From the man behind the football king to the football king

On March 13, Udinese continued to sit at the Friuli Stadium to face Giallorossi Roma.

Roma had just been eliminated from the Champions League by Real Madrid, a double defeat, and the score in both games was 0:2, which was a very poor performance.

However, in Serie A, Roma's performance is still very good. It has won seven consecutive victories and is the best performing team in Serie A recently. It is currently ranked fourth in the standings.

In this game, Salah returned to the Friuli Stadium to face his old club.

In the first two minutes, Roma almost broke the deadlock. Shalawi sent a high-quality cross from the left, Dzeko followed up from the center and headed towards the goal. Kanizis flew to pick the ball.

After joining Roma during the winter break, Shalawi gradually found his form and performed well.

In the 15th minute, Roma took the lead in breaking the deadlock. Perotti passed Salah diagonally from midfield. The Egyptian star stopped the ball in front of the penalty area and passed the ball into the penalty area. Dzeko happened to reach the goal and made a slight adjustment to hit the ball into the net.

1:0, Roma leads Udinese away from home.

In the 47th minute, Udinese launched an offensive along the right. Bruno dribbled the ball down the right and made a pass. Taylor followed up with a blast from the center. Szczesny barely blocked the ball.

After the corner kick was taken, Zapata headed the ball in the penalty area and hit the post. Roma escaped.

In the 74th minute, Pjanic sent a clever through ball in front of the penalty area. Florenzi stopped the ball and hit the goalkeeper's outside instep lightly to score the ball into the net.

2:0, Roma expanded its lead.

In the 84th minute, Udinese pulled one back. Erto made a pass from the right, Zapata relied on the defender to counterattack, Bruno followed up and hit the goal, the ball went into the net, and the score was rewritten to 1:2.

This is also Bruno's 30th goal in Serie A this season. While continuing to lead the scorer list, he also became the second goalscorer in Serie A to reach 30 goals in a single season since 1956, second only to Toni's 31 goals in the 2005-06 season. , only 5 goals away from Nordahl's Serie A single-season scoring record of 35 goals.

After Nordahl created the record of 35 goals in a single season for 20 teams 66 years ago, many people thought that this would last forever and could not be surpassed. But this season, this record is very likely to be broken by a midfielder.

Subsequently, Udinese continued to attack Roma's goal, but failed to score more goals until the end of the game.

In the end, Udinese could only regretfully lose to Roma 1:2 at home, ending its six-game winning streak in the league, while Roma won its eighth consecutive league victory.

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In mid-week, the European war continues, but for Italian fans, this is a sad week. First, Juventus was eliminated by Bayern Munich in overtime, and then Lazio was defeated 0:3 at home by Sparta Prague in the Europa League quarter-finals, with a total score of 1:4 in the two rounds.

At this point, Udinese is the only Italian team left among the top eight teams in the European competition.

Compared with the outstanding performance of the previous two seasons, the Serie A team's performance in the European competition this season can be described as bleak. This also makes Serie A's hope of entering the second league in Europe come to nothing.

Compared with other leagues, Spain occupies 6 of the 16 teams in the Champions League and Europa League quarter-finals, Germany, England and Portugal each have 2 seats, and France, the Czech Republic and Ukraine each have one team.

At noon on March 18, 2016 Central European Time, the 2015-2016 UEFA Champions League quarter-final group draw ceremony was held at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.

The top eight teams in this Champions League come from 6 leagues, with La Liga occupying 3 seats, namely Barcelona, ​​Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid in the Spanish Super League. The remaining five teams come from five leagues, including Uruguay in Serie A. Dines, Bayern Munich in the Bundesliga, Manchester City in the Premier League, Paris Saint-Germain in Ligue 1 and Benfica in the Portuguese Super League.

The draw for the quarter-finals will be random, with no seeding and teams from the same league will not be avoided.

After a draw, Udinese drew Atletico Madrid. It's a draw that's neither too good nor too bad.

In fact, at this stage of the quarterfinals, it is no longer possible for a team to have a weak team.

The other three matchups are Barcelona vs. Real Madrid, Bayern Munich vs. Benfica, and Paris Saint-Germain vs. Manchester City.

These matchups are very interesting. The showdown between Barcelona and Real Madrid is a showdown between traditional forces and the pinnacle showdown in world football; the showdown between Paris Saint-Germain and Manchester City is a head-on showdown between oil capital; the showdown between Udinese and Atletico Madrid is A matchup of low-budget teams.

Bayern Munich and Benfica:…

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On March 20, Udinese visited the Mapei Tricolore Stadium to challenge Barcelona Sassuolo.

Sassuolo has performed very well this season and is currently ranked eighth in Serie A. However, the point difference with the teams in front of them is very small, and there is the possibility of overtaking at any time, which is the possibility of entering the European theater.

Udinese are back fresh after a week's rest. In the game, Bruno first launched an offensive in the eighth minute, and Tyrodouvan Zapata scored to help Udinese take the lead on the road.

Then, when Sassuolo equalized the score with a header from Politano in the 64th minute, Bruno stepped up again and scored with a long shot in the 81st minute, surpassing the score again.

In the end, Udinese defeated Sassuolo 2:1 in the away game and maintained a 6-point advantage over Juventus in the standings.

After being tied by Bologna and ending their fifteen-game winning streak, the Bianconeri unknowingly won four consecutive Serie A games.

And his unbeaten record has been extended to 20 games!

Naples is also chasing closely. They defeated Genoa 3:1 at home this round and their points rose to 64 points, 12 points behind Udinese.

Higuain scored another goal in this round, taking his total league goals this season to 29.

The little smoker has been in very good shape recently and has been keeping the pressure on Bruno on the scorer list.

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Subsequently, European football entered the first international match day in 2016, and Bruno returned to Portugal.

On this international match day, the Portuguese national team has two games, against Bulgaria and Belgium.

As the European Cup gets closer and closer, the Portuguese national team has begun preparations for the European Cup.

In the European Cup group stage draw held on December 12 last year, Portugal, as a seed team, was assigned to Group F with Iceland, Austria and Hungary.

In the eyes of many, this was a very good draw. Although there are Austria, ranked 10th in the world, and Hungary, ranked 19th in the world, in the group, there is also Iceland.

Yes, Iceland is regarded as the biggest loser in this European Cup. They are the lowest ranked team in the world among the 24 participating teams, 38th!

Even Albania ranks higher than Iceland!

In such a group, Portugal is significantly stronger than the other three teams.

In fact, Portugal, which has two superstars, Bruno and Cristiano Ronaldo, who were among the top three in last year's FIFA Ballon d'Or selection, has been regarded as the favorite to win this European Cup by major European media and betting companies. one.

In the latest winning odds, the host France team has the right time and place, so the odds are ranked first, the 2014 World Cup champion Germany is ranked second, followed by Portugal with Cristiano Ronaldo and Bruno, even more than Defending champion Spain.

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Portugal's preparations for the war started badly.

Bulgaria is currently ranked 70th in the world and only ranked fourth in Group H in the qualifiers. Not to mention qualifying for the European Cup finals, it did not even qualify for a play-off.

Such an opponent, for Portugal, should have been at hand. But when the game started, people discovered that things did not seem to go as expected.

Although Portugal launched a flood of attacks against Bulgaria's goal with home advantage at the start of the game, it was Bulgaria who scored the first goal.

In the 19th minute of the game, Bulgaria passed the ball diagonally from the right into the penalty area. Marcelinho dunked past Vierinha, passed through Pepe's wicket, and stumbled the ball into the goal!

1:0, Bulgaria unexpectedly took the lead.

Portugal counterattacked wildly after losing the ball, but Portugal's attacking group seemed to have forgotten to wear shooting boots today. Cristiano Ronaldo, Nani and Rafael missed consecutive opportunities to score. Until the end of the first half, they failed to score an equalizer.

After changing sides and fighting again, Portugal continued to besiege Bulgaria, but Ronaldo, Nani and others were still squandering opportunities.

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In the 65th minute of the game, the head coaches of both sides began to make substitution adjustments. Portugal even made two substitutions. Quaresma replaced Rafael and Eder replaced Nani. Ronaldo was moved from the center position to the left winger.

Portugal's adjustment had an immediate effect. As soon as the game restarted, Cristiano Ronaldo went to the left wing and created a penalty kick.

In the Portuguese national team, the first taker of penalty kicks is naturally Cristiano Ronaldo. Although Bruno has become the winner of the new Golden Globe Award and is the unquestionable number one penalty taker in Udinese, he does not receive such treatment in the Portuguese national team.

Cristiano Ronaldo's penalty kick was magically saved by Bulgarian goalkeeper Stoyanov. However, as soon as the ball flew out of the small penalty area, Bruno was waiting for him and easily pushed the ball into the empty goal.

1:1, Portugal equalized the score.

In the 80th minute of the game, Renato Sanchez moved the ball in a wide range after getting the ball. Eliseu got the ball and passed it diagonally to the front of the small penalty area. Bruno, who was unguarded, scored the ball easily again.

2:1, the Portuguese national team overtook the score.

At that moment, Lisbon's Stadium of Light burst into cheers.

In the end, the Portuguese national team got off to a good start in 2016 with Bruno, the new FIFA Ballon d'Or winner, scoring twice.

Four days later, in the small Portuguese town of Leiria, the Portuguese national team faced Belgium, currently ranked No. 1 in the world by FIFA.

In this game, Bruno took a rest, Nani opened the scoring, and Ronaldo scored with a header. Belgian substitute Lukaku assisted his brother to regain a point, and Portugal defeated Belgium 2:1.