Hero of the Penalty Area

Chapter 191: The Influence of Two-line Warfare (The guarantee is the first one, ask for a monthly pass!)

On February 23, the first round of the Champions League quarter-finals ended.

For the Italian team, the tone of the first round of the game is sad and desperate.

AC Milan and Roma were both upset, losing to their opponents in their home games. Among them, AC Milan lost 0:1 to Tottenham Hotspur, while Roma was even worse, letting the opponent score three goals at home and losing to Shakhtar Donetsk 2:3.

The supporters of Inter Milan laughed at AC Milan first, and then at Roma, but they were also unlucky right afterwards. They lost to Bayern Munich 0:1 at home.

Of the four Italian teams that have reached the top sixteen, only Naples' performance is exciting. They beat Lyon 4-0 at home.

No wonder the "Gazzetta dello Sport" will say that February 22 "is a sad day for Italian football".

The two giants of Milan all broke down on their home courts. The traditional strong team Roma was even lost to a team from Ukraine. The pride of Italian football needs a grassroots team like Naples to defend it, which is really impressive. Ironically……

Italian football is indeed going downhill.

This reality makes many Italian fans feel sad.

If there were any surprises in the first round of the match, Chen Yingxiong's hat trick was one. And Arsenal beat Barcelona 2:1 at home is also counted as one.

Everyone has always believed that Barcelona is invincible-last year's foul to Inter Milan in the semi-finals last year was only a mistake, an exception-especially this season, Barcelona, ​​Real Madrid with Mourinho, once considered It is a team that can challenge Barcelona's dominance, but at the Nou Camp, they lost a humiliating 0:5. This game made the whole of Europe feel that Barcelona is invincible. However, Arsenal arbitrarily defeated Barcelona at their home court. Although they allowed the other side to score an away goal, victory is always a victory.

In the Champions League scorer list, Messi did not score, Eto'o did not score, only Gomez scored a goal. Now Germany's "Super Mario" is on par with Eto'o with seven goals.

Chen Yingxiong's name is on the list for the first time this season, and the number behind the name is "3".

The whole of Europe is discussing whether the hero Chen of Naples can complete an unprecedented reversal, defending the Champions League's top scorer after playing six games less. Now he is four goals short of the top two shooters. Originally this should be a huge gap, but think about it before a game, he was still seven goals behind the first place, and suddenly felt that the four-ball gap was not worth mentioning...

There are already European bookmakers who have offered different odds for Chen Yingxiong to defend his title as the top scorer, ranging from one loss of six to one loss of 33. It can be seen that the betting companies are also inaccurate, I don’t know. Should I be optimistic about Chen Yingxiong or bad-mouth him.

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On March 1, the final match of the twenty-seventh round of the league, the key battle of Serie A, this is the contest between the league first and the league second. It stands to reason that this game should be a close contest.

However, the impact of the Naples two-line battle on the team began to appear. Naples, who played the main force, lost 1:3 to AC Milan in the away game. In the game, most of the Naples players looked very tired, even though they did not have a double match this week.

This is the impact of the continuous two-lane battle. The league has basically played one-third of the remaining. The players' physical energy accumulated since last summer has been exhausted. At this time, they will encounter the double-line battle. The Champions League The pressure is far greater than the domestic league.

In dealing with two-line combat, the traditional giants AC Milan is far better than Naples.

Naples lost to ac Milan, so many people were relieved. If they continue to win like this, they will have to lock the league championship in advance like Chen Yingxiong... That would be too boring.

They don't necessarily hate Naples, but the victory of AC Milan will help raise the suspense of the league this season, which is what everyone wants to see. Except for the fans of Naples, no one wants them to win the championship early.

AC Milan, now ranked second in the league, defeated Naples, ranked first. Although the rankings of the two teams have not changed, the points gap between them has been reduced from four points to one point.

This is a gap that people can imagine.

One point difference, and considering that Naples will then usher in the test of the domestic league and the Champions League two-line battle, this point may become a watershed for determining the final league champion.

Is Naples holding the point? Or did AC Milan complete the reversal in one go?

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Losing the match against AC Milan made the entire Naples team very frustrated. Before the game, they all knew how important this game is.

Everyone is suffocating enough to defeat their opponents, so as to widen the gap between the two sides and prepare enough "strategic depth" for the next Champions League game.

If they can beat AC Milan, Naples will get as much as seven points, which is a considerable lead for the league.

The result was not as expected, which naturally made the Naples team very frustrated.

Even Chen Yingxiong, who scored a goal in the game and scored his 26th goal this season, has no interest.

"I scored? Yes, so what, the point is that we lost!"

Losing to AC Milan is really critical. A one-point gap means that the team will not be able to relax for a long time in the future, but must always tighten. In this way, the ghost knows when it will collapse, maybe in the domestic league, maybe in the UEFA Champions League, the worst thing is that both sides collapse at the same time...

No one wants to get such results.

But the fact is that after losing to AC Milan, everyone's nerves immediately became tense.

On the way back from Milan to Naples, there was much less laughter among the players.

Even Mazari frowned and felt a headache.

But now is far from the time to worry about the team's precarious situation in the league. Naples is about to usher in the second round of the UEFA Champions League quarter-finals.

Although the home field has led the opponent by four goals, the football is round. Who knows what will happen in Lyon's home field?

Naples, which has played against UEFA many times, dare not take it lightly.

Therefore, Mazzari still has to field the strongest lineup in this game and keep up his spirits.

In fact, for a team like Naples, it should have made a choice in the league and the Champions League. After all, the thickness of their bench is far less than that of the giants. There is no multi-line combat and multi-line blooming strength.

The wise approach is to complete the effort and choose a front to break through.

Many teams of this level like Naples will choose the Champions League. Because the league is too long, a little mistake can lead to extremely serious consequences. The Champions League is different. The Champions League is home and away knockout. A good performance in one or two games will allow you to go further in this event until you reach the final. If luck is better, winning a championship is not impossible.

The Champions League is an investment project with quick results. If you want quick success, you have to choose the Champions League.

As for small and medium teams, they don't want giants to have such a strong strength, capital, and heritage. Therefore, it is easier for them to choose a strategy of quick success. The Champions League is a big stage. It is obviously more cost-effective to be famous on this stage than to work hard slowly in the league.

There is a more important reason-money.

The 2010-2011 season's UEFA Champions League bonus distribution plan is like this-entering the 32nd, you will directly receive a bonus of 3.9 million euros. In the group stage, you can get 550,000 euros for every game. After 6 games, you can get 3.3 million. 3.9 million plus 3.3 million equals 7.2 million, which is 720 Ten thousand euros is a fixed bonus, regardless of whether your team finally qualified from the group. This is also the main reason why many small teams desperately want to enter the Champions League. They don’t want to win the championship, they just want to get the 7.1 million euros. This money is still a huge sum of money for small teams. There are still a lot of things that can be done with little money. Some teams can do a lot for a year. May not even have a budget of less than 7.1 million euros...

In addition, if you can win in the group stage, it will cost 800,000 for each win, 400,000 for a tie, and if you lose.

This is an additional bonus, but many small and medium-sized teams may not be very hopeful. Those teams from Eastern Europe, Northern Europe and other small leagues are basically the objects of their group to score points and win? Extravagant hope.

Each of the sixteen teams that enter the knockout stage will receive a prize of 3 million euros. If they advance to the quarterfinals, they will receive a prize of 3.3 million euros. The top four is 4.2 million. In the end, which team can win the Big Ears Cup at the final Wembley Stadium will receive 9 million euros in prize money, even if it is the runner-up, there are 5.6 million euros.

For those teams that have the strength and upset, the Champions League is obviously more attractive than the league-the revenue of the league is mainly from the distribution of TV broadcasting. The TV broadcasting cost allocation plan of each league is different, but one thing is the same. Yes, that is, the giants always take the big head, and the small pieces of cake are the points of other teams.

Which, like the Champions League, speaks entirely on results.

So mid-tier teams are more inclined to fight in the Champions League. Even if they fail to win the championship, it would be nice to be able to take one step forward in the Champions League.

A team like Naples belongs to the kind of team that must bet on. The Champions League benefits more and obviously should choose the Champions League. As for the domestic league, with the current strength of Naples, it is easy to guarantee the top four, and the top three is not a problem. As long as it can be guaranteed to continue to participate in the Champions League next season, it will be a victory. League champion? Stop daydreaming!

But now Naples has this idea-we not only have to go further in the Champions League, we also have to win the championship in the league!

Naples has always been a team that is not afraid of the sky. Since the era of the football king Maradona, they have always played the role of challenging the rules and despising the authority. They want to reap the glory on both fronts. This idea is for them. It couldn't be more normal...

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ps, the outbreak is over, but there will be an outbreak in a few days~

It only started three days in February, so continue to beg everyone for ***! This month’s *** trend looks very gratifying! I hope we can maintain this momentum, and thank you all from the bottom of my heart!