423: The second round of life and death battle is coming!
Although Bayern's complaint has attracted the attention of the media and fans, Chelsea and Barcelona are the protagonists today.
Chelsea drew 0-0 away last weekend with Arsenal, and Chelsea interim coach Di Matteo expressed satisfaction after the game.
"It is definitely not easy to play the Gunners away. With such a schedule, a point is also earned."
Compared with last Wednesday's match against Barcelona, the Blues' rotation in this game was as many as eight, and obviously the focus was on the Champions League semi-finals.
Chelsea can be satisfied with Arsenal, who can draw on a half-substitute lineup and make full use of the away game.
Bertrand, Bosingwa, Romeu, Essin, Maluda, Carau, Sturric, Torres and others, it is unlikely that there will be a chance for Camp Nou to play Barcelona in the middle of next week.
Di Matteo said that the rotation remains unbeaten, showing the strength of Chelsea's lineup, which also retains hope for the Blues to attack the top four in the UK.
After this round, Chelsea's first four situations do not look optimistic.
After the 34th round, the Blues ranked sixth with 58 points, while Arsenal, Newcastle and Tottenham, third to fifth, had 65 points, 62 points and 59 points respectively.
It seems that Chelsea has many difficulties in entering the top four, but after careful analysis of the schedule, the situation of the Blues is actually better than before the first round!
For Chelsea, the most direct way to advance to the Champions League next season is to win the Champions League championship this season.
The semi-final defeat of Barcelona 1-0, which made Chelsea not favored see hope. After the game, Drogba believed that both sides would win 55, and Wenger also held this view.
If you can cross Barcelona's level and defeat Real Madrid or Bayern in the final, Chelsea will directly qualify for the Champions League next season as the champion.
Chelsea can only participate in the Champions League next season, so under the difficulties, Chelsea chose to unite.
A report from The Sun has attracted people's interest.
“Although it’s almost five years since I left Stamford Bridge, Mourinho’s heart has never been away from the Blue Bridge.
Tonight, Chelsea and Barcelona's second-round Champions League semi-final battle will begin. It is said that Mourinho sent a text message to his former disciples last night.
Mourinho had already sent a text message to the four former disciples of "good luck", and the madman told the former disciples that "see you in the final."
The four former disciples who received Mourinho's text messages were Cech, Ashley Cole, Lampard and Drogba.
Mourinho's most trusted intelligence officer Rui Faria is also working for Chelsea.
He has provided Chelsea assistant coach Steve Holland with a tactical analysis of how Real Madrid defeated Barcelona at the Camp Nou, and helped Chelsea analyze the loopholes in Barcelona's defense.
If Chelsea passes the Camp Nou tonight and Real Madrid successfully eliminates Bayern tomorrow night, Mourinho will meet his former disciples in the Champions League final.
Mourinho has texted his former disciples, 'You can do it, we can do it too, see you in Munich!'
Cech, who played the excellent game in the Champions League semi-finals, joked in an interview with a media outlet, 'Yes, we had a tactical analysis meeting together a few hours ago. He showed us all the documents to break the enemy, and we tried to implement it.'
Perhaps they want to get some good luck from Real Madrid wearing white jerseys. Chelsea will wear the third full white jersey tonight, and their previous away jerseys were all black."
Is Chelsea a big helper?
Or are Real Madrid and Barcelona naturally "enemy"?
have no idea.
However, Barcelona, who just lost in the national derby, was in trouble.
It is reported that after the match with Real Madrid, Guardiola and Pique had a conflict in the locker room.
At 2:00 p.m. on the 24th, at the pre-match press conference, Barcelona head coach Guardiola and team central defender Pique attended the press conference, and the two denied rumors of a bad relationship.
Pique said that Guardiola always urged him and put pressure on him, but this is what he liked, while Guardiola explained that Pique was on the bench in recent games purely because of competitive reasons.
In the last five games, Pique has not received any chance to play. If Pique did not play before because of physical reasons, then Pique, who has recovered from health in recent matches against Chelsea and Real Madrid, has both been on the bench, which has attracted a lot of speculation and controversy.
Previously, Madrid media reported that Pique and Guardiola had fallen out, and Guardiola even told senior officials that he would not renew his contract with Barcelona unless the club cleaned up Pique.
Barcelona Chairman Rossel denied this rumor, saying that it was fake news fabricated by people with ulterior motives. However, recently, even the World Sports, one of Barcelona's "team newspapers", disclosed that Pique and Guardiola's relationship was indeed a bit indifferent.
Now that Barcelona is behind zero to one away game, they must make a reversal before they can enter the Champions League final.
Pique said he is training hard in order to regain his position.
"The current situation is strange to me because I am used to playing football, but I have no chance to play in the last few games."
However, Pique accepted this: "This is the head coach's decision. It is him who decides which players can play on the court. I have to respect his decision. I have to do my best to train to enter the lineup. In fact, whether I am on the court or not is not the most important thing. The most important thing is that the team wins. I hope my team will win the Champions League again."
Speaking of his relationship with Guardiola, Pique revealed: "I had a conversation with Pep last Friday. Guardiola has loved kicking my ass since day one, but this is something I really like.
I have a very good relationship with him. I know many people question our relationship, but in fact we communicate more than you think. Every day we have direct communication and we have a lot of conversations."
Pique also said that he believes Guardiola will renew his contract with Barcelona, "We have become a wonderful stage in Barcelona and an important part of the club's history. We trust him very much and he will stay. He loves this club and this profession. For him, there is no greater passion than coaching Barcelona."
Guardiola denied that she had a bad relationship with Pique: “Nothing happened between me and Pique.
Mascherano and Puyol are in good shape, and so are Adriano, and his degree is suitable for teams like Levante and Real Madrid, so I sent these three players to the court.
In fact, I really admire Pique, his personality and his love for life and football.”
Can the two of them overturn the media’s previous judgment?
Chapter completed!