, everyone was dumbfounded when the result came out.

The Premier League has completed three seats in the Champions League semi-finals. For Real Madrid, the Premier League is completely in the situation of the three British and Lu Bu.

No one thought of this.

Even the "Times" wrote a headline like "The Premier League is booming!"

"14 years after the "Heysel tragedy", the Premier League overlord Manchester United won the Champions League again on behalf of the English team."

"After that, the Premier League teams began to make efforts in the Champions League. Last season, there were three quarter-finals and one team entered the Champions League semi-finals. And this season, among the Champions League semi-finals, there are already three teams."

"Europe, we're back!"

"The original League One, now we are back in the name of the Premier League!"

British football is really aggrieved.When League One swept European football back then, Liverpool, Aston Villa, Nottingham Forest, and Everton were all European powerhouses.How powerful League One was at that time can be shown with the simplest data.

It has been eight years since Liverpool won their club's first Champions League in 1977 and Liverpool won their club's fourth Champions League in 1984.In these eight seasons, League One clubs have won seven of the Champions League titles.

Four for Liverpool, two for Nottingham Forest and one for Aston Villa.Eight seasons, seven Champions Leagues, what kind of dominance is this.

Of course, in 1985 when the "Heysel tragedy" happened, Liverpool was still the most powerful team in Europe at the time, and finally entered the Champions League final.At that time, there were high calls for Liverpool to win the fifth Champions League, and many people also believed that Liverpool had this strength.But people are not as good as God. A tragedy that no one imagined happened. Of course, there was a controversial penalty kick in the game. Liverpool finally lost the game.

It was the abominable "Heysel tragedy" that seriously hurt the vitality of English football.

This is a watershed moment. League One has gone from being the world's number one league and dominating European football to becoming a league for the English to entertain themselves.

Especially the ban, so that English football can no longer attract world-class superstars.It also made British football stay away from European football because of its occlusion.Eventually slowly falling behind European football.After the ban was lifted and participated in European competitions, people in English football understood that they were already far behind European football.

It took almost ten years for English football to recover before it regained its footing in front of European football.

As the originator of modern football, British football is proud.However, the unsatisfactory performance of the Premier League in Europe has made the English football world a little depressed.They are all waiting, waiting for the Premier League to stand in Europe.

Now they are waiting.

Since Manchester United won the Champions League, the performance of Premier League clubs in the Champions League has been getting better and better.

This season's Champions League semi-finals are three teams besieging Real Madrid.

If you don't show off at this time, it is not the English media.

The Times is only a representative.All the English media were reporting on the event.

The entire English football world is like a festival.

Those so-called football stars who usually don't know where the cat is, also came out one after another.They also came out to celebrate together.All mean the same thing.That's English football finally back!
(End of this chapter)