The 2013/2014 Champions League group stage season has officially come to an end, with 16 teams progressing to the knockout stages.

Among the 16 teams, the four Premier League teams Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal and Manchester City all qualified, and the four Bundesliga teams Bayern, Dort, Schalke 04 and Bayer Leverkusen also advanced, making it the first time that four Bundesliga teams have reached the knockout rounds.

La Liga's three clubs, Barcelona, Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid, all qualified as group winners, with Real Sociedad finishing bottom of the group.

The remaining five teams are AC Milan in Serie A, Paris in Ligue 1, Galatasaray in the Turkish Super League, Zenit in the Russian Premier League and Olympiacos in the Greek Super League.

In the final round of the Champions League group stage, the biggest upset was definitely the elimination of Juventus, the Serie A champion.

In the final round, Juventus need to travel to Galatasaray and the Bianconeri only need a draw to secure their qualification. However, Juventus encountered a real "devil's away" away from home, and after 30 minutes of play, a snowstorm broke out, so the game had to be interrupted and rescheduled to the next day.

In fact, it was snowing heavily the next day, but it was better than the day before. In the heavy snow in Turkey, Juventus was beaten by Sneijder in the 85th minute, losing the game 0:1, and the Serie A team was eliminated.

The Serie A squad actually died in the group stage, as the Italian media said, this is a shame for Italian football.

However, this season's Champions League group stage is definitely the most ups and downs in the Champions League group stage in 20 years, creating a lot of records.

First of all, Atletico Madrid is in this Group G, due to the loss of Porto to Atletico Madrid in the last round, so that Zenit even though they lost 1:4 away in Austria, they still advanced to the knockout stage, and they only got 6 points in the six rounds of the group stage, which is the lowest number of points in the history of the Champions League to advance to the knockout stage.

Galatasaray, who qualified from Group B, where Juventus were killed, also set a record with a goal difference of minus six after six rounds of group play, the fewest of any team in Champions League history to advance to the knockout stages.

In the first round of the group stage, he was killed by Real Madrid 6:1 at home, and then he went to the Bernabeu and was killed again by 4:1, losing so badly, and finally beat Juventus to advance to the knockout round, which is also very inspiring.

Zenit and Galatasaray are two lucky ones, some are lucky, and naturally some are unlucky.

In stark contrast to Zenit's six-point promotion is Group F of the Group of Death, which was considered a group of the Big Four before the start of the Champions League, and although it was not a final four scuffle as expected, it became a final three battle.

Ligue 1's Marseille was reduced to a point boy, six consecutive defeats with a duck egg at the bottom, while the other three teams Arsenal, Dortmund and Napoli, all three teams won one game each after beating Marseille, and finally all three teams got 12 points, and Napoli was eliminated from the competition by a slight disadvantage.

Napoli finished third in the group with the highest points in Champions League history.

Napoli were eliminated with 12 points and Zenit progressed to the knockout stages with just six points, and when compared to each other, the Italians may have sensed the slow malice of the world.

In fact, Chelsea's Group E is topped by the Blues with only 12 points, while Napoli is third with 12 points, which is a bit embarrassing.

Equally unlucky were Manchester City, who were in a group with Bayern Munich on 15 points, but were still second in the Champions League's history.

Therefore, this season's Champions League group stage is quite strange. Some people can't qualify with 12 points, some people can advance with 6 points, some people can only get second in a group with 15 points, and some people can successfully qualify with 6 goal difference.

In the final round of the group stage, Barcelona's Neymar finally scored his first goal in the Champions League, and this time there were three, becoming the eighth player to score a hat-trick in the Champions League this season.

There were 8 hat-tricks in the group stage, which is also a new record for hat-tricks in the Champions League group stage, and the 8 hat-tricks also equaled the record for the most hat-tricks in a single Champions League, and others have a chance to break this record after entering the knockout round.

At the same time, in the last round of Real Madrid's 2-0 away win over Copenhagen, Cristiano Ronaldo returned from injury and scored a goal, while Ibrahimovic did not score, so Ronaldo became the new single-season Champions League group stage goal record holder.

Nine goals in the Champions League group stage in a single season, in fact, Ronaldo still had a chance to refresh the tally to 10, and he missed a penalty at the last minute.

In the Champions League group stage, Cristiano Ronaldo topped the list with 9 goals, Ibrahimovic was second with 8 goals, Ringer was third with 7 goals, and Messi and Sergio Aguero were followed by Messi and Sergio Aguero with 6 goals.

Meanwhile, Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid both have 16 points, which is the joint-highest number of points in the Champions League group stage this season.

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The Champions League group stage is over and the draw for the round of 16 won't start until the weekend, with Atletico still having a league game to play.

When Ringer arrived at the gate of the training base, he saw a lot of Chinese reporters waiting for him.

Ringer is wondering, although when he joined Atletico Madrid, many Chinese reporters rushed to Spain to report the news, but as Ringer's performance stabilized, there were only a few big newspapers and big online media in China that still had one or two reporters on their side, why did so many suddenly appear this time?

"Ringer, Guangzhou Evergrande are about to meet Bayern Munich in the semi-finals of the Club World Cup, who do you think they can win?"

"Ringer, do you think Evergrande can make a difference in the Club World Cup?"

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After listening to two questions, Ringer finally understood.

It's another year of the Club World Cup, which this year is being held in Morocco, Africa.

Morocco, not Monaco.

Monaco is a small country on the edge of France, a small country with a highly developed economy, where Champions League group stage draws are often held.

Morocco is a North African country, quite close to Europe, especially Spain, only separated by a shallow Strait of Gibraltar, very convenient to get to and from.

Morocco is located in North Africa, but it is also an Arab country, and it also has strong ties with Europe, and there are many Monaco players playing in La Liga, and two Monaco players have scored hat-tricks in La Liga this season.

Evergrande successfully won this year's AFC Champions League and came to Morocco to participate in the Club World Cup. Evergrande also passed the first round of the Club World Cup to reach the semi-finals, and their semi-final opponents were Ringer's old club Bayern.

Evergrande is the first Chinese football club to participate in the Club World Cup, and many Chinese reporters have also followed to Morocco to follow up and report, and now they are about to meet Ringer's old club Bayern, so many reporters crossed the Strait of Gibraltar and came to Spain to interview Ringer.

"Bayern's strength is very strong, and I think it will be difficult for Evergrande to compete with Bayern." Ringer said what he really thought in his heart.

"But Bayern, like you last year, beat the African team Cairo Al Ahly in the first round, and Bayern is better than last year's Tokyo FC, right?" Some Chinese journalists gave different opinions.

It turned out that because Ringer led Tokyo FC to become the first Asian club to win the Club World Cup last year, now Evergrande has come to participate in the Club World Cup, and there is a saying in China.

Last year's Tokyo FC defeated Cairo Al Ahly in the first round of the Club World Cup, and won the championship in the last pass, and this year's Evergrande also met the African champion Cairo Al Ahly in the first round, is this a sign of something?

And they also believe that this year's strength of Evergrande is definitely to strengthen last year's Tokyo FC, Tokyo FC can win the championship in an upset, why can't Evergrande beat Bayern in an upset and finally win the championship?

After knowing the strange thinking of these people, Ringer could only say that they were thinking too much.

This year's Evergrande is strong last year's Tokyo FC, and there is nothing wrong with that.

But this year's Bayern and last year's Chelsea are simply not comparable. Last year's Chelsea won the Champions League and everyone was satisfied with the decline in form, and now Bayern, the name of the Universe team, is very high, and the form is good.

And Bayern also have the advantage that they play in Morocco, just like in Europe, and they don't have to run around half the world like Chelsea last year, and it's much better to stay in shape with Bayern.

If you want to be upset, in addition to having a certain strength, you also have to look at your luck.