champion professor

Chapter 326 After One Eighth Lottery
In Shao Bo's memory, this year's Champions League championship is very interesting.

The big giants have all failed halfway, and the result is that in the new century, a team that is not from the four major leagues won the Big Ears Cup.

Mourinho was indeed very lucky back then, but they were also in a group with Real Madrid and Marseille and qualified with [-] points.

After qualifying in the group, he also encountered strong teams such as Manchester United.After that, it was much easier in the knockout round, but at that time, Deportivo and Monaco had just eliminated Real Madrid and AC Milan, and their strength was not much less.

However, after Shao Bo's disturbance of history, this year's Champions League has changed a lot compared to that time.

Among other things, just the fact that all the Premier League's semi-finalists have qualified for the group stage, occupying four of the top [-] spots, shocked Europe.

Manchester United and Arsenal are frequent visitors in the Champions League. It is strange that a team like Manchester United does not qualify.Although Arsenal have never qualified in the second stage of the group stage, their strength has also been recognized by everyone.

As for Liverpool, which has won four Champions Leagues, it has left indelible memories for fans in the past Champions League games.

Although he stayed away from the Champions League in the past few years, he also cultivated his internal skills and won the first place in the UEFA Cup.

It is not unusual for them to qualify for the group stage.

People also recognize the principle that the more investment, the more returns. Although the return on investment is not so high, Chelsea have recruited a group of players who can compete in the Champions League by virtue of their transfer expenditures that dominate Europe.

In the past few years, they have also qualified from time to time in the European arena, and it is not surprising that they have qualified in the group.

However, this kind of blowout style, fully occupying the general appearance, can easily remind people of the small World Cup in Serie A back then.

In the 90s, Italian football was extremely prosperous, and every year there would be at least one Italian team in the Champions League final.

Until the end of the 90s, Juventus was robbed of the Champions League by Dortmund, and then Arsenal and Manchester United met in the final.

At that time, people were full of expectations for the re-emergence of the Premier League, but after 1999, English football has not performed better in the Champions League.

Like a dark horse, he entered the Champions League final as amazing as Arsenal, and has been stagnant in the second stage of the group stage.Manchester United's best result is nothing but the semi-finals of the Champions League.

In the past few years, La Liga has become even stronger.

Because of the decline of the Italian economy, Italian football has gradually become lonely.It is Spain that has taken over the supremacy of Italy in recent years.

After all, in these years, there have been four semi-finals occupying three seats, and the finals are all La Liga teams.

The meeting between Juventus and AC Milan in the Champions League final last year was more understood as the last glory of Serie A.

Refer to Fiorentina, Lazio, Roma and other teams to know the current overall situation of Serie A. The high-profile brilliance of one or two teams cannot conceal the overall decline of the league.

The foundation of football is the economy. Now that the Italian economy has declined, does Serie A still want to dominate Europe?

In the past two years, La Liga has gradually gained the upper hand. However, from a global perspective, the commercial promotion of the Premier League also ranks first.

Fans of the two leagues have been arguing about which one is the number one in the world.

They are not in the same country, so they rarely meet each other, so how do they compare with each other?

The only platform that can provide them with competition is the European arena, the Champions League and the UEFA Cup.

But because everyone doesn't pay much attention to the UEFA Cup, the main battlefield is still in the Champions League.

Judging from the number of qualifying places in the group alone, the Premier League has one more place than La Liga. Valencia failed to qualify, leaving La Liga one step behind for the time being.

However, this year's Champions League still has a full half year's schedule, and they still have enough time to spit at each other.

After collecting data, interested people found an interesting conclusion.

Whenever Liverpool appears in the Champions League, the big teams always win the championship, and once they are absent from the European arena, then it is ghosts and snakes who don't know who is in charge.

Because of this, the fans believe even more that this year's champion will be a veteran giant.

Is it Bayern Munich, or Real Madrid?Is it Juventus, or AC Milan?Or another team?This is not well known.

During the lottery ceremony, Shao Boyan sat in it, waiting for the lottery.

Anyway, it is impossible for teams from the same country and the same league to meet, so Arsenal will definitely not meet Liverpool, Manchester United, and Chelsea in this round.And Juventus is in the same group as Arsenal, so it must be avoided.Coupled with the fact that Arsenal is second in the group, what they face more must be one of the eight first in the group.

Apart from Juventus, Manchester United, and Liverpool, who have become the first in the group, they have five other teams that may become Arsenal's enemies.

No matter who the opponent is, if Arsenal want to compete for the championship, they must face it and cannot escape. It is meaningless to think which team is their next opponent.

Shao Bo only needs to wait for the results of the lottery to appear before going back to study.

Anyway, the restructuring of the Champions League this time will definitely make many giants unable to get used to this schedule and rules for the time being.

I'm afraid it's hard for them to understand now that 0:0 at home is even more favorable than 2:1.The advantage of away goals can be regarded as showing its due power now.

But I believe that after this Champions League, these giants will definitely react.At that time, Shao Bo's advantages will be further compressed.

If you want to win the championship, it will be even more difficult.

Manchester United and Chelsea rivals both came up before Arsenal drew the draw, with Bayern Munich and Chelsea dueling and Barcelona and Manchester United going head-to-head.

Moreover, Deportivo and AC Milan really met again, and Shao Bo is also looking forward to the match between the two teams.

However, when Shao Bo saw their opponent, he couldn't help being a little stunned.

It turned out to be Monaco, the weakest team in this group.

However, since it can beat Leverkusen to become the first in the group, Monaco's strength will naturally not be weak.They also reached the final of the Champions League that year, so it is impossible for them to be really weak chickens.

However, among the highlights that the media pay attention to, in addition to the first match between these two teams that have never met in the Champions League, they are more concerned about a player who has a relationship with both teams.

This player is naturally Morientes from Real Madrid.

After Morientes was loaned to Arsenal for a year, Shao Bo turned to pursue Klose because the issue of salary and transfer fee could not be reached.

Anyway, when Shao Bo rented out players, he never added a contract clause that had to be bought out for himself in the contract.

Although Morientes has made a lot of contributions to Arsenal, they can only be regarded as destined.

After that, because Morientes and Real Madrid still have a few years of contract, but there is still no place for Morientes here.

Although Real Madrid is rich, they can't support idlers, not to mention Morientes' salary is not low!

After Arsenal showed his strong offensive strength and good adaptability, Morientes was also very popular when he was on loan.

Real Madrid naturally wants to sell Morientes, but there is still no team with the financial resources to take over.

In the end, Real Madrid, who could not find a suitable next home, loaned Morientes to Monaco.

Arsenal can also be regarded as Morientes' old club. After the draw ceremony, some good reporters blocked Morientes who was training in Monaco and asked him what he thought of this draw.

What does he think?

Morientes is also very happy at Arsenal, but the team has no money to keep him.

Morientes, who has a good work ethic, didn't say anything bad about Arsenal, but said that he was very happy during his time at Highbury and looked forward to the opportunity to return there and meet familiar fans again.

They have developed a set of routines for dealing with media reporters in Real Madrid, and they responded decently and generously.

Arsenal fans naturally reciprocated. In interviews on the street, Arsenal fans expressed their welcome to the return of Morientes...

UEFA always likes to deliberately come up with some gimmicks for the sake of ratings and attention.

Among the top four in the Premier League, Manchester United and Barcelona have played against each other several times in the past.The strong dialogue between them will naturally attract fans of many good things.

Leverkusen, which is facing the old strong team Liverpool, has also been affected by the overall drag of the Bundesliga in the past two years.In the eyes of critics, it should not be a big problem for Liverpool to advance to the next knockout round.

However, it is quite difficult for Chelsea to go further.

After all, the opponent they have to face is the Bundesliga overlord Bayern Munich.

Europe has always had a tradition of looking down on upstarts, and UEFA has been suppressing Premier League teams vaguely.

Chelsea's way out is not optimistic.

But for Abramovich who is willing to spend money, even Bayern Munich is not in his eyes.

If you can't beat Bayern Munich, I'm afraid Eriksson's coaching position will be unstable again.

Back in Shaobo in North London, in Kearney's office, he read the information about Monaco handed over by scouts.

For this kind of strong team, the club always sends people to regularly collect data all year round, but if you want more detailed information, you have to wait for Shao Bo for a few days.

The Champions League game is not the most important thing at hand, after all, their foundation is still in the Premier League.

Manchester United is thriving in the Premier League, and there are also reasons why Shao Bo put a lot of energy in the cup last year.

But Shao Bo also has to admit that although Rooney was not won, Ferguson was still able to find suitable players to add to Manchester United's lineup.

He is indeed a famous coach who has been able to fight Wenger and himself in this world for many years in the past time and space!
(End of this chapter)