This player is not professional

Chapter 281
The TV broadcast caught sight of Lin Yi and Klopp. Klopp was chatting with Lin Yi about something.

No one knew what they were talking about, because both of them put their hands over their mouths, making it impossible to guess by reading lips.

In fact, Klopp is complaining to Lin Yi about this binning rule.

"If we are a seeded team, we have a great chance of avoiding being assigned to a death group..."

Lin Yi was comforting him: "Don't worry too much, sir, I think it's a good thing to be assigned to the death group."

"what?"

"Weren't we assigned to the group of death last season? As a result, we won the championship. So I think the group of death may be a sign of good luck for us?" Lin Yi said with a smile.

Klopp looked at Lin Yi with some surprise, feeling that this kid's thinking was really different from ordinary people, and bad things could be said to be good things.This kind of confidence is really beyond the reach of ordinary people...

Interrupted by Lin Yi, Klopp had no time to continue thinking about seeding teams. The Champions League draw had already begun.

McNeil and Figo placed the seeded team Real Madrid in Group A, Manchester City in Group B, Chelsea in Group C, Bayern Munich in Group D, Juventus in Group E, and Benfica. Coming to Group F...

Klopp still snorted when he pulled out Benfica.

Obviously he is dissatisfied that Benfica can be a seeded team, while Liverpool can only be a second-tier team.Just because a team like Benfica has the opportunity to participate in the Champions League in a small league country like Portugal, it has higher points than Liverpool and has become a seeded team...

Lyon was assigned to Group G, while Barcelona was assigned to Group E.

The first round of the UEFA Champions League has been drawn.

The guest of the draw for the second tier is the legendary Dutch star Johan Cruyff. He and Figo are in charge of the draw for the second tier.

When the second-tier teams were drawn, many Chinese fans paid special attention. Klopp and Zorc, who were sitting in their seats, also adjusted their sitting postures and seemed to be sitting upright.

Because Liverpool is in the second tier of teams.

The first one to be drawn out was Paris Saint-Germain, who was assigned to Group A with Real Madrid.Then Wolfsburg was assigned to Group B and met Manchester City.Porto was assigned to Group C, along with Chelsea.

The draw continued, and Arsenal, as the second-tier team, was assigned to Group D. In the same group with them were Bayern Munich, Valencia went to Group G, and Atletico Madrid was assigned to Group F.

Now there are only two second-tier teams left that have not been drawn out, one is Liverpool and the other is Roma, and only two groups can accommodate them, one is Group H where Barcelona is located, and the other is Juventus No matter which group E is in, Si is a strong opponent, and they are all opponents who were defeated by Liverpool last season.

It can only be said that UEFA knows how to draw lots!
Cruyff picked up one of the last two table tennis balls in the lottery box, opened it, took out a folded piece of paper, unfolded it, took a look at it, then turned it over and showed it to the camera. Also read: "Liverpool."

Next, Figo is responsible for drawing out Liverpool's group.

He quickly got the result: "Group E."

Liverpool and Juventus are assigned to a group!
The live TV broadcast immediately gave Lin Yi and Buffon a close-up shot. This shot was not given casually.

These were the two opponents in last year's Champions League final. I didn't expect that they would have to face off in the group stage in the new season.

After Liverpool was drawn out, everyone is now concerned about which teams will be placed in the same group as Liverpool. Besides Arsenal, who will be the teams in the third and fourth tiers?

Although it is the third and fourth tiers, it does not mean that there are no strong teams in these two tiers.

Chinese fans certainly hope that weak teams can be placed in a group with Liverpool, so that Liverpool can at least qualify in the Champions League group stage without too much effort.

Although everyone knows that the chance of defending the Champions League is very small and very difficult, we still hope that Liverpool can go further in the Champions League.

After drawing out Liverpool, the Champions League group draw continued, and Roma was drawn into Group E where Barcelona is located.

Then the draw for the third-tier teams began, and the guest of the draw was Irving.Owen and Figo were drawn together, and the domestic fans in front of them didn't care much, until Sevilla was drawn next, and was drawn into Group E...and was assigned to the same group as Juventus and Liverpool!

"Holy crap! Death group!"

Although the results of the lottery are not over yet, it has already led to such a depressing conclusion.

The so-called group of death does not mean that they are all the strongest teams, otherwise the four seeded teams can be considered a group of death when they are put together.The death group is close in strength, and each has an opponent who can kill the other, but may also be killed by the other.Juventus, Liverpool and Sevillas fit this criteria perfectly.

Just one thing to say about how powerful Sevilla is, they were the Europa League champions last season.

In other words, tomorrow's European Super Cup will be held in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. The two opponents happen to be Liverpool and Sevilla. In other words, tomorrow's game is not only a championship competition, but also a preview of the two teams' Champions League group stages. .

However, some people are sober and this result is not bad. After all, Juventus is not assigned to this group, which would be a more terrifying group of death...

Dynamo Kyiv was assigned to Group C, and Leverkusen went to Group H. Together with Barcelona and Roma, it can be regarded as a group of death.

After the teams in the third tier are drawn, it will be the turn of the teams in the fourth tier.

The guest of the draw for the fourth tier team is former Manchester City player Sosa.As a result, as soon as he came up, he assigned Borussia Monchengladbach, the strongest team in the fourth tier, to the group where Liverpool was...

As soon as the results came out, not only the Chinese Internet, but also the scene was in an uproar. The real group of death in this Champions League group stage was born!

If Group H, where Barcelona, ​​Roma and Bayer Leverkusen were before, could be considered a group of death, then Group E, where Liverpool is now, dominates because no other fourth-tier team can compare with them.

"Lin Yi is so lucky..." Some fans lamented on the Chinese Internet.

It was the group of death last year, and it is still the group of death this year. It is simply invincible!

"Does it mean that as long as Liverpool is in a group, it is the group of death?"

Some fans asked such questions, and everyone was speechless. It seemed that they really meant something like this...

With Liverpool's strength, they are not a seeded team yet. They are still a second-tier team. This means that they will definitely be grouped with a seeded team. If this seeded team is not Benfica or Lyon, , then there are two teams of similar strength in this group, and another team of similar strength will be a group of death.So everyone has a hunch that Liverpool is in the group of death. This situation may get better next year. If Liverpool still performs well in the Champions League this season and gets enough European points, they can be among the seeds. As for the team's ranks, the chance of being assigned to the death group will not be as high as it is now.

But now, Juventus, Liverpool, Sevilla, Borussia Monchengladbach, good guys, one person and one team from the four major leagues are fighting for the two places to qualify for the group stage.

Group E is the first group to gather four teams. No other team will be more dead than them. Even if Barcelona and Roma are in the group, their fourth-tier team cannot be Find someone better than Borussia Monchengladbach.

The final draw results also proved this point.

Group A: Real Madrid, Paris Saint-Germain, Shakhtar Donetsk, Malmo.

Group B: Manchester City, Wolfsburg, PSV Eindhoven, CSKA Moscow.

Group C: Chelsea, Porto, Dynamo Kyiv, Maccabi Tel Aviv.

Group D: Bayern Munich, Arsenal, Olympiacos, Dinamo Zagreb.

Group E: Arsenal, Liverpool, Sevilla, Borussia Monchengladbach.

Group F: Benfica, Atletico Madrid, Galatasaray, Astana. ,

Group G: Lyon, Valencia, St. Petersburg, Gent.

Group H: Barcelona, ​​Roma, Bayer Leverkusen, BART.

The results of the Champions League group draw came out, and the draw ceremony was over.

Next, it was finally the turn of the event that the Chinese media and fans were most looking forward to, the on-site selection and award ceremony of the best European players!

It was already midnight after the BJ time, and many Chinese fans who were a little sleepy in front of the TV also cheered up, readjusted their sitting posture, rubbed their eyes, and some people took this opportunity to go to the bathroom quickly, I'm afraid that when the time comes, I want to go to the toilet at a critical moment but I don't have time.

Tonight, for the Chinese media and fans, the biggest and only suspense is whether Lin Yi can win the live vote and become the best player in Europe last season!
Because Monaco implements daylight saving time in August, there is now a six-hour time difference between Monaco and BJ. The red carpet was at 45 pm, which is 45 pm BJ time.The lottery ceremony starts at [-]:[-], which means it starts at [-]:[-] pm BJ time. At the same time, the award ceremony is after the lottery ceremony, so by the time Lin Yi comes on the stage, it is already the early morning of BJ time.

However, there will still be many Chinese fans waiting in front of the TV and on the Internet, just waiting to witness history.

The biggest difference between the selection of Europe's best players and the selection of the FIFA Ballon d'Or is not the media voting, but the on-site voting.

The FIFA Ballon d'Or is to collect everyone's votes in advance, and then count the nouns. The top three will enter the final awarding session. There will be no second voting at the scene, and the awards will only be awarded according to the rankings.So every year, more or less, some media will announce who will win the award in advance, because the result has already come out, and the on-site announcement just creates some tension and gimmicks, and does not affect the final result.

In order to distinguish themselves from FIFA, UEFA even has a different selection method from FIFA. Their voting is divided into two rounds. During the primary election, every media with voting rights can write down what they think on the ballot. The names of the five best players last season are arranged in order, and then the top three are selected to enter the finals. In the finals, there is a live vote to decide who is the winner.

This gave voters time to reconsider and added uncertainty to the final outcome.

It doesn't mean that if you rank first in the primary election, you will definitely be able to get the first place.

The specific voting method is to have a media representative from each country that is a UEFA member country set by the European Sports Media Alliance to vote. For example, Spain's voting representative is Marca.

UEFA has 53 member states, so 53 media representatives will vote.

Before the voting officially started, the large screen at the venue first played a video highlight of the performance of the three candidates in the past season. The production was very exquisite and fully demonstrated the characteristics of each player.

For example, Messi and Ronaldo are about breakthroughs and goals, while Lin Yi is about goals and assists. Of course, the scene of Lin Yi lifting the league championship trophy and the Champions League trophy also appears in it. This is his most important performance last season. Results are the main reason why he is able to stand here and compete on the same stage with two other world-class stars.

Without the blessing of the championship halo, no matter how good his personal performance is, it may not be easy to get here.

After the video was played, the host Pedro Pinto, a famous British BB speaker, and Miss Switzerland Melanie Wenig invited the three candidates to the stage.

Amidst the applause and music, Lin Yi stood up, buttoned up his suit, then squeezed past Klopp and walked onto the stage.

His rivals Cristiano Ronaldo and Messi also came from different directions.

The three people met just below the stage. Lin Yi took the initiative to make an invitation gesture and did not rush to get on the stage.

In the end, they gave in to each other and had no choice but to walk on the stage together.

After the three people walked onto the stage, they spread out in a row, with Messi on the far left, Ronaldo in the middle, and Lin Yi on the far right.

Next to Lin Yi stood the male host Pedro Pinto.

There is a small stage between Pinto and hostess Melanie Wenig, which is obviously used to display the trophy.

The trophy for the best player in Europe is shaped like a silver jersey with arms raised, but in China, some fans also nicknamed it "Silver Pants."

After the three candidates took the stage, the host invited Mr. Holtzschue, the rotating chairman of the European Sports Media Alliance and the editor-in-chief of the German Kicker magazine, to come to the stage to start the on-site voting.

After taking the stage, Hotshu announced the start of voting.

Then music sounded, and every voting representative sitting in the media box made a choice on the voting machine in front of them.

However, this option was not available on site, which made everyone waiting nervous.

Especially the Chinese fans in front of the TV.

"The on-site voting has begun, and we don't know whether Lin Yi can finally win the award. Judging from the preliminary data, Lin Yi is ranked first, but it is impossible to say that Lin Yi will definitely win the award because of this. The other two These opponents are two unparalleled heroes in football." The CCTV commentator kept talking, and his words and content further aggravated the tension of the Chinese fans.

The television cameras flashed across the faces of the three players one by one.

(End of this chapter)