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Chapter 0399 The ownership of the Champions League spree

Manchester United reversed Sevilla 3:2, thus killing his opponent with a score of 7:2 in the Champions League knockout round in two rounds, and advanced to the quarterfinals with his head held high.

One day later, the last two Champions League quarterfinals ended.

Bayern Munich defeated Besiktas 3:1 away, thus eliminating the giants in the Chinese Super League with an 8:1 overall score in two rounds, creating the largest score in two rounds of the Champions League quarterfinals this season.

At the Camp Nou Stadium, Conte's Chelsea lost 0:3 to Barcelona without any suspense, and was swept out 1:4 in two rounds.

At this point, all the Champions League quarterfinals were released.

The Premier League is still the league with the most advanced teams. The five teams advanced to the knockout stage, and three teams still made it to the quarterfinals, with London's two players Chelsea and Tottenham unfortunately being eliminated.

Coincidentally, the three teams that advanced to the quarterfinals of the Champions League are exactly the three teams with the best record in the Premier League! Tottenham and Chelsea, which ranked fourth and fifth in the league, were both eliminated.

From this we can see that at this stage, if you want to stay in the Champions League, you still have to speak according to your strength.

In the other five teams, the Spanish Super League two places occupied two places, Juventus and Roma both advanced in Serie A. Bayern, the only Bundesliga in the quarterfinals of 16, still stayed, only Ligue 1 was the most pitiful. Paris Saint-Germain was double-killed by Real Madrid in two rounds and was swept out with a total score of 2:5.

The Champions League quarterfinals have become the stage of the four major leagues. The rest of the leagues have completely become spectators.

However, the UEFA Cup is a situation of competition among many heroes. Currently, there are only four teams that have entered the quarterfinals, namely Arsenal in the Premier League, Atletico Madrid in La Liga, Lazio in Serie A and RB Leipzig in Bundesliga. The other four teams are Marseille from Ligue 1, Sporting Lisbon from Portugal Super League, CSKA Moscow from Russian Premier League, and Salzburg Red Bull from Austria.

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At 7 p.m. on March 16th, Beijing time, fans of the world all turned to Nyon, Switzerland. The Champions League quarter-final match will be drawn here.

For Manchester United, Ye Su did not go to Nyon because he had a FA Cup match to play on Saturday night to participate in the lottery event. Club CEO San Dezi participated in the lottery ceremony as a representative.

Ye Su didn't care much about this draw, because no one of the remaining eight teams is weak, and there is no principle of avoidance at this moment, so it's almost the same for Manchester United to meet anyone.

Of course, in general, Roma is relatively weak among these eight teams, and is even called a big gift package by many people. In addition, Manchester United's historical record of overall dominance against Roma, many Manchester United fans hope to face Roma.

However, Ye Su knew that Roma was not weak at all this season. In the group stage, Manchester United played two games with the Red Wolves, and they were not easy at all. One game was 5:3 and the other game was 4:2, and the other game was heartbreaking, and the other game was terrified.

Anyone who really treats Rome as a gift package will definitely suffer enough.

In addition, what people are more concerned about is whether there will be a civil war in the league. After all, three teams in the Premier League have entered the quarterfinals, and two teams in the Spanish Super League and Serie A have advanced. In terms of probability, there is a huge possibility of a civil war in the same league teams.

Especially for the unprecedentedly powerful Premier League teams, Manchester City's two champions plus Liverpool, the three clubs have a trend of reappearing Manchester United, Chelsea and Arsenal or Liverpool from ten years ago, and dominating the Champions League.

Under such circumstances, with UEFA's urinary nature, in order to avoid the situation where three Premier League teams have three Premier League teams in the Champions League semi-finals, the possibility of a civil war between Premier League teams is almost 100%.

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Under the gaze of everyone, the eight teams took only ten minutes to settle. The final matchup situation was: Barcelona vs Roma, Manchester United vs Bayern Munich, Juventus vs Real Madrid, Manchester City vs Liverpool.

In the four-match match, the super dialogue between Manchester United and Bayern Munich is undoubtedly the most eye-catching. Manchester United is the winner of the last two Champions League champions. Under the leadership of Ye Su and Rooney, the Red Devils achieved a history of no team able to defend their title after the Champions League reform.

The Red Devils are unprecedentedly strong this season, invincible in the Premier League, have won 69 unbeaten games, and are leading second place, with 4 points in Manchester City, who also performed exceptionally well. In the League Cup, Manchester United has won the championship. They also reached the quarterfinals of the FA Cup. With Manchester United's current posture, they have regained the 2015-2016 season Grand Slam.

Bayern is also a leader in the league, and we will see this situation almost every Bundesliga season. The most important thing is that under the leadership of the old coach Heinx, Bayern has now shown its strong strength. At the same time, unlike the crushing defeat to Paris, the Southern Star has found its best path, and Lewandowski, Muller, Wagner and others are also outstanding in the front line.

The showdown between Real Madrid and the old woman Juventus is also a super strong dialogue. Although Real Madrid failed at Manchester United in the previous two years of the Champions League final, their strength is unquestionable. After all, it is a shocking achievement to reach the Champions League final for two consecutive years. Now they have been eliminated by a weak team in the Copa del Rey, and there is no hope of catching up with Barcelona in La Liga, so Zidane and Real Madrid's senior executives have placed all their hopes in the Champions League, which is very similar to Arsenal in the UEFA Cup.

Juventus has surpassed Napoli in Serie A for four points, giving people the feeling that no matter whether Rome or Napoli is leading in front of him, the final Serie A champion is still Juventus. Juventus is also very experienced in the Champions League, Dybala has been in a very hot state recently, and fans also hope that Buffon can win a Champions League trophy before retirement.

Barcelona's draw of Roma was expected by Ye Su, and it was also expected by countless fans around the world.

As the ruler of the Champions League in the past few years before Manchester United, Barcelona's universe team in the eyes of countless fans around the world, has won five Champions League trophys. Messi in the team is in excellent form. In the two rounds of eliminating Chelsea, he scored three goals and assisted one goal, showing his big heart. A super strong team like Barcelona is something that every team does not want to encounter. When the league championship is relatively safe, Barcelona will also do their best in the Champions League.

Roma is considered by countless Barcelona fans to be a gift-packing team in the draw, because their overall strength is still slightly inferior to other teams. However, there are no weak teams to be able to come to the quarterfinals of the Champions League. Just look at the 16-to-8 game. Even if they lose away, they can show their resilience at home to win the game.

The civil war between Manchester City and Liverpool, the Premier League team, will also be very exciting. Liverpool finally entered the quarterfinals of the Champions League after many years. The ups and downs of several years have kept them away from the Champions League and even the European arena. However, under the leadership of Klopp, the Reds, which shocked European football, have returned. The attack group in the frontcourt is their biggest killer. Of course, although Uncle Zha’s team’s defense unexpectedly poached Senegal’s central defender from his arch-rival Manchester United, his overall strength is still relatively weak.

Manchester City has experienced a big explosion this season. Under the leadership of Guardiola, Manchester City is no longer the team that was the first round of the Champions League knockout round. Manchester City is considered to be one of the biggest favorites to win the Champions League this year. Judging from the lineup alone, Manchester City has definitely had a chance. Of course, in the Champions League knockout round, they still need to show their best abilities.

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An hour after the Champions League match was released, the UEFA Cup draw also came to an outcome. Arsenal, who is considered to be the only strong in the UEFA Cup, won a pretty good draw: they faced the Russian Super League giant CSKA Moscow.

Arsenal are also quite satisfied with the draw result.

After the UEFA Cup has become Arsenal's only hope this season, fans have turned their attention to their opponents in the UEFA Cup.

Even Wenger was greatly relieved after drawing the Russian Premier League team. After all, for him, the UEFA Cup is the key to whether he can continue to stay in the position of Arsenal coach. If he misses the domestic trophy and the Champions League place, then the fans will really rebel, and the club management will probably find it difficult to support him.

If Arsenal can win the UEFA Cup, it will not only solve the embarrassment of not having a championship, but also save the problem of a UEFA Champions League place.

The other three matches are RB Leipzig vs. Marseille, Atletico Madrid vs. Sporting Lisbon, and Lazio vs. Salzburg Red Bull.

These pairs are very interesting. They are all teams in the four major leagues, and the scores are quite even against teams outside the four major leagues.

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At the pre-match press conference against Brighton, the reporter asked Ye Su about the Champions League and Europa League draw.

Ye Su didn't want to answer questions that were not related to the game at such a pre-match press conference, but after hesitating, he said a few simple words. On the one hand, he said that Bayern is a strong opponent and it was not easy for Manchester United to advance, but he was confident that he would lead Manchester United to advance because his goal was to lead Manchester United into the fourth team in Champions League history to win three consecutive championships.

Ye Su's words caused a huge sensation.

As Ye Su said, if Manchester United can achieve three consecutive championships, it will be the fourth team in Champions League history.

The first European Championship Cup in the 1955-1956 season officially started. There were only 16 teams participating. Real Madrid led by Distefano defeated Lance in the final and kicked off the Real Madrid Champions League dynasty. From 1956 to 1960, Real Madrid completed the great achievement of five consecutive Champions League titles, directly laying the foundation for them as the best club of the 20th century. Although the age is relatively long and the value of the championship at that time is not as good as that of now, these five consecutive championships are still a real honor, and it is almost impossible to replicate them.

In the early 1970s, another dynasty team emerged, namely Ajax of the Netherlands. They won three consecutive Champions League titles from 1971 to 1973 under the leadership of legendary star Cruyff. At that time, Ajax was one of the most dominant teams in history. They won five championships in 1972, and almost no other teams were their opponents on the scene. Ajax's concept of full attack and defense still had a huge impact on the current football tactics.

After Ajax won three consecutive championships, Bundesliga giant Bayern Munich took the throne of European football. Cruyff's life-rivaled enemy, Beckenbauer, led Bayern to dominate the Champions League for three consecutive years from 1974 to 1976, completing the triumphant title. They also became the last team to complete the three consecutive championships in the Champions League so far. The peerless double pride of Beckenbauer and Cruyff also became the most classic drama in the 1970s.

After the UEFA Champions League reform in 1992, it became more difficult to win the championship. Last season, Manchester United became the first team to successfully defend the title of the Champions League reform.

It is precisely because of this that although Ye Su's words sounded a bit shocking, no one dared to say that Ye Su was talking big, because Manchester United currently has this strength. Not only are they invincible in China, but even if they look at Europe or even the whole world, they have no rivals.

Some reporters also asked about Barcelona's big gift package that attracted the attention of fans. Ye Su joked that maybe Barcelona would find that there was a time bomb inside and then blow Barcelona up.

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The FA Cup quarterfinals against Brighton are the last game of the first national team this year. After the game, national teams from various national teams flew around the world to participate in warm-up matches of various national teams.

Within less than three months before the Russian World Cup, all national teams entering Russia have been vigorously preparing for the World Cup.

The national teams that failed to win a seat in the World Cup finals are starting to train for the new competition.

Ye Su did not keep his strength to those national team coaches. Manchester United is at the end of this FA Cup match against Brighton.

Brighton is not a weak man. As a newly promoted team, they still ranked 11th in the standings after 30 rounds of the Premier League, which shows their strength.

The biggest feature of this team is stability. In the 30 rounds of the Premier League, they basically won the games they should win, but they basically failed to get points for the games they should lose. The only game that can be called an unpopular is the 29th round of the Premier League at the beginning of this month, where they beat Arsenal at home 2:1, which was considered a big and small unpopular one.

Since there is such a precedent, Ye Su will be very careful not to let Manchester United follow in the footsteps of Arsenal, and is called a joke for fans.

In the end, Manchester United, who were at the top of the elite, scored one goal each while commuting. De Bruyne assisted Harry Kane in the first half, and Luke Shaw assisted Rooney in the second half, helping Manchester United secure the victory.
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