Chapter 362 The only Representative of Italian Football (Sixty-Seven/One Hundred and Thirty-Four)

There are many matches in the Champions League quarter-finals, so the matches are divided into two weeks.  M

First, there are four Champions League quarter-finals this week.

There are four more next week.

As the defending champion, Lazio will not play until next week.

This week, two other Serie A teams, AC Milan and Inter Milan, will play.

Both AC Milan teams will appear at the same time.

Many people feel that there is no suspense in AC Milan's away challenge against Tottenham Hotspur.

Although Tottenham Hotspur eventually entered the knockout stage as the second place in the group where Lazio is located, their opponent is the experienced AC Milan. Although AC Milan is suppressed by Lazio in the domestic league cup, they can still teach other teams a lesson.

Especially for a team like Tottenham Hotspur that has entered the Champions League for the first time in more than 40 years, it is no different from bullying a newcomer.

When AC Milan drew Tottenham Hotspur, many AC Milan fans or commentators were optimistic that AC Milan would advance to the quarter-finals.

Because in terms of strength and experience, AC Milan has the upper hand.

Tottenham Hotspur lacks experience, which is their biggest weakness.

As the team that qualified as the second in the group, the schedule is not very favorable to them.

Playing at home first and then away, it means that you have to adjust your state to the best in the first round and try to kill the suspense of the two rounds at home.

The problem with playing at home first and then away is that once you encounter an unexpected ha at home, you will be forced into a dead end. You will only have to go to the away game and fight your opponent in the second round.

This is exactly the problem of Tottenham Hotspur.

So everyone is optimistic about Milan's appearance and advancement.

Their performance in the group stage is still quite good, with the same points as Real Madrid, and they have surpassed Real Madrid in the win-loss relationship. Ranked first in the group. This is the outstanding performance last season, which made Allegri win the favor and support of Milan's top management.

Milan's away challenge to Tottenham Hotspur is also the first game of this season's Champions League quarter-finals.

This game was originally not suspenseful. Although it was an away game, everyone believed that Milan could win.

Even if they can't win, it's a draw.

And Milan will definitely score. If they have a few away goals, Tottenham will be in a desperate situation.

At that time, Milan will eliminate Tottenham at home.

But the final result is surprising!

Tottenham, who played at home, relied on Giroud's header and Bale's solo breakthrough to beat Milan 2:0!

The first Champions League quarter-final was an upset!

Originally, Nesta was determined to turn to Lazio after the end of the season, which was a blow to the team's morale. Now they were defeated by Tottenham by two goals away from home.

Before the game, everyone thought it was a sure win. The only suspense might be how many goals Milan could win away from home.

If they can beat Tottenham away by a large score, they can completely kill the suspense of the second round in the first round.

So at the beginning of the game, Milan launched a fierce attack on Tottenham's goal, wave after wave.

Then their tattered defense was completely blown up by Bale and Lennon.

The two used their speed to break through Milan's defense because of Nesta's injury. There was only one Thiago Silva who could be of great use in the central defender position.

But when facing the powerful center forward Giroud, they could not gain the upper hand.

When Giroud was still in Lazio, he had played against Milan's Thiago Silva.

His way to deal with Silva was very simple, that is, to use his body, unreasonable, but the effect was very good. This was also what Changsheng asked him to do.

In the end, he scored a header in the game.

There was no fluke in Milan's failure in this game, judging from the scene. If they hadn't been lucky, they would not have lost only two goals.

This was especially true for the goal lost to Bale.

While Milan wanted to attack and score a goal, Tottenham Hotspur made a quick counterattack against Milan.

Bale took the ball from the backcourt and rushed forward.

He used his speed to break through all the Milan players who came up to defend him.

In particular, he used his speed to forcefully break through Thiago Silva at the front of the penalty area. Then he sent the ball into the goal guarded by Abbiati.

During the whole process, no Milan player touched the ball once.

Bale simply dribbled the ball hard and then chased the ball. With such a simple breakthrough method, he dealt with the entire Milan defense line.

The failure of this game seems to have made many Milan fans even more unhappy with Allegri.

Voices calling for Allegri to be fired have been heard one after another.

But this time. Galliani chose to stand on Allegri's side.

He came forward to say that the club has great trust in Allegri and they believe that Allegri can bring a bright future to the team.

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Inter Milan, Milan's city rival, also failed in this round of the Champions League.

They lost to their opponents 2:3 in the home game against Shakhtar Donetsk.

Lost the game at home and conceded three away goals.

Inter Milan's promotion prospects are in jeopardy.

At this time, some people began to miss Mourinho. Back then, Mourinho's Inter Milan could at least make it to the Champions League semi-finals.

Now they can be bullied by Eastern European teams in the quarter-finals.

When Mourinho was driven away by them, they cheered and celebrated.

Now they are beginning to miss Mourinho again.

So, people, what you lose is the most precious. If you don't lose, you will never know how to cherish.

But the sad thing is that even if they know how to cherish now, after a while. They will forget this again, and still repeat the bloody drama routine of "not cherishing after getting, regretting after losing".

This is human nature.

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Lazio's Champions League match is next week.

But looking at this trend, they are likely to be the only Italian team in the Champions League this season.

No matter how the Italian media black Lazio, they can't change this fact-in the Champions League in recent years, Lazio is the Italian team that has made them proud. They are defending the dignity and glory of Italian football and fighting for the interests of Italian football.

Although Lazio did not have a Champions League match in the middle of the week, they still played a game. That was the make-up match of the 17th round of the league.

In the first half of the season, because Lazio had to go to Qatar to play in the Club World Cup in the last two rounds of the league, the 16th and 17th rounds of the league were rescheduled.

The 16th round of the league has been made up, and the 17th round of the league is only now being made up.

Lazio played against Udinese at home.

Considering the consecutive double games in a week-last week was also a double game in a week, although there was no Champions League-during this period. There is almost an average of one game every three days.

So Changsheng continued to rotate.

In the game against Udinese, although it was at home, Changsheng did not line up the strongest lineup.

Lazio played very relaxed in this game, but it was a little too relaxed.

Let Udinese score two goals away.

Fortunately, Lazio scored four goals in the end, and they won the game without any danger.

After the game, Changsheng was not satisfied with the team's performance.

"I would rather lose this game, so that my players may be more sober." He said seriously in the post-match press conference.

The media said that they understood why Changsheng was so serious.

Because this game was the one in which Lazio lost the most goals in half a season, so why would Changsheng be so unhappy?

But if this is said out, it will definitely make other teams very unhappy - you lose two goals in a game, which is considered the most goals lost?

How can you let us teams get along?

But this is the fact. After 25 rounds of the league, Lazio scored 65 goals and lost only nine goals.

There were seven games in which one goal was lost, which were also the seven games in which Lazio lost the most goals this season - one goal was considered the most goals lost. It fully shows how strong Lazio's defense is.

By this game, Lazio finally lost two goals.

This also makes Udinese the first team in Serie A this season to score two goals against Lazio in one game.

They are also the second team in Europe to do this.

The first is Atletico Madrid, in the European Super Cup before the start of the season. Atletico Madrid scored two goals against Lazio and eventually lost 2:3.

Lazio's defense this season is indeed very strong. In the Champions League group stage, they have not lost a goal!

With such an outstanding performance, Changsheng certainly has reason to be dissatisfied with the team's performance of losing two goals in this game.

This is really not hypocritical.

If possible, Changsheng also hopes not to lose a goal in a season.

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In the 26th round of the weekend league, Lazio will face Bari at home.

In this game, Lazio continued to rotate, but not with a relatively weak lineup, but with a relatively strong lineup.

Against a team like Bari, using this lineup will inevitably give people a feeling of killing a chicken with a butcher knife.

Changsheng doesn't seem to care that the Champions League game will be in the middle of next week.

He certainly didn't send out this lineup because he looked down on Bayern Munich and thought that the defeated Bayern Munich was not as important as Bari.

He did this just to punish the players who played in the previous game.

All the players who started in the previous game sat on the bench in this game, or were not in the big list at all.

Because they didn't play seriously.

Changsheng told them that since they didn't cherish the opportunity to play, then don't play.

So in this game, none of them started.

And it's not just this game.

Changsheng plans not to give them a chance to play in the next Champions League game against Bayern Munich.

He won't stop until these players reflect on themselves.

Facing the weak team Bari, Lazio, who played with a stronger lineup, won easily.

5:0, a completely one-sided massacre.

After this game, Lazio will go to Munich, Germany, to challenge Bayern Munich at the Allianz Arena.