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Chapter 167

Just like the reason why Mourinho chose to leave early, after Chelsea and Monaco scored 2:2, there is indeed no suspense.

Monaco, who defeated their opponents at home 3:1 in the first round, did not continue to make mistakes at Stamford Bridge. Although they fell behind twice, they also tied twice.

In fact, after scoring the first goal from Monaco, the Chelsea team is left to fight for honor, and it is basically impossible to advance to the final.

When the referee's whistle sounded, Stamford Bridge became a paradise for the French, and those French fans who came from across the ocean gave out cheers of celebration.

And Ranieri, the tragic Italian old man, the last thing Chelsea can leave is a draw and an unfulfilled Champions League dream.

The Italian has tried his best to lead a team that has been kneaded for less than a season. It is already a miracle to be able to play to this point.

But the Russian tycoon in the stands and that tricky Peter Kenyon don't care about these, nor will they pay attention to the fans' calls to keep Ranieri.

For them, Ranieri's work at Chelsea is over, failing to reach the Champions League final is the best reason for him to leave.

A coach left over from the Ken Bates era is finally about to let go of his mission, which is not a bad thing for Abramovich.

From next season, Chelsea's blue will be fully attributable to the Russian, including determining its ultimate driver.

"I just need a winner." These were the last words Abramovich said to Peter Kenyon before leaving the VIP box.

Peter Kenyon is very clear about what his boss wants. The final of the Champions League has now become the examination room for Chelsea to select a coach.

It's just that the two guys who are about to enter the examination room don't know what their future will be, and they have already been finalized by a Russian in one sentence.

But Peter Kenyon seems to have forgotten one thing, that is, these two guys have not promised anything, including the question of whether to coach.

Fear is not a problem that he can solve by spending a lot of money. Chelsea, including Deschamps, is not the only one who is eyeing these two newly promoted coaches.

For example, the Juventus team has already released the wind, preparing to attract Deschamps to return to Serie A, and the Frenchman seems to be more interested in this news.

After all, to a newly promoted coach in a familiar environment, it is far more attractive to coach than in an unfamiliar place.

And for guys like Mourinho, many teams have offered their olive branches. The biggest attraction of Chelsea now is money.

It's just that the big butler of the Chelsea team thinks conceitedly that it is difficult for such a young head coach to refuse the temptation of Chelsea's huge transfer funds.

After all, he can easily realize the idea of ​​building his own team, and Chelsea don't have so many championship titles on them.

Compared with those traditional giants, Chelsea have plenty of money and time to build their own super fleet, the position of this leader is very attractive.

Anyway, Peter Kenyon is not afraid that no one will respond to the check he is waving in the air. Chelsea will definitely find a suitable helm in the summer.

The UEFA Champions League semi-final wrestling is over, the French and the Portuguese both had the last laugh, and the Arrival to Schalke a month later belongs to them.

Maybe Deschamps, like Mourinho, doesn't care who his next opponent is. For them, they only have the final championship trophy in their eyes.

The only difference may be that Deschamps has already won too many honors when he was a player, from the World Cup to the European Championships, not to mention the honors of the club. This guy is a banner of French football, but Mourinho But he is just a second-rate amateur player with mediocre results.

But what makes Mourinho better than Didier Deschamps is that he has lifted the UEFA Cup a year earlier, and as a coach he is a step ahead.

And the group of Porto people he led is now the target of many media pursuits. The team's ability to control the situation on the court is too strong.

After the game against Deportivo, someone once made statistics, and the Porto team rarely allowed their opponents to have more than 50% of the ball in the game.

Even the Manchester United team barely reached the 50% statistic. For the rest of the time, Porto was firmly controlling the rhythm.

The scary thing about this group of guys is this. They can use their skillful ball control to consume the opponent's patience and penetrate into the opponent's defense line a little bit.

As long as there is a gap in the opponent's defense line, they can catch it at the first time, and pass the ball with one kick, which can often cause the opponent's goalkeeper to collapse.

Porto and Monaco, two civilian teams, made it all the way to the Champions League final. This is undoubtedly a strong irony for those European traditional giants who flaunt how powerful they are, because the budgets of these two teams add up. Probably not as expensive as one of their stars yet.

With a price like Zidane's, it is estimated that the one-year budgets of the two teams of Monaco and Porto will be combined to buy him from Real Madrid.

It was almost unimaginable at the beginning of this season that two European middleweight teams such as Porto and Monaco could stop until the end to stage a peak duel.Porto only won the Champions League once in 1987, and Monaco reached the final of the event for the first time.

It was the first time since 1991 that the two teams participating in the final were not from the leagues of Spain, Italy, England and Germany.

Maybe Monaco is better than Porto, anyway, it is also mixed in Ligue [-], the last of the five major leagues, which is better than the Portuguese Super League.

In European football, they can be regarded as middleweight players at best. Compared with those traditional giants, they obviously lack some background.

When the Champions League group stage kicked off, so did the odds given by bookmakers to win the title, with Monaco at 1 to 80 and Porto at 1 to 40.

It can be said that in the eyes of the gambling company, they are just a group of foils for the Champions League. No one would think that they can enter the final.

However, it was these two supporting roles in the eyes of others that overturned the strong teams one by one, and this was indeed a European Champions Cup where dark horses were rampant.

But fans who bet on them before the game can now make the bookmaker lose a fortune, no matter who wins, it is bad enough.

"The history of the European Champions Cup, after entering the 21st century, ushered in the rarest dark horse showdown in the entire history!"

This is most of the media's evaluation of the two teams in the final, two black horses, this is really a final that can be written into the history of the Champions League.

A pure civilian war, now no one dares to easily predict who will win the final championship, because these two teams are too dark.

There are already more than one or two football experts who have been bullied by them. Porto and Monaco have long slapped the faces of commentators with facts.

"These are two teams full of lunatics. If you don't want to be slapped in the face again by the final result, it's best not to make this prediction lightly."

No one is willing to take this risk again. All the forecasters interviewed practiced Tai Chi. Anyway, it is not surprising to them who wins.

Monaco broke through Real Madrid and Chelsea, and Porto stepped on the bodies of Manchester United and Deportivo into the final. The hands of these two teams were all contaminated. With the blood of those traditional giants, they are definitely not easy to mess with.

A month later, the Arrival at the Schalke Stadium will be a battlefield for Didier Deschamps and Mourinho, where they will use the score to show who is the strongest.

However, the war between the media of the two countries has ignited from the moment the two teams reached the final, and everyone thinks that they are the final winners.

The French, who have always been self-deprecating and elegant, did not show politeness this time. They expressed their desire for the Champions League trophy very bluntly.

And they believe that Deschamps will definitely lead the Monaco team to win the final. When this guy was a player, he was the kind of person who rarely made mistakes.

He will never repeat the mistakes of the Lyon team and Marseille, and Morientes, who has been in a crazy state recently, is also the most promising killer of these Frenchmen.

"There are always some great players in important games and Morientes is one of those players. We wouldn't have reached the final without him. He's definitely a world-class player and has scored a lot of decisive goals. ...with him around, the rest of the team can feel at ease."

It can be seen that after the elimination of Real Madrid, Monaco is most grateful to Florentino for sending Morientes to Monaco.

Even though the Monaco team is very sad about Morientes' annual salary of 400 million euros, they have not obliterated the achievements of the Spaniard.

If it weren't for the strong performance of the Spaniard, maybe the Monaco team would have been eliminated by now. That guy is simply an angel.

And all the French believed that this magical guy would continue his strong state in the final and kill those Portuguese.

However, the Portuguese media responded more directly, "Can Van Nistelrooy and Drogba fail to break through the line of defense, can you score?"

"After killing Marseille and Lyon, Monaco will be the third French team to lose to Porto. We have never been afraid of the French."

Moreover, Monaco had lost to Lyon and Marseille in the league this season, which was even seized by the Portuguese media to ridicule.

"Your defensive line can't even block the footsteps of Marseille and Lyon. Why do you think arrogantly that you can block the iron hoof of the Porto team?"

Indeed, the Porto team's offense is not only as simple as being sharp, but their ability to see through the loopholes in the opponent's defense in an instant is too strong.

Especially the strong and stable midfield combination, whether playing a single striker or a double striker, they will set off a continuous wave of offense.

Deke and Lin Yi, the pair of beasts, respectively occupy the top two assists in the Champions League, which is the transportation line that every striker desires.

Moreover, the offensive ability of McCarthy and Dalley is no worse than that of Morientes. Although the number of goals is not as good as that of the opponent, the effectiveness has always been stable.

They also have a young man like Alberto on the bench, and the Brazilian kid's recent fiery scoring state is also a threat to the Frenchman.

The most important thing is that the Porto team can threaten the opponent's goal players, not only the forwards, but their scoring ability in the midfield is also very strong.

Maniche's long-range shot, Alenichev's inside cut, Costinha's back row plug, and Deco's free kick are all the killers of the Porto team.

But the most terrible thing is that kid Lin Yi's ghostly breakthrough. Now even the French media are looking for a good way to kill that kid for the Monaco team.

But that was a lunatic that even Keane had never stopped. Except for Deportivo who successfully brought him down with a rough foul, no one else had done it.

"It's best not to expect to intercept him one-on-one, because too many teams have suffered from this." This is the advice of the Lyon team.

Looking at Diarra's depressed state after facing that kid, you can know that that kid not only destroys the defense line, but also destroys confidence.

Anyway, the players of the two teams are already gearing up for the decisive battle in private, and no one wants to lose this final.

"This is not just a decisive chess game between two coaches, but a duel between two teams that want to put each other to death." This is what those media who sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, wrote in their newspapers and magazines The title of the article, but this time their mentality seemed very relaxed.

Especially those newspapers and magazines that usually serve as the mouthpieces of the traditional giants, this time, they can comment on everything about the two teams as a bystander.

It’s just that there may be a bit of bitterness in their own hearts. You know, this should belong to their stage, but now, Monaco and Porto have used the record of black to the end to obliterate the extravagant hopes of those fans and supporters of the giants. A very bad feeling.

Compared with those emotional media, Mourinho and Deschamps seem to be sparing words this time, and did not show their edge in the interview.

But no matter how quiet these two guys are, their words will reveal the smell of gunpowder before the war. One sentence per person is enough.

When talking about Porto's dangerous players, Deschamps told reporters: "They have players who can turn the game around with their individual skills at any time, such as Dalley and McCarthy, but the most dangerous are Lin Yi and Deco, but I think I will A way can be found to limit Deco and Lin Yi."

Regarding Deschamps’ remarks, Mourinho admitted that the opponents will definitely focus on their own core, “The coach of the Monaco team will definitely think of various ways to stop Lin Yi and Deco, but I It also found a way for the two of them to make the most of it."

One person said a word, but the smell of gunpowder was already strong enough. These two young marshals would never let the final decisive battle become a performance stage for each other.

Deschamps is very targeted. He is undoubtedly saying that if he wants to beat Porto, he must completely kill Lin Yi and Deco, the two core organizations of Porto.

Want to trap that pair of beasts?There have been too many people who wanted to do this, but they all ended up leaving the stadium with a painful lesson.

And now it is doubtful whether Lin Yi will be able to play. This is what makes the French worry. After all, that kid is really worried.

Especially those French football reporters, they haven't forgotten that when Marseille and Lyon were at home, they were all overturned by that kid.

If the dark-haired kid is indeed going to miss the final with a leg injury, they will be very grateful to Deportivo for what they have done.

However, the Porto team kept Lin Yi's injury secret, and the Portuguese media even sent out all kinds of smoke bombs, which made the French very sad.

After a while, some media said that the kid was likely to be injured this season, and after a while, someone said that Lin Yi had already resumed normal training.

This kind of news, which is both true and false, made the French feel dizzy, and they couldn't tell which news was true.

However, whether Lin Yi will be able to make an appearance is indeed the information that Monaco needs most now. I am afraid this is what Deschamps wants to know the most at the moment. After all, the Porto team has a single midfielder and a double midfielder in the midfield. The tactical difference, the difference is still a bit big.

Didier Deschamps will not ignore the performance of that black-haired kid throughout the Champions League. He is definitely a very dangerous guy.

Now it's not just him who thinks so, too many critics are also looking at this black-haired kid, and most of them are expressing their appreciation.

That's right, after all, there are not many idiots in the world who would question the vision of old men like Ferguson and Wenger. Even if they are optimistic about people, what could be wrong?

"He is only 16 years old. If he can grow up all the way, as long as God doesn't want to destroy him, then his grades will be terrible."

This is what Wenger said in an interview with the French media. As a Frenchman, he must stand on the side of the club in his motherland.

But at the same time, this wise old guy also reminded Deschamps and his Monaco team not to underestimate this kid who is still recovering from injury.

"My old opponent has already proved it with the failure of two games. I will pay a very painful price for underestimating that little guy."

A professor is a professor. While raising Lin Yi's value, he did not forget to step on the Manchester United team. The two old guys' ties are indeed deep enough.

The decisive battle between the media is already raging, but the game is still a month away, and the two teams must continue to fight.

The battle for the Ligue [-] title between Monaco and Lyon is not over yet. In the next four rounds of the league, they will continue to scramble for points.

But Porto's life is much easier. The league has been crowned king in advance, which gives them too much time to adjust the physical fitness and injuries of their players.

Mourinho can now rotate in a large area, and the only game that can be counted as a fierce battle now is the cup final against Benfica.

Before that, Mourinho can at least allow his main players to get about two weeks of adjustment time in order to recover their physical fitness.

A thick bench player can completely complete the league's game tasks during this period of time, and winning or losing is harmless to Porto.

Da Costa has already promised on the plane back home that no matter whether he can win all the next few rounds, all the winning bonuses will be paid out.

The team is busy with the game, and the little guy who is still in the hospital is also sweating profusely doing recovery training under the guidance of the doctor.

"It's my first Champions League final and I don't want to be absent when the meal is served, if that happens I'll die."

The final, wow, what a dazzling stage that will be. . .Lin Yi didn't want to miss this football feast. . .

(End of this chapter)