Chapter 20 Champions League Grouping (The guarantee is the first one, ask for a monthly pass!)

Reaping the Champions League qualification is a very exciting thing. The media in other parts of Italy are worried about the prospects of Naples in the Champions League this season, but the local media in Naples appears ecstatic.

They all praised this as a great breakthrough. This is a new chapter in Naples football and a great day.

This is especially true for the fans. When they beat Sporting Lisbon at home to qualify for the main match, many fans even brought up the portrait of Maradona to thank him for his blessing to this team...

Of course, Chen Yingxiong himself dismissed this. Maradona is not dead yet...

Not much to say about the carnival of the Naples fans. For the Naples players, they are not so luxurious and can enjoy the joy of breaking into the Champions League.

Because just before the next day's training, the head coach Mazzari has warned everyone not to be happy for such a result.

"...It's really nothing to be happy about, on the contrary you should frown. Because we have since stepped onto a stage that is more difficult than the matches you have experienced before. UEFA Champions League, guys! This is nothing. Italy’s domestic leagues can be compared. Here it will be very difficult for us to qualify from the group stage, let alone the semi-finals and eight-finals. And reaching the Champions League main match means that we have to be in the next new season. Distracting the two fronts in the middle-at least before the winter break, as for whether it will be like this after the winter break, it depends on your performance. Fighting on two fronts at the same time is for us A rare experience, but I'm not sure if you are ready."

In the UEFA Cup last season, the Naples players who were so happy to participate in the Champions League were finally thrown cold water.

They were eliminated in the group stage.

This disappointed many Naples fans.

Therefore, it is normal for many people to worry that Naples will repeat the same mistakes this season. The coach himself is worried...

This is all a growth. He didn't want to directly challenge the Champions League this season, if it weren't for... the team's momentum was too strong in the final stage of last season...

He was worried that the players would not be able to cope with the two-line combat. It's horrible to deal with a UEFA Cup, and what will happen to the higher and more intense UEFA Champions League?

To be honest, he really has no bottom as a head coach.

Naples hasn't played in the Champions League for 19 years. The last time they participated, the UEFA Champions League was called the UEFA Champions League...

"So, in order to make you fully prepared, every next day of training will allow you to experience... life is better than death!"

The players exclaimed. They knew that the good days were over...

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For Sanchez, Sarayeta, Suniga, Contini, and Pazzienza, they can indeed feel the taste of "life is better than death"...

When the team is in full swing preparing for the second round of the new season and preparing for the Champions League group stage, they can only haunt the gym and physiotherapy room. Because they were injured...

They are part of the team's injury list. The list was initially only Sanchez alone, and other names were added later, and Sanchez also had new partners.

These people are basically injured in training. Mazzari's training is very intense, and some people are injured if they can't persist.

But Mazzari did not stop his training plan. He knows that high-intensity training at the beginning of the season is necessary, because only in this way can the players have enough physical reserves. If the pre-season training is too easy, it will cause everyone to start to have insufficient physical fitness before and after the winter break. If they do not enter the team, their results will decline, and many people will also greatly increase the chance of injury.

This is experience.

Every head coach must be clear about the importance of pre-season training.

He took over the team midway last season, and the team's pre-season training plan was not made by him. For the first time this season, he led the team in pre-season preparations, so he naturally wanted to implement his ideas.

The high-intensity training is so that the team will not lose the chain due to the rapid exhaustion of physical energy when the team is fighting in the double line.

At that time, I was eliminated in the Champions League group stage, and the domestic league fell into the relegation zone, but it was too sad...

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While Naples was actively preparing for the match, the results of the group draw of the Champions League group stage also came out.

Because Naples participated in the UEFA Champions League for the first time in 19 years, and their performance in the UEFA Cup last season was also very poor, they are very low in European Championship points and are listed as the fourth-tier team.

This means that Naples will most likely be divided into the group of death... At that time, even the group stage will not be able to make it out, the best result is to take the third place in the group to play in the UEFA Cup knockout round.

But the final result for Naples, I really don't know whether it is good or bad.

They are grouped with Liverpool, Lyon, and Zenit St. Petersburg...

This is not a death group in the absolute sense, but the strength of the four teams feels like a match, and it is normal for anyone to win or lose. Because of this, people feel that the qualifying situation of this group is a bit confusing.

There is another episode in this draw...

When the name of Naples was put on the big screen and appeared below Zenit St. Petersburg, the TV broadcast gave a close-up shot of Zenit St. Petersburg's general manager Sasania. The director in charge of broadcasting the lottery is obviously very familiar with European football, and most of all, he is very concerned about Zenit St. Petersburg.

This is the first time Chen Yingxiong and Arshavin have met their old club after leaving Zenit. They did not expect it to be in the Champions League group stage.

Last season, relying on Chen Yingxiong’s crazy goals in the first eleven rounds of victory, although Zenit St. Petersburg's performance in the second half of the season was not as eye-catching as the first half, he also retained the league title. They won for two consecutive seasons. To the league championship, once again qualified for the Champions League.

Despite last season's UEFA Champions League, Zenit St. Petersburg's performance was not satisfactory. In the end, he only got third in the group and ended up playing the UEFA Cup. But it also has something to do with leaving two absolute main cores in one go.

With the Champions League points last season, as well as the UEFA Cup last season and the UEFA Cup record last season, Zenit St. Petersburg ranks third in the UEFA Champions League this season.

In this way, the two teams were divided into a group...

Chen Yingxiong and Arshavin will have the opportunity to return to Petrovsky Stadium, where there are fans who still welcome them.

It's just that Zenit St. Petersburg is now a dubious.

The team’s meritorious head coach Ed Wocart was dismissed from the club on August 14 this year. The conflict between him and the club has long existed. At first, because of the departure of Chen Yingxiong and Arshavin, he was dissatisfied with the club’s senior management. The club's senior management did not do everything possible to keep these two core players, which led to the defeat of the Champions League. And the club executives also blamed his defeat in the Champions League...

At that time, the relationship between the club and Edvard Carter was already very bad. If Edvard Carter had not led the team to withstand the pursuit of the Kazan Rubies and eventually saved the league championship, I am afraid he would have to dismiss the get out of class at that time. .

In 2009, Zenit St. Petersburg’s performance in the domestic league was not satisfactory. At the same time, in the summer, the team’s captain and midfielder Tymoshchuk was also sold to Bayern Munich by the club, which ignited The conflict between Edvard Carter and the club broke out. In addition, Ed Wocart announced in advance that he intends to coach the Belgian national team in January next year, after the contract expires. Aroused dissatisfaction from the club's senior management, the club believes that Ed Wocart's move caused the team's dissatisfaction, which is the main reason for the team's current poor ranking in the league. As a head coach, he lacks the necessary professional ethics.

In this way, Edvarkata was fired when the contract was half a year left...

Therefore, Chen Yingxiong will not have the opportunity to compete with his mentor. Now Zenit is temporarily taken care of by the former Zenit youth team coach Anatoly Davydov (anatoly_davydov).

The caretaker head coach Chen Yingxiong still knows. Although he didn't stay in the Zenit youth team for a long time, he knows the people who meet every day.

Davidov was formerly Popovich’s assistant, but after Popovich’s contract expired last season, he left Zenit and Davidov was promoted to the youth team's head coach.

When Edvard Carter first came to Zenit to take up his post, he brought his own coaching team. Now he has been fired. It makes no sense that his assistants can continue to stay at Zenit club, so even assistant coach Porter. Followed and left.

The assistant coach and the head coach are gone. Naturally, the head coach can only be promoted from the youth team to be the temporary head coach.

The two sides signed a temporary contract valid for six months, in this half of the season, Davidov will serve as the team's head coach.

Zenit began to actively look for a new head coach to replace Davidov.

Judging from the current situation of Zenit, although they are the third grade team in this group, from the point of view, they probably should be ranked to the fourth grade.

If Naples wants to qualify, they must score six points on this team. In this way, when Chen Yingxiong and Arshavin face their old club, it is naturally impossible to show mercy.

As for Liverpool and Lyon, they are not good opponents...

The results of the group stage draw came out. After a lapse of nineteen years, the Champions League journey in Naples will officially begin on September 16.

Their first opponent in the group stage is Lyon. On September 16, they will go to an away game to challenge the former Ligue 1 overlord.

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