Chapter 351: Champions League round of 16 vs. draw

December 9, 2015.

The final round of the group stage of the Champions League.

Liverpool beat Porto 3-1 at home, and Jiang Chenxi made one pass and one shot in the game to help the team win all three points.

In this way, the 2015/2016 Champions League group stage is over, Liverpool won all six games in the group stage, accumulating 18 points, the first place in the group, Dynamo Kiev three wins and one draw accumulated 10 points, the second place in the group qualified, Porto two wins and one draw accumulated 7 points, ranked third in the group, relegation zone Europa League, Maccabi Tel Aviv lost all six games, the bottom of the group.

With that, the 2015/2016 Champions League group stage has come to an end.

In Group A, Real Madrid is first in the group, and Paris Saint-Germain is second in the group.

In Group B, Chelsea topped the group, while VfL Wolfsburg finished second.

In Group C, Atletico Madrid is first in the group and Benfica is second in the group.

In Group D, Manchester City topped the group, while last season's Champions League runners-up Juventus finished second.

In Group E, Barcelona is first in the group and Roma is second in the group.

In Group F, Bayern Munich is first in the group, and Arsenal is second in the group.

In Group G, Liverpool is first in the group and Dynamo Kyiv is second in the group.

Group H, Zenit St. Petersburg Group 1, Gent Group 2nd.

In the round of 16, there are three teams in La Liga, four teams in the Premier League, two teams in the Bundesliga, two teams in Serie A, and one team each from Ligue 1, Portuguese Super League, Ukrainian Premier League, Russian Premier League and Belgian First Division.

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On the final matchday, Real Madrid beat Malmo 8-0 at home, with Karim Benzema scoring a hat-trick and Cristiano Ronaldo scoring a quadruple, which also helped the Portuguese superstar to get very beautiful goal statistics.

After six games in each group of the group stage, Ronaldo leads the Champions League scorer list this season with a huge lead of 11 goals, followed by Jiang Chenxi with 7 goals, followed by Lewandowski in third place, and Poland's goalscorer with 6 goals.

Lewandowski has to be mentioned here, the strength of the Polish shooter is undoubted, and the goal statistics are also very beautiful, but the ranking in the Golden Ball Awards over the years has never been high, let alone the top three, basically outside the top ten, which also made Lewandowski very unhappy, he once bombarded the Golden Ball.

However, although the final results of this year's FIFA Golden Ball Awards have not come out, only the top three lists of Jiang Chenxi, Messi and Ronaldo have been announced, however, the rankings and scores of the remaining twenty players have also been announced......

In the Champions League scorer list, behind Lewandowski are Suarez, Thomas. Muller, both of whom scored five goals, then moved to Neymar who moved to Paris Saint-Germain, the Brazilian is fifth with four goals, and it is worth mentioning that Messi, who missed many games due to injury, returned from injury in the last two rounds of the Champions League group stage, scoring three goals in two games, showing good competitive form.

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December 12, 2015.

At 7 p.m. Beijing time, 13 p.m. local time in London, England, and 12 noon local time in Switzerland.

The draw for the quarter-finals of the 2015/2016 UEFA Champions League took place at UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.

At Melwood Training Base, Jiang Chenxi and his teammates were having lunch, and they watched the live broadcast of the draw for the round of 16 on the big screen TV in the restaurant.

According to UEFA rules, the eight group winners will be seeded in the quarter-finals, while the other eight group runners-up will be placed in another pot, with the eight group winners facing each of the eight group runners-up.

In addition, there are two avoidance principles for the round of 16 matchups, one is that teams in the same group in the group stage will not meet, and the other is that teams from the same league association will not meet. The 8 seeded teams that top the group will have the advantage of away and then home in the 1/8 finals.

The eight seeded teams that topped the group stage are Real Madrid, Chelsea, Atletico Madrid, Manchester City, Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Liverpool and Zenit St. Petersburg. 1/8 final unseeded teams: Paris Saint-Germain, Wolfsburg, Benfica, Juventus, Roma, Arsenal, Dynamo Kyiv and Gent.

According to the principle of avoiding the round of 16 matches, Liverpool will not meet again against Dynamo Kiev in the quarter-finals, and secondly, Liverpool will avoid Arsenal from the Premier League in the second place in the group.

In this case, Liverpool's opponents will be Roma, Gent, Paris Saint-Germain, Juventus, Wolfsburg and Benfica.

Of the six, Juventus were runners-up in last season's Champions League, while Paris Saint-Germain boast stars such as Neymar, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Angel Di Maria, who are actually seeded.

The other four teams, Roma, Gent, Wolfsburg and Benfica, are obviously weaker and Liverpool would be willing to draw one of these four teams if they were to choose.

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The two winners of the draw were the legendary captains of two teams in the city of Milan: Paulo. Maldini and Javier. Zanetti.

Maldini was seeded Bayern Munich first, followed by Zanetti with Gent.

There was a commotion at the scene, and in the camera, Bayern Munich big man Hoeness smiled, and Gent can be said to be the weakest of the eight group runners-up, which is definitely the best signing.

Maldini drew the seeded team Atletico Madrid.

Zanetti followed up with the draw and unfolded it for the crowd to see: Wolfsburg.

The scene was noisy again, and the two consecutive matches were strong and weak, if it was a coincidence, it was too hard to believe.

In the restaurant, in front of the TV, Jiang Chenxi and his teammates were also discussing, but they didn't expect that two of the four weakest teams were taken away as soon as they came up.

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Maldini touches a sign, unfolds, and zooms in: Chelsea!

Subsequently, Zanetti touched the sign, opened it, and at a glance, the legendary captain of Inter Milan seemed to be a little surprised, and then unfolded: Paris Saint-Germain!

Chelsea vs Paris Saint-Germain.

The result of the third match drawn is finally a strong conversation that fans and the media are looking forward to.

Jurgen Klopp and members of the coaching staff were also dining in the restaurant while Klopp and his assistants were also debating the possibility of the draw.

Now, although there are still five teams left to finish second in the group, in fact, under the principle of avoidance, only Juventus, Roma and Benfica are the only three teams that may become Liverpool's opponents.

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