Chapter 291: The alien you want is already online
After six rounds of matches, the last 16 of this season's Champions League were all born.
On December 7, the whole Valencia team watched the live broadcast of the draw for the quarter-finals.
In this draw, the top of the eight groups, Manchester United, Paris Saint-Germain, Bayern Munich, Barcelona, Arsenal, Manchester City, AC Milan and Chelsea, are seeded and will have a home and away advantage in the quarter-finals.
The second-place teams from the eight groups form the second bracket, which are Tottenham Hotspur, Basel, Roma, Juventus, Valencia, Inter Milan, Porto and Real Madrid.
According to the rules, the top teams in the group stage will not meet each other, the same group will not meet in the group stage, and teams from the same league will not meet.
The Premier League emerged as the biggest winner, with a total of five teams from the same league reaching the quarter-finals for a long time, followed by Serie A with a total of four teams.
Atletico Madrid has been a bit sluggish this season, struggling to sit fifth in the league, can't figure out next season's Europa League, and has already been out of the Champions League group stage, so there are only three left in La Liga.
The rest of Bayern, Grand Paris, Porto, etc. are basically the hegemons of their respective leagues, and almost none of them are weak teams.
The draw was presided over by UEFA's Director of Communications and Communications, Pinto, while the draw process was still presided over by UEFA's Head of Competitions, Marchetti.
The guest of the draw was the recently retired Real Madrid celebrity and famous French star Fontaine.
Unfortunately, he didn't bring good fortune to his former club, pulling the Galaxy out of the first place and then making the Blues Chelsea their rivals.
Juventus were drawn second, and the Old Lady's opponent will be the Red Devils Manchester United, which is also a strong matchup.
This was followed by Basel, the biggest package that fell to the in-form Arsenal.
Next up is Porto, where the Portuguese giants will face off against Bundesliga giants Bayern Munich.
Then defending champions AC Milan were drawn and the Rossoneri faced Tottenham Hotspur.
After that is Valencia, their opponents are Manchester City with a blue moon.
The final two groups are Roma against the favourites Barcelona and Inter against Ligue 1 giants Paris Saint-Germain.
Chu Yang didn't expect that he was so close to the Premier League team, he just sent away one blue, and another blue came.
In the past, when it came to the Premier League, people would only think of two red teams and Arsenal and Chelsea, but now Liverpool has gradually fallen behind, although Arsenal rose strongly last year, but if the time is pushed forward a little, people are most impressed by the name of the four crazy demons, so in recent years, only Manchester United and Chelsea have been strong in the Premier League.
It's just that in the past two years, in addition to Arsenal suddenly becoming awesome again, Tottenham and Manchester City have also become stronger and stronger, becoming strong challengers for the Premier League title.
Tottenham's truly world-class superstars or rising stars have been almost sold, and it is Manchester City that can really pose a threat to the traditional giants of the Premier League.
Manchester City's splurge in the transfer market has finally begun to pay dividends in the arena since the arrival of the UAE tycoon, who finished third in the Premier League last season and is currently second in the Premier League table, behind Arsenal.
The game is still more than two months away, but Carlo Ancelotti has already started to prepare, study the opponents, rehearse tactics and so on in an orderly manner, but the focus is still on the league.
Valencia are in good form at the moment, and if they can strengthen again during the winter break, it is not impossible to achieve good results on both fronts.
On December 18, in the sixteenth round of La Liga, Valencia once again defeated the opponent at home, and the three forwards of Chu Yang, Fran and Villa all scored goals;
On December 23, Christmas Eve, Valencia ended their winning streak in the league and ended their last game of the year with a 1-1 draw, and it was gratifying that Chu Yang, who scored a goal for Valencia, equalled the La Liga record set by Saye last season.
Then the winter transfer period opened, and it was the season when various transfer rumors were flying, Chu Yang, Van Basten, Thayer, Avaro, Rooney, etc. became the biggest protagonists, but they were all thunder and rain, and there were no blockbuster transfers in this transfer period, and the biggest news was probably that Valencia introduced Makelele from Real Madrid Supermarket.
In addition, they also kidnapped a child named Carvajal from Real Madrid's academy by the way.
Chu Yang did not take advantage of the rare holiday to travel, but returned to China to participate in several activities of the Nirvana Charity Fund, donated a few teaching buildings by the way, and then began the journey of the second half of the season.
In the first race of the new year, the half-way champion Valencia encountered stubborn resistance from the yellow submarine at the Mestalla Stadium.
Villarreal have a poor season and are currently in the middle of the league, and this game is not really interesting except for Forlan and Leko against their old clubs, but it still attracts the attention of world football.
Because Chu Yang is challenging the consecutive goal record in La Liga in this game.
Villarreal didn't want to become the background board for Chu Yang's record-setting, and even put Ricolme on the bench in order to curb Valencia's attack.
Chu Yang contributed a number of crazy breakthroughs and wonderful long-range shots in the game, but unfortunately missed the goal every time, until the final moments of the game, Moya was tripped by Villarreal's defender in midfield, and Valencia won an ultra-long free-kick.
Chu Yang stood in front of the penalty spot without giving in.
His current strength is as high as 18, and at the same time, he has three superb talents: innate ball sense, left and right fighting, and 100 steps through Yang, and the power of the arc against the sky is even more accurate and fierce than Carlos at his peak.
He spent a distance of about ten meters to run and kicked the ball into the back of the net in front of all eyes.
The goalkeeper's unloveable face became the best footnote to this free kick.
According to the statistics of some statistical agencies after the game, Chu Yang's free kick was kicked at a speed of up to 200 kilometers per hour.
After this goal, Chu Yang has scored 29 goals in La Liga this season, and he is within reach of 30 goals in a single season on behalf of a super scorer, and it only took him 17 games to do this, which is less than half of the season.
On January 5, Valencia ushered in the Copa del Rey match, Chu Yang did not play, but focused on the next round of the league opponents, and went one step further in this game, improving the league scoring streak to 18 games.
Of course, the most important thing for him is the system reward that comes with it.
In addition to the two free attribute points, two new skills have made his strength grow by leaps and bounds again.
From then on, he was an alien on the pitch.