Chapter 025: Good Signing (3rd Update, Thank You for Torturing Each Other to the Reward)
The draw for the group stage of the UEFA Champions League was also the award ceremony for last season's UEFA Champions League awards. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Last season's UEFA Champions League was won by Premier League giants Liverpool.
In Istanbul, Liverpool came from three goals down to beat the unbalanced Serie A giants AC Milan on penalties. This is the most famous 'Istanbul Miracle' in the history of football!
Chelsea goalkeeper Marek Cech was named last season's goalkeeper of the year.
In addition, John Terry is the best defender, Kaka is named the best midfielder, the best striker goes to Ronaldinho, and the Most Valuable Player of the Year is Steven Gerrard.
UEFA has also announced last season's UEFA Champions League Team of the Match.
Chelsea captain John Terry, AC Milan captain Maldini, Barcelona captain Payol Puyol and AC Milan's Brazilian star Cafu are among the defenders in last season's Champions League team.
In midfield, AC Milan's Brazilian golden boy Kaka, Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard, Liverpool's Spaniard Luis Garcia and Barcelona's Brazilian star Ronaldinho were the best midfielders.
Up front, Barcelona's Cameroon star Samuel Eto'o and AC Milan's Ukrainian star Shepchenko were named in the best striker team.
This is very interesting, at the award ceremony, Ronaldinho won the award for the best striker, and in the UEFA best team, Ronaldinho's position was fixed in the midfield......
Champion Liverpool only two players, Steven Gerrard and Luis Garcia, made the best eleven team of the season, which on the one hand also shows how crazy Liverpool's performance in the final is, and the game is the world.
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The award ceremony was followed by the draw ceremony.
The draw includes 16 teams that qualified directly into the group stage and 16 teams who qualified through the qualifiers (including defending champions Liverpool). According to UEFA's club points system, Liverpool is seeded with the top 7 teams, and the other 24 teams are divided into 3 brackets. During the draw, one team will be drawn from each pot to form a group, for a total of 8 groups, provided that the teams in the same league are not in the same group.
Group A includes Bayern Munich, Juventus, Club Brugge and Rapid Wien, with Bayern Munich and Juventus also in the same group last season. At that time, Juventus beat Bayern Munich 1-0 home and away. Group B has Arsenal, Ajax, Sparta Prague and Thun. Group C features Barcelona, Panathinaiques, Bremen and Udinese, with Barcelona in the same group as Bremen last season. At that time, Barcelona won 2-0 at home and were held to a 1-1 draw away by Bremen. Group D has Manchester United, Villarreal, Lille and Benfica. It is worth noting that Forlan, the top scorer in La Liga last season, will face his old club.
Group E has AC Milan, PSV Eindhoven, Schalke 04 and Fenerbahce. Group F has Real Madrid, Lyon, Olympiax and Rosenborg. Group G is Liverpool, Chelsea, Anderlecht and Sporting Gijon. Liverpool and Chelsea met in the Champions League semi-finals last season, when Liverpool won 1-0 over two legs. The two teams met a total of five times last season, so they know each other well.
Inter Milan were drawn to Group H. They were placed in a group with Scottish giants Glasgow Rangers, Portuguese giants Porto and Slovak league champions Atmediaa.
It's a good grouping for Inter.
There are no big teams in the big five leagues in the traditional sense of the word.
Both Leon and Facchetti feel that this is a good signing, they are the strongest in this group, and Inter Milan's group top is basically stable.
Rangers and Porto are in contention for second place in the group.
As for the Slovak league champion, Atmedia, it is considered a fish belly, not even a spoiler.
When he saw the results of the draw, Inter Milan president Fachetti had a relaxed smile on his face.
Li Ang also breathed a sigh of relief, he didn't meet a strong team in the group stage, and he was not divided into the group of death, which was not bad.
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Compared to Inter Milan, Sporting Gijon's former club has bad luck, and it can even be said that it is very bad.
Sporting Gijón have been drawn in Group G, along with reigning Premier League champions, Mourinho's Chelsea, there is the defending champion of the Champions League, Liverpool (although Liverpool won the European Champions Cup last season, however, they did not reach the top four in the Premier League, according to the rules, they did not qualify for the Champions League this season, however, the defending champion can not enter the Champions League, it is unbelievable to say, so, UEFA opened the net for Liverpool, they were allowed to participate in the Champions League qualification, and finally Liverpool successfully qualified through the qualifying round, however, because it is notThe 'regular way' to enter the Champions League did not occupy the Champions League place, so in the group draw, Liverpool is a 'wild card' to participate, and there is no domestic league avoidance principle, so there is a situation where Chelsea in the same league is in the same group, and there is no violation of the rules).
Also in this group is Belgian giants Anderlecht.
Sporting Gijón, who suffered heavy blood loss, was placed in this group, which can be called the group of death in the true sense of the word.
Leon caught a glimpse of Sporting Gijón boss Manuel Arango's face stiffening, while manager Antich smiled wryly, and it was clear that they were aware of the difficulty of the group.
For Leon's Inter Milan, the most powerful threat to them in this group is Portuguese Super League giants Porto.
However, although Porto won the Champions League in 2004 under the leadership of Jose Mourinho, after reaching the top of Europe, that Porto team has become a supermarket, many stars have been lost, and now the strength is not as good as before.
Inter Milan and Porto met in the quarter-finals of last year's Champions League, when Inter Milan won 4-2 home and away. Therefore, Porto pose a certain threat to Inter Milan, but as long as Leon's team plays at a high level, there is nothing to worry about. Of course, he is confident, but what is the situation of Inter Milan after the big change, I am afraid that the media will have a different opinion.
Glasgow Rangers may have the quality to stir up the game, but, in Leon's view, unless Inter Milan make a mistake themselves, Glasgow Rangers pose no threat to Inter Milan.
As for Atmedia, Leon even heard of this team for the first time, and if I remember correctly, this should be the first and last time this team has entered the Champions League in these years, because he has never heard of this team later.
The Slovak league title poses no threat to his Inter Milan.
Therefore, Li Ang is very satisfied with the result of this draw, this is a good lot!
PS: The 3rd update, thanks to the ten thousand rewards who tortured each other to the point of whitehead.
It's 3:40 in the middle of the night, so tired, hot and tired. Can't blow the air conditioner, blow a headache, don't blow and hot, this ghost weather.