Mister Legend

Chapter 487
More fortunate than the Turin team, Russia's Locomotive Moscow, as the winner of the Russian Super League champion ranked sixth in Europe last season, they have the second-to-last European points (32 points) among the 22.5 teams participating in the Champions League. , only higher than Hoffenheim), became one of the eight seeded teams, which has to be enviable.

But the lucky ones are a minority after all. Because of historical records, many strong teams have sadly entered the lower ranks due to the accumulation of points, including the Red Bulls and Real Madrid.

The first to bear the brunt is Liverpool, which has regained its rich style after Uncle Klopp entered the home team. Because the Red Army regrettably lost to the Galaxy Battleship in the Champions League final, they lost their chance to become a seeded team as the defending champion.In terms of strength, they can be ranked in the top ten in Europe, but because of their low points in the European war, they can only fall into the third tier and become the potential creators of the death group.

What is even more tragic is their Premier League brother Tottenham Hotspur.After Real Madrid completed three consecutive Champions League titles, they were promoted to the first tier, vacating their previous position in the second tier. Tottenham was the team with the highest points in the original third tier. It stands to reason that they have the opportunity to fill the gap. upshift.However, after the Turin team defeated Atletico Madrid to win the Europa League title, they squeezed the latter, which ranked third in the European standings, into the second tier. Pochettino's team had no choice but to wait for the results of the qualifiers.

In the end, Benfica and Basel, whose points were slightly higher than theirs, both successfully entered the group stage, completely confirming the fate of this upstart third-tier team in the Premier League.

These two Premier League teams that entered Pot [-], together with Roma, also located in this area, and Valencia in Pot [-], became a huge variable in the draw ceremony.Theoretically speaking, there is the possibility of a super death group like Juventus, Dortmund, Liverpool and Valencia, which has attracted the strong attention of many fans.And with UEFA's habit of always being willing to create gimmicks through black-box operations, it is obviously impossible not to engage in a few grievances this year. These have become the objects of expectations from the outside world.

Sure enough, just 6 minutes later, once the grouping results of the eight groups were released, the audience was completely detonated. Even the many fans and media who watched the live broadcast shouted excitedly, "If there is nothing tricky in this, I will "Live live and eat Xiangxiang", while looking forward to the new season of the UEFA Champions League to start immediately, so that I can enjoy a good show.But in any case, UEFA's goal of gaining more attention has been easily achieved. In terms of developing the commercial attributes of football, they are indeed good at it, and it is worth learning from other relevant people.

Apart from the supporters of Real Madrid, others obviously don't want to see the Galacticos achieve four consecutive championships. The biggest opponent is UEFA itself.And insiders obviously know how slim the chances of defeating the powerful defending champion in the group stage are.Even though Ronaldo left, but with Mbappe who became a top star in the World Cup, coupled with the main players such as Magic Flute and Kroos staying in the team, and adding Courtois and a group of little monsters to Real Madrid, Still the top seed in this event, so if they want to "reasonably" block their way to the fourth title, they still have to make a fuss in the knockout rounds.

So they used the lottery guests to re-send Tottenham, which beat the defending champion in the group stage last season, into the group where Real Madrid is located, and the remaining two teams are Lyon and Bruges.This is obviously hoping that Pochettino can suppress the La Liga giants to the second place in the group for the second consecutive year, and then repeat the rhythm of last year, so that the other favorites such as Manchester City, Liverpool and even Juventus, which have strengthened their strength, will come to a wave of battles This time, without the president's efforts to turn the tide, especially Qi Zu's metaphysical help, not many people believe that Real Madrid can still replicate the miracle of winning multiple league championship teams last season.

In order to achieve this goal (although it is imagined by most people, it should actually be more reliable), the grouping of the above-mentioned teams is relatively easy, and it is difficult for opponents to pose too much threat to their promotion. If there is no accident, it is relatively easy to get the first place in the group.In order to prevent the Galaxy Battleship from repeating the super dynasty in the initial stage of the Champions League, UEFA can be said to have taken great pains!
However, in order to ensure that this plan can be implemented smoothly, UEFA obviously needs to arrange the second and third teams with stronger strength in other groups as much as possible. Because of the principle of avoidance of the same country, Barcelona, ​​which could not play against Real Madrid, and the seeded teams of Lokomotiv Moscow and Turin, which were reduced to cannon fodder.

Group F of Barcelona, ​​Manchester United, Monaco and Galatasaray can be said to be one of the strongest groups overall; and the Russian Super League champion, the weakest team in the first tier, even drew Dortmund, Roma and Eindhoven are three strong enemies, and even the qualifications for the third place in the group to play in the Europa League knockout round are very slim.

As for the Red Bulls, Li Moody had guessed before that they are likely to meet Atletico Madrid again.And his level of metaphysics seems to be no worse than that of his friend Qi Zu, and he completed the accurate prophecy.It's just that the other two opponents, Schalke 04 and CSKA Moscow, are also very strong, which puts great pressure on this group and has become a death group in this competition. Never want to meet.

As an athlete or coach engaged in the football industry, almost everyone’s biggest dream of honor is similar. Except for personal aspects, it is nothing more than winning the two major events of the World Cup and the European Champions Cup.

Although the qualifications are still young, and the strength of the team has not yet reached the level of the big ear cup, but if Li Mudi has no idea about the Champions League, it is obvious that even ghosts would not believe it.After confirming to get the Champions League tickets last season, he still had a little YY scene in his mind to become the champion coach of the world's number one club competition, but that was just a daydream, and the difficulty of realizing it may not be as high as that of the heavens. Men's football is lower than the knockout stage of the World Cup.

In Li Moody's mind, the Turin team he formed is still very strong. Even if he faces Juventus, who has won Ronaldo, he still has a chance to win. It will not be like last season's Coppa Italia final In that way, the whole game fell into a passive situation.However, the team is still far from perfect. With the help of the FM system medal effect, the stability is very good, but it still lacks explosiveness, that is, there is a lack of people who can break the deadlock and even turn the tide at critical moments.

Such a team is suitable for attacking the championship in the long league, but it is difficult to have the last laugh in the knockout round.And considering the damage of multi-line combat to non-rich teams, the Torino team is likely to encounter a situation where they have to give up a game after half of the season. It may be that the decision to coach in Italy in the last year makes the importance of Serie A obviously greater.

Therefore, until the team he coaches is able to fight on multiple fronts and will not be dragged down to collapse, the league will always be the priority target, unless there are special circumstances (such as extremely poor performance in the early stage of the league, and in the Champions League. The favor of the goddess of luck, the opponents encountered along the way are very good), otherwise the Turin team will never give up the league for the Champions League.And with their strength, if they can't give it a go, they want to break through all the way in front of those powerful opponents, and finally win the Big Ear Cup, this is definitely a story more absurd than the Arabian Nights.

But it’s still too early to say that. The first round of the UEFA Champions League group stage will not be played until mid-September, and the quarter-finals will not start until mid-February next year. It's too early.

Although the topic of the UEFA Champions League has received extensive attention and comments from the outside world after the results of the group stage draw have been settled, for each team, their first task is how to play well in the upcoming league.

Turning around, it was the traditional Chinese Ghost Festival, also known as the Ghost Festival in legends. Li Mudi led the team on an expedition to Sardinia in southwestern Italy and challenged Cagliari away.

Due to the poor record, the team became the first team to undergo a coaching change in Serie A last season. In the end, the team only scored five points higher than the relegation zone, which was a thrilling relegation.For this reason, the club's top management decided to make another change, fired Lopez, and hired local coach Rolando Maran, who had previously coached Chievo for three consecutive years.

At the same time, the team has also made some gains during the transfer period. After retaining most of the main players from last season, it has successively introduced Naples center forward, newly promoted Italian international Pavoletti and Chievo's Argentine midfielder Lucas. Castro, and signed the former captain of the Croatian national team for free, the monster in the old FM game, the veteran Srna, the overall strength has been strengthened, and the media believes that it is possible to hit No.10 in the standings.

However, after nine and 10 minutes of competition, the Red Bulls achieved their goal of two consecutive victories relatively easily.A debut goal from Andre Gomes for his new club and a header from a corner from Ranocchia gave the visitors a two-goal lead in the first half.At No. 707 minutes in the second half, the teenager Pellegri, who came off the bench, scored another wonderful volley, completely sealing the victory.

It's just that the Turin team's defense, which has been rotated in this game, still made a low-level error at the last moment and gave the opponent a penalty that shouldn't have appeared. As a result, Casillas failed to catch Pavoletti's strength Unfortunately, in the second game of the new season, his record of not conceding a goal was destroyed.

Fortunately, the score of 3 to 1 can still be accepted by the supporters of the Red Bulls, especially the performance of the players on the field is still remarkable. The data is far ahead of the opponent, showing the demeanor that a strong team should have, and has won a lot of praise from the outside world.

After two rounds, the Turin team became one of the only five teams in the league that did not lose points, and because of the goal difference, they also took the second place in the league. It can be said that they performed well.However, since Ronaldo scored twice in his solo show against Lazio in this round of strong dialogue, the focus of Italian and even European football has shifted more to their rivals in the same city. , let Li Mudi and his team reduce a lot of pressure.I have to say, it's really good to have the feeling of someone else acting as an MT.

However, their test finally came in the third round of the league. On September 9, the Turin team ushered in the challenge of the strong enemy Fiorentina at home.

Last season, Viola lost her captain and the backbone of the defense, Astori, but the team used the momentum of the underdogs to complete a wave of eight unbeaten rounds, and touched the tickets for the European war in one fell swoop. Unfortunately, A sudden slump in the closing stages finally saw them regrettably miss a Europa League spot.The most regrettable thing is that after AC Milan was punished by UEFA and disqualified from participating in the European war, Fiorentina also failed to receive the pie that fell from the sky, and was picked up by Atlanta in front of them.

But that's good too, because UEFA backtracked and canceled the punishment afterwards, which can be said to have slapped the Atlanta people severely and seriously disrupted their signing deployment in the summer. It was a blessing in disguise that Viola didn't get involved. .

Although last year's performance was a bit disappointing, the potential shown by the two star second generations of Chiesa and Simeone in the last season still made the outside world feel extremely concerned about the future development prospects of this team optimistic about.In the summer window, Viola was one of the few Serie A teams that did not make major adjustments, but it left behind the two young stars with unlimited futures, and bought out Empoli's midfielder Saponara and Betis. After Argentine central defender Pesella came on loan, the strength of the team has improved steadily.As long as the two second-generation stars can continue to improve, this Fiorentina team will definitely have a chance to win a place in the European competition next season.

However, this duel, which was agreed by the outside world to be very exciting, was overshadowed by a lot of rain.Since the rain was not heavy before the start of the game, there was no postponement, but the process of the game was inevitably affected by the slippery turf, and both sides made many mistakes.

As a result, after a 10 minutes of lackluster turnovers, the home team relied on a slightly controversial penalty to win a small victory over the opponent. While giving the latter their first defeat of the season, they also achieved a three-game winning streak in the new season. start.

After this round, although they were overtaken by Naples due to the disadvantage of the goal difference, the Turin team slipped to the third place in the standings.However, as one of the only three remaining teams to maintain a complete victory, the Red Bulls have become the focus of media reports, and this is also because during the upcoming national team match day, Li Moody's team suddenly never played. The predicament of a player participating in the World Cup has become a factor of the big players in the international football team, making the outside of the club's resident gate, which had been deserted for a long time, become lively again.

(End of this chapter)