707 Group of Death
readx;
Prior to UEFA's draw ceremony, there was customary to hold an award ceremony to award the best of last season's Champions League, and although United eventually won the second Champions League of Ferguson's career, they were undoubtedly far behind in the selection. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
First of all, the best goalkeeper, the Red Rebels' Petr Cech won the award for the fourth year in a row, although the Red Rebels stopped in the last eight last season, but Cech is the goalkeeper who has conceded the fewest goals of all goalkeepers since the start of the group stage of the Champions League, and he has been solid in both the group stage and the knockout stage, and he deserves the award.
Of course, before this award, many people complained about Van der Sar, thinking that the Dutchman deserved the best goalkeeper, but as everyone knows, Van der Sar's performance last season has actually declined a lot, so Ferguson will only bring in Adler this season and entrust him with a heavy responsibility at the beginning of the season.
Adler also did not live up to Ferguson's high expectations, keeping United clean in the first three league games, which immediately catapulted him.
The award was followed by the best defender award, and the award was also very controversial, although it was eventually awarded to Ferdinand, but some people think that De Roysden's Mike? Dawson deserves the award even more because he has been outstanding all season and De Roysden is not as staffed by Manchester United.
There are also people who believe that Terry and Curtis also performed well and deserved to win the award, but due to the relationship between the Red Rebels and the top 8, they still failed to do so in the end, after all, the Red Rebels have won this award for three years, and it is time to replace them.
There was little controversy about the selection of the best midfielder, with Mascherano, a powerful defender for De Roysden, hailed as the soul of De Roysden and leading him all the way to the Champions League final last season.
On the other hand, in Manchester United's midfield, Senna performed well, but compared with Mascherano, it was still inferior, Carrick, Fletcher and others were not enough to challenge Mascherano, so this award was well deserved in the hands of Mascherano.
However, there was an episode when Mascherano took the stage to accept the award, he was the first to express his gratitude to the people, including Pellegrini, and then he thanked Droisden, and then thanked the Red Rebels, who said that if the Red Rebels had not picked him up and introduced him to the Argentine professional team, he would not be where he is today.
It was only then that everyone realized that Mascherano was a player from the Red Rebels.
Sometimes I think about it, everyone thinks that they should have a good understanding of this team, why they can create so many stars, it is simply a star-making factory!
The best striker was neither for Manchester United nor for Droisden, but again for the Red Rebels.
Although the Red Rebels stopped in the top 8 last season, Xiao Xiaoluo won the Golden Boot in the Champions League and deservedly became the best striker in the Champions League, which is also the best striker in the Red Rebels' consecutive titles, after all, the Red Rebels have been performing very well in the Champions League in recent seasons.
However, although Xiao Xiaoluo won the Golden Boot, although the Red Rebels performed well, but the team had no choice but to stop in the top 8, so in the award ceremony for the most important best player, the Red Rebels had no one to compete for, and finally fell to Manchester United's Wayne Rooney.
After all, in the Champions League final, it was Rooney's goal that helped Manchester United finally draw with Droisden, and eliminated the opponent through a penalty shootout to win the Champions League, and Rooney's performance in the Champions League was remarkable, not losing to Robinho and Diego and others who were in the limelight.
And after the award ceremony, the draw ceremony for the group stage of the Champions League began.
…………
…………
This season's Champions League has set a lot of records, for example, in this season's Champions League, there are as many as six Premier League teams, namely Red Rebels, Droysden, Manchester United, Liverpool, Arsenal and Manchester City, which is unprecedented in the history of the Champions League.
Due to the draw principle of the Champions League group stage, teams from the same country should avoid each other, which makes all non-Premier League teams worried, because there are only 8 groups in the Champions League group stage, but there are 6 Premier League teams, each of which is not a good stubble, and no one is easy to mess with, and everyone is afraid.
In addition, Juventus, Atletico Madrid, Fiorentina and other traditional European giants have also returned to the Champions League, which makes this season's Champions League competitiveness unprecedentedly improved.
Among the teams that reached the group stage of the Champions League this season, in addition to the six teams from the Premier League, all four teams in La Liga have also qualified, namely Real Madrid, Barcelona, Atletico Madrid and Sevilla; Four Serie A teams also qualified: Inter Milan, AC Milan, Juventus and Fiorentina.
Add to that Bayern Munich, Werder Bremen and Schalke 04 in the Bundesliga, and Bordeaux, Lyon and Marseille in Ligue 1, and the five traditional European leagues occupy 20 places among the 32 teams, more than half.
The remaining 12 teams are, PSV Eindhoven, Ajax, Fenerbahce, Sporting Lisbon, Porto, Celtic, Zenit, Dynamo Kyiv, Shakhtar Donetsk, Genke, Anderlecht and Rangers.
Whether it is the teams from Europe's top five leagues or the remaining 12 teams from other leagues, they are all familiar to fans, which makes every game of this season's Champions League group stage particularly eye-catching.
Not only that, teams including Atletico Madrid and Fiorentina have been placed in Pot 4, and Bayern and Juventus have been placed in Pot 2, which makes the potential factor of the entire Champions League group stage forming a group of death extraordinarily strong.
Even before the draw began, there were already a lot of fans and media who were all concerned that there were likely to be multiple groups of death in this season's Champions League, after all, the resurgence of so many strong teams would make the competition even more intense.
But when it comes to the two most talked-about teams in Europe, there is no doubt that Barcelona and the Red Rebels are the two teams that are seeded in the group stage draw, and the chances of meeting each other are zero, at least not in the group stage, plus the principle of avoiding the same national team, which makes the group draw even more eye-catching.
The first teams to be drawn are the seeded teams in the group, which are Manchester United, Inter Milan, Barcelona, Red Rebels, Lyon, Droisden, AC Milan and Real Madrid, and these eight teams occupy the seeded spots in each of the eight groups, and the next draw will be around the group of these eight teams.
Manchester United's first opponent is PSV Eindhoven, which is not strong, with the strength of Manchester United, it is not difficult to win the opponent, but the key is that PSV Eindhoven's home stadium is still very scary, Manchester United can not be careless at all, otherwise, it is likely to capsize in the gutter.
Inter Milan were unlucky, pulling out an Arsenal.
"Arsene Wenger seems to be in a good mood!" Walsh jokingly pointed to Wenger, who was smiling faintly not far away.
For a long time, the Premier League and Serie A, Serie A and La Liga and the Premier League have become an intricate tactical confrontation between the three major leagues, and the Premier League teams can always occupy some advantages in the face of Serie A teams, which is estimated to be related to the tactical play of the Premier League teams.
Arsenal can draw Inter Milan, no matter how you look at it, it is a good sign, if it is changed to Barcelona or Real Madrid, Wenger is estimated to be unhappy, even if it is AC Milan, Wenger does not dare to be careless.
Barcelona's luck is obviously not good, drawn Bayern, but the Bundesliga has been faintly degraded in recent years, Barcelona is not afraid of Bayern, everyone knows that Barcelona is afraid of the Red Rebels, even last season, Barcelona eliminated the Red Rebels, but in fact, Barcelona relied on the ugly iron bucket formation to win, and it was not a victory, just two draws, but Barcelona relied on the referee's penalty kick to score away goals with goal difference, and then eliminated the Red Rebels.
The Red Rebels were not so unlucky, having met Werder Bremen, who often gave Mourinho a headache, and Schaaf's team was always regrettable and hated, and now that they met again, fans were eager to see how Werder Bremen caused problems for the Red Rebels.
Looking at the world, there are really very few teams that can embarrass the Red Rebels, Birmingham are relegated to the Championship, Werder Bremen is a different team, but they still can't beat the Red Rebels.
The other remaining groups are Sevilla in Group E, Juventus in Group F, Porto in Group G and Schalke 04 in Group H, so the atmosphere of the group of death in the Champions League group stage has been formed.
The next draw seemed to honor that speculation once again.
Group A is a third pot of Bordeaux, Group B is Sporting Lisbon, Group C is Glasgow Rangers, Group D is Marseille, Group E is Liverpool, Group F is Celtic, Group G is Manchester City and Group H is Fenerbahce.
In this way, the group of death in Group D where the Red Rebels are located has been formed, Werder Bremen and Marseille are both strong teams and have gathered in Group D, in addition to Group E, Lyon, Sevilla and Liverpool are also destined to be the group of death, and AC Milan, Porto and Manchester City in Group G are also in the group of death.
Three groups of death appeared at once, which was both amusing and helpless.
The strength of the Champions League has increased, the influence has spread, and the competition between teams has become more and more fierce, which has the consequence that the team will be more profitable to participate in the Champions League, but relatively speaking, the less likely it is to win the Champions League.
Take Group D where the Red Rebels are located, for example, the team in Pot 4 drew out the traditional Spanish powerhouse, the Sheets Army Atletico Madrid, this team can also be regarded as the number one person in La Liga, although it is not as good as Barcelona and Real Madrid, but it is also notoriously difficult.
Red Rebels, Werder Bremen, Marseille and Atletico Madrid, this is definitely one of the groups with the strongest breath of death in the Champions League group stage, although the Red Rebels are better, but Bremen, Marseille and Atletico are not soft eggs, as long as the Red Rebels are not careful, they may even be gnawed to the bones.
Last season, Bayern's group was not strong, but in the end they went back to play the League Cup because they were careless.
As everyone knows, there are no weak teams in the Champions League, especially this season, these traditional strong teams have made a comeback one by one, and the pressure on the Red Rebels has increased sharply!
The other group of death is Group E, Lyon, Sevilla, Liverpool and Ajax, all four teams are traditional European powerhouses, of which Ajax has fallen recently, but in the end it is one of the Dutch powerhouses, competitiveness is still there, and whether it is Lyon or Sevilla, Liverpool's chances of winning may not be much higher than their opponents.
Group G is equally deadly, with AC Milan, Porto, Manchester City and Zenit, as long as you think about it, Zenit is Arshavin's old club, it is not difficult to imagine the difficulty of this team, this group is also expected.
In addition to the three groups of death, the other teams are also very suspenseful.
In Group A, Manchester United, PSV Eindhoven, Bordeaux and Anderlecht, the four teams are also traditional well-known teams in Europe, and it is unknown who wins and who loses; In Group B, Inter, Arsenal, Sporting Lisbon and Shakhtar Donetsk, although Shakhtar Donetsk are weaker, they have a lot of experience in the Champions League and can often pull off surprising upsets.
Needless to say, Group D and Group E, Group F's Droisden, Juventus, Celtic and Genke are also inseparable, and Group H's Real Madrid, Schalke 04, Fenerbahce and Dynamo Kyiv are even more exciting, especially Dynamo Kyiv, when Shevchenko was there, they were across the continent.
"It seems that this season's Champions League is very difficult to play!" Mourinho shook his head with embarrassment after the draw.
I believe that there are many managers who have the same idea as him.
Although the Red Rebels are better than their opponents, once they reach the home stadium of Werder Bremen, Marseille and Atletico Madrid, the Red Rebels are all very risky, their home stadiums are notoriously difficult to beat, and once they lose points, the situation of qualifying from the group becomes complicated.
And these teams have experience against the Red Rebels, grabbing points at home and defending away, which is their consistent strategy, which makes it difficult for the Red Rebels to deal with, and with the Red Rebels' Champions League strategy, they have always been striving to be the first in the group, so that they can meet weaker teams in the knockout round.
But now, the pressure on the Red Rebels is really not small, especially when they have to juggle the league.
Of course, it is not only the Red Rebels that are struggling, other teams are also struggling, but the giants are like this, multi-line operations must bear the pressure of multi-line operations, fortunately, the bench thickness of the Red Rebels is good, especially the rise of a number of youth players, making the Red Rebels' lineup more and more reasonable.
This gives the team more confidence and fighting spirit!
At the same time as the draw ceremony was underway, the Red Rebels players did not train with the team, but went to the national team to report, and the outside world hyped Di Maria, even at the last moment of the transfer period, no team made an offer to the Red Rebels, because Mourinho repeatedly refused to sell Di Maria in interviews.
"Our transfer market has closed early, and the moment we let go of Arshavin, I can guarantee that at least this summer, there will not be another player leaving!"
Mourinho said no, then it must not!
(To be continued)