The season isn't over yet, but some verdicts are already marked and merciless. In many cases they concern the upper class of football: the richest, the most famous, the most famous, even trivially the best, but this year they got a patch. And there weren't many of them. Just think, for example, of the flop of the Italians in the European cups: within two days, they weren't enough neither Cristiano Ronaldo and Max Allegri at Juventus nor Carlo Ancelotti at Naples to overcome the freshness and dynamism of young and less accredited teams, at least on paper, such as Ajax and Arsenal. To tell the truth, it was above all the talented Dutch boys who enchanted, while the patrol led by Emery limited itself to witnessing the incredible technical, tactical and mental involution of a team that last year, led by a ” like Sarri, the Scudetto was being played at an average of almost 100 points. And that this year however, led by the famous Ancelotti, the most successful Italian coach in Europe, has failed.
However, Ajax and Arsenal are not the only examples of the working class going to Heaven: the Dutch will find Tottenham in the Champions League semifinals, which in the quarterfinals eliminated City from another totem of contemporary football, that Pep Guardiola who hasn't got one right since he left Barcelona at European level. Ditto in the Europa League, where Arsenal (which is indeed an emblazoned club, but in a transitional phase after the Wenger era) will find a Spanish side in the semifinals who, however, is neither Real Madrid, nor Atletico Madrid, nor the Sevilla, but a fallen noble like Valencia, currently outside the European zone in La Liga. In the other semi-final, Sarri's Chelsea, in their first experience abroad after the cycle at Naples, will instead find the Germans of Eintracht Frankfurt, the only Teutonic team left in contention in Europe, after the flops of the most famous Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund .
The only start of the favorites remains that of the other semi-final of the Champions League, the one between Barcelona and Liverpool, where 10 Champions Cups will descend on the field (5 for each side) and where one of the two strongest players in the world plays, Lionel Messi. And then there are the national championships, where the nobility has held out at least for this year: Neymar and Buffon's PSG, another disappointing big in Europe, are already de facto champions, as are Juventus in Italy and Barcelona in Spain . Bayern Munich will have a little more to suffer while City and Liverpool will play it in the sprint, but in the meantime a clear and round signal has arrived: neither money nor name is enough to win.
