After winning the Club World Cup in Japan, Chelsea were greeted by fans when they returned to London in triumph.

From then on, Chelsea fans can say that they are world champions!

And when captain John Terry took the Club World Cup trophy in his hands, it made the fans outside Stamford Bridge pitch shout wildly.

Of course, this is just a spontaneous gathering of fans to welcome the trophy, an unofficial act.

After all, it's unlikely that a special celebration will be arranged for a Club World Cup, which is not enough.

However, with the Premier League fixture at home, Chelsea Football Club prepared a Club World Cup showcase at Stamford Bridge on 23 December.

Captain John Terry led his players to the cheers of the Chelsea fans as they paraded around Stamford Bridge with the Club World Cup in hand.

Sky TV also live-streamed Chelsea's entire trophy roundtrip to congratulate Chelsea on winning the Club World Cup.

Then, in the 17th round of the Premier League, Chelsea play Sunderland at home.

Facing Sunderland, the black cat who is fighting for relegation this season, Chelsea did not consume too much in the Club World Cup, and it was not too difficult to win the game.

Thanks to goals from Jesse Lingard, Moses and John Terry, Chelsea won 3-0.

It was also the last race before Christmas.

With this game over, Chelsea fans can go to Christmas with the joy of winning the Club World Cup and a thrilling victory!

However, for the Chelsea players, this Christmas holiday is quite short.

Christmas Eve on December 24, Christmas Day on December 25, and then December 26, is the 18th round of the Premier League against Watford.

This is the beginning of the Devil's Christmas game.

Luckily, though, the game against Watford was still at home.

This means that Chelsea will not have to travel from city to city after returning from Japan, and will be able to stay in London and wait for their opponents to challenge them, and avoid further fatigue.

Of course, just like last year, there are a lot of things to be aware of during the Christmas season.

Who would want to work overtime during the Chinese New Year?

However, with past experience, Pan Yi and the coaching staff have also done a good job of the players, so that the players can maintain a good psychological state and competitive state to welcome the Christmas schedule.

Moreover, at Stamford Bridge, with Watford's quality, it is still difficult to pose any threat to Chelsea.

In the end, it was Romelu Lukaku's brace at home that Chelsea beat Watford 2-0.

It's not a big score, but in a game like this, it's all three points that matter.

Just look at the performance of a few other strong teams.

Manchester United, beaten 2-0 away from Stoke City!

Stoke City, which is no longer the "City in the Sky", gave Manchester United a bitter taste of defeat with goals from Bojan and Arnautovic.

The bigger upset came in Southampton's home game against Arsenal.

The Gunners actually lost by four goals!

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Ward Prowse provided a number of assists, Sean Long scored a hat-trick and centre-back Wundt also scored with a header.

In the other big game, Liverpool beat Lyicester City 1-0 at home, giving them their second defeat of the season.

After 18 rounds, Chelsea have won 15 and drawn three, and are still at the top of the table with 48 points.

Due to the loss, Lyrc City can only be in second place with 38 points, ten points behind.

Next up are Arsenal with 36 points, Manchester City with 35 points, Tottenham Hotspur with 32 points, Crystal Palace with 30 points, and Manchester United with 29 points.

It is worth noting that Crystal Palace have been very good in the first half of the season and have managed to finish in the top six.

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December 27, noon.

In the trapezoidal conference hall of UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, preparations are underway for the draw for the last 16 of the Champions League.

Although the central air conditioning was turned on, it still made everyone who walked into the conference hall feel the chill, especially the representatives of the top league teams.

From the faces of everyone who walked into the conference hall, you could read the solemnity in their hearts.

For those teams that have a chance to win the title, whether they can draw a good draw can mean that they can have a smoother road to qualification, and can also reduce the impact of the Champions League on the domestic competition to a certain extent.

And even those weaker teams want to be able to squeeze as much as they can forward, after all, every promotion means at least tens of millions of euros in prize money, as well as a lot of broadcast fees and ticket revenue.

Therefore, no one will be careless about such a draw!

After the representatives of the sixteen teams entered the field, they each found their place in the club according to the paper card on the table, and all looked apprehensively at the transparent glass cylinders connected in a row on the table under the trapezoidal seats.

Wait a minute, the matchup of the Champions League knockout round will be decided in the tank.

Al-Nassr, the president of the Paris Saint-Germain team, also came to the draw today.

He sat there, looking frowning and preoccupied.

As the absolute supremacy of Ligue 1, PSG's dominance is even more secure than that of Chelsea in the Premier League.

Now Ligue 1 has played 16 rounds, and Grand Paris is unbeaten with 14 wins and 2 draws.

Chelsea have drawn three games!

So, of course, Nassr is not worried about his team's results in the league.

Paris Saint-Germain's greatest wish is, of course, to go far in the Champions League!

This is the team's biggest vision and the Qatar Group's biggest goal in Paris.

But now he knows better than anyone else what is going on.

They are second in the group.

It's not that they didn't perform well in the group stage, but they were assigned to Real Madrid in the group.

Although they have won all four games against the other two teams, Shakhtar Donetsk and Malmo, a draw and a defeat against Real Madrid will be enough to squeeze them into second place.

The main thing is that Real Madrid's performance is also extremely stable, and in the end it was 5 wins and 1 draw, stealing the first place.

As a result, the situation for Paris Saint-Germain is very bad.

The opponents who can win the first place in the group are not easy to mess with.

Real Madrid will not draw together if they are opponents in the same group, but Chelsea, Manchester United, Atletico Madrid, Manchester City, Barcelona, and Bayern Munich do not feel very easy to play.

Unless they can draw Zenit St. Petersburg, the weakest of the top players, they will all face a tough battle.

This is clearly something that PSG does not want to see.

On the contrary, those teams that won the group stage are obviously more relaxed, at least they have a better chance of drawing easier opponents.

Eindhoven, Wolfsburg, Benfica, Roma, Ghent...... Although there are relatively tough opponents such as Juventus, Arsenal, and Paris Saint-Germain, they are always easier to deal with than the seeded teams.

The host of the draw ceremony was the secretary general of UEFA, bald Gianni Infantino.

The player, who has been with UEFA for nearly a decade and is in charge of player registration, legal and patent matters, is no stranger to everyone present.

He was a first-class eloquent, and presiding over such a draw ceremony was a piece of cake for him, and it was humorous to introduce the performances of the teams in the group stage.

However, this did not ease the tension at the scene.

At the time of Infantino's introduction, a recap video of the group stage was also broadcast on the big screen, introducing each team's qualification experience, and the most eye-catching of them was undoubtedly Pan Yi's Chelsea.

The Premier League leaders are the only team to have won all six of their group games, and a nightmare that all second-placed teams are afraid to avoid, with no one wanting to draw them.

With this season's final scheduled at Milan's San Siro Stadium (Estadio Meazza), the draw was once again attended by Milan's two giants and former captains, Maldini and Zanetti.

Infantino chatted with Maldini and Zanetti first.

The two spoke highly of what Pan Yi had done at Chelsea and found Pan Yi's results unbelievable.

Maldini joked: "They were the best team in the group stage and the favourites to win the title. I hope that the team I draw against will not throw tomatoes at me. ”

There was a burst of laughter in the room.

But after the team representatives finished laughing, their faces quickly returned to their original nervousness.

Everyone knows that if you really draw Chelsea, there is a good chance that it will be one word: "send".

For the team that finished second in the group like Paris Saint-Germain, the team that most wanted to draw first place was undoubtedly Zenit St. Petersburg from Russia.

Because this is the relatively weakest in the first place in the group, it is also the most promising counterattack for many group runners.

Conversely, if the group winners were to be selected, they would most likely want to draw Ghent from Belgium.

This team is obviously the weakest team in the top 16 at present.

A large part of the reason why Zenit St. Petersburg and Gent qualified was that they were placed in the same group and were lucky enough to be placed in a less strong group.

Of course, they were also more competitive and finally squeezed out Dynamo Kyiv and Valencia to qualify with their heads held high.

By the way, Valencia's poor performance in the Champions League led former manager Nuno to voluntarily announce his resignation, and then Gary Neville had the opportunity to join the Bats......

After a round of pleasantries, the draw ceremony soon began.

The organizers took the lead in putting the small ball with the names of the eight group runners-up team in front of Zanetti in a glass jar.

The eternal Inter player reached in, and after some stirring, he quickly selected one of them, unscrewed it, and called out the first team to be drawn.

"Ghent!" Zanetti flipped the note in the ball and announced with a smile.

There was an uproar in the audience, but I didn't expect that the first team to be drawn turned out to be Gent, which immediately made the eight teams that won the group eager to try.

The live broadcast camera also specially gave the faces of the representatives of these eight teams, and everyone's expressions were full of expectation.

Everyone knows that if you win Gent, it almost means that you will qualify early.

Even the other seven second-placed teams in their group are secretly praying that it would be best for Gent to draw the teams they least want to touch, especially Chelsea.

God, just take Pan Yi away!

Maldini smiled and reached into one of the glass jars in front of him, and also took out a small ball, unscrewed it, and took out the note, the whole process happened quickly, but in the eyes of everyone it seemed to be very long.

Everyone's eyes widened as they looked at Maldini, as he gradually flipped over the note in his hand.

"Manchester City!"

There was an uproar in the conference hall, and the vast majority of people were sighing, except for the representative of Manchester City, President Mubarak, who was snickering and snickering.

This is already the best lottery they have ever been able to draw.

Signed, definitely signed.

Especially for Manchester City, which has been drawn to Barcelona for nearly two years, this time it is really transferred!

Infantino's big screen immediately marked Gent vs. Manchester City, and the draw continued.

The next team to be drawn by Zanetti in second place is Wolfsburg, while Maldini is drawn in first place by Manchester United.

Wolfsburg was represented by the head coach Heijin who came to the scene in person, and his face was very calm.

Although they failed to draw the weakest Zenit, Manchester United's recent form is also average, and they have been squeezed out of the top six in the Premier League, so this signing is still okay.

And for Manchester United, Wolfsburg is not a difficult opponent, better than Paris Saint-Germain, Juventus, etc., right?

So, it's a great lot.

And when Wolfsburg and Manchester United were relieved, Zanetti took out a small ball from the glass jar again, unscrewed it, took out the note, and loudly announced: "Paris Saint-Germain!" ”

When Nasser heard the name, his nerves tensed instantly.

It's finally our turn!

Maldini also reached into the glass jar and took out a small ball.

Watching the Milan legend unscrew the ball, Nasser closed his eyes nervously and moved his lips slightly.

If you get closer, you can hear him chanting: "No Chelsea, no Chelsea, no Chelsea......

Last season, Paris drew Chelsea.

The result?

2:4 at home, 0:3 away, not to mention being double-killed, and having a net minus 5 goals, it can be said that there is no power to fight back.

Therefore, the last thing Nasser wants to meet now is Chelsea.

Even if it is to draw Real Madrid and Bayern!

The TV station director was obviously very good at catching gimmicks, and when he saw Nasser's eyes closed in the many sub-shots, he immediately signaled to switch to the live camera.

In this way, the audience around the world, including everyone present, saw the nervousness of the presidency of PSG.

But no one laughed at all.

To some extent, there is no shame in being afraid of Pan Yi.

Looking at the whole of European football, who is not afraid?

In the past few years, Pan Yi has been like the dream demon of all professional teams, no matter which team he leads, which team can win the championship.

Whether it's a more civilian team like Hamburg or a giant like Chelsea.

In particular, Pan Yi's Chelsea team is simply impeccable, which makes all teams around the world feel a headache.

There may be many players and coaches who are looking forward to playing against Pan Yi, and are proud to beat Pan Yi or even draw Pan Yi, but Nasser doesn't want to.

He just wants his team to go far in the Champions League.

It would have been better if Chelsea had been accidentally beaten by another team in the course of PSG's progress.

In this way, Grand Paris even really hopes to win the Champions League and fulfill their long-cherished wish for many years!

"Don't be like Manchester City have drawn Barcelona for two years in a row......," Al-Nasser prayed, "they have all been transferred this year, and we have to ...... too"

But what Nasser didn't expect was that matter is conserved, and so is luck.

Now that Manchester City has been transferred, isn't bad luck going to ......

At this time, on the draw table, the handsome Maldini had ruthlessly unscrewed the ball and took out a note from it, the expression on his face was obviously stunned, and his eyes couldn't help but aim at Nasser.

Then he shouted hard: "Chelsea. ”

Chelsea!

The audience suddenly exclaimed.

After Nasser heard the name, he jumped up from his seat.

On the stage in front of him, Maldini flipped over the note, which was indeed printed with Chelsea.

Nasser sat back weakly and shook his head.

Under the lottery, this is definitely a sub-draw.

Unexpectedly unlucky to meet Chelsea again in the round of 16 of the Champions League, Nassr was completely speechless.

How could it be such a coincidence? So unlucky?

He didn't even pay attention to the remaining few draws, and his whole heart was absent-minded.

The group runners sitting next to him had a relaxed expression on their faces......

Soon, the remaining groups of opponents were also drawn.

Benfica vs Zenit St. Petersburg.

Roma vs Real Madrid.

Juventus vs Bayern Munich.

PSV Eindhoven vs Atletico Madrid.

Arsenal vs Barcelona ......

Well, bad luck seems to have gone a little bit to Arsenal as well.

At this time, the theme song of the Champions League also sounded at the right time:

"Kick Barcelona, kick Barcelona, kick Bayern Munich, my factory has collapsed~~"

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As soon as the draw results of the knockout round of 16 of the Champions League were released, they immediately caused a huge repercussion around the world.

Both the media and fans are talking about this, and they are also analyzing who can enter the quarterfinals.

First of all, there is a more evenly matched match, Benfica vs Zenit St. Petersburg, two relatively weak teams that have been grouped together, and whoever advances is likely to advance.

The other is Wolfsburg vs. Manchester United, public opinion generally believes that Manchester United may have an advantage in strength, but the recent form is worrying, and Wolfsburg has a chance to beat Manchester United.

In several other matchups, the "two-horse dispute" between Rome and Real Madrid, everyone felt that Rome was not capable of upsetting Real Madrid.

Similarly, Gent vs Manchester City, Juventus vs Bayern Munich, PSV Eindhoven vs Atletico Madrid, and Arsenal vs Barcelona are the favourites for the majority of group winners.

Although Juventus vs Bayern Munich and Arsenal vs Barcelona are both big matchups, there is no doubt that Bayern and Barcelona will be stronger.

And the final match between the giants is Paris Saint-Germain vs. Chelsea.

Although it cost 63 million euros to buy Argentine Angel Di Maria from Manchester United this season, although it is a matchup between the unbeaten first in Ligue 1 and the unbeaten first in the Premier League, no one seems to be optimistic that Paris has a chance to overturn Chelsea.

There is one statistic that best reflects the concerns about the outlook of PSG, and that is the bookmaker's odds.

Prior to the draw, PSG were sixth among the sixteen teams in favour of winning the Champions League, behind Chelsea, Manchester City, Barcelona, Bayern Munich and Real Madrid.

This is enough to prove that the outside world is still very optimistic about Paris Saint-Germain, and the odds to win the championship are 16 to 1.

But after the draw results came out, it was found that it had met Chelsea, and the odds of Paris Saint-Germain to win the championship plummeted to 50 to 1!

That's almost a notch to Wolfsburg......

This shows that both bookmakers and fans are basically not optimistic that Paris Saint-Germain can advance.

Although this odds can't represent anything, after all, everything is possible on the football field, and Manchester City often has the first odds, and is it not often eliminated?

But it was also a real blow to the confidence of PSG.

The shadow of last season's fiasco is still lingering!

Touching Chelsea for two years in a row, who is worse than me!

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According to the usual practice, after the draw results came out, as the head coach of the team, Pan Yi also accepted an interview with media reporters.

Pan Yi said very modestly that the draw to Paris Saint-Germain was a sign.

"We all know that Paris Saint-Germain is one of the strongest teams in the round of 16 and no one wants to meet such an opponent early."

"A team with Yoon Bou, Thiago Silva, Cavani, Di Maria, theoretically can play perfect football on the pitch."

But Pan Yi immediately changed his words, saying that the whole team was confident that he would defeat Paris Saint-Germain and advance to the quarterfinals.

'We played each other last season and we eliminated them at that time.

'There are no big changes to the team and the manager is still Blanco, so I don't believe there will be too many changes in the result.

Pan Yi also said that Chelsea have an advantage in the schedule because as the group leader, they can play away and then home.

"I'm looking forward to going to the Parc des Princes in Paris in February and having another great match with them!" Pan Yi smiled confidently.

Chelsea have also said the same, and the players basically respect PSG, but believe that the team can qualify.

Captain Terry said even more domineeringly:

'We at Chelsea are the best team in European football at the moment and we are not afraid of any opponent.

"We've won the Club World Cup, so the next goal is to defend the Champions League! We have the strength! ”

"It's our opponents who are scared. Because right now, no team wants to play against us! ……”

Although there is still a month and a half before the official start of the game, the match between Paris Saint-Germain and Chelsea has an absolute heat and has been hyped all the time!