Chapter 793 Champions League! Champions League! (Seeking Subscription Monthly Pass)

September 12.

The Business School of the University of Reading in the UK has released the latest market capitalization ranking of the 20 Premier League teams.

This list is calculated from the 2003/2004 season until the 2010/2011 season. The income, profitability, loss data, net assets, stadium coverage, brand awareness and other items of the 20 Premier League clubs are included in the calculation. .

The final results show that Manchester United is the club with the highest market capitalization among the top 20 Premier League clubs.

The total value of the Red Devils has reached 1.0604 billion pounds.

In second place is Arsenal with a combined market capitalization of £942.9 million.

Aston Villa ranked third, with a total market value of 560.3 million pounds.

Chelsea ranked fourth, with a total market capitalization of 510.5 million pounds.

Aston Villa squeezed out Chelsea, Liverpool, Tottenham Hotspur and local tycoon Manchester City to reach the top three, which is shocking.

The "Independent", which disclosed the ranking of the list, believes that the total market value of Aston Villa is actually higher than the value recognized by the list.

Aston Villa's total market value is 'underestimated' because it was dragged down by Fang Jue's performance before taking over the team. In fact, Aston Villa's total market value may have exceeded 600 million pounds.

With a group of talented stars, the team's salary control is relatively successful.

Won the Premier League title for two consecutive seasons.

Especially winning the UEFA Champions League, which makes Aston Villa one of the most valuable clubs in the Premier League.

In addition, the "Independent" believes that when this list was written, Aston Villa's Senegalese players' transfer transactions of nearly 40 million pounds were not counted.

The report from the UK has also aroused great attention in China.

Major sports websites even used the headline 'Six Billionaires' to cover the event.

CCTV is also very interested in this and wants to invite Fang Jue to do a talk show. This is not a sports channel, but a very important international channel.

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Germany.

Dortmund Airport.

The arrival of the Aston Villa team in Dortmund, the arrival of the defending champion, has received great attention from the German media.

The duel between German clubs and Premier League teams was originally a high-profile confrontation in the Champions League.

Britain and Germany, who fought each other as rivals in the two world wars, are traditional European rivals. This confrontation even extends from the political level to football.

The battle between Britain and Germany will always be a classic on the pitch.

In this season's UEFA Champions League group stage, all three Bundesliga teams were blocked by the Premier League in the group stage, and England-Germany pk has once again become a consistent topic.

Although England is inferior to Germany at the national team level, last year's World Cup in South Africa was slaughtered by Germany four to one.

But in the history of the Champions League, English teams have overwhelmed German teams.

From a distance, the number of cups won by English clubs (12 times) is exactly twice that of the Germans (6 times).

In recent times, Premier League teams have participated in 6 of the last 7 UEFA Champions League finals.

In 2008, there was also a civil war between Manchester United and Chelsea, while Bayern was the only Bundesliga team that came to the end in 2010, and finally lost to Inter Milan.

In the UEFA Champions League group stage in recent years, the number of Premier League teams and Bundesliga teams has not met much, but whenever they meet, the Bundesliga teams are always difficult to please.

Manchester United overwhelmed Wolfsburg.

Chelsea have bullied Bremen and Schalke.

Arsenal stepped on Hamburg.

Such a large-scale direct dialogue between the British and German teams in the group stage this season is quite rare in the UEFA Champions League in the new century, and the results of the grouping, at least on paper, are once again ominous for the Bundesliga teams.

Bayern Munich, which has the strongest comprehensive ability in the European war, is the only seeded team in the Bundesliga, but they have encountered Manchester City, the third-tier team they least want to touch.

Although Manchester City is the new Champions League team in the Premier League, it has the strength not inferior to any giants.

Surrounded by Manchester City, Villarreal and Naples, Bayern will not only lose the top spot in the group, but they may lose their qualifying tickets if they don't pay attention.

Bundesliga champions Borussia Dortmund played good offensive football last season.

Interestingly, both the German media and the English media believe that the tactics of the two teams are very similar.

From a tactical point of view, Klopp's Dortmund attaches great importance to the transitional moments of offensive and defensive transitions.

The Germans pay particular attention to perfecting the team's defensive transition.

This is done by pressing the opponent quickly after conceding the ball in order to regain possession.

This concept is called "Gegenpressing" or high pressure pressing.

In short, the rhythm will be disrupted immediately after the opponent has the ball.

This can help Dortmund quickly switch from defensive to attacking mode: if the pressing is done well, the chaos can be used to regain possession.

In order to execute their typical high press, the Hornets attack in a rather narrow formation.

They will often attack through one side of the pitch with the aim of breaking through that side, or use a compact formation to regain possession after losing the ball.

This sideline even increases the pressing effect, as it reduces the opposition's passing options.

This is very similar to Aston Villa.

When Aston Villa played away against the defending champion Inter Milan last season, Bell scored a goal, which was Aston Villa's counterattack after forming a frenzied press on Inter Milan on the left.

Aston Villa's style of play is to prevent any penetrating passes from the opponent, and then press high immediately when the situation is appropriate.

A low-quality pass from the opponent, a poor possession or a receiver who is too slow means they are about to face a frenzied pressing from Aston Villa.

In this regard, Dortmund has also done quite well.

The English media even directly said that Klopp is imitating and learning Fang Jue's tactical style.

Of course, this kind of remarks made Klopp very unhappy.

In addition, the collision between Aston Villa and Dortmund, the Dortmund team has many old teams from the Ibiza period.

Hummels, Royce and Lewandowski, these three players are the absolute main players of Dortmund, and they can even be said to be important core players.

In a sense, when the three players joined Ibiza, they were all unknown people.

Fang Jue excavated and cultivated them single-handedly, and he was their bole.

This is also a highlight of this game.

...

Game day.

The Aston Villa squad arrives at Signal Iduna Park.

In the corridor of the locker room, Fang Jue met Dortmund players who were about to go out to warm up.

Both Royce and Hummels came over and hugged Fang Jue warmly.

Lewandowski hesitated, and finally came over and hugged Fang Jue.

"Robert, are you not angry anymore?" Fang Jue said with a laugh.

Reus and Hummels are happy to return to Dortmund from Ibiza.

German players are generally willing to play in the Bundesliga, and the two players do not have much desire to continue to follow Fang Jue.

Lewandowski is not the case. Compared with the two German teammates, he is from a more grassroots background, so he is more grateful to Fang Jue for his appreciation and training.

The Polish center is eager to continue to follow Fang Jue.

After Greno joined Aston Villa, when chatting with Fang Jue, he mentioned that Lewandowski had complained when he was in Ibiza before, and that Fang Jue did not take him to Aston Villa. Pull, there are opinions.

Hearing what Fang Jue said, Lewandowski scratched his head in embarrassment.

After a simple greeting, the Dortmund people went to warm up.

Aston Villa also quickly came to the stadium to warm up.

Fang Jue stood on the sidelines and watched.

He's watching Dortmund.

"Robert is serious." Ceballos said to Fang Jue.

Fang Jue smiled. Of course he could see it, and he could guess Lewandowski's psychology. This kid must be holding his breath, and he wants to create as much as possible for Aston Villa in this game. trouble.

This guy wanted to tell Fang Jue in this way: it was a mistake not to take him to Villa, not to choose him.

...

CCTV is broadcasting the game live.

When the live broadcast signal cut in, players from both sides had already entered the field.

"It's the Champions League debut of the season for defending champions Aston Villa, Premier League champions and Bundesliga champions, two teams that play very similarly."

"Let's take a look at the starting lineups of both sides first." Howe said. ,

"Aston Villa, the goalkeeper is the old American goalkeeper Friedel."

"The central defender is a new combination of Senderos and Papastathopoulos. Aston Villa let go of the Senegalese at the close of the transfer window, which also made the Greek defender become Villa's main central defender. .”

"It's James Milner at left-back."

"Right back is Kyle Walker."

"The midfield is Clement, Modric, Gareth Bale, Mane."

"At the front there is Suarez and veteran Miroslav Klose."

"Aston Villa can be said to have done their best."

"For Dortmund, the goalkeeper is Weidenfeller."

"The centre-back is a combination of Hummels and Subotic."

"Right back is Piszczek."

"Left back is Schmelzer."

"The midfield is Kyle, Gotze, Shinji Kagawa and Sven Bender."

"At the front there is Reus and Lewandowski."

Two teams, one is the two consecutive Premier League champions, and the other is the new Bundesliga champion. The general opinion of commentators from various countries who commented on this game is that this represents the collision between the strongest Bundesliga and the strongest Premier League.

Some commentators even joked that this was a collision at the level of the Champions League final.

Fang Jue shook hands with Klopp.

The two of them just greeted each other, then let go of their hands, turned and walked towards their respective coaches' benches.

"Interesting." Fang Jue said with a smile.

"What's wrong?" Ceballos asked.

Fang Jue shook his head and said nothing.

He saw a strong fighting spirit in Klopp's eyes.

Fang Jue has encountered this kind of challenging look a lot, and he is no stranger to seeing it. However, it is the first time he has seen such a strong look from Klopp. A desire to defeat Fang Jue.

"I'm going to beat this guy," Klopp told his assistant.

"You have said this sentence many times." Peter Kravitz said.

The relationship between Kravitz and Klopp can be traced back to when the latter was still a player in Mainz. At that time, Kravitz was the team's video analyst. One of the tasks was to point out to Klopp that he was on the field. Where there is room for improvement, the exchange of techniques and tactics between the two began.

After becoming a coach, Klopp quickly absorbed Kravitz into the coaching team. Klopp has worked alongside Klopp from Mainz to Borussia Dortmund and has shown he is capable of supporting a champion manager.

Conduct technical and tactical analysis through video and other analysis methods, find the weaknesses of players and teams, and design reasonable targeted exercises... This is the main work of Kravitz for a long time, and his work is indeed quite good.

In order to prepare for this game, Kravitz sorted out Aston Villa's massive video analysis and conducted in-depth research with Klopp.

Klopp said nothing more, he has a feeling that this Chinese coach will become his worst enemy for a long time.

Moreover, facing Fang Jue, Klopp always felt that his luck was taken away by his opponent.

Then he turned his head and saw Aston Villa's Senegalese player Mane. Klopp made no secret of his admiration for the black player.

"Peter, tell me, if we ask Aston Villa for Mane, will Fang Jue let him go?" Klopp asked.

"I don't know." Kravitz shook his head, "But there is one thing I'm sure of."

"What?" Klopp asked.

"We couldn't afford it," Kravitz said.

Klopp: ...

...

The game has begun.

The guest Aston Villa kicked off first.

Aston Villa was not conservative, but instead focused on the guest, attacking Dortmund's goal from the beginning of the game.

Modric passed the ball straight to Suarez from midfield.

Suarez leans on Dortmund centre-back Subotic.

He put the football under his feet.

Subotic is behind Suarez and he stretches out his long legs trying to steal the ball.

Suarez held Subotic, and he made a gesture to turn around, but knocked the football.

Klose gets the ball.

Hummels immediately approached Klose.

Just when Hummels was about to steal the ball, Klose's feet pulled the football back.

He passed the football to Gareth Bale, who came in at high speed from beside him.

"Bale received a wonderful pass from Klose! Breakthrough!"

Bell directly changed direction while accelerating, and dunked Sven Bender who came up to intercept.

Fortunately, Dortmund's right back Piszczek stepped forward at this critical moment.

When Bell passed Bender and was about to move on.

Piszczek bursts out from the side.

A clean tackle.

The football is tackled off the touchline!

A burst of applause and cheers erupted from the stands at Signal Iduna Park, applauding Piszczek's precise tackle.

Fang Jue waved his hand regretfully on the sidelines. If Bell rushed over, he would enter the penalty area. If he could score at the beginning of the game, it would be a dream start.

He stared at Piszczek. When he was in Ibiza, Fang Jue wanted to introduce Piszczek, but Dortmund would not let him go. Moreover, Ibiza could not afford it at that time.

This Polish full-back is indeed very good. He is not well-known, but he is very capable and easy to use.

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