Southampton's 4-1 victory over Real Madrid shocked almost the entire Europe.
Compared with this game, in another game, Dortmund also defeated Ajax with a score of 4-1, which seems to be nothing news.
However, Dortmund's victory has pushed both Real Madrid and Southampton into a very embarrassing situation. Now Dortmund's points have reached 11 points, and they have won the first place in the group one round ahead of schedule. Real Madrid's points are still the same
It was seven points and Southampton reached six points.
Southampton will have to defeat Dortmund in the last round, and then hope that Real Madrid will be defeated or tied by Ajax to have a chance to qualify.
Of course, Dortmund, which has already qualified early in the last round and won the first place in the group, will definitely not compete with Southampton, and even exclude Real Madrid from the knockout stage of the Champions League. This is a good thing for Dortmund and other teams, but hope
It would be a bit difficult for Real Madrid to slip up at this critical moment. They had already swept Ajax in away games.
"Winning this game is a reflection of the hard work of our team. Although it seems to have come a little late, I am still happy for the victory in this game! In the last round, we will try our best to defeat Dortmund and then wait for Real Madrid to make mistakes.
Even if we didn’t advance to the knockout stages, we ended our first Champions League trip with our heads held high!”
After the game, Noriya did not find a chance to shake hands with Mourinho, but at the press conference, his words aroused applause from the reporters present. What made Mourinho look ugly was that he even saw a lot of
The Real Madrid reporters he knew were applauding...
Damn it, what does this mean? It’s too late for me to wait until get out of class is over, right?
Perhaps it was Jiya who gained the physique to become the center of attention. In the following period, the media continued to praise Jiya and Southampton. After all, this victory was indeed very surprising.
So even in the game back to the league, the somewhat overtired Southampton drew one to one with Newcastle at home, but they did not encounter much criticism - after all, winning in such an important game earned face for the Premier League.
, reporters are too embarrassed to slap themselves in the face for talking about Southampton’s civil war.
In the following league game in midweek, Southampton's main lineup, which had regained their physical fitness, beat Norwich 2-1, with Klose and Mkhitaryan each scoring a goal.
In the fifteenth round before the final round of the Champions League, Ji Ya rotated most of the main players, and they also lost the game cleanly in the away game, zero to one, not a shameful score, but this game
But it was the first time Southampton failed to score a goal in any official match this season!
Even if they lost in previous games, they would have scored at least one goal.
Ji Ya didn't care about this, and the media didn't criticize it, because everyone knew that the next game was the most critical.
Go to the away game against Dortmund.
But this game, in itself, has nothing to say.
Noriya sent out his main lineup in the game, but Klopp hid many players. For example, the core midfielders Gotze and Royce did not play, and Hummels was also rotated in the defense. This is also
It's normal. Dortmund is also competing with Bayern in the league this season. Since they qualified for the Champions League group stage early and won the first place in the group, why should he fight so hard in this game?
Moreover, Real Madrid qualified and Southampton qualified. Of course, all of Europe hopes that Southampton will qualify, except for UEFA officials.
In the end, in Westphalia, although Southampton was scored by Dortmund's substitute Schiebel in the second half, they relied on three goals from the front three to defeat Dortmund 3-1 away from home and reached 10 points.
Nine points.
The only regret is that Real Madrid did not make any mistakes. They defeated Ajax 4-1 at home and qualified second in the ten-point group. Southampton could only play in the Europa League as third in the group.
cup……
"Now we really have to fight for three consecutive Europa League titles."
Noriya did not look too frustrated at the post-match press conference, and his words also caused countless discussions. After all, based on Southampton's performance in the last two games, it is not a big problem for them to advance to the knockout stage. Now they will run
Going to play in the Europa League was purely due to lack of experience, or I was cheated by the schedule.
And when it comes to the Europa League, are they still afraid of lack of experience or being cheated by the schedule?
They have extremely rich experience in this area!
If Southampton wins the first Europa League Triple Crown in history, then they will undoubtedly engrave their name in football history!
Barcelona once won three consecutive titles in the European Fairs Cup, the predecessor of the UEFA Cup, but this was not recognized by the UEFA Cup after all. Inter Milan won the UEFA Cup three times in the 1990s, but did not defend the title. Although the league at that time
The cup competition is much more valuable than it is now, but being able to defend or even win three consecutive championships in European competitions is a very remarkable thing in itself!
You must know that among the traditional three major European Cups, except for Real Madrid, which has won five consecutive championships, and Ajax and Bayern, which have won three consecutive championships, the other teams have only defended their titles at most. Even in the disappearing European Cup Winners' Cup, defending titles
There has never been a champion.
Being able to achieve such results in the Europa League is surprising enough.
"This just gives us a little comfort. We have lost the qualification to continue to participate in the Champions League. This loss cannot be recovered even if we win the Europa League."
Noriya said this in the team, and the meaning of his words was obvious - at least the first half of the season was a failure. Only by launching an impact on the Premier League and Europa League in the second half of the season can we have a chance to wash away the failure of the first half of the season!
Although it seems a bit arrogant to say this, Southampton's players feel that there is no problem at all in saying this.
"In the second half of the season, we will win as many championships as we can." Noriya told the players.
"Now, our sprint begins!"
Captain Wundt jumped out, raised his arms and shouted.
"Yes, we must win the league, the Europa League, the League Cup, the FA Cup, whatever we can win, otherwise we cannot make up for the loss of not being able to play in the knockout rounds of the Champions League!"
"Yes, that's tens of millions of euros in income!"
The players shouted one after another. It was obvious that their focus was a little biased, but from a certain perspective, what they said was extremely correct.
Even if they play two more knockout games, Southampton's income will increase by at least 20 million euros. This is the value of the Champions League!
