I Am Really the Savior of the Red Devils

In the early morning of August 25th, Beijing time, the 2017-2018 UEFA Champions League Group Stage Draw Ceremony and UEFA Awards Ceremony will be held at the Grimaldi Convention Center in Monaco.

Before the draw ceremony, UEFA President Ceferin first awarded the UEFA President's Award to Totti, the Roman wolf king who announced his retirement at the end of last season. Totti also became the third Italian player to receive the honor after Gianni Rivera and Paolo Maldini.

In his speech, Totti said: "It is an honor to receive this award. My dream is to fight in only one team's jersey throughout the season, and I did it."

Subsequently, UEFA began to award the best awards of last season. This year is different from previous years. In addition to awarding the best player award, the best awards in other positions on the field will also be awarded.

The former Manchester United goalkeeper De Gea, who just transferred from Manchester United to Real Madrid, took over the 2016-2017 UEFA Champions League Goalkeeper Award from Shevchenko. In the UEFA Champions League last season, De Gea had a total of 6 clean sheets. And helped Manchester United become the first team to successfully defend the Champions League after the restructuring, and it is reasonable to accept this award.

Accepting the award, De Gea said: "I am very proud to receive this award. If there is a secret to winning, I think it is that I have always maintained a hunger for honors. This is the only way I know how to play at the top level. .”

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Manchester United, which successfully defended their title this season and won the UEFA Champions League for the fifth time in team history, won the awards for the best defender, midfielder and forward of the UEFA Champions League. Van Dijk, De Bruyne and Rooney were elected in turn.

In fact, including the transfer of De Gea, the successfully defending Manchester United won all UEFA's best awards, because De Gea was awarded for his performance at Manchester United, not his performance at his new club Real Madrid.

Van Dijk said in an interview after accepting the award: "We want to continue to break records with Manchester United, and we also want to continue to win championships. We want to win the Champions League for the third consecutive season."

De Bruyne said: "The night in Cardiff was really amazing. We have extra motivation because we may become the first team in the Champions League. We did it."

Rooney, who accepted the award, said: "I play for a magical team-Manchester United. I like to score goals and win trophies, whether it is team or personal, I feel very happy now."

When stepping down, Ronaldo and Messi took the initiative to shake hands with Rooney to express their congratulations. Rooney's performance last season was indeed impeccable. Not only did he score 28 goals in the Premier League and defend the Premier League Golden Boot, he also scored 15 goals in the Champions League, beating Cristiano Ronaldo and Messi who scored 12 goals. Champions League Golden Boot.

Coupled with the Premier League title, Champions League title and League Cup title won by Manchester United, as well as the Community Shield and UEFA Super Cup won before the start of the new season, there is not much suspense for Wayne Rooney to defend the 2017 European Ballon d'Or and World Player of the Year. Ronaldo and Messi also expressed their conviction.

After that, Rooney won the UEFA Male Player of the Year Award, and the UEFA Female Player of the Year award was the Dutch midfielder Martens who had just joined Barcelona.

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After the UEFA awards ceremony, the draw ceremony for the UEFA Champions League group stage of the new season began immediately.

According to UEFA's lottery rules, last season's Champions League champions and the champions of the top seven leagues in UEFA points are the seed teams. However, because the Premier League champions and Champions League champions are both Manchester United, a vacant seed seat was postponed to The eighth-ranked league champion in UEFA points, that is, the champion of the Ukrainian Premier League.

Since then, the eight seeded teams are Champions League champions and Premier League champions Manchester United, La Liga champions Real Madrid, Serie A champions Juventus, Bundesliga champions Bayern Munich, French champions Monaco, Russian champions Sparta Moscow, and Portuguese champions Benfica. , Ukrainian Super League champion Shakhtar Donetsk.

Compared with the seeded teams mixed with several non-big five league giants, the teams in the second tier look more star-studded. Because the teams in the second tier are ranked according to UEFA points, Barcelona, ​​Atletico Madrid, Paris Saint-Germain, Chelsea, Borussia Dortmund, Manchester City, and Sevilla, which are ranked top in UEFA points, are gathered here. , only the Portuguese super giant Porto does not belong to the five major leagues.

There are also strong teams in the third tier. Liverpool and Tottenham in the Premier League, Rome and Naples in Serie A are all strong. Turkish giants Besiktas and Greek giants Olympiakos.

The eight teams in the fourth pot are the Russian Super League giants CSKA Moscow, the Scottish Super League giants Celtic, Portugal's third pole Portugal Sports, the Eredivisie powerhouse Feyenoord, the Bundesliga upstart Leipzig, and three teams from the minor leagues. The teams Karabak (Azerbaijan), Maribor (Slovenia) and APOEL (Cyprus).

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The top 32 of the Champions League are already in place, and today it is time to draw out who will be with whom.

When determining the group of the first team, Manchester United fell into the third group C, and in the subsequent draw, the La Liga overlord Atletico Madrid in the second pot (Real Madrid and Barcelona do not belong to La Liga, it is the Western Super League. Two heroes, laughing and crying), the third-tier Serie A powerhouse Roma, and Azerbaijan's Karabak were drawn into this group respectively.

Seeing this result, Ye Su's expression was not very good. Because in terms of grouping, his Manchester United really fell into the group of death.

Among the three opponents, Atletico Madrid's performance in the European arena in recent years is very eye-catching. The UEFA points once surpassed Manchester United and became the fourth pole after Huang Saren; The record is very good, but it is obviously not a good result to face such a strong team in the group stage. As for Azerbaijan's Karabak, although the strength seems to be very weak, it is a real big team, but there is no good team that can break into the Champions League. What's more, Manchester and Baku in Azerbaijan have a distance of more than 4,000 kilometers. The travel and the climate of Azerbaijan will become the natural enemies of the team visiting Baku.

Compared with Manchester United, the other four teams participating in the Champions League, except for Tottenham, are obviously better than Manchester United.

The top team in Group A is only the blue team Chelsea who has returned to the Champions League. Their strongest opponent in the same group is only Portugal's Benfica.

The Premier League team Liverpool entered Group E as the third team, but the seed team in this group is Russia's Spartak Moscow, and the second team is only Sevilla, who is good at playing the Europa League, and failed to create too much. Big thing to watch.

The strongest team in Group F is Manchester City in the Premier League, and their biggest opponent is Naples from Serie A.

There are also many strong teams in the final Group H. Real Madrid and Dortmund meet again, as well as Tottenham Hotspur from the Premier League.

Of course, although the grouping results were not ideal, it would not put too much pressure on Ye Su. Because the group stage of the UEFA Champions League can only be regarded as a warm-up for the real top giants like Manchester United, and the future knockout rounds will be the top-level matchups that are not afraid of fire.

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After returning to Manchester from Monaco, Ye Su and Manchester United were preparing for the next match.

This is the last Premier League game before the first international break of the new season. Manchester United's opponent is the blue fox Leicester City.

At Old Trafford, Leicester City was very low-key. They were solid throughout the game, making it difficult for Manchester United to open the situation.

Ye Su was sitting on the coach's bench. He was observing the situation on the field. It was already the 52nd minute of the game, and the score was still 0:0.

This is Manchester United's corner kick.

Left-back Luke Shaw stood at the corner and raised his arm to signal that he was about to kick off.

Leicester City is crowded in front of the goal. When they cannot open the situation in motion, they need to be extra defensive against Manchester United's opportunity to score from set kicks.

Manchester United captain Wayne Rooney also ran into the penalty area of ​​Leicester City. Two players immediately defended him. Lu Xiaopang, who is not tall, has amazing jumping ability and often has good shots with headers.

Manchester United's center Harry Kane and two tall defenders Van Dijk and Maguire are also fighting for positions with the opponent's defenders. The two sides are chaotic and chaotic.

The referee's whistle blew and Luke Shaw drove the football into the penalty area.

Rooney took off at the front point, and the two players defending him followed suit. None of the three touched the football, and the football flew through the air.

Maguire headed the goal from the middle. He slightly touched the football and changed the flight path of the football. Leicester City goalkeeper Schmeichel subconsciously threw it. The football was not hit out of the danger zone. There was immediate chaos.

It can only be seen that offensive players and defensive players are entangled, and they all want to play.

Ye Su's eyes widened, and then he saw the shaking of the net. He raised his arms, and saw Harry Kane running out with his arms raised.

Roaring, the England center forward rushed to the corner flag, and behind him were Manchester United players who were also running excitedly.

"GOOOOOOOOOOOOOALLLLLLLL!!!!" Lineker's voice sounded, "Harry Kane! He grabbed a point in front of the goal! 1:0! Manchester United finally broke the deadlock on the field and led Leicester City at home!"

Ye Su swung his fist vigorously and smashed it into the air.

He finally got the goal. In this difficult game, at this time point, this is a goal of great value.

He turned his head to look, and saw Leicester City coach Craig Shakespeare covering his face with his hands in pain at the coaching bench of the visiting team.

The tinker Ranieri's assistant took over the fired Ranieri in the middle of last season and became the head coach of Leicester City. Although he performed for a while, Leicester City soon fell into trouble again. trough.

Presumably, the old man's life in Blue Fox is not easy now!

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