Father Green

Chapter 369: European Super Cup and Champions League draw
The opponent in the first round of the League Cup is Barnsley. This is a low-level team that is not considered a strong team even in the English Championship, so Charlotte will naturally not arrange the main lineup to play.

The starters are all youth teams such as Stephens, Sterling, Lukaku, Ward-Prowse, Luke Shaw and Chambers, and even Higuain, Griezmann, Auba Players like May Young and Rodriguez have not been selected for the squad, and Charlotte has no idea of ​​​​taking them to Yorkshire.

However, the goalkeeper Charlotte arranged for Reina to play. This is also the first time the Spanish veteran has played for the Saints in an official game after joining the Saints.

In fact, the Saints and Barnsley are no strangers. Charlotte played against them in the English Championship in the first season of coaching the Saints.Moreover, John Stones, a young player of the Saints youth team, is still a product of Barnsley's youth training, but he was dug into his youth team by Charlotte long ago.

Stones was also loaned to his old club Barnsley for a season before, but this season Charlotte did not agree to the other party's request for a lease renewal, because the newly appointed Toffees coach Martinez called and wanted to rent the club. A young player, give him a Premier League substitute and rotation position.

Naturally, Charlotte didn't understand rejecting a Premier League team to agree to a precarious Championship team. Although Stones could not find a chance in the Saints for the time being, Martinez agreed to give Stones a chance when he was on loan. No less than [-] games or [-] minutes of playing time in the Premier League, League Cup and FA Cup in a season.

Barnsley has no ambitions. Although the Saints have created miracles for many Championship teams, they are self-aware and cannot become the second Southampton team.

So facing such a team with such a disparity in strength, it is natural for the Saints to win the opponent.It's just that the saints have been under a lot of pressure from the outside world during this period, so they accidentally wiped out their opponents.

The score of [-] to [-] made the opponent's head coach put on a straight face when shaking hands with Charlotte. He expected the loss, but he didn't expect that the opponent would not think of love at all and "pain the killer".

Your sister, this is my home field! !

Leaving Barnsley in Yorkshire, the team rested for a day and then flew directly from London to the Czech Republic in Central Europe the next day, um. It was that Czechoslovakia that was later divided into Czechoslovakia and Slovakia because of the disintegration of the former Soviet Union. The Czech Republic in this country.

The golden age of Czech football is naturally the golden age in 2004. The iron-cast Czech team has the Golden Globe winner Pavel Nedved, as well as world-class midfielders Poboski and Rosicky, and the fine-footed high center forward Jan. Kohler, first-class defenders Ujfalusi and Jankulovski, Cech in goal.

The Czech team in that era really blinded the eyes of many people, but they didn't catch up. After the golden generation gradually got old, the overall strength of the Czech team obviously declined in quality.

This year's UEFA Super Cup was held at the Eden Stadium in Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic. It is worth mentioning that this is the first time since 1998 that this event will not be played at the Louis II Stadium in Monaco.This stadium is the home ground of Slavia Prague, the Czech capital team. They and Sparta Prague are the two strongest teams in the national league. The derby between them is also called Prague Derby or the Czech Republic. derby.However, the results of Pilsen's victories have gradually improved over the years, and they are likely to overwhelm Slavia.

Although the Super Cup is no longer played in Monaco, the Champions League group stage draw and UEFA's "recognition ceremony" are still held at the Grimaldi Conference Center in Monte Carlo, Monaco.

The Super Cup is on August 31, but UEFA's awards ceremony and group draw are on August 29.Therefore, Southampton's opponent Bayern Munich does not have much time to prepare for this game. As the Champions League winner last season, the Bundesliga giants are naturally the biggest winners of the UEFA Commendation Conference, such as Franck Ribery, Robben, Lowy Core players such as Hall and Lahm need to attend this meeting.

It also includes the current Bayern Munich coach Pep Guardiola and the former German coach Heynckes.

There is no doubt that Heynckes won UEFA's best coach. In fact, Charlotte was also nominated for this award.But Charlotte knows that no matter how well she performs in the Europa League, the final winner must belong to the Champions League champion coach. This is the essential difference between the Europa League and the Champions League.

Charlotte did not attend this "recognition conference". In fact, apart from the Premier League coach conference at the beginning of the season, he did not attend many award ceremonies and similar memories.Firstly, it was because he really didn't want to waste time, and at the same time, he also knew that he was to accompany the prince to study.

But what surprised him was that UEFA gave him an award for the best rookie head coach. This award was received by club chairman Curtis and general manager Les Reed.Because the club needs people to attend the group draw ceremony, these two club executives are naturally the first choice.

However, this year's best player in Europe went to Scarface Franck Ribery. After all, Messi and Ronaldo, who were nominated at the same time, did not have very satisfactory results in the European war, mainly because their teams did not reach the final Champions League final.And Ribery is the core player of the Champions League champion Bayern Munich. This award is somewhat expected by everyone, but it seems unexpected when you think about it carefully.

Charlotte and the whole team watched the UEFA Champions League group draw at the hotel where they stayed in Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic. According to UEFA’s classification rules, each team’s position depends on their European war points in the past five years. to decide.

Powerhouses like Manchester United, Real Madrid, Bayern and Barcelona have the Champions League to play every season, and they used to be pretty good, so they are undoubtedly the seeded teams, but like AC Milan, Juventus, Paris Saint-Germain Although the strength of these teams should not be underestimated, due to the unsatisfactory results in the European war in the past five years, they can only be the second-tier teams.

And Charlotte and his Southampton's previous points in the European war were poor and white, so even though they are the champions of the UEFA Premier League, they can only be ranked in the fourth tier, which is the lowest tier.

It is worth mentioning that in addition to the Saints, who own the defending Premier League champions, this year's fourth tier also includes Benitez's Serie A powerhouse Naples, last season's La Liga fourth-ranked Real Sociedad, and the Scottish Premier League's Ban Bakai. In the third gear, there are Bundesliga powerhouse Leverkusen, Premier League upstart Manchester City, last season's Champions League runner-up Borussia Dortmund, and Galasa Tare and Ajax who are not easy to deal with.

So even though the lottery has not yet started, everyone has already expected that there will definitely be another death group this season, and there is a higher possibility of two at the same time.

As the small white balls with team names written on them were taken out by the guests and the host and the names inside were read out, the general situation of the group grouping came out soon, and the most difficult thing left was the ball in the fourth gear team, because they were the last team to be drawn, and the three teams from the previous group were already in place.

In Group B, Real Madrid, Juventus and Galatare meet, this is not an easy group to deal with.It is not a big problem for Real Madrid to qualify, after all, the strength is there.And Juventus, the Serie A class bully, may only be able to take second place in the group, but Galasatare's devil's home court may cause them some trouble.

In Group D, the defending champion Bayern and the league champions CSKA Moscow and Manchester City from Russia are in a group. The suspense of this group is not big, maybe it is the contest between Bayern and Manchester City.

Among all the groups, the most worrying one is Group F, because now there are Arsenal, Marseille and Dortmund in this group, and there are several ruthless players in the remaining fourth-tier teams, so although this group has not yet Completed formation, but everyone agrees that this is a death group.

Because the overall strength of the three teams is not much different, and the overall strength of Arsenal and Dortmund is the closest, so no matter who the second-tier team is, this group is very lively.

Pogba prayed with words: "We don't go to Group F, God bless, we will definitely not go to Group F!"

Lukaku gave him a blank look: "Are you stupid? According to the principle of avoidance in the same league, this group already has Arsenal, and it is impossible for us to draw this group!"

Pogba was taken aback for a moment, then smiled awkwardly, he really forgot about it.Generally in the group draw, teams from the same country will not be drawn into the same group, this is the rule.

In order to cover up the IQ balance is not enough, Pogba witty said: "I see that you are too stressed, the atmosphere is too tense, let me tell you a joke to relax."

Sitting next to Pogba, Lukaku, Aubameyang and others looked back at Pogba. The meaning of the eyes is self-evident. In Charlotte's words, it is to give you a look to experience yourself.
In the TV screen, the 73-year-old Billy McNair, a famous Scottish football player and Celtic player, selected a small white ball from the container, and the host opened it for him.McNeil glanced at the name on the note before turning it towards the camera: "Southampton!"

"Wow, this is a special team." The host gave a funny humor.

Charlotte was a little nervous. He knew that the next moment was the most critical moment. At this time, the capital letters of the group that Southampton would theoretically be assigned to were also displayed on the TV screen. Apart from the groups where the other three teams were already in, St. The disciples will appear in the other five groups.

Portuguese star Luis Figo, who once played for two Western Super League teams, Barcelona and Real Madrid, seriously selected a small white ball from the container beside him. The small ball on his side was written with the number of the group.

Figo glanced at the note: "Oh!! This is a top sign!" After speaking, he turned the note to the camera.

The camera immediately took a close-up of the note, and a large "E" appeared on the screen.