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Chapter 336
In the last round of the Champions League group stage, Liverpool won Basel 2-1 at home without any risk.

In another game at the same time, Real Madrid beat Ludogorets 4-0 at home, completing their task of winning the group stage.

In this case, in the final standings of Group B, Real Madrid won the first place in the group with 6 consecutive victories and 18 points. It is also the only team in the Champions League this season to maintain a complete group victory.

Liverpool finished second in the group with 2 wins, 2 draws, 2 losses and 8 points, and also successfully advanced to the knockout round.

Then Basel and Ludogorets both had 4 points, and Basel relied on the relationship between victory and defeat to dominate, so it qualified for the Europa League knockout round.

So far, the UEFA Champions League group stage of this season is all over, and the final qualifying situation of each group has also been determined.

The most difficult teams, Manchester City and Schalke 04, also passed the test. They both won away games and at the same time relied on the team that locked in the first place in the group to help them snipe their opponents, and they succeeded in advancing.

Although the process of the group stage may have some twists and turns, basically there were no major surprises in each group.

In fact, this was also expected when the group stage was divided into groups, because each group has distinct strengths and weaknesses.

It is good news that all four teams in the Premier League have successfully qualified for the group stage.

However, only Chelsea won the first place in the group, and the other three teams are all second in the group, which may make the top sixteen difficult.

Among the [-] teams that advanced to the knockout stage this season, all four Premier League teams and four Bundesliga teams have qualified, followed by three teams from La Liga, two teams from Ligue [-], and one team each from Serie A, Portuguese Super League and Ukrainian Super League.

After the Champions League group stage, in the latest Champions League scorer list, Shakhtar Donetsk's Adriano continued to rank first with 9 goals.

In fact, he hasn't scored a goal since the fourth round of the group stage, but he has scored enough before and can still rank first.

Messi also scored a goal in the last round, ranking second with 8 goals.

Next is Li Chenglong, who ranked third with 6 goals.

Although Li Chenglong only played four group matches, he still scored 6 goals, which is a good efficiency.

Further down are a lot of players such as Ronaldo, Benzema, Aguero, and they all scored 5 goals.

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The UEFA Champions League group stage is over, and the next step is the draw for the knockout stage.

Since Liverpool is second in the group, they are likely to encounter a strong group first, which is more worrying.

The top eight groups in the Champions League this season are Real Madrid, Bayern, Barcelona, ​​Atletico Madrid, Chelsea, Borussia Dortmund, Monaco and Porto.

Among the top eight groups, Liverpool and Real Madrid have the same group avoidance principle, and Chelsea have the same league avoidance principle.

In this way, apart from the two difficult opponents, the remaining six teams have three more difficult to deal with, namely Barcelona, ​​Bayern and Atletico Madrid, and the other three are easier to deal with, namely Dortmund, Monaco and Porto .

At present, Dortmund's situation in the Bundesliga is very bad, so although they are the first in the group and reached the Champions League final two years ago, they are still attributed to the easier teams to deal with.

Therefore, although Liverpool is second in the group, it is a [-]/[-] draw in the round of [-], with only half the probability that they will draw a hard nut to crack.

On the contrary, the four teams of Juventus, Manchester City, Paris and Liverpool all fell to second place in the group. This is probably something that many teams do not want to encounter.

After the group stage, the draw for the top [-] will come soon.

Liverpool boss John Henry personally led the team to Monaco to participate in the draw ceremony.

This season is the first time for the team to participate in the Champions League since Henry took charge of Liverpool. Naturally, it is also the first time in Henry's era to play in the Champions League knockout round. He still pays more attention to it.

On the Liverpool side, captain Gerrard organized everyone to watch the draw.

In the current Liverpool team, most of the players are recruits to the Champions League. Only a few such as Gerrard and Jackie Lee have experience in the Champions League knockout rounds.

Sterling is the most excited kid. This is his first Champions League, and he keeps talking about it.

"You said, will we directly draw Barcelona or Bayern?"

"Actually, it's not bad to draw Barcelona or Bayern. Even if you get out at that time, it won't be too embarrassing."

"However, I still hope to draw an easier opponent, so that we can go as far as possible."

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Seeing that the lottery was about to start officially, Li Chenglong patted him on the back of the head and said, "Okay, stop muttering, the lottery is about to start."

"It doesn't matter who you draw? Just do it and it's over."

The boy Sterling was still not convinced, and underestimated in a low voice: "Will it be the same if you get Bayern or Porto...?"

The draw ceremony officially began, and the first draw was a set of focus matchups, Chelsea vs. Paris.

At this time, the BBC TV commentary, which was being broadcast live, began to sigh: "Chelsea is the only group leader in our Premier League, and they directly drew Paris Saint-Germain. This is really not a good sign."

Then the second draw was Barcelona vs. Manchester City. This time, the England commentary was even more pessimistic.

"It's over. Both Chelsea and Manchester City have drawn very strong opponents. This season's Premier League may be wiped out in the top [-]."

In the current Premier League standings, Chelsea ranks first and Manchester City ranks second. They are indeed the most competitive team in the current Premier League on paper.

But now, these two teams have drawn difficult opponents, and they are indeed not very optimistic.

The next four consecutive groups have nothing to do with the Premier League, namely Atletico Madrid against Leverkusen, Juventus against Dortmund, Bayern against Shakhtar Donetsk, Real Madrid against Schalke 04.

These four groups are basically strong and weak duels with little suspense. The biggest highlight may be Real Madrid vs. Schalke 04. This is the re-encounter of last season's Champions League runner-up.

But with the current strength of Schalke 04, I am afraid that they will be tortured to death by Real Madrid.

UEFA is also very good at making things happen. They obviously saw the current decline in Schalke 04's strength. Maybe no one can make it through the top [-] draw, so they directly asked them to play Real Madrid and eat it while it was hot.

Although there are still two final draws left, the England commentator is already cheering.

"After the unlucky draws of Chelsea and Manchester City, we finally counted whether we are lucky and can have a good draw."

"At present, the only two remaining groups are Arsenal and Liverpool in the Premier League, and the remaining two groups are Monaco and Porto. No matter how they are drawn, Liverpool and Arsenal are stable. of."

Soon, the draw came out, with Arsenal playing Monaco and Liverpool playing Porto.

As the England commentator said, the result of this draw is an excellent lottery for both Liverpool and Arsenal.

Even Arsenal can take advantage of this opportunity to get rid of the Champions League Sixteen Lang hat that they have worn for four consecutive years in one fell swoop.

(End of this chapter)