Chapter [433] Episode: Royce's Good Beginnings
Group A: Manchester United, Shakhtar Donetsk, Bayer Leverkusen, Real Sociedad
Group B: Real Madrid, Juventus, Galatasaray, Copenhagen
Group C: Benfica, Paris Saint-Germain, Olympiacos, Anderlecht
Group D: Bayern Munich, CSKA Moscow, Manchester City, Viktoria Plzen
Group E: Chelsea, Schalke 04, Basel, Bucharest Stars
Group F: Arsenal, Marseille, Borussia Dortmund, Napoli
Group G: Porto, Atletico Madrid, Zenit St. Petersburg, Vivi. Also the Austrians
Group H: Barcelona, AC Milan, Ajax, Celtic
This is the result of the group draw for the 2013-2014 UEFA Champions League, and the result of this draw is really, really dangerous.
First up is Group A, in this group Manchester United is obviously the most famous team, if it was in the past, Manchester United must be the absolute favorite, the team that must qualify. But it's different now, Manchester United are in a very bad situation.
After failing to qualify for the Champions League last season, Alex Ferguson resigned from the Red Devils earlier this season, ushering in a turbulent and changing period for the Reds.
At this time, Manchester United was very unstable within the team, and some of the main players were clamoring to leave, and the biggest name among them was Wayne Rooney. Although Moyes has been trying to persuade Rooney to stay, it is said that it has not had much success.
Moreover, Moyes's recruitment after taking over the team has also not satisfied the fans and the club's hierarchy, and their start to the Premier League has been poor. So in these ways, Manchester United doesn't have to be much better than the others.
Therefore, the advantage of Manchester United in this group is very weak, and the strength of the other but right teams is actually between the two, so this group is likely to appear in the scene of Super Smash Bros., which can be regarded as a group of death.
To be honest, the situation in Group B is not bad, that is, the rivalry between Real Madrid and Juventus, although Galatasaray's home stadium is devilish, but everyone does not think that Galatasaray can cause problems for Real Madrid and Juventus.
Needless to say, Group C is considered by many to be UEFA trying to protect Paris Saint-Germain.
Group D is also okay, that is, Bayern Munich and Manchester City qualified, and the other two teams should be the role of accompanying the prince to study.
Needless to say, Group F is a super group of death, and the four teams will definitely go through a series of bloody battles before they can determine the final right to qualify. This group is also the deadliest group stage of this season's UEFA Champions League.
Group G is also a very clear group, with Atletico Madrid finishing first, followed by Porto and Zenit St. Petersburg battling it out for second place.
Group H is a group of death, all four teams have won the Champions League, and Barcelona and AC Milan have fought eight times in three years, which is simply the sworn enemy of mortal enemies, this group is very strong in death.
After the end of the draw, the final suspense of this lottery ceremony is about to be revealed.
Host Melanie Vinig immediately said: "Now we have the UEFA secretary Gianni Infantino and ask him to come and give us the award for last season's best player in Europe. ”
Infantino immediately walked up to the stage, and although everyone was thinking about the results of the group's grouping, they still gave a round of applause.
Among the top three nominees for this award are Real Madrid's Dongfang Chen, Bayern Munich's Franck and Barcelona's Lionel Messi.
These three performed very well in the UEFA Champions League last season, but Dongfang Chen's performance was obviously higher than the two, so this award should also be obvious.
Infantino didn't let the accident happen, he announced: "Last season's best player in Europe was Dongfang Chen! ”
The scene immediately resounded with thunderous applause, and Dongfang Chen took the stage again to receive the award.
This is the second consecutive year that Dongfang Chen has won this award, and this is also the second time that Dongfang Chen has participated in the Champions League twice after leaving Manchester United, and has become the best player in Europe twice, he is really a legend.
And Dongfang Chen's legendary road has not stopped, and is moving forward rapidly.
Dongfang Chen came to the stage, he was very excited, but he didn't say too much, because he knew that everyone's minds were not here now, and they were all on that group.
Dongfang Chen said: "It's still the same sentence, thank you to everyone!" I am also grateful to myself, if it weren't for these people, I wouldn't be where I am today. With a grateful heart, keep going and go on solidly! ”
The scene immediately burst into thunderous applause!
This concludes the draw for this season's UEFA Champions League group stage.
After the Champions League draw ceremony, media reporters went to interview the personnel of each team.
Real Madrid coach Rafael Benitez spoke to reporters and said: "This group is not bad for us at Real Madrid, it can be regarded as a top draw. Our only opponents in this group are Juventus, but Galatasaray and Copenhagen have to pay attention, so I'm sure we have no problem qualifying from this group, maybe we'll put more energy into the league and we have big goals for this season. ”
Journalists wanted Benitez to talk about the other groups, but Benitez didn't talk about the other groups here.
Benitez said: "It's nothing to watch for me, now we just have to do our best and try to get out of the group as soon as possible, that's the most important thing. Alright, that's it, everybody, goodbye! ”
Benitezri immediately pushed past the reporters and quickly left.
Dongfang Chen was also surrounded by media reporters, he said in front of the media reporters: "I didn't expect such a group before the game, of course, this group is a little unexpected by us, but the result of this group is still acceptable, our group is not particularly easy, nor is it particularly difficult." It's a very normal group, we are confident that we will qualify from the group, and we also believe that we will get the right to qualify from the group soon. ”
Dongfang Chen also said: "Juventus is our biggest opponent in this group, they are very strong, but we will not give up the pursuit of the first place in the group. We're going to win this group and we're very confident. ”
The media reporters also wanted Dongfang Chen to talk about the situation of other groups, but Dongfang Chen did not talk about the situation of other groups.
Dongfang Chen said: "You can ask the person concerned about this, I have nothing to say, it doesn't have much to do with me." Now all I have to do is to be ourselves and try to get Real Madrid out of the league as soon as possible, that's all! ”
After finishing speaking, Dongfang Chen also left quickly, and he didn't stay here for a moment.
The next day, the major media reported the results of this season's Champions League group stage draw, and the most talked about were naturally the three groups of death, these two groups of death are really very terrifying, especially the group of Arsenal, the group of Arsenal is known as the deadliest group in recent years.
After seeing the results of this draw, many Arsenal fans directly scolded their fathers and mothers at UEFA, they were very dissatisfied with this group, in their opinion, this is UEFA's suppression of their Arsenal team.
Arsenal are very dissatisfied, and the media in England believe that this draw is a dark box operation, UEFA not only escorted Paris Saint-Germain, but also suppressed the Premier League teams, and also drew the fateful partnership of Barcelona and AC Milan to attract attention.
Many people think that UEFA is playing a conspiracy, all kinds of conspiracy theories are prevalent in Europe, and there are even a lot of fans who directly call for Platini to get out of UEFA, UEFA does not need this kind of garbage president.
Anyway, the draw results of this group caused a very big sensation.
However, the Real Madrid team is okay, they have not been affected too much and Bozi, although Real Madrid's group is not too easy, but it is still within the range of Real Madrid's acceptance, and it is also within the normal range.
Therefore, Real Madrid did not participate in it, they were all preparing for their own things.
On the morning after the draw ceremony, Benitez led Dongfang Chen and others to fly back to Spain, and after returning to Spain, Benitez gave these players who flew long distances a half-day off, which means that they did not have to go to the team to train that day.
Dongfang Chen and the others didn't go out to fool around, but went home directly to rest. They are still a little tired from this trip and need to take a break.
On the second day after returning to Madrid, Dongfang Chen and others returned to the club to start training, which was preparing for the weekend league game.
Speaking of the weekend, in fact, it will be tomorrow night, Real Madrid continue to host Athletic Bilbao.
Athletic Bilbao have been in good form since the start of the season, winning the first two rounds and now have six points, the same as Real Madrid. However, Athletic Bilbao have a better goal difference than Real Madrid, so Athletic Bilbao is still ahead of Real Madrid in the standings.
Athletic Bilbao is not a team that can be easily beaten, so for this game, Benitez is very strict, this game Real Madrid can not afford to lose at all, this game Real Madrid must win.
In the early days of the league, Benitez didn't want Real Madrid to fall behind, and it would be very difficult to chase if they did. Benitez doesn't want to be a chaser anymore, they have to be a frontrunner this time.
Therefore, this stage of the new league season is very important and he doesn't want anything to go wrong.
Before this game, Dongfang Chen and other main players flew to Monaco, Benitez thought they were a little tired, at this time, Benitez continued to adopt a rotation system, he is not ready to line up the full squad in the weekend game.
In this game, Dongfang Chen did not appear in the starting list, he didn't even enter the bench, Dongfang Chen sat in the stands.
Although he knew Benitez's intentions and plans, Dongfang Chen still showed Benitez that there was no problem with his physical fitness, and he was not tired now. But Benitez still let Dongfang Chen rest.
The centre-forward who started this game was Didier Drogba, and Alvaro Morata played as a substitute for Drogba.
The fact that the new signing Reus was finally in the starting line-up in this game made Real Madrid fans very excited, and they all wanted to see how Reus fare on.
There is still a problem between Reus and Real Madrid, but his individual quality is very good and it showed in this game.
In this game, Reuss scored his first goal after joining Real Madrid with his super individual ability, which made Real Madrid fans very excited and satisfied, and they were all full of expectations for Reus.
Didier Drogba and Jesse Rodriguez scored a goal each as Real Madrid secured a 3-1 win over Athletic Bilbao at home to get the three points they wanted and continue to put pressure on the team ahead.