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Chapter 612 Germany World Cup Draw

Confidence is based on playing one game after another. After defeating Portsmouth, Manchester United has ushered in seven consecutive victories in all competitions, completely getting rid of the haze of the original 1:4 defeat at the foot of Middlesbrough.

With consecutive victories, Manchester United has obviously become more confident and fighting spirit.

In the middle of the week, the Manchester United team chartered a flight southward to Lisbon, the capital of Portugal, to challenge the Portuguese super giants Benfica.

This is the last round of the UEFA Champions League group stage this season.

After Manchester United defeated Lille in the away game, they had locked in the first place in the group two rounds ahead of schedule, this game is actually insignificant to Manchester United.But for Benfica, it is a real battle of life and death.

After 5 rounds of group matches, the situation of the standings in Group D is as follows:

Manchester United won all 5 games, scored 8 goals and conceded 2 goals, ranking first with 15 points;
本菲卡1胜2平2负，打进3球失4球，积5分排名第二；
比利亚雷亚尔1胜2平2负，打进2球失3球，积5分排名第三；
里尔2平3负，打进3球失7球，积2分排名第四。

According to the current points situation, in addition to Manchester United's early lock in the first qualifying place, the competition for another qualifying spot in the group is very fierce, and all three teams may qualify.

For example, Manchester United defeated Benfica in the away game, and at the same time Lille also defeated Villarreal with a score of 2:0 or more in the away game, and Lille can qualify for the qualifying.

Of course, it is Benfica that is most likely to qualify.As long as Manchester United, which has already qualified ahead of schedule, is willing to release water, they can basically lock in another qualifying spot, unless Villarreal beat Lille by a big score at home.

As far as Villarreal's offensive power in the Champions League this season is concerned, this possibility is almost zero, because they only scored 5 goals in the first 2 games!

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Benfica hopes that Manchester United will release water, and Villarreal hopes that Manchester United will try their best to beat Villarreal.They continue to put pressure on Manchester United in the media, asking Manchester United to maintain the heart of fair play.

Because they will face Everton at home in less than 4 days, Ferguson made some adjustments to the starting lineup for this game, and many main players, including Van Nistelrooy, took turns.

But Yin Jun didn't take a rest, he offered to play.Ferguson considered that Yin Jun's physical condition is good, and the next game against Everton is almost 4 days away from this game. With Yin Jun's physical recovery speed, he will be able to play with full blood by then, so Agreed to Yin Jun's request.

At the Stadium of Light in Lisbon, in front of 1 Benfica fans, Yin Jun kicked his head and performed a hat-trick. Coupled with a goal scored by Scholes, Manchester United defeated Benfica 4:2 in the away game, completely killing Benfica. hope.

In another game, Villarreal themselves were also very competitive, beating Lille 1-0 at home, thus winning the second place in the group with 8 points and advancing to the knockout round of the Champions League.

在击败本菲卡之后, 曼联本赛季6场小组赛全部取胜，这是欧冠历史上第五支完成这一成就的球队。此前1992-1993赛季的AC米兰，1994-1995赛季的巴黎圣日耳曼，莫995-1996赛季的莫斯科斯巴达克，以及2002-2003赛季的巴塞罗那都取得过小组赛全胜战绩。

And Yin Jun, who performed a hat-trick, scored 9 goals in the group stage, which also set a new personal scoring record in the Champions League group stage.This previous record was held by Inzaghi, Crespo and Ruud van Nistelrooy, who all scored 8 goals during the group stage.

After scoring 9 goals, Yin Jun's Champions League goals have reached 49 goals, only one step away from breaking the 50-goal mark!
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After playing this UEFA Champions League group match, Yin Jun did not return to Manchester with Manchester United, but took a plane to Leipzig, Germany to participate in the draw ceremony for next year's World Cup group match in Germany.

京城时间2005年12月10日3时30分，2006年世界杯抽签仪式在德国莱比锡会展中心1号厅举行。

Yin Jun, as the captain of the Chinese team, will attend the draw ceremony together with the team coach Ali Han and some football leaders.

The draw ceremony was presided over by Hiegler, director of FIFA's public relations department. This is the first time that the World Cup group draw ceremony was presided over by the director of the public relations department instead of the secretary-general. The German female supermodel Krum was partnered with Hiegler.

The entire lottery ceremony lasted for one and a half hours, and 1 TV stations around the world broadcast it to 160 countries and regions.

The result of the draw was that the Netherlands and Argentina were in Group C, and Serbia and Montenegro and Côte d'Ivoire were in the same group; Italy, the Czech Republic, the United States, and Ghana were in Group E; England coach Sven Goran Eriksson faced Motherland Sweden; hosts Germany avoided the European powerhouses.

Although the Chinese team is currently ranked 10th in the world, it has not been able to become a seeded team, but participated in the draw with the fourth group of teams.

According to the lottery rules, it is the top 7 teams in the FIFA standings, plus the host Germany, as the 8 seeded teams.

In addition, 5 African teams and 2 other South American teams, as well as Australia as the second tier team, 8 European teams except Serbia and Montenegro as the third tier team, 5 Asian teams and two teams. A CONCACAF team will serve as Pot [-].

In order to avoid three European teams appearing in one group, Serbia and Montenegro are treated as a special-level team and follow-up arrangements will be made.

In the end, they were drawn into Group B with England, Sweden and South American team Paraguay.

When the lottery results came out, the camera was focused on Yin Jun and Beckham respectively, but both of them had faint smiles on their faces.

For the Chinese team, this is a fairly good result.Apart from the fact that England's strength is obviously beyond one section, the other three teams all hope to compete for a qualifying qualification.

When the result came out, both Ali Han and the officials of the Football Association smiled.Obviously, they are quite satisfied with the result.

In addition to the Chinese team, the results of the draw for the other four Asian teams that advanced to the World Cup finals were also unsatisfactory.Iran drew Group D with Mexico, Portugal and Angola, Japan drew Group F with Brazil, Croatia and Australia, South Korea drew Group G with France, Switzerland and Togo, and Saudi Arabia drew Group H with Spain, Ukraine and Tunisia. In addition to the slightly better situation in Japan, South Korea, Iran and Saudi Arabia can be said to have entered the death group.

With a good draw result, Yin Jun flew back to Manchester to continue the team's game.

(End of this chapter)