Chapter 612 Germany World Cup draw

Confidence is achieved through games one after another. After defeating Portsmouth, Manchester United has ushered in seven consecutive victories in various competitions, completely getting rid of the haze of the 1-4 defeat at Middlesbrough.

With continuous victories, Manchester United has obviously become more confident and more fighting spirit.

In the middle of the week, Manchester United's entire team grew up and chartered a flight south to Lisbon, the capital of Portugal, to challenge the Portuguese super giant Benfica.

This is the last round of the Champions League group stage this season.

Since Manchester United defeated Lille away, they had already secured the first place in the group two rounds ahead of schedule, this game is actually insignificant for Manchester United. But for Benfica, it is a real life-and-death battle.

After 5 rounds of group stages, the situation in Group D’s standings is as follows:

Manchester United won all five games, scored 8 goals and conceded 2 goals, ranking first with 15 points;

Benfica won 1 win, 2 draws and 2 losses, scored 3 goals and conceded 4 goals, ranking second with 5 points;

Villarreal scored 1 win, 2 draws and 2 losses, scored 2 goals and conceded 3 goals, ranking third with 5 points;

Lille draws 2 and loses 3 goals, conceds 7 goals, and ranks fourth with 2 points.

According to the current points, in addition to Manchester United's early lock in the first qualifying position, another qualifying position in the group is very fierce, and all three teams may qualify.

For example, Manchester United beat Benfica away, and Lille also beat Villarreal away with a score of 2:0 and above, so Lille can qualify.

Of course, Benfica is the one who is most likely to qualify for qualifying. As long as Manchester United, who has already qualified in advance, they can basically lock in another qualifying place, unless Villarreal defeats Lille with a big score at home.

As for Villarreal's attack power in the Champions League this season, this possibility is almost zero, because they only scored 2 goals in the first five games!

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Benfica hopes that Manchester United will let go, while Villarreal hopes that Manchester United will do their best to defeat Villarreal. They keep putting pressure on Manchester United in the media, demanding that Manchester United maintain a fair game.

Because he will face Everton at home in less than 4 days, Ferguson made certain adjustments to the starting lineup of this game, and many main players, including Fanny, took a turn.

However, Yin Jun did not take a rest, so he took the initiative to ask for a fight. Ferguson considered that Yin Jun's physical fitness was good, and the next game with Everton was about 4 days away from this game. With Yin Jun's physical fitness recovery speed, he could fully fight with full blood, so he agreed to Yin Jun's request.

At the Lisbon Light Stadium, in front of 60,000 Benfica fans, Yin Jun played a hat-trick, and combined with Scholes's 1 goal, Manchester United beat Benfica 4:2 away, completely killing Benfica's hope of advancement.

In another game, Villarreal himself was very successful, defeating Lille 1-0 at home, thus winning the second place in the group with 8 points and advancing to the Champions League knockout stage.

After defeating Benfica, Manchester United won all six group stages this season, which is the fifth team in Champions League history to achieve this achievement. Previously, AC Milan in 1992-1993, Paris Saint-Germain in 1994-1995, Spartacus Moscow in 995-1996, and Barcelona in 2002-2003 have all won all the group stages.

Yin Jun, who scored a hat-trick, scored 9 goals in the group stage, which also set a new record for individual goals in the Champions League group stage. Previously, this record was maintained by Inzaghi, Crespo and Fanny, who both scored 8 goals during the group stage.

After scoring 9 goals, Yin Jun's Champions League goal count has reached 49 goals, only one step away from breaking through the 50-goal mark!

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After playing this Champions League group stage, Yin Jun did not return to Manchester with Manchester United, but flew to Leipzig, Germany to participate in the draw ceremony of next year's German World Cup group stage.

At 3:30 am on December 10, 2005, Beijing time, the 2006 World Cup draw ceremony was held in Hall 1 of the Leipzig Convention and Exhibition Center, Germany.

As the captain of the Chinese team, Yin Jun will attend the lottery ceremony with the team's head coach Ali Han and some football leaders.

The draw ceremony was hosted by FIFA's director of public relations department, Higrad. This is the first time that the draw ceremony of the World Cup group was hosted by the director of the public relations department rather than the secretary-general. Hegrad partnered with Higrad by German female supermodel Krum.

The entire lottery ceremony lasted for one and a half hours, and 160 TV stations around the world broadcasted it to 145 countries and regions.

The draw result was that the Netherlands and Argentina were in Group C, and the same group were also Seychelles and Côte d'Ivoire, which were not underestimated; Italy, Czech Republic, the United States, and Ghana were assigned to Group E; England coach Sven Golan Eriksen encountered his motherland Sweden; host Germany avoided European strong teams.

Although the Chinese team currently ranks 10th in the world, it has not been able to become a seed team, but instead participates in the draw with the fourth group of teams.

According to the draw rules, it is the top 7 teams in FIFA's standings, plus the host Germany, as the 8 seed teams.

In addition, five African teams, two other South American teams, and Australia as the second-tier teams, eight European teams except Serbia and Black are regarded as the third-tier teams, five Asian teams and two Central and North American teams as the fourth-tier teams.

In order to avoid the appearance of three European teams in a group, Seychelles was used as a special team and follow up on the situation.

In the end, he drew Group B with England, Sweden and South American teams Paraguay.

When the lottery results came out, the camera was aimed at Yin Jun and Beckham respectively, but both of them had faint smiles on their faces.

This is a pretty good result for the Chinese team. Except for England's strength is obviously beyond the box, the other three teams all have hope of competing for a qualification.

When this result came out, both Alihan and the officials of the Football Association smiled. Obviously, they were quite satisfied with this result.

In addition to the Chinese team, the four Asian teams that advanced to the World Cup finals also had the draw results that were not satisfactory. Iran, Mexico, Portugal and Angola drew Group D, Japan, Brazil, Croatia and Australia drew Group F, South Korea, France, Switzerland and Togo drew Group G, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Ukraine and Tunisia drew Group H. In addition to Japan's situation, South Korea, Iran and Saudi Arabia can all be said to have entered the Death Group.

With a good lottery result, Yin Jun flew back to Manchester to continue the team's game.
Chapter completed!