Ultimate Demon Sword

Chapter 248 Top of the List
In addition to Atletico Madrid and Manchester United, the other teams are Juventus VS Bayern Munich, Barcelona VS Liverpool, Manchester City VS Real Madrid.

As soon as the lottery results came out, Spain's "Marca", "Mundo Deportivo" and Germany's "Bild" all applauded.The media of the two countries also predicted that this year's Champions League semi-finals will be surrounded by the top three of La Liga.

Such predictions obviously made the British media lose face. The British media, including the "Guardian" and "The Sun", began to make suggestions for the three Premier League teams and expose the shortcomings of the La Liga teams.

In recent years, Real Madrid and Barcelona have taken turns to win the UEFA Champions League, and the overall strength of La Liga teams has made the Premier League, which is used to claiming itself as the world's first league, feel that its status is not guaranteed. Although the FA has continuously tightened labor certification restrictions to ensure the brand value and appreciation of the league, it is an indisputable fact that the overall weakness of the Premier League teams. In the 2011-12 season, Chelsea reached the top, which was the most brilliant Champions League record in the Premier League in recent years, but five seasons have passed, and the current Champions League champion is more and more like the possession of the La Liga giants, so the British media will pay special attention to this full-scale confrontation between the Premier League team and the top three of La Liga.

If they can perform well, the status of the world's No. [-] league will be stable for the time being, but once they are completely defeated, even if the British media continue to support them with software such as commercial value, they will look like they can't afford to lose, and hide behind closed doors to entertain themselves.

In fact, not only the media in the countries where these eight teams are located are paying attention to the UEFA Champions League draw, but the mainstream media in Europe have also paid a lot of attention.However, these unrelated third-party media are not satisfied with the result of the lottery.

why?
Not exciting enough!
Although all of them can be regarded as strong dialogues, there is not a single match between Mars and Earth that really makes people soar with adrenaline!

The Dutch Telegraph questioned: "Although these four confrontations are of high level, none of them are the heavyweight peak matchups we expected. The Spanish national derby, the Madrid derby, the Manchester derby... UEFA's 'careful arrangement' perfectly avoided all possible early peak duels."

UEFA is not trying to whet everyone's appetite deliberately. In order to ensure the quality of the semi-finals and finals, the focus of the quarter-finals should not be too many.It is also necessary to balance the interests of the giant clubs. After all, the eye-catching ability of the Champions League mainly depends on them.

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The Champions League quarter-final draw was one of the highlights of the weekend, but it was the media and bookmakers who were even more enthusiastic about it.For the coaches and players of each team, the top priority is still the continuation of the league.

In the eighth round of No.20 in La Liga, Atletico Madrid returned to their home court to face Celta Vigo.The countdown to the final ten rounds of the championship, even against the middle and lower teams, there is no room for any mistakes.

The final decision between the strong teams is not just the record against each other, the results against the middle and lower teams are often especially critical.

In layman's terms, the stronger and more stable the ability to abuse food, the greater the probability of winning the championship in the end.And also facing the middle and lower reaches of the team, a mistake may be widened the gap.

The title rivals closely related to Atletico Madrid are not easy to play this round. Valencia faces Seville in an away game, and Barcelona challenges Malaga as a guest.Although Malaga is deep in the relegation zone, their strong desire to relegation often prompts them to break out with stronger combat effectiveness at this time.In the five major leagues, there are not many cases of relegation teams upset and beat strong teams in the final stage of the league.Moreover, Barcelona's schedule during this period has much less rest time than Atletico Madrid.

Over the weekend, La Liga's No.20 eight rounds started in full swing.Barcelona played a day earlier than Atletico Madrid.In the away game against Malaga, Valverde made a large-scale rotation.

According to Barcelona's overall absolute strength advantage, even if the lineup is rotated, there should be no suspense about the outcome of the opponents who have lost two consecutive games.

Even though Malaga had a bus at home, Barcelona still scored an early goal in the No. 16 minute. Messi made a cross after getting rid of the three in the left corridor, and Suarez outflanked the goal in the middle.

Malaga, who was scored a goal, did not do what Barcelona wished, in order to fight against the attack at all costs. Instead, like a frightened bird, it resolutely shrunk the penalty area.

No matter how you look at it, Malaga seems to have too much difference in strength, so it has to do it.But now Barcelona lacks the absolute penetrating ability to pass the ball into the opponent's goal during Guardiola's time. After nearly 10 minutes, Barcelona almost pushed the opponent to the front of the penalty area, but the second goal was mysteriously delayed.

In football, squandering chances is punished.There were only three set kicks in the game, and Malaga, who shot twice, pierced Barcelona's goal with the only shot on target. The 22-year-old young central defender Diego Gonzalez beat Mascherano in a set kick to equalize the score.

Barcelona was upset, the Madrid media was excited, Atletico Madrid's chance to reach the top has come!
In this season, Atletico Madrid used a strong performance to make many fans and media who were neutral between the two Madrid teams fall to their side.And Atletico Madrid did not live up to everyone's expectations.

In the game that debuted a day later, Atletico Madrid defeated Celta 2:1 at home. Wen Zhihao and Costa shot each other. Griezmann also had a chance to add to the cake, but was rejected by the crossbar twice.On the night when Atletico Madrid reached the top, he was destined to fail to score.

In another game, Valencia and Sevilla staged a goal battle, and finally Valencia won 4:3 thrillingly.

After 28 rounds, Barcelona and Atletico Madrid have the same 66 points. According to La Liga's scoring rules, if the points are the same, the results of the two teams will be compared, followed by the goal difference.The advantage of Atletico Madrid's home and away double over Barcelona is reflected. In the case of the same score, they overtook Barcelona in one fell swoop. After four years, they took the top spot in the second half of the league for the first time.

However, the Chinese media used the Chinese folk saying "It's easy to beat the country, but it's hard to stay in the country" to warn Atletico Madrid not to be careless. Barcelona, ​​which has occupied the top position for more than half a season, is a lesson from the past, and the real winner is the one who persists until the end.

Although they are very cautious on the surface, in fact, Chinese reporters and fans have long been happy in their hearts.The first five major league championship trophies for Chinese players seem to be not far away.What makes everyone even more proud is that Wen Zhihao's role in this process can be described as the greatest contribution.

In addition, Valencia, ranked third, continued to catch up with Atletico Madrid by only one point, ranking third with 65 points.Although the defending champion Real Madrid beat Eibar 4:0, there is already as much as [-] points behind the top three, and the defense is basically hopeless.

While the media is paying attention to the championship situation, it can't help but sigh.

30 years in Hedong and 30 years in Hexi, the La Liga championship is still a game of feng shui in the final analysis.

In the past, the protagonists were only Real Madrid and Barcelona for a long time. This year—perhaps in the future, there will be one more banker.

(End of this chapter)