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Chapter 123 UEFA still understands traffic!

After the game with Swansea, Manchester City ushered in an eight-day off-season in mid-December.

After that, on December 21, Manchester City will go to the Emirates Stadium to face the Gunners Arsenal. This will be the most difficult game for Manchester City throughout December.

Unlike their previous four opponents, although Stoke City relied on their unique tactical advantages, they had a big upset.

But apart from Leverkusen, there are no opponents worthy of attention.

As a result, the only strong matchup turned into pecking at each other because of the dust settled in the Champions League group rankings, which surprised many fans who were looking forward to this game.

However, this is definitely good news for Manchester City players.

Because when facing Hull City and Leverkusen, they all played from the bench, so the originally dense schedule, for Manchester City's main players,
Instead, it became a relatively easy period of time, with a rest period of nearly a week between each game, plus the following eight days without games, it can be said that it was a good return for the Manchester City players who fought on multiple fronts. A wave of blood.

And before facing Arsenal, the two seriously injured David Silva and Otamendi will also return to the team, and the entire Manchester City lineup will return to completeness at the end of the month.

Guardiola finally welcomed back his starting central defender combination. Although the frequency of the game was once a week during this period, it also exhausted veteran players such as Fernandinho and Demichelis.

Because there is a long enough offseason, Guardiola waved his hand and gave all the players a full four-day holiday, which made all the players rejoice. Who can refuse a paid vacation!

On the second night, all Manchester City players in Manchester gathered at captain Kompany's villa on the outskirts of the city. While enjoying delicious food, they waited for tonight's UEFA Champions League round of [-] draw ceremony.

For this draw, the Manchester City players have calmed down, and the tense scene like the draw in the group stage no longer exists.

As the second qualifying group, they almost 100% will meet a strong team. Everyone already has the courage to face it calmly and accept the cruel reality.

In this year's Champions League group stage, the performance of the Premier League teams is still very good, except that the third place in the Manchester United group will play in the Europa League.

Arsenal in Group F and Chelsea in Group G are the top of the group, and Manchester City in Group E is second in the group. It can be said that Manchester is holding back London.

However, the Premier League has also won three places in the top [-], one of the most places in any league.

La Liga and Bundesliga also have three places. Serie A, Ligue 16, Portuguese Super League, Eredivisie, Ukrainian Super League, Belgian League and Russian Super League each have a team that advances to the top [-].

This season, Serie A and Ligue [-] teams continue to decline, and the two teams in their respective leagues stand out.

As for other small leagues other than the five major leagues, there is a sense of a hundred flowers blooming.

Including the five major leagues, teams from ten leagues have entered the top [-] of the UEFA Champions League this season, which is an unimaginable situation in other seasons.

The specific qualifying situation is as follows: (the previous group is first)

Group A: Real Madrid, Paris Saint-Germain.

Group B: Eindhoven, Borussia Mönchengladbach.

Group C: Atletico Madrid, Benfica.

Group D: Bayern Munich, Juventus.

Group E: Barcelona, ​​Manchester City.

Group F: Arsenal, Wolfsburg.

Group G: Chelsea, Dynamo Kiev.

Group H: Zenit, Gent.

Although there were a few dark horses, most of the strong teams broke out of the group stage.

Real Madrid, Bayern, Atletico Madrid, and Arsenal counterattacked the seeded teams in their group. The four No. [-] seeds Paris, Juventus, Benfica, and Wolfsburg could only qualify second in the group.

Porto, the second seed in Group G, fell to Dynamo Kiev from the Ukrainian Super League and came in third in the group.

Manchester United in Group B also lost to Borussia Monchengladbach in two rounds, and they can only play in the Europa League.

The biggest dark horse should be Ghent in Group H who squeezed out the original No. [-] seed Valencia.

On the evening of December [-], the UEFA Champions League quarter-final draw ceremony was held at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.

Prior to this, Manchester City's players gathered to discuss their upcoming opponents.

"Zhao, which opponent do you think UEFA will arrange for us this time?"

De Bruyne drank freshly squeezed orange juice, pointed to the upcoming draw ceremony on the TV, and asked Zhao Jinge curiously.

Zhao Jinge replied indifferently while eating the special Argentinian barbecue grilled by Aguero himself:
"It's almost the same! According to the avoidance of teams from the same group and the avoidance of teams from the same league, these two principles.

The first place in the eight groups is Arsenal, Chelsea, and Barcelona. We will never meet the three.

The three strong teams of Real Madrid, Bayern, and Atletico Madrid and the relatively weak Eindhoven and Zenit, a total of five teams may encounter each other.

However, according to UEFA's draws over the years, the luck of our Manchester City must be that one of the three strong teams did not run away! "

After struggling to eat the burnt beef Aguero roasted, Zhao Jinge took a glass of milk to moisten his throat:

"I'm ready to play against those strong teams, but I can't help but come second in the group, it's just so uncomfortable.

But fortunately, we and Wolfsburg are both second in the group!This is the only good news in the lottery.

Kevin, believe it or not in UEFA, if we are the first in the group, I am afraid that we will have to face Wolfsburg in the first round! "

De Bruyne also nodded and agreed with Zhao Jinge's words, UEFA is so doggy, Manchester City has definitely been the most heart-wrenching and touching over the years!

It seems that those two relatively weak groups are number one, Manchester City can't be counted on, and even if they are drawn, it may be a bomb.

There are no underdogs in the Champions League, and dark horses happen every season.

After the two chatted for a while, the draw for the top sixteen of this season officially began.

Captain Kompany also hurriedly greeted everyone to watch together.

While watching, Sterling set up a camera to record the reactions of his teammates watching the lottery, and then posted it on Twitter. Every year when the lottery is drawn, there will always be some interesting pictures.

The famous Maldini from AC Milan is responsible for drawing the first team in the group, and the host Pinto is responsible for drawing the second team in the group.

In the center of the TV screen, Maldini put his hand into the lottery basin containing the first team in the group, stirred it constantly and took out a small ball. After opening it, he showed the note to everyone.

The first to be drawn is this season's original champion Real Madrid!
The heavyweight teams were drawn as soon as they came up, not only the managers of the second teams in each group who watched the draw ceremony on the spot below the stage,

Even the faces of the Manchester City players who had a happy dinner showed solemn colors.

Even if there is a lot of psychological preparation, if they start a war with Real Madrid, every Manchester City player will reject it in their hearts.

If possible, who would choose to face Real Madrid!

Fortunately, the next moment, the players of Manchester City breathed a sigh of relief, and the host Pinto took out Dynamo Kiev from the second place in the group, which is one of the big gifts.

Off the stage, except for the Ukrainian who was frowning, the second managers of the other teams all showed happy smiles.

Maldini continued to draw, and the second one to be drawn was Barcelona.

Just as the Manchester City players were looking forward to which unlucky guy would go against Barcelona, ​​Pinto drew the Bianconeri Juventus for Barcelona!

Ooh!The final opponents of last season's Champions League met in advance in the quarter-finals of this season's Champions League.

It can be said that among these eight matchups, the matchup that fans are most looking forward to is already scheduled!The contest between the champion and the runner-up is full of gold!
The Manchester City players are no exception. Seeing that Barcelona drew Juventus, everyone laughed gloatingly. As long as everyone is unlucky together, I can laugh happily even if I am unlucky.

The third group to be drawn is Arsenal from the Premier League, and the second group is Paris Saint-Germain!

Although Zhao Jinge couldn't see it, he could already imagine how bad the professor's face was. After three years of Barcelona and five years of Bayern, another big Paris came. Arsenal's knockout rounds are always so ill-fated!

However, this can be regarded as a strong showdown for everyone.

Then the blue team Chelsea was drawn first in the group. Although the first two rounds of the group stage were fragmented, they barely won the first place in the group with a wave of four consecutive victories. It can be said that the first group in each group is relatively weak. of that one.

In the original history, Chelsea was easily sent away by Paris with two games [-]-[-], but in this draw they drew a relatively good lottery: Portuguese super giants Benfica, maybe Chelsea will go further this year.

The first place in the fifth group is Zenit, one of the gift packages, and Zhao Jinge's former club Wolfsburg was lucky to be paired with him.

In Zhao Jinge's view, Wolfsburg still has a good chance of qualifying for the quarter-finals. Perhaps the match between Real Madrid and Wolfsburg that will continue to appear in the future clips of the Real Madrid Champions League in history will also appear in this season. Can be staged as scheduled.

The first place in the sixth group, Eindhoven, the veteran club of the Eredivisie, was drawn out. The players of Manchester City were all nervously staring at the ball that Pinto was about to draw. It would be great if it was Manchester City.

All Manchester City fans who paid attention to the draw also expressed the same expectation, no second place in any group would want to touch the remaining Bayern Munich and Atletico Madrid!

But how could the black hand of UEFA make the Manchester City people get what they want? !
Barcelona will face Juventus, how could your Manchester City be easily let go?

In the Champions League round of 16, there must be at least two or three strong dialogues to be decent!

In the end, PSV Eindhoven, which was one of the big gift packages, won another big gift package, Ghent.

This is also UEFA's repertoire. Every year, a group of relatively weak duels will be created, and a weak team will be guaranteed to enter the quarterfinals!
There is not much suspense for the rest, the seventh drawn group No. [-] Atletico Madrid, against the group No. [-] Borussia Mönchengladbach.

In the end, Manchester City also ushered in their opponent in the quarter-finals, Zhao Jinge's old acquaintance, Guardiola's other former club, Bundesliga class bully Bayern Munich!

Good guy!UEFA still understands traffic!

Guardiola has just been kicked out by Bayern this year, and as a result, next season he will immediately lead a team to meet his old club in the Champions League knockout round.

Coupled with the gimmick of the Wolfsburg twins fighting Bayern Munich again, Demichelis returned to his old club at the Allianz Arena.

Such a round of eighth finals, the ratings are probably not lower than those of the semi-finals!
I have to say that in terms of highlights and traffic, UEFA understands it!
This season's UEFA Champions League Round of [-] draw has ended and the results are as follows:

The grievances of the strong confrontation:

Barcelona VS Juventus, Manchester City VS Bayern.

Arsenal's grueling journey to the knockout round:
Arsenal VS Paris.

Gift pack showdown:
Ghent vs PSV Eindhoven,

Zenit vs Wolfsburg.

Strong and weak massacre bureau:

Atletico Madrid VS Borussia,

Real Madrid VS Dynamo Kiev.

It has to be said that the two brothers in Madrid have good luck in signing this year.

Evenly matched:

Chelsea VS Benfica.

Some people are happy and some are worried. For Manchester City, since the future path has been determined, it can only continue to go on.

It's just Bayern Munich, it's not like I haven't played in the Bundesliga before!
Zhao Jinge looked at the eye-catching matchup on the big screen, and couldn't wait to go to the Allianz Arena to see it!

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