Mister Legend

Chapter 435 The Unsung Marseillaise
After taking a break from his busy schedule to get together with his good friends, Li Moody immediately returned to Italy. The team will soon go to the famous Velodrome Stadium to challenge the Ligue [-] powerhouse Marseille on Thursday night. This crucial battle that set the tone for the final results of this group of semi-finals naturally required all-out preparations.It's just that there are a lot of things that have interfered with the Turin coach in the past few days, which slightly disrupted his previous plans.

Last Thursday, the British "Daily Mail" suddenly published an article, claiming that Arsenal Club intends to invite Vieira, the former team captain and currently coaching the New York City team, to replace Wenger this summer. The handsome position made the news of the professor's resignation sweep across the entire British Isles in an instant.

And when many people thought that this was another false news, Wenger issued a personal statement through the club's official website the next day, announcing that he would step down as the team coach after the end of the season. Thus officially ended his nearly 22-year Gunners coaching career.An uproar finally arrived.

In his short statement, he expressed his infinite gratitude to the Arsenal club, staff, players, directors and fans, and finally said the words that made all the gun fans cry, "I will always love and support Arsenal. Satisfied", so that everyone who heard it was moved.

Afterwards, almost all the famous Gunners, active players, and the head coaches of many Premier League teams stood up to express their respect and reluctance for the professor. Even Ferguson, who has enjoyed retirement for many years, made a rare appearance , praised his old opponent well, which can be regarded as a proof of Wenger's greatness.

Although he had known for a long time that the professor would resign after the end of the season, but after learning of his official announcement, Li Moody still had some unusual sentimentality, so he also wrote a tribute to his idol on the social networking site , and also posted the "meeting in the final" that the two had privately agreed upon.Unexpectedly, while getting praise from many Gunners fans, it also ushered in criticism from many Atletico Madrid fans and Marseille fans, and was treated as an anecdote by the outside world.

It was only on Friday night that Arsenal Club CEO Ivan Gazidis held a press conference to officially confirm the departure of the team's meritorious coach.What is intriguing is that, as the party involved, Wenger himself did not attend, which made the outside world smell a little strange.

The "Wall Street Journal" broke the news on Saturday, which revealed all the inside stories about the change of Arsenal's head coach. The article pointed out that Wenger's resignation was not voluntary, but received an ultimatum from the Arsenal board. will suffer the humiliation of dismissal.In the past year, the Arsenal club has actually been making unremitting efforts to "de-Wengerization".Prior to this, Dick Law, Wenger's right-hand man and the club's chief negotiator, left the Emirates Stadium, and Victor Akers, who joined the club's women's football at the same time as the professor and has worked in various positions for the Arsenal for more than 30 years, will also Leaving the team after this season means that the club has completely changed.

I don't know how other people will react to these news. Anyway, Li Moody is very upset. No matter what the team's recent record is, just look at the contributions the professor has made to Arsenal in the past 22 years. With due respect, the job of a head coach is really too difficult!

On Tuesday night, the first round of the Champions League semi-final clash was the first game. Liverpool, sitting at Anfield Stadium, showed their prowess. In the No. 608 minute of the game, they took a 5-0 lead, showing an invincible momentum.However, due to the slackness of the defense and the tenacity of the Roma players, the final score was fixed at 5 to 2. Although the three-goal gap is not small, considering the various reversals and With the emergence of an almost reversal situation, Klopp's team obviously cannot completely relax, but their advantage is indeed large enough in theory.

On the second night, at the Allianz Arena in Munich, Real Madrid, the defending champion for two consecutive years, even won an away victory 2-1 after playing an extremely bad game, which shocked everyone's eyes.In this campaign, the Bundesliga overlord has a possession rate of up to [-]%, and far surpasses their opponents in terms of shooting statistics.However, the Polish striker Lewandowski, who had been rumored to have a transfer scandal with Real Madrid before, suddenly fell into an inexplicable downturn. The two generals of Teng lost the central midfielder Martinez in the second half, which is really unlucky.

In the end, relying on Marcelo's long-range shot and Asensio, who came off the bench, took advantage of the opponent's defender's mistake to fight back, Real Madrid "unreasonably" won an away victory and took the initiative to advance.However, since they were almost defeated by Juventus at home in the last round, the lead of this goal is not very reliable. The suspense of this matchup is much greater than that of Liverpool and Rome.

However, after this campaign, the Galaxy Battleship also created a number of important records. They became the first team to achieve 150 victories in the Champions League, and also tied Barcelona's record of 306 European victories.And Ronaldo also received good news. Although his record of scoring goals in eleven consecutive Champions League games was interrupted, his 96th Champions League victory still allowed him to surpass the former Real Madrid captain Casillas. Became the player with the most wins in the history of the Champions League, which also added a heavy weight to his possible promotion to the top of the ball.

After watching the live broadcast of the game at the hotel in Marseille and sending congratulatory messages to the Real Madrid soldiers, Moody Li washed up and lay down to rest.Although he brought his usual pillows at home, he found that his symptoms of poor rest seemed to be getting worse after changing the bed. It was a tossing night, and he was always in a state of confusion, and he hardly entered the depth of 1 minute. sleep.Although his own biological clock still reliably gave a signal around five o'clock, the Turin coach who had been worried about the evening game did not stay in bed and got up early, but his mental outlook was still relatively bad. He kept yawning, looking a little sluggish.

And the players of the Torino team also had many tired faces on their faces, and they obviously couldn't sleep well. It seems that everyone still felt the tremendous pressure brought by the semi-finals.This can't be blamed for their lack of professionalism. After all, except for Casillas, the honored veteran, the rest of the team has never had the experience of playing to such a deep stage in the European war. In such a good situation, it is still difficult to maintain a normal mind.This is also the weakest link of the young Red Bulls in the semi-finals. They have too little experience in major competitions, and they don't have many opportunities to play against foreign strong teams. Take the opportunity to directly KO.

And their opponent today, the Marseille team, is undoubtedly a veteran team with rich experience in the European war, stable combat power, and good at seizing all the loopholes of the opponent.So although the two teams are at the same level and inferior to Atletico Madrid and Arsenal in terms of winning odds, bookmakers and most professionals are still slightly more optimistic about the odds of winning and losing in this group of matchups. Team A some.After all, football and even the entire sports circle have always valued experience more. In the pure confrontation between talent and experience, the latter is often more valued, not to mention the situation where the strength gap between the two parties is not obvious on paper. down.

Founded in 1899, Olympic Marseille Football Club is a well-known club in French football and even in the whole world. It has won nine Ligue 1993 championships in history, ten French Cup championships and three French league titles. cup champion.Most importantly, the team won the only UEFA Champions League in French history in [-]. This honor alone can make them one of the faces of French football, preventing them from winning seven consecutive league titles. Lyon, which won the crown, has nothing to do with Paris, which now dominates the world.

The heyday of this team was undoubtedly in the early and mid-90s of the last century. It dominated the domestic league for four consecutive years, and also defeated the powerful AC Milan at the Olympic Stadium in Munich and won the Big Ear Cup. It's in full swing.Butters, Desailly, Deschamps, Boksic, Vorrell...these all became world-class stars in the future, and they were the main force of that Champions League champion.And if the time frame is extended to the period when they narrowly lost to Red Star Belgrade on penalties in the final two years ago, Papan, Wald and Abedi Bailey were all well-known big names in world football at that time Star, the team was definitely considered the top existence in Europe at that time.

It's just that in 1993, in order to ensure that while winning the league, they can preserve the physical fitness of the main players to the greatest extent, the Marseille club actually bribed the players of the opponent Valenciennes team.As a result, after the Dongchuang incident, they were not only sentenced to be deprived of the Ligue [-] championship that season, but also ordered to be relegated to Ligue [-] and not allowed to upgrade or participate in European competitions within one year. The club chairman Bened Tapie was also sentenced to one year in prison .

It was easy to guess what happened next. The tree fell and the monkeys scattered, and all the main forces turned to other places. The invincible army that dominated France for a while could not escape the end of collapse.

Fortunately, UEFA did not deprive them of the Champions League title, so Marseille supporters have a little comfort.But at the beginning of 2006, former Marseille player Edlie actually broke the news to the media. Before the Champions League final, Marseille players collectively injected unknown drugs at the request of the coaching staff. Only German striker Rudy Wöhler refused this. Order.Because other players at the time denied this statement, and after many years, the drug testing technology at that time was relatively backward, so the truth of the facts cannot be further explored, but this undoubtedly brought an extremely bad impact on the club. , so that everyone always avoids 1993 intentionally or unintentionally when talking about the history of the Champions League, which can be regarded as an anecdote in football.

However, Marseille's luck is still good. First, it was supported by Adidas boss Rob Louis Dreyfuss, and then it was acquired by the wealthy American businessman Frank McCourt in 2016. The team finally recovered some Ligue 2010 football. The shadow of the strong team.Although they only won the league championship once in 2010 after entering the new world, they also won the runner-up and third place. They also completed three consecutive games in the French League Cup championship in the 13-[-] season, and their strength is still not to be underestimated.

Only limited by the lack of its own strength, as well as the strong rise of Paris, the revival of teams such as Monaco and Lyon, the results of the Marseille team in recent seasons have not been ideal, once fourth, once fifth, and once No.13, the best thing is to participate in the European League. It has been four years since I missed the Champions League.

So they increased their investment in signings in these two seasons. In the 2016 European Cup, the French team's main midfielder Payet, the experienced goalkeeper Mandanda, and the central defender Rami who played for AC Milan and Valencia , the winger Florian Thauvin, who has just been promoted to the Gallic Rooster national team, and many other stars have joined, making this veteran team a championship contender that cannot be ignored in the eyes of the outside world before the start of the season.

However, the great success of Paris still made this season's Ligue 69 lose suspense early, but after losing Mbappé and other cores, Monaco is also no longer prestige, which gave Marseille a chance to win the Champions League and even the league. Runner up chance.As of last weekend, they temporarily accumulated 2 points, ranking fourth behind Lyon with the same score difference, and No.50 Monaco is only one point more than those two teams.Considering that Nice, which temporarily ranks fifth, only has [-] points, the second, third and fourth rankings in Ligue [-] this season are just the competition between these three teams.

Since Ligue [-] has only two seats in the Champions League and one qualifying match, you can imagine how fierce the battle between them is.And Li Moody is also looking forward to this factor can exert some effect on the state of Marseille players during the Europa League semi-finals.

Unfortunately, at least before the first round, his wish was not fulfilled.Heme, who played in the domestic league one day earlier than the Turin team, still defeated Lille, who was in the relegation circle, 5-1 at home without bloodshed, even though they had rotated four main players in the midfield. While Monaco and Lyon were under heavy pressure, they didn't make the team encounter any decent difficulties.Not only did the players not suffer from injuries, but they didn't even consume a lot of physical energy. It is foreseeable that they will be in a full state in the game five days later.

Compared with Qi Zu's metaphysics, it can continuously cause injuries or red card suspensions to the opponent's generals (Neymar and Verratti in Paris, Pjanic and Mandzukic in Juventus, and Bayern even added pre-match losses. Four generals at the back of Vidal were injured, and Zidane's "magnificent performance" in the Champions League has become a topic that fans all over the world are talking about recently), but Li Mudi, the genuine "Oriental Wizard", seems to be an idiot, not only He didn't succeed in making the opponent get a negative buff, but his own team was reduced, which is really incompetent.

(End of this chapter)