Football: The Strongest Hexagon Warrior

The sixth round group stage of the UEFA Champions League in the 2016-2017 season attracted a lot of attention, including the focus from Dragon Kingdom.

It's a pity that in order to prepare for the important game in December, Wenger hid many main players while locking the first place in the group.

Cavani, Martin, Sanchez, Xhaka, Van Dijk and other players are all staying in London to prepare for the home game against Stoke City before the Club World Cup.

Dragon Stadium.

Although many of Arsenal's main players did not go, they also showed good competitive form as a guest.

Giroud, who became a substitute with the arrival of Cavani this season, equalized twice when Arsenal fell behind twice, helping Arsenal draw 2:2 with Porto as a guest.

Dragon State player Wei Shaohao, who plays for Porto, performed well, contributed an assist, and also hit the door frame with an inward shot. Otherwise, the home team would have likely defeated the defending champion who visited the Dragon Stadium.

同组进行的另外一场比赛哥本哈根做客2：0击败布鲁日，但是波尔图主场战平阿森纳拿到一分，6战2胜3平1负积9分排名第2，比2胜2平2负积8分的哥本哈根多1分。

At the end of the Champions League match day on Wednesday, all six rounds of the 2016-2017 Champions League group stage ended, and the dust settled on the 16 teams that advanced to the knockout rounds.

The biggest winner is La Liga, with all four teams Real Madrid, Barcelona, ​​Atletico Madrid and Sevilla advancing.

Except for Tottenham, the four teams representing the Premier League were eliminated. Arsenal, Leicester City and Manchester City all advanced to the top 16.

The Bundesliga, like the Premier League, occupies three seats, namely Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund and Bayer Leverkusen.

Serie A, Ligue 1 and the Portuguese Super League have two seats each, Napoli, Juventus, Paris Saint-Germain, Monaco, Benfica and Porto.

In other words, the teams that advance to the Champions League knockout rounds this season are swept by the five major leagues and the Portuguese Super League, and all other league teams are wiped out.

Last season’s Champions League knockout rounds included Eredivisie, Russian Super League, Uzbekistan Super League and Belgian League teams. This season’s Champions League knockout rounds were all eliminated. From the perspective of qualifying, the gap between Europe’s top leagues and minor league teams is widening.

It is precisely because of this that this season's Champions League 1/8 finals will become particularly lively.

Especially if Paris Saint-Germain, Bayern and Real Madrid do not win the first place in the group, there will be a high probability of multiple strong dialogues in the draw ceremony, and even the Champions League final staged in advance.

Put aside the avoidance rules of the 1/8 finals.

Take the defending champion Arsenal as an example. According to UEFA's lottery rules, there is a high probability that Bayern and Real Madrid will be drawn, followed by Paris Saint-Germain.

Other potential strong dialogues include Bayern VS Barcelona, ​​Manchester City VS Atletico Madrid, Real Madrid VS Juventus, Manchester City VS Dortmund, Paris Saint-Germain VS Dortmund...

The sixth round of the Europa League group stage ended on Thursday night. The 12 teams that advanced from all 24 group stages, plus the third-placed teams of the eight Champions League groups, a total of 32 teams, will compete in the European local time. The draw ceremony for the 1/8 finals of the Champions League will be held at noon on Friday, followed by the draw for the 1/16 finals of the Europa League.

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Friday at 12 noon local time in Europe.

UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.

Influenced by Secretary-General Infantino's appointment as FIFA President, the Champions League 1/8 finals draw ceremony was hosted by Pinto, the director of UEFA's media division.

The drawing process is still in charge of the competition department director Marchetti, and the Dutch star Ruud Gullit serves as the draw guest.

The first team to be drawn out was Manchester City from the Premier League.

The draw for the Champions League 1/8 finals is an avoidance rule for teams that share the same group stage and belong to the same football association. It also means that Arsenal, Leicester City in the Premier League and Barcelona in the same group as Manchester City will not be opponents.

Then potential opponents in the 1/8 finals will be between Dortmund, Naples, Monaco, Atletico Madrid and Juventus.

The team drawn out by Gullit is...Monaco.

Sports director Begiristain, who attended the draw on behalf of Manchester City, smiled slightly and was obviously very satisfied with the draw.

In his opinion, this is the ideal opponent.

Manchester City coach Guardiola was in a good mood watching the live broadcast of the draw, as if he saw hope of advancing to the quarterfinals of this season's Champions League.

Real Madrid is the second team to be drawn out of the group.

The team has won ten Champions League championships in its history and is known as the strongest second team in the Champions League this season.

The forward BBC combination is frightening, the midfield combination of Modric, Toni Kroos and Casemiro is very dominant, and the defense and goalkeeper are extremely capable.

In addition to Barcelona, ​​Atletico Madrid, and Dortmund who will not be paired with Real Madrid, the attending officials of the other four first-team teams Leicester City, Naples, Arsenal, and Juventus are feeling a lot of pressure.

I don’t know if it was intentional, but the on-site director specially gave a close-up shot of Arsenal CEO Ivan Gazidis.

His expression became visibly heavy.

UEFA has always liked to draw last season's champions and runners-up together in advance to attract enough attention.

Everyone's focus is on the draw guest Gullit.

In the end, Napoli, the first team in Group B, became the 'unfortunate' team.

The Naples boss De Lao who was present twitched his lips slightly, obviously dissatisfied with the draw.

In his opinion, the ideal draw opponents are Benfica or Porto.

The draw ceremony for the Champions League 1/8 finals continues, and the third team second in the group drawn by Gullit is Benfica.

Representatives of the remaining six first-place teams in the group became excited.

This... is the second team in the group that is best to deal with!

Dortmund became the lucky one and successfully matched with Benfica.

By this time, the atmosphere at the draw was becoming increasingly tense.

Especially when Gullit drew Bayern, the tense atmosphere made the on-site officials frown.

Bayern has always been a tough nut to crack!

The footage of the live broadcast was very meaningful, showing Arsenal CEO Ivan Gazidis and Barcelona President Bartomeu respectively.

The remaining five first-place teams in the group will not meet each other except Atletico Madrid, which was previously in the same group due to evasion of rules. Arsenal is the team that has faced Bayern the most in the Champions League knockout rounds among the four first-place teams in the group.

上赛季欧冠1/4决赛、2013-2014赛季欧冠1/8决赛、2012-2013赛季欧冠1/8决赛、2009-2010赛季欧冠1/4决赛。

Barcelona and Bayern have some fighting grievances.

In the 2012-2013 Champions League semi-finals, Bayern humiliated Barcelona with a total score of 7:0.

2008-2009赛季欧冠1/4决赛和2014-2015赛季欧冠半决赛，巴塞罗那分别淘汰拜仁。

The Arsenal players preparing for the league happened to be dining in the first-team player restaurant at the Colney training base. Many players and members of the coaching staff were a little nervous, and only a few players were looking forward to it.

"Arsenal!"

Gullit unscrewed the ball with the Champions League five-star logo and faced the camera with the folded card with the team's name on it.

Arsenal CEO Ivan Gazidis and Bayern President Hoeness both smiled silently.