Chapter 266: Grouping and Drawing

After the match against Alaves, Real Madrid have only one game left in February 2002, the final game of the second stage of the group stage on 27 February, but this game is no longer important for Real Madrid, who have already secured the top spot in the group and qualified for the quarter-finals of the Champions League. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

On 27 February, Real Madrid went to Athens, the capital of Greece, with a full bench lineup.

The 2-2 scoreline didn't mean anything for Real Madrid, but it did for Panathinachs, who were able to overtake Porto to finish second in the group with this draw and thus qualify for the quarter-finals of the Champions League.

In the next few days, the second phase of the Champions League group stage matches have been played one after another, and the list of the quarterfinals has finally appeared.

This season, Real Madrid, Deportivo La Coruna, Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Manchester United, Liverpool, Bayer Leverkusen and Panathinaikos have reached the quarter-finals of the Champions League.

La Liga once again occupies three places in the quarter-finals of the Champions League, while in the Premier League, Arsenal has not been able to continue the good results of previous seasons, and Arsene Wenger is still angry about Liu Han's departure from the club's management. Liverpool have risen to prominence with a number of young players, but they have been overwhelmed by Manchester United and Arsenal in the league, and even Chelsea can sometimes overwhelm them.

The Bundesliga is no longer a standout this season, with Bayer Leverkusen on the rise, and they have also suppressed Bayern Munich in the league.

In the five major leagues, Serie A and Ligue 1 teams have sunk across the board, and none of them have reached the quarterfinals, and the decline of Serie A is already a recognized fact.

On March 3, La Liga entered the final eleven rounds of matches, and the twenty-eighth round of the league officially began.

With three consecutive league wins, Real Madrid are once again four points clear of second-placed Valencia in the standings, which is not too big, but at least ensures Real Madrid's safety in one game.

In the 28th round of the league, Real Madrid's opponent is Celta, who are now in sixth place in the league, and European qualification is expected, and even can challenge for next season's Champions League qualification, so the next games are very important for Celta.

However, now they are facing a magnificent Real Madrid, not the arrogant and proud Real Madrid team before, so even if the Celta team is very tenacious in this game and the defense is very good, it still can't stop Real Madrid from winning.

In the first half, the two teams exchanged blanks, and just five minutes into the second half, Liu Han helped Real Madrid take the lead with a long-range shot from outside the penalty area.

After that, Celta tried to organize a counter-attack, but Real Madrid was very focused in this game, so it was not successful.

In the end, Real Madrid relied on Liu Han's goal to beat Celta Vigo 1-0, and Liu Han also continued to expand his leading position in the scorer list with this goal, and 26 goals are almost as many as the team's goals for more than half a season.

Real Madrid's schedule in March is not very intensive, except for two Copa del Rey games, the rest is the league, and the Champions League quarter-finals do not start until April.

However, after entering March, Real Madrid, a "big" team of the national team, is facing a big problem, that is, the warm-up match before the start of the World Cup.

On March 7, FIFA will hold a draw in Lausanne, Switzerland, to determine the group groups for the June World Cup, after which the national teams will start a series of warm-up matches to prepare for the upcoming World Cup in South Korea and Japan in June.

And on the same day that the FIFA draw will be held, UEFA will also hold the Champions League quarterfinals draw, which is a restructuring of the Champions League this season, in order to avoid the second stage of the group stage because of the subsequent quarter-finals and some teams deliberately save their strength in the game.

Although Liu Han has not paid attention to these, but there are many people around him who pay attention, Zidane and others do not say, just one Carlos is very active in collecting all kinds of news, after all, Liu Han will no longer be a spectator in this year's World Cup, but a player who really participates in the game, not only Carlos is looking forward to playing with Liu Han in the World Cup, most of the other players in Real Madrid are looking forward to competing with Liu Han in the World Cup, and they are bullied by Liu Han in training and they want to get it back in the national team game.

On March 7, UEFA first held a draw in which the eight teams were divided into two groups according to the first and second groups of the group, and then the UEFA president and the executive committee drew the teams to face each other.

Real Madrid were drawn in the third draw, against last season's rivals Bayern Munich.

In last season's Champions League semi-finals, Real Madrid defeated Bayern Munich over two legs to reach the Champions League final and eventually win the eighth Champions League title in the club's history, while Bayern Munich had to accept the bitter consequences of defeat.

The second time the two teams met this season was in the Champions League quarter-finals, which has to be regrettable, and the matchup between the two teams is seen as the most closely watched round of the Champions League quarter-finals.

The other encounters are: Deportivo vs. Manchester United, Liverpool vs. Bayer Leverkusen, Barcelona vs. Panathinax, except for Barcelona's matchup in this round is not too suspenseful, the other two rounds of matchups are evenly matched.

After the Champions League draw, FIFA held the World Cup draw in Lausanne.

The Chinese team was placed in Group C, along with Brazil, Turkey and Costa Rica, which is a good group for the Chinese team.

The other groups are also more evenly distributed, but Group F is considered to be the group of death in this World Cup, this group includes England, Argentina, Nigeria and Sweden, England and Argentina are divided into the same group is regarded as a narrow road, since the Mexico World Cup in '86, these two countries have brought many wonderful performances to everyone in the World Cup.

Not to mention Maradola's "Hand of God" and "Goal of the Century", the duel between the two teams in the quarterfinals of the World Cup in '98 alone is a classic, Owen's sideways and Beckham's red card, Simeone's "wonderful performance" and Zanetti's classic free kick cooperation, the two teams sent a classic quarter-final duel for the world.

Moreover, England and Argentina also fought a local war in 1982 because of the Malvinas Island, so it can be said that the two countries have a deep grudge. (To be continued.) )