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Chapter 229 Champions League knockout draw, a fateful matchup! 【Update】

"Half-time champion, who can stop Manchester City?" "

"The Premier League upstart is unbeaten in 16 rounds, once again breaking the best start of the Premier League! "

"Hat-trick defeated the Gunners, Manchester City beat Walcott with No. 10! "

"Wenger intends to strengthen the striker, Suarez may join Arsenal! "

After the end of this round of the league, the major media in the UK have started to brag about Manchester City.

Manchester City achieved 16 wins and 14 draws in the first 2 rounds of the league, once again refreshing their previous record for the best start to the Premier League.

And after defeating Arsenal, they have secured the half-time championship 3 rounds ahead of schedule.

Although there is still a long time before the end of the season, there is no doubt that Manchester City has taken the lead in the championship battle.

As long as they don't lose the chain, judging from the advantages they hold, their chances of winning the championship are very high.

Blue Moon is very likely to win his second Premier League trophy!
However, compared to the praise of the outside world, the Manchester City people themselves appear very humble.

"Our team still has some shortcomings, and we need to continue to strengthen during the winter break!"

In an interview with reporters, club chairman Fahim expressed the team's determination to continue signing.

And coach Pellegrini also has this idea:

"Yes, our lineup is not deep enough to deal with multi-line operations, and we need to continue to strengthen."

In the summer, Manchester City spent a lot of money in the transfer market and bought a large number of players.

Among them, some proved to be very cost-effective deals.

Like Fernandinho and Navas, they quickly settled into the starting lineup after entering the team and became the absolute main force of Manchester City.

However, some signings in the frontcourt are a little bit less cost-effective. Negredo can say that he is qualified as Aguero's substitute, and sometimes he can play a dozen starters.

And Jovetic can't do it. After he came to Manchester City, he had almost no chance to play. The signing of 2600 million euros now seems a bit wasteful.

What Pellegrini needs now is not a striker, he wants a playmaker.

David Silva can play as a midfielder, but if he is placed on the wing, the threat will be greater, which is also a position he is more familiar with.

Therefore, Manchester City needs a serious organization core to liberate Lin Quan.

This is also the opinion of the big boss Mansour. Even if Pellegrini does not make a move during the winter break, the club will make a move to buy someone.

Manchester City's outstanding performance on all fronts this season has made Mansour very happy. He has never been a person who is stingy with money.

As long as the team can be strengthened and the team can go further on all fronts, he will not hesitate to spend more money.

Therefore, before the winter break, many stars have already had scandals with Manchester City.

According to sources, Manchester City is eyeing the main midfielders of Bayern, Real Madrid, Barcelona and other teams.

When the transfer window opens, they will offer these teams an offer they can hardly refuse.

It is still unknown whether this news is true or not, but the few wealthy families who have been rumored to be scandals seem a little nervous.

Ordinary teams come to poach people, they may laugh it off.

But if Manchester City came to poach people, it would be different!

The reason is simple, Manchester City is too rich.

In the past, Manchester City was just a rich upstart, but this year, they have made great strides in the league and the Champions League.

After Lin Quan joined Manchester City, anyone can see that Manchester City already has the qualifications to attack the Champions League trophy.

This means that other players joining Manchester City can not only get extremely high salaries, but also continue to pursue honors.

This undoubtedly dispelled the worries of many people and greatly lowered the threshold for them to join Manchester City.

At this time, once Manchester City makes an offer that is difficult for the club and the players to refuse, these giants are a little worried that they will not be able to hold on.

No way, Manchester City has given too much!

Therefore, after the scandal between their own players and Manchester City, they were all full of a sense of crisis, and began to look for suitable alternatives in the transfer market in advance.

In this way, when Manchester City really waved the check to poach people, they would not have no backup options.

……

After finishing the league match with Arsenal, club president Fahim and head coach Manuel Pellegrini rushed to the UEFA headquarters non-stop to participate in the draw ceremony for the 2013-2014 UEFA Champions League 1/8 finals.

This is the first time Manchester City has reached the knockout stage, and they are all very nervous about this, for fear that they will draw a lottery.

However, the second place in this year's group is not very strong. The Serie A champion Juventus, which might have been a spoiler, was unexpectedly eliminated by the Turkish Super League team in the group stage and missed the knockout round.

In the second place in the remaining groups, except for Arsenal in the Premier League and AC Milan in Serie A, the remaining teams are very weak.

Therefore, as long as Manchester City is not too unlucky, they can basically draw a good lottery.

But for Bayern, who won the second place in the group, this season's Champions League will be very difficult.

The No.1s in the other groups are either the top giants in the major leagues, or the powerful teams.

No matter who they meet, it will be a fierce battle.

Of course, the same is true for other teams.

No one wants to meet last season's defending champion in the first stage of the knockout round!

This caused the head coaches of the major giants who came to the scene to participate in the draw ceremony to generally have nervous expressions on their faces.

They all cursed Bayern in their hearts, the damned defending champion didn't play well, so we should be worried.

At 12 o'clock in the evening on December 16, the draw ceremony officially began.

UEFA Secretary-General Infantino, Director of Competition Marchetti and this season's Champions League ambassador Figo will jointly draw eight teams from the two pools representing the first and second teams in the group.

In the group stage, the eight teams that won the first place in the group are: Manchester United, Real Madrid, Paris, Manchester City, Chelsea, Dortmund, Atletico Madrid and Barcelona.

These eight teams will enjoy the advantage of going away first, which is obviously a reward for their first record in the group.

The second place in the group is: Leverkusen, Galatasaray, Olympiacos, Bayern, Werder Bremen, Arsenal, Zenit St. Petersburg and AC Milan.

As the second place in the group, they need to play home games first and then away games. The schedule is not friendly to them. If they do not play well at home, they will even directly lose hope of advancing.

Under the eyes of everyone, Figo was the first to draw Manchester City out.

Seeing that his team was drawn, Fahim sat up straight, while Pellegrini couldn't help but clasped his hands together.

Obviously, both of them were a little nervous.

"Manchester City have made great strides in both the league and the Champions League this season. They have not lost so far. I wonder who will be their opponent?"

The host smiled and said, but the No.2 of each group couldn't laugh at this time. Obviously, everyone didn't want to draw Manchester City.

Martika drew a team from the second pool in the group, unfolded it, and found that it was the team emblem of Arsenal, the arsenal.

According to UEFA regulations, in the UEFA Champions League 1/8 finals, teams in the same league and teams in the same group will automatically avoid.

So this time the lottery does not count. After the re-draw, a team with a white letter W on a green background was drawn out.

If Lin Quan is here, he can recognize at a glance which team it is - Werder Bremen!

Seeing the draw, Fahim and Pellegrini were taken aback for a moment, and then both breathed a sigh of relief.

Werder Bremen is not second in the weakest group, but their strength is not strong, and Germany is not far from the UK, so it will not be too hard for them to play away games.

So for Manchester City, this is a top pick!

The rebroadcast shot was shown on Werder Bremen coach Schaaf. Compared with the relaxed and excited Manchester City side, Coach Schaff's expression was obviously much more serious.

Is Lin's team?
He couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart: Is this a bad joke of UEFA?

It was a good draw for Manchester City, but for Werder Bremen it was basically their death sentence.

"Damn it, UEFA knows how to play, it actually made Manchester City meet Werder Bremen!"

"If it wasn't for the script, I would have eaten the computer raw!"

"This draw is very friendly to Manchester City, basically announcing that they have entered the quarter-finals!"

"Yes, Bremen's strength has dropped a lot this season, and it is difficult for them to pose a threat to Manchester City!"

"With the strength of Werder Bremen, it is difficult to play against anyone. Relatively speaking, it may be better to meet Manchester City. At least Lin Huang will not kill them!"

"I'm a Werder Bremen fan, welcome Lin Quan back home!"

"Welcome home!"

The fans of Bremen have a lot of affection for Lin Quan. The decline of Werder Bremen has lasted for a long time.

If he and De Bruyne hadn't led Bremen all the way to second place in the league last season, Werder Bremen would have never had a chance to enter the Champions League.

This season, after losing Lin Quan and De Bruyne, Werder Bremen was beaten back to the original form. Their points in the league ranked No.5 from the bottom of the Bundesliga, only one step away from the relegation zone.

In this case, Werder Bremen can't take care of the Champions League at all, they have to fight for the team's relegation.

It is also for this reason that fans of the Parrot Legion miss their former twin stars even more.

If these two people are still there, the team's record will definitely not be reduced to this point.

……

The second one to be drawn is Barcelona, ​​and their opponent is Arsenal, the Arsenal.

Seeing the draw, Wenger's face suddenly changed.

He seriously suspects that this is a shady affair of UEFA, otherwise why Arsenal always encounter Barcelona in the knockout round?

The third one to be drawn is Atletico Madrid, and their opponent is AC Milan.

This duel is full of suspense, AC Milan is the strongest of the remaining 6 second groups, while Atletico Madrid is a relatively weak team among the first in several groups.

When the two teams meet, the result of the game may be difficult to predict, and the hopes of both sides to advance should be similar.

Subsequently, opponents of Paris Saint-Germain, Real Madrid, Manchester United, and Dortmund were also released one after another.

Greater Paris has drawn Leverkusen, and they have great hopes of advancing with their strength.

Real Madrid has won Olympiacos. There is almost no suspense in this group. It is almost impossible for the Greek team to pose a threat to Real Madrid.

Manchester United drew Galatasaray, which is neither good nor bad for Manchester United.

The strength of the opponent is not strong, but it will be a big challenge for the players of Manchester United to go to the hell home field of the Turkish Super League.

Dortmund drew Zenit St. Petersburg. The opponent's strength is not strong, and it is the lowest score in the history of the Champions League. Therefore, it is generally believed that Dortmund will advance.

There are only the last two teams left in the lottery pool. Even if there is no draw, everyone will know the result of the last matchup.

Figo still went through a procedure and drew the last two teams.

The result of the final group duel is Chelsea VS Bayern Munich!
After the result came out, the director gave two sets of shots, aiming at Bayern's coach Guardiola and Chelsea's coach Mourinho respectively.

These two are the most popular top coaches in today's football. They have staged strong duels in the Champions League and La Liga for many years.

I thought that after they left La Liga one after another, the number of matches between the two would decrease.

But what is unexpected is that the fate between the two is so deep. Even though they came to two different leagues, they still met in the first stage of the knockout round.

This result is not good news for both parties. Mourinho's Chelsea and Guardiola's Bayern were the Champions League champions last season and last season respectively.

The strength of these two teams is also very strong, and they are one of the favorites to win the championship before the group stage.

However, the early encounter between their two teams means that one team must miss the quarterfinals.

After seeing this result, Mourinho and Guardiola's faces were not very good.

Mourinho's face was livid, and his eyes were fixed on UEFA Secretary General Infantino.

The madman had long suspected that the Champions League draw was a pre-arranged script, and now he was even more convinced.

He could guess that this match was deliberately arranged by UEFA for the sake of traffic and gimmicks.

In the previous quarter-finals, due to the disparity in strength between the two sides, it was not exciting enough and not much to watch.

But Bayern and Chelsea are different. The two teams are not only very close in strength, but also have various grievances.

Bayern took revenge on Chelsea for their defeat in the final two years ago, plus the fateful duel between Mourinho and Guardiola...

What a gimmick and something to watch!
Guardiola's expression is also very serious, he has confidence in Bayern, but he does not want to encounter such a strong team in the first stage of the knockout round.

Chelsea's defense is very tough, and Bayern's schedule is not good for them because they have to play at home first.

Based on his understanding of Mourinho, the opponent will definitely assume a strict defense posture at the Allianz Arena and play that kind of extreme defensive counterattack.

Once Bayern can't beat Chelsea at their own home court and come to the opponent's home court, Bayern's hope of winning may be very slim.

The reporters and audience at the scene were obviously also very aware of the grievances between the two, so after the results came out, heated discussions immediately erupted at the scene.

The other teams, especially the giants, all took pleasure in their misfortune, sitting back and watching the two giants fight.

For those teams that aspire to win the championship, such as Barcelona and Real Madrid, this result is obviously what they very much hope to see.

Because none of them needed to make a move, one of these two strong teams was eliminated.

And even if it is the winning side, after experiencing such a tragic fight, their consumption will definitely be great.

Meet them in the quarter-finals and the other giants' hopes of winning will be greatly improved.

According to UEFA's official schedule, Manchester City will be a guest at the Weser Stadium on February 2014, 2, against Werder Bremen.

The second leg match between the two teams will be held at the Etihad Stadium on March 3.

Judging from the strength of the two teams, Manchester City may end the suspense of the game in the first round of the game.

However, some fans believe that Lin Quan is likely to show mercy when he returns to the Weser Stadium for the first time after leaving Werder Bremen.

And Lin Quan is the core of Manchester City's offense. If he is merciful, then Werder Bremen may not lose at home.

　Manchester City 4:0 Real Madrid, can you believe it?
　　In the final against Inter Milan, I feel that Manchester City can already open champagne in advance!
　　The premise is that Guardiola does not work~~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)