Young Football Player

On December 7th, in the 15th round of the Bundesliga, Schalke went away to challenge Borussia Mönchengladbach.

Since Borussia sold Royce to Dortmund in the summer of 2012, there has been a big decline last season, and the middle reaches of the ranking have not even qualified for the European war.

However, as the younger generation such as Ter Stegen, Xhaka, and Kramer matured day by day, and the introduction of the young striker Kruse from Freiburg, Borussia has gradually become competitive again this season.

They are currently ranked fifth in the Bundesliga standings, and they are in excellent form and have won five consecutive league victories. Taking advantage of Dortmund's recent successive losses, they even caught up to the Hornet's ass, only one point behind.

So this away game against Borussia is definitely a tough battle for Schalke.

At the Prussian Park Stadium, Schalke started well, but eventually lost.

Just 10 minutes into the game, Hewedes scored with a header from a corner kick to help Schalke take the lead.

But Hewedes, who was the hero of the goal, received yellow cards one after another and was sent off with a red card before the end of the first half.

So in the second half, Schalke, who had one less player to fight, chose to defend and counterattack, hoping to keep the fruits of victory, or just keep a point.

But after all, one less player was beaten, and the opponent's goalkeeper Ter Stegen also performed bravely, resolving Schalke's only two threatening counterattacks.

In this way, Schalke conceded two goals in a row in the second half, and the away game was reversed by Borussia 2:1.

The away loss to Borussia led to the end of Schalke's 12 consecutive unbeaten rounds in the league.

From the third round of the Bundesliga to the 14th round of the Bundesliga, Schalke has achieved an unbeaten record of 9 wins and 3 draws.

Although the results of Bayern and Dortmund in the same period were also very good, making it seem that Schalke's undefeated series did not achieve anything, that is, they did not establish any advantages, but they were undefeated anyway, and now they are ruined. In Borussia's hands.

In the other games of this round of Bundesliga, Bayern beat Werder Bremen 7:0 in an away game, winning seven consecutive victories and creating a tragedy at the same time.

Dortmund lost 0:1 at home to Leverkusen in a direct match, leading to another decline in the ranking.

In the current Bundesliga standings, Bayern has 38 points, Leverkusen has 37 points, and Schalke has 33 points.

The next fourth place has been replaced by Borussia. Their points have reached 31 points, while Dortmund has only 29 points.

Dortmund fell out of the top four, which is not a small news. Although it is not far behind, it has always fallen out of the top four and out of the Champions League area.

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After the league, the next midweek will be the final round of the Champions League group stage.

On the 8th, the Schalke team came to Marseille, the capital of Provence in the south of France and the second largest city in France, where they will play the last round of the Champions League group stage.

For the current Schalke, as long as they win this last round, they will definitely qualify for the group stage. It is just the difference between the group's first and the group's second.

As for Schalke's opponent Marseille, they are a team that has been eliminated a long time ago, so they should not have too much hope of fighting.

However, after the start of the game, the entire Schalke team found that the opponent did not give up on themselves just because they were eliminated, but had a strong desire to win.

Obviously, they also want to leave their mark in this super group of death,

For example, in the last round, Schalke accidentally lost the qualification to qualify.

But they obviously exerted too much force and played themselves off.

Schalke played conservatively at the beginning, but Marseille played decently, as if they were the team that had to win to qualify for the group stage.

With less than half an hour to go, Marseille forced two flying saves from Navas.

However, in the 31st minute, Marseille's offensive core, Payet, who was active at the beginning of the game, dribbled the ball into the penalty area. Facing the calm defense of Höwedes, Payet tactfully made a flop.

But he forgot that the referee was watching from not far away.

So, the referee immediately went over and gave him a yellow card.

Paye, who wanted to perform well, expressed dissatisfaction, and immediately roared at the referee.

The Croatian referee Strakhonia was not polite to him, and directly took out the yellow card for the second time.

Two yellows turned into one red, and Payet was directly sent off the field.

Now Schalke's game is easy to play.

Although Marseille began to switch to a conservative defensive tactic, Li Chenglong seized the opportunity in the second half and sent two consecutive assists to help Schalke win the game 2:0.

Li Chenglong didn't dare to be careless in this kind of game, saying that he was going to score goals or something, because if there was an accident, it would lead to the elimination of the group.

In this way, Schalke beat Marseille 2-0 away, making themselves invincible in this group.

In another game at the same time, Naples tried their best at home and "only" beat Arsenal 2-0.

The Italian is only one goal away from qualifying for the group.

As a result, the deadliest group of death in the history of the Champions League is over. Schalke, Arsenal and Naples all scored 12 points in this group with 4 wins and 2 losses. Erke became the first in the group, while Arsenal overwhelmed Naples with a very slight advantage and became the second in the group.

Naples became the third in the group with 12 points and fell to participate in the Europa League knockout round, which created the most in the history of the Champions League.

This year's Champions League group stage is indeed quite miraculous, because there are many miraculous deeds in other groups.

In Group B, Juventus only needed to advance without losing an away game, but was defeated by Galatasaray 0:1, so they were eliminated.

As an old woman in Serie A, she couldn't even qualify for the group stage in the Champions League. This is indeed a bit too much.

To know that Galatasaray's strength is really not that strong, look at how they were beaten against Real Madrid in the two rounds. They lost 1:6 at home and lost another 1:4 away.

The team that was slaughtered by Real Madrid 10:2 in two rounds, Juventus couldn't even do it.

Juventus's exit can only be said to be an upset, and what follows is a miraculous deed.

In Group D, Bayern and Manchester City are in the group. Although the two teams joined hands to qualify two rounds ahead of schedule, in the last round, the two teams still had a battle for the top spot in the group at the Allianz Arena.

In the end, Manchester City won the game 3:2, but because Manchester City lost 1:3 at home to Bayern in the first round, Bayern still ranked first by relying on the relationship between victory and defeat.

In this case, Bayern and Manchester City both scored 15 points in this group, but Manchester City can only become second in the group.

15 points is also a record, second in the group with the highest points in the history of the Champions League.

There is also a group G. In this group, Atletico Madrid became the first in the group with 5 wins, 1 draw and 16 points.

But Atletico Madrid grabbed too many points, causing other teams to score low.

The most amazing thing is that their second place in the group is actually 10 points less than Atletico Madrid.

In this group, Zenit St. Petersburg successfully qualified as the second place in the group with 1 win, 3 draws, 2 losses and 6 points.

Naples fans will cry and faint in the toilet when they see this points situation.

Their team worked hard to score 12 points, but they were all eliminated, while a team like Zenit St. Petersburg, because they were assigned to a good group, only scored 6 points to qualify for the group stage.

Is there still any royal law, is there any law?

6 points to qualify for the group stage, which is also the lowest score record in the history of the Champions League to advance to the knockout round.

So, this year's Champions League group stage is really amazing.

Naples became the third group with the highest score in the history of the Champions League, and it is also the highest score that a third group can theoretically get.

Manchester City became the second highest scoring group in the history of the Champions League, and it is also the highest score that the second group can theoretically get.

Two extreme situations that can only appear in theory have now become reality.

Zenit St. Petersburg qualified with 6 points and became second in the group with the lowest score in the history of the Champions League.

But it is not theoretically the second lowest score in the group.

Theoretically speaking, in the most extreme case, 4 points can also become the second in the group.