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When Dundee United played against Twente at home, Celtic, another Scottish European team, also went to Italy to challenge Serie A powerhouse Udinese.

If Celtic want to qualify from this season's Europa League group stage, they must beat Udinese away.

But at the end of the 90-minute game, the scoreboard was 1:1.

The Celtics failed to beat Udinese and were eliminated from the Europa League. Dundee United became the only seedling in the Scottish Premier League and the only team to reach the European knockout rounds this season.

Dundee United's Infernal Mission, early the next morning, Herald Sports gave such a report on the front page.

The European group stage of this season has all come to an end, and Dundee United has reached the knockout stage. It’s the same as when assigning European points to them, as long as they can get a little more European points than Zurich in the Swiss league, Dundee United will be considered to have completed the task.”

And the Celtics were eliminated. This is an expected and unexpected result.

Being assigned to a death group, everyone knows that the Celtics have a high possibility of being eliminated. But as the dominant team in the Scottish League, the Celtics must get out of this group , to earn enough European points for the league.

So, this is an expected and unexpected result.

Before the start of this season, we were leading the Swiss league by a very small margin in European competition points. At that time, we felt that it should be very easy to continue to overwhelm the opponent in the European competition rankings after the start of the new season. One is relatively simple. task.

Because we have two teams, Rangers and Celtic, who are competitive, and there is only one Basel in the Swiss league.

But at the end of the European qualifiers, Hearts and Rangers were eliminated one after another, and Basel entered the Champions League in the Swiss League. At that time, we felt that although it was a bit difficult, it was still not small Opportunity, so the difficulty of the task has increased, and it has become a difficult level.

Just like the respective tasks assigned to the two teams at the time, each team got a little more points in the European war than the other team, which was just enough.

But now that the European group stage is over, the difficulty of the task has risen to the hell level.

Celtic were 'clever', they took away the easy task that belonged to Dundee United because they just happened to have a little more European points than Zurich in Switzerland.

The Celtics scored 1 win, 3 draws and 2 losses in the Europa League group stage. According to the regulations, they can get 5 points in the European war. Zurich won the game even though they were eliminated early in the last round. The result is 1 win, 2 draws and 3 losses, and get 4 points in the European war.

The Celtics took away the easy task, leaving Dundee United with a hellish task. Because if the Scottish Premier League wants to keep two Champions League qualifications, Dundee United must win more than Basel. A little Europa League points.

Dundee United's results in the Europa League group stage are 4 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss, and they can get 9 points in the European war.

As for Basel, they participated in the Champions League group stage and got 4 bonus points. The group stage results were 3 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss, with 8 points. In addition, they entered the Champions League knockout round and got 5 bonus points.

So far, Basel has scored 17 points in the European war, and Dundee United has one point more than them. That is to say, in the Europa League knockout round, Dundee United needs to get another 9 points.

Simple calculations, Dundee United double-killed their opponents in the top 32 and the top 16 of the Europa League to advance, plus a little point automatically rewarded for advancing to the top eight, it is just enough.

This is when Basel are double-eliminated in the last 16 of the Champions League and cannot take any more points.

And even if Basel is 'cooperative' and doesn't take points, Dundee United may not be able to double-kill opponents in every round of the series. If there are situations such as losing and advancing in the middle, it is likely that the quarter-finals are not enough. Dundee United have to reach the semi-finals to meet the conditions.

For Dundee United, this is indeed a hell-level task, an almost impossible task...

Li Chenglong also read this report. The current task of Dundee United is indeed a bit difficult, but it is not impossible.

However, if you reach a knockout round in the Champions League, the points will be almost equal to reaching the semi-finals in the Europa League. The gap is really big.

No wonder some teams are in the top sixteen of the UEFA Champions League every year, but they have always been high in the ranking of European competition points, and they have basically been the first-tier teams in the UEFA Champions League for a long time.

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With the end of the Europa League group stage, the draw for the European knockout rounds will follow.

On Friday, December 16, the draw for the UEFA knockout rounds took place at UEFA headquarters in Nyon.

For Dundee United, the chairman Eddie Thompson took the management to go in person. This time Peter Houston did not follow, after all, he had to prepare for the upcoming weekend league.

So the Dundee United team and the coaching staff watched the draw at the club together.

The draw for the top 16 of the UEFA Champions League will definitely be the one that attracts more attention first.

Soon, the results of the Champions League round of 16 came out, and there were two strong duels.

Arsenal in the Premier League played against AC Milan in Serie A, and Chelsea in the Premier League played against Naples in Serie A, which is an obvious British-Italian confrontation.

Is UEFA trying to destroy the Premier League? Assistant coach Toby Harrison couldn't help muttering.

As far as the lottery result alone is concerned, there is indeed such a suspicion.

Originally, the Manchester City Double Bears had already been eliminated, and the only two remaining Premier League teams happened to have drawn strong opponents.

You must know that both Chelsea and Arsenal advanced to the top 16 in the group, and among the eight groups that advanced to the top 16 this season, only AC Milan and Naples are strong teams. The second is basically cannon fodder.

Under such circumstances, the two teams in the Premier League just happened to draw the second place in the two strongest groups. If you say that there is no trick, who will believe it?

Anyway, it is not a day or two for Platini to dislike the Premier League.

Platini believes that the Premier League always spends a lot of money to buy and buy, which not only disrupts the market order, but also destroys the foundation of football's youth training, so it must be rectified vigorously.

But Li Chenglong thinks that it may be because the money does not belong to UEFA, which makes Platini want to operate reasonably, which makes him upset.

Football youth training should not be much different from growing food.

In the past, everyone grew food honestly, and just managed their own fields.

Now that some people have money, they stop growing food and start buying food at high prices.

This will indeed lead to an increase in food prices, but those who have been growing food will definitely try their best to find ways. After all, food prices are high, and selling food can make a lot of money.

Could it be that just because some people spend a lot of money to buy food, will everyone starve to death together in the future?

It's really a crime.

It is worth mentioning that in the UEFA Champions League round of 16 draw, Switzerland's Basel drew the Bundesliga giants Bayern, and it is really very likely that they will be eliminated directly by double play.

Okay, okay, it's finally us, I hope to draw Manchester United directly. The Europa League knockout draw is about to start, and Vardy is faking again.

In the first round, we couldn't draw Manchester United. Peter Houston briefly explained the rules for him.

The draw for the top 32 of the UEFA Europa League is the same as the UEFA Champions League, allowing the group first to play against the second in the group.

As for the eight teams that fell out of the UEFA Champions League group stage, the four teams with higher points in the UEFA Champions League group stage are automatically assigned as the first in the group, and the four with lower points are automatically assigned as the second in the group.

Although Manchester United fell, their points in the Champions League group stage are not low, and they will automatically enter the first place in the group together with Dundee United. At least in the top 32, the two teams will not meet.

Soon, the results of the draw came out, and Dundee United won the Romanian overlord Steaua Bucharest.

The result of this lottery is actually not bad. Although the Star team is the overlord of Romania and has won the Champions League, after all, it is the overlord of the Eastern European minor leagues. The current combat effectiveness may not be very strong.

But the result of the draw for the round of 16, Dundee United did not count well.

The current UEFA Europa League draw is drawn at one time for the top 32 and the top 16. After the top eight is determined, it will be drawn again with the top eight of the UEFA Champions League.

According to the results of the draw, the winner of Dundee United and Steaua Bucharest will face the winner of the Bundesliga Schalke 04 and Czech League Plzen Victory in the round of 16.

Schalke 04 is a strong team in the Bundesliga. It is basically not a big problem to beat Pilsen. If Dundee United passes the round of 32, there is a high probability that they will meet Schalke 04 in the round of 16.

You must know that Schalke 04 is currently one of the favorites to win the Europa League. It is definitely not a good thing for Dundee United to meet in the top 16.

After the top 32 of the UEFA Europa League came out, the European Gaming Company ranked Manchester United, Manchester City, Atletico Madrid, and Valencia as the top four, while Schalke 04 ranked fifth.

As for Dundee United, they are tied for 18th with several other teams.

This is because Dundee United won the first place in the group before, and they only got such a position when the current domestic league results are very good, otherwise the ranking may be lower.