Chapter 167: Champions League Group Stage
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And Jun Yingzhi is also making a transfer. Although Siena is not relegated, Jun Yingzhi is an ambitious young player who does not want to play for a team that has to fight for relegation every year. He hopes to return to Juventus or go on loan to another team.
Of course, this matter is not easy to handle, and Siena does not want to let go.
Juventus is currently bloated forwards, buying Anelka, loaning Bendtner from Arsenal, and itself has Matri, Vucinic and Quagliarella, three good forwards, and Iaquinta is urgently needed, so he doesn't have time to think about Jun Yingzhi.
In their opinion, although Jun Yingzhi scored 15 goals last season, this is due to the fact that Siena almost revolves around him to attack, and naturally scores more goals. If you return to Juventus, there may not be a place for him, which will affect his development, so I prefer to loan him out.
So Luo Yunhui has been running at both ends of Italy and China.
Fortunately, Shi Hao didn't let her worry about it. Shi Hao settled into Porto quickly, wearing the number 19 shirt in the two warm-up games in July, scoring in both games, and was deeply loved by the club's fans.
In August, the Chinese national team regrouped, and this time Shi Hao turned down the call-up, citing the fact that he was in a critical period of integration into the club. The matches of the Chinese national team in the next six months are all warm-up matches, and there are no international A-level events, so the club can not put it in at all, so the national team is not reluctant.
On August 12, Shi Hao participated in the first official match in Porto, which was the Portuguese Super Cup match between Porto and Coimbra.
Shi Hao came on as a substitute for Hulk in the 65th minute, and although there were no goals or assists, it was his involvement in the box that gave Martinez a shot angle and scored the only goal of the game.
Shi Hao's form is not a problem, and he scored in the next warm-up matches against Aston Villa and Turizans.
Hulk, who has been rumored with a number of big clubs all summer, has no actual transfer action, so when the Portuguese Premier League kicks off on August 20, Shi Hao did not make his debut.
In this away game against Gil Vicente, Shi Hao did not come on until the 73rd minute, replacing Martinez, who had wasted chances continuously. But in the last 20 minutes of the game, Shi Hao did not have any particularly outstanding performance, and the game ended 0:0 in the end.
The failure to win the first game did not affect the mood of the fans, who still have a lot of confidence in the team.
The rest of the game proved that their confidence was right. On August 26, Porto hosted Guimaraes, this time Shi Hao made his debut, playing as a right winger, and Hulk played forward. Shi Hao assisted one goal in each half of the game, and the team won 4:0 in the end.
The fans were a little puzzled by Shi Hao's approach in this game, because there were several times when he was in a position where he could shoot, but passed the ball out.
After a few days of heated discussions, fans turned their attention to another big event ā the draw for the group stage of the Champions League. It's about whether Porto can make it out of the group, and for days there has been an eagerly debate about which team they would most like to meet in the first tier.
On August 31, the draw for this year's Champions Cup was held in Monaco. Former Manchester United superstar Dennis Brown. Law, former World Footballer of the Year George. Weah, Dutch legend Ruud Gullit and Italian centre-back Fabio. Cannavaro was invited to be a guest of honor in the live draw.
Dennis. Law first determined the group position of the eight super teams in the first pot, and Porto, who had the highest Champions League points, were seeded and placed in Group A.
This was followed by the draw for the second-tier teams, and exciting moments began to come. Former AC Milan star Weah, the guest of the draw, first drew Benfica into Group G, which has the "Cosmos" Barcelona. Costa's eyes widened, I was afraid it was the hardest choice he could have foreseen.
Subsequently, the African champion created the Premier League title vs La Liga title for Manchester City and Real Madrid.
Compared to another Portuguese giant, Benfica, Porto have a good fortune, and the second team in Group A is the runner-up of the Ukrainian Premier League, Dynamo Kyiv.
When it was the turn of the teams in the third pot to draw, the Porto people couldn't laugh. The strongest team in the third tier is Paris Saint-Germain. The French giants have been underperforming in the previous decade, missing out on the Champions League for eight seasons.
But last season, the local tycoon Nasser from Qatar. Al-Khelaifi took charge of Paris Saint-Germain, and after he took office, he hired Carlo Ancelotti to take charge of the team, and recruited Leonardo from Inter Milan to be the sporting director.
There is Nasser. Al-Khelaifi brandished a cheque book as a backing, and Leonardo poached people everywhere, especially from the Serie A he was familiar with, and last season poached Serie A players such as Sirigu, Motta, and Pastore, as well as two French internationals, Mane and Matuidi.
This season, Leonardo is even more rich and capricious, spending more than 200 million euros to sign Da Bongxian and Thiago from AC Milan. Silva, who bought Ravic from Napoli, has devastated Serie A. Bought Maxwell and Van der Wiel, two excellent full-backs, bought Brazilian genius Lucas Jr. for 40 million euros, and signed the legendary star Beckham for free...... Build a fearsome squad for Paris Saint-Germain.
Such a team with strength comparable to Barcelona, Real Madrid, Manchester United, Manchester City and other giants was only classified into the third tier due to the lack of Champions League points.
This is a team that no seeded team would want to cram into their own group.
After the first six third-tier teams have all been drawn, only Group A of Porto and Dynamo Kyiv and Group D of Manchester City and Real Madrid have not yet been drawn. So when Gullit read the note in his hand again "Paris Saint-Germain", Paris coach Carlo Ancelotti, who was sitting on the scene, bit his fingers nervously.
But the next moment, Gullit announced: "Group A! ā
Carlo Ancelotti immediately smiled, while Porto coach Andreas Pereira and the Ajax representative, who had been forced to be automatically placed in Group D, were smiling and crying.
In the end, Cannavaro drew the final team in Pot 4.
Of course, good things must come in pairs, so Dortmund, the strongest in the fourth bracket, was drawn into Group D with great joy and expectations, and together with Manchester City, Real Madrid and Ajax, they created the most bullish group of death in this Champions League. (To be continued.) )