I Want to Be the King of Football

The Europa League group stage draw is similar to the UEFA Champions League group stage draw.

The teams that advanced from the perimeter play-offs, the ten teams that were eliminated in the fourth round of the Champions League play-offs, plus the defending champions and other participating teams, a total of 48 teams, were divided into four teams according to the European war points. grade.

Defending champions Atletico Madrid and the 11 other teams with the highest points in Europe are placed in pot one.

They are: Atletico Madrid, Porto, Liverpool, Sevilla, Zenit St Petersburg, PSV Eindhoven, Stuttgart, Alkmaar, CSKA Moscow, Sporting Lisbon, Juventus and Villarreal.

Twelve teams including Manchester City, Getafe, Paris Saint-Germain, Dynamo Kyiv, Palermo, Lille, Leverkusen were divided into the second pot, and so on, and then the third pot and Fourth gear.

Like the Champions League group stage, there are a total of 12 groups in the Europa League group stage, and each group draws a team from the fourth position to form a group for home and away double round-robin matches. Finally, according to the group stage points, the top two are ranked. name out.

The 24 teams drawn from the group stage and the eight teams eliminated from the third place in the UEFA Champions League group stage formed the top 32 and entered the Europa League round of 32 knockout rounds.

Finally, the Europa League final will be held in Dublin in mid-May next year.

From the perspective of the competition system, the Europa League is a bit like a small Champions League. In fact, UEFA has always been committed to making the Europa League the second-tier league of the Champions League. There was even news that the Europa League will become the second-tier league of the Champions League. Cup winners are likely to get a place in the Champions League group stage.

This is no doubt quite attractive.

Let’s not talk about it in the long run, Manchester City’s Europa League draw has inevitably met the fate of a strong team since it was drawn to the second pot, and other teams are not willing to encounter Manchester City.

Everyone knows that Manchester City is strong this season, and there is a super scorer like Su Dong, who wants to touch it?

In the end, the hapless man who came across Manchester City was Juventus.

Pot 3 is Red Bull Salzburg from Austria and Pot 4 is Poznan Lech from Poland.

Red Bull Salzburg relies on the strong financial resources of the Red Bull Group, and its strength is not bad. Poznan Lech is a strong team in Poland, but this summer, the team's top center and the winner of the Polish Golden Boot, Lewando Vsky moved to Dortmund in the Bundesliga at a price of 5 million euros, which has a great impact on Poznan Lech.

Judging from the results of the draw, Manchester City's draw luck was not good, but it was not bad either.

The real threat to Manchester City is Juventus.

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After the Europa League draw was over, Manchester City did not have much to say.

Coach Guardiola says he doesn't mind what kind of opponent the team faces in the Europa League.

Our goal is to advance, no matter who our opponent is, this goal will not change!

The implication is that no matter who the opponent is, Manchester City will win.

This is undoubtedly also considered to be a solidarity with Su Dong's letter of war at the Grimaldi Conference Center yesterday.

Su Dong threatened to bring Manchester City into the Champions League and to the top of the Champions League, which caused heated discussions around the world.

Many people felt that he was a little too arrogant.

If money can buy the Champions League, what do the giants need to do?

This is one of the biggest doubts about Su Dong.

I think that Su Dong has been playing for a giant team in the past few years. He has taken advantage of the giant team, which makes him a little arrogant. He wants to bring the mercenary army he has created all the time into the Champions League. people joke.

But Manchester City welcomed Su Dong's remarks very much, because they are all eager to participate in the Champions League, or even win the Champions League.

This will definitely be the highest pursuit in countless people's careers!

After all, not everyone is like Su Dong, who is soft on winning awards.

The club's technical director, Begiristan, also said in an interview with the media that he agreed with Su Dong's statement and firmly believed that the team would succeed because Manchester City is already a fighting team.

However, both Begiristan and Guardiola revealed that Manchester City will not think about long-term things too early, but will focus on the present and work hard to play every next game well. I believe the team will definitely gain something in the end. .

For the weekend away game against the Black Cats Sunderland, both expressed their confidence, but at the same time reminded the team that the Black Cats are a very competitive team, especially at their Stadium of Light.

As we all know, football is a sport with a huge home field advantage.

In the Premier League, the difference between home and away is also obvious, so there are some very interesting teams emerging.

Like Sunderland and Birmingham for example.

From the point of view of the standings, these two teams are ranked in the middle, or even the middle and lower reaches.

But they all have one thing in common, the home results are quite good, the away results are quite bad.

From the point of view of scoring rate, last season, Sunderland only lost three games at home, it can be described as very good.

Birmingham was even better, they only lost two games.

You know, Manchester United and Arsenal have both lost two games at home, and fourth-placed Tottenham Hotspur also lost three games.

But on the road, Sunderland have lost thirteen away games, while Birmingham have lost twelve.

It is this very disparity between home and away situations, Sunderland and Birmingham ranked in the middle and lower reaches of the league.

Last season, he fell among the powerful teams at the Stadium of Light in Sunderland, including Liverpool, Arsenal, and Tottenham Hotspur, of which Tottenham lost 1-3 away.

Manchester United was lucky to win 1-0, but it was also a very dangerous win.

Manchester City are one-to-one and have not been able to take advantage of the Stadium of Light.

Birmingham is even more interesting. He is tied at home with top teams such as Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea, Tottenham and Manchester City.

According to the existing data, in the four major leagues, the unbeaten probability at home is about 70%, and strong teams will have more advantages in this regard. For example, Mourinho has maintained an unbeaten record at home for a long time, but Overall, there's not much difference.

But like Sunderland, the unbeaten probability at home has been raised to 84%, which is more than ten percentage points higher than the average score, and Birmingham has reached an unbeaten probability of nearly 90%. It is the level of the top giants.

Home field advantage is a very complex system, from the venue to the atmosphere, to the referee's scale, to waiting for work and other factors, and even the psychology and fighting spirit of the players are also very important factors.

All of this comes together and is called home-field advantage.

The black cat Sunderland is undoubtedly the team that is best at playing at home among many Premier League teams.

Maybe it has something to do with their head coach being Steve Bruce.

He is the meritorious captain of Manchester United and a direct disciple of Ferguson.

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On the afternoon of August 29, in the third round of the Premier League, Manchester City visited the Stadium of Light to challenge Sunderland.

As soon as the game opened, Steve Bruce's team took the lead, using the iconic Premier League team's impact style to launch a fierce attack on Manchester City, taking long-range shots at every opportunity.

Even frequent anti-aircraft guns can't stop Sunderland's romance.

What's more interesting is that every shot can further stimulate the passion of the fans on the spot, making them shout louder and more vigorously, and the passion of the fans also drives the players on the field.

There is no doubt that from a technical and tactical point of view, Sunderland's level is really rough and very British.

But from the actual combat effect on the field, it happens to be able to play an effect.

As soon as he came up, he suppressed Manchester City, kept punching, and kept hitting.

In contrast, Manchester City plays more delicately and has higher technical and tactical content, but there is no way, Sunderland is like an unreasonable savage, no matter what you are, just start playing when you get on the pitch.

With plenty of energy, they were able to rush through Manchester City's passing and control system frequently and frequently create shooting opportunities.

Of course, almost all shots are long-range shots.

But they don't care.

On the court, Su Dong could feel the aura of Sunderland, but he could also feel the roughness of the black cat's techniques and tactics.

Does that mean Manchester City's tactics must be good, and Sunderland's play must be bad?

Su Dong thinks not.

If the two sides do not consider physical fitness, it is entirely possible for Sunderland to suppress Manchester City, or even defeat Manchester City.

But unfortunately, players are human. As long as they are human, there will be physical limitations, and they need to rest and breathe.

The difference is only in the time of day.

Fifteen minutes later Sunderland took a breather.

It was a corner kick.

Sunderland pressed into the 30-meter area of ​​Manchester City across the board, trying to get a shot and get a goal first.

As a result, Kompany cleared the ball and pushed it out of the penalty area. After the center defender Bramble stopped the ball, he wanted to pick the ball into the penalty area again.

Unexpectedly, Su Dong suddenly stabbed and slashed out. When Bramble kicked the kick, the whole person rushed over and blocked the kick with his burly body.

The ball hit Su Dong's arm, and Bramble raised his hand immediately to signal Su Dong to handball.

However, since Su Dong's left hand was close to the body at that time and did not open, the referee did not think it was a handball.

After blocking the ball with his body, Su Dong didn't give his opponent any time to react. He took the lead and pushed the ball forward with his big feet. He also started quickly, sprinted forward at the fastest speed, took the ball with big strides, and went straight all the way. The ball crossed the halfway line and rushed towards Sunderland's goal.

Sunderland centre-back Michael Turner chased him all the way and kept sticking to the inside of Su Dong.

But Su Dongyi was daring and did not rush to pass the ball, but continued to rush forward with the ball, while also observing the situation beside him.

Di Maria and Sanchez were also very fast. One of them was on the left and the other was in the middle, and they caught up in time.

Manchester City quickly formed a three-on-two in the frontcourt.

Su Dong hurried away with the ball, rushed the ball directly into the penalty area, made a sudden stop on the right side, and dunked the ball back.

Michael Turner was chasing him all the way, unable to hold back his momentum, and rushed over.

But this time, Su Dong did not kick the ball by himself. After dunking the ball back, he falsified a shot with his left foot, as if to pass to Sanchez, but he actually passed the ball low to the left of the goal.

Di Maria, left unguarded, in front of the left post, sends the ball into the empty goal with his left foot.

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