Football: After listening to the advice, I became the strongest free man! - Chapter 401

c401 The value of the Premier League and the Champions League

——Interestingly, Ronaldo came to Juventus after the end of this season.

In the semi-finals, they faced the Bundesliga powerhouse Bayern. They won the away game again, with a score of 2:1; they tied with Juventus at home and entered the final without any danger.

In the final, they faced Liverpool.

Liverpool striker Salah was injured and left the field a few minutes after the opening, and coupled with the low-level mistake of Liverpool goalkeeper Karius, they easily won the final victory with a score of 3:1.

Luck was completely on Real Madrid’s side.

They became the first team to win three consecutive championships after the reform of the Champions League.

In this Champions League, the top teams of the four major leagues were eliminated, and the gold content cannot be said to be low.

2. In the knockout stage, Real Madrid faced the top teams in the major leagues.

Juventus and Bayern Munich were both league champions in the 2016-2017 season, and Paris Saint-Germain, Juventus, and Bayern Munich were also league champions in the 2017-2018 season.

Although Liverpool is not the league champion, it is also a giant team in the Premier League.

Paris Saint-Germain is the only team in Ligue 1.

In the 38 league games in the 2017-2018 season, they only lost 3 games.

Scored 108 goals and conceded only 29 goals. The undisputed overlord in Ligue 1.

Juventus has never lost the Serie A championship since the 2011-2012 season, which shows its profound foundation and strong strength.

Bayern Munich has firmly controlled the Bundesliga championship since the 2012-2013 season. In the knockout stage, Real Madrid faced such top-notch giants, but they eventually overturned them, which shows the high gold content of Real Madrid’s championship.

With Liverpool and Tottenham completing super reversals and meeting in the final, this year’s Champions League trophy has already belonged to England in advance, and Arsenal and Chelsea met in the Europa League final, which also made it the first time in history that the same country (same football association) won the two major cups at the same time. European football ushered in the Premier League year!

As for the question of which one is more valuable, the Premier League or the Champions League, the answer is obvious. The Champions League is the highest level club competition in the world. No country’s league can match the Champions League. The Serie A, which was called the “Little World Cup” back then, is not good enough, the La Liga, which monopolized the Champions League for 5 years, is not good enough, and the current prosperous Premier League is no exception.

First of all, almost all the best players in the world play in Europe, and most of them play in the five major leagues. In the Champions League, the best 32 teams in Europe are gathered every season, including the top four teams in the Premier League, La Liga, Serie A and Bundesliga, as well as the champion teams from other national leagues. Both the quality of the players and the quality of the team are unparalleled.

Secondly, since the Champions League is a tournament system, it is more accidental. Therefore, every game needs to go all out, and the tolerance rate left for the team is very low, especially in the knockout stage, which requires higher requirements for on-the-spot performance. The league system is more like a long-distance race because there is no knockout match and the season is long. There will be many uncertainties in the middle, and the adjustment space for each team is also larger. For example, when a weak team faces a strong team, it can choose to park the bus and defend a draw. Even if it loses, it is not a big deal.

If the home team defends 1-1 and the away team defends 0-0, the result is 2 points.

In the Champions League, if you don’t strive to win in the group stage, you may not get enough points and cannot qualify. In the knockout stage, if you don’t strive for goals, you may be eliminated. If it is still 1-1 at home and 0-0 away, you will be eliminated due to the disadvantage of away goals. Therefore, it is difficult for any team to be negligent and must actively fight.

Liverpool and Tottenham’s reversals were fought out in this way.

Of course, the Premier League also has its unique charm, such as many strong teams, and there are as many as 6 teams in the first group.

The championship suspense is relatively large every season. For example, in the 11/12 season, Manchester United and Manchester City fought to the last second. For example, this season, Liverpool and Manchester City fought to the last round, and both teams scored more than 90 points, which is unimaginable in other leagues.

For another example, the competition for the top four in the Premier League every year is no less exciting than the championship. The strength of each team is relatively close, the game is suspenseful, and there are many upsets.

As for the fast pace of the game, fierce confrontation, intensive schedule, high intensity, etc., these are all characteristics of the Premier League. As a result, although the Premier League’s European war results are not as good as La Liga, it is still regarded as the first league by many people and is more favored by merchants than other leagues, because it has more highlights and more charm. It is not the best league, but it is the most attractive league.

The Champions League champion is the most valuable, which is naturally inseparable from his highest status in European clubs.

The popularity of the Premier League is now increasing, and it seems to have regained the title of the world’s first league. In this way, all aspects of the league have been qualitatively improved, and the competition for the championship is naturally fierce. Last season’s defending champions Manchester City focused all their main players on playing in the league, and after winning the title, they seemed to underestimate every opponent in the Champions League. Even if the main players played, they would not fight with all their strength and their attention was not there. Of course, this was the main reason for their failure in the Champions League.

Because the Champions League is very accidental, it also stimulates the team’s explosive power, which is often unimaginable.

Especially in the final stage, when you win the championship, the sense of achievement that is proud of Europe will make you unforgettable for a long time.

Of course, the prize money and club rankings of the Champions League have also been substantially improved, and you can also represent Europe to participate in the Club World Cup.

The team’s national pride is an important reason why the Champions League championship is so valuable.

As the highest-level event at the club level of UEFA, the Champions League is definitely very valuable. I hope that every participating club has the ambition to win the championship, because after winning the St. Bride’s Cup, more honors are waiting for you.

After the Champions League, Guardiola’s Premier League championship and Klopp’s Champions League championship, which one is more difficult and more valuable, are common topics and discussions. From the perspective of public opinion, Guardiola has been belittled a lot, and Klopp has more positive comments.

So which Premier League championship and Champions League championship is more valuable?

It is generally believed that the Champions League is more valuable than the Premier League championship. I basically agree with this view, but why do so many fans think that the Champions League is more valuable than the Premier League championship?

1. The strength of the participating teams is different

Most of the European giants have participated in the Champions League. At least half of the top 32 giants are on the list, including Real Madrid, Barcelona, ​​Juventus, Bayern, Dortmund, Paris Saint-Germain, Manchester United, Liverpool, Manchester City, etc. There are also many traditional powerhouses in the five major leagues and temporarily declining giants who also participate alternately, and those participating teams from small leagues are also the overlords of their respective leagues. They may have a gap in strength with the giants in the five major leagues, but there are also strong teams.

The league is different.

The basic composition of major leagues, including the Premier League, is: several giants competing for the championship, traditional powerhouses in the European war zone, mid-stream teams with no worries about relegation, and elevators struggling on the edge of relegation. There is a clear gap in strength between the clubs, and there are few clubs that can counterattack. In recent years, the only dark horse in the league you can think of is the miracle created by Leicester City.

As Liverpool and Tottenham have completed a super reversal and met in the final, this year’s Champions League trophy has already belonged to England in advance, and Arsenal and Chelsea met in the Europa League final, which also made it the first time in history that the same country (same football association) won both cups at the same time. European football ushered in the Premier League year!

As for the question of which one has higher gold content, the Premier League or the Champions League, the answer is obvious. The Champions League is the highest level club competition in the world. No country’s league can match the Champions League. The Serie A, which was called the “Little World Cup” back then, is not good, and the La Liga, which monopolized the Champions League for 5 years, is not good. Today’s prosperous Premier League is no exception.

First of all, almost all the best players in the world play in Europe, and most of them play in the five major leagues. In the Champions League, there are the 32 best teams in Europe every season, including the top four teams in the Premier League, La Liga, Serie A and Bundesliga, as well as champions from other national leagues. Both the quality of players and the quality of teams are unparalleled.

Secondly, since the Champions League is a tournament system, there is more chance. Therefore, every game needs to go all out, and the tolerance rate for the team is very low, especially in the knockout stage, which requires higher performance on the spot.

The league system has no knockout stage and the season is long, which is more like a long-distance race. There will be many uncertainties in the middle, and the adjustment space for each team is also larger. For example, when a weak team faces a strong team, it can choose to park the bus and defend a draw. Even if it loses, it is not a big deal.

If you defend 1-1 at home and 0-0 away, the result is 2 points.

In the Champions League, if you don’t strive to win in the group stage, you may not get enough points and cannot qualify. In the knockout stage, if you don’t strive for goals, you may be eliminated. If it is still 1-1 at home and 0-0 away, you will be eliminated due to the disadvantage of away goals. Therefore, it is difficult for any team to be negligent and must actively fight. Liverpool and Tottenham’s reversals were fought out in this way.

Of course, the Premier League also has its own unique charm, such as many strong teams, and there are as many as 6 teams in the first group. The suspense of the championship in each season is relatively large. For example, in the 11/12 season, Manchester United and Manchester City competed until the last second. For example, this season, Liverpool and Manchester City competed until the last round, and both teams scored more than 90 points, which is unimaginable in other leagues. For another example, the excitement of the Premier League’s annual competition for the top four is no less than that of the championship. The strength of the teams is relatively close, the game is suspenseful, and there are many upsets.

As for the fast pace of the game, fierce confrontation, intensive schedule, high intensity, etc., they are all characteristics of the Premier League.

So much so that although the Premier League’s European war results are not as good as La Liga, it is still regarded as the first league by many people, and is more favored by merchants than other leagues, because there are more highlights and more charm. It is not the best league, but it is indeed the most attractive league.

Clubs at different levels of strength have a bottom line in the league ranking at the end of the season unless they are in extremely poor condition. For example, the traditional Premier League top six are generally in the top six.

The two Spanish Super League giants and Atletico Madrid, the third pole in recent seasons, will basically lock in the championship, runner-up and third place. Inter Milan and AC Milan have been a bit slumping in recent seasons, but they will not be ranked outside the top ten.

Think about it, Bayern won 7 consecutive championships in the Bundesliga, Juventus won 8 consecutive championships, Manchester City defended the Premier League with 100 points and 98 points respectively, and La Liga has only produced 4 different champions since entering the 21st century, Barcelona 10 times, Real Madrid 6 times, Valencia 2 times, Atletico Madrid 1 time. This shows that in the league, the strength of the teams is relatively solidified, and the opponents of the championship teams are generally the same.

In comparison, in the Champions League finals of the past 10 seasons, 11 different clubs participated. Even if Real Madrid has strongly completed 4 championships in 5 years, it still produced 6 different champions. In the reformed Champions League, no club except Real Madrid can defend the title.

In the process of winning the championship, each club will encounter one or two small country leagues in the group stage, and basically encounter super giants and the champions, runners-up and third place of each league.

2. The difficulty of the competition system is different

The Bundesliga has 34 rounds, and the other four major leagues have a total of 38 rounds. The more games mean that the possibility of “accidents” is smaller, and the strong teams have enough time to save the “mistakes” in certain games.

Take this season as an example. Manchester City was 7 points behind Liverpool in the middle of the season, but they made a strong effort in the second half, lost only 1 game in 19 rounds, and finally won the championship with a 1-point advantage over Liverpool.

Bayern also lagged behind Dortmund by 9 points this season, but they completed the reversal in the last few rounds and finally led by 2 points to complete 7 consecutive championships.

Obviously, in the league system, the stronger the team, the less likely it is to fall behind.

But the Champions League is different.

First of all, the grouping system means that the death group is inevitable. Generally speaking, there is at least one relatively weak team. If you are unlucky, you may encounter three giants from the five major leagues. For example, this season, Liverpool, Paris Saint-Germain and Napoli are in the death group, and the competition for qualification is very exciting.

Liverpool scored 97 points this season, Napoli has been the runner-up of Serie A for two consecutive seasons, not to mention Paris Saint-Germain, which is very strong on paper.

In the end, Napoli and Liverpool had a life-and-death duel in the last round. Both sides finally scored 9 points, and Liverpool ranked second in the group with a slight advantage.

To be fair, if it had not been divided into the death group, it would have been possible for Napoli to reach the top 8 in the state of the past two seasons.

After the group stage, there will be three rounds of knockout matches. Two rounds of matches have greater uncertainty in the relatively long league.

In the same 18-19 season, there were many results that created miracles, especially in the semi-finals.

In the first round, Tottenham lost to Ajax 0-1. In the second round, Tottenham fell behind 0-2 in the first half. In the last half, they scored 3 goals and scored a lore at the last minute to advance to the final. Barcelona beat Liverpool 3-0 at home and almost stepped into the final. Who would have thought that Liverpool would make a strong comeback 4-0 at Anfield in the second round, creating an incredible miracle.

For every team, even if the lineup is stronger, even if an advantage is created in the first round, as long as the game is not over, the result may change. And there are only 7 games from qualifying from the group to winning the championship, and accidents may happen at any time.

This season, Liverpool defeated the French Ligue 1 overlord Paris Saint-Germain and the Serie A runner-up Napoli in the group stage, and defeated the Bundesliga champion Bayern, the Portuguese Super League runner-up Porto, and the La Liga champion Barcelona in the knockout stage, and finally defeated Tottenham to win the championship. The difficulty can be seen.

3. Opponents have different financial strengths

As mentioned earlier, almost half of the participating teams in the Champions League are traditional giants, which means that they have a small gap in financial strength, and also means that there is not much difference in signings.

For example, clubs such as Barcelona, ​​Manchester City, Manchester United, Real Madrid, and Juventus often invest hundreds of millions or even hundreds of millions of euros in a season.

But in the league, the situation is different.

In fact, the Premier League is relatively good. Due to its excellent commercial development capabilities, the income of Premier League teams is basically 90 million euros per season, and the difference between the top and bottom teams is not much. This means that even mid- and lower-level teams may make high investments to sign players. For example, last season’s newly promoted Wolves spent 70 million pounds, and the relegated Fulham spent more than 100 million euros on signings.

But in other leagues, such as La Liga, the gap between giants and ordinary teams is obvious. Take last summer as an example. Real Madrid, Barcelona and Atletico Madrid all invested more than 120 million euros in signings, but 14 teams invested no more than 30 million euros, and 9 teams invested no more than 20 million euros. Valladolid, which invested the least, spent only 1.5 million euros, followed by Huesca, which spent 3 million euros.

Not to mention the Bundesliga, which aims at healthy investment and rational consumption. Last summer, Dortmund spent the most, spending less than 70 million pounds, followed by Schalke 04, which invested 48.33 million, and RB Leipzig, which invested 38.7 million pounds.

In the world football world where money reigns supreme, having greater financial resources means being able to buy better players and the team is stronger. For the participating teams in the Champions League, being able to enter the knockout stage means having the strength to compete for the championship, and every club that enters the next round has to go through a fierce battle.

Due to the obvious gap between the rich and the poor in the league, there will be a significant gap in the strength of the teams.

Although the commercial development of the Premier League is excellent and the income difference at the end of the season is not large, for the mid- and lower-level teams, their financial resources are still unable to compete with the giants. After all, the giants can make big signings for many consecutive seasons, but ordinary teams will be more rational in consumption. After all, once there is a loss in income and expenditure, the consequences can be extremely serious.

4. Don’t underestimate the league champion

In the past two seasons, Guardiola has completed the defense of the Premier League, but in the Champions League, Manchester City has missed the semi-finals twice, which has also led to Guardiola being criticized for not being able to win the Champions League after leaving Barcelona, ​​and many fans also ridiculed his Premier League for lack of gold content.