Chapter 139 Shocking news in the football world, the battle of the king mountain is coming
On May 1, the second round of the Champions League semi-finals began.
Dortmund, who started the game first, withstood the offensive of Real Madrid at the Bernabeu. Although they were defeated 2:0 by their opponents, they successfully advanced to the Champions League final with a total score of 5:3.
This result was not unexpected by the outside world, after all, Real Madrid had lost too many away games.
After the loss, a conflict seemed to break out in Real Madrid's locker room, but Mourinho was unable to control the situation. Real Madrid president Florentino was photographed by reporters entering the locker room urgently to calm the players' emotions.
This news further deepened the outside world's impression, making people believe that Mourinho's dismissal was a foregone conclusion after the game.
Real Madrid failed to win any of the four major titles this season and was 11 points behind Barcelona in the league, missing out on the chance to defend their title.
They were eliminated from the Champions League by Dortmund again and failed again.
Real Madrid paid Mourinho a high price to coach the team in the hope that he would bring the championship to the team and suppress its arch-rival Barcelona in the league.
However, it now seems that Mourinho has failed to complete these two tasks.
Sources within Real Madrid said that Real Madrid's top management has run out of patience with Mourinho.
After the end of the La Liga, the Portuguese will definitely leave.
The only suspense is whether Mourinho resigned on his own initiative or was fired by Real Madrid.
If you resign voluntarily, you will not receive the remaining salary in the contract.
But if he is fired by the club, he will receive a considerable severance pay.
Mourinho is also tough. Although the compensation is a lot, he values his own face more.
So, after the Champions League game, Mourinho announced directly at the press conference:
He will no longer coach Real Madrid after the end of this season.
As soon as the news was announced, it immediately caused a sensation among the reporters on the scene.
Although everyone had this guess in their minds, they were still surprised when the guess became a reality.
Objectively speaking, Mourinho's coaching performance at Real Madrid is not bad.
Under his leadership, Real Madrid snatched a league championship trophy and a King's Cup trophy from Barcelona.
In addition, he led the team to the Champions League semi-finals twice and the quarter-finals once. Although he failed to win the championship, he helped Real Madrid get rid of the hat of being the 16th rounder of the Champions League.
This record might be able to continue in other teams, but he is coaching Real Madrid...
After Mourinho announced the end of his coaching career at Real Madrid, people speculated which club he would join next, and the Blues, Chelsea, were the most favored.
Before the reporters could digest the big news from Real Madrid, something happened at Barcelona.
In the second round of the semi-finals, Barcelona played against Bayern at home. Just when the outside world was expecting whether Barcelona could create a miracle, they were defeated by Bayern again at home with a score of 0:3.
After two rounds, Barcelona was beaten 7:0 by Bayern!
This is a huge score difference. You have to know that Barcelona is not a weak team, but a strong team dubbed as the universe team by fans.
A top club, with Messi and the most luxurious midfield configuration in the world, was swept by the opponent in two rounds of the game and did not score a single goal.
This is a very, very shameful thing! This result shocked the entire football world and surprised countless people.
In their impression, Barcelona is still the invincible team under Guardiola that is invincible in the football world.
How could Guardiola have fallen into this state only a year after leaving? In the second half of the season, Vilanova's condition continued to worsen and it was confirmed that he could no longer coach the team.
At this time, Barcelona suffered such a humiliating defeat in the Champions League, which made countless Barcelona fans begin to miss the former coach Guardiola.
Many fans even went to Guardiola's social media account and asked him to return to Barcelona to take over as coach again.
Guardiola was both happy and sad about this.
The good thing is that Rosell's misbehavior finally paid off; the sad thing is that he felt very uncomfortable seeing the team he coached lose so badly, and seeing many of his former colleagues and the players he coached, especially Messi, looking sad.
Due to this conflicting mood, he did not respond to reporters' questions about the game in public.
I just made private calls to some colleagues in the club and a few familiar players to comfort them.
…
One family is happy, the other is sad.
Unlike La Liga fans who were grief-stricken, Bundesliga fans were all excited after the results of the second round of matches came out.
Both of their teams reached the Champions League final, which set a Bundesliga record.
It is also the fourth league in the history of the Champions League to achieve this feat.
This result means that no matter who wins the trophy in the end, this season's Champions League trophy will belong to the Bundesliga.
Encouraged by this, many German media began to hype up their own league.
They believe that the Bundesliga, with its outstanding performance in the Champions League this season, has surpassed the declining Serie A and ranked third among the top five leagues, second only to the Premier League and La Liga! Many media even boldly speculated that if they can maintain their dominance in the Champions League, then it is not impossible for them to surpass La Liga and even the Premier League in the future and top the top five leagues.
Dortmund and Bayern Munich, who brought glory to the Bundesliga, were naturally praised to the sky.
Dortmund won the title of Young Guards, while Bayern directly snatched the title of Universe Team from Barcelona and was called Universe Ren by fans.
After this game, the title of Barcelona's cosmic team became history.
The stain of their 0:7 loss to Bayern is destined to be indelible.
As the biggest star player in Barcelona, after the humiliating loss to Bayern.
Messi was naturally also criticized by the outside world. He didn't score a single goal in two games, which was unacceptable.
People began to doubt whether the two heroes could continue the glory of the previous year.
Faced with external accusations, Messi did not stand up and say anything.
He just chose to practice more silently and improve his strength with more diligent efforts.
Lin Quan was able to lead his team to defeat Bayern Munich in the Bundesliga, so why can't I do the same? Messi began to think more and more about this question: Am I worse than him?
Messi is still very proud in his heart, he doesn't think he is really worse than anyone else.
Therefore, the reason for the loss must be that he didn't work hard enough! So, every day after returning home, he spent more time studying Lin Quan's game videos on the computer...
…
Ouch!
Lin Quan, who was far away in Bremen, couldn't help but sneeze.
Is someone saying something bad about me behind my back? Why did I sneeze so many times in the morning?
"Lin, are you feeling unwell?"
Shaf also noticed this, so he waved to Lin Quan and asked him with concern.
"No, thank you for your concern, I'm fine!"
Lin Quan waved his hand. This was his last month at Werder Bremen and Lin Quan didn't want to be absent from work.
"Well, take care of yourself. Don't get sick or injured during this period. We still have a very important game to play!"
Lin Quan nodded, indicating that he understood.
The important game that Coach Schaaf mentioned was the German Cup final.
Whether Werder Bremen will fail to win any championship trophy this season or not depends entirely on their performance in the final.
After talking to Lin Quan for a few words, Shaf asked him to return to the court to continue training.
As for himself, he began to think about the team's tactical play next season.
Werder Bremen's team is too small and is destined to not be able to keep Lin Quan and De Bruyne.
Without their strong offensive firepower in the frontcourt, Werder Bremen's offensive ability is bound to decline seriously.
Fortunately, Phil Krug has made rapid progress this season, and Peterson has also shown his willingness to stay with the team.
Peterson was a substitute striker that Bayern brought in for more than 2 million euros. He was originally intended to be a backup for Gomez.
Unexpectedly, Mandzukic performed so well in Bayern that he took away Gomez's starting position.
After Mandzukic secured his starting position, Bayern no longer needed too many substitutes on the front line.
Especially for a forward like Peterson, compared with Mandzukic, it is obvious that the latter is more adapted to Bayern's tactical system.
As a result, Bayern basically left the loaned Petersen alone and didn't pay much attention to him.
Read the error-free version on 6Ⅹ9Ⅹ bookⅩ bar! 6Ⅹ9 book bar first publishes a novel.
In the German Cup match that eliminated Bayern, Peterson celebrated wildly at the Allianz Arena after scoring a goal, completely forgetting that he was still a Bayern player.
This also made him despised by Bayern fans, and the fans were unwilling to let him return to the Allianz Arena.
There was no place for him on the team, the fans didn't like him, so Peterson naturally didn't want to go back.
He is having a good time at Werder Bremen. Next season, Lin Quan and De Bruyne will leave and no one will compete with him for the starting lineup.
Here he can not only secure a starting position, but also play in the Champions League.
What if you perform brilliantly against a top club in the Champions League and maybe be picked up by them?
With Phil Krug and Peterson, the firepower on the front line will decrease, but at least there will be a bottom line.
But who can replace De Bruyne? Fritz is 32 years old and can't play for a few years, and he is not a very talented player.
It is unlikely to expect him to make all kinds of incredible and surgically precise passes like De Bruyne.
Therefore, during the summer transfer window, the team should focus on introducing midfield players.
Like before, Werder Bremen still plans to use the loan method to see if they can loan young players from other teams, especially top clubs.
Players who are favored by giants are usually not too bad in ability, but because the competition among giants is too fierce, they may not be able to get stable playing time.
Therefore, many young players of top clubs are loaned out to level up outside.
Werder Bremen will be able to play in the Champions League next season, which is very attractive to these young players.
Perhaps we can take this opportunity to attract a group of high-quality foreign aid.
But it is unlikely to draw phenomenal players like Lin Quan and De Bruyne like this season.
After coaching for so many years, Schaaf has a clear understanding of the talents and abilities of the two.
These two people will definitely leave their own legends in the football world in the future.
…
On May 4, the penultimate round of the Bundesliga kicked off.
There is a focus battle in this round of games - Dortmund VS Bayern Munich.
Because these two teams had just slaughtered the two La Liga giants in the Champions League semi-finals and reached the final, this game was seen by the outside world as a preview of the Champions League final.
While the heat brought by the Champions League semi-final has not yet dissipated, the Bundesliga has spent a lot of effort to operate and promote this game, and scheduled the game time for 7:30 in the evening.
In order to avoid other leagues diverting the ratings and attention of this game, the match between Werder Bremen and Hoffenheim was scheduled for 3:30 pm.
Hoffenheim is currently ranked second from the bottom in the standings, but unlike Fürth which has already been relegated, they still have a glimmer of hope.
Hoffenheim currently has 27 points, three points behind Augsburg and Düsseldorf.
If they can upset Werder Bremen away from home in this round, they may have a chance to equalize the gap and delay the suspense of relegation to the last round.
With this idea in mind, Hoffenheim took the initiative to attack Werder Bremen after the opening.
Since they will face Dortmund in the last round, if this game ends in a draw, this point will mean nothing to them.
So Huo Cun is obviously risking his life!
It’s no wonder that Huo Cun’s three axes are quite powerful.
Their No. 9 center forward Skip Locke scored a goal by accident just three minutes into the game.
Skiplock's long shot from outside the penalty area was not threatening at first because it was too straight.
As a result, after the ball flew into the penalty area, it was hit by the defender's leg and refracted.
Milic's old waist was almost broken. The location of the goal was almost opposite to his position, and he could do nothing about it.
After scoring this goal, Hoffenheim's morale was greatly boosted.
They surrounded Werder Bremen and launched an attack as if they were full of energy, but unexpectedly they scored another goal in the 10th minute.
The player who scored this goal was actually Skiplock. He accidentally fell when he broke into the penalty area. The referee was standing far away and did not see clearly, so he directly awarded a penalty to Hoffenheim.
The slow-motion replay on the big screen at the scene showed that this was actually a misjudgment and Skiplock slipped on his own.
Skiplock would not admit that he slipped. After seeing the referee's decision, he immediately got up from the ground, holding the football and was about to take a free throw.
The Bremen players protested to the referee a few times, but when they found that the referee had no intention of changing the decision, they gave up.
Although they fell behind by two goals in less than ten minutes, the players of Werder Bremen looked very calm and did not feel nervous or uneasy.
After continuously defeating powerful enemies and winning victories, they have developed the calmness and confidence of a strong person.
They believe in their own strength, so what if they let their opponents score two goals?
After the opponent scored a penalty kick and the score became 0:2, Werder Bremen began to exert its strength.
In the 24th minute, Werder Bremen players played smoothly in the frontcourt.
After the football was passed seven times in a row by five players, De Bruyne easily passed it into the opponent's goal almost by passing it.
During this process, Hoffenheim's players could not touch the ball, and their eyes could not even keep up with the movement of the football.
The opponent's way of scoring goals made Hoffenheim's players feel frustrated as if they had suffered a dimensional attack.
It turns out that the gap in strength between us and our opponents is so huge! Hoffenheim's players only realized at this time that their opponents had been holding back and had not used their true strength.
Unfortunately, they realized this too late.
In the 35th minute, Werder Bremen played smoothly again. Lin Quan dribbled into the penalty area and easily scored with a lob shot.
Before half-time, Werder Bremen equalized the score, and both teams were back on the same starting line.
But that's not all. Werder Bremen was so fierce that even they were afraid of themselves! In the 38th minute, Werder Bremen launched a quick counterattack. Lin Quan assisted Peterson to score a goal. The number on the scoreboard became 3:2. Werder Bremen overtook the score.
In the 56th minute, Werder Bremen scored another goal. De Bruyne scored directly with a free kick at a speed of 128 kilometers per hour, and the score became 4:2. In the end, at the end of the game, Werder Bremen caught up with four goals after conceding two goals first, and kicked Hoffenheim into the relegation abyss.
Hoffenheim's players and fans deeply experienced what it felt like to fall from the clouds into the abyss.
After the match with Hoffenheim, the team did not disband directly, but all gathered in the activity room to watch the decisive battle between Dortmund and Bayern Munich at home.
(End of this chapter)