Chapter 365: Champions Cup Grouping (Part II)

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"Boss, which teams do you think we'll be in a group this time around?" Watching Cruyff, who was a special guest, walk onto the stage with a smile, Capello asked in a low voice.

"Uh, let me think about it." Zhuang Mingge, who had no hope for Fiorentina's grouping situation this time, heard his head coach say this, so he had to use his brain again.

Since the first seeding team includes the champions of the four major leagues, as well as Monaco and Ajax, Zhuang Mingge is not worried about encountering these strong teams in the group stage early.

However, there are also many strong players in the second batch of seeded teams, after all, these teams include the runners-up of the four major leagues (AC Milan in Serie A, Valencia in La Liga, Newcastle United in the Premier League and Bayern Munich in the Bundesliga), as well as Porto in Portugal and Dynamo Kyiv in Ukraine.

Zhuang Mingge will not be arrogant to think that Dynamo Kyiv, which has the Ukrainian twin stars of Shevchenko and Rebrov, is an easy team to deal with, you must know that in his previous life, this is a team that even the Champions League champion Real Madrid can overturn!

There's also an old Bundesliga hegemon like Bayern Munich, led by experienced gold medal coach Terpattoni and top stars like Matthaus and Klinsmann, and it's also a headache.

The most important thing is that I don't know if it is the negligence of UEFA's work, this time the group draw did not set the principle of avoidance of domestic teams, so it is not ruled out that Fiorentina may meet AC Milan in the group stage.

At the same time, the unseeded teams include the likes of Juventus, also from Serie A, and Norwegian champions Rosenborg (who knocked out Panathinaikos, one of the last Champions League semi-finals in qualifying), and these teams should not be underestimated.

"I don't think UEFA will blatantly throw all the Serie A teams into the same group and kill each other, because if they did, the artificial traces would be too heavy, and Johansson's UEFA would not make such a low-level mistake." If it was Platini's time, it may not have been, after all, during the former football superstar's administration, many European competitions have not stopped being controversial, the most famous is the Stamford Bridge tragedy in 09, "and Fiorentina, as the defending champion, UEFA should be difficult for us in the group." After all, last season, Fiorentina won the championship in Zuihou surrounded by strong opponents, and if we don't embarrass ourselves on the schedule, it will be equivalent to escorting us to the final in the eyes of others. ”

"That's right." Capello listened to Zhuang Mingge's analysis and nodded approvingly.

"So, I think we should draw Bayern Munich, the strongest of the teams in the second tier, after all, Trapp is Italian, and Mateus and Klinsmann also have experience playing in Serie A, these are all gimmicks that can be hyped up."

"However, UEFA will not want to see us as the defending champions or other strong teams be eliminated in the group stage like Real Madrid last year, which will affect the ratings of the Champions League, so Juventus should not be in a group with us, and the Nordic side Rosenborg, who have a geographical advantage and a tough style, are more likely to be our opponents......"

While Zhuang Mingge was gushing with Capello at the bottom, Cruyff had already completed his group of the seeded teams in Pot 1, and Fiorentina was placed in Group B as the defending champions.

The next development did not exceed Zhuang Mingge's expectations, Fiorentina met the German football hegemon Bayern Munich in the second seeded team, when Cruyff drew Fiorentina and Bayern together, at least half of the team representatives in the venue suddenly gasped, these representatives were secretly praying in their hearts at this time Cruyff God would not draw them into Group B, otherwise they would play soy sauce in the Champions League this time......

"The third team in Group B is...... Gothenburg club from Sweden! Sure enough, Fiorentina did have a team from Northern Europe in the same group, but it was not Rosenborg from Norway as Zhuang Mingge had guessed, but its Nordic brother, Gothenburg, one of the two hegemons of the Swedish league.

It seems that UEFA does want to give Fiorentina some problems on their way to promotion, otherwise there would be no need to throw a Nordic team into the same group as Fiorentina.

You know, in the group stage of the Champions League, these teams from Northern and Eastern Europe have a huge home advantage, after all, during the group stage these areas can be cold, for these home players who are used to the local climate, it is nothing, but for the Fiorentina players who have been living in the warm Mediterranean climate, such weather can be fatal.

The rapid cooling can easily cause players to have cold symptoms, perhaps because of different races, it is not a small cold for the Celestial Empire, but it is something that will kill people for Westerners, and the Fiorentina players are likely to have non-combat attrition due to weather problems when playing away from home, so that the team cannot play at full strength.

While Zhuang Mingge was wandering around the world, pondering the adverse effects of the Nordic climate on Fiorentina's away game, Cruyff on the stage had already begun the draw for the fourth round.

"Zuihou is the only team to be drawn in Group B, Glasgow Rangers from Scotland!" In the first round of the draw, when Cruyff showed the note in his hand to the audience with a smile, Zhuang Mingge suddenly had an urge to scold his mother in his heart.

I said old man Johansson, I know you are trying to find a better persimmon for my Fiorentina, the Rangers team that was beaten twice by Fiorentina in the group stage last season does seem to be a haode choice, and such a game can also create some more gimmicks for the Champions League, it does look like killing two birds with one stone.

But please, can you use your brain and see what kind of group you threw Florence into!

Bayern Munich in Germany, Gothenburg in Sweden, Rangers in Scotland...... I'll give it a go, now it's good, Fiorentina's three opponents in the group stage are all the kind of teams that play toughly, and these three teams have some differences in the individual ability of the players, and they are all first-class in terms of physical fitness!

Is this the rhythm that is going to kill Florence? Anyway, I also gave Florence a jishu-stream opponent, so that we can also bully people with our bodies!