Chapter 156: Champions League Draw

With the whole Atletico Madrid team lifting the Spanish Super Cup trophy at the Camp Nou last night, Ringer has just been in his career for less than two years, and he has already won eight trophies. From Asia to Europe, J-League champions to Bundesliga champions, AFC Champions League champions to Champions League champions, he is simply a title reaper, and in every trophy he has won so far, Ringer has scored ~~~"

This is the second day, the domestic football newspaper reported on Ringer's victory.

By the time, however, Ringer had returned to Madrid with the team to deposit the trophy in the Hall of Honour to the cheers of the fans, and then Simeone travelled to Monaco with the team's president, Enrique Cerezo, where he will participate in this year's Champions League group stage draw.

In this season's Champions League play-offs, Arsenal and AC Milan were two giants who successfully passed through the group stage. Real Sociedad, who finished fourth in La Liga last season, eliminated Ligue 1 rivals Leon, while Schalke 04, who finished fourth in the Bundesliga, also eliminated Greek side Theoksaloniki.

So in the group stage of this season's Champions League, the Premier League, La Liga and Bundesliga are all four teams, three in Serie A and only two in Ligue 1.

The Champions League group stage draw will be preceded by a presentation of the best European player, with Franck Franck Francis, Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo rounding out the top three, but Ronaldo did not travel to Monaco.

Ronaldo should have known that he couldn't win the award, so he didn't go at all.

The award for the best player in Europe has been selected since '98, and Ronaldo was also elected in '08, but in the last two years, this award may not have brought him a friendly feeling.

The best player in Europe in 2011, Ronaldo attended with a graceful appearance, and then Messi got 38 votes, Xavi got 11 votes, and Ronaldo only got 3 votes.

That was when Messi was the most brutal, there were many people who liked black Ronaldo, and now those people had a saying, and Ronaldo has since been saddled with the nickname of Luo Sanzi.

The best player in Europe in 2012, Ronaldo has the La Liga title in hand, and the Champions League semifinals only lost to Bayern on penalties, and still has a great chance to win the award, but this time it was Iniesta, who helped Spain defend the European Cup, win the award, and Ronaldo failed again.

At the Golden Ball Awards at the end of that year, Ronaldo lost to Messi again, and Luo had a conflict with Da Ibrahim somehow at this time, and Da Ibrahimovic came out sarcastically: Cristiano Ronaldo is a lucky guy, he always attends various award ceremonies, and then sits in the front row and watches different people present awards to Messi.

Well, Ievee hasn't won many awards himself, but his mouth is really poisonous. His words made Ronaldo angry, and from then on, Ronaldo generally knew that he couldn't win the award, so he didn't go to the award ceremony at all.

It is worth mentioning that in this year's selection of the best player in Europe, Ribery was elected with 36 votes, followed by Messi with 13 votes, and Ronaldo, who did not attend, got 3 votes.

But no one could have imagined that in the next six months, Ronaldo would complete a big counterattack, and when the Golden Globe Awards were presented at the end of the year, he would squeeze out Ribery in one fell swoop.

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The draw for the Champions League group stage, Ringer and the whole Atletico Madrid team watched the draw together.

"Lin, do you think we will be drawn into the group of death, will it be difficult to qualify?" Koke, who was younger than Ringer, asked hurriedly.

Ringer has played in 7 Champions League games and is actually the most experienced player in the team.

Atletico last competed in the Champions League in the 09/10 season, when they were knocked out of the group stage with just three draws, but they finished third in the group and then won the UEFA Cup that year.

However, Atletico Madrid has changed coaches several times, and the team has changed several times, and there are few original players in the team.

Atletico's most experienced Champions League squad is probably Thiago in midfield rotation, having played more than 30 Champions League games with Chelsea, Lyon and Juventus.

"Don't worry, we're in Pot 2, and the other teams should be worried about running into us." Ringer said.

Although Atletico Madrid has rarely played in the Champions League, it has never missed European competition in the last five seasons, and has won two League Cups and two UEFA Super Cups, so in terms of European points, Atletico Madrid is ranked in the second tier of teams.

In the end, to the cheers of the Atletico players, Atletico were drawn to Group G, a very good group.

Atletico Madrid as the second pot team, the first pot is Porto of the Portuguese Super League, which is the weakest of all the first pot teams, the third pot team is Zenit St. Petersburg of the Russian Premier League, which is neither good nor bad, and the fourth pot is Austria's Vienna, which is also quite weak.

This grouping can be said to be very good, Austria Vienna is basically a soy sauce player, Atletico Madrid, Porto and Zenit three teams are competing for two qualifying places, and Atletico Madrid should be the strongest.

The draw for the Champions League group stage is all out, and it is naturally indispensable to analyze the group of death and analyze the situation of each group and team.

The well-deserved group of death in this year's group stage is Group F, which consists of Arsenal in the Premier League, Marseille in Ligue 1, Borussia Dortmund in the Bundesliga and Napoli in Serie A, all four teams from the top five leagues.

Although Arsenal's two consecutive results are not ideal, they can still reach the knockout stage of the Champions League every season; Marseille were runners-up in Ligue 1 last season and are the only team in Ligue 1 history to have won the Champions League; Dortmund needless to say, last season's Champions League runners-up; Napoli were runners-up in Serie A last season and also snatched Gonzalo Higuain from the transfer market in the summer.

This group is considered to be the group of death, and it is likely to form a four-strong brawl that will not be able to tell the winner until the final moment.

Among the other teams in La Liga, Barcelona is divided into Group H, and AC Milan, Ajax and Celtic are in a group, if you only look at historical honors, this group is the group of death, every team in this group has won the Champions League, but in fact, Barcelona and Milan have obvious advantages, and there is a high probability that they will occupy the top two to qualify.

Real Madrid are in Group B, with Juventus, Galatasaray and Copenhagen, this group is also Real Madrid's Juventus advantage, but this group should also be the most likely upset group in addition to Group F.

Galatasaray reached the quarter-finals of the Champions League last season, beating Real Madrid at home in the quarter-finals, and they have not lost much in the squad, and if Real Madrid Juventus make any mistakes, they could be squeezed by Galatasaray.

Real Sociedad were placed in Group A, alongside Manchester United, Shakhtar Donetsk and Bayer Leverkusen, and there was nothing to say, Real Sociedad basically washed their necks and waited for their lives.

Ringer's former club Bayern Munich have been drawn in Group D, alongside CSKA Moscow, Manchester City and Viktoria Plzen. After the Champions League draw, Bayern and last season's League Cup winners Chelsea played the UEFA Super Cup, the two teams played a 1-1 draw in regulation time, and scored a goal each in extra time, and finally Bayern won the penalty shootout, which can be regarded as revenge.

This is also another time that Mourinho and Pep Guardiola have looked at each other, both of them have run to the Bundesliga and the other to the Premier League, and they still meet again.

Radio Serre is one of Spain's more reliable media outlets, and they have de-signed the Champions League group stage draw for the four La Liga teams.

"Atletico Madrid's Group G should be the best group among the four teams in La Liga, although Porto is the first team, they lost James Rodriguez and Moutinho in the summer, and the strength has dropped very seriously, and Porto's current real strength may not even be comparable to Zenit."

"Zenit has spent a lot of money in recent years, under the leadership of Italian coach Spalletti, playing offensive football, but the overall strength is still much worse than Atletico Madrid, the only thing to worry about is the cold winter in Russia, but the Sheets Legion away to Russia is in the fifth round of the group stage, if Atletico Madrid can get enough points in advance, then there is no need to worry about Russia's ice and snow."

As for Austria's Viana, they are considered to be the weakest team in the Champions League group stage this season, with a combined value of only 22 million euros, ranking last among the 32 teams in the Champions League group stage, not as valuable as the Chinese in the Atletico Madrid team, and they are almost impossible to create a threat. Of course, they still have the possibility of a dark horse counterattack, in the Champions League in the 11/12 season, the lowest value in the group stage, Atletico Greek, reached the quarterfinals of the Champions League as a dark horse, but this kind of thing has not happened once in ten years, so there is no need to worry too much. ”

"Overall, Atletico Madrid have a big advantage in their group, and there is no problem in qualifying from the group, and there is even a good chance of winning the group. However, the Sheets also need to be careful, Diego Costa's two bans may affect their early grabbing of points~~~"