Legend of Green: Rise of the Red Rebels

Chapter 196

After the match against Fenerbahce, Lu Wei asked the other coaches to return to Manchester with their players, while he flew to Monaco with assistant coach Steele to participate in the Europa League draw ceremony.

Arsenal in the Premier League, Villarreal in La Liga, Athletic Bilbao and Real Sociedad in La Liga, Cologne in the Bundesliga, AC Milan, Atalanta and Lazio in Serie A, Marseille in Ligue 1, Red Star Belgrade, Red Bull Salzburg, Zenit St. Petersburg and Dynamo Kyiv are all potential opponents of FC United in Europe.

Since FC United did not have UEFA points before, it was placed in the fourth tier of teams, and it was the only team in the fourth gear of the five major leagues, which is also no way, who let FC United enter the European competition with only 12 years of history.

Today is the draw for the Europa League, while yesterday the draw for the new season's Champions League group stage draw and last season's UEFA award ceremony were completed here.

Real Madrid, who successfully defended the Champions League and won La Liga, the UEFA Super League and the Club World Cup, became the biggest winners last season, with Cristiano Ronaldo alone winning the UEFA Player of the Year and Champions League Striker of the Year awards, Ramos and Modric winning the best defender and best midfielder, and Buffon, who unfortunately won the Champions League runner-up, won the best goalkeeper award.

The Champions League draw is also smooth, there is no death group born, the only more competitive should be Chelsea, Atletico Madrid, Roma and Calabac in Group C, Lu Wei remembers that Chelsea won the FA Cup this season, Roma reversed Barca in the second leg of the Champions League quarterfinals, and Atletico won the final Europa League, Lu Wei saw this result and couldn't help but mourn for Calabad for half a minute.

Attached are the results of the Champions League group stage draw for the 17-18 season

: Group A: Benfica, Manchester United, Basel, CSKA

Moscow, Group B: Bayern Munich, Paris Saint-Germain, Anderlecht, Celtic

Group C: Chelsea, Atletico Madrid, Roma, Calabac

Group D: Juventus, Barcelona, Olympiacos, Sporting Lisbon

Group E: Spartak Moscow, Sevilla, Liverpool, Maribor

Group F: Shakhtar Donetsk, Manchester City, Napoli, Feyenoord

Group G: Monaco, Porto, Besiktas, Leipzig

, Group H: Real Madrid, Borussia Dortmund, Tottenham Hotspur, Sporting Greeks

After Lu Wei and Steele came to the Grimaldi Convention Center, there were not many reporters in the hall, the heavy news was yesterday, and not many people paid attention to today's Europa League, but FC United is only a small team in Europe, but Lu Wei's fame has long been resounding on the continent, and many reporters also recognized the youngest head coach of the top five leagues, and it was a slap on him.

Lu Wei quickly walked into the venue with a flash of light, found his place to sit down, and began to talk with Steele about FC United's possible opponent.

"We're playing in Europe for the first time and we shouldn't be going to draw too strong opponents, but we've had a bit of a high profile this season and we may have a strong team to treat us."

Lu Wei said confidently to Steele.

"I don't think the top three teams are strong this year, we are the weakest team in the five major leagues, I think it is very likely to be in a death group."

Heavy soccer coach enthusiast Steele is clear that he is very much looking forward to drawing into a competitive group.

Lu Wei is not at all interested in this idea, it can make the team a little easier, the easier the schedule, the better, as a fan he likes to see the birth of the death group, but once he becomes the head coach, the opponents drawn are weaker than the other.

Soon, the managers and players of the major teams arrived one after another, and the Europa League draw ceremony for the 2017-18 season officially began.

There was not much polite process, the draw was carried out directly, a total of 48 teams participated in the group stage of the Europa League, divided into four levels, this year's draw guests are two former Barça players, anti-cancer fighter Abidal and Europa League all-time top scorer Larsson, Larsson was the first to draw the first team of Group A, he smiled and took out a ball and unfolded the note inside to show people.

Villarreal! It was the first team to be drawn, followed by Dynamo Kyiv, AC Milan, Arsenal and other teams. The fourth gear team had to play at the end, and Lu Wei, who had never known which group his team would draw, couldn't help but yawn.

No wonder, a total of 48 teams, at least 36 teams to draw FC United's turn, Lu Wei had to wait until a long hour to know the result, when finally heard the host shout the name of Rosenberg, the last third-tier team drawn, Lu Wei finally opened his eyes that were about to close.

Unlike the more relaxed Lu Wei, Steele next to him has been nervously watching the ball in the hands of Abidal and Larsson, silently thinking about the group that he hopes FC United will draw, due to the avoidance principle of the same league team, FC United has avoided Lyon, Atlanta and Red Star Belgrade these strong teams, but there are AC Milan, Hoffenheim, Lazio these strong teams in the group, especially do not draw into Group I, Salzburg Red Bull, Marseille and Guimarães are not good to play, If you draw Group I, it will become a proper death group.

Lu Wei glanced at Steele, who had the words, rolled his eyes helplessly, and thought, don't you want to pump into the group of death?

Lu Wei didn't have to wait long, and the first fourth-tier team Abidal drew was a name that Lu Wei was very familiar with.

"FC United!"

FC United were drawn to Group A, where they faced La Liga fifth-place Villarreal, Israeli Cup winners Maccabi Tel Aviv and Kazakhstan Premier League champions Astana.

The signing is not bad, strong is not strong or weak is not weak, the yellow submarine is also a regular in the Europa League in recent years, and won the first Europa League title in the team's history three years later.

Maccabi Tel Aviv is one of the oldest teams in Israel, and they have always been seen in Europe.

Astana is a football club founded in 2009, younger than FC United, but they are based on the predecessor Lokomotiv Astana, which is similar to FC United's Newton Heath.

However, with the support of the Kazakh government, Astana rose much faster than FC United, winning the domestic cup in its first year, but because it was less than three years old and could not participate in European competitions, it also successfully reached the Champions League group stage last year, becoming the first Kazakhstani team to enter the main stage of the Champions League.

These three teams are opponents, Lu Wei is very satisfied, not very strong means there is a lot of hope to qualify from the group, the opponent's strength is not very weak, too weak is a little boring.

Lu Wei rubbed his hands in his seat, looking forward to the start of the Europa League group stage.

With the Europa League Group Stage Draw Results for the 17-18 season

: Group A: Villarreal, Maccabi Tel Aviv, Astana, FC United

Group B: Dynamo Kyiv, Bern Juniors, Partizan Belgrade, Kortsk Debiru

Group C: Braga, Ludogorec, Hoffenheim, Bashack Sehir

Group D: AC Milan, Austria Vienna, Rijeka, Athens AEK

Group E: Lyon, Everton, Atlanta, Limassol Helios

Group F: Copenhagen, Lokomotiv Moscow, Sheriv Tiraspol, Zlin Falstaffe

Group G: Victory Pilsen, Star Bucharest, Workers Beersheba, Lugano

Group H: Arsenal, Borisov, Cologne, Red Star Belgrade Group I: Red

Bull Salzburg, Marseille, Guimarães, Konya

Group J: Athletic Bilbao, Hertha Berlin, Solja Luhansk