Chapter 529: Fighting for the First Place in the Group (7/36)
In the ninth round of the league, Bayern Munich challenged Schalke 04 away.
Last season, Schalke 04 also specially poached Elton and Kolstadzic from Werder Bremen, planning to wrestle with Bayern Munich and Werder Bremen to grab a league championship or something.
Unexpectedly, Elton performed mediocre at Schalke 04, scoring only twelve goals in one season.
And it also caused a lot of problems for the team and the club.
With him, there was little peace in the dressing room of Schalke 04.
Originally, Schalke 04 thought that he was a player who could compete with Glory, but who knew that Lu Dao couldn't do it at all. And it also made a mess of the team.
So before the end of last season, the club sent him away.
For the new season, he moved to Turkish side Besiktas.
Schalke finally sent this "plague god" away.
However, after sending Elton away, Schalke 04's strength has not improved.
Last season, Schalke 04 was able to compete with Werder Bremen and Bayern Munich for the league title in the league standings, until the last few rounds.
And now, the league has just begun, and Schalke 04 is starting to fall behind.
They are five points behind top-placed Bayern Munich.
There is not much to say about this game in itself, and the people of Schalke 04 know very well that they cannot compete with Bayern Munich.
On the road, Bayern Munich beat Schalke 04 1-0.
But this scoreline does not mean that Bayern Munich won hard, but they did it on purpose.
Because there is also a Champions League match against Club Brugge in midweek, Bayern Munich has been playing from the beginning.
It's actually a very bullying thing to do, because it shows that Bayern Munich think that I don't have to give my best to beat you away from home.
This kind of thinking is very insulting for Schalke 04.
Even last season, when Bayern Munich challenged Schalke 04 away, they definitely didn't dare to think so. At that time, they were also in time to stay at Schalke 04's home stadium? That's going to be a terrible death......
Of course, Schalke 04 still had Elton at that time, and Bayern Munich at that time was not yet glorious.
Now, Schalke 04 has ousted Elton, while Bayern Munich have brought glory.
It is not surprising that Bayern Munich can still win by playing Schalke 04 away from home.
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Glory failed to score in this game, as did Lucas Sutton.
But now there is no ridicule that Lucas Sutton is a parallel commodity who is holding the thighs of glory.
In this game, Lucas Sutton, who did not score a goal, completed an assist.
With his back to goal in the box, he chested Lahm's pass to Ballack, who won the ball and volleyed straight away, and the ball rushed past Schalke 04 goalkeeper Rost's ten fingers and flew into the goal.
With this goal, Bayern Munich beat Schalke 04 by one goal away from home.
After the game, Lucas Sutton added an assist to his technical stats.
In three games, five goals and one assist were harvested, which is a very technical statistic.
And the assist in this game also showed everyone that Lucas can assist, showing everyone that he can not only score by receiving glorious passes, but also create chances for other teammates.
Who doesn't love such a player?
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Bayern Munich will next travel to face their third opponent in the Champions League group stage, Belgian side Club Brugge.
In this game, Magath did his best.
In fact, Brugge's strength is inferior to Schalke 04, so it stands to reason that Magath should not pay so much attention to Brugge.
There is no need for him to stay in the game against Schalke 04, but he should give it his all to ensure that the team beats Schalke 04 away and then the game against Club Brugge can rest more of the main players.
But Magath didn't.
Obviously, in his opinion, the Champions League matches are more important than the domestic leagues, and the Champions League games are more difficult to play.
His arrangement was correct.
It was Club Brugge who scored first in the game.
Bayern Munich's players seem to have been a little slack after beating Juventus by three goals at home.
What do they think about Brugge's quality, even at home? Don't we win easily?
But as a result, the home team scored as soon as they came up.
This is a real slap in the face for the Bayern Munich players.
However, Bayern Munich is Bayern Munich after all, and the huge difference in strength between the two sides is there.
When the Bayern Munich players start to get serious, with the quality of Brugge, they can't stop them.
In the end, Schweinsteiger, Misimovic and Lucio each scored a goal to help Bayern Munich come back from home and beat Club Brugge 3-1.
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Back in Germany, Bayern Munich beat Duisburg 4-0 at home.
Glory scored a goal in this game, and his goal was assisted by Lucas.
Then, in the fourth round of the Champions League group stage, Bayern Munich welcomed Club Brugge at home. This time, Bayern Munich did not underestimate their opponents in the game.
They were fully focused and gave it their all from the very beginning of the game.
With Bayern Munich not underbeaten, it is impossible for Club Brugge to beat Bayern Munich at the Allianz Arena.
In the end, Bayern Munich beat Club Brugge 2-0 at home.
After four rounds of the Champions League group stage, they won all four games, accumulated 12 points, and topped the group table. Juventus won three and lost one of their four games, accumulating nine points and finishing second in the group.
As everyone has analyzed after the results of the previous draw, this group, whether it is Rapid Vienna or Club Brugge, cannot threaten the positions of Bayern Munich and Juventus. Even in the first round of the group stage, both teams caused a little trouble for Bayern Munich and Juventus - in the first round of the group stage, Bayern Munich beat Rapid Vienna 1-0 away, relying on a glorious individual performance. Juventus also beat Club Brugge 2-1 away.
Now with two rounds left in the group stage, Bayern Munich has already qualified for the group ahead of schedule.
In third place is Club Brugge, who have won one of their four games, beating Rapid Vienna 1-0 away, and even if they win all of their last two rounds, they will not be able to surpass Bayern Munich's 12 points. It can threaten Juventus, who have nine points......
Of course, even if this is the case, Brugge is only theoretically likely to qualify from the group.
The only remaining highlight of the group stage is Juventus' home game against Bayern Munich.
It was a match between two teams battling it out for the top spot in the group.
Juventus will not only have to beat Bayern Munich at home, but also win by a big margin, otherwise they will finish second in the group.
Now no one knows what Perrot thinks.
When there are no big problems in the group stage, is Capello willing to let the team put in so much energy and take so much risk, just to win the whole group?
It's hard to say.
But either way, the media would love to see the two strong teams meet.
Moreover, Juventus was very unconvinced after losing away to Bayern Munich.
In a post-match interview, their players said that Bayern Munich's goal luck was very bad, and they were beaten by three goals that were almost identical.
Just because of this loss, the first place in the group was handed away, how did the Juventus players swallow this breath?
Although later in the Bundesliga, Glory, Lucas and Misimovic have proven that it is not their luck, this is their quality.
But...... As a player in Serie A, who cares about the Bundesliga game!
Anyway, Bayern Munich was lucky to win them!
This account must be calculated with Bayern Munich at home!
Prior to this game, Bayern Munich have two league games to play while Juventus have three.
On the afternoon of October 29, Bayern Munich defeated Cologne 2-1 away in the 11th round of the Bundesliga.
And on this evening, Serie A will usher in a key battle, that is, the civil war of the "Holy League", AC Milan will face Juventus at home.
The match was in the spotlight across Europe.
Juventus' dominance in Italy has almost reached its peak, and Capello's Juventus consistency is hopeless.
AC Milan were crowned champions in Europe only last season. It is also at a peak.
A team with Kaka at its core is taking shape.
This game, even the German media is paying attention.
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In the home dressing room at the San Siro, Carlo Ancelotti was giving his players the most pre-match mobilization.
"Remember the footage of Bayern Munich vs Juventus that I showed you earlier, find their defensive holes in the game, and if you give them enough impact, you can definitely admire their seemingly airtight defensive ......"
When Kaka heard the manager's words, he remembered the game.
A week before the start of the game, AC Milan were preparing for this game, when Carlo Ancelotti showed the whole team the video of the game that he edited, and used this game as a model to show everyone how to deal with Juventus.
But Kakako had already watched the game, and it wasn't the video of the game, it was the live broadcast of the game.
Bayern Munich's match against Juventus is the most important match in Group A, and it is a strong dialogue, which is the most noteworthy.
And Kaka himself is familiar with Juventus, as they always play each other in Serie A.
This Juventus team is indeed very strong, one could even say the strongest.
Last season, AC Milan also tried to compete with Juventus for the title in the league.
However, they ended up in second place with a huge disadvantage of seven points.
As you can see from this point difference, AC Milan's defeat in the league did not come at the last moment. It was precisely because they realized that they could not compete with Juventus in the league that AC Milan adjusted their strategic focus and focused on the Champions League, which eventually led to a major breakthrough and the Champions League title.
Last season, AC Milan and Juventus met twice in the league, with AC Milan drawing 0-0 away at Juventus in the first leg.
In the second leg, in the 35th round of the league, AC Milan was defeated 1-0 at home by Juventus.
Facing Juventus last season, Kaka's AC Milan did not register a single victory.
Juventus, which made Kaka and AC Milan helpless, was beaten 3:0 by Bayern Munich and had no power to fight back at all.
Kaka still remembers watching the live broadcast, after conceding the third goal, the close-up of the Juventus players' confused eyes.
They didn't seem to understand what to do, and they had already lost the game early......
At that time, the commentator of Italian TV also thought that Bayern Munich's luck was too good, and those two goals looked like luck no matter how you looked at it......
But Kaka doesn't think so.
He knew very well that if there was any glory in this offense, then ...... It's not luck.
The powerful Juventus was beaten by glory and had no power to fight back.
You know, their defense is very solid. Last season, Juventus conceded the fewest goals in Serie A.
But it was this world-class defense that allowed Lucas to score three goals.
Kaka knows Lucas's strength very well, and to be fair, Lucas is very good, but it is not so easy to complete a hat-trick in front of a defensive line composed of Cannavaro, Thuram, Zambrotta, Vieira and others.
Glory plays a crucial role in this.
Since Glory has played so well, if you can't get it, doesn't it mean that you are not as good as Glory?
Thinking of this, Kaka came back from his musings, he raised his head, and then clenched his fists.
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