Chapter 679 Crazy Champions League

The final three-man roster for the Ballon d'Or was just released on Monday, and on Tuesday night, the final round of the Champions League group stage also began. Manchester United's current match is at Old Trafford against Shakhtar Donetsk.

In the Group A match, apart from Manchester United qualifying early, the competition for second place in the group is very anxious. Currently, both Leverkusen and Shakhtar Donetsk have 7 points with a record of 2 wins, 1 draw and 2 losses. The Shakhtar are temporarily ranked second in the group with a goal difference advantage. They seem to have the initiative, but after playing against Leverkusen In the direct match against Sen, the Miners were at a disadvantage with 1 draw and 1 loss. In addition, the Miners will challenge Manchester United at Old Trafford in the last round, while Leverkusen is away to challenge Real Sociedad, which has lost five consecutive games in the group stage, and the Miners' situation is actually very dangerous.

Of course, Leverkusen's situation will not be much better than that of the miners. For the Miners' opponent in this round, Manchester United, they have secured first place in the group with five consecutive wins. They will not go all out in the last round of the group stage. Maybe the Miners can take advantage at Old Trafford. For example, Galatasaray and Cluj last season.

Real Sociedad is different. They have lost five consecutive games in the group stage and must fight for honor. After all, no one wants to be a team that loses all six games in the Champions League group stage, although such a team is not historically known. few.

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Sure enough, when Manchester United announced the starting lineup, people found that most of them were Manchester United's substitute lineup this season. Of the front three, only Rooney started, with Bale and Robin van Persie both on the bench. The starting 11 are goalkeeper Lindegaard, four defenders Rafael, Ferdinand, Vidic and Ashley Young. In the midfield, Giggs leads the team, and the other two are teenagers Cleverley and Kante, and the forwards It is the partnership of Rooney, Welbeck and Valencia.

For Shakhtar Donetsk, Adriano is at the forefront, and Srna ushered in his 50th Champions League game.

Although most of this starting lineup is Manchester United's substitutes or fringe players, the real strength is not bad. At least the Shakhtar team cannot take advantage of this Manchester United at all.

Although the visiting team's desire to win is very strong, in the cheers of more than 70,000 home team fans at Old Trafford, although Manchester United did not play well, the Shakhtar team has been unable to break Manchester United's goal. On the contrary, the Manchester United players themselves played with fire in the backcourt and almost let their opponents take advantage.

In the first half of the game, Manchester United and Shakhtar Donetsk maintained a 0:0 tie heading into the halftime break.

After the start of the second half, the Miners were still unable to score. On the contrary, in the 67th minute of the game, Manchester United scored in a corner kick attack.

Rooney took a corner kick from the right, and after a quick clearance in front of the goal, it bounced in front of Phil Jones, who had just come on as a substitute. Jones fired a semi-volley with his right foot from 10 meters to break the deadlock and give Manchester United a 1:0 lead.

This was the only goal in the game. When the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game, the score was still 1:0. Manchester United narrowly defeated the Shakhtar team, thus once again winning six games and advancing with their heads held high. Champions League knockout rounds.

In another match of this group, Leverkusen defeated Real Sociedad 1:0 in an away game. While giving the opponent a miserable record of six consecutive losses, it also allowed itself to successfully grab a ticket to the top 16 of the Champions League.

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When the final result of Group A, where Manchester United is located, was decided, the matches of the other three groups on this match day were also settled.

In group B,

Real Madrid defeated Copenhagen 2-0 in the last round of the away game and entered the Champions League knockout rounds with an unbeaten record of 5 wins and 1 draw. However, in the snowstorm in Istanbul, another giant team, Juventus, was defeated by direct competitor Galatasaray.

The one who scored the winning goal was the former Manchester United player, Brazilian Anderson!

In Group C, which lacks star flavor, the outstanding Paris Saint-Germain won the first place in the group with 4 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss. In the competition for second place in the group, the Greek team Olympiacos and the Portuguese Super League giant Benfica are on the same place. 10 points, but because of their superior record and the advantage in goal difference, they were lucky enough to get a ticket to the top 16 of the Champions League.

There is no suspense about the result of Group D. The only suspense is whether Manchester City can defeat Bayern at the Allianz Arena and win the first place in the group.

However, people are not optimistic about this, because Manchester City is a famous away bug this season!

And when the game started, everything that happened seemed to prove that Manchester City was really an away bug.

In the 4th minute, Ribery sprinted to the half court to press, but Lescott made a mistake and passed the ball directly back to the baseline. In the 5th minute, Dante made a long pass from the backcourt. Kolarov, who was marking Muller, missed the ball. Bayern No. 25 came in from the right and dribbled the ball into the penalty area with a low shot into the lower left corner of the goal. 1:0, Bayern takes the lead!

In the 12th minute, Kroos took a corner kick on the right. Mandzukic stopped the ball near the penalty spot and shot. The ball hit Lescott and fell at the feet of Gotze in front of the goal. Bayern No. 19 took the ball and scored easily with a low shot. , 2:0!

Sitting in Allianz, the team has set the fastest 2:0 record in the Champions League 12 minutes before the start of the game. It has previously won 11 consecutive official matches and 5 consecutive victories in the Champions League. No matter from any angle, Bayern seems to be invincible and frustrated. Swallowing thousands of miles over the opponent to win.

But unfortunately, it seems that both sides got the wrong script for today's game. In the 26th, 58th and 62nd minutes of the game, Silva, Kolarov and Milner scored three goals in a row, achieving Manchester City's counterattack at the Allianz Arena and only one point away from the top spot in Group D. Goal.

Perhaps even Manchester City coach Pellegrini did not expect that Manchester City would suddenly break out in such adversity, seize the throat of fate at the moment of habitual collapse in the past, and give Bayern their first Champions League defeat this season!

Bayern probably never dreamed that their splendid record would be ruined by the "away bug" Manchester City. Guardiola may also be blaming himself: How did I lose to my former defeater?

There was nothing outstanding about Pellegrini's formation in this battle. In a sense, it was the god-level performance of Milner, Silva and Navas that determined the game. The engineer coached Guardiola's shameful record of 0 wins in his career has been rewritten.

After defeating Bayern 3:2 in an away game, Manchester City has 5 wins and 1 loss from 6 games in the Champions League group stage, qualifying second in the group, and 15 points has also created its best result in the Champions League group stage in history. Pellegrini is worthy of the Champions League. expert.

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On December 11, the eight group matches of the remaining four groups will continue. In the end, Chelsea, Schalke 04, Borussia Dortmund, Arsenal, Atletico Madrid, Zenit, Barcelona and AC Milan advanced successfully.

This season's Champions League group stage is really magical. Manchester United's six-game victory is unremarkable, because many firsts were born in the group stage.

Manchester City defeated Bayern 3:2 in an away game and became second in the group with the highest points in the history of the Champions League with 15 points. It was amazing enough, but it was not the most amazing thing, because on the next day, something even more amazing happened: Napoli, who scored 12 points in the group stage, was eliminated and became the most miserable team in the Champions League in 2016, especially when a team only got half of Napoli's points and already qualified!

In the final round of the "Group of Death", Naples' fate was constantly being judged during the torturous 90 minutes. The two "black ten minutes" in the first and second half tug at the heartstrings of every fan.

Dortmund led Marseille in the 4th minute, which meant that Napoli had to beat Arsenal by three goals to qualify. This is undoubtedly a fantasy.

However, just 10 minutes later, Marseille, who had no desire for anything, suddenly tied it, which meant that if the score remained until the end, Naples would advance as long as they beat Arsenal.

How wonderful does it feel to escape death? The San Paolo Stadium in Naples was filled with screams and roars and was completely boiling.

With the consciousness of flying into a flame, Naples began to launch waves of attacks on the leader. Also not far northwest of Naples, Dortmund was also attacking Marseille.

The anxious situation was finally broken in the 73rd minute, Higuain's goal helped Naples lead Arsenal.

If this score remains until the end, Arsenal will join hands with Naples to qualify, while last season's runner-up Dortmund will be tragically eliminated.

At this moment, the fans at the Sao Paulo Stadium were screaming and dancing like they were in heaven.

However, another "black ten minutes" appeared again: just before the laughter of the Naples people lasted long, Marseille's defense line that held on to the entire game was pierced by Dortmund at the last moment. So in the real-time standings, Naples fell back to third place.

Naples, who fell from heaven, did not lose their fighting spirit. They still stormed Arsenal and scored the second goal in the 3rd minute of stoppage time. Then they had no time to chase the third goal, although they scored one more goal. , Naples can qualify without looking at anyone's face.

Defeating the Premier League giant Arsenal 2:0 is already an extremely great record. However, Naples is still very miserable. They are only one goal away from qualifying.

After this ups and downs night, Napoli became the first team in the history of the Champions League in 16 years to score 12 points and still be eliminated after Paris Saint-Germain was eliminated with 12 points in 1997.

What makes Naples even more painful is that Zenit St. Petersburg got the right to qualify with 6 points, becoming the qualifying team with the lowest points in 19 years after qualifying with 5 points in 1994.

It is worth mentioning that in the 1997-1998 season, the reason why Paris Saint-Germain was eliminated after accumulating 12 points in the group stage was because the Champions League competition system at that time was different from now. At that time, the Champions League group stage was divided into 6 groups to determine the top eight. Only Only the two best ranked second in the group can advance. Paris Saint-Germain ranked second in the group with 12 points, but unfortunately they were eliminated. But now Naples ranks third in the group with 12 points, which is undoubtedly too sad.

In short, Naples became the first team since the Champions League was restructured to be eliminated with 12 points. Previously, the highest score for a team that failed to qualify for the Champions League group was 10 points.

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