Seal Unleashed, Lu at Full Power!

England's FA Cup semifinals this year had originally been scheduled before the recently completed thirty-fourth round of league fixtures.

However, due to a series of scheduling clashes, The FA pushed them back.

They were arranged after the thirty-fourth round.

Some of the subsequent Premier League fixtures were also postponed.

Among them, several clashes between top teams would be postponed further depending on the Champions League semifinals and final.

Because if a Premier League team reached the final, then the last round of the Premier League would very likely begin only after the Champions League had concluded, in order to make way for it.

This was one of the rare occasions in recent years when the Premier League had made concessions for the Champions League.

It had also been inspired by La Liga's scheduling of the Copa del Rey.

After all, La Liga had won the Champions League for two consecutive years recently.

Though Lu Yang had been the main reason.

Could anyone really say the schedule had not contributed even a tiny bit?

That tiny bit might just be the key to the Premier League winning the Champions League.

Aside from Lu Yang, wasn't that tiny difference exactly what separated Chelsea from Barcelona, and Arsenal from Real Madrid?

Speaking of which.

Before the thirty-fourth round, the semifinalists in the three major European competitions had all emerged.

In the Conference League, the final four were Newcastle United and Tottenham Hotspur from the Premier League, Olympique Marseille from Ligue 1, and Slavia Prague from the Czech top flight.

In the Europa League, the final four were Manchester City from the Premier League, Barcelona from La Liga, Juventus from Serie A, and RB Leipzig from the Bundesliga.

As for the Champions League, things were rather exciting.

Chelsea, who had kept Bayern Munich scoreless