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From 2001 to 2002, the UEFA Champions League still adopts the form of three qualifying rounds plus two group matches and two knockout rounds. This draw is for the top 32 in the peripheral group stage. The 32 teams participating in the draw are divided into four according to the European competition points. Then they will be drawn into four groups for home and away round-robin matches, and the top two will advance.

The Serie A team has four teams appearing in the outer group stage of the Champions League this time. According to the data released by UEFA yesterday, Inter Milan and Juventus are both first-tier teams, and the other six seeded teams are respectively It's Real Madrid, Manchester United, Bayern, Barcelona, ​​Liverpool and Arsenal.Roma and Lazio are in the second tier.They are accompanied by small country giants such as Dortmund, Porto, Lyon, Deportivo, Galatasaray, and Mallorca, as well as European elites.

Although Inter Milan has always been regarded as a wealthy and powerful family, but their results in the Champions League have not been able to show. Moratti took over as the chairman of Inter Milan on February 1995, 2. Since he took office, Inter Milan’s previous Champions League results have been dismal, 18-95 : Did not participate in the Champions League, 96-96: Did not participate in the Champions League, 97-97: Did not participate in the Champions League, 98-98: Champions League top 99 (lost to the later champion Manchester United 8:1 in two rounds), 3-99: Did not participate in the Champions League , 00-00: UEFA Champions League qualifying match, eliminated by Sweden's Helsingborg 01:0 in two rounds.

Putting them in the third tier with such Champions League results is a bit high on them. The reason why they can be included in the first tier is because of their excellent UEFA Cup results.

According to UEFA rules, the determination of the seeding team is determined by each team's European competition points in the past 5 seasons. The top 8 teams are naturally the seeding team, and the distribution of the next few teams depends on the number of points. analogy

The rules of UEFA stipulate that every time you participate in a UEFA Champions League match or UEFA Cup group match or knockout match, you will get 2 points if you win, 1 point for a draw, and no points for a loss; And the points in the play-offs will be reduced according to the level. For example, the Champions League qualifying match is 1 point for a win, while the UEFA Cup qualifying match will increase from 0.25 to 1.5 according to the qualifying level; in addition, participating teams will also have bonus points After participating in 6 UEFA Champions League group matches, you will get 3 bonus points, and you will get 1 bonus point for each knockout round. For example, the top 16 teams in the UEFA Champions League will get 4 bonus points, and the teams in the second round of the UEFA Cup will also get 4 bonus point. [-] points.However, this is not the team's final points.

Because UEFA also needs to determine the points of each national league based on the points of each club.In each season, the average points obtained by all the teams participating in the European war in each national league is the points of the national league in that season.For example, there were 8 La Liga teams participating in the European War last season, namely Barcelona, ​​Barcelona, ​​Atletico Madrid, Villarreal, Sevilla, Valencia, Deportivo and Santander. Competitively, all 8 teams have scored 106.5 points in total, so La Liga's European war points last season was 13.312 points.The team's final points shall be the sum of the team's game points plus 20% of the country's league points.

Inter Milan did not participate in the UEFA Champions League in the 96-97 season, but they were the runner-up of the UEFA Cup. They only lost to Schalke 04 in Germany on penalties in the final. They did not participate in the UEFA Champions League in the 97-98 season, but Inter Milan won the UEFA Cup that year. Champion, beat Lazio 3:0 in the final, was the top 98 of the UEFA Champions League in the 99-8 season, and was the Champion of the UEFA Cup last season. Included in the first grade.

Schalke 04, Bayer Leverkusen, Dynamo Kiev, Lokomotiv Moscow, Rosenborg, Alkmaar, Eindhoven, Olympiacos in the third class.The eight teams in the fourth tier are Anderlecht, Sparta Prague, Panathinaikos, Bovista, Celtic, Fenerbahce, Lille, and Nantes.

The group draw for the qualifiers adopts the principle of avoidance in the same league, and their match dates and home and away games are staggered as much as possible to facilitate watching and broadcasting. In fact, after the four-level teams come out, each team will generally know I may have encountered which teams, but because there are strong teams like Roma, Dortmund and Lazio in the second tier, and PSV Eindhoven, Leverkusen and Schalke 04 in the third tier, it will definitely be difficult to play. , So when former French Football Association President Fayad and UEFA Secretary-General Egna presided over the draw ceremony, the head coaches were still anxious, worried that they would be drawn to several strong teams if they were unlucky.

Jiang Mu sat in the second row with Moratti and Vieri, exactly in the same row as Schelinga and Linna Zhou, but in a different area. Because of Ronaldinho's transfer, Schelinga The relationship with Jiang Mu has eased. After Dalma loaned to Alkmaar, Sheringa's favor for Jiang Mu has increased a lot. Before the draw ceremony, they were still discussing Inter Milan and Alkmaar. Will a team be drawn.

For Alkmaar, which group they draw is very important. Their current strength is not the same as when Jiang Mu was there. It is impossible to think about winning the championship. It is victory to qualify for the group. Although Inter Milan is not afraid of anyone, but The UEFA Champions League draw is also very important. If you encounter a few strong teams, you will first consume a lot of strength. For the teams that want to win the championship, this is a long process, and more consumption is not good.

After the draw ceremony began, Fayad, the former president of the French Football Association, first drew out the 8 seeded teams, and Inter Milan was drawn into Group D.The other seven seeded teams are Real Madrid in Group A, Liverpool in Group B, Arsenal in Group C, Juventus in Group E, Barcelona in Group F, Manchester United in Group G, and Bayern in Group H.

Then UEFA Secretary-General Egna drew out the second team, and Roma was the first to be drawn into the Real Madrid group. This aroused the exclamation of the guests and reporters at the scene. The second tier of teams, but by no means worse than the first tier, Roma, Dortmund and Lazio are the three teams that dominate the death group.

UEFA Secretary-General Egner drew Dortmund second again, and they were placed with Liverpool in Group B. This is another prototype of a death group.

Then Mallorca was drawn into Group C, which made Arsenal's head coach Arsene Wenger breathe a sigh of relief, and after Turkey's Galatasaray was drawn into Group D, other teams breathed a sigh of relief, but Jiang Mu and Moratti both frowned. They were not afraid of a strong opponent, but against Galatasaray, they did have some headaches, because Galatasaray's home court is known as the home court of hell, and the fans are very crazy , Like to make trouble, this may bring great risks to the Inter Milan fans who go to help, even the Inter Milan players can hardly guarantee that they will not be attacked by opponent fans.

Then Porto was drawn into Group E where Juventus is located, Lyon was drawn into Group F where Barcelona was located, Deportivo and Manchester United in Group G were together, and the powerful Lazio was assigned to Group H of defending champion Bayern.

The first tier and the second tier are just two conditions for forming the death group. The team that really forms the death group is the third tier team. Schalke 04 and Schalke 04 were respectively drawn into the three groups of abc. Although Schalke 2 is not weak, Mallorca, the second-tier team in the same group as them, is not strong, so this group is only a battle for No. [-], and there is no ball The team can shake Arsenal's qualifications.

However, when Alkmaar was drawn into Group D where Inter Milan was, there was some commotion in the venue. Even former French Football Association President Fayad and UEFA Secretary-General Egna couldn't help but glance at Jiang Mu. Everyone knows that Jiang Mu, the head coach of Inter Milan, the most popular team in Europe, is the original head coach of Alkmaar, and Jiang Mu and the manager of Alkmaar still have an ambiguous relationship. There will be many stories.

Jiang Mu also saw that Shi Helingia was looking at him, and he shrugged towards Shi Helingia with a helpless expression, because football games are unpredictable, and it is very likely that they will fall into a showdown in the end.

Then Rosenborg was drawn into Group E calmly, and Leverkusen was drawn into Group F. This time, the death group is impossible. Barcelona is the strongest in Group F. Barcelona's strength has declined sharply in the past two years. But Lyon and Leverkusen are also difficult to threaten his boss position, but Lyon still needs to ask Leverkusen if he wants to qualify.

In the end, only Olympiacos and Eindhoven were left in the third tier. They were drawn into Group G and H respectively. There are not many teams paying attention, and everyone is discussing the prospects of their own team and the situation of their opponents.

The draw of the final eight groups is determined, Group A: Real Madrid, Roma, Lokomotiv Moscow, Anderlecht, Group B: Liverpool, Borussia Dortmund, Dynamo Kiev, Boavista, Group C: Arsenal, Mallorca, Schalke 04, Panathinaikos, Group D: Inter Milan, Galatasaray, Alkmaar, Nantes, Group E: Juventus, Porto, Rosenborg, Celtic , Group F: Barcelona, ​​Lyon, Bayer Leverkusen, Fenerbahce, Group G: Manchester United, Deportivo, Olympiacos, Lille, Group H: Bayern Munich, Lazio, PSV Eindhoven, Sparta Prague Da.

Inter Milan, Juventus, Arsenal and Manchester United are in the best grouping situation. Few teams can threaten their No. [-] position. Real Madrid and Roma, Liverpool and Dortmund, they have no worries about qualifying, but they may all worry about No. [-] , Bayern must have no problem qualifying, but Lazio may threaten his first position, and if Lazio does not play seriously, they may also be pulled down by Eredivisie powerhouse Eindhoven. Group F is similar to Group H. Barcelona has no problem qualifying, but Lyon and Leverkusen have to compete for a place, but if Barcelona is not careful, Lyon may also take the first place.

每个小组的四支球队将在9月中旬到10月底的六个比赛ri(每个比赛ri包括周二和周三)进行双循环比赛，开球时间统一为欧洲中部时间20:45，每个小组前两名进入第二阶段小组赛。决赛将于5月15ri在格拉斯哥的汉普登公园球场举行。

Generally speaking, the grouping situation is very balanced, there is no death group, and no one will complain about it. Apart from grouping Alkmaar and Inter Milan together, Jiang Mu is quite satisfied with the grouping, at least the same as UEFA later. Compared with the vertical group draw ceremony, the current grouping is much fairer and less tricky.