super football star

Chapter 657 Champions League Knockout

(Code it out~~~No need to ask for leave~~Looking at Xiaoxin's hard work, everyone should support him more)

What does it mean that the heart is higher than the sky and the life is thinner than the paper? McLeish explained this very well. The Scot who is dedicated to Ferguson is experiencing the most difficult moment in his life at the moment.

After losing to Manchester City in this game, his life in Aston Villa was even more difficult, although McLeish's life in Aston Villa has never been easy.

After returning to Manchester that day, Van Basten did not give the team a holiday the next day, because the Champions League knockout round came. Three days later, Manchester City will be a guest in Basel.

Although Basel is the weakest team in the top [-], any accidents can happen on the football field, as proved by the rivals in the same city in the group stage.

For this reason, when they learned that Manchester United was eliminated by Basel, Manchester City fans often ridiculed Manchester United. This situation reached its peak after the results of the knockout draw came out.

Manchester City fans kept shouting to avenge Manchester United, but who knew that this was Manchester City fans satirizing Manchester United, but whether they really wanted revenge.

This cannot be blamed for being so crazy about Manchester City fans. After all, Manchester City has been bullied by Manchester United for more than [-] years. It can even be said that Manchester City is only qualified to be compared with Manchester United because it is in Manchester.

So this period of time is definitely the happiest period for Manchester City fans in the past 20 years, because Manchester City has completely overwhelmed Manchester United this season, which is the first time in 20 years.

In the past few days, Li Feng has clearly felt the restlessness and uneasiness of Manchester City fans. On the surface, Manchester City's strength is indeed much higher than that of Basel, but football is always full of surprises.

Coupled with the crazy satire of Manchester United fans by Manchester City fans before, if Manchester City loses the game in the end, Manchester City fans can fully imagine that they will face nothing at that time.

"Feng~~~ Will we win?" This was a question asked by some of the old fans who lived closer to Li Feng, while some younger fans were much more aggressive, "Feng~~~We want to win."

Faced with this situation, Li Feng's answer did not disappoint these fans, "Of course ~~~ Victory must belong to us. Basel can't stop it, even Barcelona can't stop it."

Hearing Li Feng's confident answer, the fans immediately showed a satisfied expression. In fact, in their hearts, for Manchester City fans, it doesn't matter whether they can win against Barcelona. They only care about whether Manchester City can win against Basel.

They only hope that Manchester City can beat Basel to enter the quarter-finals, and if they are lucky, they can enter the semi-finals. As for the championship, they will compete with Barcelona. Manchester City fans have not actually thought about it.

After all, the difficulty of winning the Champions League is too high, even countless times more difficult than winning the league. As for competing with Barcelona, ​​please, Barcelona is in full swing now, the name of the Cosmos team has been resounding in Europe, and the two teams have no intersection before. Naturally, Manchester City fans will pay attention to Barcelona.

Switzerland is a beautiful country, and Basel is the fourth largest city in Switzerland. This is also the second time to come to this city. When he was in Bayern Munich, Li Feng played against Basel in the Champions League.

It's just that the head coach of Basel at that time was Bayern Munich's former meritorious Torsten Fink, but now the head coach of Basel is Heiko Vogel.

Fogel was Fink's assistant coach before, and he took over the position left by Fink after Fink left Basel. Before that, Fogel was born in Bayern Munich.

However, Fogel is not the coach of the first team, but the head coach of the youth academy. Muller, Badstuber, Kroos, Contento and others used to be disciples, so it can be seen that the vision is quite good.

It's just that Fogel is an ambitious person. He is not willing to be the head coach of the youth training team, but he has no chance in Bayern, so after receiving Fink's invitation, Fogel made a decisive decision, bid farewell to Bayern, and came to Basel, Switzerland.

Now Fogel finally got his wish. Not only did he end up in the position left by Fink, but he even brought Basel one step closer, breaking into the Champions League knockout for the first time in history, which Fink failed to do.

Of course, Fogel is also very clear that with Basel's lineup and strength, it is already a surprise to be able to enter the knockout round, and it is as difficult as ever to go further.

For Manchester City's performance this season, Fogel naturally has some understanding. They even overwhelmed the defending champion Barcelona. After all, the strength of Group A is really against the heavens.

In the early morning of February 2th, the soldiers of Manchester City took the "Rising Blue Moon" and landed at Mulhouse Airport with a high profile. This airport is located on the French border, adjacent to Basel and Freiburg. If you want to go to Basel, the plane can only sit at this airport.

Just the short distance from the VIP channel to the team bus, there were nearly a hundred reporters and nearly a thousand Manchester City fans. The media wanted first-hand news reports, and the fans naturally came to support the team.

Basel's home stadium is called the St. Jakob Stadium, which can accommodate nearly [-] fans in total, but Manchester City's nearly [-] seats are only allocated to a mere [-].

With Manchester City's current football market, [-] seats are not enough. Every match day, at least nearly [-] fans who cannot enter the stadium can gather in the square outside the stadium. However, even so, Manchester City still needs to allocate one tenth of the tickets for away fans.

The media will definitely not get any news at the airport. They are very aware of this. The main purpose of their coming here is to take pictures of Manchester City's lineup for Basel.

What they really want to know is a press conference afterward, but they are also very clear that they won't get anything really useful when the news is released, so in the end they have to analyze and make up stories by themselves in how they want to report.

Brain hole is not only popular in China, but in fact, the media in Europe is even bigger. After all, Europe is much more free than China. After all, when it comes to democracy, it is better in the West~~ Everyone understands it, and there is nothing offline for the news media.

This time, following Van Basten at the press conference were captain Kompany, goalkeeper Joe Hart and Li Feng. As for the results, the media could only reach some irrelevant news.

On the contrary, the Korean media from afar are a little excited, because there is also a Korean player in the Basel lineup, and who is Li Feng's girlfriend, it is estimated that the whole South Korea knows.

(End of this chapter)