Fengba Greenery

Chapter 278 Super Death Group
Chapter 123 Super Death Group

It's just that there is not much time left in the game. When the referee blew the whistle for the whole game, Griezmann failed to complete the goal of "returning the cake". It seems that Li Qingshan's appetite for this game is not very good.

But no matter what, Atletico Madrid finally won the first round of the 2014-2015 La Liga away game and got a good start to the season.

After the game against Vallecano, the team no longer has to travel, which can be regarded as one of the benefits of the same city derby.After the game, Simeone announced that he would give the team a day off.Atlético Madrid's next game is six days later, on August 31, when they welcome Eibar at home.During this period, on August 28, UEFA will hold the draw ceremony for the 2014-2015 UEFA Champions League group stage in Monaco.

As last season's defending champion, Simeone, captain Gabi, and the team's president Cerezo will leave Madrid for Monaco to participate in the UEFA Champions League draw ceremony!
This time Atletico Madrid is not the new face of the Champions League that not many people paid attention to last season. They came to Monaco this time with the aura of defending Champions League champions.

The defending champions are of course one of the most watched teams.

Under the watchful eyes of so many, what powerful enemies will be waiting for them?
Everything will be revealed after the Champions League draw.

According to the classification rules of the UEFA Champions League group stage, the top eight teams in the UEFA Champions League will become the seeded teams, and they are also the first team.

The other teams are also ranked according to the same scoring rules, divided into teams in the second, third, and fourth tiers.

In the UEFA Champions League group stage, each group will draw a team from each level of the team, and four teams will form a group for home and away two-round knockout matches.The top two teams in the group score advance to the top [-] of the Champions League, and the draw for the group stage follows the avoidance principle of teams in the same league.In other words, it is impossible for Spain's four teams participating in the Champions League to be drawn into a group.

Atletico Madrid has won the UEFA Cup and the Champions League since Simeone took office. Therefore, Atletico Madrid's Champions League points rank seventh in Europe and are one of the eight seeded teams in the first tier.

The advantage of being a seeded team is that you can avoid those super teams in the group stage, such as Bayern Munich.

But in fact, there are some teams in the second and third tiers that are capable of winning the Champions League. For example, the teams in the second tier this season are Dortmund, Juventus, and Manchester City.

This is also a problem brought about by UEFA's current classification principle. The organization team is determined according to the ranking of UEFA points. The championship team, for example, if Atletico Madrid's UEFA points are outside the top eight, then even if they are the defending champions of the Champions League, even if they beat Barcelona and Real Madrid to win the La Liga championship in the league, Atletico Madrid will not win the championship. Can only be used as a team in the second tier, while Barcelona and Real Madrid are in the first tier.

This happened in the UEFA Champions League group stage this season.The defending Premier League champion Manchester City is in the second tier because of the relatively low UEFA points ranking, while Arsenal, which ranked second and No.4 in the league last season, is the first team.

However, a few days before the draw ceremony for the UEFA Champions League group stage this season, media sources disclosed that UEFA will amend the rules for the UEFA Champions League group stage. The league champions will make up the eight seeded teams.

UEFA president Michel Platini and others at the top hope that the new rules will prevent the current situation from happening, and want to ensure that the league champions are ranked higher than other teams in their national leagues.

But in any case, before this modification plan can be put into practice, it must be approved by the UEFA Executive Committee. The next meeting of the UEFA Executive Committee will be held on September 9, and the new rules will not start until next season at the earliest. implemented.

Before the draw, Atletico Madrid was not too worried about the Champions League draw. As the first team, unless the team's luck is particularly bad, the probability of drawing a death group is not high.

But Atletico Madrid's luck doesn't look good.
After the draw, neither Simeone nor Gabi looked very good, while Atletico Madrid chairman Cerezo was directly caught by the camera smiling wryly and shaking his head.

Atletico Madrid was assigned to Group A, and when the teams in their group were drawn out one by one, there was even some obvious commotion on the scene, while the outside world was in an uproar.

Look at the members of their group, the first is the Champions League defending champion Atletico Madrid, the second team is drawn from the Bundesliga powerhouse Borussia Dortmund, and the third team is drawn from the English team Liverpool.

When these three teams are drawn together, a Champions League group stage death group has been formed.

However, what is even more cruel is that when the fourth-tier team in Group A was drawn out, almost no one could calm down.

As a guest of the lottery, the former German state teacher Riedel opened the tag in his hand and showed it to the camera. The TV broadcast footage clearly saw that the fourth team in Group A was drawn out-Rome!
Atletico Madrid, Dortmund, Liverpool, Roma!
Super Group of Death!

Of course, the cameras at the scene immediately found the staff representing the four teams on the scene, and almost every member of the team had the same expression of seeing the devil.This kind of grouping is really... so fucked up.

As soon as the lottery result came out, the German media took the lead in reporting it.

There are four teams participating in the Champions League this season.After seeing the grouping situation of Atletico Madrid in Group A, the grouping situation of the other three La Liga teams has gradually been drawn completely.

Real Madrid are in Group B, which includes Switzerland's Basel, Greece's Olympiacos and Bulgaria's Ludogorets Razgrad.This is almost guaranteed to the top [-]. No team in this group can threaten Real Madrid, and the other three teams can only compete for the second place in the group.

Barcelona is in Group F with Paris Saint-Germain, Ajax, and Athletic of Cyprus. This group is more difficult than Real Madrid's grouping, but it is basically no problem for Barcelona to qualify , Paris Saint-Germain and Ajax have the opportunity to compete for another qualifying place, and APOEL is basically playing soy sauce.

The other La Liga team participating in the Champions League is Athletic Bilbao.They are in Group H with Porto, Shakhtar Donetsk and Borisov.To some extent, this is also a death group, because the three teams of Porto, Shakhtar Donetsk, and Athletic Bilbao are very close in strength, and it is very difficult for anyone to break out of the group.

According to La Liga media analysis, Real Madrid and Barcelona qualify first in the group is a high-probability event, and Atletico Madrid is also very likely to qualify. However, if Atletico Madrid cannot get the first place in the group, they will participate in eight points as the second in the group When drawing lots for the finals, they will face the first place in other groups, and the probability of drawing some super giants will be greatly increased.

Moreover, many La Liga media still believe that the most realistic consideration for Atletico Madrid this season is to integrate the team and focus on the domestic league to ensure that they can compete with Barcelona and Real Madrid in the middle of the competition. Fall into the wind.Wait until the team is fully mature next season, and then achieve better results in the Champions League.

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