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Chapter 711 Gunner Myth Our Goal Is To Win The Championship
Arsenal and Celtic play a two-legged play-off in qualifying because of Michel Platini's new reforms.From the beginning of this season, the Champions Cup qualifying competition system is divided into independent non-championship groups of strong countries and champion groups of weak countries, with five places in each group, and the final 10 qualified teams will participate in the group stage held in Monaco on August 8. The draw ceremony, and the other 27 eliminated teams will participate in the Europa League group stage restructured from the UEFA Cup.

在强国非冠军组，来自排名靠前联赛的15支球队角逐5个名额。其中10支球队直接参加第3轮角逐，在本周中决出了5支球队，与阿森纳、里昂、斯图加特、佛罗伦萨、马竞共10队进入第四轮附加赛抽签。

According to the team's UEFA points, the top 5 (Arsenal, Lyon, Sporting Lisbon, Panathinaikos, Stuttgart) are listed as seeds, and the bottom 5 (Fiorentina, Atletico Madrid, Celtic, Ender Leicht, Timisoara) are unseeded teams, and the seeded and unseeded teams are drawn to fight each other, and 5 teams are determined to enter the top 32 of the Champions League group stage.

In the championship group of weak countries, the champion teams from the lower leagues will divide up the other 4 places after 5 rounds of competition.After the first 3 rounds of competition, 10 teams were formed, and they were also divided into two groups according to the team's UEFA points.Seeded teams include Olympiacos (Greece), Copenhagen (Denmark), Levski Sofia (Bulgaria), Maccabi Haifa (Israel), Zurich (Switzerland); unseeded teams are Salzburg (Austria), APOEL (Cyprus), Ventspils (Latvia), Debrecen Railway (Hungary), Tiraspol Sharif (Moldova).

Among the opponents that Arsenal may encounter, the Celtics are neither the strongest nor the weakest. Even though the Celtics have a proud historical record, in the face of Arsenal's strong strength, this The point record does not reassure the generals of the Celtics, especially after Arsenal frantically slaughtered the No.5 Everton in the Premier League last season, panic appeared in the Celtics mood.

In this regard, Celtics coach Tony Mowbray said helplessly in an interview with UEFA's official website: "We don't have any illusions. We know that Arsenal have many world-class players. Half of them are Li Huan. Fabregas is also a world-class star, and Barcelona will pay 4000 million pounds to buy him. But we are still looking forward to the game."

But then Tony Mowbray began to encourage the team to play his own morale, "Arsenal's ball control and penetration ability are very good, but we will do our best to win the game. We lost to a good ball in the away game. team (Dynamo Moscow), and reversed the game at home, at Celtic Park, we are a strong team, we can overturn any opponent. The game may be tense, let us look forward to a wonderful There is a civil war in English football. Every team that can beat Arsenal has their own way of dealing with it, I will not follow them, we have our own strategy."

Fabregas' teammate Crozas in Barcelona's youth team is now Celtic's midfielder. When talking about this game, Crozas said: "Arsenal's competitive level is very high. , the strength is also stronger than us, besides Cesc and Li Huan in the team, they have many players who can decide the game and can take advantage of every mistake made by the opponent in the game. Therefore, in the game we must Be extra careful not to make mistakes, but we have a chance, if we play at our level, we can go to the group stage and that's our main goal at this stage of the season."

Facing an opponent he has never met, Wenger was very cautious in his words, "I always think that we are under a lot of pressure because there are too many games. On the other hand, we also expect this kind of pressure, because in this way we can tell the world Show if we are good or not. I know playing against a team like Celtic we will be respected because many teams will struggle here. Scotland is always crazy about football and we visit a lot of love in Europe Where football is concerned, we know from experience that our performance is what counts. If we can ignore the atmosphere it will be very powerful for us and the only way to do that is to keep our feet on the ground and play."

The core of the team's midfield, captain Cesc Fabregas also stood up to speak before the game. He was as cautious and steady as his mentor, "The Champions League is very important to us, and we need positive performance. The most important thing is that we are full of confidence Fighting spirit and belief in the quality of the team. Everyone in the team can score now, and everyone is willing to invest in attacking. As long as we can play like we did at Goodison Park, there is no doubt that we will enter the group stage. "

Arsenal's coaches and captains are prudent and prudent, and their speech does not match the nickname of the Arsenal team. Li Huan, who has just joined, has a very different speech style from Wenger and Cesc Fabregas.When he went to "Sky Sports" to do a program, Li Huan talked about his views on this game.

"No matter who the opponent is, no matter how terrible the Celtics' home court is, I can only say that we will be able to win and advance, because our goal is to win the championship. If we have to worry about the qualifications, we still have What are the qualifications to compete with other teams for the championship.

The Celtics performed very well before, and they also have certain strengths. They beat Manchester United and AC Milan at Celtic Park, but we were the top eight last season and reached the Champions League final for 11 consecutive years No matter what other people say or think, I will repeat it again. We will definitely win, and we will win beautifully. Our goal is the final. Stepping into the Bernabeu, we are failures. "

Arsenal's new aid Vermaelen, who is only 1 meters tall, froze the air bully who was a head taller than himself, and scored the opponent's goal with a header, handing in a satisfactory debut answer sheet.The Belgian also supports Li Huan's point of view, "We have to face fierce physical confrontation, and at the same time try our best to play the style we are good at. The Celtics have many excellent offensive players, many of whom are tall and have outstanding physical confrontation ability. Yes, but I joined Arsenal to play in the Champions League. Every player is eager to participate in this competition. The Champions League is also very meaningful to the club. After any club spends more than 8 million euros on signings, their goal will be to win the championship , we are no exception. I believe we will beat them away."

In terms of strength, if the Celtics are placed in the Premier League, they can be regarded as a middle-lower club at best, not much different from teams like Sunderland and Wigan.Therefore, the British media also believe that as long as Arsenal can withstand the frenzied and terrifying atmosphere created by the fans of the team at home, the promotion will not be a big problem.

The British media are still dissatisfied with Platini's new policies so far, believing that he has been trying to suppress the Premier League. is a loss.Because this game has been elevated to the height of "Scotland vs. England", the game will be fierce and hot.

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