I Want to Be the King of Football

After lunch, the players stayed in the lounge.

In a short while, far away in the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, the draw for the UEFA Cup round of 16 knockout rounds will begin, which will be another fate-determining random gamble for Sporting Lisbon.

In fact, the UEFA Cup is not very pleasing to the teams in the four major leagues.

The league itself is under a lot of pressure, and the competition is very cruel. Playing one more cup game and fighting on two fronts creates more pressure on the team invisibly. It’s really not something that any team can handle.

The more important factor, and the most crucial factor, is that there is no benefit in playing the UEFA Cup.

With less prize money and more competitions, who would like such a competition?

Especially for those teams with many stars, they work hard to play the UEFA Cup, and the money they earn is not enough to pay the players the game fee and game bonus, why bother?

As a result, the teams in the four major leagues, especially the top teams in the upper reaches, do not like the UEFA Cup at all.

This makes the League Cup a bit like pecking at each other.

Of course, this is also relative to the Champions League.

In this case, the second-tier leagues such as the Portuguese Super League, Ligue 1, Turkey, Eredivisie, and some teams in the middle and lower reaches of the four major leagues who are willing to play the UEFA Cup can easily stand out in this cup competition. I don't want to try my best.

For example, the third-round knockout of the UEFA Cup, that is, the knockout round of the 32nd round.

By convention, the top 32 knockout matches are made up of twenty-four winners of the second-round knockout, plus eight third-place players in the first-stage group stage of the Champions League, including players like Schalke 04 in the Bundesliga. , Ligue 1 hegemon Lyon, Ligue 1 powerhouse Auxerre, Ukrainian powerhouse Dynamo Kyiv, Premier League Liverpool and other teams.

But after the third knockout round, Schalke 04, Dynamo Kyiv and Lyon were all tragically eliminated, and they basically lost to teams that were not as strong as them. For example, Lyon lost 0-1 on aggregate. Turkey's Denizli Sports, Schalke 04 is a 1-1 away game, 1-4 at home defeat to Poland's Krakow team.

This kind of indifference to the strong teams has led to the fact that the teams entering the top 16 are generally relatively close in strength.

That is roughly in the middle of the four major leagues, with only two strong teams like Lazio and Liverpool.

In this case, the giant teams in second-tier leagues such as Sporting Lisbon and Porto also have the opportunity to compete for the championship. If they pay more attention, it may not be impossible to go further.

That's why Sporting Lisbon attaches great importance to the draw.

It is very important to draw a good sign, whether it is the UEFA Cup or the Champions League.

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Of course, Su Dong also attached great importance to drawing lots.

But before waiting for the lottery to start, he was hanging out in the system store on the road to the king.

Since the beginning of this season, he has continued to work hard and participated in more games. Not only has he filled up all the potential values ​​of various attributes of the player level, but his strength has basically reached over 60, and his advantageous attributes such as speed have exceeded eighty.

According to Su Dong's guess, the player's level is equivalent to a regional-level star, which is considered a little famous.

And now, his strength is far from the top among the stars of this level, even in the middle and upper reaches.

Su Dong found that the higher the level, the more difficult it would be to upgrade later.

Not only is it as simple as consuming the ball king value, but more importantly, the improvement of strength.

But strength can only be improved through training and competition, which undoubtedly increases the difficulty.

The higher the intensity of the competition, the faster the strength increases.

Therefore, if we can play in the Champions League, our strength will definitely rise the fastest.

If it doesn't work, the UEFA Cup is barely enough, and the Portuguese Super League is relatively slow.

The improvement of strength takes a long process, but the star ability card can improve the competitiveness of Sudong in a short time.

Before the season, Su Dong exchanged a star ability card and got Vieri's [Unbreakable], but he still had a star ability card on hand, and he never thought about what to use it for.

Don't look at the outside world's evaluation of Su Dong is comprehensive, but in fact, Su Dong knows that he has many shortcomings.

For example, his left foot, except for a cross, has played down for half a season, and his left foot has hardly contributed.

With the deepening of the game, more and more teams will begin to realize the characteristics of Su Dong, and they will do everything possible to restrict Su Dong. If they can only use the right foot, it will undoubtedly be a disadvantage.

In Su Dong's shopping cart, there was a legendary left foot ability card, Maradona's [God's Left Foot].

This card can't let Su Dong directly have Maradona's magical left foot, because Su Dong's current strength has not reached that level, but it can let Su Dong have Maradona's left foot skills and awareness.

After getting acquainted with several ability cards, Su Dong believes that these alone are enough to reshape his left foot.

Especially considering that after more than a year of hard training, Su Dong's left foot ability has reached 13 points.

In addition to his left foot, Su Dong felt that he had a slightly lacking ability, which was judging where the ball fell.

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Romario's [Wolf of the Penalty Zone] has allowed him to capture the smell of fighters, and his insight into the situation has been greatly improved. To put it simply, his ability to run without the ball has been improved.

But here comes the problem, he is not accurate in predicting the placement of the ball.

Don't look at him scoring headers, but in fact, he missed more headers.

Su Dong believes that if he can improve his prediction of where the football will land, with his physique and running ability, the header attack will change, and it may even become an offensive weapon that is not inferior to his right foot.

In his shopping cart, there is also a star's header ability card, the German striker Klose's [Aerial Overlord].

This is a newly launched star ability card after the World Cup in Korea and Japan. At first, Su Dong preferred Bierhoff or the Golden Bomber Klinsmann, but after the World Cup, the system was updated and a new card was launched. East noticed.

In this summer's World Cup in South Korea and Japan, Klose scored five goals, all from headers, including a header hat-trick when Saudi Arabia was bloodbathed in the World Cup.

What's even more frightening is that the German center is only 1.84 meters tall and weighs only 81 kilograms. No matter how you look at it, he doesn't look like a sturdy guy like Vieri or Adriano. The reason why he can often score headers is that It comes from his precise prediction of where to drop.

Su Dong absolutely has reason to believe that Klose can score so many headers with his height. If he has his own body and movement, and has this ability to predict where to go, how sharp is that header attack?

This is also where Su Dong is most tangled at the moment.

The left foot is what he needs to strengthen, and the header is also reluctant to put on hold.

Is it the left foot first, or the header first?

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Su, the lottery has begun.

Just when Su Dong was struggling, Ronnie patted him lightly.

Su Dong opened his eyes and saw that the draw for the UEFA Cup round of 16 had already started live on TV.

Sixteen small balls were placed in a large glass jar, and the guests who drew lots randomly drew small balls from it, took out the team name inside, and fought against each other in pairs.

Even if it's just the UEFA Cup, the teams that can reach the top 16 are not weak.

Teams such as Liverpool and Lazio are powerful, but Málaga, Anderlecht, Stuttgart and other teams are also good, and even Porto, Sporting Lisbon, Anderlecht and other teams are not bad either.

From the perspective of Sporting Lisbon, the most unwilling thing to encounter, apart from Liverpool and Lazio, two teams that are obviously stronger, is Turkey's Besiktas.

This team from Istanbul, the most troublesome problem is away.

The voyage is more than 3,000 kilometers, which is farther than flying to Greece. It takes a total of ten hours to travel.

So, whether in the Champions League or in the UEFA Cup, going to Turkey to play away is a nightmare.

Sporting Lisbon has experienced a trip to Greece and knows how difficult it is to play away from home. Naturally, they are reluctant to encounter away games in the Middle East.

Greece's Panathinaikos was the first to be drawn and met Belgium's Anderlecht.

Auxerre followed, and the Ligue 1 team was unlucky to meet Liverpool.

Houllier's team is very strong, and no one wants to touch it.

Lazio was drawn to the third group match against Krakow, who eliminated Schalke 04.

At this point in the draw, the players of Sporting Lisbon were obviously relieved.

The most reluctant to encounter, the strongest Liverpool and Lazio have been taken away, which is cool.

For Sporting Lisbon, even if they encounter teams such as Malaga, Stuttgart and Celtic, they are not afraid.

With the strength of the Green Lions, they can completely compete with these teams.

But soon, with the drawing of lots, everyone's hearts were slowly pulled up again.

The team representing the hapless Turkish team, Besiktas, has yet to be drawn.

Especially after the five matches of the top ten teams are drawn, Besiktas is among the four opponents that Sporting Lisbon may encounter among the remaining six teams, apart from the same country Porto.

Wouldn't it be so unlucky? Tonito was a little impatient.

We just finished playing in Greece, and now we are going to the Middle East? If we really want to draw Besiktas, I will seriously protest that UEFA deliberately punishes us and makes us work like this!

The Spanish midfielder's words were unanimously recognized by everyone.

Who said it wasn't?

Playing Greece away, what is the team running like?

Are you going to fight Turkey now?

But sometimes things in the world are like this, the more you are afraid of something, the more he will be.

The first team to be drawn in the sixth matchup was Sporting Lisbon.

Almost everyone in the lounge held their breath, watching the lucky draw guests reach into the glass jar again, and there were only four small balls left.

I saw him reach out and stir, grab a small ball at random, open it, take out the note, turn it over, and face the live camera.

Besiktas!

There was deathly silence in the lounge at first, and then there was a sound of scolding motherfuckers.

It turned out to be a super long distance away!

This is definitely the rhythm that will kill Sporting Lisbon!