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In the fourth round of the Champions League group stage, Schalke 04 drew with Arsenal at home, failing to give Arsenal a chance to take revenge. In another game at the same time, Olympiacos defeated Montpellier 31 at home.

After four rounds of the Champions League group, Schalke ranked first, Arsenal ranked second with 7 points, and Olympiacos ranked third with 6 points.

Montpellier, the Ligue 1 champion, lost four straight in the group stage and was eliminated two rounds ahead of schedule.

The European results of Ligue 1 teams have always been poor, and this is a real insight.

For the time being, Schalke's points are very good, and there is basically no problem in winning the first place in the group.

Olympiacos scored 6 points by double-killing Montpellier, and it has already begun to threaten Arsenal.

Fortunately, Arsenal scored a point against Schalke 04. If they were double-killed, they might really be squeezed out of the group stage by this Greek team.

The other two German teams in this round of the Champions League also performed well. Borussia Dortmund drew with Real Madrid on 22 in the away game, and achieved a home and away draw against Real Madrid. Next, there is a high probability that they will beat Real Madrid and become the first in the group.

Bayern beat Lille 61 at home. The 34-year-old veteran Pizarro completed a hat-trick and became the oldest hat-trick player in the history of the Champions League.

It is worth mentioning that Lille, a Ligue 1 team, also lost four games in a row in the Champions League group stage and was eliminated early.

Of the three UEFA Champions League teams in the Ligue 1, two were eliminated early in the group stage with four consecutive defeats, and only Paris Paris was still struggling to support it. No wonder Ligue 1 was overtaken by the Portuguese Super League in terms of points in the European war.

The Champions League in the middle of this week can be described as a series of upsets. The biggest upset is Barcelona, ​​which is known as the Cosmos team.

Although this is only a group match, this defeat will not affect Barcelona's group qualification, but it is still quite surprising. At least many people who play spinach may want to scold Barcelona for stupid coins.

In addition to Barcelona, ​​the other two upsets came from the Premier League.

Premier League defending champion Manchester City drew 22 points at home with Ajax. At present, they only scored 2 points in the four rounds of the group stage. If they want to enter the knockout round, it basically only exists in theory. Manchester City probably still has 100 points A few tenths of a chance to enter the knockout round.

You must know that before the start of the Champions League group stage, Manchester City was considered the fourth favorite to win the Champions League after Barcelona, ​​Real Madrid and Manchester United.

However, this seems to be the tradition of Manchester City. Every year, the lineup seems to be strong. Before the start of the Champions League, they looked quite high in the championship rankings, but in the end they played in a mess.

Another upset outside of Manchester City is the defending Champions League champion Chelsea, who defeated Shakhtar Donetsk 32 at home.

Chelsea's win is certainly not an upset, but Chelsea only narrowly won the game with a score of 32, that is an upset.

Because in the first round of the match between the two teams, Chelsea lost 12 away to Shakhtar Donetsk, and now they only win 32 at home. The Blues will be at a disadvantage in terms of victory and defeat due to fewer away goals.

In the next round of the group stage, Shakhtar Donetsk will go away to play the already eliminated Danish team North Sealand, while Chelsea will play away against Juventus.

As long as Shakhtar Donetsk wins the game smoothly, the two giants Chelsea and Juventus will be very dangerous.

In the battle between Juventus and Chelsea,

It is very difficult for the losing side to qualify for the group stage, especially Juventus, who are playing at home. As long as they lose, they will be out immediately, and there is no room for maneuver.

It has to be said that Shakhtar Donetsk is the biggest dark horse in this year's Champions League group stage. When they are in the same group with Juventus and Chelsea, they are forced to kill each other.

Chelsea's situation has been bad since the start of this season. If they lose to Juventus in an away game, they may not be able to qualify for the Champions League group stage this year.

In the history of the Champions League, there has never been a defending champion who failed to qualify for the group stage.

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On November 10th, in the 11th round of the Bundesliga, Schalke 04 played against Werder Bremen at home.

If it was ten years ago, Werder Bremen was still quite a competitive team. At that time, they ranked in the top three of the Bundesliga for five consecutive seasons and won the German domestic double in four seasons.

But in the past two years, Bremen has not been very competitive. It is basically a mid-to-lower team in the Bundesliga.

Although Bremen is not very competitive, the core of their team, Kevin De Bruyne, is a very competitive player.

In the summer of this year, Bremen borrowed from Chelsea the Belgian midfielder De Bruyne, who was unable to play, and he quickly became the core player of the team.

Speaking of it, it is similar to Li Chenglong's rapid rise in Schalke 04. De Bruyne is also one of the stars who are rapidly becoming popular in the Bundesliga. It's just that Li Chenglong was bought by Schalke 04 at a high price, and De Bruyne is not good. May came back on loan from Chelsea without a buyout clause.

But in this game, neither Lee Jackie nor De Bruyne had any outstanding performances.

The performance of the core players on both sides was mediocre, so Schalke 04 still won the game relying on the advantage of overall strength.

Draxler and Neustadter each scored in the first half to give Schalke a two-goal lead.

Bremen midfielder Hunter pulled one back in the second half, but that was all.

In the end, Schalke 04 won Werder Bremen 21 at home and successfully scored three points.

At the end of the game, Aofu Schalke Stadium once again fell into a boil, and the cheers in the stadium seemed to overturn the stadium.

"Schalke 04, they once again set a record of unbeaten team history. Their cross-season unbeaten has come to 2 games unbeaten. This is their new record in team history."

"Let's congratulate them, they made a new history of the team."

The German commentator was blessing loudly, and the fans were cheering and celebrating, as if they had won the championship.

Unbeaten in 20 games, this record is indeed much better.

Although it is far from Bayern's 30 or 40 unbeaten games, for a Bundesliga team like Schalke 04, 20 unbeaten games is considered good.

However, the German commentator finally said, "Although Schalke's unbeaten record has come to 20 games, their test is coming in the next two rounds of the league. They will face Leverkusen and Frankfurt in a row. They are direct competitors, and it is likely that their undefeated record will end with these two opponents."

This is indeed the case. In the next two rounds of the Bundesliga, Schalke 04 needs to play against Leverkusen and Frankfurt in a row, and there will be a Champions League game in between.

In this round of the Bundesliga, Schalke 04 and Bayern are playing at the same time.

Bayern faced the super newly promoted Frankfurt at home and won the game with 20 points, continuing to overtake Schalke 04 to top the list by one point.

Moreover, Bayern's goal time came earlier than Schalke, so Schalke 04 still didn't even make it to the top of the list for one minute in this round.

It has been two rounds for Schalke 04 to close the points gap with Bayern to one point, but Bayern played first in the last round, and this round started at the same time and scored later than the opponent. .

In this round, not only Frankfurt lost, but Leverkusen also lost.

So after Dortmund defeated Augsburg 31 away, they returned to the top four.

Currently Bayern has 28 points, Schalke 27 points, Frankfurt 20 points, Dortmund 19 points, Leverkusen 18 points.

Bayern and Schalke 04 became the obvious first group, Frankfurt, Borussia Dortmund and Bayer Leverkusen became the second group.

But how long Schalke 04 can hold on to Bayern is unknown. After all, in terms of overall strength and lineup depth, Schalke 04 is completely inferior to Bayern.