Four Hundred and Twelve Goals: 3 Crowns

After Barcelona beat Real Betis and won the Spanish Super Cup, Real Madrid mouthpiece Aspen said sourly and sarcastically that the Spanish Super Cup has a curse, and all teams that win the Super Cup will lose their title defense.

The Catalan media scoffed at this, saying that the Aspen newspaper was saying that the grapes were sour.

It was in this atmosphere where the two media camps fired at each other that the Barcelona team set off for Monaco.

Every year at the end of August, the eyes of fans all over the world will focus on Monaco.

After three rounds of qualifiers, the top 32 of the Champions League are freshly released, and the draw of Monaco will determine the future trend of these 32 teams.

As early as after the qualifiers were played, major media have reported the rankings of the UEFA Champions League seeded teams this season.

Thanks to last season's title win, Barcelona are at the top of the seeded standings, followed by Real Madrid.

This makes many people feel the strength of La Liga.

In the early years of the century, Real Madrid won the Champions League twice within three years, and its momentum was unrivaled in the entire European arena.

Today's Real Madrid has shown fatigue, Zidane, Ronaldo, Figo, and even David Beckham and other superstars have shown their old state, and their state is not at the peak, but Barcelona has risen with the trend and took over the La Liga from Real Madrid. flag.

Although this summer, Barcelona did not invest even a penny in the transfer market, but no one can deny that the overall strength of this team is better than last season.

Marcos Senna can finally represent the team in the Champions League, the addition of Van Bommel has also strengthened the midfield, and young players such as Sudong, Messi and Iniesta have matured for another year, which makes Barcelona's overall Strength has been improved.

So much so that after the list of the top 32 has just been decided, the three major European gaming companies have offered winning odds one after another.

Barcelona are a veritable favourite, second only to blues Chelsea at the top of the table.

The reason why Chelsea can surpass Barcelona is mainly because the team spent a lot of money this summer to introduce many powerful stars including Essien, and the overall strength has been greatly improved.

The problem with Barcelona still exists, and that is defense, especially when the opponent is defending the counter-attack.

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The draw was still held at the Grimaldi Conference Centre in Monaco, interspersed with the award ceremony.

The overall situation of the Champions League group stage this year has changed a lot from last year, which can be seen from the second team.

As a La Liga team, Barcelona avoided Villarreal, the same country team in the second pot. The real strong opponents are Juventus and Chelsea. The Bianconeri's performance in European competitions in recent years has not been satisfactory. As for the points is not high, but in the league has been very stable.

With the addition of Vieira this season, Juventus has formed a double midfielder combination of Vieira and Emerson, which can be called the most extravagant top double midfielder in world football today. An incredibly extravagant defensive line, Capello's team is also a favorite in this year's Champions League.

Fortunately, Barcelona had good luck this time, avoiding Juventus and Chelsea, and winning Porto in the Portuguese Super League.

It's not bad, it's not bad, it's pretty good overall.

Due to their participation in the European Super Cup, the entire Barcelona team was invited to participate in this event. When they saw Porto who had won the Portuguese Super Cup, everyone couldn't help laughing, and obviously felt relieved.

After all, no one wants to meet a strong opponent in the group stage too early, which is not a good thing.

But the luck of the draw for the third-tier team was worse, and the strongest team was drawn, Werder Bremen from Germany.

Among the fourth-tier teams, they avoided Real Betis from the same country and drew Udinese from Serie A.

As a result, the group that Barcelona is in is embarrassed again.

If you talk about strength, Barcelona must be a unique show, there is no doubt about this.

Even Porto,

In the past two years, it has long lost its glory. After all, after Mourinho left, he poached most of the team, causing Porto's current overall strength to return to the second-class in Europe.

But Werder Bremen and Udinese are both teams in the four major leagues. They can reach the Champions League, which proves that the strength of these two teams is extraordinary. Even if they are not as good as Barcelona, ​​they still have the ability to disrupt the game. .

Therefore, Barcelona's signing this season can only be regarded as quite satisfactory, neither good nor bad.

On the contrary, like Real Madrid, luck is much better. Although the second draw is Lyon in Ligue 1, the third and fourth draws are Olympiacos and Rosenborg. Neither of these two teams can pose a threat to Real Madrid and Lyon. .

Relatively speaking, the luck of the Galaxy battleship is obviously better.

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With the process of drawing lots, the major awards of the Champions League last season were also released one after another.

The championship coach award went to Rijkaard and Gazaev, the former is the head coach of Barcelona, ​​who led the team to the Champions League, and the latter is the head coach of CSKA Moscow, who led the team to the UEFA Cup.

These two teams are also participating teams in the European Super Cup tomorrow.

The goalkeeper of the year is not too controversial, mainly because the goalkeepers of the two teams participating in the Champions League final are not good.

Needless to say, Barcelona's Valdes, AC Milan's Dida is also not very reliable.

The three goalkeepers who are really in contention are Liverpool's Dudek, Juventus' Buffon and Chelsea's Cech.

In the end, it was Cech of the Blues who won the award.

The Czech goalkeeper is indeed the best and most stable goalkeeper in European football last season. Whether it is height or various statistics, Cech is the well-deserved number one goalkeeper.

With Cech's age and the stability he has shown so far, I believe it won't take long for him to surpass his predecessors such as Buffon and Casillas and become a new generation of top goalkeepers in Europe.

The best defender was awarded to Maldini of AC Milan.

This is a more controversial award, because the competition with Maldini is Chelsea captain Terry and Barcelona's Puyol, needless to say the former, the best central defender last season, Puyol as captain The team won the Champions League, especially the epic comeback, which is a plus.

But in the end, Maldini, the oldest goal scorer in the history of the Champions League final, got the award.

The midfielder of the year is also controversial, but the source of the controversy is not the winner, but Ronaldinho's position.

Kaka won the midfielder of the year, but many people think that Ronaldinho is the most suitable candidate. In UEFA's distinction, Ronaldinho is classified as a striker.

In other words, Ronaldinho is unlikely to participate in the best midfield competition.

So Kaka beat Deco and Harvey to get this award.

Among the best strikers of the year, Ronaldinho lost to teammate Su Dong, which is not controversial.

Not to mention anything else, let's just say that he won five yuan in the Champions League final, and Su Dong can basically swept the major awards last season.

Finally, the best player of the year was also awarded to Su Dong.

When Su Dong took over the MVP award representing the best player from UEFA President Johansson, the entire Grimalti Conference Center burst into applause, and all the Barcelona players cheered and applauded for him.

In his speech, Su Dong also expressed his gratitude to the Barcelona players and coaching staff.

He said that without the support of his teammates and coaches, he could not have stood on this podium and won this award.

"Here, I want to tell my teammates that although this award is for me, it also belongs to everyone. I hope we can continue to work hard in the new season. I believe that we will have a chance. Go for more and higher honors!"

Su Dong's remarks are undoubtedly in response to the club's strategic goal this season, the triple crown!

In the history of La Liga, no team has ever won the Triple Crown, even if it is as high as Real Madrid.

With the current strength of Barcelona, ​​it is really capable of competing for this honor.

The premise is that the club creates a better playing environment for the team and the locker room remains stable and harmonious.

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Su Dong's speech after winning the award quickly aroused heated discussions around the world.

Barcelona is really strong at the moment, but not strong enough to ignore other rivals, such as Real Madrid.

As the mouthpiece of Real Madrid, AS reported that it was the first to stand up, believing that it was difficult for Barcelona to achieve the goal of the triple crown, because their defense was still fragile, and Rijkaard's on-the-spot command and formation gradually revealed shortcomings.

"When Su Dong was imprisoned by his opponent, Barcelona had almost nothing to do!"

The British media also believe that Barcelona is unlikely to defend the Champions League.

"It is not difficult to see the odds of the bookmaker. The real number one favorite is Chelsea. After introducing a number of strong reinforcements in a row, Mourinho's team has become very strong overall."

"If they really meet in the Champions League, the last laughing team will definitely be Chelsea!"

The British media must also be on Chelsea's side.

Cruyff, the godfather of Barcelona, ​​supported Sudong and Rijkaard, and believed that Barcelona was fully capable of achieving this goal.

"I want to remind everyone, especially the management of Barcelona, ​​that problems in Barcelona have never come from the dressing room, but from outside the dressing room!"

Cruyff reminded the management that if you want to achieve the great goal of the treble, you must ensure that the locker room is given a stable game and training environment, and those unnecessary riots are minimized.

"So far, the management's approach is worthy of recognition."

"Renewing the contracts of Sudong, Ronaldinho and Rijkaard stabilized the team's morale, and renewed the contracts of rookies such as Iniesta and Messi, which provided a guarantee for the thickness of the team's lineup. The current Barcelona first-team talents Jiji, there is definitely hope for results.”

In the end, Cruyff also euphemistically reminded Rijkaard that the team should increase its efforts in rotation to ensure the game status of some core players in key battles.

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"I'm looking forward to seeing Rijkaard's Dream Second Team create a great era of their own!"