After the Champions League qualifying round, the draw for the group stage of the 2006-2007 UEFA Champions League will take place, which will take place the day after the Benfica and Vienna Rapid match, which will be held in Monaco.

The draw will be attended by managers who have reached the last 32 of the Champions League, and Benfica's manager Santos is obviously no exception, although he will also have to go to Monaco with the Portuguese Super League kicking off, as well as the managers of Porto and Sporting Lisbon.

Qiu Ze did not go, and none of the players in the Benfica squad went with them as they had to prepare for the Portuguese Premiera in two days, which will kick off in two days. However, they all watched the entire draw ceremony on television.

Benfica were drawn in a decent manner, having been drawn from Group F against the Red Devils Manchester United in the English Premier League, Celtic in the Soviet Super League and Copenhagen in Denmark.

The strongest team in this group is undoubtedly the Red Devils Manchester United, who are significantly higher than the other three and are the favourites to top the group. Then there are Celtic and Benfica, and Copenhagen are a little less powerful.

Therefore, in this group, Benfica is fighting for second place, and their most direct opponent is Celtic. Of course, they also had to guard against Copenhagen's reaping of the fisherman's profits.

It will be difficult to qualify from this group. But Benfica still have a good chance. Moreover, compared to the other two teams in the Portuguese Super League, Benfica's grouping is the most haode.

Last season's Portuguese Premier League No. 1 Porto were drawn into a group that was very, very miserable. They will be joined by Arsenal from the Premier League, CSKA Moscow from Russia and Hamburg from the Bundesliga.

The strength of each opponent in this group is not weak, it is definitely very difficult for Porto to qualify, and after the first group comes out, most of the media are not optimistic about Porto.

Sporting Lisbon, who are second in the league, are even more miserable, almost announcing that they have been eliminated from the group. They are grouped with Inter Milan from Serie A, Bayern Munich from the Bundesliga and Spartak Moscow from Russia.

The big favorites for the emergence of this group are undoubtedly the two giants of Inter Milan and Bayern Munich, and Sporting Lisbon wants to qualify, which is even more difficult than climbing to the sky, and Sporting Lisbon people even have the heart to cry.

So, Benfica are the luckiest team in the Portuguese Super League, and they have a good chance of making it out of the group and competing in the round of 16.

The other group groupings are like this: the four teams in Group A are Barcelona, Chelsea, Bremen and Sofia Levski. Group C consists of four teams: Liverpool, PSV Eindhoven, Bordeaux and Galatasaray. Group D consists of four teams: Valencia, Roma, Olympiacos and Shakhtar Donetsk. The four teams in Group E are Real Madrid, Lyon, Bucharest and Dynamo Kiev. Group H is AC Milan, Lille, AEK Athens and Anderlecht.

One of the more interesting ones is the rivalry of Barcelona and Chelsea, who have been able to meet in the Champions League since 2004, is this a gimmick created by UEFA?

What's more interesting is that in last season's UEFA Champions League, Benfica was in the same group as Manchester United, and the reason why Manchester United was humiliatingly eliminated as a group member was because Benfica beat Manchester United 2-1 in the first round of the group stage.

At that time, Benfica's group situation was very complicated, in the first round of Zuihou anyone has the possibility of appearing in the group, the first Villarreal ranked first with seven points, Lille and Manchester United with six points, but Lille is better than Manchester United in terms of winning and losing, Lille is second, Manchester United is third, and Benfica is ranked at the end of the group with five points.

In the first round of Zuihou, Villarreal faced Lille at home, and Benfica challenged Manchester United at home. Villarreal beat Lille by one goal to top the group. Benfica won 2-1 to Manchester United and finished second in the group. And Lille is better than Manchester United because of the win-loss relationship, ranked third, Manchester United is at the bottom of the group, and did not even qualify for the Europa League.

Manchester United's humiliating exit made Manchester United fans hate Benfica. This season, Benfikai and Manchester United meet again, and it is a moment of revenge for Manchester United, and Manchester United fans seem to be eager to see the team play against Benfica.

For such a draw, the Benfica people would like to say that there must be a cat in it, and there is a lot of cat greasy. The Portuguese media have revealed that the draw is a behind-the-scenes operation. Almost every year after the draw ceremony, the media will frantically disclose that UEFA is operating in the dark, and UEFA doesn't care about it at all, as for whether there is a black-box operation, only they know.

Benfica's players are still happy with the draw, because their draws are much better than those of Porto and Sporting Lisbon, they don't have to worry so much, now all they have to do is prepare well and play well.

At this juncture, the Benfica players don't have that much energy to think about it, and they are all focused on the league because the Portuguese Super League has begun.

Benfica will face Bilaneises in the first round of the league, Qiu Ze did not start this game, but Qiu Ze came off the bench and also provided two assists, and finally Benfica got off to a good start in the league, winning 4-0 against Bilanesses, temporarily ranking first in the league standings.

However, in the second round of the league, Benfica suffered a waterloo because they had to prepare for the Champions League in midweek, and their opponent Guimares was not very strong, so Santos fielded a semi-main and semi-substitute lineup for this game, and Qiu Ze sat on the bench.

Guimares gave Benfica two blows as soon as he came up, and the opponents had a two-goal lead just twenty minutes into the first half, which shocked the Benfica people. By the time they reacted, it was too late. At the start of the second half, Guimares scored another goal to win 3-0 over Benfica.

Benfica lost this game without wearing pants, Qiu Ze was substituted in the second half of the game, but only two minutes after playing, in a scramble, Qiu Ze was injured and went off, which was the first injury in Qiu Ze's career.

However, Qiu Ze's injury is not very serious, but Qiu Ze will not be able to play in the UEFA Champions League next week. This made Santos very angry and very depressed at the same time, originally he was there to stay in the Champions League. I didn't expect to lose, not to mention, I didn't even keep this strength, what a sad day.

Losing this game, Benfica spontaneously combusted and was pried off from the top of the league table, with Porto at the top of the league table, Nawal in second, Sporting Lisbon in third and Braga in fourth, the only four teams to keep winning all of them.

After this round of league play, the UEFA Champions League group stage officially began, and Benfica played away to Denmark's Copenhagen in the first round. Well, the weather in Denmark is Benfica's worst enemy, and away from home, Benfica were hoping to get Benfica off to a good start in today's Champions League fixture, but in the end, they didn't get it that way.

In Zuihou, Benfica drew 0-0 away at FC Copenhagen, with both sides taking one point each. This result is not satisfactory for Benfica. For the team aiming to qualify from the group, he must take all three points against the weakest opponent in the group, but the Benfica man did not do so, which undoubtedly cast a shadow on Benfica's group qualification.

In the other group game of this round, the Red Devils Manchester United narrowly defeated Celtic 3-2 at home and got three points. It was a very difficult win for Red Manchester United, and it was still on their home turf, so Manchester United was not bad.

What does this mean? This shows that Celtic is a very strong team, and it is still very difficult for Benfica to beat them to qualify. The Benfica are starting to worry if they will be able to make it out of this group.

Only time will give them an answer. After the Champions League fixture, the Benfica immediately returned to the league and they will play at home against Nacional in the league, a game in which Qiu Ze did not appear in Benfica's eighteen man-man list.

Benfica's head coach Santos did not risk playing Qiu Ze, who is still a very important player for Benfica. A healthy Qiu Zeko is much more important than a win, and Santos doesn't want to lose a big thing.

Benfica beat Nacional by a narrow goal at home, and it was Benfica's wide star Simão who scored a succession of breakthroughs down the flank, tearing through the opposition's defence, and then cutting inside and suddenly crossing. However, Nuno 61 Gomes, who followed up in the middle, did not touch the football, but Mikoli at the back post volleyed the ball to the far end.

However, Mikoli didn't get on the scoresheet as the ball hit the far post and bounced off Simão who cut inside. Simão did not stop the ball and directly pushed the goal, and the goalkeeper of the national team flew into the goal behind him before he could get up, 1-0.

Benfei scored a goal to move up to second place in the league, with Porto topping the table. Poland and Russia have been really strong in recent years, and their progress has been very obvious, and they have become the first of the three giants in Portugal.

After a two-match break, Benfica are back in Benfica's eighteen-man squad. But in the fourth round of the league, Santos did not put Qiu Ze in the starting lineup, and Qiu Ze sat on the bench.

I don't know, is Santos afraid that Qiu Ze's state will be problematic after the injury? Or are you preparing for next week's midweek Champions League?

Next week's UEFA Champions League in midweek will be a big game for Benfica as they take on their rivals Manchester United at home stadium and will not want to give up on a point from the Reds as they set the stage for their group progress.

Santos wants to stay for the Champions League, Benfica's opponent in this game is not a weak team, after the first three rounds, they are now also six points, and Benfica points, only less goal difference and behind Benfica.

It may be difficult for Benfica to win this game, because Benfica is staying and this game is still Ferreira's home stadium. Pacos Ferreira also knows Benfica are tired of next week's Champions League clash and they don't want to pass up the chance to pick up points, as they are coming for a win.

Ferreira was so eye-catching to the cheers of the crowd that made Benfica's coach Santos nervous, and finally in the 22nd minute of the first half, Ferreira scored to give them a one-goal lead.