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For Manchester City and Wan Sheng, this draw is different from last year.

Last year, Manchester City squeezed into the Champions League for the first time, and was not favored by the media, and when the draw ceremony was held, Wan Sheng only went with the club's chairman Waddell, and the others had no chance at all.

Now it's different.

In last season's Champions League, Morris performed quite well and was nominated for the best midfielder, so Wan Sheng took Morris with him, and in addition, the assistant to club chairman Thaksin Shinawatra and general manager Bill Nix also came with him.

Compared with other big clubs, there are often a few players plus the chairman and coach of the lineup, Manchester City's four-man combination is a little pitiful, but at least there are players, coaches and managers, which is much better than last year's chairman and manager.

In addition, Manchester City has also been listed by the media of various countries as the most promising team to win the title.

This can be seen from the bookmaker's odds.

In the latest UEFA Champions League odds released by William Hill Gambling Company in August, Barcelona topped the table with 6.5, followed by Chelsea with 7.0, followed by Manchester United with 8.0 and Milan at 9.0, with 33 teams at home due to the postponement of the second leg of the qualifying match between Sevilla and AEK Athens (Sevilla won 2-0 at home in the first leg), with AEK Athens, who were behind in qualifying, in last place at 501.

Manchester City's odds to win the championship are only slightly lower than Milan's, with 9.5, which also shows that Manchester City has become a team with the strength to win the championship in the hearts of European media and fans.

But Wansheng doesn't care about that.

The odds of the bookmaker, whether the media is optimistic or not, can not affect the team, what directly affects the team is the draw itself, Wan Sheng is very dissatisfied with Manchester City being placed in the second bracket.

When coming to the door of the lottery site. When there were many reporters around the interview, Wan Sheng expressed his dissatisfaction, "There are four teams in the Premier League that participate in the Champions League, Manchester United, Chelsea, and Liverpool, all of which are in the first bracket, and we are in the second bracket. I don't understand why UEFA would use five years of points as a bracket, it's very unreasonable. ”

'Manchester United and Chelsea have never beaten us in the last two seasons, but they are the so-called 'seeded team' and we are the second tier of 'underdogs'. Isn't that strange? ”

"I don't care what UEFA points I have, I just know that my team, Manchester City, is very strong, and we deserve to be seeded!"

Wan Sheng said very seriously.

The surrounding media suddenly felt that they came to interview in vain, and there was always big news around this young Chinese, who had just come to the lottery venue, and began to criticize the UEFA system before entering the door, and this kind of thing is estimated to be able to come out.

Wan Sheng ignored the media's thoughts. He just spoke his mind.

It is important to note that this is directly related to the team's grouping in the Champions League.

In this UEFA Champions League, the teams in the first pot are: AC Milan, Barcelona, Liverpool, Inter Milan, Real Madrid, Chelsea, Manchester United and Lyon.

According to the principle of "avoidance of teams in the same league" in the group draw, the group in which Manchester City is located. AC Milan, Inter Milan, Real Madrid, Barcelona and Lyon will almost certainly be one of the five.

None of these five teams are easy to deal with.

If you add to the likes of Stuttgart, Sporting Lisbon and Lazio in the third tier, Manchester City's group is almost certainly the Group of Death.

No manager wants his team to be in the Group of Death, and it's not just a matter of qualifying from the group. It means that the schedule will be tough.

The same goes for Wansheng.

This season the squad is full of squads, and he is ready to play on multiple fronts and no longer give up on domestic cup competitions easily. Trying to win more titles, in this way, the league, domestic cups, European competitions must be taken into account, and being divided into difficult groups also means that the pressure on the team will be much greater.

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Soon the draw ceremony began.

Before the start, the host Pinto suggested that everyone observe a moment of silence for the deceased player, "The draw and the medal ceremony will start soon, before we start, please let us observe a moment of silence for the recently deceased Sevilla player Puerta. ”

Just a few days ago, in the 30th minute of the match between Sevilla and Getafe, a striking scene occurred: Sevilla's left wing-back Puerta was chasing down the opponent's right midfielder's low cross, and the opposition player's cross went off the line under his pressure.

Just as everyone turned around and waited for the restart, Puerta, who had already run to the bottom line, suddenly fell to the ground.

When his teammates rushed to Puerta's side, they saw a scene like in a horror movie: Puerta was desperately picking his throat with his fingers, as if something was blocking it, and at the same time his body was shaking violently and looking extremely painful.

Sevilla central defender Dragutinovic, the closest teammate to Puerta at the time, immediately realized the seriousness of the situation, and he very experienced put his hand into Puerta's mouth to prevent the unconscious Puerta from swallowing his tongue and choking, and pressed Puerta's **** to help him pace.

After some emergency rescue, Puerta regained consciousness and was escorted back to the break room by the team doctor. But soon the bad news came that Puerta was unconscious again in the dressing room, and the team doctor immediately injected a cardiotonic to temporarily put him out of danger after suffering from respiratory failure. Puerta was then taken to the hospital.

On the night of the match, Puerta was taken to the Virgen-del-Rocio University Hospital in Seville, where she was immediately admitted to the intensive care unit, where she was fitted with electrodes for monitoring and put on a ventilator to help her breathe.

Two days later, many media revealed that Puerta's condition began to stabilize and was basically out of danger, but in fact, the medical team in charge of treatment said that Puerta's condition was still very serious, and he even had two dangerous situations of breathing and cardiac arrest in the hospital.

On the afternoon of August 28, Spanish time, Antonio Puerta died in the hospital. He was only 22 years old.

His wife's due date is estimated to be September 20, but Puerta can no longer wait for the moment when the baby is born. The last words of his life were, "If I die, please scatter my ashes at the Pizjuan Stadium." ”

This sentence touched many fans.

So it is understandable that the host Pinto suggested that everyone observe a moment of silence for the death of Antonio Puerta, whose sudden death is indeed sad news on the football field.

At Pinto's suggestion, the entire crew stood up and observed a minute of silence in Puerta's honor.

After that, the draw ceremony officially began.

The presenter first announced the best goalkeeper award, which was won by Chelsea goalkeeper Petr Cech, and then went on as usual. Petr Cech was joined by former Soviet Union legend goalkeeper Dasayev in the draw for the first-tier team.

That's how the draw went.

While announcing last season's awards, the teams were grouped, and the draw ceremony and award ceremony were interspersed, so that the fans who came to participate in the draw ceremony and watched the ceremony were dizzying.

However, for the 'bigwigs' of each team participating in the draw ceremony, it is not important to be exciting, but to do things related to their own teams. Wan Sheng only cares about Manchester City's grouping, and maybe there is something else, and that is the announcement of the 'best midfielder'.

But as expected, Morris was nominated for 'Best Midfielder'. This honor still belongs to AC Milan's Kaka, not only the 'best midfielder', but also several other honors are basically swept by AC Milan.

This has to do with AC Milan's triumph results last season, and they did deserve a few 'bests'.

AC Milan won the title last season. No one expected, despite the fact that they were one of the most promising teams to win the title, at the end of the 2005-2006 season. Serie A match-fixing scandal broke out, first Juventus was suspected of controlling the results of the season, and then AC Milan was also implicated, vice presidents Galliani and Mejani were accused of violating Article 1 unfair competition and Article 6 sports fraud, after the trial of the Rome Sports Court in Italy, the club retained the qualification for next season's Serie A and the Champions League, but deducted 8 points for the new season, 30 points for the 2005-06 season, deprived of a home qualification, and fined 100,000 euros.

Personally, vice-president Galliani is not allowed to participate in football-related affairs for nine months, and club official Mayani is not allowed to participate in football-related affairs for two and a half years.

Despite the severe impact of the incident, AC Milan went all the way to last season's Champions League in the Champions League, winning their seventh Champions League trophy in the club's history.

In the 2006-2007 season, under the leadership of the club's president Silvio Berlusconi, and under the "thrifty" leadership of the club's vice president Galliani, the team has been due to the aging personnel structure and the serious lack of strong reserves, which has continued until now, with only 11 fixed players on all fronts, which was once unable to sustain.

But it was these 11 people who played the most magnificent four games in the UEFA Champions League that season, starting from the second leg of the quarter-finals, winning the European Championship, and winning 3-1 against Sevilla, the winner of the UEFA Cup, this month, to win the UEFA Super Cup.

Last season's Champions League belonged to AC Milan, so AC Milan won a few more accolades and everyone recognized it.

It's the same with Wansheng.

Kaka will take the 'best midfielder' is almost certain, Morris has performed well, but the reason for his support is more because in the past two seasons, he has performed better than Gerrard and Frank Lampard, and has also occupied a main position in the England team, so many people voted for him.

But in last season's Champions League, Manchester City lost to AC Milan and only reached the quarterfinals, and they also have the best player 'Kaka', as the 'best player', a member of the championship team, Kaka naturally wants to take the 'best midfielder'.

Wansheng looked at AC Milan with a different look at the award than others.

He was thinking back to vague memories of his previous life.

Seem...... Is this the last glory of AC Milan?

If memory is not wrong, after 2007, due to the lineup, strength and system, the Italian team began to sink, that is, in 2010, Inter Milan rose once, and at other times they were not seen in the final.

The two most powerful Milan giants will find it difficult to play well in the Champions League, let alone other Italian teams.

After that, the Premier League teams will frequently appear on the screen, Manchester United and Chelsea are the most representative teams, but no matter how strong they are, they can't match Spain's Barcelona, which is the real 'world domination' team, in addition, in 11 years, Real Madrid will gradually recover, and the only team that can compete with the above teams, or the outstanding performance to stir up the troubled waters, is the only German team.

In this life, it has its own, and it has nothing to do with Italian football, and it is estimated that AC Milan's results will not be affected by the good, and if it does, it can only be worse.

So the corners of Wansheng's mouth only sneered.

Wansheng will not pity AC Milan, who are his opponents, who eliminated Manchester City last season when they suffered an injury crisis and several key players were unavailable.

But whatever the reason, a loss is a loss.

This season, Wan Sheng really hopes that the team will meet AC Milan in the round of 16 or the quarterfinals, so that the team, or him, can complete revenge.

A fire has risen in Wan Sheng's heart!

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In the end, Manchester City were drawn in Group E.

In Group E, in addition to Manchester City, there are seeded Lyon, Stuttgart in the Bundesliga and Glasgow Rangers in Scotland.

Manchester City have been placed in Pot 2, which is pretty much the best group.

Stuttgart and Rangers will find it difficult to threaten City's qualifying situation, and as seeded Lyon, there is not much pressure to be placed in this group.

After seeing the results of this draw, general managers Bill Nix and Sinal both showed a relaxed smile, and Wan Sheng also smiled.

"It's a good sign." He said.

The other three, including Morris, also nodded, and Sinal couldn't help but say, "Now, we have no problem qualifying." ”

Suddenly, Wan Sheng, Morris and Bee Nix all looked at him.

Sinal felt a little baffled, he didn't know what he had said wrong.

Wan Sheng smiled slightly.

Morris stood aside and didn't explain anything, while Bee Nix said, "Sinal, you have to believe in Wansheng, believe in the team, in fact, no matter what group we are in and what team we are in the group, we are the most likely to qualify!" ”

"Huh?" Sinal was a little dazed.

Wan Sheng ignored him and walked away, Bee Nix and Morris followed, and Sinal stood in place for a moment, and quickly took two steps to follow.

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