Chapter 25 Champions League Grouping

"Boss, can you teach me kung fu?"

Epifanov, dressed in a yellow leotard and with a nunchucks hanging from his waist, rushed to push the door and shouted.

Lin Supo's eyes widened, and it took a long time to find out that "Coward" was playing Bruce Lee.

There was no way, his appearance was too different from Brother Long, so Lin Supo couldn't recognize it at the first time.

He waved his hand impatiently and said, "Don't teach." ”

Epifanov knelt on the ground with a puff, kowtowed three directly, and said while kowtowing: "I understand, Master~"

Lin Supo grinned and looked painful, what a god, Master.

He is willing to spread Chinese culture, but Mr. Chen Hegao's technology is easy to use.

In case Epifanov had been promoting "Chinese martial arts" everywhere after learning it, wouldn't he Lin Supo have become a sinner?

Needless to say, the pro-European media must have been more than happy to help with the propaganda.

Howling like a mad dog, they come up and kick eggs and stab their lives, which is obviously in line with their demonized image of China.

So no matter what, Lin Supo can't teach his teammates "Chinese Kung Fu".

Seeing that Lin Supo did not react, Epifanov was very disappointed.

However, he didn't dare to continue to say more, Lin Supo's temper was not very good, and if he was really annoyed, he would not be able to make a beating.

The backup goalkeeper, who wanted to learn how to be a hero, decided to think of something else.

……

Lin Supo watched the Champions League draw with the whole team.

Spartak, as the defending champion of the Russian Premier League, is qualified for the Champions League.

In 1992, the Champions League was restructured, from a simple knockout round to a group stage plus a knockout round, and the 16 teams were divided into four groups, which was the prototype of the Champions League round of 32. Compared with Platini's expansion, the strength of the teams that can enter the Champions League now is good, and there are very few fish belly.

Spartak's three remaining opponents in Group B are: Blackburn, Legia Warsaw and Rosenborg.

Overall, the strength of the teams in this group is relatively even.

Before the Heysel tragedy, the British club was banned from Europe for 5 years, and Liverpool was banned for 7 years, and now the performance of the British team in the European competition is very average, and the points are not high, and then Wenger and Ferguson promoted the team's tactical continentalization.

Because English football has been out of touch with Europe for too long, backward and beaten, it can't be changed if it doesn't change.

By the way, Manchester United's status is so high because of the importance of the Champions League trophy that reversed Bayern Munich in 1999, and the first Champions League trophy after the ban announced the comeback of English football.

Blackburn Rovers are the only Premier League team involved in the Champions League, as they are the reigning champions of the Premier League.

Blackburn's steel tycoon boss Jack Walker has built a supership and Jack Walker was the first to inject £30 million into the team. He not only invited Dalglish, who had been idle for half a year, to lead the team to a successful promotion and become a founding member of the Premier League, but also spent a lot of money to introduce the two kamikazes after the promotion - Alan Shearer and Chris Sutton. Their 'SAS' pair was invincible and had a huge boost to Blackburn's attacking power in the Premier League's famous duo.

Midfielders Stuart Ripley, David Barty and captain Tim Sherwood are all England internationals, while Mark Atkins and Welcox have also been named in the national team.

At the back, Jeff Kenner is an Ireland international, Henning Borg is Norway's captain, Ian Pearce is a teenage talent and Colleen Hendry is Scotland's captain.

It can be said that Blackburn's squad is star-studded, just looking at the content of international players, this is definitely a giant, and last year's victory over Manchester United to win the championship also proved their strength.

As for the other two small national teams Legia and Rosenborg are also quite strong, although the Bosque Act has been introduced, but this year the transportation is inconvenient, and many players do not like to play abroad, so the current small country team is stronger than in the future.

After ten or twenty years, as long as they develop a promising player, they will soon be poached by the giants.

Overall, Group B is a good group.

The opponent is not a fish belly, but the strength is also limited, Spartak has every chance to fight out of the encirclement, and even achieve good results, even if the group strength is relatively average, Spartak is still more experienced than the Premier League team that has been absent for a long time, especially Blackburn's meritorious coach Dalglish left the team, which is also a good thing for Spartak.

As for the two small country banba, it can only be said that the strength is like that, they can cause some threats, but after all, they are still a little worse.

So it's not bad to be in Group B.

In addition to Group A, it is Group B that is the weakest.

The four teams in Group A are: Nantes, Aalborg, Porto and Panathinaikos.

Group C has Juventus, Borussia Dortmund, Steaua Bucharest and Glasgow Rangers.

Group D has Real Madrid, Ajax, Franz City and Zurich Grasshoppers.

Compared with Group A and Group B, the competition between Group C and Group D is much fiercer.

Serie A is the most beautiful right now, and Juventus is one of the top teams, needless to say;

Borussia Dortmund, who have just expanded their stadium, are also on the move, with Ballon d'Or winner Summer, and the next few years will be their most glorious period in the Bundesliga;

Steaua Bucharest is a traditional Romanian giant, which has cultivated stars such as Georgi Hadji, Dorinel Montejanu, Dan Petrescu, etc., and won the UEFA Super Cup in 1987, which should not be underestimated; Glasgow Rangers are the top players in the Soviet Super League, with the most fanatical home stadium in Europe, which is no small challenge for any team, and Group C can be described as the group of death.

Group D looks beautiful, but it is also compared with other groups, Real Madrid was suppressed by Cruyff's dream team in the first half of the 90s, promoted Raul 2 years ago, poached Laudrup from Barcelona, Real Madrid gradually rose, and beat Barcelona last year to win the La Liga championship, but their problems are still very big;

Needless to say, the European Star Factory, Ajax, which has not yet completely reduced to a second-tier giant, has always had the most luxurious lineup. Van der Sar, Rijkaard, Blind, Davies, De Boer brothers, Seedorf, Overmars, Lietmaning, Kluivert, Kanoo...... Such a star-studded squad is simply terrifying, and all the players are or will be the main players of the giants.

There is not much to say about the Hungarian side Franz, Hungarian football has been in the slump for many years and they were lucky enough to qualify for the Champions League.

The Swiss Super League Banba Zurich Grasshopper is also in a similar situation, the strength is not weak, but it is far worse than Real Madrid and Ajax, and Group D is stronger than Group C.

After studying the rosters of other teams a little, Lin Supo felt that he couldn't wait.

Once as a fan, he witnessed Raul's bullfighting dance, and also watched Overmars fly towards Highbury, and names that were once only seen on TV will immediately appear as opponents, which makes Lin Supo very excited.