Fox in the Penalty Area

v1 Chapter 389: Chinese players in the top 8

After the European leagues ended their weekend games, a new European game ushered in.

Two UEFA Champions League quarter-final second-leg matches will be played on Tuesday.

Porto United host North London Rangers, and Alvara challenges Ruhr Rhine away.

On Wednesday, we will play Athletic Manchester away to challenge the Catalan United, and the Madrid Pirates against the Stan Park Rangers at home in the two Champions League games.

Porto United drew 0:0 with the North London Wanderers in the first round. Back at home they aggressively attacked and wanted to beat the North London Wanderers, but the latter used a counterattack to score two goals in a row.

Team morale was hit hard.

Although they pulled back a goal in the 79th minute, it was too late.

In the end, Porto United was defeated by North London Rangers 2:1 at their home court. The total score fell behind their opponents and missed the quarter-finals of the Champions League.

Considering that Porto United and North London Rangers are evenly matched in strength, although Porto United has the advantage at home, North London Rangers' tactics are more correct.

So in fact, it is normal whoever wins and loses, and it is not surprising whoever is eliminated.

But another game was an upset.

Ruhr Rhine, who lost 0:1 to Alvala in the first round, returned home and wanted to eliminate Alvala.

They did take a two-goal lead in the first half - both goals scored by Janus Erdmann.

His personal number of goals in the Champions League this season has also risen to six.

With a total score of 2:1, Ruhr Rhine seems to be in a good position to advance to the quarter-finals.

After all, this is their home court.

Moreover, the Ruhr Rhein's home stadium, Figner Arena, is a well-known "devil's home stadium" in Europe, and the fans here are very good at creating a home atmosphere. The Figner Stadium is the most attended stadium in the entire Bundesliga.

Although the strength of Ruhr Rhein is not as good as that of Blue and White Munich, the fans of Ruhr Rhein are more fanatical and pure than that of Blue and White Munich.

This is a bit similar to the difference between the King of Madrid and the Pirates of Madrid-the King of Madrid is a world-famous La Liga giant, and the status of Blue and White Munich in the Bundesliga is the same. There are many fans who like them all over the world.

But the Madrid Pirates have the support of more local fans, and these local fans can naturally create a more fanatical and terrifying stadium atmosphere.

The King of Madrid and the Blue and White Munich are slightly worse in this respect.

Ruhr Rhine has the greatest influence in the Ruhr area, and their fans are almost all industrial workers in the Ruhr area.

Ruhr Rhine, who plays at home, seems to have some kind of special buff bonus, and they often perform very well.

Especially in games like the Champions League.

Today's game is no exception.

One of the important reasons why they were able to score two goals in a row in the first half and reverse the lead was the frenzied atmosphere at home.

The players are like chicken blood.

When the total score fell behind by one goal, they rushed forward as soon as they came up.

Alvara's players were overwhelmed, conceding one goal after another.

It looked as if he had been beaten to the point of "discarding his armor and armor".

The huge advantage in the first half made all Ruhr Rhein fans think that it was easy to win the opponent, and they will win this game.

Perhaps the Ruhr Rhein players thought so too.

So after the start of the second half, Varvara's counterattack caught Ruhr Rhine by surprise.

They pulled one back in the 59th minute!

Evened the total score!

The total score is 2:2!

If the away goal rule is not cancelled, then the current Alvara can even directly eliminate Ruhr Rhine with this score and advance to the quarterfinals.

Now, they can only drag the game into overtime.

So after equalizing the total score system, Alvara can't take it lightly, and has to continue to deal with Ruhr Rhine carefully and tenaciously.

Xia Xiaoyu entangled John Setter in the game again as he did in the first round, using his diligent running to curb Setter's performance.

In the second half, the Alvara players were united and performed better than the first half and better than their opponents.

In the end, the game was dragged into overtime.

No one scored in half an hour of overtime.

The game was then dragged into a penalty shootout.

Ruhr Rhein, who played at home, led by two goals in the first half, but was stubbornly forced into a penalty shootout by their opponents. Their mentality was about to collapse.

In the penalty shootout, mental instability is the most prone to problems.

Sure enough, after five rounds of penalty shootouts, Ruhrlein scored two free throws and missed two free throws. The team was eliminated without waiting for John Setter, who made the fifth free throw...

Even though Janus Edman was the first to represent the team and scored the first penalty, he failed to change the final result of the game.

Edman, who was eliminated, threw himself into Seth's arms and cried very sadly.

This is already two consecutive seasons where he has fallen outside the threshold of 16 to 8, and the blow to him is indeed too great.

The young genius who wants to surpass Mark Becker's status in the Ruhr Rhine may have to reconsider whether to continue to stay in the Ruhr Rhine... After all, this summer, he had the opportunity to go to the King of Madrid.

While the Ruhr Rhine players were dejected, the Alvara players were running wildly to celebrate.

Xia Xiaoyu was among them.

Seeing this scene, the Chinese narrator said excitedly:

"Congratulations to Xia Xiaoyu! Congratulations to Xia Xiaoyu! He became the first Chinese player to participate in the quarter-finals of the Champions League this season! This is also his first time to participate in the quarter-finals of the Champions League! And he is still the main player! In the two rounds of the quarterfinals , he performed very well and diligently completed the defensive tasks assigned to him by the head coach on the field... Especially in the second half of this game, he was very successful in restricting Seth. A late organizing midfielder, he can also defend well!

"After many years of experience in Europe, Xia Xiaoyu has improved significantly, especially his physical confrontation ability. In the confrontation with Ruhr Rhein players, he is not inferior! We wish him further and further in the next Champions League! Of course , if possible, it is best not to meet Hu Lai in advance... Ha!"

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In fact, Hu Lai can also be considered to have entered the quarterfinals in advance, because they defeated the Stan Park Rangers 3:1 in the first round away game, and returned to their home court in the second round, can they still overturn?

Hey, it almost turned over in the end.

In the game against Valentia, Maxi Carey was injured and couldn't last the game and was replaced.

The news after the game is not a big injury, but it will definitely not be able to catch up with the next Champions League game against Stan Park Rangers, and may not even be able to catch up with the league game against Sarria on the weekend.

The Pirates, without Maxi Carey, looked a little proud and underestimated when they played against the Stan Park Rangers at home.

I always think that I can beat the opponent 3:1 in the away game, and I can win at home no matter what, and I will qualify no matter what.

It's just that the Stan Park Rangers in this game and the Stan Park Rangers in the last round are already two different teams.

Head coach Scott Brooks made adjustments to the lineup in this game, the most important adjustment being to start Jimmy Stokes as a central midfielder.

At the same time, South African striker Tristan Villani, who had missed many games due to injury, also returned to the starting lineup.

The Stan Park Rangers, who have strengthened the midfield and striker, fought back against the wall in the away game, but played very proactively.

And also pulled back a goal in the first half, rewriting the total score to 2:3.

In yesterday's two Champions League matches, the visiting team eventually eliminated the home team and advanced to the quarterfinals.

This goal also made many Madrid Pirates fans and Chinese fans have a bad association-Madrid Pirates will not really overturn at home and be eliminated?

Fortunately, the Madrid Pirates have an advantage that the two eliminated teams did not have yesterday:

They have hooligans!

At the beginning of the second half, Hou Lai used goals to help the Madrid Pirates re-establish a two-goal lead in the total score.

The ball was a blow to the morale of the Stan Park Rangers.

Tossing a ball at the height of their momentum is like throwing a red-hot iron ingot into a pool of cold water.

Although the Stan Park Rangers are still working hard up and down, they are obviously confused-it is inevitable that some people will worry about whether the goal behind them will be scored by Hu Lai when they press forward to attack...

If Hu Lai scores again, then they are really finished.

This is Hu Lai's tactical role... No, this should actually be Hu Lai's "strategic nuclear deterrence" role.

A player like him can frighten opponents for a minute on the court for a minute.

Only when he is replaced can the opponent really breathe a sigh of relief.

So even if there are double matches for a week in a row, head coach Parotti keeps Hu Lai on the court.

Fortunately, Hu Lai's physical fitness recovered quickly enough after each game~lightnovelpub.net~ Otherwise, Parotti really wouldn't dare to use him to death like this.

After Hu Lai scored, the players of the Madrid Pirates gradually stabilized their mentality.

No matter how hard the Stan Park Rangers try, they won't be as flustered by the impact as they were in the first half.

The commentator of the German TV station who watched this scene sighed:

"If Ruhr Rhine could have such an efficient striker like Hu, yesterday's game would not be completely helpless against the defending Alvara..."

At the end of the game, neither side was able to score again, and the score in the second round was fixed at 1:1.

The Madrid Pirates eliminated the last Champions League runner-up Stan Park Rangers with a total score of 4:2 and advanced to the quarterfinals.

Hu Lai became the second Chinese overseas player to reach the quarter-finals of the Champions League this season.

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