At 8:45 pm on the second match day of the second leg of the Champions League 14 finals, Bayern Munich vs Arsenal and Shakhtar Donetsk vs Barcelona kicked off at the same time.
There is no doubt that the second leg of the Champions League 14 finals between Bayern Munich and Arsenal at home attracted more attention.
After all, it was a strong dialogue with more to watch.
On the other hand, Barcelona's away game against Shakhtar Donetsk seemed much boring.
A 5-0 win at home in the first leg will tell you that the place to enter the semi-finals this season must be Barcelona.
However, in order to prepare for the Spanish El Clasico at the Bernabeu over the weekend, Barcelona made a wide range of rotations in the second leg of the Champions League 14th final, which almost lost suspense, leaving only Messi and Iniesta, who are eager to compete, to lead the starting lineup.
Although most of Barcelona's players are substitute rotation players, Messi continued his good scoring form and scored two goals in the away game, helping Barcelona defeat Shakhtar Donetsk 2:1 in the away game and advance to this tournament with a total score of 7:1.
Season Champions League semi-finals.
In another focus game at the same time, Bayern Munich defeated Arsenal with two goals at home with the goals of Robben and teenager Muller, and met Barcelona in this season's Champions League semi-finals.
In the middle of this week, all four teams that advanced to the Champions League semi-finals were announced: Real Madrid vs Valencia, Bayern Munich vs Barcelona.
The four teams have a high status in the current world football, so the total of four semi-finals will definitely receive huge attention.
In addition, the Champions League has reached the semi-finals, and no team will relax. , after all, the championship is close at hand, and it is destined that the four semi-finals will be extremely exciting.
European mainstream media first expressed congratulations to the four teams for reaching the Champions League semi-finals, and then talked about the fact that three of the four teams qualifying for the Champions League this season are La Liga teams, and they are worried that the focus of the Champions League will move closer to La Liga in the future.
Now Valencia, Real Madrid and Barcelona are all strong, and Aiello, Cristiano Ronaldo and Messi have just reached their golden age, and they are still at least five years away from the age when their physical functions decline, which means that in the future, as long as Excessive lineup changes in Valencia, Real Madrid and Barcelona have led to a decline in strength, so the situation of three La Liga teams advancing to the Champions League semi-finals this season will often occur in the future.
In this regard, the Spanish media will naturally report and publicize it vigorously.
In the past few seasons, the Champions League was monopolized by the Premier League teams.
Now the situation has turned, and it is finally the turn of the Spanish teams to monopolize it.
Thinking about the arrogance of the British media in the past few seasons, the Spanish media cannot find anything wrong.
Arrogant reasons.
This situation is a huge blow to the Italian media that no Serie A team has entered the Champions League quarter-finals.
The media, led by Turin Sports News, said with jealousy: "No one expected that AC Milan would enter the Champions League finals in the 2006-2007 season, and never again."
It is difficult for Italian teams to reach the Champions League finals or even the semi-finals.
This is Italy’s sadness.
As the influence of Serie A declines, this situation will continue.”
The Times of England media also talked about this point: "With the departure of a group of stars such as Ai, Cristiano Ronaldo and Cesc Fabregas, the ebb and flow is very obvious.
This season, except for Arsenal and Tottenham, they have entered the quarterfinals. , Manchester United and Chelsea were all blocked from the quarterfinals.
This is an unimaginable end for the Premier League team that has dominated the Champions League finals in previous seasons.
But we must get used to this, because for a long time in the future Here, this will continue to happen.”
Of course, the German media’s view is not optimistic either.
Although Bayern Munich has entered the Champions League semi-finals this season, it faces a very powerful Barcelona, which is recognized as a universe-level team.
Only Valencia with Ai Luo can compete with it.
Even if they can reach the final, they will not be able to take advantage of Real Madrid or Valencia.
And as the season enters the second half of the Bundesliga, Bayern is under great pressure.
They are now two points behind Dortmund at the top of the list.
There will be a battle for the Bundesliga title this season between the two teams in the Champions League semi-finals, which will definitely cause them to be distracted.
Whether they can maintain 100% combat effectiveness in the Champions League is still unknown. number.
Fortunately, Barcelona also has this situation.
It must be distracted in the league, otherwise it will not be able to maintain its hope for the league championship.
While the mainstream media in Europe were still analyzing the situation of the Champions League semi-finals and complaining about the purchasing power of Spanish teams and the domestic league, the Spanish media began to shift their attention to the Spanish El Clasico at the weekend when Real Madrid faced Barcelona.
This Spanish national derby is also the fifth national derby in Spain this season.
The current La Liga standings are a bit tricky.
Valencia has 89 points with 29 wins, 2 draws, and 82 points.
Barcelona ranks second with 82 points and 27 wins, 1 draw, and 3 losses.
Real Madrid ranks third in the league with 26 wins and 3 draws. 2 losses and 81 points.
Real Madrid is only one point behind Barcelona.
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As long as they can beat Barcelona at home in this campaign, they can reverse the opponent and become second in La Liga this season.
If they defeat Valencia in the next back-to-back league games, the point gap between Real Madrid and Valencia will be only five points.
Valencia will definitely be distracted by preparing for the Champions League semi-finals.
Therefore, many Real Madrid fans began to expect Real Madrid to defeat Barcelona at home, and then defeat Valencia in one go, thus returning to the championship competition.
However, head coach Mourinho does not have much hope for this.
This season is his first season with Real Madrid.
If he is too distracted, it will definitely lead to his failure in all four majors this season.
But then again, as the most popular head coach in world football today, if he really defeats Barcelona and Valencia in the next national derby, he will still be happy to adjust the team's focus.
After all, the league title is not tied to Valencia.
At the same time, head coach Guardiola, who has returned to Barcelona, is discussing with assistant coach Vilanova the strategy for the next schedule.
Playing Real Madrid away from home is definitely something that cannot be missed, but the problem is that there will be a visit to Metz in the middle of next week.
This season's Copa del Rey final will be played against Valencia at the Thalia Stadium.
If too much energy is invested in the Bernabeu, it will inevitably affect the Copa del Rey final at the Mestalla Stadium in midweek.
However, if you have reservations about playing Real Madrid away from home, you may not be able to defeat Real Madrid who are bound to win at home.
For Guardiola, this is indeed a headache.
Against the background of headaches for the coaches of both sides of the national derby, the national derby between Real Madrid and Barcelona at home is coming quietly.
The two teams have met 161 times before, with Real Madrid having the slight upper hand with 68 wins, 30 draws and 63 losses.
The home court advantage is even more obvious, with 50 wins, 14 draws and 16 losses.
It's just that Real Madrid lost to Barcelona in all the previous five meetings, and in the first round of the El Clasico at Camp Nou this season, Barcelona pulled six goals in a row when Cristiano Ronaldo scored two goals, and they were defeated 2:6.
The loss in that game also became a lingering pain for Real Madrid fans.
Therefore, Real Madrid fans hope that Real Madrid can beat Barcelona at home to wash away the disastrous away defeat in the first half of this season.
Under the pressure from Real Madrid fans and Real Madrid executives, Mourinho had no choice but to take one step at a time and take the lead in this round of home games against Barcelona.
Cristiano Ronaldo, who spent 80 million pounds in transfer fees from Real Madrid last summer, was full of confidence in interviews with reporters before the game and expressed his personal thoughts on the three fierce battles with Valencia in the future.
As Barcelona's leading star and leading shooter, Messi will naturally not let Cristiano Ronaldo play a one-man show and is at a disadvantage in the competition with Aiello, but compared to Cristiano Ronaldo, he still has enough confidence.
So before the game even started, the two sides started a tense war of words.
Real Madrid villain Pepe hints that Messi should be more careful during the game Then Barcelona midfielder Keita warned Pepe fiercely.
This shows how popular this round of Spanish El Clasico is.
In addition, the result of this round of the league will most likely change the competition for the league championship this season, so it has received the most attention in Europe.
If Real Madrid and Valencia decide the winner, the winning side will still maintain hope of winning the league title.
But if the winner cannot be decided and Valencia defeats Almeria at home, then there will no longer be any surprises in the championship this season.
In fact, Valencia hopes that Real Madrid and Barcelona will tie the game, because Almeria cannot pose any threat to them at all.
As long as they win, they will completely widen the points gap with Real Madrid and Barcelona.
With six rounds left in the league, the nine-point or ten-point gap is basically irreparable.
Therefore, this round of El Clasico at the Bernabeu was very popular.
In just 20 minutes, Real Madrid and Barcelona contributed a total of seven yellow cards, including four from the home team Real Madrid and three from the away team Barcelona.
Barcelona has a strong ability to control the ball due to its traditional playing style, but after Mourinho's adjustments for most of the season, Real Madrid's defensive ability has skyrocketed, and its counterattack ability is stronger than before.
Although the game looks like Barcelona has a certain advantage, once a chance to counterattack arises, Barcelona's defense is still in danger.
The three yellow cards in the first twenty minutes of the game were all used on Real Madrid counterattack players: