Volume 1: Heroes Come and Go, People Pay Attention Chapter 74 The Warring States Period in European Football (Second Update Guaranteed)

During this period, the media was filled with articles and special reports about Chen Yingxiong's upcoming retirement.

The media have already made plans to review more than 20 issues starting from the first season of Chen Yingxiong's career. Moreover, this is only the plan of a few media, and other media are also showing their own talents.

What about "The fifty most exciting games in Chen Yingxiong's career", "The five hundred most exciting goals in Chen Yingxiong's career", "The hundred classic moments in Chen Yingxiong's career", "Chen Yingxiong's career" Controversial shots in career” Ah…

On the Internet, it is even more serious. Videos about Chen Yingxiong are almost overflowing, and everyone is commemorating Chen Yingxiong by making videos.

Although Chen Yingxiong's temper and character were controversial at first, more than 20 years later, he has still captured a large number of fans around the world with his countless wonderful goals and management.

This really makes those who are unhappy with Chen Yingxiong feel desperate... because this means that from now on, until Chen Yingxiong truly retires, every time they turn on the TV, computer, or open the newspaper, they will be able to see Chen Yingxiong's name and photo.

The whole world is discussing Chen Yingxiong, and even the financial media are talking about Chen Yingxiong’s success as a commercial developer...

People who hate Chen Yingxiong are absolutely disgusted by the fact that Chen Yingxiong's name has flooded the screen.

After Newman Giese took off his disguise, he no longer presented himself as a "supporter of Yingxiong Chen". Instead, he appeared in front of everyone as "a determined heroic black man". Faced with this scene, he It "sickened him" to say it publicly.

"...We are a democratic country, a free country, but in this democratic and free country, a disgusting thing is happening! Countless people are worshiping another person! This thing is appalling ! We can worship God. But Chen Yingxiong is obviously not God! This is Britain! This is not a place where Chen Yingxiong engages in dictatorship!"

But what he said was just to let himself vent his anger - and it might not be possible to vent his anger. Such a naked and far-fetched connection between football and politics is such a low-level article. So no one wanted to publish his article, and in the end he had to publish it on his blog.

But there is really little interest.

Because he's completely gibbering. Even his die-hard fans can see the flaws at a glance, and it's really hard to praise his bad feet anymore.

Not many people can express their thoughts as directly as Giese. Because they really can't find a good excuse or a good entry point. If they forcefully oppose Chen Yingxiong, they will be like that idiot Newman Keith and be regarded as a lunatic.

Although they all like to watch clowns, no one likes to be a clown.

So they could only keep their disgust for Chen Yingxiong in their hearts, and at the same time comfort themselves: This bastard is going to get out soon anyway! Then you will never see his disgusting face again! No more headaches about how to deal with him!

Those damn media actually said that without Chen Yingxiong, it would be very lonely? What a lonely ghost!

Who will miss him? We won’t do it anyway!

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Chen Yingxiong must not care about the memory of those enemies.

He doesn't have the time to think about retirement now. There are still important things to do before retiring.

The basic overall situation of the domestic league has been decided. Although Liverpool is still one goal behind Arsenal, the whole world thinks that Liverpool will win, and he thinks so too.

Another very important thing is naturally the Champions League.

Champions League winner and top scorer.

He currently has eleven goals in the Champions League. Ranked second in the Champions League scorer list.

Barcelona's Quick scored fourteen goals.

The difference between the two sides is three goals.

Chen Yingxiong can still play at least two games. With his strength, it is not difficult to score three goals in these two games.

And this time Liverpool’s opponent in the semi-finals was not Barcelona. But Bayern Munich from Germany is also an established giant.

It is also the team that won the Champions League in the six seasons when Liverpool missed the Champions League.

As if it could be arranged, in Liverpool's Champions League matches this season, in addition to Barcelona and Real Madrid, they have already met four other teams that have won the Champions League. In addition to Inter Milan, Manchester United and Bayern Munich who met in the knockout stage, there is another team from Italy, Juventus, who actually met Liverpool in the group stage. Liverpool finished second in that group, while Juventus finished first.

However, in the two group stage matches, the two teams won one and lost one, and each defeated the other at their respective home courts.

It's like Liverpool's revenge tour.

Starting with Juventus, one by one they encountered teams that had snatched the Champions League title from them.

Since they will not let go of Arsenal who stole their league title, then they will naturally not let these teams go.

And if Liverpool can reach the Champions League final, their opponent will be one of Barcelona and Real Madrid. In the final, they will encounter the team that stole their championship. No wonder such an arrangement is considered to be intentional - UEFA has manipulated the draw results not once or twice for the sake of the viewing pleasure of the game and the ratings of the television broadcast agencies.

Although this feeling is not good, such a game may be in line with the expectations of the audience.

Commercialization and television broadcasts have hijacked the development of football for so many years, and it is now difficult to tell whether the sport is developing according to its own rules, or whether it is considered to have forced its trajectory.

Take the UEFA Champions League, which is the highest level in the world, for example. The managers of UEFA obviously know what kind of games the audience and fans want to see, so they try their best to dedicate such games to the audience.

For example, this time Real Madrid and Barcelona met in the Champions League semi-finals.

Although after the results of the match came out, many people would shout: "This is so fake!"

But more people shouted: "This is so exciting! The battle of the century on the Champions League stage is the real battle of the century!"

Quite contradictory, isn't it? Although everyone criticized the manipulation, they still hoped to see the game they were looking forward to. So didn’t UEFA’s approach come into being?

Therefore, to say that UEFA controls football, it is better to say that the expectations of the audience and the market and commercial interests they represent behind them control football.

The development of television broadcasts and the growth of commercial sponsorship have made the Champions League the most profitable project for UEFA. UEFA has also changed from the simplest manager to a screenwriter, and has begun to take the initiative to write and direct some "classic football matchups".

In fact, many people know this, but they just like to see those "famous games".

Therefore, it is unfair to criticize UEFA, which does not prevent them from being excited for those classic strong showdowns.

In this process, UEFA has not lost anything, the audience has not lost anything, and neither the TV media nor advertising sponsors have lost anything. Even those wealthy teams didn't feel they had suffered any losses.

So who exactly suffered the loss?

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After the game against Arsenal, Liverpool went into the Champions League semi-finals against Bayern Munich.

This time they play away first and then at home.

The schedule is working against them, but they don't care.

Liverpool has never dismissed the idea that schedule arrangements may affect the outcome of the game.

No matter whether we play at home or away first, as long as we win the ball, it will be fine.

It is so simple and solves a problem that many people find unsolvable.

Is it important to play home games first and away games first?

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Liverpool's strong performance left their semi-final rivals Bayern Munich on the edge of their seats.

When Liverpool was drawn to Inter Milan, it attracted ridicule from those wealthy clubs. Everyone thought it was ridiculous that Liverpool wanted to rely on a forty-year-old guy to make profits in the Champions League.

Liverpool have not won the European club's highest honor since losing the Champions League in the final six seasons ago.

Although Chen Yingxiong led the team to continue to work hard, they failed to win again. Even if they can reach the finals, they can only fail, as if they were cursed.

In the eyes of these giants, Liverpool should miss out on the Champions League title.

In the English arena, Liverpool still monopolizes the championship, and the Warring States Period in which all heroes compete for hegemony seems to have to wait until Chen Yingxiong retires. In European football, the Warring States Period began six years ago.

The wealthy families compete with each other to stay together and defend themselves, and compete for the Big Ears Cup.

Only Liverpool was excluded from the circle.

It's as if Liverpool is no longer a giant.

But how could a team that was local league champion every year be so ignored?

It's not the "curse" that's to blame.

When Liverpool met Inter Milan, everyone had the same mentality. They felt that this year's Champions League still had no place for Liverpool. They would definitely be eliminated anyway, either in the quarter-finals or the quarter-finals. .

In addition, Chen Yingxiong has been suspended for nine months, and no one can say what his condition is like. A good performance in the Premier League doesn't explain the problem. Liverpool has always monopolized the Premier League championship. Isn't it difficult to make progress in the Champions League?

Even if Liverpool beats Inter Milan, there will still be many people who look down upon them among the giants.

But with Chen Yingxiong's terrifying performance, they seemed to have seen the all-powerful Chen Yingxiong back.

They just started to have a sense of crisis.

After Manchester United was defeated by Liverpool without any suspense, their semi-final opponent Bayern Munich had to be cautious...

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