Chapter 218 Golden Boy Award presentation, Lin Quan’s first trophy!

David Silva did not waste the opportunity given to him by Lin Quan. He steadily scored the penalty to help the team take a 1:0 lead.

After scoring the goal, David Silva finally breathed a sigh of relief, and the tension in his heart also eased a lot.

"David, great job!"

Lin Quan ran over and high-fived him to celebrate, but David Silva took the initiative to give him a hug.

"Thank you, Lin!"

"You're welcome, we are teammates, shouldn't we take care of each other?"

Lin Quan smiled and patted his shoulder and said nonchalantly.

David Silva nodded heavily and said nothing more.

Thousands of words are not as good as actual actions. Since you want to repay your kindness, you can't just stop at words.

After the game restarted, the Plzen Victory players discovered that the opponent's No. 21 suddenly seemed to have changed.

Before, I was a little afraid and evasive of physical confrontation, but now I seem to be suddenly no longer afraid.

After David Silva overcame such a psychological barrier, his role on the court began to be reflected.

In the 42nd minute, David Silva and Lin Quan performed wonderful cooperation in the frontcourt. The two successively completed 2-over-1, 2-over-2, and even 2-over-3 performances.

In the end, Lin Quan completed the goal with a light push shot from about 8 meters away from the goal.

In this attack, the two almost penetrated the opponent's defense with passes, toying with all the players on the opponent's defense.

Seeing this cooperation and goal, the Manchester City fans at the scene were extremely excited.

This kind of passing and cutting cooperation that only exists in Barcelona was actually copied by their own team.

This is the kind of offense they dream of!

I really hope that this kind of cooperation and such goals can come again.

Seemingly hearing the cries of the fans, Lin Quan and David Silva once again completed such a wonderful collaboration in the second half.

Although Plzen Victory was on guard, facing these two top stars from Manchester City with extremely high football intelligence, they were still manipulated by the opponent.

In the 67th minute, Manchester City expanded its lead. Lin Quan scored the goal and David Silva assisted.

The three goals currently on the field are all related to them!

Seeing this goal, Pellegrini was very satisfied and couldn't help but stand up and applaud the players.

"After David comes back, Lin Quan should be liberated. We won't be afraid of facing the iron barrel formations of other teams in the future!"

Pellegrini is confident and ready to lead the team into a big fight.

However, just when he was satisfied, something happened on the field.

Pilsen still did not give up the attack after falling behind by three goals. On the contrary, taking advantage of Manchester City's carelessness, they seized two counterattack opportunities and successfully scored two goals, reducing Manchester City's lead to one goal.

At this moment, the Manchester City fans at home began to get nervous.

What's going on with this team?

Lost all four games in the first four rounds, fell behind by three goals in this game, and then suddenly exploded?

Wouldn't your own team be extremely happy and sad, being overturned by the opponent at home?

Of course, such a plot is impossible to stage.

In the 82nd minute, Lin Quan dribbled the ball through the middle, attracted the attention of many opposing players, and then passed the ball to Negredo.

Negredo didn't stop the ball and fired a volley to score, and Manchester City re-expanded their lead.

In the end, Manchester City defeated their opponents 4:2 at home. They won all five matches in the Champions League group stage, accumulating 15 points and expanding their goal difference to 12 goals.

On the other side, under the temperature of minus seven to eight degrees in Moscow, Bayern withstood the opponent's offense and defeated the opponent with a score of 3:1.

After this round, Bayern also had a 2-goal difference and was declared one round ahead of schedule.

As a result, the goal difference and points gap between the two teams have not widened.

Manchester City still has an advantage of 3 points and 2 goal differences.

However, this point difference and this lead do not seem safe in front of Bayern.

As long as Bayern can beat Manchester City by two goals at home, then Bayern will be first in the group!

After the fifth round of the Champions League, the qualifying situation of each group has basically become clear.

In Group A, Manchester United defeated Bayer Leverkusen 5-0 in an away game and scored 11 points to advance to the group stage.

The other qualifying spot will be decided between Shakhtar Donetsk and Bayer Leverkusen.

Although the Shakhtar team has one point more than Leverkusen, their last game is Manchester United, and Leverkusen's opponent is Real Sociedad, the weakest team in the group.

Therefore, the outside world is more optimistic about Leverkusen. Of course, it is not ruled out that Manchester United, which qualified early, will show off at home.

In Group B, Real Madrid once again swept Galatasaray 4:1 at home in this round. Not only did they qualify early, they also secured first place in the group.

The remaining three teams in Group B all have the possibility of qualifying. Among them, Juventus, which has 6 points, has the upper hand. As long as they can defeat their direct competitor Galatasaray in the last game, they will Locked in second place in Group B.

However, considering Juventus's poor record in the Champions League this season, the outside world is not very optimistic about whether they can conquer the Turks' devilish home court. Many people think that the old woman will overturn.

In Group C, Paris Saint-Germain will qualify one round ahead of schedule, and the last qualifying spot will be decided between Olympiacos and Benfica.

Group E, which was considered Chelsea's happy group before the game, has instead become Chelsea's sad group.

Chelsea was defeated by Basel again in this round, and Mourinho's team suffered a home and away double defeat by their opponents!

This result is really shocking. No one expected that the Blues would be defeated by a weak team outside the five major leagues in the group stage.

It is worth mentioning that the player who defeated Chelsea in this round and scored for Basel is a 21-year-old young player, his name is Mohamed Salah.

In the two rounds against Chelsea, Salah scored a total of two goals and also disturbed Chelsea's defense during the game.

This made Mourinho interested in him, and he even planned to make an offer to Basel during the winter break to see if he could bring the Egyptian to Stamford Bridge!

Although they lost, Chelsea's direct competitors Werder Bremen and Basel will fight against each other in the next game.

The two teams currently have 7 points and 8 points, so no matter what the result of this game, Chelsea's points will be higher than one of their teams. Therefore, Chelsea still relies on 9 points to advance to the group stage. .

But whether they can get first place in Group E depends on the result of the next game.

The death group is indeed a death group. In Group F, the situation of qualifying after five rounds is still complicated.

Arsenal, with 4 wins and 1 loss, currently ranks first in the group with 12 points, while Dortmund and Napoli both rank second and third in the group with 9 points.

Although Arsenal had a 3-point lead, they still did not qualify early.

In the next game, Arsenal will directly face the challenge of Naples.

If they lose and are beaten by Naples by more than 3 goals, then once Dortmund wins, Arsenal will be eliminated.

Dortmund will face a winless Marseille in their next game. As long as they can win, then with the advantage of 4 goal differences they have accumulated before, they will secure the right to qualify and even have a chance to finish in the group. one.

For Naples, they not only have to defeat Arsenal, but also try every means to widen the point difference. Otherwise, once Dortmund wins, even if they get 12 points in the end, they will be eliminated due to the goal difference.

If Naples is eliminated with 12 points, they will become the worst team since the Champions League was restructured. No team has ever scored so many points but still been eliminated.

Compared with the situation of Group F, Group G is another extreme.

If Napoli may set a record for being eliminated with the highest score in the history of the Champions League, then in Group G, Zenit St. Petersburg may set a record for entering the knockout rounds with the lowest score in the Champions League.

After five rounds, Atletico Madrid has 4 wins and 1 draw with 13 points and has already qualified for the group stage two rounds ahead of schedule.

Second-placed Zenit has only 6 points, third-placed Porto has only 5 points, and last-placed Vienna has only 2 points.

Atletico Madrid will face Porto at home in the final round. If they can defeat Porto, then even if Zenit loses to Vienna away from home, they can advance to the knockout round with a record low of 6 points.

In Group H, Barcelona's situation is similar to Chelsea's.

Although they unexpectedly lost to Ajax, with 10 points, they still qualified one round early.

Regarding this result, AC Milan fans were so angry that they wanted to curse.

If Barcelona can't let go and beat Ajax, then AC Milan will be able to qualify one round ahead of schedule.

Now it's better. After defeating Barcelona, ​​Ajax's points reached 7 points and AC Milan's points were 8 points.

The two teams will fight directly against each other in the next game. If AC Milan loses, they will be eliminated by the opponent.

On the contrary, if AC Milan wins and Barcelona loses in the last round, they can even take away the first place in the group from Barcelona.

After reading the points and records of each group, the fans started a heated discussion.

"Manchester City has won all 5 games and scored the highest 15 points among the 32 teams, but still failed to lock in the first place in the group. On the contrary, Paris Saint-Germain, Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid, these teams are not as good as Manchester City in points, but they were locked in early The group is number one, where can I explain this!"

"Haha, be satisfied. You might as well take a look at Group F. The fans of these three teams are probably worried at the moment. All three teams have the possibility of being eliminated in the last round. Manchester City has at least qualified in advance. .”

"Group F and Group G are simply two extremes. Zenit can qualify with 6 points, but Napoli can't qualify with 12 points. Isn't this outrageous?"

"Barcelona is so disgusting, isn't it? Not to mention bullying AC Milan every year, they actually lost to Ajax on purpose. Are they trying to hack AC Milan?"

"Maybe you didn't lose on purpose, it was just a dish?"

"Come on, Barcelona has Messi, Neymar, Xavi and Iniesta, you tell me what they are good at?"

"Shady story, absolutely shady story!"

In addition to discussing the team's points and qualifying situation, many fans also pay more attention to the individual data of the stars.

"Huang Lin scored two goals and one assist in this game. The total number of goals has reached 7. He is only one goal away from the top of the list!"

"If he hadn't missed that penalty, he would have been tied with Cristiano Ronaldo and Ibrahimovic at this time!"

"Okay, it doesn't matter if there is no penalty kick, at least people will not use this as an excuse to criticize, and with Lin Huang's current scoring efficiency, I am optimistic that he can score in the next game!"

"Including this game, Lin Huang has scored in five consecutive games in the Champions League, right?"

"Yes, Lin's efficiency and stability are amazing. If he can score in the next game, he will become the only player since the Champions League was restructured to score in all six group stage games. There are players who score goals!”

"Applause, applause, it feels like we can witness history again!"

"Hehe, ever since Lin Huang appeared on the court, all records have been broken by him!"

"I would like to call him Lin Record Breaker Quan!"

"Speaking of which, Messi and Ronaldo both failed this round!"

"Yes, neither of them scored, which gave Lin Huang a chance to close the gap. But what happened to Dafengxian? Why did he score again?"

"8 goals in 5 games, and no penalty kicks, Da Fengxian is too strong!"

"Haha, no matter how strong you are, you still won't be defeated by Cristiano Ronaldo in the national team!"

"Tsk tsk, don't be complacent yet, fans. When Paris meets Real Madrid in the knockout round, we will let you know what cruelty is!"

"Who doesn't know how to brag? Let's make it to the quarterfinals first. Don't fall in the first stage of the knockout round. That would be ridiculous!"

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Shortly after the fifth round of the Champions League, Turin Sports News, which was responsible for selecting this year's European Golden Boy Award, finally announced the final list of winners.

Lin Quan, the No. 10 player from Manchester City, overwhelmingly defeated Juventus' Pogba, Schalke's Draxler, Real Madrid's Varane, and Liverpool's in the selection of the media and experts. Coutinho and many other young talents became the 11th player to be elected to the European Golden Boy Award.

Although the European Golden Boy Award is not as valuable as the Golden Globe Award, for young players under the age of 21, this award is the highest praise for them.

Many professional media participated in the selection this season, including the French "L'Equipe", the Spanish "Marca", the German "Bild", the British "The Times", the Dutch "Telegraph", the Spanish "World Sports" and the French "France Football" and other European mainstream media.

Experts from these media rate each player on the selected list based on their performance in leagues, cups, and national team games throughout the season.

Because of its strong professionalism, the selection results are highly authoritative.

Among the players who have won the Golden Boy Award before, except for a few who were blind and became parallel imports, the remaining players have basically made a name for themselves in football.

Among them are the names of Messi, Rooney, Fabregas, Aguero and others.

It is worth mentioning that the president born in 1985 was not able to win the Golden Boy Award.

Cristiano Ronaldo had bad luck. In 2004, he met Wayne Rooney, who was in great form, and in 2005, he met Messi, who was born out of nowhere.

His performance in these two seasons was not particularly outstanding, so he unfortunately lost the opportunity to win the Golden Boy Award.

Lin Quan was not surprised by the result of winning the Golden Boy Award.

However, his relatives, friends, and even teammates on the team all expressed their congratulations to him after learning the result.

Morata: "Brother Lin is awesome!"

David Silva: "It's amazing. This should be the youngest Golden Boy Award, right?"

Royce: "Congratulations, it's a pity that I'm a little older, otherwise I would have to compete with you!"

Lin Quan: "Okay, there is no age limit for the Golden Globe Awards, come on!"

Royce: "(╯°Д°)╯︵┻━┻"

Lin Quan was happy when he saw the other party's expression.

Just after replying to Royce's message, De Bruyne also sent him a message.

"Speaking of which, can you receive the Golden Boy Award multiple times? You are not yet 18 years old. If you receive it this year, can you still receive it next year?"

Lin Quan hasn't thought about this problem yet: "It shouldn't be possible, right? But it's hard to say. I guess the organizers never thought there would be a monster player like me, hehe!"

De Bruyne made a speechless expression. I just asked casually, why are you so boastful?

"Come on, try to get a trophy next year!"

"The Golden Globe Award? That one is so difficult!"

"The more difficult it is, the more precious it is. Go ahead, young man!"

Lin Quan was about to reply to his message when a call came in.

I looked at the caller ID and saw it was Guardiola.

"Well done son, I'm proud of you!"

Guardiola called specifically to congratulate him because Lin Quan received an honor that he had never received.

Guardiola did not receive any commendable personal honors as a player. There was no Golden Boy Award at that time, and he was not qualified for the Ballon d'Or.

And the sad thing is that he plays as a defensive midfielder. Players in this role are not the most eye-catching or the most popular. So until he retired, the outside world did not think very highly of him, and only those who had actually seen him play Only those who have the ball know his value.

"Tsk, tsk, verbal praise? Isn't that too insincere?"

"Of course not. Sera and I have prepared a gift for you and will give it to you when you are on holiday at Christmas!"

"Ahem, Comrade Guardiola, I need to remind you that there is no winter break in the Premier League. I still have to play at Christmas!"

"Well, I sympathize with you in my heart!"

"Thank you. Since you are so 'sincere', I will be gentler when I visit the Allianz Arena next time!"

"Haha, you brat, are you playing psychological warfare? I've found a way to restrict you!"

"Really? What's the solution?"

"You'll know when you get here!"

After saying that, he hung up the phone.

Hearing the blind tone coming from the phone, Lin Quan spat. Guardiola also said that Lin Quan was playing psychological warfare. Isn't this psychological warfare?