tenth

After the Champions League qualifying round, the draw ceremony for the 2006-2007 UEFA Champions League group stage will be held. This will be held one day after the match between Benfica and Rapid Vienna, and the venue will be Monaco.

All the head coaches who have entered the top 32 of the UEFA Champions League will attend the draw ceremony. Benfica's head coach Santos is obviously no exception. Although the Portuguese Super League is about to start, he also has to go to Monaco. At the same time, the coaches of Porto and Sporting Lisbon

The head coach has to go too.

Qiu Ze did not go, and none of the Benfica players went because they had to prepare for the Portuguese Super League, which will open in two days. However, they all watched the entire draw ceremony on TV.

.

The draw drawn by Benfica was pretty good. Benfica was drawn into Group F. Their opponents in the same group include the Red Devils Manchester United from the Premier League, Celtic from the Scottish Premier League, and Copenhagen from Denmark.

The strongest team in this group is undoubtedly the Red Devils Manchester United. Their strength is obviously much higher than the other three teams. They are the favorites to top the group. Then there are Celtic and Benfica, and Copenhagen is still not strong enough.

A little less so.

Therefore, in this group, Benfica is fighting for second place, and their most direct opponent is Celtic. Of course, they also have to guard against Copenhagen reaping the benefits.

It will be difficult to qualify from this group. But Benfica still has a great chance. Moreover, compared to the other two teams in the Portuguese Super League, Benfica's grouping is considered the best.

Last season, Porto, the top team in the Portuguese Super League, was assigned to a very, very miserable group. Their opponents in the same group were Arsenal from the Premier League, CSKA Moscow from Russia and Hamburger SV from the Bundesliga.

Every opponent in this group is very strong. It will definitely be difficult for Porto to qualify. After coming out of group one, most media were not optimistic about Porto.

Sporting Lisbon, which is second in the league, is even more miserable. It has almost been announced that they have been eliminated from the group. Because they are in the same group with Inter Milan from Serie A, Bayern Munich from the Bundesliga and Spartak Moscow from Russia.

The favorites in this group are undoubtedly the two giants Inter Milan and Bayern Munich. If Sporting Lisbon wants to qualify, it will be even harder than reaching the sky. Sporting Lisbon people are even thinking about crying.

So, Benfica is the luckiest team in the Portuguese Super League. They are likely to stand out from the group and reach the top 16 of Sporting.

The other group groups are as follows: the four teams in Group A are Barcelona, ​​Chelsea, Werder Bremen and Levski Sofia. The four teams in Group C are Liverpool, PSV, Bordeaux and Galatasaray.

The four teams in Group D are Valencia, Roma, Olympiacos and Shakhtar Donetsk. The four teams in Group E are Real Madrid, Lyon, Steaua Bucharest and Dynamo Kyiv. Group H are AC Milan, Lille and Athens

AEK and Anderlecht.

One of the more interesting ones is the rivals Barcelona and Chelsea. Since 2004, these two rivals have always met in the UEFA Champions League. Is this a gimmick created by UEFA?

What’s more interesting is that in last season’s UEFA Champions League, Benfica was placed in the same group as Manchester United. The reason why Manchester United was humiliatingly eliminated in the last place in the group was because Benfica was in the same group.

In the final round of the group stage, they beat Manchester United 2-1.

At that time, the situation in Benfica's group was very complicated. In the last round, everyone had the possibility of appearing in the group. Villarreal, who topped the group, ranked first with seven points, and Lille and Manchester United ranked first with six points.

points, but Lille is better than Manchester United in terms of victory and defeat. Lille ranks second, Manchester United ranks third, and Benfica ranks at the bottom of the group with five points.

In the last round, Villarreal challenged Lille at home, and Benfica challenged Manchester United at home. Villarreal defeated Lille with a goal and won first place in the group. Benfica beat Manchester United 2-1 and won second place in the group.

Lille is better than Manchester United due to the winning-loss relationship, ranking third. Manchester United is at the bottom of the group and has not even qualified for the Europa League.

Manchester United's humiliating exit made Manchester United fans hate Benfica. This season, Benfica and Manchester United meet again. It is the moment of revenge for Manchester United. Manchester United fans seem to be eager to see the team and Benfica.

Fighting.

For such a draw, Benfica people want to say that there must be something fishy in it, and there is a big fishy thing. The Portuguese media have revealed that this draw is a secret operation by UEFA. Almost every year after the draw ceremony, the media will

Crazy revelations about UEFA's behind-the-scenes operations. UEFA doesn't care at all. As for whether there is any behind-the-scenes operations, only they themselves know.

Benfica's players are quite satisfied with this draw, because their draw is much better than Porto and Sporting Lisbon. They don't need to worry so much. All they have to do now is prepare well and play well.

At this moment, Benfica's players don't have that much energy to think about this. They all focus on the league, because the Portuguese Super League has begun.

Benfica will face Biranises in the first round of the league. Qiu Ze did not start this game, but Qiu Ze came on as a substitute and also sent two assists. In the end, Benfica got off to a good start in the league and won 4-0.

Next to Beranises, they are temporarily ranked first in the league standings.

However, in the second round of the league, Benfica encountered Waterloo because they had to prepare for the UEFA Champions League in midweek, and their opponent Guimares was not very strong. Therefore, Santos arranged for this game

A half-main and half-substitute lineup was formed, with Qiu Ze sitting on the bench.

Guimarez gave Benfica two sap shots as soon as he started. Only twenty minutes into the first half, his opponent took the lead by two goals, which shocked the Benfica people. By the time they reacted, it was already too late.

Just at the beginning of the second half, Guimarez scored another goal, defeating Benfica 3-0.

Benfica lost this game without even wearing trousers. Qiu Ze was substituted in the second half of the game, but only two minutes after he came on the field, during a fight, Qiu Ze was injured and came off the field. This was the first time in Qiu Ze's career.

An injury.

However, Qiu Ze's injury is not very serious, but Qiu Ze will not be able to play in the UEFA Champions League next week. This makes Santos very angry and depressed at the same time. He originally wanted to stay in the Champions League. No

It's such a sad day to think about not only losing the game, but not even retaining this strength.

Losing this game, Benfica was knocked off the top of the league. Porto temporarily topped the league, Navarre ranked second, Sporting Lisbon ranked third, and Braga ranked fourth. These four teams are

The only team that has maintained a 100% victory so far.

After this round of league games, the UEFA Champions League group stage officially started. Benfica's first round was an away game against Denmark's Copenhagen. Well, the weather in Denmark is Benfica's biggest enemy. In the away game, Benfica really hopes to win with a victory.

To give Benfica a good start in today's Champions League match, but in the end, they failed to do so.

In the end, Benfica had a zero-to-zero draw with Copenhagen in an away game, with each side scoring one point. This result was unsatisfactory for Benfica. For a team that aspires to qualify for the group stage, it must be among the weakest in the group.

The opponent scored all three points, but Benfica failed to do so, which undoubtedly cast a shadow on Benfica's group qualifying situation.

In another game of this round of the group, the Red Devils Manchester United narrowly defeated the Celtics 3-2 at home and got three points. This game was very difficult for the Red Devils to win, and it was still at their home court, Manchester United.

The strength is not bad.

What does this mean? This shows that the Celtics are a very powerful team. It is still very difficult for Benfica to beat them to qualify. Benfica people are beginning to worry about whether they can qualify from this group.

?

Only time will give them the answer. After the Champions League game, Benfica will immediately return to the league. They will face the Nacional at home in the league. Qiu Ze did not appear in Benfica's eighteen-man roster for this game.

Benfica's head coach Santos did not take the risk of letting Qiu Ze play. Qiu Ze is still a very important player for Benfica. A healthy Qiu Zeke is much more important than a victory. Santos does not want to lose a big for a small gain.

At home, Benfica narrowly defeated Nacional with one goal. The goal was scored by Benfica's wing star Simao. He broke through the opponent's defense with continuous breakthroughs on the wing, then cut inside and suddenly passed the ball. But the center followed up.

Nuno Gomez did not touch the football, but Miccoli volleyed the ball from behind and shot the football to the far end.

However, Miccoli did not score a goal. The football hit the far post and bounced to the feet of Simao who cut inside. Simao did not stop the ball and directly pushed the goal and succeeded. The National team's goalkeeper had not had time to get up.

The football flew into the goal behind him, one to zero.

Benfei scored a small victory over his opponent and rose to second place in the league. The first place is the undefeated Porto team. Porto has been really strong in recent years and has made great progress. They have become one of the three largest clubs in Portugal.

The first.

After two games of rest, Benfica finally returned to Benfica's eighteen-man roster. However, in the fourth round of the league, Santos did not put Qiu Ze in the starting lineup, and Qiu Ze sat on the bench.

.

I don’t know. Is Santos afraid that Qiu Ze will have problems with his condition after being injured? Or is he preparing for the UEFA Champions League next week?

Next week's UEFA Champions League midweek is very important for Benfica. They will challenge their enemy Red Devils Manchester United at their home court. Benfica does not want to give up in this game. They hope to score points against the Red Devils and advance to their group.

Lay the foundation for qualifying.

It makes sense that Santos wants to stay in the Champions League. Benfica’s opponent Ferreira in this game is not a weak team. After the first three rounds, they now have six points, which is the same as Benfica’s points. It’s just a net loss.

Winning fewer goals and falling behind Benfica.

It may be difficult for Benfica to win this game, because Benfica has retained its strength, and this game is Ferreira's home court. Ferreira also knows that Benfica is tired of the Champions League next week, and they don't want to let it go.

By taking this opportunity to score points, they came to win this game.

Ferreira performed extremely eye-catching in the cheers of the fans, which made Benfica's head coach Santos very nervous. Finally, in the 22nd minute of the first half, Ferreira scored and they scored a goal.

Ahead of Benfica.