Chapter 242 Champions League match day
The results of this just-concluded league round can make Dortmund fans happy for a week - until the next league round.
However, in the first class after the game, Klopp seriously warned his teammates to forget all the games that had just ended, whether it was about them or Bayern Munich.
Because the next step is the Champions League.
Dortmund is going to challenge Paris Saint-Germain away.
You said that if you draw teams like Real Madrid and Barcelona in the quarterfinals, Klopp might not have much thoughts about the Champions League.
But he just drew Paris Saint-Germain.
Among these eight teams, Paris Saint-Germain is of course the weakest in terms of strength.
And just before this game, Bayern Munich was tied by Hoffenheim in the league, and Dortmund reversed Stuttgart away, with the gap between the two teams being only two points.
The slew space in the league is no longer so tense.
All of this seems to be God's will, allowing Klopp to have more ideas about the Champions League...
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The upcoming Champions League quarterfinals have also attracted the attention of fans around the world.
As the most technical and participating teams on this planet, the Champions League has surpassed the World Cup and became the world's number one football event from the perspective of pure football content alone.
If the World Cup does not carry more political factors, it will definitely be surpassed by the Champions League.
The Champions League quarter-finals will determine which four teams can enter the semi-finals.
After the continuous elimination before, the teams that were able to enter the quarterfinals were the best teams in Europe of the season, and every game can be regarded as a strong dialogue.
First of all, on the evening of April 1, there were two Champions League quarter-finals kicking off at the same time, namely Barcelona played Atletico Madrid at home and Manchester United played Bayern Munich at home.
There is no Chinese player on this day, but in China, there are still many people who stay up late to watch the game. The fan group of European giant clubs among Chinese fans is still quite terrifying.
Among the four teams that debuted on the first day, I am afraid that the number of Atletico Madrid in China will be smaller.
However, in La Liga this season, so far, the number one ranked is neither Barcelona nor Real Madrid, but Atletico Madrid.
The team led by Simeone is currently ranked first with 76 points. Barcelona is followed by 75 points, and Real Madrid is ranked third with 73 points.
Barcelona and Atletico Madrid had previously played in the league, on January 11 this year, the 19th round of the league. Atletico Madrid faced Barcelona at home, and both sides played 0:0, and no one scored a goal.
This Champions League match is the second time that the two teams have played against each other this season.
In another game, Manchester United faced Bayern Munich at home.
This season is Manchester United's first season to bid farewell to Ferguson. After leading the team to win the Premier League title last season, Manchester United's legendary coach announced his retirement.
Manchester United entered the "post-Ferguson era".
Moyes was poached by Manchester United from Everton as Ferguson's chosen successor.
However, Moyes, who left Everton, seemed not yet used to be a coach in a giants, and Manchester United, who had lost Ferguson, was not yet not yet adapted to being the person standing in front of the coach's seat...
So far, the Premier League has played thirty-two rounds, and the defending champion Manchester United ranked seventh in the league... Only six games have won in the thirty-two rounds, tied six games, and lost as many as ten games.
Currently, it has 54 points, which is 17 points away from Manchester City, which ranks first and Liverpool, which ranks second. It is basically impossible to win the league championship.
Compared with the poor performance in the league, Manchester United performed better in the Champions League. He qualified for the first place in the group stage with an unbeaten record.
I drew a good draw in the quarterfinals and met the weak Olympiacos team. Although I lost the away game 0:2 in the first leg, I returned to home 3:0 and defeated my opponent 3:0 in the second leg and advanced to the quarterfinals with a total score of 3:2.
But everyone thinks Moyes' good luck in the Champions League is over here - in the quarter-finals, their opponent is Bayern Munich.
With Bayern Munich's state this season, the chance of eliminating Manchester United is definitely greater than the chance of being eliminated by Manchester United in turn.
But at this moment, Bayern Munich was disconnected in the league and was tied by Hoffenheim, and only led Dortmund by two points in the league. This will definitely have an adverse impact on them in the Champions League, and may become a chance for Manchester United...
After Bayern Munich was tied by Hoffenheim, some English media hoped that Moyes would study the videos of Mainz and Bayern Munich, as well as Hoffenheim and Bayern Munich, to see how Tuchel and Gistor fought against Bayern Munich, learn from these two games and find a way to deal with Bayern Munich.
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On the first day of the Champions League, the scores and results of the two games were exactly the same - Barcelona faced Atletico Madrid at home, and the two teams scored one goal each and tied 1:1. Bayern Munich also tied Manchester United 1:1 away.
Both away teams scored a valuable away goal and took the initiative in the promotion situation.
Next is the match day that Chinese fans are most concerned about, and four Chinese players will make their debut on this day. Among them, Dortmund and Paris Saint-Germain are also Chinese derby.
"We are ready." He Ying even joked about Zhou Yi in an interview before the game. "I heard that they now have a good opportunity in the league. As a friend, of course I have to help him. So we will eliminate Dortmund so that Zhou Yi can devote all his energy to the league. I have told Zhou Yi that if they win the league championship in the end, they must treat me to a meal."
The Chinese journalists who interviewed He Ying all laughed.
So how did Zhou Yi respond to this?
"This is wrong. If you really think about your friends and want to help me, why not lose the Champions League so that we don't have to spend extra energy in the Champions League? If we finally win the Champions League and the league championship, I will definitely treat He Ying to a meal, and it will be fine to treat him for a year."
Zhou Yi actually wants a league championship and a UEFA Champions League championship?
Are you so ambitious?
The reporters were shocked at first, but when they thought about it carefully, they should just be fighting with He Ying, which does not mean that they really want to defend the Champions League. If Dortmund wants to win a league championship this season, they have to do their best, and they still have to rely on the favor of the goddess of luck to defend the Champions League?
I've thought too much. Since the reform of the Champions League, no team has been able to do this!
Because the game between Dortmund and Paris Saint-Germain is a dialogue between three Chinese players, it is naturally more eye-catching.
How could Sun Pan let the limelight be snatched away by others at this time?
Before going to Madrid, he said in an interview with the newspaper Marca that he was familiar with Real Madrid, and that the Bernabeu was just like his back garden, and he was confident that he could help Chelsea beat Real Madrid away.
Of course this is very rampant, but considering that he had played for Atletico Madrid for two seasons before, it was naturally not surprising that he said such words to Real Madrid...
Chinese fans and media still hope that Sun Pan can help Chelsea overcome the Real Madrid level. They hope that Sun Pan can once again "turn the awesomeness he has blown into reality."
According to the rules of the match, the winner between Paris Saint-Germain and Dortmund will face the winner between Atletico Madrid and Barcelona, while the winners of Real Madrid and Chelsea will face the winners of Bayern Munich and Manchester United in the semi-finals.
If you are lucky, you might be able to stage an unprecedented Chinese derby in the Champions League final!
I really think about that picture, and I feel it’s so beautiful...
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At 2:45 am on April 3, Beijing time, the two games were whistled and kicked off at the Stadium of Princes in Paris and the Bernabeu Stadium in the two games.
Chapter completed!