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Chapter 765: The New Journey of the Champions League

Scored 9 goals in 4 minutes and scored three goals in 5 minutes. Fulham was completely stunned and completely crushed.Fortunately, the first half ended quickly, otherwise their goal might have to be broken, because during this period, Manchester United's offensive was really crazy.

Throughout the first half, Manchester United's possession rate reached 68.6%, and the pass success rate was 86.9%.

After the 15-minute intermission, Fulham, who was slightly relieved, performed better. Coupled with the fact that Manchester United had a big lead, Fulham seized the opportunity and played in the 50th minute of the game. Time to win back a city.Brad made a cross from the right, and Helgusen volleyed with his left foot from 22 yards in the middle.

However, Fulham's hopes were quickly extinguished by Manchester United.In the 64th minute, the score continued to be rewritten. Ronaldo made a straight pass from the right, Brown made a pass back from the bottom, and Yin Jun scored twice with a shot from 12 yards.

In the ensuing game, Manchester United still had many chances to score.The best chance is when the game progressed to the 70th minute, Yin Jun broke through the middle and sent a direct pass. Ronaldo pushed from the right rib of the penalty area 12 yards to the far corner, and the ball missed the post.

Due to going to Monaco to participate in the UEFA awards ceremony and the UEFA Champions League draw in the middle of the week, and to play the UEFA Super Cup on Friday, Ferguson began to make substitutions and adjustments after 10 minutes of the game. Giggs, Yin Yin Jun and Rooney were replaced one after another, Park Ji-sung, Solskjaer and new aid Carrick appeared successively.

However, because Manchester United had too much of a lead, the players lacked motivation, and Fulham had already been beaten, and they also had no intention of attacking. The last 10 minutes of the game were almost tasteless.

In the end, when the referee Marina blew the whistle for the end of the game, the score remained at 5:1.

Relying on this big victory, Manchester United has climbed to the top of the standings from the first round.

In the last game of this round later, Chelsea beat Manchester City 3-0 at home, ranking second in the standings with a goal difference of 1.

The competition between the Red Devils and the Blues started from the first round of the league!

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At noon on Thursday, the Manchester United team took a chartered flight southward to Monaco on the Mediterranean coast.On this evening, the Manchester United team will attend last season's Champions League awards organized by UEFA and the draw ceremony for the new season's Champions League group stage.

In the best list announced by UEFA a week ago, Manchester United is undoubtedly the biggest winner. From the goalkeeper to the striker, there are people selected on the four lines.

In terms of goalkeepers, Manchester United goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar, Juventus goalkeeper Buffon and Arsenal goalkeeper Lehmann are selected together; in the back line, Manchester United central defender Ferdinand will compete with Arsenal's Eboue and Barcelona's Puyol for the best Defender; in midfield, Yin Jun will compete with Barcelona's Deco and Huang Qian's midfielder Riquelme; on the front line, former Manchester United striker Ruud van Nistelrooy, who has already moved to Real Madrid, will encounter Barcelona's Ronaldinho and Eto Austrian siege.

Although Barcelona lost to Manchester United in the Champions League final, in terms of the number of best players shortlisted, they did not fall behind at all, and they were evenly matched with Manchester United 4 to 4.

UEFA adopted a brand-new selection method for this selection. The ballots were voted by the top 16 head coaches of last season's Champions League and UEFA technical team members. Winners list.

These 12 players are also automatically candidates for the best player of European clubs last season, and will be judged by the top 16 coaches of last season's UEFA Champions League.

At the same time, UEFA also announced the UEFA Cup Most Valuable Player candidate list.The difference from the best selection of the Champions League is that this selection is made by the top 8 head coaches of the UEFA Cup last season.Three of the four candidates come from champions Sevilla.

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Unsurprisingly, Manchester United was the biggest winner at the UEFA Best Awards Ceremony last season in the evening.Van der Sar defeated Buffon and Lehmann and was elected the best goalkeeper; in the competition for the best defender, Ferdinand also had the last laugh, defeating Puyol and Eboue to be elected; In any suspense, Yin Jun won 16 out of 15 votes and was elected with an absolute advantage; the front line became the only front line where Manchester United missed. On the one hand, Ruud van Nistelrooy has become a player of Real Madrid. Lost to Ronaldinho, missed the best striker last season.

In the most eye-catching selection of the best player in the UEFA Champions League last season, Yin Jun was re-elected, and he defeated Ronaldinho.

Such a result was already expected. After all, Yin Jun's performance in the Champions League last season was really outstanding.Created a new record for the number of goals scored in a single season in the Champions League, and is the absolute hero for Manchester United to reach the top of Europe for the third time in four years.

Although Ronaldinho is outstanding, he was the number one contributor to Barcelona's finals last season, but in the final Champions League final, Barcelona led by him lost to Yin Jun's Manchester United, which is destined to be difficult for him Yin Jun won this competition.

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This evening, there is another focus of attention of the world, and that is the draw for the UEFA Champions League group stage in the new season.

The teams participating in the draw include defending champion Manchester United and other 16 teams that have directly entered the group stage, as well as 16 teams that have been shortlisted through the qualifiers.

According to UEFA's club points system, Manchester United and the top 7 teams including Barcelona, ​​AC Milan, Real Madrid, Inter Milan, Liverpool, Arsenal and Valencia are listed as seeded teams (first tier), Other teams are also divided into three tiers according to their points.When drawing lots, a team is drawn from each pot to form a group, a total of eight groups, provided that the teams in the same league are in different groups.

Pot [-] includes Lyon, Porto, PSV, Bayern, Chelsea, Roma, Celtic and Lille.

The result of the lottery gave people a strong sense of being "arranged". Chelsea and Barcelona met for the third consecutive season, but unlike before, this time it was not in the knockout round of life and death, with the two teams in the same group There is also the Bundesliga powerhouse Bremen.Real Madrid also reunited with Lyon. Last season, Real Madrid had 3 draw and 1 loss against Lyon. They also signed Diarra from the team this summer. AC Milan drew the weaker Ligue 1 Lille, and Inter Milan and Bayern were divided into a group.

The result of Manchester United's draw is still ideal after all, and the "British Derby" will be staged with the Celtics.The other two teams in the same group are Portuguese giants Benfica and Danish giants Copenhagen.Although they are all dominant teams in their respective leagues, they are not too strong opponents for Manchester United.

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