Chapter 70: The ups and downs of form and the Champions League draw

Losing in the Champions League doesn't affect Carlo Ancelotti's mood. Anyway, the final round of the group stage doesn't matter for Manchester United.

However, the manager of CSKA Moscow, who finished third in the group, slammed Manchester United for "lack of competitive sportsmanship" after this round of matches, and CSKA Moscow, who finished third in the league and could only play in the Europa League, was quite unhappy.

However, Ancelotti did not respond to this at all. If you have the ability, CSKA Moscow also won the group one round ahead of schedule, a game that wins or loses has little impact on Manchester United, and Ancelotti will send the main squad to fight Wolfsburg if he has a hole in his brain.

CSKA Moscow's post-match remarks can only be a distant bark as a negative dog.

With the Champions League group stage coming to an end, the next stage of the Champions League will be played in February next year, and the current Manchester United can focus on England's domestic competition.

The draw for the Champions League will take place on 14 December, before Manchester United will face Bournemouth in the 16th round of the Premier League on 13 December.

In this game, due to Herrera's yellow card in the last round of the league, he was suspended for one game and could not play, and Fellaini was still recovering from an injury, and Manchester United's midfield personnel began to be a little stretched.

Fortunately, Carrick can take Herrera's place, and after several trade-offs, Ancelotti decided to adjust the formation 4231, from three to two backs, which is also a helpless move to deal with the wave of injuries in players.

But fortunately, Bournemouth did not pose much of a threat to Manchester United at home.

In the end, Manchester United beat Bournemouth 2-1 away.

Nani and Wayne Rooney, who were given the chance to start, scored for United. Li Qingshan once scored a goal with a header in the game, but was whistled for a foul before hitting someone before the header, and the goal was invalid.

Li Qingshan, who was blown up, stepped forward to reason with the referee Atkinson, but was shown a yellow card, if it wasn't for the captain Rooney to pull Li Qingshan away, maybe Li Qingshan would have been suspended for a red card in the next round.

The failure to score made Li Qingshan a little unwilling, but fortunately, the team won the game in the end.

This is the second Premier League game in which Li Qingshan has not scored so far, and has failed to score in two of the last four Premier League games, and Li Qingshan's scoring efficiency seems to be slowly decreasing, which is also a relief to the English media.

Twenty-one goals have been scored in 14 rounds, which is a real bit overwhelming for other teams in the Premier League.

However, since Manchester United's draw with Manchester City, Li Qingshan's goal rate also seems to have suffered, scoring only two goals in the last four rounds, and it looks like the striker's form that made the entire Premier League tremble at the beginning of the season may also have entered a slump.

It is normal for players to fluctuate in form, Ancelotti did not feel much of a surprise, Li Qingshan maintained the same hot state as at the beginning of the season for a season to make Ancelotti feel unrealistic.

Every striker's form has peaks and troughs, which is also normal, whether a striker can score or not, sometimes in addition to his own ability, luck is also very important......... In these two games without a goal, in fact, it cannot be said that Li Qingshan's performance is not good, and the lack of goals is also caused by many factors.

Li Qingshan also felt that he had bad luck with his recent goals, but he attributed this to the reason why his league opponents had stepped up their efforts to let him go, so he trained even harder in the football training camp.

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The day after this round of league play, the draw for the Champions League round of 16 will be.

The draw ceremony took place at UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland. For all the teams that finished first in the group, the best draw was from Belgium's Gent, while the worst draw was Juventus, who finished second in the group.

The order of the Champions League draw is to draw the team that finishes second in the group, and then the team that wins the group excludes teams from the same league and the same group.

The first to draw was Roma, and then the former Inter Milan captain who was a guest of the draw came to the stage to draw Roma's opponents, and under the watchful eye of the live camera, the video showed that his hand reached into the middle of many small balls, directly grabbed the "specific" one, and then "feigned" to stir around in the middle of the ball, as if to "hide people's eyes". Eventually, his hand never left the ball he had caught. When he took out the note inside the ball, it showed Real Madrid.

Such a move has caused endless reverie, and most people believe that Zanetti has known that Real Madrid is in that signing, and then pulled him out in order to let Real Madrid face Roma in the round of 16.

Every year when it's time for the draw, all sorts of conspiracy theories come to the fore.

Many fans are convinced that the Champions League draw is being manipulated by UEFA. There is even media speculation that some of the balls on the draw are hot, or some of the balls are wrinkled, and the lottery guests only need to draw the hot balls to achieve the purpose of controlling the draw results.

Despite the doubts about the draw in one way or another, it is also a nervous time for many fans at this time, who want to draw a good draw in the knockout round of 16 to make the Champions League schedule easier.

However, this is all speculation by the media and fans, and there is no direct evidence that UEFA manipulated the group draw.

For Manchester United's chief executive Edward Wood, who was drawn for the draw, Roma's draw against Real Madrid was not his concern, but of course he was more concerned about who Manchester United's opponent was.

When Juventus was drawn to Bayern Munich, it was clear that there was a happy inhalation in the hall of the draw ceremony. That certainly includes Edward Wood.

No one wants to draw Juventus, and the best opponent in the second place in the group has been drawn, which means that the probability of Manchester United suffering a tough battle in the round of 16 is greatly reduced.

Manchester United also seemed to have had a lot of luck, and when Gent were drawn, the group winners looked expectantly at the hands of the commentators who were churning in the draw.

This opponent is clearly what all group winners are looking forward to.

Eventually, when United were pulled out, Edward Wood couldn't help but smile.

Manchester United have drawn Gent!

It's almost a lottery to the top eight!

Then the draws for the other teams came to an end.

In the Premier League, Arsenal have once again faced Barcelona, who undoubtedly have the last opponent Arsenal wants to face, but they seem to have a special fate with Barcelona.

Every year in the Champions League, and then he met Barcelona, Wenger was also very helpless.

Chelsea met Paris Saint-Germain. This is a matchup between two Golden Yuan teams. Abu took over Chelsea to open the era of golden football, and the revival of Paris is completely based on the Chelsea team building model, and now the book strength of the two local tyrant teams is indeed inseparable, and the total value of the players on both sides is more than 910 million euros, but in terms of form, Chelsea, which has experienced a big decline this season, wants to pass the Paris pass, which is really difficult.

Manchester City were also lucky to draw Kip Dynamo, and apart from the long distance, this opponent is not too difficult to play against.

The English media generally believe that Manchester United and Manchester City will reach the quarter-finals, while Arsenal and Chelsea are hanging in the balance.