RB Leipzig’s 2-1 win over Atletico Madrid on Wednesday will be 3 groups in the Champions League semi-finals that have never won the competition.
Barcelona or Bayern Munich are still the favourites. But Paris Saint-Germain, RB Leipzig and one from Manchester City or Lyon look a little at each other in this year’s Champions League semi-finals.
In the early days of the European Cup, the new groups that won the festival were common, however, in the last 20 years, the only team to win the festival for the first time in their history, Chelsea in 2012.
The composition of this year’s semi-finals can be unique. The progress of Paris Saint-Germain and RB Leipzig may be overrated due to the expected possibility of them being placed in the “easy” aspect of the Champions League draw, if any.
But this seems more like a radical change, with European royalty Juventus and Real Madrid being swept away by newcomers Manchester City, PSG and RB Leipzig, driven by new funds.
When Sergio Aguero scored in the last minute against Queens Park Rangers in 2012 to beat Manchester City’s first title, others may simply say that the tide had changed. Since then, Manchester’s sky blue look has been elevating the Premier League trophy-lifting look.
The expired targets of RB Leipzig’s Tyler Adams and PSG’s Erik Choupo-Moting may have been scored in an empty stadium in dull circumstances. But in a few years, those goals may end up being Leipzig or “Agueroooooo!” Du PSG! Time.
PSG and RB Leipzig are on the rise, gradually strengthening year. It’s not the wonders of a season that will lose all of your most productive players this summer. Even if the cases have been favored this season, it is likely that any of the groups will be in a higher position in the coming seasons.
Paris Saint-Germain and RB Leipzig are two of the youngest football clubs, with PSG founded in 1970 and RB Leipzig at the age of 11. But almost everything else about them is dramatically different.
Paris Saint-Germain dominates nationally and has a genuine fan base. They were lucky before Qatar arrived, particularly by winning the UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup and reaching the Champions League semi-finals in the mid-1990s. But seven of his nine Ligue 1 titles have come since Qatar Sports Investment took over the club in 2011.
Money can take you so far; It has allowed PSG to point out Neymar and Kylian Mbappé, but being able to compete in the Champions League final will allow PSG to remain its star players and avoid being stung every time they start thinking about the number of balloons. The Gold and Champions League medals will be in their trophy cases at the end of their careers.
For PSG owners, there is little they would be willing to invest without good fortune, and good fortune is explained as the Champions League. Strong functionality this year can keep Qatar’s oil cash on track.
The Rb Leipzig technique for the sports franchise is not in the signature of star names; they beat Atletico Madrid after ascending Chelsea to his striker Timo Werner. Instead, they rely on a network of affiliated clubs, adding Red Bull Salzburg and New York Red Bulls.
Only Manchester City has taken seriously the structure of such a network of clubs, and the City Football Group owns groups on almost every continent. Since the most sensitive clubs can be purchased for less than Mbappé and Cristiano Ronaldo, it is unexpected that more clubs have not copied them.
Red Bull’s football network allows you to get your hands on the world’s most productive young skill, expand those skills and then sell them with profit. For more than two years, the Red Bull football empire has sold Naby Keita, Timo Werner and Erling Haaland for massive sums.
The owner of Rb Leipzig, Dietrich Mateschitz, is one of the richest people in the world. He is above Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich on Forbes’ list of billionaires by 2020. But Leipzig’s net moving expenses in its brief record amount to just $120 million, according to Transfermarkt. This took them from the fifth tier of German football to the quarter-finals of the Champions League. Some Premier League groups have spent large amounts on low middle finals.
Red Bull’s player production line has RB Leipzig with players such as Naby Keita and Dayot Upamecano over the years. Hwang Hee-Chan, who beat Virgil Van Dijk of Liverpool in the organisational stages of this year’s Champions League, is the newest to move from Salzburg to Leipzig.
Leipzig has the youngest coach in the Champions League with Julian Nagelsmann, 33, highly qualified. They also have the youngest team left so far in the Champions League, with an average age of only 24.7 years, compared to 29.2 years at Juventus or 28.1 years at Real Madrid. This RB Leipzig TEAM is still a few years away from its peak, and with the money that Leipzig’s player production line helps to keep doing, the club can invest. Above all, Leipzig can also, at times, lose a star player and continue to become more and more powerful.
Paris Saint-Germain and RB Leipzig would possibly have other configurations, but they have one thing in common: either they are hated.
All football groups are hated to some extent, however, PSG and Leipzig seem to be hated by groups other than their close rivals, and are not hated by their trophy cabinets.
Other people don’t like them because they use football as a vehicle for anything else, whether it’s to build the comfortable strength of a Gulf state or to increase the popularity of a strong drink. Football is intended to be pure, but the Champions League itself has disposed of the purity of the festival in a format that tries to ensure the good fortune of the big clubs. As a result, distorted cash has also ruined the competitiveness of European national leagues, from Croatia to Scotland.
Others don’t like them because they make up a replacement for football. In Germany, the maximum groups belong to the fans, at least in part, and because of this style of assets, many cannot get a benefactor to pump millions. This allowed RB Leipzig to create a control design that circumvented the 50-1 ownership style and used Red Bull’s wealth to overtake team after team. In Germany, all they have left is to overtake Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund.
At European level, RB Leipzig is another of the top teams, and have been injected as much as the owners of Chelsea or Manchester City’s home. And in any case, their expenses have made the Bundesliga more competitive.
Paris Saint-Germain, on the other hand, like Manchester City, is at a completely different monetary level. Its immense wealth has made Ligue 1 an unnecessary procession. If Qatar needs to increase its spending, even groups like Barcelona and Liverpool will struggle to compete just for the money. Once the PSG begins to look serious contenders in the Champions League, it has the chance to blow up the competition.
They can be hated by others. But being hated and winning is bigger than being the beloved loser who never wins and makes all his most productive players redeem themselves through the same few clubs that win trophies year after year. As leeds United and Millwall fans can simply say, “Nobody loves us, we don’t care.”
Paris Saint-Germain and RB Leipzig could have walked away from the 16-year-long running show, but Borussia Dortmund and Atletico Madrid are not exactly decisive matches, and PSG and Leipzig won their respective groups, PSG beating Real Madrid 3-0 all through the match. Way.
Somehow, it doesn’t matter if they didn’t have the toughest matches possible, or played the eighth-rounds in empty stadiums to have to move to Camp Nou or Allianz Arena. Success comes true, and once one of those clubs reaches their first Champions League final, other people will start to see things differently.
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