110. Round of 16 draw
The top 16 in the Champions League are Premier League teams Manchester City, Manchester United, Crystal Palace, Valencia, Barcelona, Malaga, Bundesliga Bayern Munich, Schalke 04, Dortmund, Serie A Juventus, AC Milan, Ligue 1 Paris Saint-Germain, and other leagues include Galatasaray, Celtics, Donetsk Miners, and Porto.
Looking at the top 16, we can find that there are actually very few new players. There are indeed many new players in the Champions League group stage draw, and there are indeed upset games in the group stage, but they laughed and said that the last one is still these regular players in the Champions League. If you really want to say that the new players are actually Manchester City and Malaga.
As soon as the top 16 came out, European media began to pay attention to the lottery, and it was rumored everywhere.
The situation is not very good for Manchester City. There is a high possibility that the second in the group will meet a strong team. Wen Sheng started to make trouble again as the draw draw is about to come.
In an exclusive interview with Turin Sports Daily, Wensheng began to predict again, "I know we will be blocked and we will draw a strong team. Don't ask me why, in short, this will be the truth!"
The theory of lottery conspiracy theory has become more and more widespread in the past two years. Wen Sheng is now deeply touched by this statement. Therefore, before the lottery draw, he quickly gave UEFA some eye drops. If he really got the strong team, he would definitely give UEFA eye drops again.
If you don’t draw a strong team, that’s not better?! Take advantage of it!
Wen Sheng never felt that Manchester City had reached the point of blocking people and killing Buddhas. Premier League fans think that I am the best in the world. In fact, the Premier League has not been the case in the past two years. Although Manchester United and Chelsea have reached the finals one after another, Chelsea have won the Champions League championship, the gap between the top teams is very obvious, and they both have an absolute disadvantage in the finals.
Manchester City won all the best in the Premier League, but Wen Sheng was quite afraid of Bayern Munich and Barcelona. When they met all the two teams, Manchester City could compete. In the absence of major generals, it would be a big disaster.
Speaking of this, I have to say that the masses have a sharp vision. Chinese fans mentioned that the top European teams always said "Emperor Saren" because they are really strong.
Real Madrid has not been that strong in the past two years, and Wensheng feels that the most dangerous thing is Barcelona and Bayern.
Wen Sheng publicly predicted in the media that UEFA really can't do anything about him. He didn't criticize you on the UEFA publicly, and you can still find fault and say you don't respect UEFA?! Everyone knows that the game against Ajax in the group stage is a bit strange, and Wen Sheng said with emotion that a few words are understandable.
Perhaps in order to hit Wen Sheng in the face, they were eager to prove that their draw was unpredictable, but Manchester City actually drew an unexpected good draw. Their opponent in the quarterfinals was Malaga.
Malaga is a rising star in the past two years. Its overall strength is not very strong. This season, he played very well in the Champions League group stage. He beat AC Milan with 12 points and ranked first in Group C. In other groups, the second in the group is actually hoping to draw Malaga. Who knew that Manchester City had such a big advantage?
Soriano and others couldn't help but smile at the draw. Who would have thought of this result?
Wensheng was naturally satisfied with the draw result and successfully avoided the strong team. After all, Malaga's team is still much worse than Manchester City. Wensheng believes that Manchester City's steady victory over Malaga is very likely to eliminate Malaga. Of course, the opponent's luck is not necessary. Luck is indispensable in the knockout match system.
It is natural that the reporters cannot ignore Manchester City's luck. A few familiar reporters still came to Wensheng, but Wensheng ignored it, but at the pre-match press conference against Crystal Palace, everyone still grabbed Wensheng and refused to let go.
"Daniel, do you think there is something wrong with the lottery draw?!" A reporter pretended to be serious and was actually happy. The lottery draw result firmly slapped Wensheng in the face.
"I'm not from UEFA, how do I know if there is anything wrong with it?" Wen Sheng said with a smile.
In fact, just like this, everyone knows how could a head coach like Wen Sheng be afraid of being slapped in the face?!
So the press conference quickly returned to the topic. As we all know, Wen Sheng has a different emotion towards Crystal Palace. Everyone knows that Wen Sheng cried in the farewell battle, and really cried, so everyone knows that this game on the 22nd has special significance.
"This game certainly has special significance to me. Crystal Palace is my hometown team and will always be in my heart!" Wen Sheng really sighed that Croydon is really important to him.
"Who do you think your family will support?!" A reporter asked a very interesting question.
"I guess they will support Crystal Palace!" Wen Sheng thought for a while and said with a smile. In fact, he believed that his family would definitely support him, but he didn't want to make a grudge with the Crystal Palace fans. Croydon is his hometown and his reputation cannot be bad there. This way, it will definitely be much more comfortable to answer Crystal Palace fans.
"Our whole family is a fan of Crystal Palace. Grandpa and grandma have supported Crystal Palace for many years. I think it is not easy for them to "betray" Crystal Palace!" Wen Sheng continued to explain, and his answer aroused everyone's kind laughter.
"How do you evaluate the current performance of Crystal Palace?!" a reporter asked.
This is a question with a pitfall. The ex-boy evaluates the latter?!
How do you say the performance of Crystal Palace this season? It’s so amazing under Wensheng’s leadership, and there must be many reasons.
One of the Wensheng actually dug a hole for Lao Lei. How did the Crystal Palace say in the past? Although it was amazing enough, many teams still looked down on them, and always felt that they were not strong enough. That's it. Therefore, Wensheng's previous health prevention and counter-tactic tactics have been effective all the time. However, when it comes to Lao Lei, other teams are not fools. Everyone knows that Crystal Palace is indeed powerful, and everyone is focused on being a turtle. Lao Lei is very difficult to overcome.
Secondly, the personnel of the Crystal Palace have not changed much. Except for De Bruyne who basically retained the skeleton, the problem is that De Bruyne is very critical.
The third reason is Lao Lei’s own. Wen Sheng focuses more on defense, while Lao Lei prefers fast-paced attacks. Sometimes he is always hit by his opponents. It feels like Benatian and McCarthy are not as impressive as last season, and Spelloni’s form is also declining.
But even so, Wensheng thinks that overall, Crystal Palace's performance is still good. At present, they have 8 wins, 4 draws and 4 losses in one round, and 28 points, which is not too bad.
They also qualified successfully in the Champions League, but their luck was a bit bad. They actually won the Bundesliga class bully Bayern Munich. Wen Sheng felt that it was a lot of luck.
Chapter completed!