The popularity of the Double Red Society continues.

The British media also took advantage of the situation and began to wave their flags, and the media called for Jiang Chenxi to win the 2014 World Footballer of the Year also began to rise.

Melwood training ground is a quiet atmosphere, before the league focus with Arsenal, Liverpool need to usher in the 2014/2015 season of the English League Cup, the opponent is Bournemouth, this is the League Cup quarter-finals, defeat the opponent can reach the semi-finals, the final and the championship is also very close, this is the first trophy that Liverpool can expect this season, so the Liverpool club is more serious.

The day before the game, Liverpool's players gathered at the Melwood training base to rest and prepare for the Carabao Cup game. Although Klopp will choose to rotate for this Carabao Cup match because the league game with Arsenal is also approaching, the attitude of the game must be correct, and Liverpool must be ready for the Christmas devil's schedule.

Jiang Chenxi's dormitory room was crowded with people, Salah, Sterling, Coutinho, Lovren all came, and even Balotelli quietly came over.

They were watching the draw for this season's Champions League round of 16.

At the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, UEFA Secretary General Gianni Infantino and Competition Director Marchetti presided over the draw, with the final organizer Ambassador Kahn as the guest of honour.

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Before the draw, a short video introduction of the 16 teams that advanced to the round of 16 was played.

At the end of the group stage, Atletico Madrid, Liverpool, Bayern Munich, Monaco, Borussia Dortmund, Barcelona, Chelsea and Porto finished first in each group, while Juventus, Real Madrid, Manchester City, Bayer Leverkusen, Arsenal, Paris Saint-Germain, Schalke 04 and Shakhtar Donetsk finished second in each group.

Except for Real Madrid, which was robbed of the top spot in the group by Liverpool, which surprised many people, the other groups basically met the media's predictions after the group stage draw, and there were no upsets.

In the Champions League round of 16 draw, teams from the same group will not meet in the group stage, and teams from the same FA league will not meet, while Liverpool are the top team in the group, so their opponents can only come from the second team in the group.

In that case, Liverpool's potential opponents could only be between Juventus, Bayer Leverkusen, Paris Saint-Germain, Schalke 04 and Shakhtar Donetsk.

Obviously, Juventus is an opponent that Liverpool is unwilling to meet in advance at this stage, and Paris Saint-Germain is not too easy to deal with, in addition to these two teams, the two teams in the Bundesliga and Shakhtar Donetsk in the Ukrainian Premier League are more acceptable and good signings for Liverpool.

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"Who do you choose?" Jiang Chenxi asked a few teammates.

"Schalke 04!"

"Bayer Leverkusen!"

"Shakhtar Donetsk!"

It was Salah who said Schalke 04, Coutinho who said Bayer Leverkusen and Raheem Sterling who said Shakhtar Donetsk.

Obviously, there is a lot of consensus and it would be best to avoid Juventus and Paris Saint-Germain as much as possible.

"Juventus, of course!" At this time, a voice rang out.

Looking at the shocked (stunned) eyes of everyone, Balotelli looked proud, "Of course, it is to play with the strongest opponent to bring energy, but it's a pity that Barcelona is not second in the group, otherwise it ......"

Everyone looked at Jiang Chenxi, and their eyes were asking: Do you want to ......

Jiang Chenxi helplessly held his forehead and waved his hand, "Ignore him." ”

Balotelli, who had no idea that he had just escaped from being beaten by the group, continued to shout, "What are you looking at? Cowards want to avoid powerful opponents! ”

Jiang Chenxi shook his head, "You are free." ”

There was a fight, and Balotelli screamed, and I didn't know what kind of human tragedy had happened.

"The draw has begun." Lovren said, 'saving' Balotelli's life.

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Borussia Dortmund and Juventus were the first to be drawn, and defending champions Borussia Dortmund and Serie A champions Juventus will meet in the first round of the knockout round, which is a more eye-catching matchup.

Juventus, the strongest in the second group, was booked by Chelsea as soon as they came up, which made Jiang Chenxi and others very happy, but Jiang Chenxi clearly heard Balotelli muttering a little whimsically.

That's not enough.

Speaking of his old club Dortmund, Jiang Chenxi is also a little embarrassed, the situation of Dortmund is not good now, and it can even be said that it is a little bad, Dortmund has been in the relegation zone for so long this year, I believe that no one can think of such a situation before the start of the season. The departure of the core coupled with a large number of injuries and monotonous tactics coupled with the gradual loss of fighting spirit of the players, the decline of the defending Champions League champion Dortmund is faster than everyone expected, of course, in the eyes of many media, Jiang Chenxi's departure is an irreparable loss for Dortmund, far from being measurable by monetary income. In addition, the departure of championship coach Jurgen Klopp is also considered a major factor.

Germany's "Kicker" criticized that when it was learned that Dortmund had earned more than 80 million euros in transfer fees from Jiang Chenxi, many people thought that Dortmund had made a lot of money, and Dortmund's top management even celebrated it, and now they obviously realize that a star like Jiang Chenxi cannot be replaced by more money.

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Subsequently, Real Madrid, who was squeezed into the second place in the group by Liverpool in the group stage, was withdrawn by Porto, and the camera captured the bitter smile on the face of the representative of the Porto club, and drew the strongest Real Madrid in the second group with Ronaldo, Porto did not say this luck.

The draw continues.

“PSG！” Kahn read out his signature and the camera immediately showed a close-up of the Chelsea representative, Chelsea sporting director Granavskaia, who frowned slightly.

As the top of the group, Chelsea drew Paris Saint-Germain, who were relatively strong in the second group, which is definitely not a good signing.

Jiang Chenxi and others high-fived each other, and the strongest of the potential opponents, Paris and Juventus, were siphoned off, and Liverpool had good luck.

Marchetti pulled out Atletico Madrid, followed by Kahn pulling out Bayer Leverkusen, and the former German goalkeeper personally drew the Bundesliga fellow to a very difficult opponent.

After the change of leadership of the pharmaceutical company, the style has changed, and the oppression is extremely strong. And Atletico Madrid are walking Diego. Costa's offense slipped after that, however, Diego. Simeone's side is still not something that Bayer Leverkusen can compete with.

Coutinho laughed and said that the Bayer Leverkusen he was expecting was 'snatched' by Atletico.

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Infantino teased Kahn, and then, he reached into the bucket and spun around, Kahn took a draw from the bucket, unfolded it, and read it out: Liverpool!

Everyone immediately lifted their spirits, and the next thing to draw out was Liverpool's opponent.

"Schalke 04!" Salah shouted with Sterling.

Seeing Jiang Chenxi's gaze, Sterling, who was expecting to draw the Donetsk miners, explained: I just remembered that there was a war going on in Ukraine, and it was too dangerous.

Before Sterling could finish speaking, Balotelli immediately shouted, "Donetsk! I want Shakhtar Donetsk! ”

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