369 Premier League Prosperity

As soon as the list of the top eight of the Champions League came out, England was boiling.

The most embarrassing thing is Italian football. Known as the Little World Cup of Serie A, only one club has reached the quarterfinals of the Champions League this season. That is Rome.

Unfortunately, Rome's draw was not very good, and it met Arsenal, the nemesis of the Serie A club.

Arsenal has faced the Italian team several times in the past few years, and each time it has an absolute upper hand. Even if he faced Juventus twice in the group of death, he trampled Juventus under his feet.

Although Serie A still has many world-class stars, there is no doubt that the competitiveness of Serie A has declined. Moreover, Rome's ability to break out from the group stage has a lot to do with Blackburn, who has won the first place in the group stage, in the last round of the group stage, which has a lot to do with little attention.

Barca is still counting on Blackburn to defeat Rome. In this way, they can appear with the advantage of goal difference, but George doesn't have that kind of awareness. Otherwise, as long as George pays attention to it, it is really difficult for Roma to break out of the group stage.

In the top eight of the Champions League in the 98-99 season, there are two clubs in Serie A. In the 99-00 season, there was only one club left in the quarterfinals of the UEFA Champions League. As for last season's Champions League, a club did not break out of the group stage.

Serie A has gradually fallen into the World Cup since childhood.

As for other leagues, they are different.

At present, La Liga, the world's strongest league, has only one place, that is, the powerful Real Madrid. The participating Barcelona and A Coruña were all destroyed in the group stage.

In the Bundesliga, there are two clubs in the knockout match of the Champions League. Bayern and Leverkusen.

There are only three places in the Premier League, which has come out of the top eight of the Champions League for two consecutive seasons. And these three places happen to be the Premier League quotas for the UEFA Champions League. From next season, the Premier League will have four places in the Champions League.

Since Manchester United won the Champions League in 98-99, the Premier League has inadvertently formed a group advantage in the Champions League.

In the last three seasons, among the top eight of the Champions League, the fewest Premier League clubs were the year before last, and there were two clubs. But Blackburn also won a League Cup that year. Since then, there have always been three places. Although Manchester United has not won the Champions League since it won the Champions League in 1999. But the strength of the Premier League can be seen.

And it has always been a Manchester United team carrying the flag in the Champions League. Arsenal basically used to make soy sauce.

But I don't know if Manchester United won the Champions League, which encouraged the English team. Since then, the English club has played one match in the group stage. Look at Arsenal, which has always been weak in the Champions League. Last year, the two death groups were able to break through.

This season's death group is drawn by four strong European teams. But Arsenal stepped on Juventus and A Coruña again and entered the quarterfinals of the Champions League.

Now there is a strong team like Blackburn.

The Premier League is getting stronger and stronger in the Champions League.

So the English media are very excited.

............But after half a month, the English media was not only excited. It's crazy. The whole English media is crazy.

Because half a month, that is, after the second game of the quarterfinals of the UEFA Champions League on April 11, the list of the quarterfinals of the UEFA Champions League came out, and the whole Europe saw what is strong. I saw what the advantage of the group is.

First, Blackburn's side, on April 3rd, in the away game against Panacinnaicos, they drew one-to-one.

Many people can see that Panasinaikos from Greece is not a fish brisket that people bully. But George was very happy because he got a draw away and scored an away goal. George is confident about the game at home.

George's self-confidence is definitely not aimless. It is based on the strength of the two teams.

Of course, in order to prevent the same thing as last season, George was very careful about the second game.

Think about everything that can happen. Then one by one, George analyzed almost all kinds of emergencies. There were seven or eight emergency plans, making Evan and Carl next to them laugh and cry.

But they can understand George.

In such a favorable situation last season, it was turned over by Valencia. It is understandable that George has some worries in his heart.

It's okay. The game went very well.

At home, Blackburn did not give Panacin Neikos any room. At the end of the first half, it was already a 1-0 lead. George even made a comeback with Klose in the second half. After Klose's comeback, he was not in a very stable state.

George hopes that Claude can recover as soon as possible.

In the second half, Pires went to the next city and defeated Panacinnaikos 3-0.

In this way, Blackburn defeated Pannacinaix with a score of 4-1 in two rounds. Blackburn entered the top four of the Champions League for the first time in history.

Blackburn was able to enter the top four of the UEFA Champions League, and all the media were expected. After all, Blackburn's strength is there. A Premier League champion team faces the Greek champion team. If it can't appear, it will be a surprise.

And in another game, it was Manchester United vs. Leverkusen.

Ferguson's Manchester United is in poor shape in the Premier League this season. At the end of the season, Blackburn reached 20 points behind. What kind of gap is this? But it is still very strong in the Champions League.

In the first game on April 4, he challenged Leverkusen away. In history, Leverkusen this season is very strong. And he is also the famous king of Sanya. He was invincible in the Champions League and played until the Champions League final.

Unfortunately, Leverkusen met the old spicy Ferguson.

Ferguson is really strong. Especially when it comes to such an important game, it is even stronger. In the away game, it turned out to be a 2-1 victory over the powerful Leverkusen.

After the second game on April 10, Manchester United defeated Leverkusen 1-0 at Old Trafford.

In this way, Leverkusen, who was extremely powerful in history, could only stop in the quarterfinals. Manchester United had a total score of 3-1 in the two rounds, entering the quarterfinals of the UEFA Champions League.

This is not the end.

Arsenal played against Roma, and Arsenal appeared even more easily.

It should be said that Wenger's Arsenal, in the face of the utilitarian football boss Capello, it is difficult to win. But the process is not like this.

Arsenal's first away game against Rome defeated Roma by a 2-0 margin at the Rome Olympic Stadium. And after returning to the home court, it was a three-to-one, which made Roma cry and go home.

Even George couldn't figure out why Rome, coached by Capello, was so defeated by Arsenal.

Anyway, when the game was over and the result came out, everyone was stunned.

The Premier League has completed three seats in the top four of the UEFA Champions League. The Premier League is completely the situation of Real Madrid against Lv Bu.

No one thought of this.

Even The Times wrote "The Premier League is flourishing!" Such a title.

"Fourteen years after the Hassel tragedy, the Premier League hegemon Manchester United won the Champions League on behalf of England."

"After that, the Premier League team began to play hard in the Champions League. Last season, there were three places in the top eight, and one team entered the top four of the Champions League. And in the top four of the Champions League this season, there are already three teams.

"Europe, we're back!"

"The original League One, now we are back in the name of the Premier League!"

British football is really very aggrieved. When League One swept the European football world, Liverpool, Villa, Nottingham Forest and Everton were all strong European teams. How powerful League One was at that time can be shown by the simplest data.

It has been eight years since Liverpool won their club's first Champions League in 1977 to Liverpool's fourth Champions League in 1984. In these eight seasons, League One has won seven of the Champions League titles.

Four in Liverpool, two in Nottingham Forest, and one in Aston Villa. Eight seasons, seven Champions League, what kind of dominance is this?

Of course, in 1985, when the Heselle tragedy occurred, Liverpool was still the most powerful team in Europe at that time, and finally reached the Champions League final. At that time, Liverpool's demand for winning the fifth Champions League was very high, and many people believed that Liverpool had this strength. But people are not as good as God. There was a tragedy that no one imagined. Of course, there was a controversial penalty in the game, and Liverpool eventually lost the game.

It was the hateful "Haeser tragedy" that greatly damaged the British football world.

This is a watershed. From the world's first league, League One has dominated European football and has become a league for English people to entertain themselves.

Especially the ban makes it impossible for British football to attract world-class superstars. What's more, British football is far away from European football because of its closure. In the end, it slowly lags behind European football. After the ban was lifted and participated in European games, British footballers understood that they were much behind European football.

It took almost ten years for the British football world to regain its vitality before it stood in front of European football.

As the originator of modern football, British football is proud. However, the poor performance of the Premier League in Europe makes British football a little depressed. They are all waiting for the Premier League to stand in Europe.

Now they are waiting.

Since Manchester United won the Champions League, the Premier League club has been getting better and better in the Champions League.

This season's Champions League quarterfinals are three teams encircling Real Madrid.

If you don't show off at this time, it's not the English media.

The Times is just a representative. All the English media are reporting on this grand event.

The whole British football world is like a festival.

Those so-called famous British football players who usually don't know where the cats are also come out one after another. They also came out to celebrate together. Everyone means the same. That is, English football is finally back!

(To be continued)