The Wolfsburg players have never forgotten that whether it is their team recruitment, training, their ultimate goal is always the same. After half a season, Wolfsburg now have a very clear goal, they want to do well in the Champions League, but other than that, nothing else matters.

It is important for Wolves to see if the arrival of a player will be useful to them and how much quality they can play in the Champions League. De Bruyne, while very good, has already played for Chelsea in the Champions League: although he only played a few minutes in one of the six group games, not even a warm-up, but the rules are the rules, and it is a considerable pity that he will not be able to play for Wolfsburg in this year's Champions League.

This season, his role for Wolfsburg is naturally only one role to stabilize the league results, and he can't help much for the Champions League.

Wolfsburg is very happy to see the quality of his new players, but it is also tragic to think that he will not be able to play in the Champions League. If they had brought in not Marin but Kevin De Bruyne in the summer, maybe they would have had a better result in the Champions League, but now, De Bruyne can only save them a little effort in the league, and the Champions League will still be just as difficult.

The reason why Wolfsburg players find the Champions League difficult is largely because their Champions League knockout stages are not easy to play.

At the same time as the end of the first half of the season, the draw for the Champions League knockout round has also come out. According to the first and second grades of each group, they also decided the name of the match. And this time, although Wolfsburg qualified as group leaders, their opponents were not easy to deal with.

A large part of the reason for this is because the teams that qualified this time were very strong: the teams that qualified first in the group this time. Barcelona, Real Madrid, Bayern, Chelsea these names, naturally a lot, and Dortmund. Atletico Madrid is also a well-known team. After the group stage, the weak teams that really appeared in the first pot, in addition to Wolfsburg, were only Porto, because of their excellent luck, the group basically avoided all the strong teams, and was lucky to get a position in the first gear.

And this year's second-tier team can also be described as full of talent. It goes without saying that Manchester United were squeezed into second gear by Wolfsburg, Arsenal. Manchester City's two Premier League powerhouses have also been squeezed to this level by their respective group stage opponents, and if you add the strong team of Paris, there are at least four teams in the second team, all of which are extremely strong teams, and among the other teams, Milan and Juventus, the two Serie A giants, although they are despised because Serie A is not good enough in the past two years, they are still not to be underestimated. Among the teams in the second pot, there are only Olympiacos and Galatasaray, two teams that are not considered in the mainstream league.

Take a look at this list. It's actually easy for people to spot. This year's Champions League competition is more intense than in previous years, which has also led to the fact that from the group stage, there have been many familiar faces who have fallen off. Napoli in Serie A can be said to be typical of these teams, while Real Sociedad in La Liga, Bayer Leverkusen in the Bundesliga have not been able to qualify, plus Marseille in Ligue 1. Benfica of the Portuguese Super League, as well as Shakhtar, Zenit and other former Champions League regulars have encountered strong opponents early and have come to an end. Since the Champions League competition, various strong teams have been constantly encountered. It also makes this year's Champions League match seem to smell more gunpowder than usual.

And in this smell of gunpowder, Wolf Castle naturally can't expect to be particularly relaxed. Although in the group stage of the Champions League, Wolfsburg struggled to squeeze into the first pot, and after squeezing in, they also admitted that they made a very wise choice. But looking at the second pot team, there are still many opponents, which makes them still smile bitterly. Although there are still a few fewer terrible opponents than the first-tier teams, there are still many strong people in these teams, and the guys that Wolfsburg can't beat still exist.

Therefore, in fact, before the draw, Wolfsburg was also quite worried about his bad luck. They had always hoped that they would not be unlucky and would have to draw against an opponent like Paris. And in their hearts, they also think that they should not be so unlucky: the Bundesliga has always been unlucky in the Champions League draw, and it has always been a recognized fact that they can always draw some weaker teams. And this time, Wolfsburg also hopes to continue their good fortune in the Bundesliga, at least not to draw too bad opponents.

This time, however, Wolfsburg was clearly not so lucky: rather, the Bundesliga seemed to have a lot of good fortune, but it seemed to have been consumed by the other two teams.

If there is anyone who is the luckiest, then the Bundesliga should definitely be Bayern. After successfully becoming the first in the group again this time, Bayern drew a somewhat surprising and funny opponent in the draw - in the round of 16 of the Champions League, Bayern's opponent is AC Milan.

The reason why this opponent is surprised is because no matter how you say it, Bayern and Milan are both the world's top giants. Real Madrid is certainly the most influential team in European football, and there are many places to fight for, Milan, Juventus, Bayern, these can be regarded as strong contenders. Among these teams, Milan is second only to Real Madrid in the number of Champions Leagues and has better results in the Champions League, but with the decline of Milan and the rise of Bayern in the past two years, Bayern also vowed to surpass Milan and complete their counterattack.

The two giants met early, which was of course a surprise. There has been a confrontation of this level since the top 16, which is quite eye-catching.

However, the encounter was a bit comical, as the two teams drew attention not only to their Champions League honours, but also to their history of fighting. After the new century, Bayern had a long period of slump, during that time, they did not play well in Europe, especially against Milan, and several encounters were repaired quite miserably. The results of their encounters have been so poor that for a long time, Bayern have been beaten out of the psychological shadow. When asked if they would be scared when they met Inter Milan, the sentence blurted out 'they are not AC Milan' can be said to make people see the shadow in their hearts clearly.

However, time has passed, and a few years later, the situation of both sides has been completely reversed. Milan has always refused to invest, and now they have changed from a powerhouse that everyone feared back then, to a poor ghost who collects rags everywhere. Italy's economic situation has been bad in recent years, and in Milan, it can be said that it has been best reflected, looking at their current appearance, it is simply embarrassing.

And the current Bayern is not the Bayern of the past. After the financial burden caused by the stadium repair, Bayern has a lot of funds, and the overall recovery of the Bundesliga in recent years has also made Bayern's strength grow greatly. Across Europe, Bayern are now firmly in the top three, and they have nothing to fear.

The situation between the two sides has reversed, and now facing Milan is undoubtedly an opportunity for Bayern to erase the shame of the past. The team that bullied them back then had a psychological shadow is now just a team that they can bully, and the sentence of thirty years of Hedong and thirty years of Hexi has also been fully interpreted at this time.

In fact, when they saw the results of the draw, Bayern's players were already gearing up and saying that they were going to do a good job. Although their words reveal extremely strong confidence, thinking about what happened to them in the past few years, and looking at the current words, people can't help but wonder.

These guys are not running for victory, victory is only incidental, they are running for anger.

However, whatever the purpose, Bayern's Champions League draw is at least not too dangerous. Unless there is a particularly big accident, Bayern should have no doubt about entering the quarterfinals. Even the media are convinced of this: even considering their psychological shadow area, they are the defending champions of the Champions League, and as the defending champions, they should not just go home here.

They should at least be in the last four, just as they are demanding of Borussia Dortmund as well.

In this year's Bundesliga draw, Bayern is extremely lucky, but Dortmund's luck cannot be considered bad. In this year's draw, they drew opponents who were not very strong: perhaps, it is already a compliment to say that they are not very strong, because their opponents have just lost to Wolfsburg twice, and now they are in a hurry.

In the Champions League, Dortmund's opponent in the draw is Manchester United, the most famous, but recently extremely unlucky Premier League giant.

The results of this draw, when they came out, the Wolfsburg players were scolded. They put a lot of effort into squeezing Manchester United into second place in the group, and in the end, they actually beat Borussia Dortmund. What is the state of Manchester United now, the Wolfsburg players know very well, although Dortmund has countless injuries and looks half-dead, but after drawing Manchester United, the Wolfsburg players believe that they can definitely make Manchester United look good.

No matter how much Moyes tosses around, it will be very difficult to beat Dortmund, and it seems that they will be here this year.

Looking at the luck of his two friends in the same league, Wolfsburg can only sigh at this. All along, they had never done anything bad, but this time, their luck was much worse than the others.

Everyone else can draw the weak team, why did they draw Manchester City? (To be continued.) )