Chapter 775： Barbarian's home romance

The Europa League group stage draw is similar to the rules of the UEFA Champions League group stage draw.

The teams that have advanced from the peripheral play-offs, the ten teams eliminated in the fourth round of the Champions League play-offs, plus the defending champions and other participating teams, a total of forty-eight teams are divided into four according to the European war points Grade.

The defending champion Atletico Madrid and the eleven other teams with the highest points in the European war were placed in the first tier.

They are: Atletico Madrid, Porto, Liverpool, Sevilla, Zenit St. Petersburg, Eindhoven, Stuttgart, Alkmaar, CSKA Moscow, Sporting Lisbon, Juventus and Villarreal.

Twelve teams including Manchester City, Getafe, Paris Saint-Germain, Dynamo Kyiv, Palermo, Lille, Leverkusen were placed in the second tier, and so on, and then divided into the third tier and Fourth gear.

Like the UEFA Champions League group stage, there are a total of twelve groups in the UEFA Cup group stage. Each group draws a team from the four gears to form a group for home and away double rounds. Finally, according to the group stage points, the top two are ranked Named out.

Twenty-four teams drawn in the group stage and the eight teams that were eliminated in the third place in the Champions League group stage formed the top thirty-two and entered the thirty-two knockout rounds of the Europa League.

Finally, the Europa League final will be held in Dublin in mid-May next year.

From the perspective of the competition system, the Europa League feels a bit like a small Champions League. In fact, UEFA has always been committed to making the Europa League the second tier of the UEFA Champions League. There was even news that in the future the UEFA Champions League The winner of the Cup is likely to get a place in the Champions League group stage.

This is undoubtedly quite attractive.

In the long run, for the time being, Manchester City’s Europa League draw has inevitably encountered the fate of a strong team since being drawn to the second-tier team, and other teams are not willing to meet Manchester City.

Everyone knows that this season's Manchester City soldiers are strong and strong, and there are super scorers like Su Dong. Who wants to touch?

In the end, the hapless man who encountered Manchester City was Juventus.

The third team is Austria's Salzburg Red Bull, and the fourth team is Poznan Lech from Poland.

Red Bull Salzburg is backed by the strong financial resources of the Red Bull Group, and its strength is impressive. Poznan Lech is a strong Polish player. However, this summer, the team’s number one center and also the winner of the Polish boot award, Lewando Fowski moved to Dortmund in the Bundesliga with a price of 5 million euros, which had a significant impact on Poznan Lech.

Judging from the results of the lottery, Manchester City's lottery luck is not good, but not bad.

Juventus is the real threat to Manchester City.

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After the Europa League draw, Manchester City did not express too much opinion.

Head coach Guardiola said that he doesn't mind what kind of opponent the team encounters in the Europa League.

"Our goal is to advance. No matter who our opponent is, this goal will not change!"

The implication is that no matter who the opponent is, Manchester City will win it.

This is undoubtedly regarded as a support for Su Dong's letter of war at the Grimaldi Conference Center yesterday.

Su Dong threatened to bring Manchester City into the Champions League and to the top of the Champions League, which triggered heated discussions around the world.

Many people feel that he is a bit too arrogant.

"If money can buy the Champions League, what do the rich have to do?"

This is the biggest question to Su Dong.

Thinking that Su Dong has been playing for the rich team in the past few years, he has taken advantage of the rich team, which makes him a little arrogant, and even wants to bring the mercenary group that has been invented into the Champions League. It is simply called People joke.

But Manchester City's remarks to Su Dong are very welcome, because they are eager to participate in the Champions League, and even win the Champions League.

This will definitely be the highest pursuit in countless people's careers!

After all, not everyone is like Su Dong, who wins prizes and gets soft.

The club’s technical director Begiristan also said in an interview with the media that he recognizes Su Dong’s statement and firmly believes that the team will succeed because Manchester City is already a team full of combat capabilities.

However, both Begiristan and Guardiola revealed that Manchester City will not think about long-term matters too early, but will focus on the immediate situation and work hard to play every next game. I believe the team will definitely gain something in the end. .

For the weekend away to the Black Cats Sunderland, both expressed their confidence, but at the same time reminded the team that the Black Cats Sunderland is a very competitive team, especially at their Stadium of Light.

As we all know, football is a sport with a huge home court advantage.

In the Premier League, the difference between home and away is equally obvious, so some very interesting teams will emerge.

For example, Sunderland and Birmingham.

Judging from the standings, these two teams are ranked in the middle, or even the middle and lower reaches.

But they all have one thing in common. Their home scores are pretty good, and the away scores are pretty bad.

In terms of scoring rate, Sunderland only lost three games at home last season, which is very good.

Birmingham is even better, they only lost two games.

You know, Manchester United and Arsenal have lost two games at home, and the fourth-ranked Tottenham Hotspur also lost three games.

But in the away game, Sunderland lost 13 away games, while Birmingham also lost 12 away games.

It is this situation where the difference between home and away is very big, Sunderland and Birmingham rank the middle and lower reaches of the league.

Last season, among the superb teams at Sunderland Stadium of Light, including Liverpool, Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur, Tottenham still lost a 1-3 away game.

Manchester United was lucky to win one to zero, but it was also very dangerous to win.

Manchester City is one to one, and they have not been able to take advantage of the Stadium of Light.

Birmingham is even more interesting. He is tied at home with the top-ranked teams such as Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea, Tottenham and Manchester City.

According to the existing data, in the four major leagues, the probability of being unbeaten at home is about 70%. Strong teams will have more advantages in this regard. For example, Mourinho has maintained a long-term unbeaten record at home, but Overall, there is not much difference.

But like Sunderland, the probability of being unbeaten at home has been increased to 84%, which is more than a dozen percentage points higher than the average score. Birmingham has even reached an unbeaten probability of nearly 90%. Is the level of top giants.

Home court advantage is a very complex system, from the venue to the atmosphere, to the scale of referees, and then to wait for work and other factors, even the player's psychology and fighting spirit are also very important factors.

All these come together, which is the so-called home field advantage.

The black cat Sunderland is undoubtedly the team that is best at playing at home among many Premier League teams.

Maybe this has something to do with their head coach being Steve Bruce.

He is the meritorious captain of Manchester United and a direct disciple of Ferguson.

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On the afternoon of August 29th, in the third round of the Premier League, Manchester City was a guest at the Stadium of Light to challenge Sunderland.

As soon as the game started, Steve Bruce's team took the lead, using the iconic Premier League team's impact style, launched a fierce attack on Manchester City, and shot long shots whenever possible.

Even the frequent anti-aircraft guns can't stop Sunderland's "romance".

What's more interesting is that every shot can further stimulate the passion of the fans on the spot, making them shout louder and roar more vigorously, and the passion of the fans also drives the players in the field.

There is no doubt that from a technical and tactical point of view, Sunderland's standards are really rough and very British.

But judging from the actual combat effect on the court, it can only exert its effect.

As soon as he came up, he held down Manchester City and kept punching and hitting.

In contrast, Manchester City played more finely, with higher technical and tactical content, but there is no way, Sunderland is like an unreasonable barbarian, regardless of your three-seven-one, you can start playing on the pitch.

In the case of adequate physical fitness, they can really frequently rush into the passing system of Manchester City, frequently creating shooting opportunities.

Of course, almost all shots are long shots.

But they don't care.

On the court, Su Dong can feel the momentum of Sunderland, but can also appreciate the roughness of the black cat's skills and tactics.

Is it that Manchester City's skills and tactics must be good, and Sunderland's play style must be poor?

Su Dong thinks not.

If the two sides do not consider physical fitness, it is entirely possible for Sunderland to suppress Manchester City and even defeat Manchester City.

But it's a pity that players are humans. As long as they are humans, there will be physical limits, and they need to rest and take a breath.

The difference is only in the time.

Sunderland's breathing time was fifteen minutes later.

It was an opportunity for a corner kick.

Sunderland pressed into the 30-meter area of ​​Manchester City across the board, trying to push for a goal first.

As a result, Kompany cleared the ball and pushed the ball out of the penalty area. After stopping the ball, the central defender Bramble wanted to pick the ball into the penalty area.

Unexpectedly, Su Dong suddenly stabbed out. When Bramble started to pass, he rushed over and blocked the pass with his burly body.

The ball hit Su Dong's arm, Bramble raised his hand for the first time to signal Su Dong's handball.

But because Su Dong's left hand was close to his body at the time and did not open, the referee did not think it was a handball.

After blocking the ball with his body, Su Dong did not give his opponent any time to react. He took the lead, slammed the ball forward with his big foot, and quickly started himself, sprinting forward at the fastest speed, taking the ball with the ball in large strides, and went straight all the way. The ball crossed the center line and rushed to Sunderland's goal.

Sunderland defender Michael Turner chased all the way and kept sticking to the inside of Su Dong.

But Su Dongyi was brave , instead of rushing to pass the ball, he continued to dribble the ball forward while observing the situation next to him.

Di Maria and Sanchez were also very fast. One was on the left and the other was in the middle, and they both caught up in time.

Manchester City quickly formed a three-on-two in the frontcourt.

Su Dong walked swiftly, drove the ball directly into the large penalty area, suddenly stopped on the right side, and dunked the ball back.

Michael Turner chased him all the way, couldn't help but rushed over his head.

But this time Su Dong did not kick the ball by himself, but after dunking the ball back, he flicked a shot with his left foot, as if to pass it to Sanchez, but actually passed the ball low to the left of the goal.

Di Maria was unguarded, at the front of the left post, and sent the ball into the empty goal with his left foot.

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