Chapter 471: The Death Group is not the Death Group

The first round of the league defeated Chelsea, which was extremely glorious in the summer transfer market, filled the hearts of Leiden Oriental fans with pride - what's wrong with having money? Can you bring a championship if you have money? What a joke... If you want to win our Leiden Oriental, wait for decades before you finish it!

They forgot unknowingly that if Xiao Ming had not invested more than 100 million pounds of transfer funds in the transfer market in the past few seasons, Leiden Oriental would probably not have its current status and fame - but this is how people are. When they are brilliant, they would always forget what they are like when they are down and out, and no one can avoid the vulgarity.

The first game was beaten by Leiden East at Upton Park Stadium and basically had no temper, which made Abu feel very annoyed, and at the same time it also strengthened the idea of ​​continuing to strengthen his strength.

So after this round of league ended, Chelsea, which had already made many big moves, began to attack in the transfer market even more crazily, looking for suitable goals - of course, these things have nothing to do with Xiao Ming. As long as you don't dig up my head, just do whatever you want. As for digging other teams, Xiao Ming is happy to watch the show. If the opponents in the Champions League are weakened, it will be a good thing for Leiden Oriental.

There is a week between the first and second rounds of the league, but Chelsea has not been able to buy suitable players this week. After all, with their current financial resources and ability to play in the Champions League, there are not many players who can be seen and come. So at the beginning of the second round, Chelsea is still in the old lineup, but there is only one Romanian striker Mutu who can play. The Romanian finally obtained a labor certificate before this round of the league and can play for Chelsea.

Mutu, who played for Chelsea for the first time, performed extremely well. In this game, Ranieli put it on the right side, he scored a goal before the end of the first half, but his performance could not cover up Chelsea's overall downturn. Chelsea only relied on Mutu's goal and the opponent's own goal at home to defeat the promoted Leicester City 2-1. Abramovich in the stands smiled quite unnaturally - it was obvious that at his home court, he faced a newly promoted player with zero investment in the summer. Such a victory could not satisfy Abu.

Leiden Oriental defeated Aston Villa three-to-zero away, allowing the veteran team to lose two consecutive games. Leiden Oriental has also become one of the three teams that won two consecutive games with Manchester United and Arsenal. The league has only passed two rounds, and only these three teams have won the entire game.

Within a few days after the second round of the game, Chelsea's efforts finally worked, perhaps because Abu became angry. On August 25, Chelsea announced that they had introduced Argentine scorer Hernan Crespo from Inter Milan for 16.8 million pounds, about 26 million euros. This efficient shooter is the first world superstar introduced by Chelsea to be in his true year of playing. Mutudav and others can only be regarded as rookies. Peron's poor performance last season also reduced his reputation, but Crespo was the second scorer in the Champions League last season and was also one of the holders of the world record of transfer fees - although it only lasted for a week...

On the next day, Chelsea announced their successful poaching from Serie A - they introduced Juventus' Dutch midfielder Edgar Davis for 14 million pounds. Last season, Davis began to become unreused at Juventus, and Davis's contract was only one year left. In this case, the Juventus club, who felt that Davis had no much value, chose to sell him, and a midfielder over 30, who could still sell such a good price was enough to make Moji and the others laugh.

A top center and a top midfielder - Chelsea did what they said, spending over 30 million pounds allowed them to make up for the weakest link in their roster - money is always useful!

"It's Davis..." Looking at the news in the newspaper, Xiao Ming muttered unexpectedly. In history, Davis did not transfer this summer, nor did he renew his contract with Juventus. Then he was loaned to Barcelona after half of this season. He performed extremely well in that half of the season. Although Barcelona did not win the final championship, he once won a row and recovered his vitality that he had not won the championship for several years. Although it was related to Ronaldo's gradual integration into the team, Davis made great contributions to joining the team. Then he transferred to Inter Milan freely after the contract expired. However, after getting a big contract, his performance began to become worse. Then he went to Tottenham and returned to the Netherlands. After that, he did not announce his retirement, and suddenly disappeared for two seasons. It was not until Xiao Ming was reborn that he signed a contract with Crystal Palace in the Championship...

But no matter what, Davis' performance this season is still the ability that a top midfielder can show. Can Barcelona still have the same revival as in history without getting Ronaldo and being unable to loan Davis?

After introducing Davis and Crespo, Chelsea's investment in the transfer market this season has exceeded 100 million pounds, which is also the most investment in the transfer market in the Premier League in the past year. The last record was completed by Leiden Oriental in the summer of 2000. Figo alone spent $56.1 million. Tovding and Djokav, Leiden Oriental's investment in the transfer market that season exceeded $60 million, which was the highest record - but this season has been broken by Chelsea...

However, Chelsea did not directly send two new players to the third round of the league, and they were tied by Birmingham 0-0 to zero away. Ranieri still needs time. Arsenal and Manchester United started very brilliantly this season. Manchester United defeated Wolves 1-0, and Arsenal easily defeated Villa 2-0, and continued to maintain three consecutive victories.

But Leiden East seemed to have taken a nap. They were tied by Tottenham at home, stopping their winning streak.

Xiao Ming didn't care much about this, because the league started, and a draw was nothing, and Tottenham was in good shape this year, and being tied by such a team would not tell anything.

The most important thing is that what Xiao Ming is concerned about now is the issue of grouping the next Champions League draw.

Porto appeared in the Champions League this season, and Xiao Ming is looking forward to meeting Mourinho - if Leiden Oriental and Porto are in the same group, will there be a chance to kill this future top head coach in the bud?

However, Xiao Ming believes that even if Mourinho has not been able to lead Porto to create miracles this season, with Mourinho's level and ability, he will still gradually become famous, but perhaps it is a little later than in history, and gold can shine anywhere.

Mourinho is indeed the "special one". Although his success in Porto is considered luck by many people, the trio of champions achieved in Inter Milan made everyone shut up. Xiao Ming didn't know how he did at Real Madrid later, but no matter what, Mourinho, the head coach, was the kind of person who could achieve extremely outstanding results no matter where he was.

It is precisely because of this that Xiao Ming is looking forward to the competition with Mourinho. This season is Mourinho's first season on the Champions League stage and also a season when he truly began to gain fame.

August 28, Monaco.

This season's Champions League is the first implementation after the restructuring. The thirty-two teams entering the main competition were divided into eight groups, with the top two in the group qualifying. After that, they were no longer grouped, but directly draw lots to enter the knockout stage. This change shortened the main competition of the Champions League a lot. A team that played from the main competition to the finals had to play a total of thirteen games, while in the past, this number was seventeen games, which was four games less than before.

Although the decrease in the game means a decrease in the number of broadcasts, the increase in the number of knockout matches has given fans more interest in watching the game. At the same time, although only four games have been reduced, for those big clubs, they have also been much easier after the reduction in the four games, allowing the players to appear in the game in a better state.

Xiao Ming chatted with everyone in the venue with ease. Now he has become one of the most important figures in the European football circle. More people want to talk to him. Although they have not won the Champions League game in two seasons, they are still one of the best teams in the Champions League in recent years. At the same time, the three consecutive championships in the league are not something that any team can do.

Ancelotti, Mancini, Mourinho, Deschamps... Looking around the head coaches of these Champions League teams, Xiao Ming was surprised to find that most of them were born in the 1960s. These people were in their early forties. They were in their early forties, and they began to dominate the next European football world...

There are no Benitez and Rijcard. Valencia and Barcelona performed averagely in the league last season and could only play in the League Cup. If these two people were added, all the representatives of the young coaches in European football would be together.

These people were basically just emerging last season, and this season they have become the focus. For them, Xiao Ming, who is younger than them but has already created extremely brilliant results, has become the target of their pursuit.

After all, the old coaches will gradually grow old. For the freshmen, Xiao Ming is their stumbling block, and they are the target they need to defeat and defeat.

Faced with these slightly hostile gazes, Xiao Ming was unmoved. His current status was obtained by reaching the Champions League finals in four seasons, winning the Champions League two times and winning the league three times. If you want to challenge his position, these young coaches have to put in more effort.

In addition to defending champion AC Milan, the eight seed teams in the Champions League this season are the seven teams with the highest points, namely Leiden Oriental, Real Madrid, Manchester United, Bayern, Lazio, Arsenal and Juventus. Among the second-level strong teams are La Coruna, Inter Milan, Porto, Galatasaray, Lyon and Chelsea. The third-level strong teams include Eindhoven and Ajax, as well as the Celtics and Wanderers. The fourth-level strong teams also include Marseille, Monaco, Stuttgart and Real Sociedad.

This season's grouping is quite likely to appear in a group of death.

However, the final draw result did not show a terrifying death group.

Arsenal and Inter Milan were in the same group, but the other two teams in that group were two former Soviet teams Dynamo Kiev and Locomotive Moscow. Although Xiao Ming knew that this group was not actually very weak and Inter Milan had failed in this group, it seems nothing now. The other two groups that seem more difficult may be the group where Bayern and AC Milan are in, Bayern and Lyon, Celtics and Anderlecht were in the same group. In the group where AC Milan is in, Celta, Ajax and Bruges, who eliminated Dortmund, but no matter what, there was no overly strong group.

The grouping of Leiden Oriental seems good to outsiders. The other three teams in Group C are La Coruna, Athens Aek and Monaco. La Coruna is one of the victims of Leiden Oriental. Leiden Oriental has defeated La Coruna twice. Although Athens Aek is the third-level team, it is one of the weakest teams in the third-level. It is unbelievable that Monaco was assigned to the fourth-level team, but they have been absent from European competitions for a long time. It is understandable that they are assigned to the fourth-level this time.

After the grouping was released, the media felt that Leiden Oriental began to get rid of the bad luck of the death group before, which seemed a bit incredible to them. After the Champions League ended last season, Xiao Ming threw the silver medal to a Leiden Oriental fan, which greatly lost UEFA's face. Unexpectedly, UEFA did not retaliate against Leiden Oriental this time and let them enter a group with teams such as Inter Milan, Ajax and Monaco...

It seems that Leiden Oriental suffered a misjudgment in the final of the Champions League last season. At the same time, they have always been assigned to an overly strong group in the Champions League in the past few seasons, which makes UEFA feel a little embarrassed. The assignment to such a relatively weak group is also a compensation for UEFA.

However, after the results of the lottery on site came out, the media took a scene of Xiao Ming smiling bitterly.

In this regard, the reporters unanimously agreed that Xiao Ming was pretending to be a B. Even when he was in the same group as Barcelona AC Milan, Xiao Ming never smiled bitterly. Now he has been assigned to such a good group and you actually smiled bitterly. What is it if you don’t pretend to be a B?

However, Xiao Ming is not pretending to be b...

Others don’t know what the level of the teams in this group are, but Xiao Ming doesn’t know yet? In history, the dark horses in the Champions League this season were rampant, and three teams that won the semi-finals in the end were teams that had never won the Champions League. Although they were finally defeated by Porto, which once won the Champions League, what level is Porto? When was they last won the Champions League? It was not too much to say that this Champions League, just like the World Cup in 2002 and European Cup in 2004, it was a game that subverted the tradition.

La Coruna, Athens Aek, Monaco, other teams in this group don’t seem to be anything, but Xiao Ming knows that, besides Athens Aek, both La Coruna and Monaco are one of the semi-finals of this Champions League in history, and one of the teams that shocked the entire European football world...

This season is the last glory of "Super Laco". The home game of 4-1 in AC Milan is heart-wrenching, while Monaco has the same feat. Their turnaround is Real Madrid, which won the Champions League most...

Berellon, Pandiani, Tristan... The last glorious moment for these players was this season, and they never performed amazingly since then. Super Laco has become a historic noun that only memories are there, and what about Monaco? Jiuli, Roten, Morientes, Evra... There is also a Togolese striker Adebayo on the bench.

Being assigned to such a group is not a pleasant thing.

Of course, Xiao Ming was not worried that his team would not even be able to go out of the group. However, if such a group with less fame than strength had nothing to boast about playing well, others would take it for granted that Leiden East should qualify in this group. If they don't play well, all the blame and pressure will come to the players.

It is not a group of death, it is a group of death.

Mourinho, who Xiao Ming is concerned about, was assigned a group of death in the true sense, and it is also the group that is considered the most difficult to play in this Champions League group.

The first-class team in this group is Real Madrid, the second-class team is Porto, the third-class team is Eindhoven, and the fourth-class team is Marseille... After everyone's evaluation after seeing this group, there will be no problem with Real Madrid qualifying, and the second-class competition will be the biggest highlight of this group. Porto, Eindhoven and Marseille, the strength of these three teams is on the same level, and there will be no big difference.

However, in Xiao Ming's view, there should be no problem for Porto led by Mourinho to beat Eindhoven and Marseille to qualify. The players of Porto are extremely outstanding. Almost half of the Portuguese national team will be in Porto's team in the future, not to mention that players like McCarthy, Delray and others are also famous players.
Chapter completed!