Chapter 771 Champions League Draw (Part I)
This season's Champions League group stage has come to an end, and all the teams that have advanced to the round of 16 have been born.
Italy's four teams have all qualified for the round of 16 of this season's Champions League, which can be regarded as a shot in the arm for the resurgent Italian football.
Moreover, the performance of these four teams is very eye-catching, continuing the strength of the Serie A team, and from here it can be seen that the Serie A league really lives up to the world's top league.
Next up are Spain and Italy, with three teams each advancing to the round of 16 this season, who continue to put a lot of pressure on Serie A and seem to have momentum to overtake Serie A.
Germany and France, on the other hand, both qualified for the round of 16 this season, while UEFA's highly anticipated national leagues were selected by only two teams, one from Ukraine and the other from Denmark in the Kansas highlands.
This is the last 16 of this season's Champions League.
The next thing to be carried out is naturally the draw ceremony for the round of 16 knockout round of the Champions League this season, Napoli coach Maurizio Sarri flew directly to Zurich, Switzerland with Jiang Chen and Hamsik, to participate in the draw ceremony for the round of 16 knockout round of this season's Champions League.
The rules of the draw for the knockout round are as follows: the first place in the group plays the second place in the other group, but the teams from the same association have to avoid it, that is, at this stage of the competition.
Jiang Chen and Hamsik followed Maurizio Sarri to Zurich, Switzerland, to attend the draw for the knockout round of the Champions League.
When Maurizio Sarri brought Jiang Chen and Hamsik to the scene, they bumped into Milan manager Gattuso.
Sarri immediately stepped forward to greet him, "Mr. Gattuso, I didn't expect that we would be so close to each other and come here at the same time. ”
Gattuso smiled and said, "Yes! I really didn't expect it! ”
The two bigwigs immediately reached out and shook hands with each other cordially.
Although they are very difficult to deal with in the league, when they come to the European stage, they represent Italian football, so at this time they are on the same line.
The seats of the head coaches of the four Serie A teams are all next to each other, and the four of them naturally greeted each other as soon as they met.
Of course, there were times when Sarri frowned, because Gattuso was digging into his corner at this time and asking if he had any intention of selling Jiang Chen.
At that time, Sarri was really a little shocked, he didn't expect that Gattuso hadn't given up to Jiang Chen until now, which shocked him.
At this time, the president of UEFA, Ceferin, immediately stepped onto the stage, and he said to the guests below: "Welcome to the 2019-2020 season, the draw ceremony for the round of 16 of the Champions League, welcome everyone!" ”
Immediately there were blazing cheers and applause, and everyone gave UEFA a lot of face.
Ceferin smiled and said: "This season's Champions League group stage has come to an end, and all teams have performed very well in the group stage of this Champions League, making this year's Champions League group stage very exciting, thank you!" ”
The guests at the scene immediately responded to UEFA Secretary General Cheferin with hot applause.
"After a brutal group stage, there are a total of 16 teams that have reached the knockout stage, and these 16 teams are as follows. ”
Cheferin read the names of all sixteen teams collectively, and immediately remembered the scorching applause.
The teams that qualified for the round of 16 are: Fiorentina, Schalke 04, A Milan, Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Juventus, Real Madrid, Napoli, Bremen, Lyon, Valencia, Copenhagen, Roma, Marseille, Manchester United and Shakhtar Donetsk.
On this occasion, Ceferin added: "We would like to congratulate Inter Milan on winning the Club World Cup and bringing glory to our European football. ”
The guests at the scene gave another round of warm applause to the Inter Milan team.
Ceferin continued: "And we would like to congratulate FC Copenhagen, who have progressed from the group for the first time in their history to the round of 16. ”
Now of course, there was another round of applause, and they gave the applause to the Copenhagen team, and the guests naturally responded to Cheferin with the warmest applause.
However, at this time, everyone's attention is focused on the upcoming draw ceremony for the knockout round of 16 of the Champions League.
Jiang Chen is also very concerned about the result of the draw, after all, it is related to whether they can go further and further in the Champions League.
Fortunately, at this time, Ceferin said in time: "The first leg of this season's Champions League quarter-finals will be played on February 15/16, 2020, the second leg will be played on March 8/9, 2011, and the final will be played at the Emirates Stadium in England on May 28, 2011. ”
At this time, Maurizio Sarri's brow furrowed, and he was thinking about whether the Napoli team's schedule would be too full? Will there be schedule conflicts?
At this time, Ceferin immediately announced: "The draw for the knockout round of 16 of this season's Champions League has officially begun. ”
The atmosphere at the scene suddenly became tense, and everyone at the scene was staring at the stage with their eyes firmly on the stage, all looking forward to the lottery ceremony this time.
The first draw is to draw a team from the eight teams that finished second in each group, and everyone in the audience is glued to the stage, and the draw ceremony has begun.
Jiang Chen, who was sitting in the audience, was staring at the stage with his eyes tight, and he was also a little nervous at this time.
At this time, the lottery guests on the stage instantly drew one of the eight teams in second place, and he slowly twisted the ball and slowly opened the piece of paper inside.
Rome----!
The first team to be drawn was Roma!
Roma manager Donadoni and his players immediately became nervous because it was their opponents who were going to be drawn next, and they were nervous.
Sarri and Jiang Chen are also a little nervous, they are not worried that they will draw their Napoli team, they are worried about drawing these easter egg teams in Copenhagen, after all, their strength is weaker.
At this time, the lottery guests on the stage had already twitched one of the eight teams that won the group, and the atmosphere at the scene immediately became tense, and Jiang Chen was even more eye-catching, staring at the round ball in the hands of the lottery guests.
At this time, the lottery guest suddenly raised his head and smiled at the audience, which made the members of the coaching staff of the Roma team feel cold, is this a very bad sign?