Chapter 64: Rubbing Salt Into Real Madrid's Wounds

Real Madrid was eliminated in the group stage, while Nottingham Forest unexpectedly advanced to the knockout stage in the group of death.  mThese two pieces of news became sensational news in the entire European football world the next day.

Everyone said that Group B was indeed the group of death, and it directly pitted two strong teams to death...

In fact, UEFA originally wanted to pit Lazio, but unexpectedly, it was pitted by Lazio...

It is said that after Real Madrid suffered a humiliating defeat away from home, the whole team returned to Madrid. As soon as they got off the plane, they were scolded by the Real Madrid fans who came to protest. Many Real Madrid fans even asked these people to die.

This extreme fan behavior naturally caused dissatisfaction among some Real Madrid players, who began to consider leaving Real Madrid because of this incident.

It also bought a foreshadowing for the disintegration of Real Madrid later.

But of course, this is all later.

In short, it is this score that has brought a lot of trouble to Real Madrid. Real Madrid players, coaches and management have been scolded by fans and the media.

Failure to qualify from the group stage created the worst Champions League record in Real Madrid's history.

Being beaten 0:7 by Lazio away from home also created the biggest score defeat in the Champions League in the history of Real Madrid Club.

The former Champions League king can't even get out of the group stage now, which is really sad.

In the past 20 years, Real Madrid has never given up working hard for their tenth Champions League, but it always goes against their wishes and they have never succeeded once.

Even if they can reach the final, they can't win the game.

It seems that they are completely isolated from the tenth Champions League title.

During this period, Changsheng won nine Champions League titles alone, tying Real Madrid.

Now think about his "wild talk" at the time. Changsheng has been working hard in this direction since then. Although no one believed him at that time.

Now everyone knows that he is not joking-he really wants to surpass Real Madrid's number of Champions Leagues!

This season, Lazio has reached the knockout stage,

while Real Madrid was eliminated in the group stage. So Real Madrid definitely has no chance to win the championship this season, they can only pray that Lazio can't win the championship either. Only then can they breathe a sigh of relief.

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Nottingham Forest's qualification is another news that shocked Europe.

When they were first assigned to the death group, no one was optimistic about this English team. Because they have only entered the Champions League again after 40 years, it is good enough to have a bad performance in the group stage.

If it weren't for the big win over Lyon in two rounds. I'm afraid many people don't think they are special.

It's a pity that this group... If they don't go to the death group, if they go to other groups, they have more or less hope of advancing to the top 16.

Who knew that in order to contain Lazio, they were also caught in the death group.

This made up the strongest death group in history.

In this group. Everyone is definitely paying attention to the fight between the other three teams, and the two qualifying places must be born from these three teams. As for Nottingham Forest, they are the target of these three teams to grab points.

Who would have thought. From the beginning of the first round of the group stage. Nottingham Forest was a surprise.

Facing a team stronger than them, Nottingham Forest's defense was impressive.

With four draws and one win, they actually broke out of this group!

This was really unexpected!

"It seems that the traditional pattern of European football for more than 20 years is about to be broken..." Some English media commented after Real Madrid failed to qualify from the group and Nottingham Forest qualified from the group.

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In Nottingham, Forest's qualification from the group turned the city into a sea of ​​joy. Head coach Tony Twain's reputation soared, and his players also attracted the attention of the whole of Europe.

In Madrid. Real Madrid fans who were like bereaved began to reflect, if they had kept Changsheng, would the story today be completely different?

These excitement and loss have nothing to do with Changsheng in Rome.

After playing the last round of the Champions League group stage, Lazio's focus was placed on the domestic league.

In the league, they ranked second and had a chance to win the championship, so Changsheng would naturally not give up.

This is his consistent strategy. After the group stage, he will go all out to impact the domestic league.

Just to make use of this single-line combat time to impact the league championship.

This season is the same.

Lazio has not won a championship for two consecutive seasons.

This situation must not continue, especially since this is Changsheng's last season as Lazio coach, and he must end with a championship.

At present, Changsheng does not know which championships he can win by the end of the season, so he does not want to give up any championship.

Next, before the Christmas holiday, Lazio has three games to play, two league games and one Italian Cup.

In the home game against Livorno, Changsheng did not use rotation. Instead, he continued to play with the starting lineup against Real Madrid, and finally won Livorno 4:0 at home, cleanly.

Continue to put pressure on Juventus.

At the post-match press conference, a reporter asked why Changsheng did not make any rotations.

Changsheng took the opportunity to stab Real Madrid in the wound.

"The players played very easily against Real Madrid and were in good condition. I didn't think there was any reason to replace them for rotation. So I let them continue to start. And the game against Real Madrid did not consume too much physical energy, so the players' physical fitness is not a problem. I believe everyone saw this in today's game. Three days later, our players are still in good physical condition."

A reporter asked: "Are you saying that Real Madrid is too weak and it is effortless to defeat them?"

Changsheng smiled and nodded: "Yes, that's what I mean!"

After the post-match press conference was spread, the Madrid media was naturally angry again, making Real Madrid fans hate Changsheng to the core, and making the Real Madrid club more embarrassed...

But apart from cursing, what else can they do? They can't threaten Changsheng even a hair.

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Just after the match with Livorno, just two days later, Lazio played against Siena at home in the Italian Cup.

This time, Changsheng took a rotation.

At the pre-match press conference. Changsheng continued to whip the corpse of Real Madrid: "Because we think Siena is more difficult to deal with than Real Madrid, I decided to adopt a rotation lineup to ensure that the players are physically fit..."

Meeting such a petty opponent, Real Madrid can only roll their eyes now.

The Italian Cup match with Siena is actually not difficult.

This is Lazio's home court. And Lazio is much stronger than Siena, so it is natural to beat them.

It is not at all like Changsheng said, playing Siena is more difficult than Real Madrid...

He just wants to disgust Real Madrid.

In the end, Lazio defeated Siena 3:1 at home and successfully advanced to the quarter-finals of the Italian Cup.

Next is the 17th round of the league. Lazio was forced to a 2:2 tie by Verona away.

Because Juventus won Atalanta away, Lazio was temporarily pulled away again.

Faced with such a result, Changsheng also seemed helpless.

Today's Lazio is no longer the Lazio of its heyday.

Injuries and physical fitness are affecting the team's performance all the time.

Consecutive double matches in a week have greatly affected the players' physical fitness. They did not perform well in the game against Verona.

Before, they were two points behind Juventus. Now Juventus has widened the gap to four points.

And Naples, the third place, is also four points away from them and continues to chase them.

After the game with Verona, Serie A officially entered the winter break.

After the Lazio team had a Christmas dinner, it was disbanded.

The player department can get a two-week vacation and then return to the team on January 1, 2022 to prepare for the second half of the season.

Changsheng will also take his parents back to China for vacation.

His parents are getting older and older, although he has been living with them in Rome. But they also miss home more and more, and miss their relatives in their hometown.

This is a contradiction.

They live with their son, and their lives are guaranteed.

But their spiritual life has always been lacking.

In Rome, no matter how long they live, they have no friends, no neighbors to chat with.

Their language is a problem, and it is impossible to go out alone.

So in Rome, they basically stay at home, and even if they go out, they have to be accompanied by someone.

If they can't find someone to chat with, they will feel very uncomfortable, and every day is like a year.

They have proposed to return to China many times. But Changsheng is worried about them.

If they return to China, they will have neighbors and talk together. But as they get older, their health is getting worse. If something happens, to put it bluntly, I'm afraid no one will know if they die at home...

This is also the problem that Changsheng is most worried about.

His parents only have him as their child, and if he is not around, there will be no one to take care of them.

So Changsheng insisted on living with his parents.

At the same time, in order to meet his parents' spiritual needs, he promised to go back to China for a short stay every holiday.

That period was actually the happiest time for his parents.

Every time Changsheng saw his parents' smiling faces, he felt guilty, but helpless.

Sometimes, he felt that no matter how much money he made, he still couldn't give his parents the life they wanted.

When I was young, I thought that as long as I had money, all problems would be solved, so I worked hard to make money.

Now I realize that money is not omnipotent...

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