Some People and Some Things Matter More Than Awards

Kicker: "Doomsday! The end of German football is here!"

L'Équipe: "Just now, German football died!"

Daily Mirror: "Lu Yang's hat trick crushes Bayern Munich once again! Bayern are on the edge of the abyss!"

Marca: "Barahona: Lu Yang spoke to me a lot before the match. He told me to put down my burdens and focus on the game!"

AS: "The bigger picture! Lip-reading reveals Lu Yang telling Barahona that we can afford to lose!"

<This Real Madrid can afford to lose—I said so! The domineering Lu Yang displays a leader's presence!>

<His word was law, and he delivered! Lu Yang scored twice after Barahona conceded!>

<Seventeen straight wins! Real Madrid equal Barcelona's winning-streak record and can set a new one in their next match!>

Lu-Style Real Madrid, impossible to beat!

<An undefeated Real Madrid—what more could one ask for!>

Everything exploded!

Real Madrid's merciless destruction of Bayern Munich was simply too brutal.

They had taken all fifteen points from five Champions League matches and could not have qualified any more decisively.

Meanwhile, the other teams in the group had Monaco in second with six points, Bayern in third with four, and Viola bottom with two.

The combined points of the other three teams did not even surpass Real Madrid's total.

Calling them terrifyingly strong was no exaggeration at all.

This directly made the battle for first place in the other groups far more intense.

In the past, once many teams had secured qualification, it did not matter much whether they finished first or second.

Although group runners-up would face group winners from other groups, teams with confidence did not really care whether their opponents had finished first or second elsewhere.

The difference was not that great.

But this year... if you finished second in your group, you would be