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"Hey? Why did Antonio, you exclude Dynamo Kiev and Kaiserslautern? These two teams performed well in the Champions League group stage!" Seeing Zhuang Mingge remove Dynamo Kiev from Fiorentina's opponent list without saying a word, Groz was very puzzled, "Especially Kaiserslautern, this is a team that even a giant like Barcelona has suffered a loss!"

As a magical team that won the Bundesliga championship as a newly promoted player last season, Kaiserslautern naturally attracted a lot of attention, and a living example of Fiorentina is in front of him. Therefore, people are also optimistic about the future of this Bundesliga Red Devils, believing that it has great hope to replicate the trajectory of Florence's rise that year and become another powerful team that is stalwart in Europe.

"Although Kaiserslautern also completed the miracle of winning the championship last season, its situation is not the same as that of our Fiorentina in the past." Zhuang Mingge patiently explained to Groz around him. "The first thing is that the core of Kaiserslautern is Swiss Siriako Sforza and German striker Olaf Marshall. Both players are over 30 years old at this time. Even if they can still maintain excellent competitive state, the physical decline brought by age makes them unable to cope with the situation of multi-line combat. Kaiserslautern's performance in the Bundesliga this season is far inferior to last season, which proves this very well."

"Secondly, due to the restrictions of relevant German laws and financial resources, Kaiserslautern cannot develop as the trajectory of our rise in Florence that year, because they do not have such sufficient funds, and there is no team manager who can discover good seedlings."

"So, the reason why Kaiserslautern performed so well last season was mainly because other teams in the league did not pay enough attention to it. In addition, a veteran led by Sforza and Marshall collectively rejuvenated his second career spring that season, and then he completed the feat of a newly promoted team winning the championship." Speaking of this, Zhuang Mingge made a summary, "The situation in Fiorentina is completely different. At that time, Effenberg and Bati, several team backbones, had just entered the golden age of players. Vieri and Da Inzaghi were only about twenty years old, so naturally there was more room for growth than Kaiserslautern, a veteran leader. Teams like Kaiserslautern that value veterans will only be worse than year by year as time goes by. Therefore, UEFA cannot choose such a team with a greatly reduced combat effectiveness to play against us in Fiorentina."

"As for Dynamo Kiev, although the Ukrainian team led by coach Lobanovsky showed outstanding strength in the group stage, there are young stars like Karaze, Shevchenko, and Rebrov, but they are not well-known and difficult for fans to regard it as an opponent of the same magnitude as ours." After talking about the reasons for removing Kaiserslautern, Zhuang Mingge, who talked about the great success, began to explain to Groz Jr. why he was not optimistic about Dynamo Kiev. "So, if you want to choose a decent opponent for Fiorentina, then Arsenal and Liverpool, who are in the G14 giant league with us, and have excellent record, are the best choices for UEFA."

At this time, Distefano, who attended the ceremony as a special guest, began to draw lots on the stage. The host posted notes with the team's name on the small blackboard behind him in sequence according to the order of the draw.

The first thing that was drawn was the second in eight groups. According to the rules, the schedule of these teams in the quarterfinals was relatively unfavorable, and they were all the rhythm of home and away. Because in the eyes of most people, it is generally more beneficial to go first and home and away knockout rounds in two rounds of home and away games.

As the two opponents that Fiorentina is most likely to encounter in the last 16 matches, Liverpool was ranked first in the upper half, while Arsenal was drawn to fourth in the lower half, just at the top and bottom of the entire tree chart.

When Distefano draws out eight teams that have won the second place in the group and the host allocates their respective positions, it is next time it is the eight teams that have won the first place in the group.

The first team to be drawn is Monaco, which means that Liverpool's opponent in the quarterfinals will be the Ligue 1 overlord supported by Zhuang Mingge.

"Ahh, Liverpool's opponent is Monaco... It seems that our opponent should be Arsenal led by Coach Wenger." Seeing Monaco being pulled to play against Liverpool, Zhuang Mingge shrugged Karin and Rebecca, and said with a relaxed look, "It seems that there should be no big problem for Fiorentina to advance to the quarterfinals of the Champions League."

"Hey, Antonio, are you sleeping in a mess? What nonsense are you talking about?" Rebecca said in disbelief when he heard Zhuang Mingge's remarks, "Although I don't know so well about football as you do, I also know that Arsenal was the champion of the Premier League and the FA Cup last season! Why did you say this by Antonio? It sounds like a dish placed in front of Fiorentina, eating whatever you want?"

"Well, Rebecca, you are really right at all." Zhuang Mingge nodded and said in a positive tone, "In my eyes, Arsenal is not the most difficult thing to deal with among these eight teams. Although Wenger has many stars, there are first-class stars in three lines, and after he took over Arsenal has become more technical and ground cooperation, and his performance has improved a lot, but in fact, this Arsenal still has many weaknesses, especially the lack of offensive ability, which has led to them in positional battles."

"Well? Then Tony, in your opinion, which of these eight teams is the most difficult thing to deal with in your eyes?" Karin was interested by Zhuang Mingge's words and asked curiously, "But if you tell me it is Inter Milan, it would be meaningless. Anyone can guess this."

"Haha, how is this possible?" Zhuang Mingge, who was originally planning to cite Inter Milan to tease the two women, quickly made a fuss, and jumped over the previous paragraph and said, "Of course it is Dynamo Kiev, who was ruled out by me before! In my opinion, this Ukrainian team has great hope to become a dark horse in the Champions League this season!"
Chapter completed!