The draw for the quarter-finals of the 2007-08 Champions League season took place on Friday at UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, with eight teams taking part in the draw: Blackburn Rovers, Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea, Barcelona, Roma, Shackel 04 and Fenerbahce. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

This Champions League fully reflects the situation of the Premier League, with all four Premier League teams in the Champions League reaching the quarter-finals, and in addition, in the League Cup quarter-finals, there are old Premier League powerhouses such as Liverpool.

The draw ceremony officially began at 13 o'clock, and because he hated these ceremonies, Arthur did not go in person, but was led by the club's vice-president, Mensa Bangsu.

It started with UEFA Secretary General Taylor's presentation of the rules of the draw and the timing of each stage of the match, after which UEFA broadcast a recap of the highlights of the eight teams advancing to the quarter-finals.

After the recap of the highlights, the draw officially began.

The first to be drawn was Arsenal, and the Gunners' opponents were Chelsea.

"Hey, the London derby civil war Champions League version, what a good way to do it." Arthur sat in front of the TV and watched the live broadcast, disdainful.

Arthur has long known that the strength of the Premier League makes UEFA, so in order to avoid the Champions League semi-finals and the champions and runners-up being swept by the Premier League BIG4, the group draw for the Champions League every year will be as civil war as possible in the Premier League.

Ironically, Arthur knew that La Liga was not even weaker than the Premier League in the next few years, but at that time UEFA had no plans for it, even if the UEFA president changed before and after, the situation did not improve.

The second to be drawn is Roma, and the opponent of the "Red Wolves" is Manchester United.

"The rhythm of the Final Four." The only man Arthur fears in the Premier League is Alex Ferguson.

Although Ronaldo has long been abducted to Blackburn by Arthur in this life, Ferguson, who does not have Ronaldo, has created a weakened version of Ronaldo's Queresma, as well as Rooney and Tevez, who are much stronger than the same period in the previous life.

The third to be drawn is Schalke 04, and the only team in Germany will face Barcelona in La Liga. The two four major leagues will compete for the sole seedlings of their respective countries.

The last matchup did not need to be drawn again, and only Fenerbahce and Blackburn remained.

"Fenerbahce? What a good opponent. Arthur saw his team's next opponent in the Champions League and said with confidence.

Arthur is confident that while Premier League teams will be targeted by UEFA, his Blackburn Rovers will be a special team.

On the one hand, Platini, who Arthur had worked hard for many years last year, finally became the president of UEFA as he had in his previous life, and in the case of Arthur and Platini's good personal relationship, Arthur assured that the Blue Devils would support Platini's reforms like Barcelona in the previous life, and at least they would not be targeted if they were not taken care of like Barcelona in the previous life

On the other hand, with the remaining three Premier League teams being targeted to a greater or lesser extent, Blackburn's 'normal' will become fodder for UEFA to use against the media – didn't you say we were targeting Premier League teams? But Blackburn Rovers are also a Premier League team, but isn't everything normal? So the argument against the Premier League teams is completely unfounded.

Fenerbahce is still a strong side in the Turkish league, but against Blackburn, it is not an opponent at all, and in the face of an old but cautious manager like Lippi, the Blue Devils' promotion to the last four can be said to be a sure thing.

The semi-final match-up will then be drawn, with the winner between Arsenal and Chelsea taking on the winner between Roma and Manchester United, and the winner between Schalke 04 and Barcelona taking on the winner between Fenerbahce and Blackburn.

"Avoiding Manchester United and Arsenal, meeting Barcelona in the semi-finals, it's really a sign!" Arthur is very satisfied with the results of this draw!

If you put it in a season or two ago, Barcelona and Blackburn were the least wanted opponents of any team in the Champions League, but now, because of Arthur's youthful strategy and unparalleled vision, Blackburn are still strong, but Barcelona are in the throes of a new generation this season.

Without the football elf Ronaldinho, although Arthur knows that Messi, who is still a superstar, will be stronger than Ronaldo in the future, Messi in 2008 will not be able to carry Barcelona - at least in the Champions League semi-finals, against a strong opponent like Blackburn, Messi will not be able to dominate the game on his own.

When it comes to Messi, Arthur is more or less depressed.

There are different opinions on whether Messi is the king of the ball, but Arthur personally believes that even if Messi is not the third king after Pele and Maradona, but in terms of strength alone, Messi and Ronaldo are above all other players in the world, and the next ten years of football from 2008 belong only to these two.

Whether you are a fan of Messi or a fan of Ronaldo, in the current world football, only Messi and Ronaldo can be compared, and the other players are a notch behind.

Arthur naturally knows how amazing Messi's future development is, and he had the intention of poaching Messi before he entered the Barcelona first team, but unfortunately he was worried that Messi, who left La Masia to cultivate, would not be able to reach the heights of later generations - for other stars, it doesn't matter if he can't reach Arthur, but for Messi, Arthur can't bear to ruin this quasi-ball king.

Before the 2005 World Youth Championships, Arthur first proposed to Barcelona to buy Messi, but unfortunately Arthur's nickname of "Golden Eye" had already resounded in European football - you don't see the young players introduced by Arthur before, including Ibrahimovic and Lampard, the two European Ballon d'Or winners, as well as Robben, Carvalho and others, which one of them did not become absolute superstars in football in the future?

After getting Arthur's offer, Barcelona immediately regarded Messi as a baby, and after the World Youth Championships, it was the first time to mention the status of non-sale, so that Arthur never had the opportunity to get Messi again.

"I'm lucky, but I'm sorry to lose my life......"

Arthur doesn't care about not getting Messi, because in the previous life, until Arthur was reborn, he couldn't prove whether Messi was a system player, maybe after Messi came to Blackburn, the biggest height was just a strengthened version of Aguero.

The first leg of the Champions League quarter-finals will be played on 1 and 2 April, while the second leg will be played on 8 and 9 April. The first leg of the semi-finals will be on 22 and 23 April, the second legs will be on 29 and 30 April, and the final will be played in Moscow on 21 May.

And once Blackburn enters the final round, then they will definitely get the advantage of home with the Russian "Tsar" Arshavin!

Everything seems to be moving in Blackburn's favor.

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"Oh, pretty! Torres opens the scoring with a shot from a tight angle! It was the Spaniard's fourth Champions League goal of the season and his 19th competitive goal since joining Blackburn, who made a good deal last summer! ”

"Cristiano Ronaldo's leap to the top! 2:0, Blackburn once again broke through the opponent's goal, Ronaldo is like a brave man sprinting to the throne, the Portuguese is in amazing form this season, in the Premier League, in the Champions League, no one performs better than him! More perfect! No one! ”

"David Bentley! 3:0！ Beckham's golden right foot sealed the win for Blackburn...... It's a pity that such a great player can't qualify for this summer's Champions League, damn McLaren! ”

The match that made the England commentator so passionate was the first leg of the Champions League quarter-final between Blackburn Rovers vs Fenerbahce, with Blackburn Rovers hosting their opponents.

Fenerbahçe's home stadium is the home of the devil and is something that no strong team dares to underestimate, and in the six home games before this season, Fenerbahce has won four and drawn two, which is a near-perfect answer.

Unfortunately, this result does not make Fenerbahce's home stadium the most terrifying home stadium of the season, because above them, there is also a Devil's home stadium that has won all of their Champions League games this season, with 11 wins and two draws in the league - Blackburn's Abu Dhabi Rose Theatre Stadium.

Knowing that Fenerbahce is not easy to mess with at home, then Lippi has no intention of creating a challenge for himself, because the Blue Devils are even more difficult to mess with at home, so we simply solved this problem at the Rose Theater in the first leg.

In the end, with the goals of Torres, Ronaldo and Bentley, the first leg of the Champions League quarterfinals at Blackburn opened perfectly with a score of 3:0, and this score basically killed the suspense of this group of duels to advance to the semi-finals.

After all, Fenerbahce's home stadium is terrifying, but the team in football that can overturn Lippi's Blackburn Rovers in this situation is absolutely not - unless it is the Nange team led by the big empty wing.

Sure enough, in the away game a week later, Fenerbahce was completely resigned to his fate after being unable to shake the Blackburn Rovers defense led by Nemanja Vidic in the first half, and Lippi did not provoke the opponent's thoughts, and finally the two teams drew 0:0, and Blackburn easily advanced to the last four of this season's Champions League.

And the day before Blackburn entered the semi-finals, the opponents they will face in the semi-finals have also been successfully released - Barcelona eliminated Schalke 04, Messi and Ronaldo, the two kings of football in the next ten years of Arthur's previous life, will finally face each other for the first time in this life!

However, the Champions League semi-final with Barcelona is still half a month away, and before that, Arthur and his Blackburns will make the final push to win the Premier League this season!

The Blues are only a year away from the Premier League throne, but Arthur feels like too much time has passed. (To be continued.) )