Chapter 137: Champions League rekindled

Latest website: Madrid Pirates top the league standings after beating Catalan on the road.
As the defending champions, this is the first time they have sat in this position this season.
At present, after 22 rounds of the league, the Madrid Pirates have accumulated 58 points, ranking first. The Catalan team has 58 points, and they are in second place because of the disadvantage of the relationship between the winners and the losers.
Although the King of Madrid beat Saria 6-1 at home, it still failed to change the fact that they ranked third.
And they are not only in third place, they are seven points away from the Madrid Pirates and Catalan United.
In the competition within the Western Super League, seven points is a very large gap.
Even for the King of Madrid, it is very difficult to tie such a difference.
Moreover, the next Champions League knockout match will reignite the war, even if it is a wealthy team, it will inevitably be distracted into the Champions League, and it is impossible to guarantee that it can perform well on both fronts.
Coupled with the captain of the Kings of Madrid, the main goalkeeper Rodriguez Barker has been out for two months due to injury and may not return until late March.
His absence had a huge impact on the team.
To be pragmatic, the head coach of the King of Madrid, Tavares, should be very clear that it is a thankless thing for the team to compete for the league championship with Catalan United and the Madrid Pirates.
Instead of spending energy on two fronts, it is better to specialize in the Champions League.
Even if you can't win the league title by then, as long as you can win the European Championship, for a giant like the King of Madrid, this season is still not a failure.
After all, it must be said that the gold content of the Champions League is definitely higher than that of the domestic league champions.
And not to mention whether the King can win the Champions League, just reaching the Champions League final for three consecutive seasons is already a great achievement.
In the 6-1 victory over Sarria, Tavares began to make substitutions from the last 30 minutes.
Merry was substituted in the 77th minute.
He scored an early hat-trick in that game and was in great form.
Tavares naturally hopes he can save such excellent form for the Champions League game in the middle of next week.
In their Champions League quarter-final match, they drew Vesuvius, a strong Serie A team.
Vesuvius is the only third-tier team that has qualified for the Champions League group stage this season - except for them, the other teams that have qualified for the group are the original first- and second-tier teams.
Vesuvius is in Group G. The first team in this group is the Portuguese Super League champion Alvara, and the second team is Ruhrlein.
In the end, Vesuvius defeated the first-class team Alvara and qualified with Ruhrlein.
Alvara finished third and could only go to the Europa League knockout stage in the second half of the season.
Although he was eliminated in the Champions League group stage, as the team's midfield organizer, Xia Xiaoyu still received the attention of the entire European football world.
If nothing else, he is likely not to stay in Alvara next season.
In addition to his own ambitions, Alvara has never forced to keep players who can sell at a reasonable price. After all, their club's way of survival is to sell players at high prices.
With Xia Xiaoyu's excellent performance in Alvara, there is no need to worry about finding a next home - his next stop will definitely be in the five major leagues.
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The match between the King of Madrid and Vesuvius is the first of the Champions League knockout rounds.
There are also three games to start at the same time this week, Paris Herger vs Tramede, Sevilla Voyager vs Manchester Athletic and London Bridge vs Ruhrlein.
The remaining eight teams make their debut next week, with the Torino Bulls at home against Atlético Amsterdam, Stan Park Rangers home city against Blue and White Munich, Insubre against Catalan United and Madrid Pirates away to Rotterdam Elite.
According to the rules of the UEFA Champions League draw, there are not too many restrictions in the quarter-final stage, except that the first and second places in the same group cannot meet, and the second qualifying team of the group will play at home first.
Because in the Champions League round of 16 this season, only one team is in the third category.
Teams, no matter who is the first in the group and who is the second in the group, the difference in strength is not very big, and there is almost no situation where whoever gets a good lottery.
Even if the King of Madrid draws the only non-group first and second team Vesuvius, it is still a strong Serie A team and is not easy to play.
The only exception is the defending champions Madrid Pirates.
What they drew was the Rotterdam elite. Although they were the Eredivisie champions last season and the seeded team in Group F, their overall strength was really not strong.
Mainly because the head coach Reilly Vicente, who led them to the league title last season, has left the team and switched to Catalan United, and also took away the team's main goalkeeper Tone Schulman, which is very important to the team's strength. brought some negative effects.
The reason why they can still advance to the round of 16 as the second place in the group is mainly because the other teams in Group F are weaker:
In addition to the Rotterdam Elite, the other team in this group is Manchester Athletic, the third team is the Moscow Red Flag, and the fourth team is the Claude Ranger from Scotland.
In this way, in the end, the Rotterdam elite only squeezed the Claude Ranger down by virtue of the goal difference, sent the latter to the Europa League, and advanced to the Champions League knockout stage.
Then they met the Madrid Pirates in the quarter-final draw.
When I first saw this result, many fans of other giants thought that UEFA had recommended the Madrid Pirates.
One by one, they were so envious in their hearts that they refused to admit it in their mouths.
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The Madrid Pirates' away game against Rotterdam Elite does not start in the middle of the week after them and the Catalan League, but in the middle of the next week.
This is also thanks to such an arrangement, otherwise they and Catalonia may not be able to go all out in the league, and they will inevitably be distracted.
In that case, La Liga this season will lose a classic game, and the Sagrada Familia may also lose a distinguished and important VIP customer.
It is precisely because they do not have to play the Champions League next to each other that the two teams can contribute a wonderful 4:3 in the league.
In this week, the four Champions League quarter-finals are the first to start.
The Kings of Madrid face off against Serie A giants Vesuvius.
Vesuvius is a "giant" team in southern Italy.
Italian football respects the north - basically all the strong teams are concentrated in the area north of the capital Rome.
Vesuvius is the only team that is located in the south but has won the league championship in history, and it is also the only team that can represent the south of Italy in European competitions.
The team's style of play is relatively tough. It is different from the style of play bred in the northern industrial base and fashionable cities. Vesuvius, which is rooted in the relatively poor agricultural areas of the south, is like the volcano from which the team's name originated. Grumpy, tough and brutish.
Going to an away game for this team is never easy.
When Hu Lai was still in Leeds City, he participated in the Champions League group stage for the first time, and was in a group with this team. At that time, Leeds City defeated Turkey, which has a "hell home", 2:1 away in the first round of the Champions League group stage. The Beacon of the Giants gave them some "unrealistic" illusions, thinking that they could reach the knockout stage by participating in the Champions League group stage for the first time. As a result, he went to the home of Vesuvius, but lost 0:4 and was beaten to the point of being unable to fight back.
You must know that it is also an away game, but Leeds City defeated Catalan United 4:2 away. Vesuvius' home is harder to play than Catal's...
The giant Catalan United in the same group even lost 0-1 away in the final group match, losing the first place in the group.
This shows the strength of this team.
However, in the last two seasons of the Champions League, the Serie A team has played erratically, the level has fluctuated, and it has not qualified from the group stage for two consecutive seasons.
This time, they managed to squeeze out the seeded team Alvara in the group stage, but they drew the King of Madrid in the quarter-finals...
Everyone thinks that Vesuvius is bad luck, but the result of the first round surprised many people - Vesuvius actually defeated the King of Madrid 2:1 at home!
Merry, who scored a hat-trick in the last round of the league,
Naples, Italy, did not perform well.
No goals, no assists.
He seems to have used his state in advance...
Although the away game only lost one goal, the King of Madrid, who returned home, still has a chance to advance, and the probability is very high.
But the failure of this game seemed like a thick dark cloud, shrouded in the hearts of all Madrid Kings fans.
Merry's data this season is very dazzling, but he is always in poor state intermittently, unable to consistently output his best state, coupled with the main goalkeeper and captain Barker missing due to injury, the league was pulled by competitors Open more than 7/10…
The road to the Champions League is now so difficult.
This has to make all Kings fans worry that their era...is it coming to an end?
Anyway, from this week's point of view, this is the case.
The Kings lost, and more than 80 percent of fans across Europe were gloating.
It can be seen how bad the popularity of the King of Madrid among European fans is...
Many passers-by fans are dissatisfied with them~EbookFREE.me~ mainly because of their ruthless treatment of their own meritorious legend Alexandra Cerrados-as the iconic figure of the team, they want a share The contract extension is not excessive, and Cerrados has not made a particularly outrageous salary request. However, in order to make way for Meili, the club was reluctant to renew the contract with Cerados, and finally forced Cerados to retire when he could participate in the local World Cup in one year.
In order not to play for other clubs, Cerrados would rather not participate in the World Cup, and his loyalty to the King's Club is evident.
But the Kings Club treated him like a rag. After it was useless, it was thrown away.
Maybe Cerrados was relieved after retiring, but passers-by were hard to let go, and they were still complaining about Cerrados.
Naturally, they all hope that such a ruthless team will be as bad as possible.
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Chapter 137 The Champions League that rekindled the war