Super Marshal

When Atletico Madrid defeated Bayern Munich 2-1 at home, AC Milan lost 1-2 away to Lens in Ligue 1, which surprised everyone.

In order to compete with Atletico Madrid for the top spot in the group, the Rossoneri still used their main force in this game, but the Lens team firmly pinched Pirlo to play, and after Shevchenko came back, Ancelo Dee returned to the double striker style of play.

As a result, Inzaghi was in a downturn throughout the game, and AC Milan lost to France.

In this way, the situation of the entire group is basically clear.

Atlético de Madrid will qualify first in the group, AC Milan will be second in the group, and as long as Lens does not lose to Bayern Munich in the sixth round, they can basically keep the third place in the group, and Bayern Munich will temporarily rank fourth.

Such a result puzzled the whole world.

Why is it so powerful that Bayern Munich, which is invincible in the Bundesliga, will be reduced to a group stage without a win?

Even if there is a so-called curse of death due to heat, it is not to this extent, right?

Including the German media, began to accuse and criticize Hitzfeld, but due to the team's outstanding performance in the Bundesliga, coupled with Hitzfeld is the team's meritorious service, Bayern Munich's management giants have stood up to support coach.

But this season Bayern Munich's Champions League journey is over!

Here, after Atletico Madrid had just repelled Bayern Munich, it soon ushered in Vallecano at the Calderon Stadium.

The Sheets, who had just qualified at the top of the UEFA Champions League group, were in full swing. In addition, Gao Han was very familiar with this team in Madrid, so Atletico Madrid scored the first goal in just five minutes of the opening.

After that, Vallecano defended tenaciously, but in the 34th minute, the main central defender made a malicious foul in a defense, was shown a red card, and was directly expelled from the field. Since then, the game has entered garbage time.

Atlético de Madrid first made another victory in the 44th minute, and after changing sides in the second half, in the 52nd, 63rd, 78th and 86th minutes, the Sheets scored consecutive goals, and the momentum was out of control .

In the end, the Sheets defeated Vallecano 6-0 at home and won a hearty victory.

This also shocked the whole of Spain.

In the last round, which is the seventh round of the league, Valencia beat Athletic Bilbao 5-1 at home with Aimar's hat-trick, and Barcelona beat Kluivert's hat-trick 6-1 at home. If the victory over Alaves is not particularly strong, then they have a lot of feelings in this game.

Atletico Madrid suppressed Vallecano in the half court throughout the game, with a possession rate of 69%, which made Vallecano almost unable to play a decent offense throughout the game.

This was achieved when the Sheets Corps did not use their main force.

If it is said that Atletico Madrid was distracted by multi-line battles before, then now, after withdrawing from the European war, they immediately declared their dominance over La Liga with a bloody 6-0.

However, including Valencia, Real Madrid and Barcelona, ​​the strength gap between many strong teams and the middle and lower reaches of the team is gradually widening, which makes many media reporters feel uneasy.

After finishing the league, Atletico Madrid ushered in the knockout round of the Copa del Rey in the second round. The opponent was still a low-level league team, Leonesa.

Gao Han played with a full substitute lineup, and even many young players including Puerta, Gabi, and Cristiano Ronaldo were eligible to start the game. The team easily brought back a 2-0 game from the away game .

Three days later, at the Calderón Stadium, Atletico Madrid defeated Heynckes' Athletic Bilbao cleanly 3-1, making the famous German coach call out the coldness and injustice after the game.

After playing Athletic Bilbao, the Sheets visited the San Siro Stadium.

In the case that the game has completely lost its meaning, the two teams also did not line up all the main lineups. In the end, Atletico Madrid beat AC Milan 1-0 with Baptista's goal.

So far, the six rounds of the first stage group stage of the Champions League have all come to an end.

But the second stage of the group stage quietly kicked off.

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"They said it was the most competitive second group stage ever in the Champions League."

In the coach's office at the Mahadanda Sports City, Gao Han and others are waiting for the results of the UEFA draw. Sergio Garcia talked about the situation of this season's Champions League.

"Of the sixteen teams that entered the second stage, thirteen are from the four major leagues, and the remaining three are Lokomotiv Moscow, Basel in Switzerland and Ajax in the Netherlands."

Gao Han nodded slightly.

Among these three teams, he specifically learned about Ajax, which is quite a good team.

Van der Vaart, Van der Meyde, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Sneijder, Heitinga, Chivu and other players are all very good, and the head coach Ronald Koeman is not a simple character.

Although this young guard has no way to reproduce the peak of the Van Gaal period, at least it has played the style of Ajax, which is quite worthy of recognition.

"According to UEFA's rules, the 16 teams that qualify for the group stage in the first stage are divided into four tiers, and the top team in the group is automatically listed as the seed team, which is divided into the first and second tiers according to the ranking of the European War points. , The eight teams that qualified second in the group were divided into third and fourth pots."

When he said this, Sergio Garcia gave a ghostly smile, "We almost knocked down Valencia, and they only have a little more points than us."

Everyone laughed loudly.

However, according to the tiers, among the four teams in the first tier, La Liga occupies a full three, and the title of the world's first league is considered solid.

These four teams are Real Madrid with the highest points, followed by Manchester United, Deportivo and Valencia.

"According to UEFA rules, when the second stage of the group stage is drawn, the teams from the same country avoid it, and the same group of teams avoid it in the first stage of the group stage. In other words, we have no choice, and we will definitely meet Manchester United."

After everyone heard it, they didn't regret it.

Entering the second stage of the group stage, each team is a well-known strong team in Europe, and there is no such thing as avoiding strong teams.

This is also a major criticism of the Champions League system by everyone in the past few years.

One is the two-stage group stage, there are too many competitions, and the pressure on the participating teams is great.

The second is that the two-stage group stage will test the overall strength of the team even more, and it is difficult to be upset.

Of course, from another perspective, the champions selected by this competition system have higher gold content.

However, including UEFA, it has basically agreed that from the 2003 to 2004 season, the second stage of the group stage will be canceled and replaced by the round of 16 knockout matches.

In this way, the participating teams can play four games less, and the pressure is much less.

But the luck brought by the lottery can also easily create upsets.

Gao Han is not very resistant to touching Manchester United, because La Liga teams have always had certain advantages against Premier League teams with their passing and possession style of play.

"In the third tier, avoid AC Milan, choose one of Leverkusen, Roma and Dortmund."

When everyone heard this, they all looked at Gao Han in unison.

"What are you doing?" Gao Han snorted and laughed, "If I had to choose, I would definitely not want to touch Capello. You know, I have never been interested in Serie A teams."

La Liga defeated the Premier League, but in turn was defeated by Serie A. This is the mainstream trend in the Champions League in recent years.

This is mainly because Serie A wants to take defense very seriously.

Four Serie A teams have entered the top 16 this season. Lippi's Juventus, Cooper's Inter Milan, Ancelotti's AC Milan, Capello's Rome, all four teams are unbreakable. Known for his defense.

Strictly speaking, Atletico Madrid and AC Milan did not decide the outcome in the group stage, because in the last round, the Rossoneri basically gave up at their home court and concentrated on preparing for the league.

But even so, Atletico Madrid only won one goal.

These days, whoever plays the Serie A team knows!

"If it is Leverkusen and Dortmund, I will be more sure." Gao Han laughed.

These two teams have performed poorly this season. Although they both qualified for the group stage, they are only in second place. The problems and weaknesses are obvious, and Gao Han will be more confident in dealing with it.

As for the four teams in the fourth tier, Newcastle is the most difficult to play, but with Manchester United, they must avoid it.

The remaining three teams, Lokomotiv Moscow, Ajax and Basel, don't matter.

"As you wish, my Mr. Gao Han!"

Sergio Garcia imitated the magician's tone and said with a smile.

Everyone was also amused by him.

But when the results of the lottery came out, their mood was not so ideal.

Gao Han's wish was only half fulfilled, maybe even only one third.

Atletico Madrid's team in the first tier is indeed Manchester United, which is already a firm fact, but the team in the third tier did not draw Dortmund and Leverkusen, but Rome, which Gao Han was most unwilling to meet.

The team in the fourth tier did not encounter the stronger Ajax, but Basel in Switzerland.

Serie A, Serie A again!

Why is there such a relationship between me and Serie A?

When Gao Han saw the result of the lottery, he kept smiling wryly.

Of course, the other groups weren't much better off.

Real Madrid drew Juventus, Borussia Dortmund and Lokomotiv Moscow.

Valencia drew Arsenal, AC Milan and Ajax.

Deportivo drew Inter Milan, Leverkusen and Newcastle.

It should be said that Deportivo was the saddest, being drawn into the death group in the second stage of the group stage.

"Irueta is probably about to cry!" Gao Han expressed deep sympathy to him.

The state of Super Depor this season is not ideal, multi-line combat, although the thickness of the team's bench is good, but the injury of Belleron has caused Irueta a headache, and the league performance is not satisfactory.

If it weren't for the first stage of the group stage and being drawn into the weakest group, Deportivo might not have been able to qualify.

Not to mention, like Atletico Madrid, they are the first to qualify in the group with six wins and six wins.

Now, entering the second stage, the feng shui finally turned, and it was Deportivo's turn to face the death group.

"You said, should I make a phone call to comfort Irueta?" Gao Han asked with a smile.

Everyone was also amused.

Gao Han probably held back long enough, and it was finally his turn to gloat.