From the man behind the football king to the football king.

Chapter 241 Encountering Manchester United
  格鲁吉亚当地时间8月11日23点45分，2015年欧洲超级杯在第比利斯的迪纳摩体育场鸣哨开战，由上赛季的欧冠冠军乌迪内斯对阵欧联杯冠军塞维利亚。

This is the second time the two sides have met after the Europa League final in the 2013-2014 season.

In front of more than [-] fans from both sides, the two teams staged a goal battle.

After the game started, Sevilla took the lead. Reyes created a free kick and Banega took the penalty and scored directly, making the score 1:0.

In the 7th minute of the game, Bruno returned the favor and also equalized the score with a direct free kick. Just 8 minutes later, Bruno scored again to help Udinese take the lead.

Before the end of the first half, Bruno sent a scalpel-like precise through ball, and Di Natale, who successfully resisted offside, scored in front of the goal. Udinese led 3:1 to end the half-time battle.

After changing sides, Udinese continued to attack fiercely. Bruno successfully stole the ball in the frontcourt and sent a wonderful pass in the 52nd minute. The team's high center Taylor calmly shot and the score became 4:1.

After that, Sevilla launched a crazy counterattack. They first pulled a goal back in the 57th minute from Reyes. Subsequently, Sevilla coach Emery made successive substitutions. The three players he replaced created two goals. The two sides ended the 90-minute battle tied at 4:4.

In the 115th minute of overtime, Bruno's shot was blocked by his opponent, and Di Natale succeeded with a close shot.

With this goal, Udinese finally defeated the opponent 120:5 in 4 minutes and won the European Super Cup this season.

This is also the second consecutive year they have won the European Super Cup.

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At 8 pm local time in Italy on August 23, a focus match in the first round of the 2015-2016 season started at the Allianz Stadium in Turin. Udinese, the Serie A champion last season, challenged Serie A champion Juventus as a guest.

For Udinese, the record in the first round of the season in the past eight years has been very poor, with only 2 wins, 4 draws and 2 losses, and both wins were achieved after Bruno joined the team.

In other words, before Bruno joined Udinese, Wuji had failed to get off to a good start for six consecutive years.

For this game, the media and betting companies are more optimistic about the home team Juventus winning.

Udinese has suffered a serious loss of personnel this summer, with Salah, Kante and Guillerme leaving the main lineup in the second half of last season. In addition, forward Muriel also left the team, further weakening Udinese's bench thickness.

Udinese brought in more than 8000 million euros in revenue by selling players, but in terms of signings, they only spent 220 million euros to introduce Iraqi teenager Adnan, and 200 million euros to introduce Magini from Roma. profound. In addition, Zapata was loaned from Naples, former Inter Milan player Felipe was exempted from the visa, and Itura was recruited from Granada.

Udinese made a net profit of more than 7500 million through the transfer market, but the team's strength has declined very seriously.

However, Juventus has been recruiting heavily this summer, buying Dybala, Mandzukic, Khedira, Alex Sandro, Hernanes, Zaza and other players. More than 1.2 million euros were spent.

However, Juventus also lost several generals. Vidal moved to Bayern Munich, Ogbonna went to West Ham United, Tessey returned to Argentina, Pirlo went to the American Major League to retire, and Juventus also earned about 7500 million euros through transfers.

In general, Juventus still invested about 5000 million euros in net to strengthen the lineup, which is much better than Udinese who can only get out but not get in.

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Although the season has just begun, Juventus's injury list is not short. Morata, Khedira, Marchisio, and Asamoah are absent due to injuries. Mandzukic was injured in the midweek warm-up match, but Recovered in time and partnered with Koeman on the front line. New players Dybala and Zaza were both on the bench, and Pirlo's position was replaced by Padoin.

For Udinese, the lineup is relatively complete. Guidolin's 442 formation, the goalkeeper is still the Greek Kanizis, the back line is composed of Piris, Erto, Danilo and Cancelo, and the midfield four are Adnan and Badu. , Itura and Bruno, Di Natale and Taylor formed a double forward.

The game was played in light rain.

In the first 5 minutes, Udinese made a mistake in returning the ball, and Koeman's low shot from the front of the penalty area was scored by Kanizis.

In the 16th minute, Juventus got a free kick 20 meters in front of the goal. Both Pogba and Bonucci stood in front of the ball. Bonucci's kick hit the wall and missed the baseline. Pogba seemed not to have expected it. Bonucci will shoot.

Then Mandzukic made a header from the right, and Lichtsteiner's shot from a small angle was blocked from the far post.

Koeman cut inside from the left and fell to the ground when he was double-teamed, and passed the ball to Pereira. Pereira pushed the shot 13 meters in front of the goal, but Kanizis fell to the ground and confiscated it. Padoin's left-footed volley from the front of the penalty area missed the left post.

In the 33rd minute, Udinese failed to make a clean clearance in the penalty area. Pereira passed back from the right, and Lichtsteiner's low shot from a small angle was blocked by Kanizis with his leg. 4 minutes later,
  Lichtsteiner took the ball from the right, and Mandzukic headed it high.

In the first half, the two teams shot 11 to 1, and Udinese was completely at a disadvantage.

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Shortly after the start of the second half, Udinese suffered another heavy blow. Badu was injured and could not continue the game. Guidolin had to replace him with Cone.

Juventus continued to suppress Udinese, and the visiting team was in a very awkward situation on the court, and it was difficult to even get past halftime.

Just when the game situation was becoming more and more tilted towards Juventus, Udinese, who was passive, used a quick counterattack to score Juventus' goal.

In the 78th minute of the game, Udinese launched an efficient and fast counterattack. Finally, Bruno made a pass from the right, and the unmarked Taylor pushed into the near corner with his left foot 5 meters in front of the goal.

1:0, Udinese, who was passive throughout the game, unexpectedly took the lead.

Allegri made continuous substitutions and adjustments to strengthen the offense, but until the end of the game, Juventus failed to tie the score. Udinese finally defeated Juventus 1:0 and was lucky to win from the Allianz Stadium in Turin. Take away 3 points and get off to a good start for three consecutive years.

Juventus lost in the first round of Serie A at home for the first time in history, causing the biggest upset in this round of Serie A.

However, this situation has long been expected by many Italian football experts. Juventus is indeed stronger on paper than Udinese, and Udinese did suffer serious blood loss this summer, but they made a final decision. A good signing is to retain Bruno Fernandez. And Udinese’s winning goal was indeed created by Bruno for Udinese through his own personal strength. It was his long drive on the right that attracted too much defensive attention from Juventus, which gave Taylor a chance at the back point.

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After defeating Juventus in Turin, Bruno did not return to Udine with the team, but headed west to Monaco with the team's head coach Guidolin.

在欧洲中部时间8月27日下午5点45分，2015-2016赛季欧洲冠军联赛小组赛抽签仪式暨2014-2015赛季欧足联颁奖仪式在摩纳哥举行。

As the Champions League Golden Boot and assist leader last season, and also led his team to win the Champions League championship, Bruno is undoubtedly the favorite to win the Champions League Player of the Year last season, and his competitors also include the captain of his national team and Real Madrid's top player Cristiano Ronaldo, and Barcelona’s core player Leo Messi.

Although Cristiano Ronaldo and Messi performed very well in the Champions League last season, both leading their teams to the semi-finals and scoring 10 Champions League goals each, they still won the Champions League in the face of monopolizing the Champions League golden boots and assists. Bruno is the champion, but the results of the two are really not competitive.

The final selection result was also very obvious. 54 reporters voted on the spot through a voting machine. Bruno was recognized by 49 reporters and won the UEFA Champions League MVP in the 2014-2015 season with an absolute advantage.

Messi won the best goal of last season. In Barcelona's 3-1 home victory over Udinese in the first round, Messi broke through from the right. He used a dazzling fake move to make Cancelo fall to the ground instantly, and then faced the attacking Kanizis with a light challenge. Scored a goal. The moment he passed Cancelo this time was even hailed as a "criminal pass", and this goal became the best goal of the 2014-2015 season.

The best save still went to Barcelona, ​​with Ter Stegen beating Buffon and Neuer in this selection. The goalkeeper of champion Udinese, Kanizis, didn't even make the top three. This is mainly because Udinese conceded too many goals in the Champions League last season. In the group stage, Wuji conceded 7 goals. Including the goals conceded in the knockout stage, the total number of goals conceded is as high as 20 goals.

Even if you include the four goals conceded in the qualifying stage, Udinese conceded the most goals among all teams participating in the Champions League last season.

With such a performance, it is undoubtedly a dream for Kanizis to compete for the best goalkeeper.

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In this ceremony, in addition to the best player being the focus of the world's attention, what fans are most concerned about is the group draw.

Following the end of the Champions League qualifying play-offs, all the top 32 of this season's Champions League have been produced.

According to UEFA's new rules, the top 32 will be divided into 4 levels, with 8 teams in each level, and each group will have a team of different levels.

The top eight league champion teams in UEFA points will automatically become the seeded teams. They are Barcelona, ​​Chelsea, Bayern Munich, Udinese, Benfica, Paris Saint-Germain, Zenit St. Petersburg and PSV Eindhoven. 8 Each team automatically enters the first position of the 8 groups.

The remaining 24 teams will be ranked in the second to fourth tiers according to UEFA points ranking. Clubs from the same league will be automatically excluded from the group stage.

In addition, according to UEFA's previous regulations, Russian and Ukrainian clubs will not be assigned to the same group.

Since UEFA changed the ranking rules for seeding teams this year, even though Real Madrid and Juventus have high points in the European war, they have no choice but to enter the second tier.

At the same time, the second tier also includes Premier League giants such as Manchester United, Manchester City, and Arsenal, so this also creates conditions for the emergence of the "Group of Death."

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Before this draw, UEFA first reviewed the defending champion Udinese's feat of winning the Champions League last season, and Bruno was the one who appeared the most in this short film.

Obviously, on this night, he was the most handsome boy in the room!

The four lottery guests are leaders from the previous four teams, namely legendary goalkeeper Zubizarreta, Brazilian full-back Belletti, Udinese team spirit Di Natale and the player who overcame the disease and played at Wembley. Abidal holding the Big Ear Cup. Among these four, only Di Natale, who is about to turn 38, is an active player.

Since this season's Champions League final will be held at the San Siro Stadium (Meazza Stadium) in Italy, the Champions League final ambassador Zanetti and Maldini also appeared at the ceremony as guests of the draw.

Among the first teams drawn first, Barcelona was the first to be drawn by Zubizarreta and entered Group E; then the Portuguese Super League giant Benfica was drawn, and they entered Group C; the next drawn was Bayern Munich , the Bundesliga class leader entered Group F; the fourth seeded team to be drawn was Chelsea, and the Premier League champion entered Group G; then Udinese was drawn, and the defending champion entered Group B; Russian Super League champion Zenit St. Petersburg was sixth After being drawn, they entered Group H; the last two seeded teams, PSV entered Group D and Paris Saint-Germain entered Group A.

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The most eye-catching part of the lottery is undoubtedly the second team that was drawn later. The grouping of these teams will directly determine which giants will usher in a strong dialogue.

The first to be drawn was Atletico Madrid, and Simeone's team was placed in Group C.For them, it is undoubtedly a good sign to avoid a group of rich teams and meet the Portuguese Super League champion Benfica.

Then the "Gunner" Arsenal was drawn out, and this time they will encounter Bayern again. For Wenger, this is obviously not a good draw.

Immediately afterwards, another Premier League giant, Manchester United, was drawn out. They were lucky enough to enter Group B and met Udinese, who was recognized as weak.

Yes, after losing many main players in succession this summer, Udinese is undoubtedly the weakling of the first-tier team.

The fourth team to be drawn out is the "European black shop" Porto. They are placed in Group G to encounter Chelsea. Chelsea coach Mourinho will also reunite with his old club.

Subsequently, Real Madrid, the heaviest team in the second tier, was drawn out, and the Galacticos entered Group A and faced Paris Saint-Germain. New aid Di Maria of Paris Saint-Germain will also face a "battle to rectify his name" with his old club.

Immediately afterwards, Valencia was drawn out, and they were placed in Group H with the weaker Zenit St. Petersburg; the last two teams, Manchester City entered Group D and faced PSV Eindhoven, and Serie A class leader Juventus entered Barcelona. Group E.

After the teams in the third and fourth pots were drawn one after another, the entire lottery ceremony also came to fruition.

Udinese's luck is quite good. In addition to Manchester United, the other two teams in the same group are Wolfsburg of the Bundesliga and CSKA Moscow of the Russian Premier League.

(End of this chapter)