Young Football Player

Chapter 164: The UEFA Champions League Group Stage Ends

In the 14th round of the Bundesliga, Schalke 04 almost overturned in a good away game. Fortunately, they finally won the game 4:3 without any risk and gained three points.

In other matches in the same round, Dortmund drew 1:1 at home with Dusseldorf, and Frankfurt lost 1:3 at home to Mainz. Both teams dropped points.

However, Leverkusen beat Werder Bremen 4:1 in the away game, and they are in good form.

As for Bayern at the top of the list, they are as steady as ever, beating Freiburg 2-0 in the away game.

For Bayern this season, it is indeed stable, which makes those teams who want to compete for the championship feel desperate.

In the current Bundesliga standings, Bayern 37 points, Schalke 31 points, Leverkusen 27 points, Dortmund 26 points, Frankfurt 24 points.

Frankfurt, who had been impulsive for half a season, finally couldn't move. Among the top five teams, they are the only one who has no European missions, but they seem to be the first to fall behind.

Now that there are three rounds left in the first half of the Bundesliga, Bayern is 6 points ahead of the second-placed Schalke and has a large goal difference advantage. Bayern's half-time Bundesliga championship is basically stable.

In the history of the Bundesliga, the gold content of the half-time championship is still quite high.

About 70% of the teams that won the half-time championship eventually won the league championship of the season.

As for the defending champion Dortmund, they are currently as many as 11 points behind the top Bayern, and they are basically hopeless to defend their title.

However, some Hornet fans are still stubborn, thinking that Dortmund still has a chance to hit the three consecutive championships, because Dortmund reversed and won the championship after falling behind Bayern halfway last season.

But last season they were only 5 points behind Bayern in the first half of the season, and Bayern will play in the Champions League in the second half of the season, but Dortmund was eliminated early in the Champions League. It can be said that they have a schedule advantage.

But now they are 11 points behind before halfway through, and Dortmund will also play in the Champions League in the second half of the season, and it may be a bit difficult to reverse it.

"If there is another team in the Ruhr area that can reverse Bayern, I would rather believe that it is Schalke 04." This is the answer of the team chairman of Bochum, the younger brother of the Ruhr area, in front of reporters.

Indeed, except for a few diehard fans of Dortmund, no one believes that the Hornets can also reverse Bayern.

In fact, according to the general opinion, Dortmund should pay more attention to keeping a Champions League qualification.

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The 14th round of the Bundesliga is scheduled for the middle of the week, and soon on the weekend, the 15th round of the Bundesliga will come again.

In this round of the league, Schalke 04 is at home against Borussia Mönchengladbach.

Now Borussia is no longer the style it was when it was competing with Bayern. It can be regarded as a Bundesliga team at best, and its performance is very unstable.

From season to season, Borussia has been the Bundesliga relegation team for three consecutive seasons.

But last season, that is, last season, after Royce, who they focused on training, grew up, Borussia immediately rose, successfully overwhelmed Leverkusen, won the fourth place in the Bundesliga in one fell swoop, and qualified for the Champions League.

But as soon as Royce left in the summer, they failed immediately. Not only were they eliminated in the UEFA Champions League qualifying round, they even lost their competitiveness in the Bundesliga, currently only ranked 10th in the league.

But facing such a team that has lost its core at home,

Schalke 04 was unable to start the situation for a long time. Instead, in the 61st minute of the second half, the opponent used a counterattack to penetrate the defense line, and Belgian striker De Camargo scored a goal.

Falling behind at home, Schalke 04 launched a counterattack.

In the 84th minute, Jackie Chan made a cross from the side. Finnish striker Pukki, who came on as a substitute for Huntelaar, diverted the header. Draxler followed up with a shot and scored. Schalke 04 equalized the score.

But that's all.

In the end, Schalke 04 drew 1:1 with Borussia at home and only scored one point.

"In the last four rounds of the league, Schalke 04 scored 1 win, 2 draws and 1 loss, directly losing 7 points. This is why they were widened by Bayern."

The narrator said something that everyone knew was nonsense, but it was also true.

This round Schalke 04 lost points again, but it was not the only team that lost points.

Bayern played a derby with Dortmund at home, and the two sides eventually tied 1:1.

Although Dortmund failed to defeat Bayern, it also ended the opponent's winning streak, which is not bad.

Frankfurt was even worse. They were massacred 4:0 by the newly promoted Dusseldorf in the away game. It seemed that they couldn't stand it anymore.

In fact, both Frankfurt and Dusseldorf are newly promoted this season, and this is just a war between newly promoted horses.

However, Frankfurt's outstanding performance before always made it easy for people to overlook their status as newly promoted. Now it is strange to be massacred by Dusseldorf, who is also newly promoted.

Among the top five teams, only Leverkusen defeated Nuremberg 1-0 at home and scored all three points, which is considered a silent fortune.

In today's standings, Bayern has 38 points, Schalke has 32 points, and Leverkusen's points have reached 30 points, only 2 points away from Schalke 04, which is a gap within one game.

Next is Dortmund with 27 points and Frankfurt with 24 points.

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One after another hit the wall in the league, Huber Stevens is also very headache.

But he couldn't find a good solution, so he could only wait for the winter break to make adjustments.

But the schedule doesn't wait for anyone.

Immediately on December 4th, the last round of the UEFA Champions League group stage, Schalke 04 came to the French Mediterranean city, Montpellier, known as the "City of Sunshine".

Schalke 04 has already locked in the first place in the group, so this game is not too important. Schalke 04 came from France in the early morning of the game, and Stevens only planned to arrange a rotation lineup to play.

The Romanian Macari who had no chance before, the Bosnian Kolasinac, the long-term substitute Barnetta, Metzelder who was injured for more than half a year, and Hildebrand who just returned from injury.

In short, these people all got the chance to start.

Although most of the teams have been rotated, both Lee Chenglong and Huntelaar still started the game.

Because both of them are currently ranked first in the Champions League scorer list, and both have the opportunity to break the team history record, of course they have to play to see if they can find a chance to score one or two goals and continue to compete for the Champions League Golden Boot.

However, when most of the teams were rotated, the cooperation of the whole team was greatly affected. Neither Li Chenglong nor Huntelaar could score a goal.

Of course, this is also related to Montpellier's very resolute defense and relatively large movements.

This season is the first time in the history of the Montpellier team to participate in the Champions League. They have lost five games in a row before, making them the laughing stock of the whole of France. This is their last Champions League game, and it is still at home. Of course they want to have A zero breakthrough.

In the 63rd minute, Li Chenglong's shot created a corner kick, and Matip scored with a header from the corner kick.

Immediately after 3 minutes, Montpellier relied on a long shot to equalize the score.

These are the only two goals in the game.

Schalke 04 drew 1:1 with Montpellier in the away game, and both sides are quite satisfied.

Montpellier finally scored the first point in the Champions League in team history, and Schalke 04 did not lose even in the case of a large-scale rotation, keeping this season's Champions League group stage unbeaten.

At this point, the UEFA Champions League group stage of the season is all over.

Schalke 04 achieved an unbeaten record of 4 wins, 2 draws and 14 points in the six rounds of the group stage, successfully qualifying as the number one in the group.

With 14 points, this is also the highest score in the history of the Schalke 04 team in the Champions League group stage.

The previous highest score was the season. In that season, Schalke 04 scored 13 points with 4 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss, and they were also the first in the group to qualify.

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