road to victory

Chapter 228 The end of the group stage

After the league ended, Bordeaux embarked on a plane heading north. Four hours later, the plane landed on the west coast of Sweden.

This is the penultimate game of the UEFA Champions League group stage, and Bordeaux challenged Gothenburg away.Gothenburg is located in the Kattegat Strait on the west coast of Sweden. It is the outlet of the largest river in Sweden - the Göta River. The city has a population of about 90 and is a beautiful harbor city.

Although the latitude of Gothenburg is 10 degrees higher than that of Bordeaux, the weather in the two places is almost the same. Bordeaux does not have the discomfort of going to Russia and Ukraine.

Because of this, Gothenburg's home advantage has been greatly weakened. Bordeaux beat their opponents 2:1 at home in Gothenburg, and they won 4 wins and 1 tie in the European Champions Cup group stage. This record is enough for Bordeaux to be proudly ranked in the group No.1.Of course, Bordeaux has secured the only fixed promotion place in this group one round ahead of schedule.

It is even easier to compete with other opponents in the group. It depends on how many points Bayern Munich, the second in the group, can score. After the end of this round, they have accumulated 9 points. In the next game, they will play against Gothenburg at home. If they win the record of 12 points They will have a great advantage over the two teams with the best results in their competition for second place.

Other groups also have advanced teams. The defending champion Dortmund in Group A is now ahead of No.2 Parma by 4 points and won the first place in the group ahead of schedule.

Manchester United in Group B is also the same, they are as many as 2 points ahead of No.6 Juventus, so they also advance ahead of schedule.

In Group C, without Shevchenko, Dynamo Kiev still maintains a dark horse status. They are now ranked first in the group, leading No.2 Feynord with 3 points. As long as they are unbeaten in the last round, You will be able to advance smoothly.And the most surprising thing about this group is Barcelona. The Spanish giants only accumulated 4 points after the end, and they are at the bottom of the group. Although they are now in a transition period, they are definitely not so miserable in terms of their own strength.

The form of Group D is more complicated than the previous groups. Real Madrid and Rosenborg have the same 10 points. It depends on the result of the last round. Now Real Madrid temporarily ranks first with the advantage of goal difference.

Group E is where Bordeaux belongs. Although Vincent thinks the results are justified, in the eyes of the outside world, Bordeaux, like Dynamo Kiev and Rosenborg, are the dark horses of this tournament. Whoever is darker will have to win. Let's see who goes far in the end.

Group F also has the phenomenon of two teams with the same points. Monaco and Levkusen have 12 points, and the final round of the two teams will determine the top of the group.Looking at it now, Monaco is undoubtedly the dominant side, and their goal difference is three more than that of Lewukusen.

Although Bordeaux have already qualified for the group stage, Vincent does not want to let them go and cannot let them go in the last round of the match against Besiktas at home.

Before this game, Bordeaux still had a league game, but the result of this league game made Fan Shang not very satisfied. They were tied 2:2 by Metz who came to challenge at home.Bordeaux scored goals from Shevchenko and Papin who had returned from injury.

What Fan Shang is most dissatisfied with today is actually Chilavert's state. He needs to pay certain responsibilities for today's two goals. One chance for an empty goal, and the second one was caused by his throwing the ball away.

But there is no way. Chilavert has not rested in a game since the beginning of the season. Although he is a goalkeeper, even a god is in a bad state. Fan Shang is relieved to be here.In fact, Fan Shang also wanted Chilavert to take a break, but looking at the young goalkeeper Alduni on the bench, Fan Shang decisively gave up this idea.

Now Fan Shang suddenly wants to add a substitute goalkeeper to the signing plan during the winter break. The key is a willing substitute goalkeeper, and he has to be decent.To be honest, the most difficult thing to find in a team is a good backup goalkeeper. Generally, a goalkeeper with a little ability would rather be the main player in a team that is slightly worse than play as a substitute in a wealthy team.

Next is the home game against Besiktas. In this game, Fan Shang did not send all the main players. Fan Shang once again sacrificed the chopper brigade. Every butcher was arranged by Fan Shang on the field. Black and hard or tall and strong, anyway, all the lethal players in Bordeaux were thrown onto the court by Vincent, Lamotte, Gattuso, Makelele and others, and the Vincent players kicked casually in this game , the most important and most important thing is to fight against the Turkish players to the maximum extent without receiving a red card, and Vincent's game allowed the players to use all their dirty methods to suppress the bottom of the box.

It is obvious that Fan Shang doesn't care about the outcome of this match at all, as long as he plays aggressively, the result doesn't matter, anyway, he has already qualified ahead of time, just because Besiktas is not pleasing to the eye, what can you do!
Sure enough, the players followed Vincent’s wishes today, and they didn’t look like they were going to play football. It looked like a gang fight on the street. Within 2 minutes of the game, Gattuso got a card in the midfield for shoveling a Turkish player. yellow card.

This yellow card just allowed Gattuso to rest in the stands in the first game of the knockout stage with peace of mind.However, it may be that Gattuso was not very satisfied with this yellow card. In the following games, his actions did not converge for half a point, so Gattuso received two yellow cards and a red card before halftime in the second half.

"It's really a good deal." Fan Shang said to Gattuso who walked off the field, "The red card and yellow card suspension are combined into one game."

Gattuso could hear that Fan Shang's tone was a bit unfriendly, so he didn't dare to speak.

"What did I tell you before the game? I don't care about the rest, just don't give me a red card, you," Fan Shang shouted at Gattuso angrily, pointing at him continuously, and then waved his hand helplessly, letting Gattuso Tu Suo quickly disappeared from sight.

Gattuso felt amnesty at this time, and quickly sat back on the bench with his head down.

It was completely like a fight on the field today, and the two teams seemed to have no other game skills except for fouls.A few minutes after Gattuso was sent off, Turkish player Taifur also received a second yellow card for pulling Tony in the penalty area and was sent off.

Bordeaux finally won the hand-to-hand battle with a score of 1:0 with a penalty kick here. It was goalkeeper Chilavert who scored the penalty kick.

In this game, besides Gattuso, Dacourt also received a yellow card in Bordeaux, and he will sit in the stands with Gattuso in the next game.

(End of this chapter)