Chapter 842 Super Death Group

"Ruby Kazan!"

When Solskjaer turned over the note in his hand and shouted the team name loudly, the whole audience was in an uproar again.

Most people were obviously relieved, especially Barcelona. Even Guardiola, who was sitting next to Gao Han, secretly clenched his fists. He was obviously very relieved that Manchester City was not drawn in the group stage.

When Guardiola calmed down, he turned to Gao Han and grinned: "I very much hope to play a few more games with you, but it's best not to play in the group stage. Let's see you in the Champions League final!"

Gao Han chuckled, "Let's wait until you can reach the finals."

"You too." Guardiola refused to suffer any loss.

"Hey hey hey, don't think we don't exist. Do you really think the Champions League is your home? You can make it to the finals if you want. Do you think we are all soft persimmons?" Ferguson next to him asked with a look of displeasure on his face.

Gao Han and Guardiola looked at each other, smiled, and replied almost in unison: "The defeated general has no say."

Everyone around was laughing, and Ferguson himself couldn't help laughing.

"Why don't we just stop playing in the Champions League from now on? You can just drink at home and just split it up." Ferguson muttered.

Everyone couldn't help but find it funny, but it was true.

Today's Champions League football is indeed very interesting. Guardiola's team has been one of the strongest teams in Europe since winning the Triple Crown in 2008. It is also very stable and obviously stronger than other teams in Europe. The team is taller.

Gao Han is a different kind. He has led three top teams: Atletico Madrid, Inter Milan and Bayern Munich. During his coaching period, these three teams can be said to be gods and gods, and Buddhas, especially In Bayern Munich, even Guardiola's Barcelona has to be ashamed.

However, after Gao Han left the team, some players were lost. As a result, although Atletico Madrid, Inter Milan and Bayern Munich were still at the level of the top four in the Champions League, their results began to fluctuate and were not as strong as they were during Gao Han's coaching period.

On the contrary, Gao Han, after coaching Manchester City, quickly brought this team to the ranks of Europe's top teams.

It can be said that in the past few years, as long as Gao Han was there, other teams in the Champions League had nothing to do with it. In the past three years, if Gao Han did not appear in the Champions League, the championship would belong to Guardiola.

What’s interesting is that Manchester United has lost several times in the Champions League finals, so this conversation between the three people happened.

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On the stage, after four teams were drawn, there are still four groups left. Among them, Chelsea and Arsenal will avoid Manchester City. The real possibility of encountering Manchester City is Bayern Munich and AC Milan.

Therefore, after Barcelona drew the Kazan Ruby, AC Milan's general manager Galliani looked extremely depressed, and even covered his face, feeling a little unbearable. He knew very well the current strength of AC Milan. If he just followed Real Madrid is in the same group, and there is still hope for that group to advance.

But if there is one more Manchester City team, it will really be...

The remaining four fourth-tier teams are Manchester City in the Premier League, Zilina in Slovakia, Partizan Belgrade in Serbia and Cluj in Romania, and the most feared one is Manchester City.

No matter who draws Manchester City between Bayern Munich and AC Milan, they are basically the group of death.

After drawing a good draw for Barcelona, ​​Messi's mood was relieved and he felt relaxed.

Reaching into the glass jar again, Messi obviously only stirred it a few times, because there were only four small balls in it.

Messi grabbed a small ball and stuffed it into Solskjaer's hands next to him.

After the Manchester United star took the ball, he showed it to everyone in the audience, broke it in half with a smile, and took out the note.

At this moment, everyone in the audience held their breath, because they all knew that as long as Bayern Munich did not draw Manchester City, the remaining three small goals would be meaningless, because Manchester City would automatically be classified as AC Milan group.

Therefore, not only Bayern Munich's Hoeness is nervous, but AC Milan's Galliani is obviously even more nervous. Representatives from Roma and Real Madrid are also worried and appear very uneasy.

The entire Grimaldi Conference Center was filled with a tense atmosphere. Every minute and every second of time passed extremely slowly and extremely painfully. Every movement and expression of Solskjaer on the stage They all seemed to be magnified and slowed down.

This atmosphere made Gao Han himself a little nervous, but more out of curiosity.

Solskjaer opened the note and after seeing it clearly, his expression changed. He quickly turned the note over, and the live TV camera quickly focused on the note and took a close-up.

"Cluj!" Solskjaer shouted.

The whole audience exclaimed, followed by a burst of warm applause.

The biggest suspense tonight is finally revealed!

Representatives from Bayern Munich and Roma, AC Milan and Real Madrid appeared on the big screen behind them. There were two completely different reactions between the two different groups. The former was ecstatic, while the latter was extremely disappointed.

The group of death!

An absolute team of death!

AC Milan, Real Madrid and Ajax are all strong teams that have won the Champions League. It is surprising to be drawn into the same group, but what is even more unexpected is that the team in the fourth pot is actually drawn. Entering a Manchester City team, this is terrible.

This will definitely become the headlines of all media around the world tomorrow, and even the news that there is something fishy about the draw will definitely be hyped up again.

But if you analyze it carefully, there is really no way.

Among the eight seeded teams, there are three Premier League teams. Among the remaining five teams, unless Manchester City is drawn into the Barcelona group, no matter which group they are drawn into, they will be in the group of death.

Among the teams that are also in the third tier, Ajax is not necessarily stronger than Schalke 04, Basel and Spartak Moscow, but Manchester City in the fourth tier is too scary. Some.

After extracting the greatest suspense, no one paid attention to the rest.

Even the finale, when Messi received the best player trophy from Platini, failed to attract attention.

Everyone's attention has been attracted by the group of death in this Champions League.

AC Milan, Real Madrid, Ajax and Manchester City, this group will definitely be the focus of the most attention in the Champions League group stage, especially the cold Manchester City.

According to the Champions League group stage schedule, Manchester City will challenge AC Milan away in the first round, face Real Madrid at home in the second round, and then face Ajax at home and away in two consecutive rounds, and then face AC Milan at home and challenge Real Madrid away.

The twelve games in this group were full of fun to watch.

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Sure enough, things went as Gao Han and others expected. As soon as the Champions League group stage draw results came out, the media immediately exploded.

Super team of death!

This is the evaluation given by all media when Manchester City, AC Milan, Real Madrid and Ajax are gathered in the same group.

In this group, Real Madrid, AC Milan and Ajax are all the teams with the most championships in the history of the Champions League. Now they are meeting each other on a narrow road, which is already quite terrifying. Unexpectedly, in the fourth gear, a terrifying opponent was drawn. The devil Manchester City.

Last season, AC Milan also met Real Madrid in the group stage. The competition between the two teams at that time was that AC Milan had a slight advantage with one win and one draw. However, in the group standings, Real Madrid qualified first in the group. It was only at the last moment that AC Milan managed to defeat Marseille and qualify second in the group.

For this reason, AC Milan also needs to thank Real Madrid, because if Real Madrid hadn't qualified first in the group in advance, they still missed Marseille at the last minute in the away game, and finally defeated the French Ligue 1 powerhouse 3-1, the second place would have qualified It will be Marseille.

But this situation is completely different this season. Real Madrid is now better than last season, and Ajax in the third group is only stronger than Marseille last season, but in The truly despairing thing about this group is the terrifying devil Manchester City.

Gao Han's team performed brilliantly and won the Premier League championship with a complete victory last season, which shocked the entire European football world. However, this new Premier League champion participated in the draw as a fourth-tier team, which shocked everyone. The team was terrified.

In fact, the discussion on whether to reform the qualifications of seeding teams has always been controversial in European football, especially after Manchester City entered the Champions League with the league championship, this controversy became more obvious.

Everyone can see that Gao Han's team is fully capable of the top teams in Europe, but such a team is placed in the fourth tier. This is completely unreasonable. They should definitely be in the seeded team, so Many people have suggested that the championship seeding teams of the four major leagues should be given status to prevent what happened to Manchester City from happening again.

But regardless of whether UEFA decides to reform or not, this season, AC Milan, Real Madrid, Ajax and Manchester City are in the same group, which can be called a super group of death. This is a test for any team in the group. Especially teams that aim to qualify in the group must play every game well.

Compared with the super death group, Barcelona's luck in the draw was incredible. They drew the three weakest opponents, and there was basically no suspense about qualifying first in the group.

There is also no suspense about Prandelli's Inter Milan, Simeone's Atletico Madrid, Klinsmann's Bayern Munich and Scolari's Chelsea. None of the groups in which these four teams are located is too strong. Opponent, qualifying is not a big problem.

As for Manchester United and Arsenal, compared with AC Milan, Real Madrid and Ajax, their luck in the draw is indeed good, but they are not without opponents in their groups, so they need to be dealt with carefully.

It can be said that except for Manchester City, the other three Premier League teams have no reason to be dissatisfied with the draw.

Ferguson even said in a routine interview with the media after the draw ceremony that this was a good draw.

"After learning the result of the draw, my first reaction was that we only need to go to Turkey as the farthest destination. I think this is a very ideal draw. For us, there are still challenges. If we want to get If we want to top the group, we must perform well enough.”

"Yes, compared with other teams, we are lucky and very satisfied."

As for the result of the draw, General Manager Paul Futre, who represented Manchester City in the competition, also accepted an interview with the media and stated that the result of the draw was within his tolerance.

"Before I left for Monaco, I told Gao Han, I said, who do you think is the best draw for us?"

"Gao Han looked at me with a strange look in his eyes and asked me, is there any difference?"

"Yes, we haven't played in the Champions League for decades. We are a fourth-tier team. For us, it makes no difference who we draw. We have no choice at all."

"The only option we have is to beat all our opponents in the group stage."

But what is surprising is that this time Gao Han did not follow everyone out of the venue to accept interviews from the media.

Because UEFA President Platini approached him immediately after the award ceremony.