Red Rebels

When it comes to talking about the strongest team in Europe today, I'm afraid different people will have different choices, but if you want to talk about the most watched league in the world, it must be the Premier League.

In the past two seasons, with the rapid rise of the Red Rebels, and with Chelsea, Manchester City and other giants squandering rubles and petro-pounds, the Premier League has become more and more intense, evolving from the earliest two-horse race between Manchester United and Arsenal. It became the four heroes of the Red Rebels, Manchester United, Arsenal, and Chelsea, and now it is competing in the top six.

It can be said that the Premier League has become more and more intense in these two or three seasons and has attracted more and more attention from fans.

This season the Premier League officially announced that it will launch a series of overseas strategies, which has further spread its influence, especially in the United States, Asia and other regions, and has been listed as a key development area for the Premier League.

With the Red Rebels winning the Champions League last season, the rise of the Premier League has become an unstoppable trend.

Among the top 8 in the Champions League this season, Serie A occupies 3 of them, La Liga and the Premier League each occupy 2, Ligue 1 occupies one, and the Bundesliga is completely wiped out. Even the traditional class leader Bayern failed to reach the top 8. , this is regarded as a big signal of the decline of the Bundesliga, especially when the powerful Bundesliga teams such as Werder Bremen have stopped in the group stage, which is even more regrettable.

Theoretically, Serie A still maintains its traditional advantages. This is also considered to be related to the style of Serie A teams. In the two-round knockout competition that pays more attention to tactics, defense and team balance, Serie A teams are generally more durable. , after all, they regard defense as the first priority of the team.

Among the three teams that reached the top 16 of the Premier League, the more balanced Red Rebels and Chelsea both entered the top eight, while Arsenal was eliminated by Barcelona. Analyzing the reasons, it is nothing more than a weak midfielder and a lack of support for Barcelona. Not enough midfield pressure.

Among the teams currently in the top 8, Juventus, which defeated Real Madrid in two rounds, is undoubtedly the strongest. After all, Capello's team just defeated Real Madrid 2:1 in the two-round knockout round. Luxembourg Because of this, Gerard was widely expected by the media to leave the Bernabeu coaching bench after the season.

After eliminating Real Madrid, Capello's team immediately changed the fans' view of the final winner of the Champions League. Juventus suddenly became the team with the greatest chance of winning the championship, and its momentum overshadowed the elimination of the big score. The Red Rebels of Brussels.

To put it bluntly, the Belgian team cannot compare with the La Liga giants. In addition, Juventus has achieved a big lead in Serie A. Currently, Juventus has even shouted the slogan of winning the championship in advance to concentrate on the Champions League.

Following Juventus are the Red Rebels. The performance of this team in European competitions is always reassuring. In the three years they have participated in European competitions, the Red Rebels have won three European championships, namely two UEFA Cups and A Champions League with a 100% winning rate.

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This season's Red Rebels may even break the record of no team defending the Champions League since its reform, but everyone can see how difficult it is to break this record!

In addition, teams like AC Milan, Chelsea, Barcelona and other teams are also very vocal about winning the championship. After all, these teams have also performed well in the knockout rounds. Relatively speaking, Inter Milan, Lyon and Villarreal have been overlooked. I underestimated it, especially Villarreal. The Yellow Submarine was able to beat Manchester United to qualify first in the group. It is still very strong.

The gambling industry is really developed now. Gambling companies bet on everything, not only on the best shooter, on the championship, but even on the draw. They have come out with all kinds of draw results to lure fans. Place your bet.

Among them, the Red Rebels have the highest odds against Barcelona. After Rijkaard was double-killed by the Red Rebels in the two rounds of the group stage, he once shouted the slogan of revenge. At the same time, he also kept saying that he had found a way to deal with the Red Rebels. Rebel method.

The Red Rebels have the second-highest odds against Chelsea, and the English derby is undoubtedly the most attractive gimmick, especially since these two teams are competing in the Premier League this season. The Red Rebels currently occupy the top spot in the league.

The Red Rebels versus Juventus is known as a direct competition between the leaders of the Premier League and Serie A. At the same time, the two teams also met in the quarterfinals last season. Now that they meet again, it depends on whether Capello can Restrain the Red Rebels.

Among the other matchups, the Milan Derby is undoubtedly the most exciting. Everyone hopes to see the exciting collision between the two Italian giants, especially the Milan Derby last season.

In short, the series of hype before the game made this draw for the quarter-finals draw much attention.

…………… “Unlike previous draws that were arranged in Switzerland, this is the first time that UEFA has arranged a draw at the venue of the final, so this time the draw was arranged to be held at the Paris City Hall, by UEFA CEO Olsson personally hosted the event, and legendary French defender Blanco served as a guest."

Following the words of the live broadcast guest, at 12 o'clock, former Real Madrid star Gento and Red Rebel captain Beckham appeared with the trophy, which was newly designed by UEFA to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Champions League. The trophy has the names of all 50 Champions League winners engraved on it.

Gento was the first Real Madrid player to win the Champions League and the only player to win 6 Champions Leagues. Beckham was the captain of the last Champions League winning team. Together they handed the trophy to Orr. pine, and then passed it to the mayor of Paris, Delanoe, from Olsson.

According to past UEFA traditions, this trophy will be on public display until the final day, and the exhibition location is the Paris City Hall!

After a simple opening by Olsson, the drawing ceremony officially began.

The top 8 draws did not have any clauses such as avoiding being in the same group and avoiding being in the same country. After completely disrupting the 8 teams, teams were randomly selected to form a duel, so Olsson and Blanco put 8 small footballs. Pour it into a glass jar, and each football has the name of a team in it.

Olsson reached into the glass jar and randomly grabbed a lottery ticket... The UEFA CEO glanced at the people in front of him and smiled, "Barcelona!"

There was a burst of warm applause immediately, and then a matchup map immediately appeared on the big screen behind Olsson. The matchup map was divided into upper and lower halves, and the position of the first team in the upper half immediately appeared. Barcelona's name.

Blanco also put his hand into the glass jar, and the live broadcast camera specially gave a large close-up to show the fairness and justice of this draw. However, the outside world is already used to UEFA's manipulation of the draw. .

"It won't be us Red Rebels this time, right?" Xiao Yu was watching the live broadcast in front of the TV, and he shook his head with a wry smile.

If the Red Rebels are arranged to meet Barcelona every time, it can only be said that UEFA is really uncreative. Why should they save some face for the outside world? They have just met in the group stage, and now they will meet again?

"Lyon!" Blanc's smile couldn't hide a hint of sourness. As the only team in Ligue 1 that has entered the top eight, it will undoubtedly be very difficult for Lyon to advance when they encounter the surging Barcelona. Although Lyon Take advantage of the schedule.

According to the rules, the first team drawn will play at home first, and the last team drawn will have a certain advantage in the schedule.

Laporta, who personally arrived at the scene to participate in the draw, was captured by the camera. The Spaniard was so excited that he kept celebrating with his assistants. For them, being able to draw Lyon can almost be said to be a good draw. If it comes to the lottery, Villarreal will be the best player. As a rival from the same country, Barcelona is very experienced in dealing with the Yellow Submarine, and relatively speaking, the Yellow Submarine is the weakest among the eight teams.

After resting for a while, Olsson put his hand into the glass jar again. After deliberately tinkering for a while, he took out another small football and a note from it, "AC Milan!"

At this moment, the audience burst into applause again, and Galliani's expression suddenly became serious. This is related to AC Milan's income of more than 10 million. If you can draw a women's lottery, it will be like stepping in with half a foot. Top 4.

But Blanco's hands disappointed Galliani!

"Inter Milan!"

I saw Galliani slap his forehead hard, obviously feeling sad about being drawn to Inter Milan. Although he said in an interview with reporters before that AC Milan is not afraid of meeting any team, in fact he still There are several teams that you don't want to run into, and Inter Milan is undoubtedly one of them.

Every Milan derby always brings endless news and a lot of trouble!

After completing the drawing of lots for the first half, the drawing ceremony was paused for a while.

"I have a hunch that we will either face Juventus or Chelsea, and Villarreal will not have our share!" Xiao Yu said with a happy smile. Perhaps he was giving himself a psychological hint by saying this.

Now she deliberately said it a little worse, and when the lot came out, the woman gave herself a surprise.

Sometimes he really feels that drawing lots to choose a woman is like a gamble, and reading out the results is like unveiling a cup, playing with your heartbeat.

Otherwise, he really didn't think that any woman would watch such a lottery ceremony. The ratings were so good that UEFA even sold it to the TV station for a good price.

"Although I don't want to see it, I have to admit that the possibility of this is very high!" Mark David also said helplessly. After all, the Red Rebels are the defending champions.

As UEFA, there has always been a subtext, which is to refuse teams to defend their titles, because they are worried that if the champion defends too many titles, it will easily become a domination situation. Once there is a domination, it will have a huge impact on the vitality of a cup competition. challenge.

Therefore, UEFA will do everything possible to prevent Ferrari from winning the championship just like F1, preventing the previous championship from defending its title. As the defending champion, the Red Rebels participated in the cup and reached the top 8. The possibility of winning again is very slim.

Of course, on the football field, everything still depends on strength!

After a short break, the drawing ceremony began again.

This time Olsson drew Chelsea, whose name immediately appeared in the first position in the bottom half, while Blanc drew Chelsea's opponent, an opponent that all teams are eager to meet.

"Villarreal!"

Upon hearing this name, Xiao Yu's office immediately erupted in uproar.

"This guy is so lucky!" Xiao Yu scolded with a smile.

It can be said that Chelsea has drawn the weakest team among the top eight. Many people say that if you want to limit Villarreal, you must limit Riquelme. As long as you control Riquelme, Then Villarreal doesn't have much of a threat.

The magic thing about the Argentine is that he makes Villarreal almost his team alone.

Mourinho once told Xiao Yu that when meeting Villarreal, the chance of promotion is as high as 90%, because he has a way to limit Riquelme; when meeting Lyon, the chance of promotion is 80%, and the last thing he wants to do is The team he arrived at was Barcelona, ​​with only 55%. The extra 5% was because he felt that his team had an advantage in morale and mentality.

Six teams were drawn in the quarter-finals. You don’t need to guess to know that the remaining matchups are between the Red Rebels and Juventus. The final suspense of the draw is who will play at home first and who will have the advantage in the schedule.

As a result, I believe that all the Red Rebels fans wanted to chop off Olsson’s hand. He directly pulled out the Red Rebels, followed by Juventus. This means that the Red Rebels took the lead in the schedule. Later guests are at a disadvantage.

Not only that, the English football media who were the first to reveal the draw results the next day all interpreted the draw. They unanimously believed that the Red Rebels were in doubt, and so was England!

Based on the performance of the Red Rebels and Chelsea this season, if they are staggered, then these two teams are very likely to even meet in the finals. However, if these two English teams are drawn into the same group, it means that there is only one team at most. The English team has entered the final, or even not. After all, Juventus is also very strong this season.

As for the Red Rebels, they are placed in the bottom half with Chelsea. This means that even if the Red Rebels defeat Juventus, they must meet Chelsea next. The semi-finals are scheduled for April 18/19 and April 25/26.

But one thing must be noted first, and that is the Red Rebels' schedule.

Some people say that the Red Rebels suffered a big loss in terms of the schedule this season. First, they participated in the World Club Championship and spent the winter break more difficult than all their opponents. Then they fought on multiple fronts continuously. It was not easy for the women to win a league. Cup, the league also took advantage of the chaos and occupied the top position. The Champions League also ushered in the dawn, reaching the top 8.

It should be said that it is absolutely commendable that the Red Rebels can achieve such results under such difficult circumstances. Looking at European football this season, which team can play as hard as the Red Rebels?

But what awaits the Red Rebels is another amazing and devilish schedule!

On March 25th, the 31st round of the Premier League, the Red Rebels welcomed Manchester United at home; on the 28th, the Red Rebels faced Juventus at home; on April 1st, the Red Rebels welcomed Liverpool at home; on April 5th, they challenged Juventus away from home.

For two consecutive weeks, three top European teams and four jaw-dropping strong dialogues were incredibly arranged together, and on April 15th, the Red Rebels would challenge Arsenal away from home.

If the Premier League hadn't arranged the schedule before the season, I believe everyone would suspect that the FA and UEFA jointly wanted to get rid of the Red Rebels.

And it is precisely because of such a difficult and frequent schedule that everyone feels that the Red Rebels are really hanging in the balance!

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