i am a football star

Chapter 138 Protection of Art Football
Liverpool and Manchester United drew 1:1, and the first round of the semi-finals in the other half of the Champions League was also a draw. Barcelona was tied 0:0 at home by Chelsea.

In the match between Liverpool and Manchester United, although Ferguson criticized the referee after the game that Liu Ting's counterattack goal was improper, but in general the penalty of this game was not too controversial. After the game, Xavi Alonso did not foul before Cristiano Ronaldo's fall. It was just that he fell to the ground and wanted a penalty as soon as he was touched by Ronaldo. Instead, Liverpool counterattacked, which was a bit of a steal.

For being criticized for diving, Ronaldo is also commonplace. He himself said in front of reporters before the World Player of the Year award: "Only great players will dive, because they are always guarded by their opponents. Maradona and Pele are very good at diving. Maradona also made him the king of the ball with a handball goal. I don't think there is anything wrong with my diving."

Because of this remark, when Ronaldo later claimed that he was better than Pele and Maradona, others responded with "his diving is indeed better than Pele and Maradona combined".

There is not much problem with the penalty of Liverpool and Manchester United, but the penalty of Barcelona and Chelsea on the other side has been controversial.

The referee for the match between Barcelona and Chelsea was the German Stark, and his judgments continued to be controversial.

During the game, Chelsea defender Bosingwa had an obvious foul on Henry in the penalty area, but Stark turned a blind eye, which was a point of controversy.

The other is that Chelsea used lethal tactics in this game, but the German referee's penalty scale was particularly loose, and it was normal for him to indicate that many big moves were made.

The most obvious thing is that Ballack, who is also a German with the referee, restrained Iniesta throughout the game. His method was that Iniesta shoveled the ball as soon as he got the ball. The shovel made Iniesta dare not take the ball, and he passed it as soon as he got the ball. Ballack defended in this way and only received a yellow card. In the 80th minute, Iniesta caught the ball and was about to shoot.

In short, the referee's scale gave Chelsea a great advantage, so they drew 0:0 with Barcelona in the away game. Chelsea took the lead, and it is believed that the promotion initiative has been transferred to Chelsea.

There is a reason why Barcelona is not favored. This season, the Barcelona trident composed of Messi, Henry and Eto'o was not blocked at home for the first time. In the second round, Barcelona captain Puyol will accumulate yellow cards and suspend the game. Barcelona will go to an away game against Real Madrid on the weekend.

In the middle of the season, Barcelona led Real Madrid by as much as 12 points, but then Barcelona fought in three lines while Real Madrid only had one line in the league. Real Madrid, who focused on the league, has already caught up with the score. Now it is only 4 points behind Barcelona. If they can beat Barcelona at home, Real Madrid will only be behind by 1 point.

Therefore, the media believed that even if Barcelona defeated Real Madrid at the Bernabeu, it would be a strenuous and narrow victory. Even if they fought hard, they could not score three points. It would be difficult for the exhausted Barcelona to defeat Chelsea in London.

From the history of Barcelona, ​​​​in the European competition, Barcelona has no history of being tied at home and away to advance. The most recent is the semi-finals of the Champions League last season.

In this context, Barcelona's mouthpieces started all kinds of reports with the theme of 'protecting artistic football'. Catalan newspapers clearly reminded UEFA and Platini to protect offensive football artistic football teams like Barcelona, ​​​​and not let referees' fatuous and rough fouls ruin the game.

Chelsea didn't respond to this, thinking that Barcelona couldn't afford to lose and yelled everywhere, but Liu Ting knew that after the second round of the Champions League semi-final, Chelsea would be miserable when they returned to the home court.

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The second round of the semi-finals will not start until the middle of next week, and there will be a Premier League game on the weekend.

Liverpool's opponent is Newcastle United, which is currently ranked 18th, and Manchester United's opponent is Middlesbrough, who is ranked 19th. Both face relegation teams in the relegation zone.

Facing the relegation team, no one can say that it is easy to win. Manchester United and Liverpool are both likely to capsize.

The time for Manchester United to play one less game has been determined, and it will be played between the 5th and 13th rounds of the Premier League on May 36.

On May 5, the 2th round of the Premier League came, and Manchester United played 35 hours earlier. They defeated Middlesbrough 4-2 in the away game and got three points, temporarily surpassing Liverpool to rise to the top of the list.

In the evening, Liverpool's home game against Newcastle United came, and Owen returned to Anfield again, but this time he sat on the bench.

Liverpool's Gerrard started from injury. Liverpool recently changed to 442 from Torres' injury. Today's midfield starters are Harvey Alonso, Mascherano, Gerrard and Modric.

In the 22nd minute, Liu Ting received a strong volley from the left side of the penalty area from Harvey Alonso and scored to help Liverpool take the lead. Liu Ting's consecutive league goals or assists will continue.

In the 28th minute, Dirk Dirk scored with a header from a corner kick, and Liverpool extended the score to 2:0.

Modric also scored in the second half to help Liverpool seal the victory. Liverpool defeated Newcastle United 3-0 at home, still on the same points as Manchester United, who had one round less, and returned to the top of the list relying on the goal difference advantage.

Gerrard, who returned from injury and started the game, performed averagely. It can only be said that he is quite satisfactory. It seems that he is still looking for form, and Liverpool's once golden boy Owen did not perform well when he came off the bench for Newcastle United in the second half.

英超的冠军悬念还将继续下去，利物浦目前以23胜11平1负积80分，少赛一轮的曼联是25胜5平4负同积80分，但在净胜球上利物浦多过曼联9个。

Chelsea ranked third with 74 points, Arsenal ranked fourth with 3 points, and Aston Villa, ranked fifth, has fallen behind Arsenal by 68 points after this round. With only 4 rounds left in the league, they lost the competition for the Champions League qualification ahead of schedule. Villa only has one FA Cup title to compete with Chelsea.

In the league scorer list, Anelka scored a goal in Chelsea's 3:1 victory over Fulham this round. The number of goals reached 17, as many as Ronaldo.

Liu Ting scored 13 goals in the league after scoring this round, ranking fifth in the scorer list. In front of him are Gerrard, Ronaldo, Anelka and Torres. Liverpool occupies three of the top five scorers in the league.

The assist list has obvious advantages. Liu Ting ranks first with 14 assists, followed by Lampard with 10 assists. With only 3 rounds left in the league, Liu Ting has almost locked in the best assist player.

Liverpool's opponents in the last three rounds are the desperate West Ham United, West Bromwich Albion, which is almost relegated at the bottom of the ranking, and Tottenham Hotspur in the last round.

For Liverpool, there is only one Tottenham that may cause them trouble.

Manchester United's opponents in the last three rounds are Manchester City in the next round, Arsenal in the penultimate round and Hull City in the last round, and of course there will be a make-up match against Portsmouth.

Portsmouth ranks in the middle, and Hull City did not succeed in relegation but the pressure is not great. It is difficult for these two teams to cause trouble for Manchester United. It still depends on whether Manchester City and Arsenal can cause trouble for Manchester United. As long as Manchester United loses one of these two games and Liverpool wins the rest of the game, the championship will be Liverpool, because it is difficult to recover a goal difference of 9 with only three rounds left.

For Manchester United, the good thing is that the games against Manchester City and Arsenal are played at home.

The Premier League championship situation is still complicated, but the four giants have occupied four Champions League places in advance. Manchester City, which has invested a lot of money to challenge the status of the four giants this season, may not even qualify for the UEFA Cup.

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This weekend's game, the most shocking game in Europe appeared in La Liga. Real Madrid was slaughtered by Barcelona 2:6 at home in the national derby. This is a tragedy that shocked Europe.

No one expected that what was thought to be a spark hitting the earth would turn into a one-sided massacre. Before the game, there were even more media who believed that Real Madrid would win at home, but the result was so unimaginable.

In this game, Messi and Henry both scored twice, Pique and Puyol added to the cake, and Messi also proved his status as the hottest star in Europe in the first battle.

This is Real Madrid's worst loss to Barcelona in an official game, but this is not the biggest score in the Spanish national derby. Real Madrid defeated Barcelona 11:1 in the Copa del Rey in the early years, and also defeated Barcelona 8:2 in the league.

The 11:1 victory over Barcelona was a fantastic match. That year, Real Madrid met Barcelona in the Copa del Rey. In the first round, Barcelona defeated Real Madrid 3:0 at home. In the second round, Barcelona led 1:0 in the first half. During the intermission, a bunch of soldiers with machine guns rushed into the visiting team's locker room. Then, in the second half, Real Madrid scored 11 goals in a row to reverse Barcelona.

At that time, the Spanish dictator Franco ruled. Franco liked Real Madrid and disliked Barcelona, ​​so that miraculous scene appeared. This was also repeatedly cited by FIFA as an example to show that football cannot be interfered by the government.

However, this is useless. The football associations in Asia, Africa and other countries are basically subordinate agencies of the government. The government just controls the football association in a different way. Even in Europe, the football association is also involved with the government, but its independence is relatively higher.

This disastrous defeat caused Real Madrid to lose the competition for the La Liga title. The Madrid media all said that "Barcelona ends La Liga".

There are only 4 rounds left in La Liga, and Barcelona is 7 points ahead of Real Madrid. La Liga is the relationship between equal points and priority comparison. Barcelona this season beats Real Madrid 2:0 at home and 6:2 away, which means that in the next 4 rounds, Barcelona only needs to score 5 points to win.

The most direct impact is that the pressure on Chelsea has increased, and many people have come forward to say that Barcelona can eliminate Chelsea in the away game.

At the same time, Barcelona's mouthpiece began to reiterate the slogan of protecting artistic football. Barcelona's 6-2 away victory over Real Madrid was used as an example, claiming that it was a game without ugly interference, as if it was a crime not to take care of Barcelona.

If the Real Madrid players knew that they would lose so badly, they would definitely be willing to learn from Chelsea and play as ugly as they can.

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