At the end of the Champions League group stage, although Fiorentina was not able to snatch the top spot from Fiorentina, they have completed the goal set before the start of the season by qualifying from the group.

The winner of the group will of course benefit in the quarter-finals, and the first place in the group stage will be drawn to the second place in the other groups. The team that wins the group has the advantage of playing at home.

However, from the perspective of the teams that qualify, there are also many strong giants in the second group, such as Chelsea, Bayern, and Real Madrid, all of which are second in the group, and Fiorentina may not be able to draw the weak team even if they win the first place in the group.

And some group runners-up actually have strong strength, such as Benfica and Glasgow Rangers, the former eliminated Manchester United, who had won the treble, out of the group stage and created the biggest upset in the Champions League group stage, while the latter only lost one goal to Inter Milan in two games, so it can be said that any group leader is not 100% sure to win them.

Therefore, before the group stage is over, Fiorentina are still interested in fighting for the top spot in the group, but after the qualifying team is fully released, Fiorentina is also calm, and now they can only hope to have a little luck in the draw and draw a not very strong opponent.

The principle of the Champions League knockout stage draw is to avoid teams from the same country and region, and avoid teams from the same group stage in the group stage. In this way, Fiorentina avoided Barcelona, the top favourites to win the group and three giants of the same country, Juventus, Inter Milan and AC Milan.

In this way, the only teams that Fiorentina can meet are the Premier League giants Arsenal, Liverpool, Lyon and Villarreal, and it can be said that Fiorentina has 50 chances of meeting Lyon and Villarreal, which is already a very good result for Fiorentina.

The draw was held on the 16th at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, and Fiorentina manager Luquesi and president de la Valle rushed to Nyon to participate in the draw.

At noon, the UEFA headquarters building was already crowded with journalists and celebrities, and everyone was talking about the upcoming draw ceremony.

Since there are five giants in the first group and three giants in the second group, it is inevitable to have a strong conversation, especially the second favorite Chelsea, he may encounter four giants: the top three in Serie A and Barcelona, so he is also the most talked about team before the draw ceremony. Almost all of the people who came to the draw were speculating about who Chelsea would face, the Serie A top three? Or do you run into Barcelona again?

With the exception of Barcelona and Chelsea, almost everyone wants top favourites Barcelona and second favourites Chelsea to fight so that they can at least have one less strongest opponent in the semi-finals.

With 10 minutes to go, the hall at UEFA headquarters was already full of guests. At this time, the beautiful hostess Silvia came up, he greeted the guests, and then announced the start of the lottery ceremony.

UEFA Secretary-General Olsen and Ambassador Papan, the host of the final, took to the forefront.

First of all, Papin gave a speech, the main content of which was to welcome everyone to Paris to watch the final.

UEFA Secretary General Olsen then began to introduce the rules for the draw for the quarter-finals, and then the draw began, with Olsen opening the first red ball (marking second in the group): Chelsea.

There was a commotion below, and the guests and reporters all looked intently at the guest Papan's hand to see who he would pull out.

Papan smiled and drew a green ball (marking first place in the group): Barcelona.

"Wow"

"Mars collides with Earth"

"Sure enough"

The dignitaries sitting below the lottery site couldn't help but let out a commotion, exclaimed, and then exchanged heads.

It can be said that this is a result that neither Abou nor Laporta wants to see, and it is also an outcome that fans do not want to see, with one of the two most powerful teams in Europe destined to be eliminated from the quarter-finals.

After seeing Papan pull out of Barca, the expressions of Abu and Mourinho became interesting, surprised, confused, angry and suspicious, in short, in addition to joy.

Barcelona president Laburta's expression is a little simpler, he is mainly disappointed, but there is a little excitement, because although they were eliminated by Chelsea last season, Barcelona lost very unconvinced, many people are looking forward to playing Chelsea again, and now, although the difficulty of promotion has increased greatly, but the desire for revenge is a chance to come true.

Inter Milan and Ajax were then withdrawn, which made Moratti and Mancini smile as if they had reached the quarter-finals, and the disparity between the two teams greatly increased Inter's hopes of qualifying.

However, the representatives of Ajax were not so disappointed, they seemed to be a little relieved, because among the top five giants in the group, only Inter Milan was slightly weaker, and the form was unstable, although Ajax had little hope of qualifying, but there was also the possibility of an upset.

After a slightly bland set, there was immediately another strong conversation, with Bayern Munich meeting Milan.

The four-time Champions League winner met the six-time Champions League winner, and it was an absolute heavyweight contest, and there was buzz in the stands.

Although both teams have some problems at the moment. AC Milan have been plagued by centre-back problems of late, with Silvio Berlusconi having declared that "there is no hope of winning the league and the Champions Cup is the only goal". And Bayern, despite winning the winter title of the Bundesliga, Hamburg and Bremen did not make it easy for them, and the renewal of contracts of Sagnol, Ze Roberto, Ballack and others also plagued the team. However, with the Champions League quarter-finals not starting until a month later, the problems between the two teams may have been resolved by then.

Then Liverpool and Benfica were drawn out and met the defending champions, which made Benfica feel helpless, although the game had not yet started, Benfica seemed to have a premonition of their end, and their representative showed a relaxed performance.

Seeing Liverpool being pumped out, De La Valle and Lu Casey were relieved, Liverpool may be their most hated opponent, no one wants to be the enemy of the defending champions, Liverpool withdraws, and the only possible strong team behind Fiorentina is Arsenal, and Arsenal's strength is also the worst Champions League result among the giants, and now it has not won the Champions League, even if it draws Arsenal, Fiorentina is not afraid.

Rangers and Juventus were then drawn together, with Lyon and PSV Eindhoven going head-to-head, leaving Fiorentina with only Villarreal and Arsenal in the knockout rounds.

When Papán drew Villarreal, Fiorentina manager Lukecy and chairman de la Valle were staring straight at Olsen's hand to see if he would pull Fiorentina out.

Fiorentina were lucky as they were drawn by Olsen against the yellow submarine Villarreal, the weakest of the eight group winners.

Seeing that it was Villarreal, De La Valle and Lucasei couldn't help but applaud, for them, there is no better opponent, even if they won the group at that time, I am afraid that they are not as lucky as now.

However, the representatives of Villarreal also applauded excitedly, and President Villarreal also looked at De La Valle and Lu Casey meaningfully, as if to say: This is really a good signing.

Seeing that the opponent is also laughing, Lucasey and De La Valle seem to have realized, although they are majestic in the league, even Juventus and Milan are pressed by them, but in the Champions League, they are still small shrimp, no one regards them as a strong team, no matter what opponent they draw, they have no reason to be proud.

The draw continued, and then Juventus and Rangers were drawn together, leaving only Arsenal and Real Madrid, and the two giants had to be combined like men and women to achieve the third strong conversation in the quarter-finals.

So far, no matter the luck, the conspiracy, the 16 teams have found their respective opponents, there are strong and strong dialogues, there are strong and weak dialogues and weak dialogues, but from the point of view of Manchester United's elimination in the group stage, the so-called strength and weakness are also relative, maybe there will be dark horses jumping out to create upsets, so good or bad signing, I'm afraid it can only be determined after the end of the quarterfinals.

Although after the group stage, European bookmakers adjusted the odds to win the championship, but now after the draw, European bookmakers have adjusted the odds again, and Juventus has suddenly tied with Barcelona for the top spot, with UU. Chelsea's odds have been lowered to UU from 50 previously, indicating that the bookmakers are not optimistic that they will pass the Barcelona showdown. It's no surprise that Lyon's name is in fourth place, given that their knockout opponents, PSV Eindhoven, are understandably not superteams. Milan duo Inter Milan and AC Milan are fifth and sixth respectively, with odds of UU and 10. UU。 Other teams in the top 10 are Liverpool, Arsenal, Fiorentina, Real Madrid and Bayern Munich. Fiorentina were able to finish in the top 10, mainly because they drew the "most desirable" opponent Villarreal, and the odds to win the title went from 18. UU Biao rose to 13. UU。

After the lottery ceremony, major media commented on the lottery results, so fatalism and conspiracy theories became the mainstream.

Spain's "World Sports Newspaper" said: Barcelona vs. Chelsea? Bayern vs AC Milan? Lyon vs Eindhoven? Ajax vs Inter Milan? In the group stage, Chelsea reunited with Liverpool, Juventus met Bayern, AC Milan collided with PSV Eindhoven, and in the 8 finals, there are so many coincidences that have been reproduced in recent years, and even last season's dialogue, which makes people have to think about the conspiracy, but it has come to this, everyone still accepts the reality well, for the team that aims to win the championship, it must beat all the teams, it doesn't matter if you meet it early or late. For the team that wants to prove itself in the Champions League, it doesn't matter which team is drawn, if you draw a weak team, you may be able to play a few more games, and if you draw a strong team, you can experience the cruelty of the Champions League. “

Britain's "The Sun" complained about the three Premier League teams, "Except for Liverpool to play Benfica, the other two teams have encountered strong opponents, Barcelona Chelsea, Real Madrid Arsenal, such a match may prove that the Premier League La Liga is strong and weak, but it is a bit unfair to Chelsea and Arsenal, the two teams with great hopes of winning the championship are likely to not even enter the quarterfinals, if this is not a conspiracy against the Premier League, it is difficult to explain it with luck." ”

The Italian media is very happy, because in this draw, the four teams of Serie A are very good, although AC Milan wants to play Bayern, but Bayern is very afraid of Milan, the two teams had an old account in the Champions League group stage, when the Milanese beat the Bundesliga boss with two L, and finally finished at the bottom of the group. This time, it is difficult to guarantee that Bayern will not beat the drum in their hearts. Of the remaining three teams, Juventus and Inter Milan are basically guaranteed to reach the quarterfinals, while Fiorentina is facing a small team with a population of only a few thousand, and there is also a great hope of qualifying.

The German media is relatively objective, "Bild" believes that it is difficult for Bayern to climb the mountain of Milan, but Milan's chances of winning will never exceed U Cheng, who can reach the final four between the two sides, in addition to strength, but also depends on luck. As for the least interesting will be Fiorentina vs Villarreal, and whoever reaches the quarter-finals will be a record-changer. Fiorentina and the contest between the two don't attract much attention, but the more this happens, the easier it is to be a dark horse, and with Fiorentina's performance in the league, they are very likely to become dark horses.

There are many opinions in the media, but the Champions League knockout stage will not start until February next year, and for the team, the Champions League is temporarily over, and the league before the winter break is the top priority, and after the Champions League group stage has passed, the teams participating in the Champions League will immediately shift their focus to the league.