Green Dragon

Chapter 611 New Event
"The Dragon of the East saves Liverpool!"

"The core of this team can only be Long Shute!"

"Coutinho is still too young!"

"Three goals and two passes in 30 minutes, who can be better than him?!"

"After Mignolet, Lovren and Ince also bow at the feet of the new leader!"

"I score goals and care for my teammates. Where can I find such a core?!"

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Neither the head coach Rogers nor Long Shute could have imagined before the game that this game would become a key battle for the team to truly determine the first core.

After experiencing such a game, where is Coutinho qualified to compete with Long Shute for the team's tactical status?
Boss Long is willing to give him a free kick... that is already 100 points of courtesy to him!
With cloud-piercing arrows like yours, Boss Long will shoot you three or four every minute! -
The excitement of the 5-2 reversal of West Ham United has not yet subsided, and the Liverpool players who are still holding a summary meeting in the locker room have quieted down.

Assistant coach Sean O'Driscoe turned on the widescreen TV hanging on the wall.

Two familiar figures appeared on the screen.

That was the two powerful officials of UEFA that Long Shute had just met at the awards ceremony in Monaco a few days ago-the bald secretary-general Infantino, and the head of the Ministry of Economics Marchetti.

"Gentlemen, be quiet," O'Driscoe reminded, "It won't take too much of your time."

This is the draw ceremony for the 2015-16 UEFA Europa League (commonly known as the Europa League, Europa League) group stage.

This is the first time Long Shute has watched the Europa League draw since his career.

If it had been two years ago, Long Shute would never have believed that this scene had happened to him.

But that's what it is.

Compared with the UEFA Champions League, the level of the Europa League is undoubtedly a big step lower. Whether it is attention, influence, or economic income such as bonuses and broadcast fees, it is far inferior.

An ambitious club and a capable player will not take events like the Europa League seriously.

But that's what it is.

Liverpool, which ranked fifth in the league last season, can only participate in the Europa League this season.

Although he knew this fact a long time ago, Long Shute was still a little upset.

There are a total of 32 teams in the Champions League, and 48 teams in the Europa League group stage.

The 48 teams were divided into 12 groups, and the top two teams in each group, or a total of 24 teams, entered the knockout stage.

In the knockout stage, No.3 of the eight groups in the Champions League will also join midway, 24+8, thus forming the top 32.

Each knockout round is a home and away game, so if you want to win the Europa League, you have to play 6 group matches, 8 knockout games, and a final, a total of 15 games, compared to winning The Champions League champion needs to play two more games.

For the Premier League teams with a tight schedule, this is simply killing them!
Too many games, too little prize money, not enough attention, not enough honors, affecting the league...Under the influence of various factors, the Premier League clubs actually don't pay much attention to the Europa League, whether it is Manchester United, Liverpool, Tottenham, Arsenal , would rather regard this event as a good opportunity to hone substitute players and young players...

That might be a good excuse.

Only Chelsea, who did not win the Champions League, paid a little more attention to this trophy...
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The influence of the Europa League can only be seen from the number of guests.

Nearly 20 legends were invited to the UEFA Champions League group stage draw, while the Europa League draw... besides the host, there were only two UEFA officials, Infantino and Marchetti, standing on the stage , the managers of many clubs - including Rodgers - are too lazy to go to the meeting to attend the meeting...

In Infantino's introduction, Long Shute also added a little bit of knowledge about football clubs.

If it is said that the top teams in the major leagues are participating in the Champions League, then the Europa League is filled with a large number of teams from second- and third-tier leagues.

Even among the seeded teams in the first tier, Long Shute didn't know a team...

Ukrainian team Dnipro.

But there are also many famous clubs in the first tier: Tottenham, Ajax, Marseille, Villarreal, Athletic Bilbao, Naples, Schalke 04, Borussia Dortmund...

由于近几年之内，利物浦仅仅在14-15赛季踢了6场欧冠小组赛和2场欧联杯淘汰赛，以及在12-13赛季踢了12场欧联杯，他们的欧战积分只能排到第二档。

The two officials, Infantino and Marchetti, were not as enthusiastic as they were when they presided over the Champions League draw, but completed their work as quickly as routine.

The three teams in the same group as Liverpool are exactly the same as the news that Long Shute got from the system:
Rubin Kazan in the Russian Super League, Lyon in Ligue [-], and Sion in the Swiss Super League.

There was a relaxed voice in the locker room after watching the lottery:

"It's still a good signing luck, there are no strong teams from the four major leagues."

"I don't want to go to Russia to play games in winter! That damn place is too fucking cold!"

"I'd rather go ice skating and have a snowball fight in the British Isles than go to the old Maozi's territory and play football with them!!"

"I've been to Russia before, the fans there are so brutal!"

O'Drisco coughed, and posted a newly printed schedule on the bulletin board on the wall:

"The match against Lao Maozi will be on October 10nd and November 22th, host first and then guest, even if it's Russia, it won't freeze to death you bastards!"
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After watching the Europa League draw ceremony, the Liverpool club officially disbanded.

In the next week, most of the players will participate in the international competitions of their respective national teams.

And Long Shute ushered in a short rest time.

Although the 2014 World Cup in Brazil has just passed, preparations for the 2018 World Cup in Russia have officially begun.

All continents have also launched qualifiers one after another, and the AFC is of course no exception.

In fact, as early as March 2015, weak traditional football teams such as East Timor, Mongolia, India, Nepal, Chinese Taipei, Yemen, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Bhutan had already carried out the first round of catching and killing.

And starting from June, the official qualifiers, which is the top 6, began.

The 40 teams are divided into 8 groups. The No.1 of each group will get the place to advance to the next round. In addition, the 4 teams with the best results can also advance to the second place, thus forming the top 12 in the third round. .

The Chinese team is in the same group as Maldives, Qatar, Bhutan, and Hong Kong.

Like the results of every lottery, there is a kind of optimism in the domestic public opinion.

There is no reason to be optimistic about such a result:
Except for Qatar, the other three teams... For the Chinese team ranked 46th in the world, what is the difference from Send Point Boy? !

Bhutan, with a population of 80, is comparable to a county in China.

Maldives has a population of 42, comparable to half a county, with 20 men, and about 18 men aged 35-3. Among these 3, it is really difficult for them to pick 25 players.

As for Hong Kong, China, which is third in the team, we are not bragging, even a fringe player in the Chinese Super League can become the overlord in the Hong Kong Super League!
Even if the Chinese team can't beat Qatar, they can easily rely on scoring points against the other three opponents to advance with the advantage of goal difference, right? !
The ideal is beautiful, but the reality is indeed fascinating for a time.

The first World Cup preliminaries took place in June, when Long Shute was busy acquiring Liverpool.

The Chinese team in the away game was like cutting vegetables and cutting melons, bloodbathed the friendly neighbor Bhutan with a score of 6-0, and ushered in a good start for the first game.

Although the Chinese team in 2015 did not welcome back its legendary captain, it had a fantastic start.

The newly appointed coach in France, Alain Perrin, led the team to win three consecutive group matches in the Asian Cup held in January. All kinds of praises soared to the sky all of a sudden, and hats like "the real savior of Chinese football" Even buckled on his head.

What a strong national team the fans saw!
Although there is no Long Shute, their team still played smooth and highly ornamental art football (relatively speaking)!
Although he was beaten back to his original form by Australia in the first round of the knockout round, most people still believe that this is just a small problem. As long as Perrin is given a little time, he can bring greater progress to the team.

In the East Asian Cup (East Asian semi-finals) held in August, the Chinese team lost 8-0 to South Korea, 2-2 to North Korea, and 0-1 to Japan, and barely won a runner-up. It's the second team, and the gold content of this runner-up, which is not considered heavy, is even more negligible...

The 6-0 defeat of Bhutan is actually not as good as the score, because in the next game, Hong Kong slaughtered Bhutan with a 7-0 even more disparity. Bring joy to people...

Then this weekend, the Chinese team will welcome the Hong Kong team in Shenzhen.

9 month 3 day.

The Chinese team has the advantage.

The Chinese team bombed indiscriminately throughout the game.

The Chinese team had four shots hit the woodwork.

The penalty kick that the Chinese team should have been awarded was missed by the referee...

The Chinese team held on to a 0-0 draw with Hong Kong, China at their home court.

Nothing seems to have changed.

(End of this chapter)