Chapter 153: Undefeated

In the third round of the Champions League group stage, there were actually quite a few upsets.
Defending champion Chelsea lost 1:2 away to Shakhtar Donetsk, Manchester City lost 1:3 away to Ajax, AC Milan lost 0:1 away to Málaga, and Juventus was forced away 1:1 by North Zealand. Ping, these are all unpopular.
But these upsets are not as good as Arsenal's 0:3 home defeat to Schalke 04.
Regarding this game, the major sports media in England and Germany directly gave the headlines.
"Bruce Lee Shuangxiang, Schalke 04 three goals away victory over Arsenal"
"Away 3:0 defeated the Gunners, the Royal Blue Emirates Stadium thrived"
"For the first time in team history, miners have their first win in England"
The German media praised the performance of Schalke 04. This was not only the first win of Schalke 04 in England, but also a big victory over a famous team like Arsenal.
The English media is criticizing Arsenal.
"Shame, Arsenal suffered a three-goal defeat at home"
"Super Bruce's bloodthirsty counterattack, the gunman was slaughtered at home"
In short, in the English media reports, all kinds of humiliating and disastrous words are full of words.
The English media made a three-no summary for Arsenal's fiasco: no offense in the front, no defense in the back, and players without confidence.
In recent years, although Arsenal have not been very competitive in the Champions League, they at least played well at home. They rarely lose at home, let alone lose three goals. .
The last time Arsenal suffered a three-goal home defeat in the Champions League, it was the first round of the Champions League group stage in the 03/04 season, when they lost 0:3 at home to Inter Milan.
But that time Arsenal had a grudge and reported it on the spot. In the UEFA Champions League group stage that season, Arsenal beat Inter Milan 5:1 away in the fifth round. Not only did they avenge their revenge, they also beat Inter Milan. Keep their group from qualifying.
So this time, while criticizing Arsenal, the English media are also clamoring, asking Arsenal to go to the away game in the second round to complete their revenge, just like when they played Inter Milan.
In this round of the Champions League group stage, Schalke 04 defeated Arsenal 3:0 away while Olympiacos also defeated Montpellier 2:1 away.
This Ligue 1 defending champion looks really weak. Not only is it hard to find a win in the three-round group stage, but it hasn't even won a draw.
So in the group where Schalke 04 is, after three rounds of matches, Schalke 04 ranked first with 9 points in three consecutive victories, Arsenal ranked second with 6 points, and Olympiacos ranked third with 3 points.
The other two Champions League teams in the Bundesliga have also won victories. Dortmund won Real Madrid 2:1 at home. This is a very important victory. Dortmund wants to qualify from the super dead group and face Real Madrid. You have to get points.
On the Bayern side, they went to a 1-0 victory over Lille in the away game and successfully scored three points.
At present, there have been three rounds of the Champions League group stage, and all three Bundesliga teams are ranked first in their own group, and the qualifying situation is quite good.
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After returning from away from London, Schalke 04 is preparing for the league again.
On October 27th, in the 9th round of the Bundesliga, Schalke 04 played against Nuremberg at home.
Nuremberg played well at the beginning of the season, with 2 wins and 1 draw in the first three rounds of the league. The only draw was the draw of defending champion Dortmund.
But after the first three rounds of three strikes, they can't do it, and now they have lost four straight, and they have lost five consecutive rounds.
On the home scene against such a poorly-conditioned team, Schalke 04 did not play easily.
The main reason is that too much energy was spent on away games in London in the middle of the week, and the whole team was not in good shape. The team has always had the advantage but can't start the situation.
In the 78th minute of the second half, Huntelaar's shot created a corner kick, and then Matip header in the corner kick, finally breaking the deadlock.
With a height of 1.95 meters, Matip is the tallest man in the Schalke 04 team, so he can often get a header.
Although the process was difficult, Schalke 04 still scored a three-pointer with an affordable 1:0 at home.
In other Bundesliga matches on the second day, good news came one after another. First, Bayern lost 1:2 at home to Leverkusen, and then Frankfurt lost to Stuttgart 1:2 away.
This time the ranking on the Bundesliga standings has changed.
Bayern continued to occupy the top spot with 7 wins, 1 draw, 1 loss and 22 points, but Schalke 04 has caught up after this win.
Schalke 04 is currently 6 wins, 3 draws and 21 points, only one point away from the top Bayern.
After the loss, the dark horse Frankfurt fell to third place with 19 points, followed by Dortmund and Leverkusen with 15 points.
And after this Bayern loss, Schalke 04 is already the only remaining unbeaten team in the Bundesliga.
Schalke 04 is not only unbeaten in the Bundesliga, but also unbeaten in all competitions.
In 9 Bundesliga games, there were 6 wins and 3 draws, the Champions League had 3 consecutive victories, and the German Cup also had a victory. The combined result is 13 unbeaten matches in all competitions.
If combined with the undefeated in the last three Bundesliga games last season, Schalke 04 is already unbeaten in 16 games across the season.
The record of 16 unbeaten games is not long. The dominant teams in the major European leagues are always unbeaten in 30 or 40 games, but for Schalke 04, this is the second longest in team history. Unbeaten record.
The longest unbeaten record in the history of Schalke 04 is just 18 games.
So now, Schalke 04 has the opportunity to tie and even make history.
The opening 13 games were unbeaten. At present, the only unbeaten team in the Bundesliga has allowed Schalke 04 to receive a lot of attention. The German media are not stingy with praise. UU Reading www. uukanshu.com's various compliments are set on Schalke 04's head.
At this time, Schalke team chairman Clemens Tenis was a little erratic and began to speak out in front of the media.
"There is no doubt that our undefeated will continue, and we will create new records."
"And to be honest, we will try our best to win this season's Bundesliga championship and even the German Cup with an unbeaten record..."
MD, where are you now? Just talk about the unbeaten title with a mouthful of ass. Why don't you say you won the triple crown without defeat?
I don't even have a sense of low-key character building, it's really out of stock.
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Although the chairman does not know the low-key, but the game of Schalke 04 will continue, and the unbeaten record also continues.
On October 30th, in the 32nd match of the German Cup in midweek, Schalke 04 played against the German second team Sandhausen at home.
Sandhausen is not only a Bundesliga second team, but also a newly promoted Bundesliga second team, so Huber Stevens arranged a semi-rotation at home to let the offensive players rest.
Playing the Nuremberg league at the weekend can be seen, the team is somewhat tired up and down, just take this opportunity to take a rotation.
However, the team management seems to have given instructions to try to maintain the unbeaten record.
Anyway, the unbeaten record must not be ended on this underdog team.
Therefore, although important players such as Li Chenglong and Huntelaar did not appear, they also sat on the bench on standby.
However, they were useless. The three goals of Makari, Pucci and Barneta allowed Schalke 04 to easily defeat the opponent 3:0 at home and successfully advance to the top 16 of the German Cup.
After winning this game, Schalke's 04 cross-season unbeaten came to 17 games, just one game away from the team history record.