After the league, the final round of the Champions League group stage, Valencia away to challenge Manchester United, because Manchester United has locked the first place in the group, Valencia locked the second in the group, this game is more like a friendly match, and finally Manchester United and Valencia are valued by peace, 1:1 hand in hand from Group C.

On the second day, the eight group qualifiers for the Champions League were also decided, Group A were: Tottenham Hotspur and Inter Milan, Group B was Schalke 04 and Lyon, Group C was Manchester United and Valencia, Group D was Barcelona and Copenhagen, Group E was Bayern and Roma, Group F was Chelsea and Marseille, Group G was Real Madrid and Ac Milan, Group H was Shakhtar Donetsk and Arsenal.

The group is topped by Tottenham, Schalke 04, Manchester United, Barcelona, Whites, Chelsea, Real Madrid, Shakhtar Donetsk, and the group is finished by Inter Milan, Lyon, Valencia, Copenhagen, Roma, Marseille, AC Milan and Arsenal.

Third in the group: FC Twente, Glasgow Rangers, Benfica, Basel, Kazan Rubys, Spartak Moscow, Ajax and Braga moved to the Europa League.

This season's Champions League group stage can be described as uneventful, the giants and strong teams all qualified, without a big upset, if there is an upset, that is, the Ukrainian league leader Shakhtar Donetsk and the fifth place Tottenham in the Premier League beat Arsenal and Inter Milan respectively to win the group.

Arsenal have a lot of young people and their record has been inconsistent, but they are not strong teams in Group H at all, and it is surprising that they are firmly pressed into second place by Ukrainian teams.

Of course, the most surprising thing is the cliff-like fall of Inter Milan last season, in the league, Inter Milan 6 wins, 5 draws and 4 losses, 13 points behind the leader Ac Milan, has fallen out of the league title team, in the Champions League, they were beaten by the Premier League's fifth Tottenham Hotspur, and finally only won the second group.

Inter Milan did not sell any of the champions except for the head coach Jose Mourinho and the core Gao Xiaodong, which is really surprising and proves that Mourinho and Gao Xiaodong played a decisive role in the fight for the treble.

Due to the wonderful performances of Shakhtar Donetsk and Tottenham, the next Champions League quarterfinals are no longer strong and weak, and there are more highlights.

After the Champions League group stage, the most interesting thing is the draw for the knockout round.

Although each draw of the Champions League matches is very transparent and broadcast live to the world, it seems very fair, but because each draw is very coincidental and there are some more topical matchups, many fans think that UEFA is suspected of artificially manipulating the draw in order to increase ratings.

In fact, there have always been rumors about the Champions League draw, and Turkish journalist Kakar once broke the news that UEFA cheated by setting a vibrator to control the vibration frequency of the ball during the draw.

In addition to this method of breaking the news by real people, there are many other rumors on the rivers and lakes to control the lottery, such as before the lottery, the organizer can heat or cool a specific ball, so that its appearance and feel are clearly different from other balls. This way, when the guests draw lots, they can find out that particular ball according to the temperature, and the audience in front of the TV looks like it was drawn at random. In addition, the weight of the balls can also be used for hands and feet, and by choosing different materials, there is a significant weight difference between those balls with the same shape, which is easy for guests to perceive. The first two are physical methods, and there is also a chemical method, UEFA sprays a chemical agent called luminol on the ball, and the ball will appear a special color under the light, but this requires wearing special contact lenses to see, and ordinary people cannot detect it with the naked eye.

Of course, these are just rumors, and have not been confirmed, whether UEFA has manipulated the draw or not, and it is still a situation where there is a belief or not.

The day after the Champions League group stage, UEFA held the draw for the quarter-finals of the Champions League at its home headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.

With Manchester United taking on defending champions Chelsea at Stamford Bridge at the weekend, another battle of the season, a win on the road could really be a halfway point to the league title.

Manchester United took the game very seriously, with Alex Ferguson staying in Manchester to prepare for the game and not with David. Gil went to Nyon, Switzerland, together for the draw ceremony.

At 12 o'clock in the afternoon, after training in the snow, the Manchester United players took a shower and dined before heading to the tactical hall to watch the draw for the quarter-finals.

According to the draw rules, Manchester United will certainly not meet Arsenal and Valencia, and the remaining six group runners-up are likely to be Manchester United's knockout opponents.

Undoubtedly, Manchester United most wants to meet Copenhagen and Marseille, followed by Lyon and Roma, the last thing you want to meet is the Milan duo, as the saying goes, the skinny camel is bigger than the horse, even if Inter Milan in the league and the Champions League this season have declined greatly, they are still the foundation of last season's treble, Milan has won the Champions League second only to Real Madrid, the Champions League is extremely experienced, this season's league performance is excellent, or Manchester United's natural enemy, except for Inter Milan, all the second place, Manchester United does not want to touch the last is Ac Milan。

This season's Champions League final was played at Wembley Stadium in England, and the draw was attended by Manchester United legend Sir Charlton, but it was snowing in England and the weather was bad, Sir Charlton did not arrive in time, and the draw was presided over by UEFA's competition director Macedi.

The first group to be drawn out of the second is Roma, Rome is very lucky, the first group that was drawn out turned out to be Shakhtar Donetsk, with such a good signing, the average strength of Rome can hope for the top 8.

The next place draw was AC Milan, and the players and coaches were a little nervous, but Tottenham won the prize and they became AC Milan's opponents.

Valencia and Arsenal were then drawn in turn, and their opponents were Schalke 04 and Barcelona respectively.

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger looked frustrated, and before the game he insinuated that UEFA would definitely let Arsenal draw the strongest Barcelona, and the result was exactly what he wanted.

However, Wenger can't blame luck or UEFA, if Arsenal finish top of the group, they won't be able to touch Barcelona if they want to, in competitive football, food is the original sin.

Next, the old enemies of Lyon and Real Madrid were also drawn together, and the strong Real Madrid was not afraid, Mourinho still had a no-one expression in his eyes, and did not seem to put Lyon, who had repeatedly eliminated Real Madrid, in his eyes.

Marseille were then drawn by Bayern Munich to finish second in two groups, the strongest Inter Milan and the weakest Copenhagen, while the group winners happened to be Chelsea and Manchester United, who were about to play in the league.

Choose one of the two, 50% of the possibility, Manchester United players are nervous, they don't know whether the opponent will be Inter Milan or Copenhagen, the difference between the two is big, if you draw Inter Milan, even if you can win, it is estimated that you will have to go to the skin if you don't die, and if you draw Copenhagen, it will be almost the same as eating Häagen-Dazs, easy and pleasant.

"It's definitely Inter, revenge. That's what UEFA likes to do. ”

"That's right, Gao Xiaodong went home, it's more interesting. ”

"It's a black-box operation again. ”

"God forbid, give us a Copenhagen. ”

"Ye, let's get lucky. ”

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There was a lot of talk among Manchester United's players, with most people having a hunch that they would fall victim to UEFA's increased ratings.