Chapter 1050 Night at the Bernabéu①

On the 3rd of May, the front page of the Birmingham Evening News was the number 36/38!

"Aston Villa are only four rounds away from creating a great record of unanimous victory in the season!"

In the thirty-fourth round of the Premier League, Aston Villa beat Manchester City 3-2 in the away game. 'Blue Moon' was scored by Lukaku shortly after the start and fell behind by one goal. Goals, though, as Aston Villa made it 3-2 in the second half with goals from Mane and Kante.

In the thirty-fifth round of the Premier League yesterday and today, Aston Villa beat Everton 3-0 at home, and Lewandowski scored a hat-trick.

In this way, counting the remaining 36, 37 and 38 rounds of the league, plus the 33rd round of the league at home with the Queen's Park Rangers, Aston Villa still has a chance to play this season. Four Premier League games to be played.

A day later, the entire Aston Villa team chartered a flight from Birmingham to Madrid to prepare for the first leg of the UEFA Champions League semi-final against Real Madrid.

At Madrid Airport, Fang Jue was chased by the Madrid media.

"I don't want to hide anything, this season we are going to regain lost ground in the Champions League."

"Real Madrid are a great team to respect, but I believe it will be Aston Villa who will reach the final."

Facing the microphone, Fang Jue expressed his 'frank' expression of Aston Villa's determination to eliminate Real Madrid and advance to the final, and even finally stand on top of Europe.

Although the people of Madrid don't like to hear these words, there is no media criticizing him and Aston Villa for being arrogant or disrespecting their opponents.

Without him, Fang Jue and Aston Villa are qualified to say such things.

He and his team are now the scariest team in Europe, bar none.

Two nights later and the night before the first leg against Real Madrid, Aston Villa watched another semi-final first leg together in the conference room of the hotel where they stayed.

This is Barcelona playing Juventus away.

Enrique's Barcelona got off to a fantastic start just four minutes into the game, with Iniesta assisting Rakitic to open the scoring to give Barcelona a 1-0 lead away from home.

Not long after the start of the second half, Tevez assisted Morata to score and helped Juventus tie the score to a one-to-one tie.

However, Barcelona quickly assisted Suarez to score a goal by Messi, rewriting the score to 2-1.

Then in stoppage time, Pedro assisted Neymar to score and locked the score at 3-1.

"Okay, let's go to bed and rest." After the game, assistant coach Ceballos also hurriedly urged the players to go to sleep and rest.

After the players left, Fang Jue and the coaching staff had a small meeting about the just-concluded game.

The general consensus is that if Aston Villa can eliminate Real Madrid and reach the Champions League final, the opponent in the final will basically be Barcelona.

With a 3-1 away victory over Juventus in the first round, Barcelona is basically stable, and it is impossible to see that Juventus still has the possibility of a comeback at the Nou Camp.

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"Unlike the passive situation in the league, our fate in the Champions League is now in our own hands." Before the game, in the home team locker room at the Bernabéu Stadium, Real Madrid coach Ancelotti was cheering for the players .

In La Liga, after the 35th round of the league, Real Madrid ranks second with 85 points, followed by Barcelona with 87 points.

There are still three rounds of La Liga, and the two-point gap seems not to be insurmountable. However, for Real Madrid, their fate is no longer in their own hands. In addition to winning all three games, they also count on Barcelona Flip at least one race.

The fate of Real Madrid's La Liga championship is not completely in their own hands.

"This is our home field, our territory!"

"This is the Bernabéu."

"Defending the dignity of Real Madrid is the only mission of everyone tonight."

Seeing the eager expressions on the players' faces, Ancelotti knew that his words had worked.

He admits that Aston Villa are very strong, however, Ancelotti does not think Real Madrid have no chance of qualifying.

In fact, in terms of lineup strength alone, this Real Madrid team is considered to be above Aston Villa.

The starting lineups of today's game were displayed on the big screen at the Bernabéu Stadium.

real Madrid:

Goalkeeper: Iker Casillas;

Defense: Carvajal, Pepe, Varane, Marcelo;

Midfielders: Ronaldo, Ramos, Kroos, Isco;

Up front: Ronaldo, Bell;

Aston Villa:

Goalkeeper: Ter Stegen

Defense: Kyle Walker, Thiago Silva, Senderos, Milner;

Midfielders: Modric, Clement, Kaka;

Forwards: Mane, Lewandowski, Sanchez;

Ancelotti did not adopt conservative tactics. He knew that facing Aston Villa, which has strong offensive firepower, it would be too difficult for Real Madrid not to concede a goal.

However, Real Madrid also did not adopt a radical and crazy offensive posture.

What is the style of a team is closely related to the style of their head coach.

What is Ancelotti's style?

The Madrid media once used the word 'no surprise' to praise Ancelotti.

Compared with his predecessor Mourinho, Ancelotti's mentality is more peaceful.

His "stable" mentality has greatly affected this Real Madrid team.

In the words of "Marca", even if Real Madrid is behind, Ancelotti is rarely impatient. He will appear very calm on the sidelines and tell his players in this way:

Don't panic, take your time, there is still time, victory is definitely ours.

The game has just started six minutes.

Aston Villa get the chance to set the ball in the frontcourt.

Modric took a free-kick into the penalty area, and Lewandowski squeezed Varane who was defending him, successfully grabbed the ball, and he pushed a bouncing ball.

The football bounced in front of the goal, forming a V shape, and flew into the net from the right hand of Real Madrid goalkeeper Iker Casillas.

"Goooooooooooooooooaaaaal!"

"Lewandowski! Lewandowski! Robert Lewandowski, beautiful header, he scored for Aston Villa, Fang Jue's team made a fantastic start at the Bernabeu .”

The camera immediately turned to the coach's bench on the sidelines.

Fang Jue got up from his seat, didn't seem too excited, just clapped his hands, waved his fists, and returned to his seat to sit down.

On the side of Real Madrid, Ancelotti got up and frowned. He called Ramos' name loudly on the sidelines, called the Spanish giant to the sidelines, explained a few words, and then returned to the coach with a relatively calm face. Take a seat.