Chapter 242: Champions League: Behind the Wonderful Classification

Leading by two goals, Magath began to consciously adjust his strategy and replaced Raul with Jiang Hao. This is an obvious signal: Schalke will start to pursue counterattack efficiency, but this does not mean that they will shrink their defense. Instead, Magath asked everyone to increase the intensity of close pressing, and the best defense is to take the initiative.

Since the team won two consecutive championships and the Champions League, Jumagat has also consciously improved his coaching philosophy. In the past, he might have replaced a defensive midfielder at such a time, but he will definitely not do so now. . As a Champions League champion team, they have to rely on shrinking to win in the game. At least in Europe, this style of play is unpopular. Of course, there are more important reasons. Magath hopes that the team can develop a temperament that dares to face challenges and attack at any time, which is very important for the journey of the new season. Starting from this season, they are no longer the dark horses and potential spoilers in the Champions League, but the targets that all giants focus on.

Under Schalke's active attack, Atletico Madrid's midfield was always suppressed. Florence replaced Assuncao and Reyes in succession, but Magath directly arranged Zhou Tiancheng's position to delay. Finally, at the same time, the back line pressed forward and built an interception barrier in the high position of the midfield. Zhou Tiancheng's large-scale interception blocked most of the midfielders' ground pass control, while Neuer gave full play to his characteristics of being good at attacking and covering the penalty area. Frontier to a large area.

Atletico Madrid originally wanted to put all their eggs in one basket, but after holding on for a while, they retreated. The reason is very simple. It was three arrows at the same time, and the risk of fire in the backyard was too great, so they had to retreat.

The commentator of Madrid TV shook his head again and again: "Atletico Madrid's biggest feature is its sharp counterattack, but when fighting Schalke, this sharp fist full of spikes can't hit at all, it's like being tied up first, and then attacking the vital parts continuously. The same... Atletico Madrid played tenaciously enough, maybe this is the only thing we can comfort ourselves."

Let the opponent's commentator say such convincing words, which shows Schalke's dominance on the field, and the result of this game is finally doomed.

The players who won the European Cup are not the happiest. They have even tasted the Champions League, which is the highest honor at the club level. The top players all over the world regard the Big Ears Cup as the highest honor...so in fact the happiest should be the senior management of the Schalke club, just like Helter said to himself in front of the TV at this time: " We've collected all kinds of championship trophies."

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With the end of the European Cup,

It means that the battle for the king of European football from the previous year has come to an end, and then, the new year's Champions League will be approaching.

The draw for the UEFA Champions League in the new season was held in Monaco, so Magath specifically postponed the date of the team's return to Germany by one day. As the head coach of the defending champion, he received an invitation letter from UEFA to invite him to attend the draw ceremony. Now that everyone has come, Magath thought for a while, this is good, at least he can grasp the grouping situation in the first place.

Two days ago, after the UEFA Champions League qualifying rounds were all over and the top 32 were completely settled, UEFA announced the division of the 32 teams. However, this classification result has caused great controversy. The main reason is that the German media is extremely dissatisfied.

The reason is very simple, as the defending champion Schalke o4, it is not the first team!

The German media therefore had great doubts about UEFA's current classification principles.

UEFA's classification rule is that the participating teams determine the classification according to the points of the European war in the previous five seasons in order of eight teams in each group. Taking the new season as an example, the data within UEFA’s statistical scope are the European results of each team in the 2oo5-o6 season, 2oo6-o7 season, 2oo7-o8 season, 2oo8-o9 season, and 2oo9-1o season, including the UEFA Champions League. and the Europa League are included.

Although Schalke won the championship last season and was also a semi-finalist in the 2008-09 season, the two seasons of -07 seriously hindered them. In the 2005-06 season, Schalke stopped in the group stage, and because Schalke had a serious disorder in the league this season, they only ranked seventeenth, so in the 2006-07 season, they did not get any chance to appear in the European arena.

Frankly speaking, Schalke's current position in the second tier is really thanks to the strength of the last two seasons, otherwise they would have been properly ranked in the third and fourth tiers.

However, if Schalke was not the defending champion, the German media might not have such a big reaction. Now the media in other European countries are paying attention to this strange phenomenon: the defending champion is not a team. This seems to be the first time since the rules of the UEFA Champions League draw.

The German media even directly criticized UEFA's classification rules for taking care of traditional strong teams and suppressing cutting-edge forces like Schalke. Of course, they will not shoot indiscriminately. With the German style, they will definitely have reasons and unique ideas. refer to.

Since they think that Schalke should be listed as the first seed team, they will definitely find a team that cannot control the strength of the first tier. After reading around the German media, they found the object of criticism: Ligue 1 champion Lyon.

"...This is the most powerful proof that Lyon has not even reached the Champions League final in recent years, and has been hovering between the quarter-finals and the semi-finals. The defending champion is still high! Don’t you think this is a joke? No matter from the perspective of the team or the league, Lyon should not receive such treatment-according to the UEFA league points, the Ligue 1 has long been unable to compete with the Eredivisie and was squeezed out Ranked among the five major leagues, ranked seventh-even the Russian league, the Russian league in the barren land of the Far East, is not as good as it is, but it is a league champion team of this level. It has not won the Champions League and Europa League trophies. But it is ahead of Schalke...Maybe when Beckenbauer or Matthaus can take the position of UEFA president, Schalke will have hope to enter the ranks of the seeded team? Ha ha!"

The rhetoric of the German media is very sharp, and the spearhead is directed at the current French president of UEFA, Michel Platini. The last sentence in this report shows the anger of the German media. It was a public questioning, and he almost scolded Platini's neck by name.

Moreover, this article was published on the headline of the sports section of "Bild". As the largest newspaper in Germany, "Bild" has a strong influence in the entire European sports media circle. Obviously, the German media did not intend to just Instead of complaining behind closed doors, I want to make trouble.

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