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Although Liverpool's coaching staff and players did not attend the draw ceremony because they wanted to participate in the World Cup, only the vice chairman Harry Thompson attended as a representative, but this year Liverpool's treatment seems to be different.

As usual, UEFA Secretary-General Infantino presided over the draw ceremony. Before the draw, he praised Liverpool with a smile on his face, saying that they won the honor for UEFA by defeating the Asian champions in the Club World Cup.

The Liverpool players smiled after hearing this, but Levi frowned.

Isn't it normal for Liverpool to beat AFC Champions Al Sadd?

To put it bluntly, without Liverpool making a move, any of the top six teams in the four major leagues can beat Al Sadd.

The match between Liverpool and Al Sadd is like adults bullying elementary school students. It's strange if they can't win, but isn't it normal to win?What is there to praise?
There's definitely something quirky here!
Afterwards, it entered the short film segment, briefly introduced the [-] teams that advanced to the knockout round, and the draw ceremony will officially begin.

Therefore, this time the Champions League final is at the Allianz Arena, the home of Bayern Munich, so the special guest this time is the legendary German star Paul Blakener.

The first head-to-head fight that appeared was Lyon vs. APOEL. Many club representatives who were second in the group looked enviously at the Lyon club manager.

The club manager of the Lyon club was also blushing. This luck was not ordinary, and he actually got the first place in the group stage, which was recognized as the weakest APOEL.

APOEL seems to be a Greek team from the name, but in fact he is from Cyprus, a country smaller than Greece.Greece is still a country with a population of 1000 million, while Cyprus has a population of only 110 million and Lyon has a population of 50.

Lyon is full of confidence that they will definitely beat this small league team that broke into the Champions League round of [-] for the first time.

The second draw was Liverpool, which surprised Li Wei, who didn't expect Liverpool to come out so soon.

And Liverpool's opponent is - "Naples!"

Liverpool vice chairman Harry Thompson was slightly relieved, but his expression was not relaxed.

The reason why I was relieved was because this time UEFA did not cheat Liverpool and matched AC Milan to Liverpool.Don't look at AC Milan is now the second in the group stage, but they were the Serie A champions last season. There are also big-name stars such as Ibrahimovic and Thiago Silva in the team, and they are regarded as the second in the group stage. The strongest of the two.

Harry Thompson's expression is not relaxed, because although Naples is a newly promoted Serie A team, his lineup is not bad. Cavani is on the front line, and Hamsik and Lavezzi are behind Cavani.There are Serie A veterans Dossena, Macho and this summer's Serie A standard king Gokhan Inle in the midfield.There are Campagnaro, Cannavaro Jr., Britos and other powerful players on the defense line. The goalkeeper is the Italian national goalkeeper and former Juventus goalkeeper De Sanctis. He also won the 2003-2004 Serie A season. The best goalkeeper in the league.

The opponents drawn by Liverpool this time can only be described as neither good nor bad.

The third matchup also came out, and Arsenal met AC Milan unluckily.

Li Wei has a premonition that UEFA's relaxed pressure on the Premier League has begun to intensify again, which is probably caused by Liverpool's championship last season.

The fourth matchup is Bayern Munich vs. Basel, which is almost a guaranteed draw.

The fifth is Leverkusen vs. Barcelona. Leverkusen must feel like a dog in his heart.

In the sixth draw, Real Madrid was full of smiles. They received similar treatment to Bayern Munich. The opponent they drew was CSKA Moscow. Except for the icy and snowy away game in Russia, which needed to prevent upsets, they had almost no trouble in advancing.

The seventh draw was Zeitny vs. Benfica and the final draw was Marseille vs. Inter Milan.

This time the draw is generally a big confrontation between the Premier League and Serie A. Real Madrid, Bayern Munich, Barcelona, ​​​​Lyon walk, and others are soy sauce.

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Varane scratched his head and said, "Why is there no Manchester United?"

It is not surprising that Manchester City was eliminated. Manchester City encountered a death group and was in a group with Bayern Munich, Naples and Villarreal.

But Manchester United's group C was much easier. Before the game, everyone thought that Manchester United would definitely qualify. The only surprise was probably whether Manchester United could appear in the group stage.

Look at the clubs in Group C to see why everyone thinks so, the Romanian team Otrull, Portugal's Benfica, and Switzerland's Basel.These are all teams from the small leagues. In fact, the most powerful is probably Benfica. After all, it is a black shop, and there are many young talents in the team.

The result was that people shattered their glasses.

Benfica qualified first in the group, and Basel beat Manchester United to win the second place in the group.

"Manchester United was eliminated by Basel." Gerrard said with a smile on Varane's shoulder.

Li Wei smiled and said: "Okay, Manchester United has become a joke, but let's stop being a joke. We will beat Santos in the final!"

In 2005, Liverpool won the Champions League, but in the Club World Cup that year, Liverpool was upset by Sao Paulo and defeated 1:0.

It is worth mentioning that in this game, Liverpool scored three times, but all of them were invalidated. They were offside twice and scored a corner kick. The corner kick was judged to have passed the bottom line in the air.

In any case, it is undoubtedly a shame that the powerful Liverpool lost to Sao Paulo.After all, after entering the 21st century, the strength of European football has begun to change significantly from that of South American football. European teams are generally able to beat South American teams.

It is enough to fail once, and Levi doesn't want what happened in 2005 to happen to Liverpool again.

Therefore, Li Wei is also taking the opportunity to knock on Liverpool's players, telling them not to be proud and careless. After laughing at Manchester United, he has also become the object of the opponent's ridicule.

Suarez said confidently: "Don't worry, boss! We will definitely not give Santos a chance to come back."

Neymar's expression on the side is a bit complicated. If he hadn't moved to Liverpool this summer, he would still be in Santos.Neymar inevitably has mixed feelings about his old club that trained him.