The media discussed it lively.
There are reporters squatting at the entrance of the training ground every day, wanting to hear him "pay tribute to Platini" again.
But Ye Luo doesn't just rely on his words to play football every day.
He still has business to do.
On the third day after the Champions League, the team faced Athletic Bilbao at home.
The whole team was not in good shape in this game. Ye Luo had several chances but they were all resolved by the opponent.
Malaga held Athletic Bilbao to a 1-1 draw at home. With Yello's goal in the 86th minute of the game, Malaga avoided the fate of losing.
After 23 league rounds, Malaga has achieved 19 wins, 3 draws, 1 loss, and scored 60 points.
After 23 league rounds, Yelo has scored 27 league goals, ranking first in the scorer list.
Ronaldo, who ranked second, scored 24 goals, and Messi, who ranked third, scored 22 goals.
There is still suspense in the scorer list.
But everyone believes that if Ye Luo is not injured, his advantage as the top scorer is almost unshakable.
The whole of Europe is praising Ye Luo's performance, and all the giants are eyeing him.
But within the Malaga team.
The home draw against Athletic Bilbao left the team a little frustrated.
Because after this round of the league, they were overtaken by Real Madrid by one point.
Real Madrid now has 61 points, one point ahead of Malaga, and is at the top of the standings.
Mourinho's team has been too stable in the league this season.
But it's okay.
Now in the competition for the league title, Malaga has not fallen behind.
A difference of one point.
Malaga must always tighten their nerves in the next game.
The draw with Athletic Bilbao made the team's morale a little low.
This also gave Pellegrini a headache.
But now is not the time to worry about the team losing top spot again, because Malaga is about to face the second leg of the Champions League quarter-finals.
Although they lost to the opponent 4-20 in the away game.
But football is round.
So it’s not time to take Malaga lightly.
What if Lyon wins 3-0 at home - this is not impossible, in which case Malaga will be eliminated.
Therefore, Pellegrini still has to field the strongest lineup for this game.
For a team like Malaga, they should actually make a choice in the process of fighting on two fronts.
Should we choose the Champions League or the league?
after all.
The thickness of the team's bench lies here.
The good things about fighting on multiple fronts and blossoming on multiple fronts generally do not reach small teams like Malaga.
The smart thing to do is to finish the battle in one battle and choose a front to break through.
Many teams of Malaga's level will choose the Champions League.
Because the Champions League is highly contingency, there are fewer games than in the league.
Compared with the long league marathon, the Champions League's knockout format allows teams like Malaga to have more opportunities - if you are lucky, you will be the semi-finals after passing the quarter-finals, and you will be the final after passing the semi-finals!
No matter which team you encounter in the finals, if you perform well in one game, it is not impossible to win the championship.
The competition in the league is about internal strength, the thickness and stability of the team's lineup.
The Champions League is not only about strength, but luck is also important.
Therefore, if they are eager for quick success, many small teams will choose the Champions League in this case.
after all.
For a small team like Malaga.
Reaching the knockout rounds of the Champions League is not something you often encounter. The Champions League is a big stage, and it is obviously more cost-effective to be famous on this stage than to work slowly in the league.
In fact, there is another reason that is also very important - money!
Although Malaga has financial backers.
But what Platini said before about financial balance is also a knife hanging over Malaga's head.
This knife may be cut off at any time.
The benefits of the Champions League are very objective.
The bonus alone is enough to make many small teams drool.
For example, the prize distribution of this season’s Champions League:
Top 32, 4 million euros, and an additional 600,000 euros for each game in the group stage. After six games, it is 3.6 million. Four million plus 3.6 million is 7.6 million. One hundred thousand.
Just to finish the group stage, there are 7.6 million euros.
This is a fixed bonus.
That is to say, whether you qualify or not, whether you win or not.
Guaranteed.
That’s 7.6 million.
Even if you lose six consecutive games in the Champions League group stage.
There are also 7.6 million euros in prize money that can be taken away - this does not include the income from game broadcasts.
besides.
For every group stage match won, the winning team will receive a bonus of 800,000, a draw will receive a bonus of 400,000, and nothing if the team loses.
Take Malaga's performance in the group stages this season as an example.
Their results in the group stage were four wins and two draws, with a bonus of 4 million, including a guarantee of 7.6 million.
After completing the group stage, they received a bonus of 11.6 million yuan!
After qualifying from the group, each top 16 team will receive a bonus of 3 million euros.
If you advance to the top eight, you will get another 3.3 million euros, and if you win the top four, you will get 4.5 million euros. In the end, if you can win the championship, you will get a bonus of 9 million euros, and the runner-up will also get 5.6 million euros.
Just counting the bonuses.
If Malaga reaches the final this season, even if they lose in the final, they will receive a bonus of 26 million euros!
Yes, the bonus alone is so much.
Counting broadcast shares and Champions League ticket revenue.
If a team can reach the Champions League final and earn 70 to 80 million euros in revenue, there will be no problem at all. Even for a super giant like Real Madrid, if its broadcast revenue is higher than that of some small teams, it won't be a problem to win a Champions League championship and have an annual revenue of 100 million more.
therefore.
That’s why the Champions League matches are so attractive to teams!
Even the rich Premier League.
The fight for fourth place is also very fierce - if you enter the Champions League, you can guarantee an extra tens of millions of euros!
Who doesn’t want to take this money?
Especially for other teams in La Liga except Real Madrid and Barcelona.
The Champions League is quite attractive.
Real Madrid and Barcelona take the absolute majority of La Liga's TV broadcast revenue distribution.
Both teams can pocket about $100 million in broadcast revenue.
And there is much less money left for other teams.
The relegation teams in La Liga can only be divided into a few million
The wealthy clubs take the lion's share of the league's revenue, while other teams get very little of the pie.
As for the Champions League, it all depends on results.
Therefore, the mid-level teams in La Liga all like to compete in the Champions League. Even if they fail to win the championship in the end, taking one more step forward in the Champions League will still bring in millions or tens of millions in revenue.
So many Spanish media think so.
Malaga has reached this level.
It is safe to maintain the top four in the league.
Just qualify for the Champions League next season.
Wanting to break through Real Madrid and Barcelona to win the league championship in La Liga is simply a daydream. Even if Malaga can bite it now, wait until the later stages of the league when injuries and physical exertion have reached a certain level.
The advantages of giant clubs like Real Madrid and Barcelona are reflected.
Therefore, Malaga should give it a try in the Champions League!
The greater benefits of the Champions League will help them have a greater chance of passing the financial balance review.
but.
The current Málaga players don’t think so – not only do we want to win the league title, we also want to go further in the Champions League.
Originally, the Malaga players would not think so.
But the team's captain Ye Luo holds meetings with the team at every turn to emphasize the team's goals and rally the players' fighting spirit.
Plus the team is doing so well now.
So Malaga's players are a bit "inflated".
There is a saying.
The leader of a team can often determine the temperament of the team.
Just like Maradona is to Naples.
Ye Luo now.
He is the undoubted leader of Malaga.
The match between Malaga and Lyon at home is particularly eye-catching!
Because right before this game.
The results of the two games between the other two teams in La Liga in the second leg of the Champions League quarter-finals, which started first, have already come out.
Real Madrid and Barcelona both face their opponents at home.
This is the privilege of being first in the group: away and then home in the two-leg knockout rounds.
Play away games first, then play home games.
In the two-round knockout round, it is obviously very advantageous to play the second round at their own home court. If nothing else, if it enters overtime, they can still play at home for an extra thirty minutes.
Barcelona defeated CSKA Moscow 4-0 at home.
Real Madrid defeated Bayer Leverkusen 3-1 at home.
Both eliminated their opponents and entered the quarterfinals.
And this game deserves attention.
Messi and Ronaldo both scored hat tricks!
this season.
Messi has scored 14 goals in the Champions League!
And Ronaldo also scored his 13th goal in the Champions League this season!
One season.
It is truly unprecedented for three players to break the previous Champions League single-season scoring record!
"Perhaps stimulated by Yello's crazy performance, Messi and Ronaldo both broke out when they entered the knockout stage! Both scored five goals in two rounds! Both broke the previous record, although they were the top scorer It is still behind Ye Luo in the rankings. Although Ye Luo has not played the second round of the game, the competition between three shooters and superstars this season has added great excitement to this season's Champions League!"
Everyone knows that Messi and Ronaldo worked so hard, and everyone knows that they must have been stimulated by Yello's performance.
Before the start of the second leg between Malaga and Lyon.
The media also asked Ye Luo about the performance of Messi and Ronaldo and asked him what he thought.
"They scored five in both rounds? Oh oh oh, that's pretty good." Ye Luo seemed unwilling to talk more.
"Don't you feel pressure because of Messi's performance?" a Catalan media asked loudly.
"Pressure?" Ye Luo turned to look at the reporter, "What pressure can I have? I have scored sixteen goals now, and I still have one game to play next."
Ye Luo shrugged and said.
The reporters from Malaga and the Dragon Country laughed.
Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo played one more game and are still behind Yello.
How can this be stressful?
Can Lyon stop Yello from scoring in this game?
In fact, after Ye Luo's interview was set out.
Remy Garde used this interview scene to motivate his team.
Losing 2-4 at home, it cannot be said that there is no hope of qualifying, but it is basically on the verge of elimination.
So he must inspire Lyon's fighting spirit.
"Did you see that? They didn't take us seriously at all." Remy Garde's words made many Lyon players clenched their fists.
"We must defend well! They must think they are sure to win, so they will pass the ball to Yello more and let him score goals and let him continue to expand his so-called record. But this is our chance. They I’m afraid that we will attack aggressively in order to advance to the quarterfinals. We do want to advance, but attacking aggressively may not be a good idea. This is their home court and what we need is to use counterattacks!”
Remi Garde first stimulated the Lyon players with Yello's interview footage, and then told them the reason why they would not play against Malaga in this game, and asked the Lyon players to accept his arrangement and shrink their defense in the away game. Fight back.
so.
This game was completely beyond everyone's expectations.
Lyon, who was lagging behind, did not attack and fought hard to advance.
Instead, he stayed in the half court very calmly and put on a defensive counterattack posture.
This surprised many commentators, reporters, and fans.
Of course.
Pellegrini was also quite surprised.
He originally thought that his opponent would press forward and attack, so he arranged a counterattack strategy.
but now.
The opponent shrinks his defense.
Malaga turned into a dense defense against their opponents.
This made many of Malaga's offensive strategies before the game useless.
What Malaga needs now is how to break through the opponent's bus.
Damn it
Pellegrini cursed secretly.
He came to the sidelines and took advantage of the dead ball to hand Demichelis over and explain.
"Don't let the back line go up. Let Tulalang stay out of the national half as much as possible. Protect the defense line and don't give them a chance to counterattack!"
Demichelis nodded immediately and returned to the court to convey the coach's latest instructions to his teammates.
For Malaga.
The opponent's shrinking defense is just thinking that Malaga will attack aggressively at home.
In this case, there is an opportunity to fight back.
Pellegrini didn't give the opponent this chance. He directly prevented the entire back line and midfielder from reaching half court. Didn't you want to counterattack?
Come on then.
Unless you expect Lacazette to single out the entire defense like Yello.
Otherwise, if you expect to score on counterattack in this situation, you might as well expect Malaga players to kick the ball into their own goal.
After Pellegrini made such arrangements,
Malaga's offensive also slowed down.
The situation of the game seemed dull.
This scene actually made reporters from Madrid and Catalonia very happy.
They don't care who advances in this game.
They only care about whether Yello can score a goal.
If Yelo fails to score in this game, his number of goals will stay at 16 goals.
Whether it is Messi or Ronaldo, the gap between him is not far.
In addition, both Real Madrid and Barcelona have a high probability of going further than Malaga in the Champions League.
so.
In this crazy Champions League season three players have broken records.
The suspense of who can win the final Golden Boot and become the person remembered by people is even greater.
(End of chapter)
