Football: Starting from the 05 World Youth Championship

"Defeated at San Siro, Liverpool was brutally slaughtered by Inter Milan!"

"Leading by a large margin, Inter Milan aims for the Big Ear Cup!"

"Three goals behind, the Reds' chances of advancing are less than 5%!"

"In the history of the Champions League knockout stage, there have been 11 teams that have come back from three goals behind in the first leg and then achieved a stunning comeback in the second leg.

This number is very rare considering the nearly fifty years and thousands of games in the Champions League.

Moreover, with the expansion and reform of the Champions League, the teams that can enter the Champions League knockout stage are getting stronger and stronger, making it more difficult for the lagging side to turn the tables.

In the past 20 years, only two teams have done this. After the Champions League was reformed, only one team was able to complete a reversal after falling behind by three goals in the first leg, and that team was La Lukonia.

But even La Rugonia at least had a valuable away goal, while Liverpool had nothing!

This undoubtedly made their comeback extremely difficult!
What is more worrying is that in the first leg, Liverpool was suppressed by Inter Milan on both offense and defense.

If they can't find a way to deal with the situation when they return to their home ground in the second leg, then even at home it will be useless and Liverpool will still not be able to beat Inter Milan.

Although the ball is round, but respecting the objective facts, I personally do not think Liverpool will advance! ”

A football celebrity wrote an article on social media expressing his pessimism about Liverpool's promotion.

As a result, it was no surprise that he was cyberbullied by Liverpool fans:

"Who do you think you are? How can you say that Liverpool can't advance?"

"Haha, you're a football celebrity, but with this level of skill, you should just go home and raise pigs!"

"There are many people who look down on Liverpool, but Liverpool always slaps them in the face!"

"That's right. We have faced more dangerous games before. Being three goals behind at halftime was not much more dangerous than this, but we still won the trophy in the end!"

"We Liverpool are invincible!"

Seeing the rebuttals and even insults from these die-hard Liverpool fans, Big V shook his head helplessly and laughed.

Naturally, he would not go down to the field to argue with these fans. They were outnumbered and their emotions were more important than rationality.

There's no point trying to reason with these people.

But if you want to change his opinion by relying on these criticisms and rebuttals, it is obviously impossible.

After repeatedly watching the first-leg video of the two teams' match, the football celebrity was extremely sure of his point of view:
Liverpool just can't beat Inter Milan!

The main reason for this result lies with two young players of Inter Milan!

Liverpool's defense couldn't stop Torres' attack, and Liverpool's midfield couldn't limit Lin Feng's performance.

If one of Inter Milan's two points is not restricted, it will be difficult for Liverpool to win!
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After Inter Milan defeated Liverpool, everyone's focus immediately shifted to Milan's match against Chelsea the next day.

This year's Champions League semi-finals are between two Premier League teams and two Serie A teams. These four games can serve as direct evidence of which of the two leagues is stronger.

Now Inter Milan has taken the lead in helping Serie A get a point. If AC Milan can beat Chelsea away, Serie A will win the first round.

This expected result made Serie A supporters particularly excited, and they stayed in front of their TVs on time to watch the live broadcast of the game.

As for the supporters of the Premier League, they were all watching this game with great anxiety.

The Premier League really can't afford to lose. Originally, three teams made it to the quarterfinals and two teams made it to the semifinals.

But if the Premier League teams are wiped out in the semi-finals and the two Serie A teams meet in the final, they will not have the face to brag to others that the Premier League is better than Serie A.

Lin Feng was also very concerned about the match between Milan and Chelsea. He even took time out to watch the live broadcast of the match.

Of course, it would be boring to watch the game alone, so he chose to open a QQ group and watch the game with his friends in the group.

Gao Lin: "Hey? Did Chelsea change their formation today?"

Chen Tao: "It still looks like 433, but it's definitely different from before!"

Zhu Ting: "Shevchenko actually started. Isn't it said that Mourinho has a bad relationship with him?"

Zhao Xuri: "Maybe it was due to the pressure from Abramovich. After all, Abramovich's preference for his fellow countryman Sheva is well known in the Premier League!"

Cui Peng: "Tsk tsk, I also want to have a wealthy fellow countryman like this, so that I can save myself decades of detours!"

Feng Xiaoting: "You are just dreaming. Even if there are really wealthy people in China who want to buy a team, they will buy a team from La Liga or the Premier League, and there is absolutely no way they will go to Ligue 1!"

There are not many big bosses in China who are interested in football at present, and Wanda’s Boss Wang is one of them.

However, Boss Wang seems to have always had his eyes on the domestic football league. It is said that after the Chinese Super League completed its crackdown on gangs and illegal activities, which gave the league a new atmosphere, Boss Wang had the idea of ​​forming a team to compete in the Chinese Super League.

This is actually a good thing, at least much better than him spending huge sums of money to buy teams overseas.

The football level of a country cannot be improved by studying abroad alone.

Studying abroad is not stable, and unless some of the players who go abroad are particularly outstanding, the others are not the core of the team, but just supporting roles.

The consequence of this is that relying on overseas players is likely to result in a team that lacks key core players and is made up of "scraps".

Therefore, if we want to improve the level of football in our country more stably, we must start with the local league.

Only by improving the level of the local league, establishing a good football ecology, and allowing the football industry to grow and develop can a virtuous circle be formed, thereby promoting the stable and long-term development and progress of the country's football level.

But unfortunately, for many years the domestic league has always been serving the performance of the national team, and the Football Association does not attach importance to the league itself.

Coupled with the problems of match-fixing, gambling, and refereeing scandals in the Chinese Super League, the league has become a mess.

The Chinese Super League has gone from bad to worse, with a large number of fans leaving and staying away from it, causing the ecological environment of local football to deteriorate sharply.

Coupled with the collapse of the youth training system, this led to the Chinese national football team's slump that lasted for more than 20 years.

But fortunately, the emergence of Lin Feng and the young players of the National Youth Team has changed all this a little.

The ecological environment of Chinese football is gradually improving. If this year's Asian Cup and next year's Olympics, especially next year's Olympics, can be successful, I believe it will greatly boost the public's attention and confidence in football.

Cui Peng smiled awkwardly: "That's what I said. It's better to rely on yourself than on others. I'd better rely on my own efforts to fight for the starting position!"

Lin Feng nodded: "Brother Cui, you have a good attitude. I see that you have been playing more recently. Maybe you can become a starter next season!"

Cui Peng was very happy with Lin Feng's words, and he typed back with a smile:

"Haha, I'll take your good words. But I feel it's almost time. I've been playing more and more in the last few games. But I heard that our main players have been spotted by other teams. I guess the coach is preparing for next season in advance."

Hao Junmin's eyes lit up: "This is a good thing. For substitutes like us, there are only two situations in which we want to move up. One is that the main players are injured, and the other is that the main players are poached.

Once the team has no one to use, we have no choice but to step up!" Gao Lin seconded: "Xiao Hao is right. This was the case when I was promoted to Dortmund. The main player injured himself and missed most of the season.

The coach had no choice but to let me take over. As a result, I performed very well and conquered the coach and the fans with my performance. Now, even if that idiot comes back, he can’t take my position away! ”

After Gao Lin finished speaking, there was a silence in the group.

Everyone had an attitude of: I'll just watch you pretending to be cool and don't want to pay any attention to him.

This made him feel very hurt and he felt that he was being treated coldly!

Gao Lin was filled with grief and indignation: "I have made contributions to the national youth team and shed blood for the national football team. You can't do this to me!"

Everyone: "Tsk, you talk as if everyone is right!"

Chen Tao: "Okay, the game has started, just focus on watching the game!"

Before the game started, the coaches of the two teams shook hands on the sidelines.

After shaking hands, Ancelotti returned to the coaching seat and sat down obediently, but Mourinho stood on the sidelines and began his performance like performance art.

In the fifth minute of the first half, Chelsea's counterattack hit AC Milan's penalty area, and Milan's defender was suspected of handball.

This stirred up a hornet's nest. Mourinho immediately jumped up and ran to the fourth official and chattered:
"I don't understand why it wasn't awarded, it was a clear penalty.

I saw it, as did tens of thousands of other people. I believe you saw it, too. I don’t know why the referee couldn’t see it.”

The fourth official felt that his words were suspected of attacking the referee, so he called the referee over through the headset.

After understanding what happened, the referee verbally warned Mourinho:

"Mr Mourinho, please control your emotions. If you continue to behave out of line, even if this is at Stamford Bridge, I will drive you to the stands!"

Mourinho did not admit defeat verbally, but after being warned, he did not continue to criticize the referee.

"Haha, Mourinho is using his old trick of putting pressure on the referee again!"

"He is a performer. I think he should go to Hollywood to develop instead of staying in football. It's a waste of talent!"

The Serie A commentators were quite rude to Mourinho. Those who are familiar with Mourinho know that the Portuguese is very good at psychological warfare.

Even though his actions just now seemed to have no effect, they might even anger the referee.

But in fact, his actions just now have already taken effect.

Compared with AC Milan, Chelsea's fighting actions on the field were more aggressive and they committed more fouls.

If the referee's standards are too strict, Chelsea will definitely suffer.

But Mourinho kept holding on to the suspected penalty kick, which made the referee feel indebted to Chelsea. He felt that he had missed a penalty kick and should give Chelsea some compensation.

So, unknowingly, his penalty standards favored Chelsea, and he showed leniency and called fewer fouls on Chelsea.

With the referee's favoritism, Chelsea quickly gained the upper hand by engaging in fierce hand-to-hand combat with the opponent on the field.

The average age of AC Milan is really too old. Facing the unreasonable physical confrontation of the Premier League teams, these old cars can hardly bear it.

If the referee's penalties were stricter, perhaps they could have breathed a sigh of relief.

But now the referee's penalty standards are not strict, and he is even biased, which is the end of AC Milan!
Finally, in the 33rd minute, Drogba received a through pass from Carvalho, made a counter-attack, dribbled past the AC Milan defender and rushed into the penalty area, then calmly shot the ball into the goal.

The score became 1:0, and AC Milan was ultimately unable to withstand Chelsea's attack.

Although AC Milan launched a massive counterattack under the leadership of Kaka.

But Chelsea's defense was very solid and AC Milan could never find a chance to equalize the score.

On the contrary, Drogba created two excellent scoring opportunities in the second half, but he wasted them both.

Otherwise, Chelsea, playing at home, might have won a 3:0 victory!
In the end, at the end of the game, Chelsea beat AC Milan 1-0 at home, and was only one game away from a historic entry into the Champions League final.

For AC Milan, the defeat in the first round made their promotion situation somewhat unfavorable.

But fortunately, they did not lose too much. According to UEFA's official statistics, in the Champions League knockout rounds, if the score was 1:0 at home in the first leg, there is still a 44% probability of being reversed in the second leg.

But AC Milan is facing Chelsea, which may be the most defensive team among the four teams in the Champions League semi-finals.

Even if there is only one goal difference, it is still not easy to break through the opponent's goal.

After the game, Mourinho continued to play psychological warfare with Ancelotti.

He said in an interview with reporters that this was an ideal result:

"I am very happy. The 1:0 result gave us the upper hand."

"Chelsea has never reached the Champions League final? Haha, history is meant to be broken. I am confident that I can lead the team to accomplish this feat because I am the most special one!"

He is indeed a madman, really crazy.

If Mourinho's opponent was Ferguson of Manchester United, he would definitely be ruthlessly refuted by the other side.

But he met Ancelotti, a very gentle man. Since he took over as coach, almost no one has ever seen him get angry.

So facing Mourinho's psychological warfare, Ancelotti couldn't say anything harsh, but just said mildly:
"Football is unpredictable and you never know what will happen in the future, so both teams still have chances."

This answer silenced the fans of both teams.

The people at Chelsea felt like they were punching cotton, with no place to exert force.

AC Milan fans are a bit disappointed with their head coach, thinking that he is too soft and not tough enough.

The opponent has bullied you to the point of no return, and you still say that both teams have chances. Is this what you should say at this time?

AC Milan's failure has weakened the confidence of Serie A fans in them.

Some pessimistic fans have even imagined that AC Milan will be eliminated by the Blues and Serie A will rely on Inter Milan to make a comeback.

However, Lin Feng's attention is no longer on the Champions League at this time.

At the end of April, the Chinese Football Association announced the Chinese team's roster for the Asian Cup.

Zhu Guanghu's national football team lineup is very different from that of the Du Yi era.

Young players account for almost half of the national football team's roster. Obviously, Lao Zhu is determined to create a youth storm in the national team.

In addition to these, Lin Feng also found a "veteran" who had been absent from the national football team's roster for a long time due to injury, the former wind-chasing boy - Qu Bo! (End of this chapter)