On 23 February, the first leg of the Champions League quarter-finals was completed ().

For the Italian team, the tone of this first leg was sad and desperate.

AC Milan and Roma both suffered upsets, losing to their opponents on their home turf. Among them, AC Milan lost 0:1 to Tottenham Hotspur, while Roma was even worse, conceding three goals at home and losing 2:3 to Shakhtar Donetsk.

Inter Milan supporters first mocked AC Milan and then Roma, but they were also unlucky as they lost 1-0 at home to Bayern Munich.

Of the four Italian teams that have reached the round of 16, only Napoli have been inspiring, beating Lyon 4-0 at home.

It's no wonder that the newspaper Sport said that February 22 was "a sad day for Italian football".

It is ironic that the pride of Italian football needs to be defended by a grassroots team like Napoli with the defeat of Milan's two giants on their home turf and the traditional powerhouse Roma losing to the Ukrainian team......

Italian football is indeed going downhill ().

This reality has made many Italian fans feel sad.

If there are any surprises in this first round of the game, Chen Yingying's hat show is one. And Arsenal's 2-1 win at home to Barcelona is also a one.

Barcelona were considered invincible – last year's defeat to Inter Milan in the semi-finals was an exception – especially this season's Barcelona, with Jose Mourinho's Real Madrid, once considered a team that could challenge Barcelona's supremacy, but at Camp Nou, they lost a humiliating 5-0. This game made the whole of Europe feel that Barcelona is invincible. However, Arsenal did beat Barcelona on their home turf, and although they allowed the opponent to get an away goal, a victory is always a victory.

In the Champions League scorers' list, Messi did not score, Samuel Eto'o did not score, and only Gomez scored a goal. Now Germany's 'Super Mario' is level with Samuel Eto'o with seven goals.

Chen Yingying's name is on the list for the first time this season, and the number after his name is - "3".

Across Europe is debating whether Napoli's Chen Hung can pull off an unprecedented comeback to defend his Champions League top scorer with six games played. Now he is four goals away from the top two scorers. Originally, this should be a particularly huge gap, but when you think about the fact that before a game, he was still seven goals away from the first place, and suddenly felt that the difference of four goals was not worth mentioning at all......

There have been European bookmakers who have offered different odds for whether Chen Yingying can defend the top scorer, ranging from one to six to one to thirty-three, and it can be seen that the bookmakers are also not accurate, and I don't know whether to be optimistic about Chen Yingying or sing him down.

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On March 1, the final match of the 27th round of the league, the crucial battle of Serie A, it was a contest between the first and second in the league (). It stands to reason that this match should be a close match.

However, the impact of Napoli's two-front battle on the whole team began to appear, and Napoli, who played with all the main players, lost 1:3 to AC Milan away. Most of the Napoli players looked tired during the game, even though they didn't have a double game this week.

This is the impact of continuous double-line battles, the league has basically played a third of the left, the players have been running out of energy since last summer, and at this time, the pressure of the Champions League is much greater than that of the domestic league.

When it comes to dealing with two-front battles, traditional giants AC Milan are far superior to Napoli.

Napoli's defeat to AC Milan was a relief for many. If they continue to win like this, they are afraid that they will have to lock the league championship in advance like Chen Yingying...... That's a little too boring.

They don't necessarily hate Napoli, but AC Milan's victory will help to raise the suspense of the league this season, which is what everyone wants to see. Except for the Napoli fans, no one wanted them to win the title early.

AC Milan, who are now second in the league, beat top-placed Napoli and while the standings of both teams have not changed, the gap between them has narrowed from four points to one.

It's a gap that makes people think about it.

One point apart, and considering that Napoli will face the test of both domestic league and Champions League battles, this point may be a watershed moment in determining the eventual league winner.

Is Napoli holding on to this point? Or will AC Milan complete the comeback in one go?

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Losing the match against AC Milan made the whole Napoli team frustrated. They all knew before the game how important this game was.

Everyone is holding their back to beat their opponents, so that the gap between the two sides can be widened and enough "strategic depth" is prepared for the next Champions League match.

A win over AC Milan would leave Napoli up to seven points, a respectable lead for the league.

The result did not go as planned, which naturally frustrated the whole Napoli team.

Even Chen Yingying, who scored a goal in the game and scored his 26th goal of the season, was not very interested.

"I scored? Yes, so what, the point is that we lost! ”

The defeat to AC Milan was a crucial one, and the one-point gap meant that the team would not relax for a long time to come, but would have to keep the strings tight. In this way, the devil knows when it will collapse, maybe in the domestic league, maybe in the Champions League, and the worst is the collapse of both fronts at the same time......

No one wanted such an outcome.

But as it turned out, after the defeat to AC Milan, everyone's nerves immediately tensed.

On the way back to Napoli from Milan, there was a lot less laughter among the players.

Even Mazari frowned and felt a headache.

But now is far from the time to worry about the precarious situation in the league, with Napoli heading into the second leg of the Champions League quarter-finals.

Although the home team is already four goals ahead, but football is round, who knows what will happen at home in Lyon?

Napoli, who have played against UEFA many times, do not dare to take it lightly.

So Mazzar still has to send out the strongest squad in this game and cheer up ().

In fact, for a team like Napoli, it is long overdue to make a choice in the league and the Champions League, after all, the thickness of their bench is far inferior to that of the giants, and there is no strength to fight on multiple fronts and blossom on multiple fronts.

The smart thing to do is to finish the battle and choose a front to break through.

Many teams of this grade like Napoli will choose the Champions League. Because the league is so long, the slightest mistake can lead to extremely serious consequences. The Champions League is different, the Champions League is a home-and-away knockout competition, and a good performance in one or two games can take you far in this competition until you reach the final. If you're lucky, it's not impossible to win a championship.

The Champions League is a fast-acting investment project, and if you want to make quick profits, you have to choose the Champions League.

And small and medium-sized teams don't want giants to have such strong strength, funds, and heritage. So it's easier for them to choose a quick strategy, the Champions League is a big stage, and it's obviously more cost-effective to be famous on this stage than to work slowly in the league.

There is an even more important reason - money.

The 2010-2011 UEFA Champions League prize money scheme is as follows: to enter the round of 32, you will receive 3.9 million euros directly. For each game played in the group stage, you can get 550,000 euros, and after six games, it is 3.3 million, 3.9 million plus 3.3 million equals 7.2 million, and this 7.2 million euros is a fixed bonus, regardless of whether your team finally qualifies from the group. This is also the main reason why many small teams desperately want to enter the Champions League. They don't want to win the championship, they just want to take the 7.1 million euros, which is a huge amount of money for a small team, and there are still a lot of things that can be done with a little money, and some teams may have a budget of less than 7.1 million euros a year......

In addition, if you can win in the group stage, it will be 800,000 for each win, 400,000 for a draw, and not if you lose.

This is an additional bonus, but many small and medium-sized teams may not be very hopeful, those teams in small leagues such as Eastern Europe and Northern Europe are basically the objects of scoring points in their groups, winning? Extravagant hope ().

Each of the sixteen teams that make it to the knockout stage will receive €3 million, or €3.3 million if they advance to the quarter-finals. The top four are 4.2 million. At the end of the day, whoever wins the Big Ears Cup at Wembley Stadium will receive €9 million, or €5.6 million for the runners-up.

For those teams with the strength to upset, the Champions League is obviously more attractive than the league - the league's revenue is mainly allocated to the TV broadcast, and the distribution of TV broadcast fees varies from league to league, but one thing is the same, that is, the giants always take the big share, and the small piece of cake is the other team's share.

It's like the Champions League, where it all depends on results.

Therefore, the mid-stream teams are more inclined to fight in the Champions League, and even if they don't win the championship in the end, it would be good to be able to go one step further in the Champions League.

A team like Napoli is the kind of team that has to gamble, and the Champions League has more interests, so it is obvious that the Champions League should be chosen. In the domestic league, with Napoli's current strength, it is easy to guarantee the top four, and the top three is not a problem, as long as it can guarantee that it will continue to participate in the Champions League next season, it is a victory, the league champion? Stop daydreaming!

But now Napoli thinks like this - we not only have to go far in the Champions League, we also have to win the league!

Napoli are a team that is not afraid of heaven and earth, and since the time of Maradona, they have always played the role of challenging the rules and defying authority, and they want to reap glory on both fronts, which is perfectly normal for them......

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ps, the outbreak is over, but there will be an outbreak in a few days~

It's only been three days since February, so I'm going to continue to ask everyone for a monthly pass! This month's monthly pass trend looks very gratifying! I hope we can keep this momentum going, thank you from the bottom of my heart!! ”