Another Year of the Round of 16

What angered Bayern the most?

It was that immediately after Bayern were eliminated, Real Madrid announced their starting lineup for La Liga's fifteenth round three days later.

Lu Yang's name was prominently listed!

Starting!

It was only a La Liga match against newly promoted Almería.

Yet Real Madrid were starting their full-strength lineup!

Could you believe it?

Bayern were genuinely depressed.

That was just brutal!

Real Madrid were truly too shameless.

What grudge did we even have against them?

Whenever we faced each other, hadn't Bayern always been the ones at a disadvantage?

Why did they still have to trample on our dignity like this?

They didn't play Lu Yang in the Champions League, but they played him in the league?

They didn't field their starters in the Champions League, but they did in the league?

Real Madrid was helpless about this too.

This arrangement was indeed partly meant to teach Bayern a lesson. Otherwise, Bayern and Bundesliga fans had been so restless these past few years that they seemed ready to destroy the world.

Without playing a few real, hard-fought matches, they acted as if the Bundesliga were the best league in the world.

So keeping a low profile really was necessary.

But Bayern had not properly figured out Lu Yang's playing schedule.

If Bayern had been a little smarter, they could have spent some money to pull strings with the infant-care class Lu Yang was attending, had the teacher give him special treatment, praise his performance, and issue him an early "Good Father" graduation certificate. Lu Yang would have made it back for the final Champions League group-stage match.

Anyone who knew Lu Yang understood that as long as he was not injured, he would insist on playing.

No team would ever rotate him out.

Even if he