Super Marshal

As soon as the draw began, the eight seeded teams were divided into eight different groups.

Irueta's Deportivo is very lucky, just a little bit more than the ninth-placed Leverkusen, plus the La Liga giants Barcelona missed the Champions League, and finally entered the ranks of the seeded team.

For the seeded teams, the benefits are too many.

However, AC Milan in the third tier, and Newcastle, Lens and Auxerre in the fourth tier are also not weak.

Needless to say, Newcastle was fourth in the Premier League last season, and its offensive ability was second only to the two giants Arsenal and Manchester United, but their defense was a bit worse.

There have been two rounds of the Premier League this season. Newcastle beat West Ham 4-0 at home and Manchester City 0-1 away. They performed well.

Auxerre and Lens are also strong teams in Ligue 1. Last season, they were able to overwhelm Ronaldinho's Paris Saint-Germain, Lille and Marseille, and finished second and third in the league. The strength of the two teams is not bad.

This season, Ligue 1 has played four rounds, Auxerre has three wins and one draw, and Lens has one win and three draws. Overall, Auxerre's strength will be better, especially the defense of this team.

In any case, the three teams in the fourth tier are quite a headache.

Therefore, when the lottery started, everyone in the venue was in fear.

"How is it? Are you nervous?"

Ferguson, who was sitting beside him, looked at Gao Han with a chuckle.

Gao Han frowned, and asked back: "Are you hiding your inner tension, Mr. Ferguson?"

"I'm just curious." Ferguson laughed.

"why?"

"According to the principle of avoiding the same country, you are the unlucky ones who are most likely to be drawn into the death group."

Gao Han understands that because Valencia, Real Madrid and Deportivo have all entered the seeded team, according to the principle of avoiding the same country, Atletico Madrid will definitely avoid these three teams.

That leaves five teams: Arsenal, Inter Milan, Juventus, Manchester United and Bayern Munich.

But the problem is not that simple. These five teams themselves also need to avoid their own teams from the same country.

In other words, Inter Milan and Juventus will basically not draw Roma in the second tier and AC Milan in the third tier, and Arsenal and Manchester United will not draw Liverpool in the second tier and Newcastle in the fourth tier.

Bayern Munich will definitely avoid Dortmund and Leverkusen in the second tier.

In the case of many evasions, Atletico Madrid can basically be sure that in addition to the seeded team, there is a very high probability that they will draw another team from the five major leagues, and there is even a high probability that they will draw the death group.

"So what?" Gao Han asked confidently.

Before coming to this venue, he had already known this in his mind.

"Aren't you afraid?" Ferguson asked curiously.

But Gao Han shook his head and smiled, "It should be because our opponents are afraid, right?"

After finishing speaking, Gao Han hissed again, "I said, Mr. Ferguson, if we smoke together, it should be good."

Ferguson quit, "Stop talking nonsense, who is smoking with you?"

Gao Han laughed straight, "Don't worry, Mr. Ferguson, when you come to Calderon as a guest, I will treat you to a drink."

"Get out!" Ferguson simply ignored him.

This kid is too outrageous, even if he is unlucky, he still wants to drag me into the water?

Gao Han shook his head, and couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart.

Too bad luck, is there any?

With four La Liga teams participating and three seeded teams, it's hard for Atlético Madrid to be lucky!

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While Gao Han was playing tricks with Ferguson, the draw for the second-tier teams had already begun to be announced on stage.

But for Atletico Madrid, it really doesn't matter, anyway, it is a strong team no matter how they draw.

However, Gao Han still prefers to be able to draw teams from Serie A or the Premier League, so as to avoid AC Milan in the third tier and Newcastle in the fourth tier.

Although Ligue 1 is also the five major leagues, Auxerre and Lens are at least much easier to deal with than AC Milan and Newcastle.

But as the lottery was announced one after another, the situation seemed to be getting worse.

First the Premier League, Arsenal drew Dortmund, Manchester United drew Leverkusen, Real Madrid drew Roma, Valencia drew Liverpool, Deportivo drew Galatasaray...

"I hope in the end, either Inter Milan or Bayern Munich..." Ferguson smiled, fearing that the world would not be chaotic.

This old guy actually has the habit of teasing his juniors?

"You'd better not let me touch you!" Gao Han threatened angrily.

But would Ferguson care about such intimidation?

Finally it's Atlético Madrid's turn!

"Bayern Munich!"

"I wipe!" Gao Han blurted out a curse.

This luck is really...

"Take your time, the first season should be learning experience." Ferguson comforted with a smile.

But is this comforting?

Are you sure you old man is not gloating?

"Be careful." Gao Han threatened again.

But Ferguson is still immune to this, "I will wait for you at Old Trafford."

Next, the biggest suspense in the third-tier team draw is AC Milan.

According to the lottery rules, avoid the three groups of Juventus, Inter Milan and Rome, that is, choose one of five.

"It shouldn't be so unlucky, right?" Gao Han asked with a wry smile.

Ferguson still had that obnoxious smile on his face, "It's hard to say, you know, usually a big hit means death, and you are the most anticipated dark polo team this season, and you are often the worst dead."

"Get out!" Gao Han cursed inwardly, it's better to let you draw AC Milan, you old man will be mad at you.

But in the end, things in this world are such nonsense.

With a 20% probability, it just happened in front of Gao Han.

When the lottery guests raised the ball in their hands high, Gao Han really wanted to rush up to see if there was something tricky?

Bayern Munich, Atletico Madrid, AC Milan, the three major European leagues have come together.

"Let me just say, basically every season, there must be a death group, and the group stage is worth seeing!"

Gao Han let out a sigh of relief, but instead smiled cheerfully, "Okay, if one of the three is missing, why don't we just have another one, which just makes a mahjong table."

Ferguson obviously didn't know what mahjong was, but he could understand Gao Han's meaning.

Anyway, they are already in the death group, and it doesn't matter if there is one more team from the five major leagues.

Facts have proved that when people are unlucky, things that have no moral integrity will happen.

In the draw for the fourth pot, Atletico Madrid avoided Newcastle and Auxerre, the two stronger teams, but got Lens in Ligue 1. The five major leagues are all in place!

The whole venue exclaimed!

Group of Death!

What a group of death!

Even Bosque gave Gao Han a sympathetic look.

Who would have thought that Gao Han, who led his team to participate in the UEFA Champions League for the first time, was unluckily drawn into the death group.

Bayern Munich, AC Milan, Lens and Atletico Madrid, it's all fun to think about!

Relatively speaking, Real Madrid was the luckiest, with Roma in the second draw, AEK in Athens in the third draw, and Genk in Belgium in the fourth draw. There is no suspense for promotion.

Manchester United's luck is also good. Leverkusen is in the second tier, Olympiacos in Greece in the third tier, and Maccabi Haifa in Israel in the fourth tier. There is also no danger of qualifying.

But the luckiest one was Deportivo, who drew Galatasaray, Lokomotiv Moscow and Brugge, and avoided all the strong teams. The general manager of Deportivo was laughing in the seat behind him. muzzle.

"Want to beat me up? Let's talk about getting out of the group stage first." Ferguson smiled and patted Gao Han on the shoulder.

This old guy seemed not only to be gloating, but he was probably also somewhat happy to go to the enemy.

In the group of death, no matter who is eliminated, it is a good thing.

As soon as the lottery was over, the schedule was announced immediately.

Atletico Madrid's first round of the group stage will challenge Bayern Munich away on September 18.

Really bad luck!

Hitzfeld's team started this season quite well. Although they drew 0-0 away with Borussia Mönchengladbach in the first round of the league, they soon beat Bielefeld 6-2 at home, and then defeated 3-0 away Ordered the Peking King Burger.

Obviously, Bayern Munich has adjusted quite well.

Although in the past two years, Bayern Munich has entered the metabolic stage, and this summer even sent away the soul core of the team, Effenberg, but the strength of this team should not be underestimated.

Not to mention AC Milan, relying on the votes of superstars, especially Rivaldo from Barcelona, ​​Nesta from Lazio, and Seedorf from Inter Milan, the overall strength has improved one floor.

Such a group is really sad.

But no matter what, the result of the lottery has already come out, and it is impossible to change it.

Besides, so what if you really win the group of death?

Is it because of this that you are afraid?

With the intensity of competition in the current Champions League, this group of giants will meet sooner or later, and it is a good thing to meet them in the group stage now.

Although Real Madrid and Barcelona have been defeated repeatedly, it is the Spanish Civil War after all, and the advantages and disadvantages of these two teams are very obvious. As long as the tactics are right, restraint is relatively easy.

As for playing AC Milan in the UEFA Cup last season, this season has already been completely reborn.

Gao Han is also very much looking forward to being able to compete with the European giants and try to see how much gold content Atletico Madrid has.

Thinking of this, Gao Han suddenly became motivated again.

Ferguson has been watching the changes in Gao Han's expression. He found that when the results came out, Gao Han was indeed a little disappointed, but not long after, he regained his fighting spirit, which made him admire.

Sure enough, newborn calves are not afraid of tigers!

The younger generation is awesome!

After announcing the lottery results, they took a short rest and soon entered the next session.

That's the award ceremony for the best of the year awards.

The first award was the Special Achievement Award announced earlier, and Bobby Robson took the stage to receive the trophy.

The venue also specially reviewed Robson's coaching experience, especially his coaching in Barcelona.

After the special achievement awards, the second award is the best coach of the year award.

It can be seen that among the 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 head coaches and their coaching achievements last season.

If you just talk about results, Manchester United's Ferguson is the least convincing, because Manchester United last season except for the Champions League semi-finals, the league and the cup have nothing to win, and they were led by Top Muller in the semi-finals. Eliminated by Verkusen.

Although Top Muller's Leverkusen also won nothing, they won the runner-up in all three major competitions, which is quite worthy of recognition.

And Atlético de Madrid is undoubtedly the most dazzling. The three heavy champions, coupled with the bloodbath of the Bernabéu in the centennial celebration, have made Gao Han famous, but it is still hard to say who will win in the end.

Therefore, when UEFA President Johansson picked up the final list of winners, almost everyone in the audience held their breath.

"The winner of the UEFA Coach of the Year award is..."