As the league games this weekend come to an end, everyone begins to prepare for the midweek Champions League match.
Inter Milan, which has no European competition obligations, was originally going to take two days off to let the players take a rest, but they did not expect that on Monday, April 1, Inter Milan’s most loyal fan and the oldest woman in Europe, Maria
Radelli passed away two days short of her 114th birthday.
Maria Radelli was born on April 3, 1899. She is older than Inter Milan. From the time Inter Milan was founded in 1908, Maria has been a die-hard fan of the Nerazzurri for more than a century.
It has never changed its original intention.
Last year, the Inter Milan club specially celebrated her 113th birthday and gave her the No. 113 Inter Milan jersey.
Maria's death made Inter Milan extremely sad. The Inter Milan club immediately expressed condolences for Maria's death on its official website, and sent club executives and player representatives to immediately rush to Maria's home to see the old man for the last time.
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Although this old man is only a fan of Inter Milan, her age and story are known to many people in Europe.
Not only Inter Milan players, but also city rival AC Milan, El Clasico rival Juventus, many players in Serie A, and even many stars in Europe and around the world have expressed their condolences for Maria Radelli on social media
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"Gazzetta dello Sport" even used an important part of the second page the next day to conduct a special report on the death of Maria Radelli, reviewing Maria's life and her story with Inter Milan.
Qiao Anchen has also heard the story of this old woman. He feels incredible about the relationship between fans and the club that lasts for more than a hundred years, and he also admires it deeply.
Chinese football has a long way to go to give birth to such fans and a century-old club, and to cultivate a football atmosphere in the whole society.
After the incident, Simeone, who played for Inter Milan, expressed condolences to Maria through social media. Qiao Anchen, Falcao, Gabi and others also posted messages to express their respect for the grandmother.
Subsequently, the European matches started in mid-week.
On April 3, two of the quarter-finals started first. Bayern Munich, which had just caused a huge tragedy in Hamburg 9-2 in the league, maintained a good state. With Alaba's lightning goal in the first minute and
Thomas Muller's icing on the cake was an easy 2-0 home victory over Juventus, taking the initiative to advance to the semi-finals.
In another game, Barcelona challenged Paris Saint-Germain away from home, and Beckham made his first appearance on behalf of Paris Saint-Germain. He appeared in the Champions League again after more than three years, arousing the cheers of countless Beckham fans at the scene and in front of the TV.
However, Paris Saint-Germain's record in this game was not ideal. Messi opened the scoring for Barcelona in the 38th minute, leading 1-0 away from home.
Ibrahimovic equalized the score for Paris in the 79th minute, but in the 89th minute, Xavi scored a penalty kick for Barcelona, leading 2-1 away from home again.
However, before the end of the game, in the 92nd minute of injury time, Matuidi helped Paris Saint-Germain equalize the score.
In the end, the two sides fought to a 2-2 draw. Barcelona escaped from the Parc des Princes in Paris and scored two away goals, occupying a certain amount of initiative and advancement opportunities.
But this did not make Barcelona players and fans happy, because Messi suffered a serious left knee injury in this game and will be out for about three weeks. Not only will he miss the next round of the home game against Paris Saint-Germain, but also the league
Also have to miss a few games.
In addition, defensive backbone Mascherano is also injured, even more seriously than Messi, and is expected to be sidelined for more than a month.
This will be a huge loss for Barcelona, the Cosmos team that will compete on two fronts in the league and the Champions League at the end of the season.
Without Messi, would Barcelona still be the invincible and invincible Cosmos team?
Many Barcelona players and fans lack confidence.
The next day, it was Atletico Madrid's turn.
At 20:45 in the evening on April 3, the first leg of the 2012/2013 Champions League quarter-finals between Atletico Madrid and Borussia Dortmund officially started at the Calderon Stadium.
The weather in Spain has been bad recently, and this game, like the league games in the past few days, was played in heavy rain.
However, there are not many Atletico Madrid fans in the stands. After all, the Atletico Madrid team has not reached the semi-finals of the Champions League for many years.
As long as they are not afraid of getting caught in the rain, young fans who can come to the scene will wear raincoats and umbrellas to cheer for the home team. I hope that Atletico Madrid can successfully win Dortmund, establish an advantage to advance to the second round, and enter the Champions League in one fell swoop.
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After the game started, neither side was in a hurry to attack. It took some time to adapt to the opponent, weather, venue, etc.
Although Qiao Anchen hit a long shot from outside the penalty area in the 7th minute, it failed to hit the goal frame due to the personal interference of Dortmund midfielder Kyle, and it missed the post.
As time went by, the two sides who had finished their "warm-up" began to exert force and attack each other.
Although Dortmund is playing away from home and focuses on defensive counterattacks. Moreover, they are a team with poor technical skills. The bad weather and venue are very detrimental to their ground attack, but they also want to score goals and score away goals.
Needless to say, Atletico Madrid's schedule of first home and then away is unfavorable to the Shelter 1 team. Only a big win at home can ensure promotion to the semi-finals in the second round.
In the 13th minute, Atletico Madrid took the lead. Joan Chen cut in and moved laterally to take away the opponent's midfielder. Behind the midfielder, Atletico Madrid's right wing-back Arda Turan drove the ball straight in and successfully passed the ball. Diego·
Costa got stuck in front of the small penalty area, grabbed the ball before Dortmund center back No. 27 Santana, and headed towards the goal.
The ball flew to the near corner of the goal like lightning, but goalkeeper Weidenfeller was well prepared and got stuck in the near corner in advance.
Although the ball was very powerful and fast, Weidenfeller still relied on a reflexive wave of his hand to successfully block the ball, and then dived down a second time before Falcao rushed up to prepare for a follow-up shot.
He held the ball under his body.
Although the goal was not scored, it was considered a very threatening attack. Atletico Madrid fans in the stands and in front of the TV all applauded Diego Costa.
In the 19th minute, Dortmund responded by passing the ball into Atletico Madrid's penalty area through a series of exquisite teamwork.
Just when Lewandowski was getting the ball with his back in the penalty area and was entangled by Diego Godin, unable to turn around and shoot, Mario Gotze got in from behind him.
Lewandowski immediately made a backheel pass to Mario Gotze.
Gotze received the ball on the left side of the penalty spot in the penalty area and pushed the ball without stopping. He took an extremely tricky angle and avoided the save of goalkeeper Courtois.
Just when the Dortmund players and fans were about to raise their hands to celebrate, the ball hit the far post and bounced back. Atletico Madrid captain Gabi, who was back in the penalty area, kicked the ball out of the penalty area to clear the ball.