Chapter 280 Manchester United's real points rush!

The group of death always leads to a lot of topics, and this time is no exception.

After the 08 European Cup round of 16 was determined, the group of death was bound to appear. However, at the final group draw ceremony, the birth of the group of death was more violent than people imagined: the historical champion teams of the European Cup, the Netherlands, Italy and France, were actually drawn into Group C, and in the same group with them was also an absolutely powerful team, Romania - so four glorious and great teams formed the super group of death together.

After the draw is finalized, the four teams in Group C will inevitably have three tough and fierce battles. The specific order of the battles in Group C is as follows:

In the first round, Romania will face France, and the Netherlands will face Italy.

In the second round, Italy will face Romania, and the Netherlands will face France;

The final round of the group stage will see the Netherlands face Romania, while France and Italy will resume their previous encounter.

Being placed in the group of death in the European Cup will undoubtedly make the Italians painfully recall the nightmare of being eliminated in the group stage of the last European Cup: they were tied 0-0 by Denmark in the first round, tied 1-1 by Sweden in the second round, and although they defeated Bulgaria in the last round, a 2-2 tacit tie between Denmark and Sweden strangled the Azzurri in the group stage.

However, things will turn around. Denmark and Sweden, who played in tacit agreement in the last tournament, failed to enter the final round of this European Cup.

No matter what, looking at the grouping and schedule, Italians will still have bad associations: for example, there is a possibility of qualifying in the last round of the group stage, and then the last round of the group stage will bring the European Cup into the first climax, Italy and France will stage a spectacular life-and-death battle in advance, and it is very likely that at least one of the champions and runners-up of the 06 World Cup will go home early!

And according to Murphy's Law... I won't say any more, I won't say any more! I will be kicked out by the fans and fan circles of Italy and France!

After the draw, the teams in Group C became the focus of media attention. After all, everyone likes to gloat over other people's misfortune. Oh no, it's more like to watch the fun with compassion... Never mind, anyway, it's nice to see it's not them who are unlucky, so naturally we have to interview the head coaches of the four teams who were present at the draw.

Dutch coach Van Basten is clearly troubled by the group draw: "This group is very difficult! I am very familiar with Mr. Donadoni. We both played for AC Milan in the past. He is very difficult to deal with. Italy is a country with a great football tradition. They always go far in major competitions. France has also been in excellent form in the past two years. Romania is not a weak team either. On the contrary, they have very strong strength... This is an extremely difficult group!"

France coach Domenech did not hide his disappointment at all: "I think any coach would not be happy if he entered such a group. The overall level of our group is very high. We have three former European champions in this group... Before facing Italy, we must pass two levels first. The game against the Netherlands is always difficult, but we should not forget that the Netherlands was even surpassed by Romania in the qualifiers, which is enough to prove that there are no easy games in this group... We originally wanted to avoid these three opponents, but even though we are not satisfied, we have to face them."

As for Donadoni, who succeeded Lippi as the head coach of the world champions last year, he was not in a good mood either: "Our road to qualifying was not easy, and the draw for the finals was not smooth either. I had hoped for better luck in the European Cup... It is an extremely difficult test to enter such a group. We can only try our best to cope with the arrangement of fate."

In addition, perhaps people think that in such a grouping, Romania can only play the role of accompanying the prince to study. After all, in terms of fame, the other three opponents have all won the European Cup.

However, Romania coach Piturca is ambitious and believes that opportunities and crises coexist: "This is a very wonderful group, of course it will not be easy. We are in the same group with the World Cup champions and runners-up, as well as the recognized strong team Netherlands. I think this will be a very remarkable experience for us, but why can't we be one of the two qualifying teams?"

Finally, many media outlets believe that according to the schedule, the lucky winners of the group of death will face the relatively weaker opponents in group D. For Italy, France and the Netherlands, it seems that surviving the initial disaster will ensure that they can reach the final venue in Vienna.

Ricardo couldn't help but sneer at the final bad luck: What? Group D has Spain, which is about to start a dynasty!

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在抽签仪式结束之后，欧足联宣布还宣布了一件令所有参赛球队的心跳加速的事情，就是08年欧洲杯的总奖金将在4年前的基础上增加5500万欧元，达到创纪录的1亿8400万欧元；而全胜夺冠的球队也将拿到史无前例的2300万欧元奖金。

Although it is only an intercontinental competition, the excitement and suspense of the European Cup are never inferior to those of the World Cup.

Compared with the European Cup four years ago, UEFA's latest bonus distribution principles have increased significantly:

1. The basic prize money for participating teams increased from 480 million euros to 750 million euros;

2、小组赛赢球奖金由65万欧元增加至100万欧元，平球奖金由32万欧元增加至50万欧元；

3. The team that reaches the quarterfinals will receive an additional 200 million euros, and the team that reaches the semifinals will receive a bonus of 300 million euros;

4. The winning team will receive an additional 750 million euros, and the second-placed team will receive 450 million euros.

5. Therefore, compared with the 1700 million euros prize money won by the last champion Greek team, the champion of this European Cup is expected to receive a huge prize of more than 2300 million euros!

If it were distributed to every member of the team, it would be a huge prize of nearly one million euros!

Of course, this bonus is just for Li, a B man who already has a B!

On December 2007, 12, there were still 5 days until the traditional Chinese festival Winter Solstice, 17 days until Christmas, 20 days until New Year's Day, and 26 months and 9 days until the collapse of Lehman Brothers. However, it had been more than 10 months since the signs of the US subprime mortgage crisis appeared, and almost 4 months had passed since the US stock indexes reached record highs on October 10.

The next Fed rate hike meeting will be on December 12, but Old Li Qi also warned that this decision will not meet market expectations at all. The U.S. stock market will plummet the next day, and then start an 11-month high-level shock downward trend, and prepare for the last domino or the last straw that breaks the camel's back...

As of today, Li B's plan of light-weight U.S. stocks has finally been completed, with only a bottom position of less than 10 million US dollars left. That is to say, for the sake of gesture, he wants to retain a few VIP trading seats for big investors and deal with the inspection agencies. However, Li B did not build short positions on a large scale. Li B closed all his futures and options positions, no matter long or short. After all, the reckoning is the same all over the world, and the term malicious short selling cannot be explained, so you have to leave room for everything, otherwise you will die without knowing how you died.

Speaking of Christmas, Ricardo has already started to implement his Christmas plans this week, because the Premier League is the most inhumane of all leagues in the world, and the games become more frequent as the holidays approach.

Starting this weekend, the Premier League will enter the fast lane. In less than a month, Manchester United will play 8 games, including 1 Champions League, 1 FA Cup, and the remaining 6 league games, an average of one game every 3.5 days.

On December 12, the 8th round of the Premier League played at home against Derby County;

On December 12, the last round of the Champions League group stage away to Rome;

On December 12, the 16th round of the Premier League away game against Liverpool;

December 12, Christmas Day match 23, Premier League round 1, home game against Everton;

December 12, Christmas Day 26, the 2th round of the Premier League away game against Sunderland;

December 12, New Year's Day 29, the 1th round of the Premier League away game against West Ham United;

January 1, New Year's Day 1, Premier League round 2 home game against Birmingham;

On January 1, in the third round of the FA Cup, Manchester United played away against Aston Villa.

Fortunately, Manchester United has been eliminated from the English League Cup, otherwise they would have to play an extra League Cup quarter-final and a semi-final first leg. Playing 8 high-intensity games in 28 days can definitely make a team collapse...

Therefore, after joining Manchester United, Ricardo’s winter vacation was gone, and he was busier than usual. Naturally, it was impossible for him to arrange enough time to participate in business activities of the endorsement brand, nor was it possible for him to go on vacation with his girlfriend and family.

Fortunately, in the summer, two girlfriends were passively laid off, otherwise, with the addition of Emma and Liana, Ricardo would definitely be too busy. Although Emma and Liana both have some cheating roles, the former thought she was cheating on her best friend's sister, and the latter thought she was cheating on her best friend's classmate, so they are relatively low-key and forbearing, but the more low-key and forbearing they are, the more time and effort they need to spend to deal with it!

However, this week, after sending Sarafina back to London to review for the exam, B-man Li did not wait for Emma Watson, because the latter was also grounded by her mother and also had to make up for her homework to prepare for the final exam...

Therefore, Li B had a rare opportunity to handle some of the business activities of the brands he endorsed, such as the advertisements and makeup photo shoots for Nike, Coca-Cola, Audi and Prudential; as for the requirements of Armani, Ferrero Kinder and Tissot, he would have to arrange time separately.

In addition to the brand events he endorses, B-man Li also squeezed out precious time for his career, oh no, it was time, to attend the opening of his own brand Shuang Alu's flagship store in Manchester.

Originally, he and Nike jointly launched a sports fashion brand, mainly to solve the problem of ugly sports equipment. Unexpectedly, in just one year, Shuang Alu's products and designs were quite popular in the market, especially the tight sports base clothes that protect muscles and the trendy and avant-garde shin guards, which are the flagship products of his own brand.

Before we knew it, we had opened more than a dozen chain stores in Italy, and now we were going to open two flagship stores in the UK, one in London and one in Manchester. Both stores were opened on December 12, an auspicious day for Feng Shui, after all, a master had recently calculated such a good day. We definitely couldn't go to the one in London, so we asked Sarafina to do it for us. B-man Li also attended the opening ceremony downstairs of his apartment before the training session started that day...

So this week was super busy, business activities + training filled every minute of Ricardo's week, so busy that B-man Li couldn't help but feel a little confused: I already have a B-dollar man, do I still need to work so hard for a few dollars? Well... making money is not the key, the main thing is that I like the feeling of being fulfilled and busy!

The last thing before this week's competition is to receive and inspect the goods. B-man Li had already thought about the Christmas gifts for his girlfriends, family members and good friends this year, and placed the order a month ago. All of them arrived today, a total of 66 small rectangular brick boxes.

Then, Man B, Li, could not wait to open the box and experience the long-lost, oh no, it was the legendary smart phone!

After activating the first generation of iphone, B opened the familiar Apple Notepad and wrote down the following: Julian will come to the UK on December 12 to attend an academic forum, and then return to Milan for Christmas after three days via his apartment in Manchester; Sarafina will come to Manchester to celebrate Christmas with him on the 17st after taking the exam, and will also return to Milan for the winter vacation on the 3th; and after the away game against Sunderland, Emma can sneak over to play with me...

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2007年12月8日下午15时，07/08赛季英格兰足球超级联赛第16轮一场焦点战在老特拉福德球场展开争夺，曼联迎战升班马以及副班长德比郡。

曼联近5个主场对阵德比郡取得4胜1负，其中不乏2001年12月5比0大胜。双方英超历史交锋12场，曼联6胜4平2负，两次失利均在主场，红魔反而在客场取得2胜4平保持不败。双方历史交锋98场，曼联40胜29平29负占据上风。

However, before the game started, Manchester United was hit by 48 hours of continuous heavy rain, which made the field extremely slippery and added some unexpected factors to the game.

But Sir Alex didn't care. He had seen all kinds of situations. He directly used Rooney, who had just returned from injury, to start. The other three youngsters also started, playing a 4-4-2 formation with two wings flying side by side.

The goalkeeper is No. 1 Van der Sar;

The back line from right to left is No. 6 Wes Brown, No. 15 Vidic, No. 5 Ferdinand and No. 3 Evra;

The central midfielders from right to left are No. 7 Cristiano Ronaldo, No. 4 Hargreaves, No. 17 Li Qi and No. 11 Giggs;

If they resume playing with two strikers, naturally, No.9 Rooney will play with No.32 Tevez;

Although Li Qi will start in the central midfield, he will most likely switch positions with Giggs frequently during the game. Li Qi will be responsible for doing the dirty work when defending, and will be responsible for running forward when attacking, allowing Giggs to calmly organize the midfield and deliver the fatal pass in the absence of Scholes.

Although the slippery grass created some difficulties for the home team Manchester United, facing the weak strength of the second-to-last team, the Red Devils still suppressed the opponent from the first minute of the game and frequently tore through the opponent's defense from both wings.

In the 5th minute, Li Qi passed the ball, Ronaldo broke through and won a corner kick; Giggs took a corner kick from the right side, and Ferdinand headed the ball from 6 yards in front of the goal but missed the near corner.

In the 10th minute, Li Qi and Giggs made a wall pass and then cut diagonally to the wing. Evra, who was on the wing, made a cross from the bottom of the left side, and Rooney's volley from 6 yards in front of the goal missed the near corner.

The visiting team could only fill the gaps in the defense through active running and threaten the home team's goal through long shots in quick counterattacks, but it did not test Van der Sar who was in excellent form.

Instead, Manchester United created a dangerous opportunity in the 24th minute and almost scored first. Li Qi passed the ball to Giggs and then quickly inserted himself into the defense, who observed and passed the ball to Ronaldo.

After a series of bicycle kicks, Ronaldo broke through to the left side of the penalty area and sent a cross. However, the ball was too fast and slightly behind; Rooney missed the ball at the front point, and Li Qi suddenly followed up in the middle, forcing Derby County defender McEvilly to hastily clear the ball.

However, McEville's clearance was off target and went towards the far post. Fortunately, the ball bounced off the post and fell into the arms of goalkeeper Bywater, who turned back to save the ball. Derby County escaped.

However, in the subsequent games, Manchester United's offensive wave was higher and higher, and soon in the final stage of the first half, Manchester United finally broke through the dense defense of the visiting team!

Manchester United took the lead in breaking the deadlock in the 41st minute. Li Qi passed the ball in the middle, and Evra's cross from the left was blocked by Griffin; the ball fell to Li Qi again, who decisively sent a cross pass to Ronaldo on the other side.

Ronaldo took the ball and forced his way into the left side of the penalty area. He shot hard against the defender's defense from 16 yards in front of the goal! Ronaldo's shot was bravely saved by the visiting team's goalkeeper Bywater, but the ball was not cleared far away...

Giggs and Tevez, who were flanking the middle, double-shotted the ball, only to hear Wang Laoji shout, and then Tevez took half a step back, allowing the former to take the lead and shoot into the empty goal from 7 yards in front of the goal!

The Welsh winger also made history with this goal, becoming the same player as another Welsh legendary star Gary Speed ​​who has scored in every season since the establishment of the Premier League!

After Manchester United took the lead, the game became more open, because Derby County could no longer defend blindly, so the Red Devils' goal wave did not end, but just began...

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