Chapter 229 Death Team
Judging from the situation, there are naturally no weak teams in the first tier, only Lyon is a little willing to encounter.
Among the first teams, Barcelona needs to avoid it with Valencia.
Real Madrid has been unable to enter the Champions League quarterfinals for many years and has become the second-tier team.
Among other teams are the top three in the Premier League, the two Milan players, and Bayern.
These are huge challenges for Valencia.
Among the third teams, Tottenham Hotspur is the fourth team from the Premier League.
This is Xu's old opponent. When Xu played for the Donetsk Miners in the UEFA Cup, he had experience in fighting Tottenham Hotspurs.
However, Tottenham Hotspur's strength has improved greatly and is definitely not the same as before.
Especially Bale, who once had some confrontation with Xu, has now become the main force of Tottenham Hotspur, and Tottenham Hotspur has just signed Van der Fate from Real Madrid. With elite soldiers such as Modric, his current strength has reached a higher level.
Therefore, when many media predict the death group, if the second team has Real Madrid and the third team has Tottenham, and if the original first team has the first team, this kind of group will definitely be the death group.
Speaking of group draws, the Donetsk Miners last time drew a relatively good draw.
And this time, Xu became a member of Valencia's team, and I wonder if his luck would be so good.
The seed team in Group A was directly drawn out, defending champion Inter Milan, as Inter Milan, who won the Champions League last season, has not changed much in lineup this season. After Mourinho left, he was not very optimistic about major media and bookmakers.
Then, Valencia was quickly drawn out!
They were assigned to Group A, which is the group in Inter Milan.
This is not a bad sign for Valencia, because the first-tier teams are all giants, and except for Lyon, it is the same for everyone to touch.
However, when the third team was drawn out, the Valencia's senior executives seemed not very calm.
Because the opponent is Tottenham Hotspur, Tottenham Hotspur won the fourth place in the competition with Manchester City last season and successfully entered the Champions League. This is a good opportunity for them to show their strength.
However, when they were drawn into a relatively difficult group, Tottenham also felt that they were not very at ease.
After all, both Valencia and Inter Milan have richer experience in Champions League events than Tottenham Hotspur.
Although Tottenham often participates in the Europa League, the Europa League and the Champions League are definitely completely different events.
The fourth team is Twente, a strong team from the Netherlands. In fact, this also makes the fourth team more powerful.
Therefore, when the first group was drawn out, it made people feel that the first death group in the Champions League group stage was born.
Then in Group B, Lyon was drawn out, followed by Schalke 4, Benfica, and Tel Aviv Sharp.
He Wei, a commentator of CCTV's commentator, commented: "The scene of a Chinese derby being staged in the group stage did not appear. The Valencia team with Xu drew a very difficult group, while Schalke 4, who has Hao Junmin, drew a relatively easy group this time."
However, this group does not seem to have super strong teams, but the second-level team Benfica is actually very strong. Schalke 4 is the stronger among the third-level teams. In fact, the strength gap between the three teams in this group is not big, and anyone can qualify in the group.
In the group, Manchester United, Werder Bremen, Glasgow Rangers and Bursa Sports are among the group.
Obviously Werder Bremen and Manchester United are popular teams to advance.
Barcelona in Group D is the only one. Neither Copenhagen nor Panasinac could compete with Barcelona. Another team is Kazan Ruby. Barcelona had encountered this team in the group stage last season, but they once lost to Kazan Ruby in one game. However, this season, Kazan Ruby is unlikely to cause trouble for Barcelona.
Group e, Bayern Munich and Rome are popular, and it may be difficult for Basel and Cruges to advance.
Group F is the four teams, Chelsea, Marseille, Moscow Sparta and Jilina. Chelsea are naturally the biggest favorite to advance.
There was another expected showdown in Group G. In fact, this showdown has been staged last season. The second-tier team Real Madrid once again encountered A Milan, which is also a bit painful.
At the same time, there are two teams in this group, Ajax and Aussel.
This group can be said to be a group of all kings. Real Madrid is the team that has won the most Champions League. They have nine championships, while A-Milan has won seven Champions League titles, and Ajax has also won four Champions League titles. Therefore, these three teams in this group have won a total of twenty Champions League titles, which can be called a group of all kings.
Of course, everyone can automatically ignore Aussel.
Xu's old boss, Donetsk Miners, was assigned to the final H group.
They are Arsenal, Donetsk miners, Braga and Belgrade guerrillas.
Although Donetsk Miners lost Xu, the lineup of Donetsk Miners is still very good, so they are also the favorites to advance after Arsenal.
The first match of the Champions League is on September 15, and Valencia will welcome the Premier League powerhouse Tottenham Hotspur at home.
This is also the second time Xu fought against this Premier League powerhouse after encountering Tottenham in the Europa League knockout match the previous year.
This period happened to be the national team match day, so Xu did not need to participate in the national team competition, so in addition to resting by himself, he would also go to the training ground to train with his teammates who did not participate in the national team competition.
Since there are still many international players among some teams, Unai Emery still found many young players to practice together with the players during this training, and also check whether there are any good talents among the young players.
In fact, there are really good young talents in the Valencia youth training camp.
Isco of the Spanish National Youth Team is a young player who is highly favored by Emery. He originally thought that Isco would become David Silva's successor in the future, but the current time cannot allow Isco to grow up quickly, which is why Emery chose to introduce Xu again.
Originally Isco thought that after a star-level player like David Silva and Villa left Valencia, he could get the position as soon as possible and get the opportunity faster, but now he has come again, and his net worth is quite high, which will be somewhat unfavorable to his growth to a certain extent.
Chapter completed!