Super Marshal

Leganes Bullock Stadium in the southern suburbs of Madrid, Spain.

The second round of the Champions League knockout round.

A week ago, the two teams, who had to shake hands for 90 minutes at the Lyon Olympic Park Stadium, met again at the Bullock Stadium in Leganes, but at this time, the situation of the two teams was already completely different. It's different.

In the past weekend, Lyon lost 2-0 to Nancy in the away game, suffered two consecutive losses in Ligue 1, and failed to score in two games, netting six goals, which made Lyon's league rankings fall again. Arriving in seventh place in the league, Gard, who was in charge of the first team for the first time this season, suffered the strongest crisis of confidence since coaching.

In contrast to Chinatown, after playing Lyon away from home, after returning to Spain, Zaragoza, the deputy squad leader, was seated at the Bullock Stadium.

Pochettino rotated the team and arranged a number of teenagers, including Firmino, De Bruyne, Isco and Cork. However, when he lost a goal at home, he just lost five. Biyi won Zaragoza.

What's more commendable is that these five goals came from five different players. Isco and Pellet both passed and shot. Danilo, Varane and Firmino all scored. .

The five-to-one reversal of Zaragoza has allowed this group of young players in the Chinatown team to receive unanimous praise from the outside media and fans. Pochettino's team also showed a strong offensive momentum. Pellet is on the ball. The role of the team has also been recognized and affirmed by everyone.

Equalized the score in the Champions League away game, and returned to the home court to reverse Zaragoza, so that the confidence of the whole Chinatown was boosted.

At the beginning of the game, Chinatown launched a fierce offensive against Lyon, especially on the left.

Hazard and Alba’s left wing cooperated very skillfully and tacitly. The Spanish left back boldly pressed forward from the beginning and actively participated in the attack. Hazard also kept running on the left and center flexibly, plus Rakitic was very active in the middle, and Chinatown started with a stormy attack.

In the ninth minute, Hazard, with his excellent personal ability, received a pass from Alba on the left, dribbled the ball horizontally to the front of the penalty area, and after throwing away Leon’s midfielder Gonaron, he kicked directly. A curve kick hit the goal, setting the first record for Chinatown.

This goal ignited the enthusiasm of Brock Stadium.

After the goal, Chinatown attacked for a while, and soon consciously stabilized the defense, allowing Lyon to attack.

Two consecutive losses in the league, the first leg of the Champions League was tied at home one to one, and an away goal was given to the opponent. However, in the away game, he lost the goal in nine minutes. This made Lyon feel anxious and psychological pressure increased sharply. .

But as a result, after Lyon began to increase its offensive, Chinatown defended and counterattacked.

In the 22nd minute, Chinatown caught an opportunity to launch a counterattack. Pellet took a long pass from the backfield and gave the header to Hazard. The Belgian pushed directly and passed the ball diagonally behind the Lyon defense. Bameyang tore open Lyon's defense like a bolt of lightning, caught up with the ball and then pushed to score.

After two consecutive goals, Lyon was completely stunned.

Gard also had no good plans for the team’s situation. He replaced two players in one breath during the intermission, intending to launch a crazy counterattack against Chinatown, but Pochettino was obviously well prepared for this and he soon gave Out of countermeasures, continue to defend and counterattack.

Lyon's targeted tactics against Chinatown are gritted teeth with hatred, wanting to press on to attack, but fearing to be counterattacked and fearful.

On the other hand, Chinatown, with two goals in hand, took the initiative in the scene, and was able to cope with ease.

In the 69th minute, the teenager Morata came on the bench and replaced the center Pellet, who had played the main force in two consecutive games.

Soon afterwards, Hazard, who passed and shot in this game, was also replaced by Firmino. De Bruyne also replaced Herrera. Pochettino obviously had the meaning of training these young teenagers.

Until the 84th minute, the Chinatown midfielder played a series of wonderful cooperation. De Bruyne and Rakitic continued to hit the wall to cooperate. Rakitic passed diagonally to the right, and Aubameyang succeeded in offside. The ball rushed along the right and crossed to the goal on the right side of the penalty area. Morata, who came on the bench, quickly followed up and scored in front of the goal.

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"Goallllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll!!!"

The long sound of the goal was broadcast on the Bullock Stadium, but it was soon overwhelmed by the crazy shouts on the scene.

Three to zero! Morata scored his first goal in the Champions League!

All the Chinatown players rushed to the sidelines. Morata, the scoring hero, was even more excited to take off his shirt, but was quickly held back by his teammates who followed up.

"Haha, Morata should be calm at this time, but don't let yourself receive a yellow card."

All the fans in the audience cheered.

Three to zero, Chinatown can basically be said that it has been safely promoted!

Champions League quarterfinals!

That was the quarterfinals of the Champions League!

Pochettino was also extremely excited on the sidelines, constantly punching and shouting there, venting his inner excitement.

He was right, the decision he made was right!

The Copa del Rey finals, the Champions League quarterfinals, these two heavy transcripts are the strongest and most powerful counterattack against all those who question him.

But this is far from enough, far from enough.

This series of outstanding results gave Chinatown the courage and confidence that Pochettino will die again in the quarter-finals, and the league will return to the top four. He will achieve better than last season and better than all previous seasons. Better results.

Thinking of this, Pochettino suddenly felt that he was full of passion, and couldn't help but scream up to the sky.

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"Three to zero, that's it!"

After Alpine saw Morata scored, his first reaction was to laugh, and then he laughed.

With a total score of four to one, Chinatown has basically advanced to the Champions League quarter-finals, and Pochettino has exceeded the club's expected goal.

At exactly this time, the live TV camera came to the sidelines, and Pochettino clenched his fists with both hands, and the excitement of looking up to the sky was clearly presented in front of the live TV camera.

After Zidane saw it, he shook his head and laughed. "He is probably holding back enough for a while."

"Who said no?" Sergio García also laughed. "When the team ranked 11th, how much pressure was that? Just look around. The group who scolded him back then Media reporters, expect that tomorrow morning they will sing praises to Pochettino, and praise how wise and correct his original decision was."

"The media is all peeing." Makelele shook his head.

Modern professional football and the media are inseparable symbiosis. The two industries are complementary and interdependent, but the core purpose of the media is to promote sales, so they will do everything they can to cater to readers.

Star-making and star-destroying, this has become an insatiable method for the media to deal with professional football.

For example, in the United Kingdom, football stars are national idols, and the media will always desperately pack up some good-performing players. This is the reason why England always has talents and players are generally high in value, but they can be packed to a certain extent. When the sheep is raised and fattened, it can be slaughtered.

Every year, countless players become famous and destroyed in the hype of the media, and the media is the source of endless hype material. Authoritative newspapers such as The Times and the Guardian are relatively better, but gossip newspapers such as the Sun are the main force among them.

This is the case in England, and the same is true in Spain, where Chinatown is located.

"Some people say that money is the courage of a man, and performance is the confidence of a coach. I believe that after this period of experience, Pochettino will become more mature and more confident, and this season will be his career. A new peak of his own depends on his own good fortune, and see how high and far he can go."

Gao Han is also very uncomfortable with the behavior of the media, but this is the general environment, not a person, a team, or even an industry can change. As a head coach, the only thing you can do is learn and adapt to it, and finally Use it.

Chinatown has been able to play this step this season, and it has been considered extraordinary performance, and one of the lucky ones is that the team has good luck in the draw. From the group stage to the round of 16 knockouts, the strength of several opponents is similar to that of Chinatown. This made Chinatown, the new Champions League team, had a tough time, but they also struggled all the way.

But what you will encounter next is hard bones.

The Champions League quarter-finals, this is definitely a test of the strength of a team.

However, after Chinatown has been tempered in the Champions League this season, its overall strength has improved greatly. Several young players in the team are also growing rapidly. Coupled with Pochettino's maturity, I believe Chinatown's future will be bright.

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The three-to-zero victory over Lyon gave China Town a wave of praise. Coach Pochettino and frontcourt core Hazard also won countless applause and praise.

After three days of playing Lyon, Chinatown once again ushered in the Madrid South Derby.

In the first round of the two sides, Chinatown won 3-2 at home. Getafe wanted revenge. Just taking advantage of the midweek **** battle against Lyon in Chinatown, Luis Garcia wanted to take the opportunity to grab a big deal.

Not to mention the result, he really found it.

Castro's goal in the 42nd minute helped Getafe temporarily take the lead.

But what is really worrying is the two yellow cards Isco and Firmino gave in the first half. Both teenagers were obviously not calm and rational enough. Pochettino decisively replaced them at halftime. As a result, , Chinatown was thoroughly revitalized in the second half.

Herrera, who replaced Isco, took the lead to equalize the score for Chinatown~www.readwn.com~ and then Hazard assisted from the left. Ilya Mendi overtook the score, and finally came the assist from defender Carvajal. Let Hazard score the third goal.

In the end, Chinatown reversed Getafe in a 3-1 away game and completed a season double play against southern opponents.

A week later, Chinatown ushered in Levante.

This team is currently ranked fifth in La Liga, one position ahead of Chinatown, and the two teams are currently very close to the fourth ranked Valencia, and they are both strong contenders for the top four in the league.

Therefore, this game Chinatown can be described as carefully prepared. Finally, at the Bullock Stadium, with Aubameyang's goal in the 51st minute, he defeated Levante 1-0. The assist was from the left. Azar.

This victory allowed Chinatown's league ranking to rise again by one place, surpassing Levante, climbing to fifth place in the league, and only one point away from Valencia, fourth in the league.

Emery's Bats did not perform well in this round. In the case of two goals ahead, Real Mallorca got two goals in a row. The original three-pointer turned into one point, which is really depressing.

After the twenty-seventh round, Chinatown relied on this wave of three-game winning streak, and the league ranking rose all the way, finally grabbing the tail of the top four in the league again, and the competition with Valencia has completely entered a white-hot stage.

And the team’s top scorer Aubameyang also tied with Torres with 16 goals, second only to Messi and Higuain. Higuain scored 18 goals, but Messi was the only one. , Scored 33 goals, locked the La Liga shooter throne in advance.

Three days after the 27th round of La Liga, the Champions League round of 16 knockouts are all finished.

The next day, at UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, the UEFA Champions League quarterfinals draw was held as scheduled.

(End of this chapter)