At the beginning of the draw, eight seed teams were divided into eight different groups.
Rueta's La Coruna is very lucky, just a little more than the ninth place Leverkusen, plus Spanish giants Barcelona missed the Champions League, and finally entered the seed team.
For the seed team, there are too many benefits.
However, AC Milan in the third gear, Newcastle, lance and Auxerre in the fourth gear are also strong.
Newcastle, needless to say, ranked fourth in the Premier League last season. Their offensive ability is second only to Arsenal and Manchester United. That is to say, their defense is poor.
Newcastle beat West Ham 4-0 at home and Manchester City 0-1 away in two Premier League games this season.
Auxerre and lance are also strong teams in the French league. Last season, they were able to beat Ronaldinho's teams such as Paris Saint Germain, Lille and Marseille to second and third place in the league, which shows the strength of these two teams.
France has played four rounds this season, Auxerre is three wins and one draw, lance is one win and three draws. On the whole, Auxerre's strength will be better, especially the team's defense.
Anyway, these three teams in the fourth gear are quite a headache.
So, at the beginning of the draw, everyone in the meeting was on tenterhooks.
"How's it going? Are you nervous? "
Sitting next to him, Ferguson looked at Gao Han with a smile.
Gao Han raised his eyebrows and asked, "are you hiding your inner tension, Mr. Ferguson?"
"I'm just curious." Ferguson laughs.
"Why?"
"According to the principle of evasion in the same country, you are the unlucky ones who are most likely to be drawn into the group of death."
Gao knows that because Valencia, Real Madrid and La Coruna have all entered the seed team, Atletico Madrid will definitely avoid these three teams according to the principle of avoiding the same country.
The rest are Arsenal, inter, Juve, Manchester United and Bayern Munich.
But the problem is not so simple, the five teams themselves also need to avoid their own national teams.
In other words, inter and Juve will not be able to draw Rome in the second place and AC Milan in the third place, Arsenal and Manchester United will not be able to draw Liverpool in the second place and Newcastle in the fourth place.
Bayern Munich will definitely avoid Dortmund and Leverkusen in the second gear.
In many cases of evasion, Atletico Madrid can basically be sure that, in addition to the seed team, it is very likely to draw another team from the top five leagues, or even the death group.
"So what?" Gao Han asked confidently.
Before he came to the meeting hall, he knew it well.
"Aren't you afraid?" Asked Ferguson curiously.
But Gao Han shakes his head and smiles, "our opponent should be afraid, right?"
With that, Gao Han hissed again, "I said, Mr. Ferguson, if we smoke together, it should be good."
Ferguson this can not do, "don't talk nonsense, who smoke with you?"
"Don't worry, Mr. Ferguson, when you come to Calderon, I'll buy you a drink."
"Go away!" Ferguson simply ignored him.
This boy is too shameful. Even if he is unlucky, he still wants to drag me into the water?
Gao Han shakes his head and laughs bitterly in his heart.
It's too bad. What's the matter?
Four La Liga teams, three seed teams and Atletico Madrid are hard to get lucky!
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When Gao Han talks with Ferguson, the draw of the second team has been announced on the stage.
But for Atletico Madrid, it really doesn't matter. Anyway, it's a strong team.
However, Gao hopes to win the Serie A or Premier League teams, so as to avoid AC Milan in the third gear and Newcastle in the fourth gear.
Although the French league is also five major leagues, Auxerre and lance are at least better than AC Milan and Newcastle.
But with the announcement of the draw, the situation seems to be getting worse.
First, in the Premier League, Arsenal draw Dortmund, Manchester United draw Leverkusen, Real Madrid draw Rome, Valencia draw Liverpool, La Coruna draw Galatasaray
"Finally hope, either Inter Milan, or Bayern Munich..." Ferguson on the side of fear that the world will not chaos smile.
Does this old guy still have the habit of teasing younger generation?
"You'd better not let me touch you!" Gao Han threatened angrily.
But would Ferguson care about the threat?
Finally it's Atletico Madrid's turn!
"Bayern Munich!"
"I wipe it!" Gao Han blurted out a curse.
This luck is really
"Take your time. The first season should be learning from experience." Ferguson comforted with a smile.
But is that consolation?
Are you sure you're not gloating?
"Be careful." The cold is threatening again.
But Ferguson is still immune, "I'll be waiting for you at Old Trafford."
Next, the biggest suspense of the third team draw is AC Milan.
According to the draw rules, avoid the three groups of Juve, inter and Roma, that is, one out of five.
"I don't think it's such bad luck, is it?" Gao Han asked with a bitter smile.
Ferguson is still a pair of smiling and annoying appearance, "it's hard to say, you know, usually the heat will die, you are the most expected dark horse team this season, often also the most miserable death."
"Go away!" Cold heart secretly scold, best let you draw to AC Milan, angry you this old man.
But as a result, things in the world are such bullshit.
It's a 20 percent probability that it will happen in the face of high cold.
When the draw guests hold up the ball in their hands, Gao Han really wants to rush up to have a look. Is there anything fishy?
Bayern Munich, Atletico Madrid, AC Milan and the three major leagues in Europe have come together.
"I said, basically every season has to be a whole group of death, the group stage is good!"
Gao Han breathed out depressed, but laughed happily, "well, the three lack one, it's better to have another one, just to make up a table of mahjong."
For what is mahjong, Ferguson obviously does not know, but can understand the meaning of alpine cold.
Anyway, it's already a group of death. It's OK to have another five leagues.
And it turns out that when people are in bad luck, no more moral things will happen.
In the fourth round of draw, Atletico Madrid avoided Newcastle and Auxerre, the two stronger teams, but they got lance of the French first division, the five leagues, together!
There was a cry of surprise throughout the meeting!
Death group!
What a group of death!
Even Bosque was sympathetic to the cold.
Who would have thought that the first time to lead the team to participate in the Champions League alpine, was unlucky to draw in the group of death.
Bayern Munich, AC Milan, lance and Atletico Madrid, it's fun to think about it!
Relatively speaking, Real Madrid is the most lucky, with Rome in the second gear, AEK in Athens in the third gear and Genk in Belgium in the fourth gear. There is no doubt about their promotion.
Manchester United are also lucky, the second is Leverkusen, the third is Olympiakos of Greece, the fourth is Maccabi Haifa of Israel, there is no danger of promotion.
But the luckiest is La Coruna, who has drawn Galatasaray, Moscow locomotive and Bruges, Belgium to avoid all the strong teams. The general manager of La Coruna laughs in his seat behind him.
"You want to hit me? Let's get out of the group first. " Ferguson smiles and pats Gao's shoulder.
It seems that the old man is not only gloating, but also a little happy to go to a big enemy.
In the death group, no matter who is eliminated, it's a good thing.
As soon as the draw was over, the schedule was announced.
Atletico Madrid will face Bayern Munich in the first round of the group stage on September 18.
What bad luck!
Heathfield's team had a good start to the season. Although they drew 0-0 in the first round of the league, they soon beat billfield 6-2 at home, and then beat Hamburg 3-0 away.
Obviously, Bayern Munich are in good shape.
Although in the past two years, Bayern Munich began to enter the metabolic stage, this summer is to send away the soul of the team's core efenberg, but the strength of this team is still not to be underestimated.
Not to mention AC Milan, relying on the superstars, especially the recruitment of Rivaldo from Barcelona, the introduction of Nesta from Lazio and the exchange of Seedorf from Inter Milan, the overall strength of AC Milan has improved to a higher level.
Such a group is really sad.
But anyway, the result of the draw has come out and can't be changed.
What's more, even if you really hit the death group?
Is that why I'm afraid?
With the fierce competition in the Champions League, this group of elite teams will meet sooner or later. It's a good thing to meet them in the group stage.
Although they defeated Real Madrid and Barcelona, it was a Spanish Civil War. The advantages and disadvantages of the two teams were very obvious. As long as the tactics were right, it was easier to restrain.
As for playing AC Milan in the UEFA Cup last season, this season has changed.
Alpine also very much look forward to, can compete with the European giants, try the gold content of Atletico Madrid in the end how much.
Think of here, high cold suddenly become high spirited up.
Ferguson has been paying attention to the changes in the look of alpine, he found that when the results came out, alpine really disappointed, but not long after, he regained his fighting spirit, which can't help but make him look with new eyes.
Sure enough, a newborn calf is not afraid of tigers!
The younger generation is formidable!
After the announcement of the results of the draw, he took a break and soon entered the next stage.
That's the ceremony for the best award of the year.
The first prize was the Special Achievement Award Announced long ago. Bobbie Robson came on stage to receive the trophy.
The venue also specially reviewed Robson's coaching experience, especially his coaching experience in Barcelona.
After the special achievement award, the second award is the best coach of the year award.
It can be seen that among many awards, the coach award is the least influential, so it is arranged at the top.
The venue took the lead in reviewing the four nominated coaches and the results of last season's coaching.
In terms of results alone, Ferguson of Manchester United is the most unconvincing, because last season, in addition to the top four of the Champions League, Manchester United won nothing in the league and cup matches, and was eliminated by Bayer Leverkusen led by top Mueller in the semi-final.
Although Thorpe Mueller's Leverkusen also achieved nothing, he won the second place in all three major events, which is quite a positive result.
And Atletico Madrid is undoubtedly the most dazzling. The three heaviest champions, together with the bloody washing of the Bernabeu in the centennial celebration, have all boosted the reputation of the alpine region, but it is still hard to say who will be the final winner.
So when UEFA president Johansson picked up the final list of winners, almost everyone held their breath.
"The winner of UEFA coach of the year is..." (to be continued)