Pirated Ronaldo

Chapter 314 Group of Death, Which One Is More Deadly?
The four unspoken rules of the UEFA Champions League draw: the first is the "sugar father" principle of the Cosmos team; the second is the principle of the Premier League and Serie A; Father" principle.

As a result, under the guidance of these four unspoken rules, when the draw ceremony ended, English football was full of curses!
Among the strong teams, the La Liga duo, the Bundesliga Bayern, the Serie A Milan duo, and Juventus all have strong opponents in the same group, but generally speaking, the qualifying situation is very good. Basically, there are only two teams in a group. Such a strong team, it will be very difficult for other teams to stop them from reaching the knockout round.

However, the English team is miserable!

Relatively speaking, Arsenal is in a better situation. They are in a group with Ajax, the champion of the Czech Republic, Sparta Prague, the champion of the Czech Republic, and Thun, the runner-up of the Swiss Super League.

Among the three opponents, the Thun team is weak, but the other two teams should not be underestimated. Ajax's offensive power is always so strong, not weaker than Arsenal, while Sparta Prague's tough style of play , Against Arsenal's dexterous and technical midfielder, no one can predict who is better or worse. It can be seen that Arsenal must spend a lot of effort if they want to break out of the encirclement.

However, compared to Arsenal, the other three Premier League teams are considered to have won the lottery.

Group D: Premier League Manchester United, La Liga Villarreal, Bundesliga Bremen, Portuguese Super Benfica!

Crazy!What is the situation?
Except for the three teams of Manchester United, their European rankings are not considered high, but they are all traditional strength teams. It is impossible to say who is strong and who is weak. If a football expert is asked to predict which two teams Teams will appear, and it is estimated that no one dares to pat his chest and guarantee which team he is optimistic about.

This is really a super death group. Not only are they similar in strength, but also, just like acting, the script has been carefully designed in advance!

Diego Forlan, a 26-year-old famous striker from Uruguay, was discovered by Ferguson in 2002 when he moved to South America and was introduced at a high price of 1200 million US dollars (about 700 million pounds). A bad transfer together.

Diego Forlan came to Manchester United in January 2002, but his first goal happened in September of that year. Before that, he played 1 times in total, but nothing!

"Fool"! "Manchester United's worst signing in half a century"!
These titles were given to Diego Forlan and Manchester United by the English media at the time, because a striker who spent 700 million pounds did not score a goal for 8 consecutive months. People can't bear to look directly.

In the following two seasons, Diego Forlan's state improved slightly, but he was still unsatisfactory. As of the summer of 2004, he was sold to La Liga Villarreal at a super low price of 300 million euros. He played 62 times in the league and scored 10 goals. This achievement made everyone exhausted. That summer, Ferguson sold Diego Forlan at a low price, and at the same time introduced Rooney at a high price, which was considered to be a relief for everyone.

However, this all changed last season!

Diego Forlan, who came to La Liga, completed the feat of 37 goals in 25 league games in the first season, becoming the top scorer in La Liga!He surpassed many big-name superstars in Real Madrid and Barcelona, ​​and won the throne of La Liga's top scorer in one fell swoop, and instantly became the focus of everyone's attention. This time, he is not despised, but admired!

"I proved that I am the best striker, not a fool! If I have the opportunity to face those former teammates, I will be more than happy!"

This passage is one of Diego Forlan's speeches to reporters after he won La Liga's top scorer at the end of last season.

More than three months later, UEFA made the Uruguay striker his wish. His "yellow submarine" Villarreal was in the same group as Manchester United in the Champions League group stage!
Is this script full of drama?
But wait!Let's take a look at Manchester United's other two opponents in the group stage before drawing conclusions!

Bundesliga Bremen: The team itself has no grievances with Manchester United, but Bremen's leading striker Klose has an indissoluble relationship with Rooney.

This kind of grievance comes from the fact that the two are the new generation of forwards for the German and England national teams. The issue of their strength and weakness was widely discussed by the media before the 2004 European Cup, but Klose was absent due to injuries. European Cup, now, as the World Cup in Germany is approaching, this multiple-choice question has once again become a topic in the media. The teams of the two people meet in the Champions League, which can basically be used as a preview of the striker battle in the 2006 World Cup in Germany.

Portuguese Super League Benfica: Manchester United's newly promoted right winger Ronaldo's home team, just this one will be full of suspense, causing countless conjectures.

Group D of this UEFA Champions League group match: a veritable group of death, and a group of death with a lot of hot news!
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After talking about Arsenal and Manchester United, it's the turn of Liverpool and Chelsea.

Group G: Premier League Liverpool, Premier League Chelsea, Premier League Anderlecht, La Liga Real Betis.

The absolutely rare "England Derby in the Group Stage" came out!

The encounter between Chelsea and Liverpool was full of drama. If Liverpool hadn’t only finished fifth in the league after winning the Champions League last season, they wouldn’t have been the defending champions. Let's play, but a special rule brought by this wild card quota is: the "national protection" clause does not apply!
Liverpool is the only team that does not apply the "same country, different group" draw rule.

Last season's Chelsea was the most successful in the club's history, but Mourinho's side faced Liverpool in the Champions League semi-final only because of a "non-existent controversial goal" by Liverpool's Luis Garcia. ", was extremely useless and was rejected from the final. After that game, Mourinho once angrily fired at everyone indiscriminately to show his dissatisfaction.

Now, Mourinho does not need to wait until the semi-finals to have a chance for revenge. The two teams were placed in the same group in the group stage. It is conceivable that it must be the scene of sparks hitting the earth!

This group is destined to be the hottest group!
For the other two teams in Group G, Anderlecht is the overlord of Belgium, and Real Betis is the upstart in La Liga. They may be weaker than the two English teams, but they also have the ability to disrupt the situation. Combining these factors, Group G's The death coefficient may be slightly lower than that of group D, but the degree of popularity may exceed any of the other seven groups, and it can be marked with a five-star viewing index.

After the draw, Mourinho, who had just been elected the European Coach of the Year, and Gerrard, the Most Valuable Player of the Year, became the focus of reporters.

Mourinho made a classic pose in public. He held his head proudly, raised his right hand in front of him, and raised the index and middle fingers of his right hand. This gesture can represent that he is listed as the second grade for Chelsea. The dissatisfaction of the team, but it can also be regarded as another explanation——

"I will kill those despicable behind-the-scenes villains!"

Compared to Mourinho's anger, the Red Army captain Steven Gerrard was confident.

"We will beat them like we did last year, Liverpool are not afraid of anyone! Last year we won, this time, we will have two great games, these two games will bring good luck to Liverpool."

Last season, Liverpool stumbled and beat Chelsea, and then won the championship in the extreme situation of being three goals behind and overtaking in the final. Liverpool fans believed that the victory over Chelsea brought good luck to Liverpool, so Gerrard's words can The understanding is: if we play against Chelsea earlier this year, we will be able to bring greater good luck!
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After the UEFA Champions League group stage, Group D or Group G, which one is more worthy of the name of the group of death, it is a matter of opinion.

But one thing is for sure, this year's English football is extremely lively, several Premier League teams have become pieces of UEFA, and their responsibility is: how to get as hot as possible, and never give up until they die!
欧冠小组赛的首轮将在9月13~14日开踢，曼联的第一场比赛就是9月14日客场对阵比利亚雷亚尔。

Faced with this situation, several other strong teams in Serie A, La Liga, and Bundesliga can move their benches to watch the excitement, while UEFA is counting money with a smile. Anyway, the current Premier League is getting more and more competitive. In the knockout stage, the Premier League teams still have the ability to disrupt the situation, but unexpectedly wiped out these teams, and finally made the UEFA Champions League lose its luster.

Who made England live outside the European continent, but made the domestic league so prosperous that everyone envied it?

This situation is both a challenge and an opportunity for the English team. If a certain team can still achieve good results while earning enough attention, it must be the winner of the season. This is true for everyone I understand.

Ronaldo, who is in Lisbon, naturally cannot escape the tracking of the Portuguese media.

"Diego Forlan? I don't think it was a mistake for Manchester United to give up the Uruguayan striker. Facts have proved that being the top scorer in La Liga does not mean that you will be in the Premier League. We will beat them, There's no question about that."

"Diego Forlan's revenge? I think this kind of statement is nonsense! The Red Devils Manchester United will not be afraid of any opponent, let alone a player. I am very sure of this. If I must make a prediction, Guess I'll score more goals than that Uruguayan! ... That's it, everyone is saying Group D is a battle of strikers, but I think Manchester United's strikers are the best!"

Since he is in Portugal, Ronaldo's speech does not need to be restricted by the club, and he can say whatever he wants.

Of course, Ronando's speech was not too shocking. The only thing worth studying is that Ronando said that he can score more goals than the top scorer in La Liga!

Is this madness?
If this sentence was said a month ago, countless people would think that Ronando is arrogant and denounce him for being no big or small. However, Ronando, who has already proved his worth in Manchester United, has already said this kind of thing. Qualifications, his goals at Manchester United are qualifications. At the same time, as one of the important strikers of the Portuguese national team, it seems that Ronaldo also has the qualifications to challenge Diego Forlan...

(End of this chapter)