The next day, the mainstream European media tacitly used the same headline as the headline: Crazy Bottom Half.

"Last night, we ended two 2008-2009 Champions League quarter-finals in the second half of the two key battles, and the interesting thing is that the results were beyond everyone's expectations, Chelsea beat Liverpool 4:1 away, while Barcelona beat Bayern Munich 4:0 at home, which means that the situation in the second half is very clear, if nothing else, the semi-final match will be Chelsea VS Barcelona!"

Both the London and Catalan media have even announced in advance that Chelsea and Barcelona will face off in the Champions League semi-finals.

Messi, who returned to Barcelona from Beijing at the beginning of the 2008-2009 season, took over the No. 10 shirt left by his predecessor Ronaldinho, and the overall performance was much better than last season, ranking first in La Liga in terms of goals and assists, but these numbers are not worth mentioning in the Premier League or Champions League.

Because Iroh is even more impressive than him, scoring a staggering 38 goals in 31 league games, just six goals from last season's record of 44 Premier League goals, and it must be noted that Iroh did not play in all 31 league games, 38 goals were scored in his 24 starts and 2 substitute appearances, and also reached double figures in the assist charts.

Of course, the Catalan media naturally does not use Iello's advantage to compare with Messi, they use the whole.

In 2008, Spain was able to win the European Championship because of Barcelona's tiki-taka tactics, as a loyal fan of tiki-taka tactics, Barcelona has adopted your tactics for more than 20 years, from La Masia to the first team, are mainly pass-control, this season Barcelona has more than 70% possession in many games, completely rehearsed the pass-control style of play to the extreme.

In addition, head coach Pep Guardiola has added more modern ideas to the traditional Tiki-Taka tactical concept, perfectly integrating the passing organization and high pressing, and the whole team's formation is highly pressed to the opponent's half of the court to carry out the collective high-level counter-robbery on the spot after losing the ball, relying on the player's running awareness and body to cut the opponent's passing line, complete the counter-robbery of the ball, and replace the defense with grabbing, so as to achieve the monopoly of the ball and offensive opportunities.

Therefore, the Catalan media are full of confidence that Barcelona could meet Chelsea in the semi-finals.

Juan Ramos, who has been slapped in the face by Iello countless times, seized the opportunity to stand up and said in the official column: "Mourinho is Barcelona's plagiarist, but he didn't learn the real skills, but figured out a set of defensive tactics that go against the trend, which is really ridiculous and generous, and what is the Premier League all-time top scorer Ai?" What is there to brag about in the lower leagues of the Premier League? If the semi-final is against Barcelona against Chelsea, then the result must be a big win for Barcelona! ”

Before the English media had time to speak, the local media in Valencia couldn't help it, in their minds, Ailo was equivalent to a god-like being, and Juan Carlos, the former defeated general, dared to blatantly and out of context to say that Ailo was not, it was simply looking for scolding!

"Valencia Sport" also published a statement on its official website: "Is Barcelona really invincible? Maybe in Spain, but not in Europe, Chelsea with Ai is recognized as the 'Universe Team'! Why did Barcelona beat Chelsea? By mouth? ”

The English media then joined in the bombardment of the Catalan media.

Against this backdrop, not many people have noticed the announcement on Liverpool's official website: "Thank you Rafael Benitez for his outstanding contribution to Liverpool in the past five years, but today I have to announce the sad news that Rafael Benitez will no longer be the head coach of the team after an amicable agreement between the two parties......"

Suddenly, the whole of Europe was shaken.

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Although on the surface, Liverpool's official answer is that the two sides reached an agreement through friendly negotiation, but everyone knows that this is just a cover, and it was revealed during the Christmas period that Liverpool's top management had given Benitez a last ultimatum, either the league title or the Champions League, and now in April, Liverpool is fourth in the league, and the points from the top Chelsea are already as high as 15 points, which is almost infinitely close to zero with only 7 rounds left in the league.

And the Champions League 1/4 final home loss to Chelsea, a little discerning people can see that Liverpool is powerless, so Liverpool officially announced that the agreement was to take care of Benitez's face, after all, as a European coach, it is embarrassing to be fired.

When Iello saw the news of Benitez leaving the Liverpool managership, he didn't relax for a long time.

In his mind, Benitez should have left in the summer of 2010, just in time to take over from Inter Milan, who lost Jose Mourinho......

But soon, Iroh reacted.

After the gentle flapping of his little butterfly's small wings, it has caused great changes in world football, and many results are very different from his impression.

Chelsea host Bolton Wanderers at the weekend, and the Chelsea players continued their form in a big midweek win over Liverpool with a clean 4-0 win over Bolton Wanderers.

With just six league games remaining, they are nine points ahead of Manchester United, which is an infinite close to defending league titles, and it would be even better if United lose or draw the next day......

It was a bit of a shame that United were on the road to Chelsea with a 2-1 win away at Sunderland thanks to goals from in-form Cristiano Ronaldo and Italian teenager Macheda.

However, this will not affect Chelsea's title defence and with only six league games remaining, the gap of nine points remains an insurmountable chasm.

The Reds will have to put more effort into the Champions League quarter-finals in midweek, as they were beaten twice by Porto in the first leg at home, meaning they will have to win the game at the Dragons Stadium to progress to the Champions League semi-finals.

Of course, a 3-3 tie with Porto at the Stadio des Dragons would have allowed you to qualify, but the risk is too great......

Chelsea at home to Liverpool and Bayern Munich against Barcelona will start with midweek.

It's just that the suspense of the second leg of the two Champions League quarter-finals has been lost before the game, with Chelsea beating Liverpool 4-1 away and Barcelona beating Bayern Munich cleanly 4-0 at home.

Especially in Chelsea's home game against Liverpool, Liverpool's morale can be said to have fallen to the bottom, with a large list of injuries in the midfield, and Mascherano and Lucas have also been banned from accumulating yellow cards, plus the manager is still a firefighting coach promoted from the reserve team, and it is impossible to adjust the fighting spirit of the first-team players.

Chelsea, playing at home, beat Liverpool 2-0 and advanced to the semi-finals of this season's Champions League with an aggregate score of 6-1.

In the other Champions League quarter-final at the same time, although Bayern Munich sat at the Allianz Arena at home, it did not give them any hope of qualifying, and Messi's early goal set the tone for Barcelona to advance to the Champions League semi-finals.

In the end, Bayern Munich drew 1-1 at home to Barcelona, who advanced to the semi-finals of the Champions League with an aggregate score of 5-1.

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No one was surprised when the results came out, after all, the clues had been seen in the first leg of the quarter-finals.

But at the same time, the London media and the Catalan media launched a confrontation.

Since the beginning of the 2004-2005 season, Chelsea and Barcelona have become a life-and-death existence, in that season the Catalan media considered Chelsea to be an international mercenary, a victory bought by money, in the 2005-2006 season of the Champions League 1/8 finals between the two teams reached its peak, Mourinho after Chelsea was eliminated from the competition broke the news that Rijkaard had entered the referee's lounge at halftime, so that there was a second-half bias in Barcelona's decision.

At that time, he also directly directed the referee on duty, and Swede Friesk retired early.

Now that Chelsea and Barcelona meet in the more important Champions League semi-finals, there is bound to be a bloody storm.

The headline of the day in World Sports reported: "It's really exciting to finally meet Chelsea in the semi-finals! I believe that this semi-final will be the same as the Champions League 1/8 final three years ago, with a big score victory over Chelsea! Because Barcelona is stronger now than it was three years ago! And with a phenomenal star like Messi, how could we be eliminated? Add to that the fact that Chelsea was coached by the famous 'executioner', who made the young referee at the time, Friske, retire early......"

It is clear that the intention of Le Monde Sport is to make Mourinho's conflict with the referee public.

In the past two seasons, with Mourinho's low profile, many referees have adhered to their own professional ethics, and there is no intention to specifically black Mourinho.

But now it's different, the original Swede Frisker was a young referee trained by UEFA, and his popularity in the refereeing community was also very good, but it was ruined because of Mourinho's words, so the referee community was very dissatisfied with Mourinho, and at the same time the UEFA official was also very dissatisfied, but because of the principle of fairness and justice, plus time can eliminate a lot of things......

It's just that now that it's been brought up again, it's different.

This means that there is a good chance that Barcelona and Chelsea's Champions League semi-final will be off the beaten track.

However, Mourinho ginger is still old and spicy, and the first time he talked about this topic in "World Sports", he said in an interview with "The Guardian": "Some things are objectively saved, I can't let my team suffer dumb losses, I can take my honor and promise God!" ”