After the league, the last round of the Champions League group stage started, and Valencia challenged Manchester United away. Since Manchester United had previously locked in the first place in the group and Valencia locked in the second place in the group, this game was more like a friendly match. In the end, Manchester United and Valencia were the most important thing, and they joined hands to qualify from Group C 1:1.

The next day, the 8 qualifying places in the Champions League were also settled. Group A was: Tottenham Hotspur, Inter Milan; Group B was: Schalke 04, Lyon; Group C was: Manchester United, Valencia; Group D was: Barcelona, ​​Copenhagen; Group E was: Bayern, Roma; Group F was: Chelsea, Marseille; Group G was: Real Madrid, AC Milan; Group H was: Donetsk Miners, Arsenal.

The first in the group is Tottenham, Schalke 04, Manchester United, Barcelona, ​​whites, Chelsea, Real Madrid, Donetsk miners, and the second in the group is Inter Milan, Lyon, Valencia, Copenhagen, Rome, Marseille, AC Milan and Arsenal.

The third group Twente, Glasgow Wanderers, Benfica, Basel, Kazan Ruby, Moscow Sparta, Ajax, Braga switched to the UEFA Cup.

The Champions League group stage this season is calm, with all the strong teams qualifying, and there is no big upset. If there is any upset, it is the Ukrainian league leader Donetsk Miners and the fifth-placed Premier League Tottenham Hotspur beat Arsenal and Inter Milan to win the first place in the group respectively.

Arsenal has many young people and has always had unstable record, but there are no strong teams in the H Group. It is still surprising that they were firmly held second in the group by the Ukrainian team.

Of course, what is most surprising is the cliff-like depravity of Inter Milan last season. In the league, Inter Milan won 6, draws 5 and lost 4, and was 13 points behind the leader AC Milan and has fallen out of the league championship team. In the Champions League, they were defeated by the fifth Premier League Hotspurs, and finally only won the second place in the group.

Inter Milan did not sell any champion members except head coach Mourinho and core Gao Xiaodong. It was really surprising to have such a result, and it also proves the decisive role Mourinho and Gao Xiaodong played in the battle for the triple crown.

Thanks to the wonderful performances of Donetsk miners and Tottenham Hotspur, the next Champions League quarter-finals are no longer clearly distinguishing between strength and weakness, and there are more highlights.

After the Champions League group stage, the most eye-catching thing is the draw of the knockout stage.

Although every draw of the Champions League is a very transparent way, and it seems very fair to face the live broadcasts around the world, because each draw of lottery coincides with some highly topical duels, many fans believe that UEFA is suspected of artificially manipulating the draw in order to increase the ratings.

In fact, there have always been rumors about the Champions League draw. Turkish journalist Kakar once revealed that UEFA cheated by setting a vibrator to control the vibration frequency of the ball when drawing lots.

In addition to this method of real-life leaks, there are many other rumors in the world that control lottery draws. For example, before drawing lots, the organizer can heat or refrigerate a specific ball, so that its appearance feels obviously different from other balls. In this way, when the guest draws lots, the specific ball can be found according to the temperature, and to the viewers in front of the TV, it seems to be randomly drawn. In addition, the weight of the ball can also be done. By selecting different materials, the balls with the same appearance have obvious weight differences, which is easy for the guests to perceive. The first two are physical methods, and there is also a chemical method. UEFA sprays a chemical reagent called lumino on the ball. The balls will appear in a special color under the light, but this requires wearing special contact lenses to see, which ordinary people cannot detect with their naked eyes.

Of course, these are just rumors and have not been confirmed. Whether UEFA has manipulated the lottery draw is still a situation where there is something if you believe it, and if you don’t believe it, you won’t.

On the second day after the Champions League group stage, UEFA held a draw for the Champions League quarterfinals at its headquarters, Nyon, Switzerland.

Since Manchester United will go to Stamford Bridge Stadium to challenge defending champion Chelsea on the weekend, this is another battle of the King of Kings this season. If Manchester United can beat Chelsea away, it can really be said to have secured the league championship in half.

Manchester United attached great importance to this game. Ferguson stayed in Manchester to prepare for the game, and did not go to Nyon, Switzerland with David Gill to attend the lottery ceremony.

At 12 noon, after training in the snow, Manchester United players took a shower and had dinner, and went to the tactical hall to watch the draw ceremony of the quarterfinals.

According to the draw rules, Manchester United will definitely not encounter Arsenal and Valencia. The remaining six groups second may become Manchester United's knockout opponents.

There is no doubt that what Manchester United most hopes to meet is Copenhagen and Marseille, followed by Lyon and Roma, and the two Milan champions least want to meet are Milan. As the saying goes, a lean camel is bigger than a horse. Even if Inter Milan declines well in the league and the Champions League this season, they are still the foundation of the triple-champion last season, and no one dares to say they are firmly defeated them. AC Milan won the Champions League championship only second only to Real Madrid, with extremely rich experience in the Champions League, and this season's outstanding performance in the league, and is still Manchester United's natural enemy. Except for Inter Milan, among all the second place, the one Manchester United doesn't want to meet is AC Milan.

The Champions League final this season was held at Wembley Stadium in England. Manchester United legend Sir Charlton participated in the draw. However, it was snowing in England and the weather was not good. Sir Charlton did not arrive in time, so the draw was hosted by UEFA's director of the competition department.

The second group to be drawn is Rome. Rome is very lucky. The first group to be drawn is the Donetsk miner. With such a good signing position, Rome with average strength can hope for the top 8.

The second place he was drawn was AC Milan. Manchester United players and coaches were a little nervous, but Tottenham won the prize and became AC Milan's opponent.

Then Valencia and Arsenal were drawn one after another, with their opponents Schalke 04 and Barcelona respectively.

Arsenal's head coach Wenger looked frustrated. Before the game, he alluded to UEFA that would definitely let Arsenal draw the strongest Barcelona, ​​and the result was exactly as he wished.

However, Wenger cannot blame luck or UEFA. If Arsenal wins first place in the group, they will not be able to meet Barcelona. In competitive football, the dish is original sin.

Next, Lyon and Real Madrid were also drawn together. Real Madrid was not afraid of this. Mourinho still looked arrogant and did not seem to take Lyon, who had repeatedly eliminated Real Madrid seriously.

Then Marseille was drawn by Bayern, and there were two groups left, with the strongest Inter Milan and the weakest Copenhagen, while the first in the group happened to be Chelsea and Manchester United, who were about to face in the league.

Choose one of two, 50% chances, Manchester United players are nervous. They don’t know whether their opponent will be Inter Milan or Copenhagen. The difference between the two is huge. If they win, even if they can win, they will probably have to peel off the skin even if they don’t die. If they draw Copenhagen, it will be almost the same as taking Haagen-Dazs, which is easy and pleasant.

"It must be Inter Milan, the battle of revenge. UEFA likes to do this."

"That's right, Gao Xiaodong is going home, it's more interesting."

"It's a secret operation again."

"God bless you, give us Copenhagen."

"Ye should be lucky once."

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