Vol 5 Chapter 324: Curse

The 2013-2014 season of the Bundesliga ended.
In the end, Dortmund won the league title and won the championship for four consecutive seasons.
And Bayern Munich? After playing perfectly throughout the season, there were three games with flaws. As a result, Dortmund seized the opportunity. Now they can only accept such a result.
Schalke 04 defeated Nuremberg 4:1 at home in the final round and ended the season with a victory. They eventually ranked third in the league and got the right to compete in the Champions League next season.
Wolfsburg beat Mönchengladbach 3-1 at home. In this way, although Leverkusen defeated Werder Bremen 2-1 at home, he still could not surpass Wolfsburg, so he Wolfsburg picked a bargain at the last moment and got the qualification for the Champions League.
Leverkusen can only participate in the UEFA Cup with hatred.
Monchengladbach ranked sixth and also qualified for the Europa League next season.
In terms of personal honor, Zhou Yi became the Bundesliga assists leader with 25 assists.
Mark Wagner won the Bundesliga's top scorer with 22 goals.
Dortmund has a good harvest.
But for Bayern Munich and Dortmund, the season is not over.
On May 17, Bayern Munich will also participate in the final of the German Cup, their opponent is Wolfsburg.
This is Bayern Munich's only game that can fight for honor, avoiding this season's bamboo basket.
Dortmund will participate in the Champions League final on May 24, their opponent is Real Madrid.
This season's Real Madrid did not perform well in La Liga, but in the Champions League, they broke all the way to the finals.
Many people are not very optimistic about Dortmund.
It feels good that they can reach the Champions League final. Judging from the team's irregular situation, it is very difficult to beat Real Madrid.
The most important thing is that since the restructuring of the Champions League, no team has successfully defended its title, which is basically like a magic spell.
It was not without defending champions before reaching the final.
Before the Champions League restructuring, there have been 12 successful defending. But since the restructuring, there has been no such good thing.
Four champion teams broke into the Champions League final again in the second year. They were AC Milan in 1995. In the final, they lost to the young guard Ajax at the time. Kluivert became famous in one battle. , And then transferred to AC Milan.
In the second year of 1996, Ajax also reached the Champions League final as the defending champion. They lost the opportunity to defend the champion in penalty shootout against Juventus in the final.
Another year later, in 1997, this time it was replaced by defending champion Juventus, who had a chance to defend successfully. They met Dortmund in the final. As a result, the final was a super substitute Ricken's lore, which helped Dortmund beat Juventus 3-1.
Dortmund won their first Champions League championship in the history of their club, and Juventus lost the opportunity to defend their title.
From 1995 to 1997, in the three Champions League finals, all the previous champions reached the finals, but were defeated. The same thing happened three times in a row. The curse of not defending the Champions League after the restructuring of the Champions League appeared.
For many years after that, there was no defending champion to reach the final. They were always eliminated before the final.
Until 2009, last season's Champions League champion Manchester United finally reached the final. Their opponent was Barcelona led by Guardiola. Manchester United lost to Barcelona 0:2 in that game.
Guardiola has since inaugurated the era of the dream three team, that year he led Barcelona to win six championships, no one before and no one to come.
Of course, such a colossal "Cosmic Team" has not been able to break the spell of defending the Champions League.
In the second year, they were blocked by Mourinho's Inter Milan in the semi-finals-many Barcelona fans were still expecting them to go to Bernabeu to win the Champions League trophy and face Real Madrid... …
In the football world, many times you analyze and analyze, it may not be as convincing as a "magic".
Football is round, so the possibility of various "superstitions" is also higher.
Superstitions like "Magic" are always more marketable in football.
Sometimes people do have to think about the "magic" aspect, because some defending champions are really out of mind.
In 1991, if last season's Champions League champion AC Milan won the championship again, then they will have three consecutive Champions League championships-last season's AC Milan is the last team to successfully defend the Champions League.
They met Marseille in the quarter-finals.
The first round of the game ended at San Siro Stadium with a score of 1:1. In the second round, AC Milan used an obscure tactic but failed to save the situation and could not resist Chris Wadel’s goal. Wadel even had a concussion in a confrontation before, but he was still recovering Later he helped Marcel take a 2-1 lead.
This score was maintained until the injury stoppage time, AC Milan is not without hope, as long as they score another goal, they will equalize the total score, and at the same time eliminate the Marseille advantage by scoring away. But it was at this time that there were a few problems with lighting at the Velodrome Stadium, home of Marseille.
The referee believes that the game can continue, but AC Milan seems to think that this is a perfect opportunity. They can use the lighting problem as an excuse to request a rematch.
So the team returned to the locker room and refused to return to the game.
The head referee was also polite, and straightforwardly rejected the AC Milan replay request. In the end, Marseille was awarded a score of 3:0 to win. AC Milan not only lost the chance to defend, but even banned UEFA from participating in European events next season because of this willful rematch requirement.
So the brilliant AC Milan said goodbye to the Champions League. In the season when they were not allowed to participate in the Champions League, Barcelona defeated Sampdoria and won the first Champions League trophy in the history of their club. The team led by Cruyff is also known as the "Dream Team".
However, it is such a dream team, but in the Champions League final two years later, they lost to AC Milan at 0:4.
At the same time AC Milan resumed participating in the 1992-1993 season of the Champions League, also reached the Champions League final, but only lost to Marseille. Of course, Marseille later revealed a fake ball scandal. Although it was not cancelled the Champions League, it was disqualified from participating in the Toyota Cup. AC Milan replaced the Toyota Cup, making people think that the Champions League championship was changed to AC Milan. , But it is not. The reason given by UEFA is that the appeal period has passed, so the Champions League champion still belongs to Marseille.
In the 2006-2007 season, defending champion Barcelona was eliminated by Liverpool in the quarterfinals. And Liverpool, who eliminated them, had an internal conflict before the game. At that time, Bellamy and Rither not only went to the bar to drink and party before the game, but also broke out because they drank too much. After returning to the hotel, Bellamy also took out a golf club to Rither’s room and gave the latter a stick.
But that's it. In the next game, Liverpool beat Barcelona 2-1 away, and it was Bellamy and Risse who scored...
The Red Star Belgrade, who defeated Marcel in the final in 1991 and won the Champions League, had the chance to defend the championship. But the civil war in Yugoslavia broke out, and many stars in the team left the team and went to Western Europe to seek development. This team was badly injured, plus the sanctions of the United Nations, the Yugoslav team banned from participating in the Champions League, the national team can not participate in the European Cup, the powerful Yugoslav football is so ruined by the war...
In 2003, AC Milan defeated Juventus in the penalty shootout and won the Champions League again. But the following year, when they defeated A Coruña 4:1 at home in the first round of the quarter-finals, they lost to A Coruña inexplicably 0:4 in the second round and were eliminated.
In 2010, Barcelona led by Guardiola was in full swing. Everyone felt that if a team can break the spell, it must be Guardiola's "Cosmic Team". In the end, such a Barcelona was suffocated by Mourinho's bus in his semi-final...
Of course, the worst defending champion is Chelsea. After defeating Bayern Munich at Allianz Stadium in 2012 and getting the first Champions League championship in the history of the club, they did not even break through the group stage the following year and were eliminated...
So many examples above fully illustrate how powerful the magic spell of "defending champions can't defend".
Earlier, it was said that Dortmund is hard to get the Champions League championship, and it is more effective to say that "the Champions League champion is not a defending spell."
The odds offered by the bookmakers are obviously more optimistic about Real Madrid.
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After winning the league, Klopp took a full day off for the team to give them a good rest to recover.
After a day's rest, the Dortmund players returned to the Bracker training base to start preparing for the Champions League final.
A reporter stuck at the gate of the training base and asked Zhou Yi about the defending champion's inability to defend the spell.
Zhou Yi smiled and waved his hand: "I believe in science, not superstitious~EbookFREE.me~ The reporter said: "But you have said before that Real Madrid can't win the German team on the road.
Zhou Yi put his hands together: "When did I say this? I said it was Murphy's Law, it was science, but it was not superstition."
The reporter seems to have known that Zhou Yihui had said so and asked proudly: "But Real Madrid defeated Schalke 6:1 away this season and Bayern Munich 4:0, all of them German teams... …"
Zhou Yi nodded: "Yeah. So Real Madrid has proved with practical actions that there is never a magic spell, is it?"
The reporter who asked the question was dumbfounded and speechless.
He really didn't expect Zhou Yi's face to be so thick, and his face to be changed so quickly...
A Chinese reporter next to him saw that the foreign reporter was deflated and couldn't help but laugh like a barbell. Didn't this man do homework before coming to interview Zhou Yi? Don't know who Zhou Yi is?
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