Chapter 296: Champions League group stage draw

After the fourth round of the Bundesliga, Ralph led the team out of Germany and flew to Monaco, where all eyes were on the draw for the 2009/200 Champions League group stage and the UEFA Super Cup the following day.

After a 20-day ban on Lu Wenbin and Eduardo, it's finally time for his third official game of the season.

Moreover, after more than two months of training, Lu Wenbin successfully increased his speed by a current ability value, and the speed attribute of 5/20 became /20.

This speed of progress does prove that Lu Wenbin's potential in speed is very high, and it also makes coach Noel more and more regretful that Lu Wenbin does not practice sprinting and participate in the Olympic Games, but wants to play football.

In Noel's opinion, it is obvious that Lu Wenbin's sprinting is more promising, which makes Lu Wenbin a little crying and laughing.

When the speed is increased to /20, it is already a good speed in professional football.

It will naturally become more and more difficult to improve in the future, and the time it will take is getting longer and longer, and the potential value of 20 points may allow Lu Wenbin to finally increase his current ability value to 9 points through hard training, but time does not allow Lu Wenbin to waste so long.

Lu Wenbin must be added to 20 before the end of his physical development, so Lu Wenbin can only use skill points to add a little bit every one or two months, and finally reach the full value of 20/20, and he can't keep up with his needs through training.

It only takes 4 skill points to add the attribute of /20 to 20/20, so 2 of the balance of skill points are added to the header by Lu Wenbin, making the header attribute of 8/9 8/0.

Lu Wenbin is going to add the attributes required by the striker to the peak first, and then slowly add other attributes in the future, and then become a striker first.

There are still 4 skill points left, and the speed attribute is added every one or two months.

After arriving in Monaco, Lu Wenbin and others rested in the hotel, while Ralph and general manager Rothouse went to participate in the draw for the Champions League group stage.

Although they had a bad start in the league, Bayern Munich's strong strength and Champions League genes still allowed them to easily defeat their opponents in the play-offs and advance to the Champions League group stage, without becoming a bigger laughing stock.

On the evening of 27 August 2009, UEFA held the draw for the group stage of the 2009/200 Champions League at the Grimaldi Convention Centre in Monte Carlo, Monaco.

However, before the draw ceremony, UEFA first awarded the best crowns of last season's Champions League, La Liga and the Premier League shared five best awards, and treble winner Barcelona was the biggest winner.

The Bundesliga, Serie A, and Ligue 1 have been reduced to spectators, and they can only applaud others.

Manchester United goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar was named the best goalkeeper, Chelsea Terry won the best defender, the best midfielder went to Barcelona midfield maestro Xavi, and the best striker and best player awards were all won by Messi, the Champions League golden boot last season.

In 2009, without the World Cup and the European Championship, the Champions League was the most watched football competition in the world, and the UEFA Cup was a far cry.

And Messi, who led Barcelona to win the Champions League treble and won the Champions League Golden Boot Best Player, has almost booked the 2009 European Golden Ball Award and World Footballer in advance.

Lu Wenbin's small treble and European Golden Boot are still unmatched in front of Messi's Champions League halo bonus, and there is no possibility of winning the Golden Ball Award and World Footballer with the League Cup championship.

If you want to win the Ballon d'Or, you still have to win the Champions League first, and the League Cup is far from enough in the eyes of the media and fans.

After the award ceremony, it will be the most eye-catching draw for the group stage of the Champions League for the new season.

The first to determine is the group of 8 seeded teams, although Bayern Munich entered the main stage through the play-offs, but with Bayern's historical record in the Champions League, it is still a well-deserved seeded team.

The final groupings are; Group A Bayern Munich, Group B Manchester United, Group A Milan, Group D Chelsea, Group E Liverpool, Group F Barcelona, Group G Sevilla, Group H Arsenal.

There is no doubt that the least dominant of the seeded teams is Sevilla in Group G.

Next, there is the most eye-catching bracket of teams in the second tier.

There are super giants such as Juventus, Real Madrid, and Inter Milan in the second-tier teams, and even if it is a first-tier team, no one wants to meet these three teams.

The final result was that Juventus were placed in Group A, Real Madrid and Inter Milan were placed in Group F.

The managers of Bayern Munich, Milan and Barcelona suddenly frowned. Of course, the managers of Juventus, Real Madrid and Inter Milan are not easy.

In fact, everyone wanted to be in Sevilla's group, but in the end it was the Glasger Rangers of the Soviet Super League who got their wish.

Next, there is the third band of teams that Hoffenheim fans are most concerned about.

Whether it was Ralph and Rothouse at the scene, Lu Wenbin and Salihovic watching the live broadcast in the hotel, and the Hoffenheim fans in front of the TV, they were all nervous.

Although there is only one season of European points, Hoffenheim won the UEFA Cup all the way last season, and has become a third-tier team with only one season of European points, alongside Bordeaux, Marseille, Atletico Madrid and Fiorentina.

There is no doubt that these teams are the strongest of the teams in Pot 3. Among them, Hoffenheim, who has last season's European Golden Boot Lu Wenbin, is the first two teams that have been drawn out and no one wants to meet.

Hoffenheim, for their part, don't want to be relegated to the big teams.

Although it is certain that they will not be drawn to Group A where Bayern Munich is located because of the principle of avoiding the same league, there are still Group A Milan and Real Madrid, Group F Barcelona and Inter Milan waiting.

All Hoffenheim coaches, players, fans, are praying that they will not be drawn in these two groups, preferably in Group G where Sevilla and Glasgo Rovers are drawn.

If Group G is drawn, it will be the best draw, and Hoffenheim have a much better chance of qualifying from the group than the other groups.

As everyone watched with bated eyes, the third pot teams in each group were gradually drawn.

As team by team was drawn, the hearts of all Hoffenheim were beating more and more: because Hoffenheim had not been drawn.

Until Group F was drawn out of Dynamo Kyiv, Hoffenheim, who had not yet been drawn, was even more heartbroken.

Because, next is Group G, which all the teams in Pot 3 want to draw the most, and now there are only two teams left in Pot 3: Hoffenheim and Olympiacos.

Hoffenheim have a /2 chance to draw Sevilla and Glasgow Rovers in Group G.