Chapter 475: Champions League Grouping

With the end of the Champions League play-offs, the Champions League powerhouses of this season have all been born.

The draw ceremony will take place in Munich, Germany.

The 32 participating teams are divided into four brackets according to the UEFA coefficient of points.

Among them, Maritimo, who participated for the first time, was unexpectedly placed in Pot 2.

It is tied with Barcelona, Manchester United, Dortmund and other teams.

No matter how you look at this kind of division, it feels a little inconsistent, as if a donkey suddenly mixed in in the middle of a group of tall horses.

The reason for this bracket is because of the rules of UEFA's points coefficient.

Brackets are based on either the UEFA points coefficient of the selected team or the UEFA points coefficient of the league in which the team is played, whichever is higher.

A team's UEFA points coefficient means that all matches (qualifying, group stage and knockout rounds) in the past five seasons of European competition will earn points for promotion, win or draw, and the higher the round, the heavier the point value.

The points coefficient of the league is the average of all the teams participating in European competitions in the current league season.

For example, if five teams in the Premier League play in the Champions League or Europa League in a given season and get 30, 25, 20, 15 and 10 points respectively, then the Premier League points for that season will be the average of 20 points for the five teams.

And the reason why Maritimo was able to share the second gear is completely stained with the light of the Portuguese Super League.

Since Maritimo has not played in any UEFA tournament in the past five seasons, their points are entirely based on the European average of the Portuguese Super League.

Because the teams participating in the European Super League in recent years are relatively powerful, although there are no particularly outstanding strong teams, but on the whole it is relatively average, so the league points of the Portuguese Super League are second only to the five major European leagues!

The title of the sixth league in Europe is well deserved.

No matter how cold and unconvinced others are, but the rules are like this, Maritimo, the Portuguese Super League champion who participated in the Champions League for the first time, was actually placed in the second pot.

Now, Maritimo seems to have become a good rib for you to grab, and all the giants are staring at them with bright eyes, thinking about how to get the weakest team in the second gear!

The Champions League grouping is greasy!

In order to whet the audience's appetite and ensure the ratings, one or two groups of deaths are artificially created every year;

At the same time, in order to avoid the strong teams meeting too early, they will deliberately avoid too many strong conversations.

Therefore, the draw is crucial.

The easiest way to manipulate the draw is to distinguish between hot and cold balls and freeze the desired draw in the refrigerator for a period of time beforehand.

In the 2015-2016 Champions League 1/8 finals, Inter Milan legend Zanetti was exposed to touching a small ball with temperature.

Of course, there are more complicated operations, such as the 2013-2014 season of the Champions League quarter-finals final, before the draw guest McManaman was drawn, the UEFA Secretary General Infantino, who was originally holding both hands, suddenly put his hand on the transparent glass containing the draw ball, and his left hand was suspected of pressing something, and then his right hand gently lifted the glass a little.

In the end, Real Madrid drew Galatasaray, which they wanted the most.

In fact, UEFA will conduct a dress rehearsal draw before each draw. あ七^ε…«Chinese ダ~(8)~1~ωωω.7,.cΓ²ΠΌ

It is said that the guests are familiar with the process of the lottery so that they do not make mistakes in the official lottery, but the real intention is questionable.

In the 2012-2013 season, after UEFA conducted the draw for the Champions League 1/8 finals, people were surprised to find that the results of the rehearsal and the final draw were exactly the same!

In short, the draw is a competition of club connections and comprehensive strength, and there is no fairness at all.

However, Gao Yuan's mentality is good, since he wants to challenge the top of Europe, no matter how strong the opponent will be sooner or later, there is nothing to worry about.

He even turned down UEFA's invitation to watch the draw and concentrate on preparing for the tournament at the club.

The final draw results were released.

Maritimo fell into the hands of Real Madrid in Group E.

Also in the group are Schalke 04 in the Bundesliga and Red Bull Salzburg in Austria.

Real Madrid's royal mouthpiece, Ace, is already cheering for the signing of the Galaxy Battleship.

"In this season's Champions League, Zidane's team managed to avoid a lot of big players. The slightly more competitive in the group is probably the Shakhtar Schalke of the Bundesliga, and Red Bull Salzburg, with the strength of the capital behind it in the past two years, has really done a good job. As for the second team, Maritimo ...... Haha, well, they were the champions of the Portuguese Super League last season! Well, let's pay a little attention to it! ”

In response to the arrogant and unpopular comments of the newspaper "As", Maritimo was very angry.

However, Gao Yuan was not too surprised. It is said that the news media should be objective and fair, but those who are openly close to Real Madrid and belittle other teams like "As" are probably only the royal mouthpiece of Barcelona's "World Sports".

And "World Sports" has a loud label: World Sports, the toilet is really needed!

In the same way, the Ace newspaper, which is as famous as the world, is not much better.

The editor-in-chief of "As" can openly say the brain-dead remark that "Messi doesn't want to join Real Madrid for free", and his IQ can be seen.

After the experience of professional football in Europe, Gao Yuan has a general grasp of the credibility of the mainstream football media in Europe:

1. Toilet newspapers: "Marca", "As", "Metro", "Express", "World Sports", "Daily Sports". Confidence β‰ˆ 0.

2. Storytelling media: "Roma Sport", "Milan Sport", "Torino Sport", "Daily Mail", "Daily Mirror", "Sun". Credibility:β˜….

3. More reliable media: The Times, The Guardian, The Independent, The Telegraph, ESPN. Credibility:β˜…β˜…β˜….

4. Trusted media: Sky Sports, Bild, Sport Bid, France Football, Manchester Evening News, Parisien, Evening Standard of London, Munich Daily, Munich Evening News, Munich Evening News, Les Echos. Credibility:β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜….

5. Flagship media: BBC, Team Newspaper, Kicker. Credibility: β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜….

So, say whatever the garbage media likes to say, beware of milking your home team!

However, for the sake of prestige, Gao Yuan has always been a "uncomfortable person who doesn't make trouble".

This time, he didn't miss the opportunity to scold the other party.

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