Even luckier than Torino are the Russian Lokomotiv Moscow winners, who won the Russian Premier League last season, sixth in Europe, and are one of the eight seeded teams with the second-lowest European points (22.5 points, just above Hoffenheim) of the 32 teams participating in the Champions League.

But after all, the lucky ones are in the minority, because of the historical record, many strong teams have sadly entered the lower-grade teams because of the accumulation of points, including the Red Bulls and Real Madrid.

The first to bear the brunt is Liverpool, who have regained their style after their uncle Jurgen Klopp took charge, and the Reds lost their chance to be seeded as defending champions after losing to the Galacticos in the Champions League final. In terms of strength, they can be ranked in the top ten in Europe, but because of the low European points, they can only fall into the third gear and become potential group makers of death.

Even more tragic is their Premier League brother Tottenham Hotspur. Real Madrid have been promoted to Pot 1 after completing a three-game winning streak in the Champions League, vacating their previous position in Pot 2, with Tottenham having the highest points of any team in Pot 3 and a chance to fill the gap. However, Torino's victory over Atletico Madrid to win the Europa League pushed the third-placed European table into Pot 2, leaving Mauricio Pochettino's side to wait for the qualifying result.

In the end, Benfica and Basel, who were slightly higher in points, both successfully entered the group stage, completely confirming the fate of this Premier League upstart third pot.

The two Premier League powerhouses in Pot 3, along with Roma in the same region, were the biggest variables in the draw along with Valencia in Pot 4. Theoretically, there is a possibility of a super group of death such as Juventus, Borussia Dortmund, Liverpool and Valencia, which has attracted a lot of fans' attention. With UEFA's habit of always being willing to create gimmicks through black-box operations, it is obviously impossible not to engage in a few grievances this year, and these have become the object of expectations from the outside world.

Sure enough, just six minutes later, as soon as the results of the grouping of the eight groups were released, they completely detonated the audience, and even the many fans and media who watched the live broadcast were excitedly shouting "If there is no cat in this, I will eat Xiang live broadcast", and on the other hand, I was looking forward to the new season's Champions League matches to start immediately, so that I could enjoy a good show. In any case, UEFA's goal of trying to gain more attention has been easily achieved, and when it comes to developing the commercial attributes of football, they are indeed a good player to learn from other relevant people.

With the exception of Real Madrid's supporters, no one else clearly wants to see the Galacticos win four in a row, and the biggest opponent is UEFA itself. And insiders obviously know how slim the odds are to try to beat the powerful defending champions in the group stage. Even if Ronaldo leaves, Mbappe, who has become a top star in the World Cup, plus the main players such as the Magic Flute and Kroos stay in the team, and Real Madrid, which has supplemented Courtois and a group of demons, is still the top seed player in this competition, so if you want to "reasonably" block their way to winning the king for the fourth time, you still have to make a fuss in the knockout round.

They used the hands of the guests to send Tottenham Hotspur, who beat the defending champions in the group stage last season, to Real Madrid's group again, with the remaining two teams being Lyon and Club Brugge. This is obviously hoping that Pochettino can suppress the La Liga giants to second place in the group for the second year in a row, and then repeat the rhythm of last year, so that the strength of Manchester City, Liverpool and even Juventus and other favorites to win the championship will come to a wave of wheel battles, this time without the president's power to turn the tide, especially Zizou's metaphysical help, not many people believe that Real Madrid can still replicate the miracle of last season's multiple league champions.

And in order to achieve this goal (although most people speculate, but in fact it should be relatively reliable), the above teams are relatively easy to group, and it is difficult for opponents to create too much threat to their promotion, if there are no accidents, it is relatively easy to win the group. In order to prevent the Galactic Battleship from repeating the super dynasty in the initial stage of the Champions League, UEFA can be said to have taken great pains!

However, in order to ensure the smooth implementation of this plan, UEFA obviously needs to place the stronger teams in the second and third groups as much as possible, so that the unlucky ones will become the seeded teams that cannot play against Real Madrid in the first round of the knockout round due to the principle of avoiding the same country, and Lokomotiv Moscow and Torino have been reduced to cannon fodder.

Group F of Barcelona, Manchester United, Monaco and Galatasaray can be said to be one of the strongest groups overall; The Russian Premier League champion, the weakest team in the first pot, drew three strong opponents from Borussia Dortmund, Roma and PSV Eindhoven, and even the qualification to finish third in the group to play in the knockout round of the Europa League is very slim.

As for the Red Bulls, Li Mudi had guessed before that they were likely to meet Atletico Madrid again. And his metaphysical level seems to be no worse than that of his friend Qi Zu, and he has fulfilled an accurate prophecy. Just two other opponents Schalke 04 and Moscow. The strength of the central army is also very strong, which makes the competitive pressure of this group also extremely great, and it has become a group of death in this competition, which the Torino coach never wanted to encounter before.

As an athlete or coach in football, almost everyone's biggest dream of glory is similar, except for the personal aspect, which is nothing more than winning the World Cup and the European Champions Cup.

Although the qualifications are still shallow, and the strength of the team has not yet reached the level of impacting the Big Ear Cup, to say that Li Mudi has no idea about the Champions League championship at all, it is obvious that even ghosts will not believe it. After confirming his Champions League ticket last season, he also had a small idea in his mind about becoming the champion coach of the world's No. 1 club competition, but it was just a pipe dream, and the difficulty of achieving it was not necessarily lower than leading the men's football team of the Celestial Dynasty to the knockout stage of the World Cup.

In Li Mudi's mind, the Torino team he formed is still very strong, even in the face of Juventus, which has Cristiano Ronaldo, there is a chance to compete with each other, and it will no longer be like last season's Italian Cup final The whole game fell into a passive situation. However, the team is still far from perfect, with the help of the FM system medal effect, the stability is very good, but there is still a lack of explosiveness, that is, the lack of people who can break the deadlock and even turn the tide at critical moments.

Such a team is suitable for a long league battle for the title, but it is difficult to have the last laugh in the knockout round. And given the damage that multi-fronts can do to non-big clubs, Torino is likely to have to give up a competition after the halfway point of the season, and it is very likely that he will be in charge of Italy in his last year compared to the Big-Eared Cup, which is a chance to be won every year, making Serie A obviously more important.

Therefore, until the team he coaches has the ability to play on multiple fronts and will not be dragged down to the collapse, the league will always be the priority goal, unless there are special circumstances (such as a very poor performance in the early stage of the league, the Champions League and the favor of the goddess of luck, and the opponents encountered along the way), the Torino team will never give up the league for the Champions League. And with their strength, if they can't give it a go, they want to break through all the way in front of those powerful opponents and finally get the Big Ear Cup, which is definitely a more absurd story than the Arabian Nights.

However, it is too early to say how to deal with the first round of the Champions League group stage in mid-September, and the quarter-finals in mid-February.

Although the topic of the Champions League has received a lot of attention and commentary after the dust settles on the group stage draw, for the teams, their first task is how to play the upcoming league game.

The next day turned to the traditional midyear festival of the Celestial Empire, which is also known as the legendary Halloween Festival, and Li Mudi led the team on an expedition to Sardinia in southwestern Italy to challenge Cagliari away.

The team became the first team to change managers in Serie A last season due to poor results, but the team's former meritorious player, Uruguayan Diego Lopez, did not lead the team very well, and the team only finished five points above the relegation zone in the thrilling relegation. To this end, the club's hierarchy decided to make another change, sacking Lopez and hiring homegrown coach Rolando Malan, who had previously coached Chievo for three consecutive years.

At the same time, the team has also made some gains during the transfer period, after retaining most of the main players of last season, it has successively introduced Napoli's center forward, the new Italian international Pavoletti and Chievo's Argentine midfielder Lucas Castro, and signed the former captain of the Croatian national team, the demon in the former FM game, and the veteran Srna for free, the overall strength has been strengthened, and the media believes that it has the possibility of hitting the tenth place in the standings.

However, after 90 minutes of battle, the Red Bulls still achieved their goal of two consecutive wins with relative ease. Andre Gomez's maiden goal for his new club and Ranocchia's header from a corner gave the visitors a two-goal lead in the first half. In the 77th minute of the second half, substitute Pellegri scored another brilliant volley to seal the win.

However, the Turin defence, which had been rotated in this game, made a low-level mistake in the final moments, giving the opponent a penalty that should not have happened, and as a result, Casillas could not save Pavoletti's powerful shot, unfortunately ruining his own clean sheet in the second game of the new season.

Fortunately, the score of 3-1 can still be accepted by the supporters of the Red Bulls, especially the players' performance on the court is still remarkable, although the possession rate is not high, but it is far ahead of the opponent in terms of offensive opportunities and shooting data, showing the demeanor of a strong team, and has won a lot of praise from the outside world.

After two rounds, Torino are one of only five teams in the league to have not conceded a point, and they are also sitting in second place in the league due to goal difference, which can be said to be an excellent performance. However, due to the fact that Ronaldo completed a solo show with two goals in the strong dialogue against Lazio in this round, the focus of Italian and even the whole European football has shifted more to their city rivals, which has reduced a lot of pressure on Li Mudi and his team. I have to say that it feels good to have someone else's side acting as MT.

However, their test came in the third round of the league, when Torino hosted Fiorentina on 2 September.

Last season, the Purple Lilies lost their captain and defensive stalwart Astori, but the team took advantage of the momentum of the mourning to complete an eight-game unbeaten run and touch the ticket to the European competition in one fell swoop, but unfortunately the sudden slump in the closing stage finally made them unfortunately miss the Europa League place. The most regrettable thing is that after AC Milan was disqualified from participating in the European competition by UEFA, Fiorentina did not receive the pie that fell from the sky and was picked up by Atalanta in front of him.

But that's fine, because UEFA later reversed itself and canceled the punishment, which can be said to have shook the Atlantans fiercely and seriously disrupted their deployment in the summer, and it can be regarded as a blessing in disguise that the purple lily was not involved.

Although last year's performance was a bit disappointing, the potential shown by the two second-generation stars Chiesa and Simeone Jr. in the last season still made the outside world extremely optimistic about the future prospects of this team. In the summer window, the Purple Lily is one of the few Serie A teams that has not undergone major changes, but after leaving those two young stars with unlimited futures, and buying out Empoli forward Saponara and Argentine central defender Pesselia on loan from Betis, the team's strength is still stable and rising. As long as the two second-generation stars can continue to improve, this Fiorentina team definitely has a chance to qualify for next season's European competition.

However, this matchup, which was unanimously thought to be very exciting by the outside world, was overshadowed by a lot of rain. There was no postponement due to the lack of rain before the start of the game, but the process of the game inevitably suffered from the slippery turf, and there were many mistakes on both sides.

As a result, after a lackluster 90 minutes of errors, the home side won a narrow victory over their opponents thanks to a slightly controversial penalty, handing the latter their first defeat of the season and making it a three-game winning streak in the new season.

After this round, although Napoli was overtaken by Napoli because of the disadvantage of goal difference, the Torino team slipped to the third place in the standings. However, as one of the only three remaining teams to keep winning all of them, the Red Bulls have become the focus of media coverage, and this is also because during the upcoming national team break, Li Moody's team suddenly changed from the embarrassment of not having a single player to participate in the World Cup to the factor of big international players, making the door of the club's residence that has been deserted for a long time become lively again.