Looking forward to tonight is another thrilling night of the second leg of the Champions League knockout round, this week's theme is "Anti-West": Resisting Spain. Chelsea and Bayern, the winners of the past two Champions Leagues, coincidentally encountered the adversity of challenging La Liga teams with behind points on the same matchday, can the "heart of the champion" play a role?
Real Madrid vs Chelsea
The new magnate meets the old aristocrat
Chelsea are the defending champions, and the scene of defeating Manchester City in the final last year to "officially crown the European giants" seems to be vividly remembered. Unfortunately, the home game in the last leg was dominated by Real Madrid, who is more qualified to be called a giant than themselves, and the journey to defend the title is about to come to an abrupt end.
Strange to say, what other team is better suited to play against Chelsea, who are aiming to defend their title, than Real Madrid this season? After the Champions League restructuring, only Real Madrid has completed three consecutive Champions League titles, not even another successful defender. From the Real Madrid side, it is obviously more interesting to kill a challenger directly.
Real Madrid's head coach Ancelotti also had a festival with Chelsea, when Ancelotti had a smooth ride at Stamford Bridge, and it seemed that he was about to defend the Premier League title with a rare high goal and high points, and the prestige went straight to the famous coach Mourinho who laid the foundation for the club. As a result, he was distracted by the operation of Chelsea boss Abramovich, and Ancelotti also left.
Another attraction of this game is the older and more demonish "senior pot bearer" Benzema. Unlike Ancelotti, who went everywhere to carry the pot, Benzema's back pot career was locked in Real Madrid. It's just that with the departure of C Luo, Benzema is a bit out of the mix. Now while everyone is watching whether Benzema can continue his rapid scoring momentum, they are also secretly guessing who the next victim of the "goalkeeper's mentally retarded aura" is.
Bayern vs Villarreal
On the "anti-West" still have to come bayern
Compared to Chelsea's hardships, Bayern look much more reliable. The first is because there is really some gap in the comparison of strength, Villarreal is really a little far from Bayern in terms of grade, although the first leg is a small win at home 1-0, but almost the whole game was played by Bayern - although this is also deliberately done by them, using Bayern's full line of pressure kung fu repeatedly sneak attacks to create a killing machine, but the gap in strength is still obvious.
Second, of course, Bayern's victory over the Spanish team. As early as the Real Madrid Galaxy period, Bayern successfully stopped Real Madrid's soaring progress; later Barca opened a key turn in the falling curve, which was also Bayern's classic 7-0, not to mention the 8-2 that caused Barca to fall apart.
Most advantageously, the Champions League rules have changed. Under the rules of prioritizing away goals, the first leg of away 0-1 was a very nasty result, which meant that the home team had to score 3 to qualify. But now the Champions League treats home and away goals equally, bayern win one at home with overtime, win two to qualify, much easier than before.
Bayern have already had similar performances this season, and in the last round against Salzburg, Bayern easily passed 7-1 at home in the first leg 1-1 away from home. Now that Bayern have almost locked up the Bundesliga title, the possibility of a Champions League rollover can never be ignored.
Text/Hubei Daily reporter Guo Xiaoming
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