The Champions League season's 16-to-8 game has ended halfway, in fact, this top four is not unexpected, look closely at least now determine the first four teams that have entered the top 8, basically the recent Champions League performance is very stable team, and the team is basically a key player, this may be the reason why Paris was eliminated, simply look at this problem.
Bayern, Real Madrid, Manchester City and Liverpool reached the quarter-finals, and it should not be surprising that these four teams have actually performed consistently in the Champions League in recent years
Real Madrid and Bayern and even Liverpool have one thing in common, the team at least has veterans who have won the Champions League trophy, but these players are the core of the team, that is, these players have actually experienced what kind of games, so they will not be very panicked when they encounter problems, bayern and Red Bull Salzburg's game, that is, the team's veterans play perfectly to advance, Levan and Müller become the key to this game, Liverpool lost to Inter, but this game did not lose two goals, the team veteran is still the key, in fact, the second leg of the game Salah still created a lot of chances to score goals, and also put a lot of pressure on Inter. There are also core midfielders like Fabinho who are not veterans. Real Madrid against Paris, the win is still by Benzema and Modric, these players are the core of the team recently won the championship, as long as the team that has won the championship, indeed encountered any difficulties in the Champions League, will not back down.
Manchester City is the other extreme, although this team did not win the Champions League, but the team lineup is stable, De Bruyne is actually the most critical player of this team, but this group of players seems to be the center is short, but the team is now too stable, tactics and players are too stable, recently in fact, the Champions League results are not bad, is always a little bit to win the championship, this year I don't know if there is a chance, the team front line still has some obvious problems. But these teams all have core veterans, and this is also the key.
Inter and Red Bull Salzburg, Portugal Sport were still eliminated due to strength problems
These three teams lost because of the strength of the problem, although Inter beat Liverpool, but Liverpool's first leg score can guarantee the team to qualify, if it is not Salah's bad luck, this game should not be Inter can not win, the back line in a period of time too many problems, Inter still need to work hard. Portugal Sport and Red Bull Salzburg are also a matter of strength, these two teams can reach the knockout round this year is already a very unexpected thing, and from the two legs of the game, the gap between the two teams and the opponent is too big, these teams are still small teams, can not expect any better performance.
Paris's problem is still themselves, this team still has no defensive core
The problem of Paris is still themselves, the team's defense has always been a problem, this loss to Real Madrid is also because of their own defensive problems, in fact, in addition to Paris, the four teams promoted to the promotion are all good defensive cores, some are midfielders, some are center-backs, but the Paris midfielders do not have good defensive players, defenders also look like there are no good players, this is helpless place. The teams that have recently won the Champions League are at least very good defensive, so the next problem in Paris is very simple, the team needs to buy the real defensive core, not constantly buy offensive players, and now the team's defensive players also seem to be offensively stronger than defensive characteristics, which is a bit helpless. I did reach the final before, but at that time there was a veteran center-back like Thiago Silva, wasn't it?