champion professor

Chapter 221 The Tangle of Two Tribes

"Why do you say this? It's because I found that everyone has this problem now. Why did we almost lose the last game against Middlesbrough? Isn't it just this change of mentality?"

Football is also like war, the weaker side tends to put in more effort, while the big clubs will have more involvement, such as games with other giants.

Therefore, the comparison between a small team that has done its best and a big club that has retained its strength is not as simple as the comparison of strength on the cards.

"We were almost overturned in the last game. Isn't this lesson enough?"

Panathinaikos was able to finally break through the siege of Schalke 04 and Lazio, which was really surprising, and Arsenal was almost broken by Middlesbrough. The unbeaten golden body that lasted more than ten league games.

Moreover, because their second-stage group stage draw results have come out, and they are still a death group, Shao Bo has no confidence to make a breakthrough and enter the quarter-finals.

Let's take a look at the first stage of the group stage. Among their opponents, Panathinaikos is a Greek team, and the other two are teams from the five major leagues, namely the Bundesliga and Serie A.

And when Arsenal approached the second stage, they discovered that there were still two super-strong teams in this group.Moreover, one of them is Lazio's rival in the same city, Rome!

Now when they play the next stage of the group stage, they don't need to adapt to the new venue.

However, although the Olympia Stadium in Rome has been on the way, after learning the result of the draw, the Roma fans who originally supported Arsenal against Lazio immediately changed their faces, claiming that they want Arsenal to be buried in Rome, the city of death. .

However, their current results are indeed better than their city rivals Lazio.In addition, the record ratio of Arsenal and Lazio is one win and one loss, and they feel that it is not difficult to defeat Arsenal.

They even described their upcoming opponents in the Champions League in this way in the media.

"This is not just a simple game. Roma is the home of the most terrifying monsters in Serie A and even in Europe. What Roma wants is not only to protect the honor of their home court, but also to kill the arrogance of Arsenal at the door. If Failure, it would be a double blow, firstly, the devil's home court will be captured, and secondly, Arsenal's confidence and morale will be greatly improved. However, in Rome, we are the kings, and we are not afraid of anyone's challenge. Moreover, the core Samuel , Totti have all returned, and the fighting power has once again improved."

Of course, you, Roma fans still have a certain amount of confidence in saying this, they are now ranked No.1 in the league standings anyway.

And in the first stage of the group stage, when Rome played, this stadium has always maintained a record of victory, which is not inferior to Panathinaikos.

Not to mention the confidence brought to them by head coach Fabio Capello. This season, Roma not only ranks first in the standings, but also leads the Serie A in terms of the number of goals scored and the number of goals conceded.

The face-changing speed is so fast. At the beginning, there were still many Roma fans who exchanged contact information with the away team Gunners fans who accompanied the team to watch the game when Arsenal came to Rome and Lazio, but now most of them have been used for mutual demonstrations and quarreled.

And what about Lazio fans?Their club is now in financial trouble, the boss is about to go to jail, and the prospects are bleak.

But at least this group of outstanding players is still there, and fans expect them to perform miracles.

Without the involvement of the Champions League, then Lazio can also focus more on the domestic league, right?
Don't Eriksson want to win a Triple Crown?

Lazio fans who have nothing to do with this UEFA Champions League are watching from the other side at this time, laughing at the quarrel between fans of the two teams on forums and in the media.

In addition to the eternal city of Rome, they also have this strong opponent.

Super Laco.

Deportivo has regained its glory in the early 90s. They defeated strong enemies many times in the Champions League. Neither Manchester United, Bayern Munich nor Juventus could stop their pace and became famous for a while.

It's just that Deportivo has never met Arsenal in the Champions League.

At this time in La Liga, all the heroes are rising together, and the dominance of Real Madrid and Barcelona is not so strong.

Barcelona is in a period of decline and is still working hard to find a way to revive.

Although Real Madrid won the league championship last season, they have also undergone considerable changes since the re-election of the club president.

Florentino made the most decisive decision in the history of the Real Madrid club. He sold the Real Madrid training ground in the city center to the Madrid Municipal Government for nearly 3 million US dollars, and successfully cleared the club's debts of more than [-] million US dollars.

Zidane, who transferred from Juventus, also broke the transfer record created by Figo, and what Florentino promised: the one-year superstar policy will continue.

"The best player in the world should come to play for Real Madrid", this is what Florentino once said to the media.

However, although Real Madrid is constantly burning money, there are still La Liga teams trying to break their dominance.

At present, Real Mallorca and Valencia are only following Real Madrid in the standings, and the gap between them is not big.And Barcelona and Deportivo are also showing their splendor in the Champions League.

Although compared to Rome and La Coruña, Rosenberg in Northern Europe is nothing at all.

Even they have achieved dominance in their domestic league in recent years, although since 1992, they have not lost the Norwegian Superliga champion.Set a staggering record of winning the championship for 9 consecutive years.

However, considering the relatively low level of Norway's domestic league, even the richest Rosenberg's annual income is not as good as Arsenal's, and they are indeed just a slightly stronger fish in Europe.

However, they have a terrifying home field advantage!

Trondheim is located on the west coast of Norway. The climate there is much colder than London or even Rome and Galicia around the Mediterranean Sea. Moreover, it is still winter. Players may catch a cold if they go to Norway. Now, where else can I play well?

It's no wonder that Rosenberg was able to break through the first stage of the group stage. Although they did not encounter a few strong enemies, the climate at home still provided them with great help.

AC Milan, Borussia Dortmund, and even Real Madrid, these European powerhouses have all been defeated by Rosenborg. If Arsenal underestimate their opponents too much, they will still suffer retribution.

However, before their next Champions League game starts, they have to play a domestic league game with a heavyweight opponent.At the same time, this also heralds the official start of Arsenal's second wave of devil's schedule this season.

Manchester United, Tottenham Hotspur, Liverpool, plus the enemies to face in the Champions League, Shao Bo can only choose to give up strategically?

"Damn it! It would be great if there were more players who could meet the needs." Although Shao Bo complained like this, if too many players were brought in at one go, it would definitely affect the stability of the locker room.And in addition to the devil's schedule, a lot of money will be wasted to pay salaries in normal times.

Arsenal are preparing to promote the "frugality" plan for the new stadium, and if they increase their investment, unless they can find more sponsors and get more funds.

At this time, Shao Bo can only arrange rotations as much as possible to save the players' physical strength.

But to be honest, unless this kind of double match for several weeks in a row, and the opponent in each game is an extremely powerful enemy.In normal times, Arsenal's current staff is enough to cope with the game.

Every position is guaranteed to have at least two world-class players, and a few are the top players. What more can Shao Bo ask for?

But although Henry is Arsenal's top attacking player, his top scorer position has been robbed by Manchester United's Ruud van Nistelrooy for several weeks.

After breaking the transfer amount records in the Netherlands and England one after another, the two-year transfer negotiations finally came to fruition. Ruud van Nistelrooy became Manchester United's new firepower after the black wind and double evil.

At present, he has scored twelve goals for Manchester United, and it happened that the advantage of one goal suppressed Henry.

And this situation has also happened for several weeks, each time after Henry scored a goal, Ruud van Nistelrooy scored another one.

Or after Ruud van Nistelrooy scored, Henry chased after him.

However, after excluding the reduced playing time due to Shao Bo's rotation, Henry's scoring efficiency is still higher than that of Van Nistelrooy.

In addition, Arsenal also has a strong midfield attacker group, which is no worse than Manchester United.

For two consecutive years, Manchester United led by Ferguson was suppressed by Arsenal and lost the league championship. He couldn't swallow this breath.

Although the 60-year-old Ferguson had thought about retiring because of his age, he still wanted to lead Manchester United to more championships.

Pull bloody Liverpool off that throne!
The old man has never forgotten this sentence. Of course, now we have to add Arsenal, which has [-] league titles.

Shao Bo became the biggest enemy in front of Ferguson. Although there is no shortage of good players in the team, their injuries are much more serious than Arsenal.

Andy Cole hasn't played even a game for Manchester United for nearly half a year, and damn Arsenal seem to rarely get injured no matter how they play, at least their injuries will not affect the team's performance.

　The third update, today's first update is still at noon, and the time difference is that I start a new day at noon... and the second update is normally before midnight, can it be regarded as a delay of the third update by one day?Forgive me.

　　
　
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