Just when Jiang Chenxi and Liverpool were in the third round of contract renewal negotiations, domestic fans turned their attention to Malaysia.

On April 12, two days before the first leg of the Champions League quarterfinals between Liverpool and Juventus, the draw for the second stage of the 2018 World Cup Asian Qualifiers and the 2019 Asian Cup Qualifiers for the Top 40 was held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

At the draw ceremony held at the AFC headquarters in Kuala Lumpur, the Chinese team as the Asian Cup champion was seeded, and the Chinese team was placed in Group C, and the opponents in the same group were Qatar (Pot 2), Maldives (Pot 3), Bhutan (Pot 4) and Hong Kong, China (Pot 5).

After the results came out, domestic public opinion generally believed that it was "signed", and from the perspective of the schedule, it was also very beneficial to the Chinese team.

However, in the same group, the Qatar team is the national football bitter master, the previous two teams in the world preliminaries 7 times encountered, the Chinese team 1 win, 3 draws and 3 losses in the disadvantage, Qatar can be called the bitter master of Chinese football, in two world preliminaries and an Asian Cup, the Chinese team was eliminated because of the loss to Qatar, the last meeting between the two sides was in the 2011 Asian Cup, the Qatar team defeated the Chinese team 2-0.

However, the other three teams, Maldives, Bhutan and Hong Kong, China, are all very limited. Therefore, after the group situation was revealed, the head coach of the national football team, Peilan, who was at the draw site, couldn't help but smile.

According to the rules, the draw for the top 40 is divided into 8 groups, and the first and 4 best groups in each group will enter the top 12 of the Asian qualifiers of the World Preliminary Tournament to compete for the World Cup seat. This draw also undertook the task of the 2019 Asian Cup preliminaries, so these 12 teams will also directly qualify for the 2019 Asian Cup.

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After the results of the lottery came out, the outside world generally believed that it was "signed".

Knowing the draw results of the top 40 matches, Jiang Chenxi was also satisfied with the results.

Liverpool club also paid special attention to the situation of the Chinese team in the World Cup qualifiers, after learning the draw results, Liverpool club also expressed satisfaction, the Chinese team's grouping situation is good, the opponent is relatively weak, on the one hand, this means that the Chinese team can easily obtain the right to qualify from the group, in addition, Liverpool is also planning to communicate with the Chinese Football Association, they hope that the Chinese Football Association can reach a consensus with Liverpool at that time, in some strong and weak games can not recruit Jiang Chenxi, to avoid Jiang Chenxi's fatigue.

It is said that after learning of Liverpool's idea, the Football Association did not refuse, saying that everything was negotiable.

After all, in the eyes of the Football Association, the opponents in the top 40 are relatively weak, and the Chinese team has almost locked a place in the top 12.

This time, the Football Association gave Liverpool convenience, and Liverpool will naturally give convenience to the Football Association on other occasions in the future.

And domestic public opinion has also expressed support for this, and some media even said that even if it is a two-legged match with Qatar, there is no need to recruit Jiang Chenxi, so that Jiang Chenxi can play in Liverpool with peace of mind and achieve brilliant glory in the top league in Europe, which is also a huge improvement in the image of Chinese football.

And the head coach of the Chinese team, Peilan, is also seriously considering treating the top 40 matches without Jiang Chenxi, before the Chinese team won the Asian Cup, the media put huge praise on Jiang Chenxi, which made Peilan inevitably a little disappointed while being happy, and at the same time, within the national team, Jiang Chenxi's status is far above his head coach, as the head coach, Peilan's voice is very small.

In this round of 40 matches, if the Chinese team can pass the test perfectly without Jiang Chenxi, it will be helpful for Perrin to win his authority in the team.

He also hopes to use the Top 40 to further shape the team's tactics.

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April 13, Liverpool, John. Lennon Airport.

The Juventus man who arrived in Liverpool was given a 'warm welcome' by the media.

Juventus head coach Allegri has praised their opponents Liverpool in an interview with the media.

'Anfield is the scariest stadium in Europe and we have to do better than ever to get out of it here!'

'Liverpool are a respectable team, they are very strong.

'Jiang is one of the best players in football today and it will be difficult to defend against him, but we have to do it and that's the key to our ability to get a good result away from home.

Other Juventus players also said some words of praise for their opponents in interviews, which is a formulaic conventional response.

'Liverpool are strong and we have to give it our all.'

'It's not going to be an easy game, both sides are one of the best teams in Europe.'

'It's going to be a big test at Anfield.

"Jiang is very powerful, we have to be careful of him."

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Still, there are discordant sounds.

Pogba, who had a blonde and green mohican hairstyle, said a little unreservedly, "I know Jiang, he is indeed very good, but our goal is to win and win the championship." ”

'We won Liverpool in the Champions League final and as a latecomer it will inspire us.

Buffon, who is closest to Pogba, tried to cover the guy's mouth, but it was too late.

The other Juventus players also changed their faces: suffered.

The media reporters at the airport, whether in Italy or England, all changed their expressions, ranging from anger to excitement at digging into big news.

Pogba's remarks, taken alone, were not problematic, they were just an expression of confidence in the victory by one of the Juventus players.

However, Pogba's second sentence mentions a sad memory that Liverpool and Juventus fans are reluctant to mention: the Heysel massacre.

Around 60,000 fans flocked to the match ahead of Juventus' European Cup final against Liverpool at Heysel Stadium on 29 May 1985, some of them drunk in the run. The Heysel area is home to Italians, and UEFA splits the tickets into three parts, one for Liverpool, one for Juventus and one for neutral fans. However, most of the neutral tickets were located in Zone Z, and in the end these tickets went from scalpers to fans of both teams. With less than an hour to go before the scheduled start time, football hooligans in the Liverpool fan zone began to make trouble, and they rushed towards Juventus fans, some Juventus fans climbed a fence to separate the fans from both sides, only to collapse the fence, which eventually killed 39 fans on both sides, including neutral fans, and injured 600 others, the vast majority of whom were Juventus fans.

This is one of football's most famous tragedies: the Heysel massacre.

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