Almighty legend life

Chapter 555 Grouping and Lottery

After the game with Alaves, Real Madrid has only one game left in February 2002, which is the last game of the second stage group stage on February 27, but this game is for Real Madrid is not important anymore, they have already secured the first place in the group and advanced to the quarterfinals of the Champions League.

On February 27, Real Madrid went to Athens, the capital of Greece, with a full bench.

The score of [-]-[-] means nothing to Real Madrid but it means a lot to Panathenaics. With this draw, they surpassed Porto to rank second in the group and thus advanced to the quarter-finals of the Champions League. .

In the next few days, the second stage of the UEFA Champions League group stage has been played one after another, and the top eight list finally appeared.

In this season, the quarterfinals of the Champions League are Real Madrid, Deportivo, Barcelona, ​​Bayern Munich, Manchester United, Liverpool, Leverkusen and Panathinaikos.

La Liga once again occupied the top three places in the Champions League quarterfinals, but in the Premier League, Arsenal failed to continue the good results of the previous seasons. Wenger is still worried about Liu Han's departure to the club management.Liverpool has gradually risen with the growth of a group of young players, but in the league they are still overwhelmed by Manchester United and Arsenal, and even Chelsea can overwhelm them at times.

The Bundesliga is no longer thriving this season. Leverkusen has risen strongly this season. They also suppressed Bayern Munich in the league.

Among the five major leagues, the Serie A and Ligue [-] teams have completely sunk, and none of them have entered the quarter-finals. The decline of Serie A is already a recognized fact.

On March 20rd, La Liga entered the final eleven rounds, and the eighth round of League No.[-] officially started.

With the previous three consecutive victories in the league, Real Madrid once again surpassed the second-ranked Valencia in the standings by four points. Although such a difference is not too big, it can at least ensure the safety of Real Madrid in one game .

In the No.20 eighth round of the league, Real Madrid's opponent is Celta. They are now ranked sixth in the league. Both are very important for Erta.

But now they are facing the majestic Real Madrid, not the arrogant and proud Real Madrid before, so even though the Celta team was very tenacious in this game and the defense was very good, they still couldn't stop them. Victory for Real Madrid.

The two teams scored a goalless goal in the first half and just 5 minutes into the second half, Liu Han used a long shot from outside the penalty area to help Real Madrid take the lead.

After that, the Celta team has been trying to organize a counterattack, but Real Madrid's attention was very concentrated in this game, so they failed.

In the end, Real Madrid relied on Liu Han's goal to beat Celta Vigo 26-[-], and Liu Han also continued to expand his leading position in the scorer list with this goal. For some teams, [-] goals are almost as good as the entire team. The team scored more than half of the season.

Real Madrid's schedule in March is not too intensive. Except for the two Copa del Rey games, the rest is the league. The quarter-finals of the Champions League will not start until April.

However, after entering March, Real Madrid, a "big family" of the national team, is facing a big problem, that is, the warm-up match before the start of the World Cup.

On March [-]th, FIFA will hold a draw ceremony in Lausanne, Switzerland to determine the group groupings for the World Cup to be held in June. After that, each national team will start a series of warm-up matches to prepare for the upcoming World Cup in Korea and Japan in June. .

Moreover, on the same day as the FIFA draw, UEFA will also hold the UEFA Champions League quarter-final draw. This is a restructuring of the UEFA Champions League this season. Some teams deliberately save their strength in the game.

Although Liu Han has not paid attention to these things, there are many people around him who pay attention to them. Not to mention Zidane and others, Carlos alone is very active in collecting various news. No longer the spectators, but the players who actually participated in the game. Not only Carlos is looking forward to playing against Liu Han in the World Cup, but most other Real Madrid players are looking forward to competing with Liu Han in the World Cup. If Han bullies him a lot, they want to get it back in the national team game.

On March [-], UEFA first held a lottery, and the eight teams were divided into two groups according to the first and second groups in the group, and then the UEFA president and executive committee will draw out the teams for the confrontation.

Real Madrid were drawn in the third draw, and their opponent was last season's old enemy Bayern Munich.

In the Champions League semi-finals last season, Real Madrid defeated Bayern in two rounds to advance to the Champions League final, and finally won the eighth Champions League championship in team history, while Bayern had to accept the bitter fruit of failure.

This season, the two teams played against each other again in the quarter-finals of the Champions League. .

The other matches are: Deportivo vs. Manchester United, Liverpool vs. Leverkusen, Barcelona vs. Panathinaikos. Except for Barcelona's matchup in this round, which is not too suspenseful, the other two rounds of matchups are all the same. Is a close opponent.

After the UEFA Champions League draw, FIFA held the World Cup draw in Lausanne.

The Chinese team was assigned to Group C, with Brazil, Turkey and Costa Rica in the same group. This is a good group for the Chinese team. Although Brazil is strong, at least Turkey and Costa Rica are not so good. unattainable.

The other groups are also relatively evenly distributed, but Group F is considered to be the death group of this World Cup. In this group, there are England, Argentina, Nigeria and Sweden. England and Argentina are divided into the same group. A group is seen as a narrow road to each other. Starting from the World Cup in Mexico in [-], these two countries have brought many wonderful performances to everyone in the World Cup.

Not to mention Maradora's "Hand of God" and "Goal of the Century", just the quarter-final matchup between the two teams in the [-] World Cup is a classic, Owen's emergence and Beckham With the red card of Simeone's "excellent performance" and Zanetti's classic free kick, the two teams presented the world with a classic quarter-final matchup.

Moreover, England and Argentina fought a local war in 1982 over the island of Malvinas. It can be said that these two countries have deep grievances.

(End of this chapter)