Vol 3 Chapter 292: UEFA Champions League: Both sides are as good as 1

In the twenty-fifth round of the league, Schalke defeated Freiburg 1:0 at home. Zhou Tiancheng won with a set shot in the second half of the game and scored the sixteenth goal of the season. Schalke won five straight in the second half. Continue to maintain pressure on Dortmund.
This is the situation that can make the media excited. The two players in the Ruhr area are four points apart. Bayern is also chasing behind them. The biggest dark horse of the season + "German Super League". This series of consecutive championships is enough for Germany. The football reporter has a bloodline. It's a bit of a Premier League feeling like this.
The Chinese media used their strong analysis and deduction ability from the Chinese team in the past, and obtained the probability of winning the three teams: Schalke still has a chance. In the remaining nine rounds, Schalke has five home games, and the other strongest opponent in the four away games is Bayern. But in the media's opinion, this is no big problem. Schalke now has the best way to deal with Bayern. They even boldly predicted: as long as there are no major fluctuations within the team, Schalke's remaining nine rounds of undefeated can be achieved. Next, let's look at Dortmund. They also have a confrontation with Bayern, but before this season, they almost lost to Bayern once.
But from another perspective, Dortmund Media also has a sufficient source of confidence. They can dedicate themselves to the league championship, and Schalke and Bayern will also distract the Champions League at this juncture, unless Magat and Van Gaal strategically give up the Champions League...
When the team was seven points behind, the Gelsenkirchen media did not make such a trade-off proposal. Compared with the Champions League, they care less about losing to Dortmund-the hostility of the two clubs is always the same, even though Schalke is already a first-class European giant in the eyes of some media, the attitude towards Dortmund has never changed.
However, the media's self-considered suggestions were directly mocked by Magath: "Give up the Champions League? I heard one of the most funny jokes!"
This attitude is clear enough, not to mention that Schalke's opponent in the round of 16 is La Liga team Valencia.
Put ten years ago, this is the top European giant, won the UEFA Cup twice, and reached the UEFA Champions League twice, but now by the strength of Schalke, Valencia can not bring too much threat . Despite the German media's constant complaints after the draw of the knockout, Schalke was not very lucky. Just hit a very strong group second.
But this is that the emperor is not in a hurry (too) (supervision), and Schalke was quite relaxed when he set off for Valencia.
But on the other side, Valencia, who was at home for the first round, was not at all relaxed.
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In the weekend's La Liga, Emery boldly rotated four main players, including the team's number one striker Soldado. Emery wholeheartedly prepared for this game, the team is now firmly in third, chasing Barcelona Real Madrid hopeless, and can not fall out of the Champions League qualification zone, the league level has already completed the season goals in advance, Emery is now focused on the Champions League.
Valencia has left a lot of power for the Champions League. Valencia reporters inevitably have more expectations for the game. It seems that Emery really has ideas. Although Valencia has a serious defensive problem, in La Liga, they have lost nearly two goals per game, but at the same time, their offensive ability is also in the top three in La Liga. While averaging two goals per game, they also averaged 2.8 goals per game.
If Valencia can really do a desperate attack, there may be a chance, the offensive firepower is not much worse than Schalke!
However, Emery is very low-key, claiming that he is really helpless: "Rotating the main player does not mean that we are going to play against Schalke. Our opponent is a strong defending champion, allowing the main player to get Isn't it enough to explain more fully?"
Interestingly, Magath also said that he would not take the risk: "The game at Mestalla Stadium will be the biggest difficulty the team currently encounters. Valencia is a very offensive team, and such opponents Fight, any attempt to rush to attack is stupid."
This wave of business talk between the two sides is really not nutritious for the media, and even feels a little disgusted: If both sides are so conservative, how boring will the game be?
Many media subconsciously think that Magath is casting smoke bombs. Will the Champions League be so conservative?
The Gelsenkirchen media also laughed that Magath's smoke bomb level was too low, and he couldn't even deceive himself.
But things that seem outrageous are often the truth.
The opening of the game was completely unarmed, Valencia took more of the ball control initiative, but they were very cautious in speeding up their offense. The ball was shifted to the side more, before Zhou Tiancheng was completely mobilized, No one dares to go. Similarly, Magath also asked Schalke to stabilize the defense first, without pressing on it. In the first round away, Schalke had patience. Magath asked everyone to wait for the opportunity. When the Valencia formation began to press up, grasp the loophole of the opponent's backcourt, as long as you can guarantee that you will not lose, and there is an away goal. In the hand is victory. Right now Schalke has to deal with the two big players in the league and the Champions League. This is the most energy-efficient tactic.
Both head coaches thought of going together. Fifteen minutes before the game, in addition to a few tentative long-pass offenses, the most frequent shots were the two sides constantly making free throws at different positions.
Some reporters in the media seat were a little impatient. The UEFA Champions League knockout game gave the two sides a feeling of internal teaching competition.
Marcel Leff said in an interesting way: "It's really rare to see such scenes in Schalke's game. But they can pull the rhythm up a bit, like this meaningless backcourt. Feet, I’m not sure if I will fall asleep, haha!"
The Spanish TV narrator was unexpected and hoped that Schalke would take the lead in attacking: "Has Schalke been shocked by the atmosphere of Mestalla? Their performance is not at all like a team that will hit the championship... …"
The Spanish commentary is very clear~EbookFREE.me~ Emery pursues an offensive and defensive balance, he is absolutely impossible to rush into a strong attack, so if you want to make the scene lively, you can only hope for Schalke.
And Schalke accelerated the rhythm, which may be more beneficial to Valencia. Long pass is their best counterattack.
However, both sides obviously have the patience to grind down, but the reporters in the stands feel very disappointed, especially the German reporters. They didn't expect Magath to tell the truth this time.
This time, the two sides are very rare.
But they were really powerless to talk at this time, and they thought it might be the most enjoyable match of the top 16 before the game.
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