Chapter 206: The Draw for the Champions Cup (Part II)
Fan Shang nodded, and Heynckes next to him also interjected, "And me, we Real Madrid are also very interested"
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Fan Shang was still more final about this old man who helped him today, and left his contact information as a matter of course.
"If the Champions Cup is a little bit off the table this season, it will definitely be Bordeaux as a player supermarket." Fan Shang sighed in his heart, this is also no way, European football has always been like this, the law of the jungle.
At this moment, the draw for the group stage of this year's Champions Cup is about to begin.
At this time, only 24 teams participated in the group stage of the Champions Cup, with four teams in one group, and a total of six groups were drawn.
And how are the places to advance to the knockout rounds determined? The first place in each group will naturally advance, and the top eight places are only six, and the last two will be produced from the second place in the six groups, and whoever has the highest points will advance.
It was the first time for Fan Shang to participate in this kind of lottery ceremony, and he was still a little nervous.
Last season's Champions League winners, Borussia Dortmund, were placed in the first group and then began to draw seeded teams from other groups, with Bordeaux, last season's Ligue 1 champions, also taking a seeded spot.
Bordeaux have been placed in Group E, with Borussia Dortmund, Manchester United, Real Madrid, Barcelona and Bayer Leverkusen seeded in the other groups.
Now the opponent of Bordeaux is decided, and the first opponent to draw out is an old rival, Bayern Munich, and Bordeaux stepped on their shoulders to reach the top in the League Cup the year before last.
The second opponent is also the old man, Turkey's Beşiktas, whose fans still remember Vincent to this day, and the Bordeaux 12th Organisation was founded by Vincent and together with the two Bordeaux fan leaders.
The third team is Swedish powerhouse Gothenburg, a club that Vincent knows little about right now, except to see their head coach, a standard Nordic named Imprad sitting in the crowd.
Bordeaux's signing can only be said to be decent, there are strong teams such as Bayern Munich as favorites to win the championship, and there are also passers-by like Gothenburg in the Champions Cup, no matter what, Bordeaux must go all out from the first game and cannot slack off.
The first match is on 17 September against Sweden's club Gothenburg, which will be played at Bordeaux's home stadium. With less than 20 days to go until this game, Vincent will send someone to follow Gothenburg to find out about the club that Vincent knows nothing about. During this period, Bordeaux still has to play their league well, which is the most basic thing.
The other groups are:
Group A, Borussia Dortmund, Parma, Galatasaray, Sparta Prague.
Group B, Manchester United, Juventus, Feynod, Kosice.
Group C, Barcelona, Newcastle United, PSV Eindhoven, Dynamo Kyiv.
Group D, Real Madrid, Porto, Rosenborg, Olympiacos.
Group F, Bayer Leverkusen, Monaco, Sporting Lisbon, Lias.
Group B should be the so-called group of death, and the teams in it are all capable of winning the championship except for a Slovak team Košice, which looks like it should accompany the prince to study. Group D should be considered the most disparity in strength, of which Real Madrid should be considered to be the best in the dust, and the other teams should only be left to compete for second place.
"Joseph, congratulations, you Real Madrid should be able to enter the knockout rounds." Vincent said to Heynckes after the draw came out.
Heynckes had a smile on his face, but he didn't say anything full, "It's not easy to say anything before the game starts." ”
Ferguson, who was still laughing with Fan Shangyou just now, can't laugh anymore, their team is in the group of death, except for Slovakia's Košice, who plays with everyone in the final in advance.
"Alex, look at it, if you meet a strong opponent early, you will be better off in the knockout round," Fan Shang comforted Ferguson.
"Haha, don't worry about me, I'm worried about the other teams now, their expressions should be more ugly than I just had." Ferguson burst out laughing, pointing at Lippi and Feynoord's manager Ben Hake.
When he came, Fan Shang was alone, but when he left, Fan Shang was greeting different people, first of all, of course, he was divided into several in the same group, Bayern Munich's current head coach Italian coach Trapattoni, Besiktas's head coach a fat Turkish old man Toshak, and the Nordic man just mentioned, the head coach of Gothenburg named Inblad.
Fan Shang is completely adhering to the traditional tenet of the Celestial Empire that if you want to take it, you must give it first, and first have a relationship with a few pairs of gloves so that you can get some information about them.
Of course, there are also some famous marshals who Fan Shang was not embarrassed to greet all when he came, and Fan Shang also went over to talk to them one by one. For example, Lippi, Van Gaal, Daum, and even Dalglish Vincent also said hello. Only Tigana, Fan Shang glanced at him from the door, and never looked at him with his eyes again.
This draw scene, is the first time Fan Shang entered the top European football circle, these were only in the imagination and the media in the big guys, the first time to appear in front of Fan Shang, although Fan Shang is now a figure in some football circles, but in front of these bigwigs, Fan Shang is still just a fledgling young newcomer, but the potential is greater, the results are better.
Looking at the big guys who are held by the stars, Fan Shang has also set a goal in his heart, within a few years, he must integrate into this circle and become the focus of this circle.
Vincent returned to Bordeaux after the draw, and there were still several league games to play before the Champions League began, and this was the most important thing in front of him.
Bordeaux's next league opponent is AJ Auxerre, who is still led by Guillrou this year, and this is his 34th year in charge. Compared with the previous two seasons, Auxerre's squad has been a bloody investment this summer, with the double offensive of Guyiru's charisma and Franc, and the arrival of last season's silver boot winner Givash has greatly strengthened Auxerre's attacking ability. Most of the other positions have retained the main lineup from last few seasons, so their lineup is steady and rising.
The match was played at Bordeaux's home stadium, and the "12th Man" organization, as always, set up a large team uniform in the hardcore area to cheer on the home team Bordeaux.