Chapter 661: Knockout Draw

Ahead of the final game of the winter break, Atletico Madrid will face the draw for the knockout rounds of the Champions League, which is a first-class event for Atletico.

The draw was always held at 12 o'clock at noon, and the whole Atletico squad watched the draw in the cafeteria, including Simeone and the entire coaching staff.

The same group will not meet, so Lin Dong has a relatively easy opponent in this way, after all, Zenit St. Petersburg's performance in the group stage is really not good.

Then the group winners will not meet in the first leg, which is also to avoid the strong teams meeting too early, but this is not a guarantee, after all, even the strongest teams can sometimes have problems in form.

For example, Juventus failed to break through even in the group stage, and in the eight groups, there are also opponents who are not inferior to the first in the group, and even stronger than Atletico Madrid on the surface, such as Manchester City, Arsenal and AC Milan, Manchester City is a new giant, with a strong lineup, Arsenal and AC Milan are traditional giants, and their strength should not be underestimated.

And Atletico Madrid's tone in this draw is very bad, because Atletico Madrid's opponent in the eighth-knockout round is the traditional giant, the only seed in Serie A, AC Milan.

"Damn~~~ Why aren't we Olympic Kos" Seeing the draw come out, Koke wailed, and the faces of the other Atletico Madrid players were also very ugly.

There is no doubt that in the first round of the knockout round, Atletico Madrid drew the next draw, not to mention the second "weak team" like Olympic Cos, which is a little higher, and there are also Schalke 04, Bayer Leverkusen, Galatasaray.

The so-called teams that can enter the knockout round have the so-called "weak team" There are such words as just talk, and after the knockout draw is out, you can see the expressions on the faces of each team participating in the knockout round.

For example, Barcelona's face is not very good, although Manchester City's Champions League record is miserable, but the strength of the team should not be underestimated, and it is the second strongest team in the group.

Then there is Bayern Munich, last season's runners-up will face Arsenal in the first round of this season's knockout round, and as a regular in the Champions League, Arsenal is also a difficult bone to gnaw.

On the contrary, those who are in a good mood and have a smile on their faces are most obvious among the representatives of Real Madrid and Manchester United, whose opponents are Schalke 04.

The Germans are notoriously rational, and in the entire Bundesliga, except for Bayern Munich, who will spend money to smash stars, other clubs will never spend a lot of money to buy players, even if Dortmund, which has risen in recent seasons, has bought young players and cultivated them step by step.

Not to mention Manchester United, although Manchester United have been a bit miserable in the league this season and are currently only in the middle of the table, but in the Champions League, they are very lucky, and the knockout stage draw the weakest Olympic Kos, almost a guarantee.

The rest of Paris Saint-Germain were also good draws, drawing Bayer Leverkusen, Borussia Dortmund drawing Zenit St Petersburg and Chelsea drawing Galatasaray.

Galatasaray's strength is actually not strong, the biggest problem of the Turkish team is the home field, you know, the devil's home stadium is not just talking.

After the draw, Simeone left with the coaching staff, although the opponent is not easy to deal with, but Simeone does not think that his team will lose, why is Serie A declining, it is not that the giants are not strong, you know, now Ligue 1 can poach people in Serie A.

I didn't know that the opponent couldn't deal with it, but now that I know, I have to go into the preparation stage and start collecting all the information about AC Milan this season.

After Simeone left with the coaching staff, the eyes of the Atletico Madrid players also shifted to Lin Dong, for Serie A, for AC Milan, those who are familiar with Lin Dong will certainly not be unfamiliar.

In the 2011-12 season, Lin Dong joined Lazio under huge controversy, at that time, who would believe that a guy in the entertainment industry could gain a foothold in Serie A and the top league in Europe?

But soon, Lin Dong used the facts to fight back against Rome, the entire Serie A, and all the people who looked down on it, and directly swollen the faces of these people.

Because he has not only established himself in Serie A, but also stood firmer than anyone else, scoring 17 goals in 12 league games, and if you count the three goals in the League Cup, Lin Dong has scored 20 goals in a short half season for Lazio.

Perfect, yes, although it was only half a season, Lin Dong's performance in Lazio was perfect, the only fly in the ointment was his conflict with Ibrahimovic, which finally allowed Lin Dong to only play half a season.

It is precisely because of this almost perfect half season that Lin Dong was valued by Mourinho, and finally the madman overrode the public opinion and brought Lin Dong to Madrid, the number one giant in Europe, the Galaxy Battleship Real Madrid.

In Serie A, in addition to leaving these 20 goals, Lin Dong made Lazio fans miss the accident very much, and also brought endless pain to AC Milan, because of that conflict, Ibrahimovic, like Lin Dong, missed all the remaining games.

Ibrahimovic's absence also led directly to the collapse of AC Milan in the second half of the season, cheapening Juventus for nothing, and losing the league title that season by four points.

After leaving Serie A, Lin Dong has never played with a Serie A team, last season in Real Madrid, Lin Dong went to the Bundesliga, the Premier League, the Eredivisie, and the Turkish Super League, but he did not meet a team in Serie A.

In other words, this is the first time that Lin Dong has faced a Serie A team after leaving Serie A and returned to Italy, and this opponent is still AC Milan, Lin Dong's last opponent in Serie A.

"UEFA won't let us draw AC Milan because of you, right?" Cork said as he thought it was the truth.

UEFA has reached the point of madness in order to make the game visible, although it will not be said on the surface, but everyone actually knows it.

"Uh~~~ Do you think I have such energy?" Lin Dong said a little speechlessly.

Well, although Lin Dong didn't admit it, he actually thought of this in his heart, and I have to say that the more he thought about it, the more he felt that it was possible, this guy who was sullen to the bones.

"Even if it's not entirely because of you, UEFA must have taken into account your feud with AC Milan," Turan joined in, and the others nodded wistfully.

In fact, not only the Atletico Madrid players thought of this, in fact, the media had already taken it into account, and in subsequent reports, the media seized on this point.

After seeing these rewards, UEFA is estimated to have already hid to the side and snickered, because their goal has been achieved, although there is no shortage of explosive points in the eighth-knockout round, but surely, they will definitely not be too explosive.

Even after these reports come out, AC Milan fans will surely recall what happened two years ago.

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