On the evening of March 10, the Allianz stadium in Munich.
Because of the departure storm two weeks ago, this game attracted the attention of fans all over the world from the beginning.
After the dismissal of Rijkaard, Wilkins, the former acting head coach appointed by Chelsea, suddenly left the post. As a result, there was no one in the blue team. Finally, he had to promote a coach from the youth team to take the post of manager temporarily.
Fortunately, after the two rounds of the blue opponent strength is not strong, steady is a small win.
But this away challenge to Bayern Munich is a real test.
The German giants launched a fierce attack on Chelsea from the first minute when they won 3-0 away and were almost sure to advance.
Bayern Munich''s fierce attack made Chelsea feel unbearable. Ashley Cole accidentally fell and sprained his leg when defending Robben in the 12th minute and was forced to leave the game.
In front of the fierce Bayern Munich, Chelsea couldn''t resist the change of manager. From the 27th minute, the goal fell again and again.
First, Aguero took the team mate''s assists and took the lead to break the goal of Chelsea, then Ribery assisted Robben to further expand the score and ended the first half with 2-0.
In the second half of the match, Bayern Munich suddenly launched a crazy attack, Modric assisted Ribery to the next city, which expanded the score to 3-0, and in the 65th minute, Ribery''s assist made Robben Meier score twice.
Bayern Munich''s attack can be described as overwhelming, Chelsea simply can not resist, and even after the 4-0 lead, Gao Han replaced three substitute players at one go, the situation on the field is still one-sided.
It''s clear that the Blues have been demoralized after the previous storm.
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Gao Han stood on the edge of the field, watching the game silently.
He doesn''t know if Abramovich is watching this game, but he just wants to use this game to tell the Russians that professional football is not dominated by money.
At the very least, no matter how rich he is at Chelsea, he can''t expect to win the Champions League this season.
Even, as long as he is in the cold, he will do his best to attack them.
He must do it for the sake of Rijkaard and his old enemies.
"In fact, this team is not as weak as expected Said Thomas toohel, rather ruefully.
If you look at the lineup and cards, Chelsea are really not weak.
Abramovich''s huge investment in the past few years is actually valuable.
But the problem for the blues now is not the team''s lineup and strength, but management.
People who know the Premier League know that the problem Chelsea is facing now is to renew and replace the team. It needs to give the team a fresh life. Abramovich dug up Rijkaard to make Chelsea play a more advanced style from Mourinho''s time to the mainstream of Europe.
It should be said that this direction is right.
But the question is, has the Chelsea management really followed this direction?
We should not only update, but also make a difference in the Champions League and the league; We have to face the competitors on the court, but also the pressure from the management. We can always put pressure on them and give them goals. What is this?
Now that Rijkaard''s class is over and the situation is like this again, will there be a famous manager in the Chelsea position?
But all the famous coaches tend to cherish their feathers. No one will easily go to the muddy waters of Chelsea.
"Sometimes, the reason for fans to evaluate a head coach is very simple. If you look at the results and see the champions, if you have good results and more champions, you must be successful and the best."
After hearing this sentence, Thomas toohel could not help nodding his head.
"But sometimes, the fans themselves are also very contradictory. The same head coach, he played in a mess in this team, but when he came to another team, he suddenly got wind and water. Can we say that his strength has improved by leaps and bounds in a short time? Or did he not do his best in the previous team? "
"There may even be a very interesting scene, a coach at the beginning of the performance is not ideal, criticized, and even hate to fire him on the spot, but gradually, with the deepening of the season, with his performance getting better and better, all the doubts and doubts are gone."
It''s very common, even for the fans of many big teams.
"More often, if a team wants to achieve results, it often does not depend on the head coach''s coaching ability, or even not only on the overall strength of the players. What''s more important is that the top and bottom of the team can straighten out the relationship, unify the goal, and work together. Only in this way can we win the game."
Gao cold does not mean that the ability of the head coach and the strength of the players are not important, but that he thinks whether the team is united or not is far more important than these two.
And this obviously includes the management of the club.
Just like Real Madrid, the Galactic battleship in those years, are the players not strong enough? Is the head coach not good enough? But in the end, what is the result of the team?
And the early Inter Milan, Moratti invested so much money, introduced so many stars, strength is not strong?
Lippi and Cooper and other famous coaches, coaching ability is not excellent?
But a lot of times, why is it always the coach to bear the consequences of poor results?
The answer is very simple, there is only one, because the cost of changing a coach is the lowest.
Many people have forgotten the cruel reality that the club in European football is like an enterprise. As an enterprise, it must give priority to cost before making any decision.
Relatively speaking, the position of the management is often the most stable, and the replacement of players is the most important thing. It''s useless to replace only one player. If you want to replace one player, you have to replace a batch of players. Undoubtedly, the cost is too high. Only the replacement of the manager is the one with the lowest cost and the best effect.
Gao Han clearly remembers that not long after his debut, Ferguson told him to control the dressing room and never let the players shake the authority of the head coach. Otherwise, the head coach would die miserably.
I always remember that.
Most of the time, a team, from the management to the coaching staff to the players, is not united. Everyone has their own interests. Even in the dressing room, the interests of the players are quite different.
In the case of conflicts between the management and the players and the head coach, the club often makes the decision to solve the problem out of cost consideration. Therefore, if a head coach can not control the dressing room, it is basically impossible to achieve success, or even may lose miserably.
"In the final analysis, we are the real vulnerable groups, but if no one wants to speak out even if Chelsea do something like this to Rijkaard, then what position can we have in the future?"
When Thomas toohel heard this sentence, he suddenly raised his head and looked at it with a look of high mountains.
He suddenly remembered that Gao Han is the top coach in the current service.
In the past few days, many people suspected that Gao Han would speak out for Rijkaard because of his old feud. Some people thought that he was because of his friendship with Rijkaard. But now, tuhel understood.
Maybe, there are two reasons, but Gao Han will fight against Chelsea face to face, and because he is the number one coach in the world, he needs to speak for the interests of the whole professional coaching industry and strive for the interests of coaches.
Want to understand this layer, in tuhel''s mind, the image of Alpine suddenly and tall a bit.
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Bayern Munich made it to the last eight of the Champions League with a 4-0 home win and a 7-0 total win over Chelsea.
Two games can win opponents, the strength of the Bundesliga giant has been unanimously recognized by all European fans.
The other seven matches in the final 16 of the Champions League have ended one after another.
The team with the most goals is undoubtedly the match between Atletico Madrid and Sporting Lisbon.
The Spanish giants are very powerful. Heinx''s team first beat their opponents 5-0 away from home. After returning to Calderon stadium, they beat Sporting Lisbon 7-1 and won the Portuguese super by 12-1 in two rounds.
The bedspread team is able to play such a crazy goal momentum, which makes the whole Europe look at it. Heinks'' team has become another favorite in the Champions League this season.
The maturity of players such as David Silva, Ramos and Navas has gradually raised the beam of the bedspread team, and the high cold has once again been unanimously praised by the Spanish media and fans.
As we all know, these young talents are treasures left by the cold years.
Another Spanish team, Barcelona, returned to the Camp Nou after a 1-1 draw with Lyon in the first leg. After winning 5-2, they beat Lyon 6-3 with a total score and went through to the final eight.
Although Lyon has stopped in the last 16, their performance has won a lot of affirmation, especially the young striker Benzema, who is regarded as the most promising young talent in the next few years.
Atletico Madrid and Barcelona have passed, but the other team, Real Madrid, is not so lucky.
After the Galactic battleship experienced the chairman''s storm, the team was somewhat affected. In addition, in the past few years, the European results have not been ideal. This time, Liverpool, who unfortunately met the cup expert Rafael Benitez, were also unable to compete.
In the first leg, he lost 0-1 at the Nou Camp stadium. In the second leg, he went to Anfield stadium, and the result was even worse. He lost 4-0 and finally stopped in the last 16 with 5-0.
This defeat has further intensified the Real Madrid fans'' voice for Florentino. After the ordeal of Calderon and Mijatovic, many Real Madrid fans have realized the ability of Florentino. Coupled with the media''s momentum, it seems that Florentino''s return to the king is a certainty.
In the remaining games, Manchester United beat Juve 1-0 in the first leg away from home and beat the Bianconeri 2-0 at home in the second leg. Finally, they were promoted with a total score of 3-0.
Arsenal are in the two legs of the game with Roma into a one-to-one draw, but ultimately with a penalty, the Gunners eliminated the red wolves, smoothly promoted to the last eight.
Inter also eliminated Villarreal 3-1 in total score, and successfully promoted to the last eight.
Porto, known as the lucky draw, beat Panathinaikos 3-2 to advance to the final eight.
So far, the list of the top eight is fresh.
Two weeks after the final 16 elimination match, all the players are aiming for the final eight. At that time, the representatives of the top eight teams will gather at UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland to draw lots for the final eight elimination match and the semi-final.