I'm the Red Devil's savior

Chapter 175 The Champions League Draw and the Crazy Premier League
Back in the UK, Manchester United threw themselves into preparations for the first round of the Premier League.

On the evening of August 8, Beijing time, Saturday, the 13-2016 Premier League season officially started.In the opening game, the Blue Fox Leicester City was a guest at the newly promoted Hull City. As a result, the Blue Fox, who performed well last season, was unexpectedly upset and lost 2017:1.

On the first match day, apart from Leicester City, only Tottenham can be regarded as a traditional Premier League team.As a result, they drew 1-1 with the Toffees at Goodison Park.

The game between Manchester City and Sunderland, which took the lead on August 8, attracted great attention because it was Guardiola's first appearance in the Premier League.

As a result, at the Etihad Stadium, Blue Moon's performance was not satisfactory.Relying on Aguero's blitz in the opening 4 minutes and Sunderland player McNair's own goal, the lore was the Black Cat, and luckily won a victory.

曼联的第一轮比赛，在北京时间8月14日晚上08:30，英国当地时间中午01:30进行。在迪恩考特球场，红魔凭着马塔、鲁尼和伊布三人的进球，3:1击败了红酒军团。

Arsenal and Liverpool, who played immediately afterwards, staged a goal battle at the Emirates Stadium. As a result, when Walcott missed a penalty kick, Arsenal finally lost 3:4, and Uncle Zha won.

At the end of the first round, Chelsea at Stamford Bridge defeated the Hammers 2:1 to help West Ham United.

At the end of the first round, Manchester United topped the standings with a goal difference advantage.

A week later, in the first game of the second round of the Premier League, Manchester United faced Saints Southampton at the Theater of Dreams. Ibrahimovic once again staged a great performance, scoring twice to help Manchester United beat the Saints 4-0.

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It is worth mentioning that this is the second time Ronaldo has won this award in his career. The last time was in 2014. At that time, Ronaldo won the UEFA gold medal for the first time with two championship trophies in the King's Cup and the Champions League. ball award.This time he won the UEFA Ballon d'Or again. Ronaldo also tied Messi and became the player with the most awards since the award was founded.

In fact, since the establishment of UEFA Ballon d'Or, Ronaldo has been shortlisted for the top three awards for 6 consecutive years, and he is also the only player in history who has entered the top three candidates for each selection.

This time, the other two opponents are Manchester United's Wayne Rooney and Atletico Madrid's Griezmann.

For Rooney's final defeat by Ronaldo, the British media seemed very unconvinced.Because in their view, in the past season, Rooney can be said to have defeated Ronaldo in terms of team honors. The Portuguese's club honors were blank and he only won one European Cup, but Rooney led Manchester United to wins including the Champions League and the Premier League. Unprecedented big four crowns including , FA Cup and League Cup!

Even in terms of personal data, Rooney does not fall behind.In terms of the number of league goals, Rooney is at a disadvantage because the number of games played is significantly lower than that of Ronaldo. However, in the direct competition of the Champions League, Rooney beat Ronaldo with 17 goals and won the Champions League Golden Boot.

However, although the British refused to admit defeat verbally, they are also very clear that the performance of the England national team has dragged down Rooney, making the little fat man finally missed the UEFA best player last season.

As long as England can go a little further in the knockout rounds, such as entering the quarter-finals, I am afraid that the UEFA Player of the Season will fall on Rooney without any suspense.

However, such a fact made the arrogant British a little hard to say, so they could only be stubborn and express their dissatisfaction with this result.

For losing to Ronaldo again, Rooney is also very aggrieved, because in the head-to-head match between the two sides, that is, in the Champions League final, he completely defeated Ronaldo, but because of Hodgson's stubborn old guy, England Early exit in the European Cup also led to his narrow defeat by Ronaldo today.

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This ceremony has attracted more attention from all over the world, or the next UEFA Champions League group draw.

After deciding the last 10 participating teams in the middle of this week, the top 32 will be divided into four pots according to the rules, and will fall into each group in the draw.

According to UEFA's new group stage draw rules introduced last year, the league champions of the top seven countries in European points will automatically be listed as the seeded teams in the group stage and will be drawn in groups.The defending Champions League champions will also be seeded, while the Europa League winners will participate in the Champions League play-offs.In the event of a team winning the Champions League and domestic league double, the league champions of the eighth-ranked country in UEFA points will be seeded.

In the UEFA Champions League final last season, Manchester United defeated Real Madrid to win the championship. Before that, they had already won the Premier League championship. Therefore, this season's UEFA Champions League group stage seeded team is the top eight league champions in UEFA points.That is, Manchester United, Barcelona, ​​Bayern Munich, Juventus, Paris Saint-Germain, Benfica, CSKA Moscow and Dynamo Kiev became the seeded teams.The remaining 24 teams will be assigned to the second to fourth tiers according to their respective UEFA standings.

In the draw, clubs from the same league will be automatically avoided in the group stage. For well-known reasons, clubs from Russia and Ukraine will not be grouped into the same group.

Under such rules, giant teams including Real Madrid and Arsenal are forced to fall into the second tier.This also greatly increases the possibility of a group of death.

In fact, judging from the lineup of the second-tier teams, they don't lose to the first-tier seeded teams at all.The second-tier team lineup composed of Real Madrid, Atletico Madrid, Borussia Dortmund, Arsenal, Sevilla, Porto, Naples, Leverkusen and other teams can be called luxurious.

The eight teams in the third pot are Basel, Tottenham Hotspur, Lyon, PSV Eindhoven, Sporting Lisbon, Club Brugge, Borussia Mönchengladbach and Celtic.

Eight teams in the fourth pot, including Monaco, Besiktas, Warsaw Legion, Dinamo Zagreb, Ludogorets, Copenhagen, Rostov and Premier League runner-up Leicester City.

Leicester City has not participated in European competitions for many years, so although they are ranked second in the Premier League, their UEFA points are very low and they are included in the fourth tier.

The Manchester City team, which had already approached the top ten in UEFA points, was unable to participate in this season's Champions League because it finally ranked fifth in the Premier League. Guardiola was forced to lead his team to play in the Europa League.

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UEFA Marchetti served as host of the draw.

Because this season's Champions League final will be held at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, Wales, Liverpool's top scorer in history and Welsh football star Ian Rush is the ambassador of the 2016-2017 UEFA Champions League. Ian Rush will have big ears The Cup is returned to UEFA.

Dutch football star Seedorf served as the guest of draw for the seeded team.

Barcelona were first drawn in Group C; Manchester United in Group G, Dynamo Kiev in Group F, Bayern in Group D, Benfica in Group B, CSKA Moscow in Group E, Juventus in Group H, Paris Saint-Germain are in Group A.

The guest of draw for the second team is former Arsenal superstar Thierry Henry.Porto enters Group G, Sevilla enters Group H where Juventus is located; Real Madrid enters Group F and meets Dynamo Kiev; Henry draws Arsenal and Ian Rush draws Group A, which means the Gunners enter Paris The A group where Naples is in; then Naples enters Group B, Leverkusen is in Group E, Atletico Madrid enters Group D and then meets Bayern, Dortmund enters Group C, the same group as Barcelona.

The guest in the third draw is the famous Dutch center Ruud van Nistelrooy. Lyon was first drawn out in Group H. After that, Sporting Lisbon entered Group F where Real Madrid Dynamo Kyiv belonged. Gladbach entered Group B, and Tottenham were placed in Group B. In Group E, PSV Eindhoven entered Group D where Bayern and Atletico Madrid were located, Belgian giants Club Brugge were assigned to Group G where Manchester United was located, Basel entered Group A, and Celtic were assigned to Group C.

The fourth draw guest is the famous Brazilian left back Roberto Carlos.The Bulgarian giant Ludogorets was drawn first, and Ian Rush drew the letter A, which means that Ludogorets will enter Group A; Copenhagen entered Group G where Manchester United is located, and the Red Devils drew well; Legia Warsaw Entering Group F where Real Madrid is located, Monaco enters Group E with relatively average strength, Dinamo Zagreb of Croatia enters Group H, they will face Juventus, Sevilla and Lyon; Russian Super League runner-up Rostov enters Group H Group D, to face Bayern and Atletico Madrid; Besiktas enters Group B, Leicester City enters Group C, the Blue Fox is really sad, a group with Barcelona, ​​Dortmund and Celtic, the hope of qualifying very slim.

Ye Su was very satisfied with the lottery result.Because the strengths of the three opponents Porto, Bruges and Copenhagen are very average, Manchester United can advance to the knockout round without too much effort.This is very beneficial for Manchester United to spend more energy in the league in the first half of the season, and to compete with Chelsea, which does not have to be distracted from the European game, and Manchester City, which does not need to spend much energy because of the Europa League.

The other three Premier League teams participating in the Champions League also have mixed results for the draw.

Arsenal can be considered to have drawn a good lottery. They will be in Group A with Paris, Basel and Ludogorets, and it will be relatively easy.

Tottenham's situation is very average. CSKA Moscow, Bayer Leverkusen and Monaco are not too strong, but they are not weak either.All four teams have a chance to advance, but it is precisely because each other's strength is too average that this group can be called a death group.

Of course, it is the Blue Foxes who are really sad. It is difficult for them to qualify under the siege of Barcelona and Dortmund.

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After returning from Switzerland, Ye Su continued to lead Manchester United in the Premier League.

In the last Premier League game in August, Manchester United was a guest at Kingston. At the Communications Stadium, they defeated Hull City 8-2 with the goals of teenagers Rashford and Martial, and won the third consecutive Premier League season. win.

However, it is not just the Manchester United family that has won three consecutive victories. Conte's Chelsea and Guardiola's Manchester City have also achieved excellent records of three consecutive victories.However, Manchester United still relied on the advantage of goal difference to overwhelm Manchester City and Chelsea, ranking first in the standings.

This season, the competition between the three clubs has started since the beginning of the season.Whether it is Ye Su, Guardiola, or Conte, they all feel tremendous pressure.

Of course, the pressure is greater, or Liverpool and Arsenal.In the first three rounds, both of them only achieved 1 win, 1 draw and 1 loss. Arsenal ranked 8th in the Premier League, and Liverpool was located in the lower half of the Premier League, ranking only 11th in the Premier League.

Immediately, due to the arrival of the international match day, the Premier League was temporarily suspended, and the international players of Manchester United's national teams also rushed to their respective countries to play for the country.

During this period, the Carrington training base was completely empty. In the entire first team, only a few players such as Ibrahimovic and Phil Jones remained in the team.Ibrahimovic was not called up by the Swedish national team because he announced his withdrawal from the national team after the European Cup.

And when this international match day comes, the 2016 international football summer transfer window will also close, and all teams are taking advantage of this last moment to sign up or clean up players.

The summer transfer window has entered the most tense and critical moment.

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"Set a small goal first, for example, I will earn [-] million!"

Recently, a sentence that the richest man Wang of Wanda Group said in an interview unexpectedly became popular.

Now, with the official closure of the annual summer transfer window, world football has set a "small goal": 1.1 million euros!
On August 8, the Premier League powerhouse Manchester City announced the signing of Pogba and paid a record transfer fee of 9 million euros to Juventus.Pogba has signed a five-year contract with Manchester City until the summer of 1.05.

Originally, Pogba's agent first recommended Pogba to Ye Su's Manchester United, but because Ye Su and Manchester United obviously did not have much interest in re-signing Pogba, a youth player, Raiola turned And recommended Pogba to Guardiola.

Guardiola, who was eager to buy a top midfielder, hit it off with Raiola, and soon negotiated the transfer conditions with Juventus, and also negotiated personal treatment with Pogba: a weekly salary of 30 pounds, the highest salary in the Premier League !

Prior to this, Pogba played 178 times on behalf of Juventus in four seasons, scored 34 goals and assisted 43 times, helping the Bianconeri win four Serie A titles, two Italian Cup titles and two Italian Super Cup titles.

This summer, Pogba represented France in the European Cup. He played all 7 games, played a total of 602 minutes, scored 1 goal, and helped the Gallic Roosters reach the final. Unfortunately, they lost 0:1 to Portugal and missed Delaunay cup.

Pogba's transfer officially announced that football has entered the 1 million era, and it is also an extremely crazy era!

(End of this chapter)