On December 15, this was the last game of the Donetsk Miners in 2009.

The location is Donbas Arena, a brand new stadium that has been in use for less than four months, but has witnessed several exciting victory moments for the Donetsk Miners.

He also witnessed Xu Qi's performances that shocked the world many times.

Two days before the competition, a concert by American singer Beyoncé was also held here. Many of Xu Qi's teammates also went to watch the concert on site, but Xu Qi did not go.

He is not very interested in European and American singers, but he is a little worried about whether the turf on the court will be destroyed by the concert.

Fortunately, when he stepped onto the turf of the stadium again, Xu Qi felt that the stadium maintenance staff had already sorted out the turf very well.

Such turf is of sufficient quality to cope with the next competition, and of course this turf in summer is still incomparable.

After all, it is already very cold here now, and even winter grass cannot grow well.

On some slightly yellowed turf in the stadium, the Donetsk miners are playing the last game of the year with their opponent Zaporoze Metallurgical Team, which is also the thirteenth round of the league.

Xu Qi's first start is naturally no problem.

This season, there are very few games where Xu Qi is not a starter. Unless it is a rotation or some irrelevant game, Xu Qi will starter.

And Xu Qi can also be said to be one of the healthiest players in the team, and he has not missed the game due to injury.

Moreover, although he is active in fighting, he rarely takes cards, so he has not had a cumulative suspension of yellow cards so far.

Zaporoze Metallurgical Team is currently ranked in the middle of the league, so it is naturally much worse than the miners' team in terms of strength, so the miners naturally play this game with the expectation of winning.

They will play one game in this round. If they can score three points, the invisible pressure will move to the side of Dynamo Kiev.

Moreover, this pressure will not be offset until the end of March next year.

Being back with a three-pointer backward disadvantage will definitely make Dynamo Kiev feel uncomfortable.

The opponents Zaporose Metallurgical Team and the Donetsk Miners are not good friends, and the two teams are also a team with many grudges. Therefore, even if Zaporose Metallurgical Team has no desires in this game, they do not intend to give the three-pointer to the Donetsk Miners for free.

The game was very tense and exciting, and both sides made many mistakes in the game due to the weather.

In such a cold competition environment, injuries are more likely to occur.

In the past, Zaporoze Metallurgical Team was a team that was very easy to get used to collapse, and they had lost many strange losses in large scores.

The situation today seems to have also brought the Zaporoze Metallurgical Team into a collapsed form.

Within ten minutes of the game, William and Adriano scored goals one after another, giving the team a 2-0 lead.

This was not beyond many expectations. Before the game, no one thought that Zaporoze Metallurgical team could pose a great threat to the top team in the Champions League group stage.

The miners are now in a very prosperous state and in a very hot state.

Champions League and the league have won consecutive victories.

Many consecutive games have won, and the league is still unbeaten in the season, and only one game has been lost in the Champions League.

However, after the 2-0 lead, the team obviously relaxed and their offense was not very sharp.

After all, it is indeed a bit cold, which is not conducive to performance.

The score did not change again until the end of the first half.

In the second half, the situation was still the same, and the pace of both sides was getting slower and slower. The Zaporoze Metallurgical Team seemed to have little idea of ​​winning.

The miners were not interested in trying to score a few more goals, and even Xu Qi felt that he could not perform well.

He was also afraid of the cold, even though he had a fire inside...

In the end, in the second half, both sides also completed the last game of 2009 in a harmonious manner.

From 2 to 0, the Donetsk miners also achieved the results they wanted.

A very long interval is really coming.

It's 2010 soon...

After the game, the team went on vacation directly, and each player went home and on vacation.

...

A few days later, the highly anticipated draw ceremony of the Champions League knockout match finally arrived.

"Hello everyone, everyone. This is Nyon, Switzerland, where UEFA's headquarters is located. The draw ceremony for the 2009-2010 European Champions League quarterfinals will be held here."

CCTV is also very concerned about the draw of the lottery. It not only broadcasts live, but also sends reporters to Nyon for interviews and reports.

The lottery ceremony was a very fast event, and soon the sixteen teams were drawn out one after another.

The guest draw was Beckham, and UEFA was the first to play the exciting scenes of the 16 teams in the Champions League. Of course, the exciting scenes about the Donetsk Miners were naturally from Xu Qi's wonderful score against Sevilla.

The first person to draw was Chelsea, and his opponent was Inter Milan from Serie A!

In a confrontation between giants, Mourinho will lead Inter Milan to face his old club Chelsea...

As soon as this result came out, people naturally began to mock UEFA for making such arrangements on purpose.

Italian media said UEFA bullies Serie A, while British media said UEFA suppressed the Premier League.

In short, neither side of such a showdown will benefit.

Chelsea is one of the favorites to win the championship. Inter Milan is the strongest team in Serie A at present, and has the hope of carrying the honor of Serie A to go further. However, Inter Milan has been hit by a terrible opponent.

He met Barcelona in the group stage and Chelsea in the knockout stage. He met both favorites in the championship. When Mourinho saw this scene, he shook his head slightly.

He unconsciously looked at the officials of the Donetsk miners not far away. In fact, Mourinho had considered the number one opponent in all the teams. The one he wanted to deal with the most was the Donetsk miners. Even before the draw, he said, "I hope to meet Donetsk miners, but I know that UEFA will definitely not give me Donetsk miners!"

He is right, UEFA did not give the miners to them.

Many teams that ranked second in the group stage actually want to meet the Donetsk miners after seeing all the first in the group stage. It seems that this team is indeed the first in the eight groups, which is easier to deal with.

Next, the second duel was drawn, Real Madrid against Lyon!

Lyon is considered the nemesis of Real Madrid. In the historical duel between the two teams, Lyon has a slight advantage.

However, the huge gap in strength between the two sides still makes people reluctant to believe that Lyon will threaten the second phase of the Galaxy Battleship to reach the Champions League quarter-finals for the first time in five years.

After all, they have been eliminated in the 16th quarter for five consecutive years.

But this year, not many people thought history would repeat itself, so they said that Real Madrid is easy to sign and Real Madrid is going to be the quarterfinals!
Chapter completed!