The UEFA Cup has adopted a strange format for the new season, with the first round of the tournament being added to a round-robin group stage, which is a single round-robin. Each team is divided into a group of five teams, and each team has four rounds of matches in the group stage, with the specific home game being played by drawing lots.

A total of 40 teams are divided into eight groups, and the top three teams in the group will qualify for a total of 24 teams at the end of the round-robin, plus the eight third-place teams eliminated from the Champions Cup group stage, to form the round of 32, after which the traditional home-and-away knockout rounds will be played each other until the winner is determined.

Madiborg are in Group H with Sevilla (Spain), AEK (Greece), Zenit (St. Petersburg) (Russia) and Lille (France) in their home game against Ligue 1 Lille FC.

In fact, Lille and Madiburg are very similar teams, both are young clubs with only fifty or sixty years of history, and both are small teams with less than 20,000 home seats. Lille's chairman, Michel Seydoux and Angus Mullen, are both fairly wealthy businessmen, but neither are they the richest at the top. However, Michel Seydoux only bought the Lille club at the beginning of this year, unlike President Mullen, who has owned Madiburg for more than a decade.

Interestingly, Michel Seydoux was fascinated by a series of magical teams in Madiburg that he decided to get a team to play with as well. It just so happened that Lille was privately looking for a buyer, and the similar appearance of the small team immediately moved Chairman Seydoux.

After taking over at the beginning of the year, Chairman Seydoux made a series of moves in the winter transfer window, and then Lille soared in the second half of the season, finally settling down to 10th place in the relegation zone, and the improvement was okay. After continuing to strengthen this summer, Lille has been in a stronger and stronger form in the new season, and they are currently locked in the league with two old Ligue 1 powerhouses, Lyon and Monaco, with the top three teams holding the top three and changing places at any time.

There is also a small tidbit, in the summer Madibourg and Lille in a secret little contest, the French have the lead. At that time, both teams had their eyes on a 13-year-old Belgian boy and were trying to dig the football talent into their own echelons, and Lille got his wish, and the Madiborg man shrugged his shoulders helplessly.

When the scouting departments of the two clubs discovered this potential teenager at the same time, the first team coach Claude Puel and the youth team coach were recruited by Madiborg, and when Madiburgh passed the information to the club's head coach Jurgen Klopp, Uncle Scum, who was on vacation with his wife and children in Australia, just appointed a staff member of the sports department to lobby. In contrast, the difference in the importance of the two clubs led the Belgian teenager's family to favour the French, who eventually went to Lille.

Lille coach Claude Puel was quite famous at this time, the former Monaco's loyal and meritorious captain, the senior apprentice of Professor Wenger, the young coach who led Monaco to win the Ligue 1 championship, and cultivated famous teachers such as Henry, Trezeguet, Butters, and Reese, which became his halo in the eyes of the Belgian teenager's family. However, if Uncle Scum could have given up his body at that time and ran in person, he would not have fallen behind at all just with his reputation as the mentor of the Six Musketeers, and the Belgian Puyu would have defected to Madiburg. Because the teenager himself is more eager to go to Madiburg, he has two idols in football, Scar Ribery and King Zhuoyang.

The boy's name is Eden Hazard!

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Madiburg still followed the strategy that had been laid out before the season, with Zhuo Yang leading a team of pure substitutes, including Lauren, Braun and Dunbar in the 'Group C Five'. Uncle Scum dared to take such a risk to use these three veterans who were slightly lacking in ability, the League Cup was originally used for military training, and the second was to appease and reward, and more importantly, because Klopp had done a very detailed study of his opponent.

Lille at this time did not have the kind of stars that fans could easily call out in the future, but they were all powerful players, belonging to the type that veteran fans have heard of. It's just that Lille now has some long and short legs, and the standard offense is weak and the defense is strong, and they can stay in the top three in the league precisely because of their solid defense.

To be honest, Madiburg in the League Cup is really not afraid that this kind of shield is not strong, because the substitute defense of Madiburg's own weak combination is really worrying, but in the face of the opponent's strong defense, Zhuo Yang can basically always find a way to arch into one.

As the number of young people in Madiburg has become more immersed in professional football, and as the number of players in the team has increased, the number of acquaintances in the football world has increased, and there are many new and old acquaintances in today's opponent Lille team.

The boat also has two nails, even if the general reputation is not obvious, but the relatively famous in the Lille team are the central defender Bodmer and the defender Jean Marcon in the famous 'Lille Three', these two are also acquaintances of Madibourg.

Jean Marguen is the main defender of the Cameroon national team, and he has a very good relationship with the captain 'Lion King' Rigbert Lao Song, and the two of them are two defensive barriers in the national team, with a very tacit iron partner. Of course, the 21-year-old Ma Kong is Lao Song's younger brother.

Bodmer and the team's main striker Musilu and former Madibourg player Scar Ribery are teammates in the French youth team, and they both went to Paris to congratulate Ribery when they got married, so they naturally knew most of the Madibourg players.

Another of Lille's main centre-backs, Greek Tavladis, was a substitute for Madiburg's vice-captain 'The Rock' Dellas in the Greek national team.

Before the game, everyone had a lively greeting with each other, because it was a night game, Lille was bound to spend the night in Hanover, so everyone agreed, no matter who wins or loses after the game, they will get together after the game, and the people of Madiburg will be the east.

The process of the game was as Uncle Scum expected, Lille's attack was not sharp, and as Uncle Scum knew, Madibourg's own backline was weak and full of holes, especially the veteran Dennis Lauren became a weakness, he simply could not cope with the League Cup-level attack, even if the opponent was not sharp. Lauren was too reluctant in terms of ability or sense of integration with Pomponluis, and it was Lauren who missed a goal from Lille's Slovenian striker Asimovic on loan from Tottenham Hotspur.

Fortunately, Zhuo Yang and Reham Hamsik and Ibisevic played a dazzling set of cooperation before, and the Bosnian scored the first goal with a sweeping shot, which made it possible not to enter the lounge with a backward score in the first half.

With Zhuo Yang's current level of planning and organization and individual attacking ability, Madiburg created four chances to hit the target in the first half, which is very good. But the man relied on the offensive routine that was not rich, and he forced eight shots on target, which is the opportunity left by the confusion at the back to the opponent, fortunately, the good man Handanovic is as brave as ever, otherwise the joke would be big.

However, as soon as the second half started, Madiburg fell behind.