The four giants in the Premier League won all the fourth round, but the most beneficiary was Liverpool. After Arsenal defeated the leader Manchester City, they replaced Manchester City and became the new leader in the Premier League.

The shortcoming is that Liverpool injured two central defenders in this game, Hypia will have to take at least one off-season, and Carragher will have to rest for at least one month. Liverpool, which was originally short of personnel in the central defender position, is now even worse. In the next game, they even had to let full-back Aberoa play the role of a central defender.

Fortunately, Liverpool's opponent in the next round, Derby County is a newly promoted team and has limited strength. Even if Liverpool gives up an ace shooter, the two main central defenders can still win.

In the spare time of the game, Liverpool's management did not give up appealing for Chen Yu. They played so hard with the newly promoted Sunderland. I don't know what would happen in the subsequent games. If Chen Yu can be successfully suspended by one game, then Liverpool will have an extra chance of winning. If the appeal is not successful, there will be no loss to Liverpool. Therefore, Liverpool has been appealing and has been constantly complaining about Chen Yu in the media. However, the FA obviously did not buy it and did not give up on the penalty for Chen Yu at all.

The British media pro-Liverpool believe that the FA is suspected of suppressing Liverpool, because after Chen Yu returned from injury last season, Liverpool won 24 consecutive games in a row and snatched the championship from Manchester United. The FA is worried that Liverpool will be ahead of the season and will lose suspense early on. Without suspense, there will be no attraction. The FA gave Chen Yu such a heavy ban to hold Liverpool forward and make the competition for Premier League champions more intense.

Media who do not like Liverpool and Chen Yu believe that the punishment for Chen Yu is not only not heavy, but also too light, because Chen Yu not only beats people first, but also actively participates in the subsequent group fights. The punishment for Chen Yu should be aggravated, otherwise it will not be enough to deter other players who commit crimes on the court.

The media's statement is just to attract more fans' attention. They have never been so concerned about the authenticity of things. This conspiracy theory argument has no fundamental harm to the FA. The FA is too lazy to care about what the media says. They are very clear that fans' attention will be maintained for up to one week. Once a new game begins, fans will immediately forget what the media has said now.

In fact, less than a week later, the fans' attention was attracted by the upcoming Champions League group draw and the subsequent European Super Cup.

The draw ceremony for the Champions League group stage was held on the day after the Champions League qualifiers, in the UEFA lecture hall in Nyon, Switzerland.

Although Chen Yu will also participate in the subsequent European Super Cup matches at Monaco II Stadium in Monaco and Sevilla, the Champions League group stage draw ceremony also has a ceremony for the major awards of the Champions League last season. As the protagonist, Chen Yu also came to the scene with head coach Benitez and club manager Rick Barry.

When Chen Yu arrived at the UEFA lecture hall in Nyon, Switzerland, the UEFA lecture hall was already full of guests, with stars and very lively.

Seeing Chen Yu, Benitez and Rick Barry's arrival, the reporters immediately pointed the camera at the three people and started filming. Other stars who were familiar with Chen Yu, Benitez and club officials also came to say hello to Chen Yu.

Chen Yu is now very different from the last time he participated in the Champions League draw ceremony. Chen Yu was just showing his strength last time. Now, Chen Yu has become a popular candidate for the world footballer, and more people come to say hello to Chen Yu.

Chen Yu was used to this situation. He calmly and patiently greeted the stars attending the meeting and then found his seat in the front row to sit down, waiting for the lottery and award ceremony to begin.

UEFA divided 32 teams into four levels and adopted the principle of "same league team avoidance" to draw lots. 32 teams will be divided into 8 groups to start the group stage. The second leg of the qualifying match between Sevilla and Athens AEK was postponed to next week due to the unfortunate death of Sevilla player Pueta, and the Champions League draw will not be affected. Therefore, when UEFA draws, only 31 places were indeed granted, and the last seat has not yet been released.

However, UEFA has already defaulted to the 2-0 victory in the first leg, and the winners of Sevilla and Athens AEK will not be separated from the teams from Spain and Greece. If Sevilla is out in an upset, Athens AE will become the fourth-level team, and the Celtics will replace Sevilla and become the second-level team. In addition, due to the influence of winter weather, CSKA and Copenhagen will fall first or third in their respective groups, allowing them to play away games on the sixth day.

The division of UEFA Champions League teams (the letters in brackets are paired with each other, that is, their game is scheduled on Tuesday or Wednesday respectively. If three teams in the same country participate, only two teams will arrange the schedule according to the principle of odd and even pairing.):

First gear: AC Milan (Italy A), Barcelona (Spain B), Liverpool (England C), Inter Milan (Italy A), Arsenal (England D), Real Madrid (Spain B), Chelsea (England D), Manchester United (England C)

Second gear: Valencia (Spain E), Lyon (France F), Porto (Portugal), Seville (Spain E)/AEK (Greece M), Eindhoven (Netherlands), Rome (Italy G), Benfica (Portugal H), Bremen (Germany I)

Third level: Celtics (Scotland J), Schalke 04 (Germany), Stuttgart (Germany I), Bucharest Star (Romania), CSKA Moscow (Russia), Sporting Lisbon (Portugal H), Lazio (Italy G), Marseille (France F)

Fourth level: Glasgow Wanderers (Scotland J), Donetsk Miners (Ukraine K), Beshiktas (Turkey L), Olympiacos (Greece M), Dinarmo Kiev (Ukraine K), Fenerbahce (Turkey L), Slavia (Czech Republic), Rosenberg (Norway)

The guests at the scene all had information issued by UEFA. Everyone was talking about the divisions of each team on the information, and they were guessing what opponents they might get and which opponents they most wanted to be with.

About half an hour later, the host of the Champions League group draw ceremony, Pinto, the host of the UEFA Secretary-General David Taylor, and the legendary goalkeeper of the former Soviet Union, Dasayev, came to the rostrum at the venue.

"The lottery and award ceremony are about to begin. Before we start, please let us watch silently for the newly-dead Sevilla player Puerta." Host Pinto suggested to all the guests.

Antonio Puerta is a Spanish football player. He was selected for the Spanish national team in 2006. In the match between Sevilla and Getafe in this season's La Liga, Sevilla player Puerta suddenly fell to the ground and fell into a coma. He died after three days of rescue.

At Pinto's suggestion, all the staff at the scene stood up and observed a minute of silence for Puerta.

Taylor then introduced the basic principles of this draw and presented awards to the best European goalkeeper last season.

The winner was not the champion goalkeeper Reina, but Chelsea goalkeeper Cech. After Cech received the award, he and former Soviet legendary goalkeeper Dasayev became lottery guests to draw lots for the first-class team.

The first-class team was first drawn into various groups, runner-up AC Milan was first assigned to Group D, Gunners Arsenal, who entered the Champions League for ten consecutive seasons, entered Group H, Red Devils Manchester United were drawn into Group F, and Champions Barcelona in 2006 entered Group E; La Liga giants Real Madrid were assigned to Group C, Serie A champion nationality Milan entered Group G, last season's champion Liverpool entered Group A, and Chelsea, who became a seed for the first time, was assigned to Chelsea.

This round of lottery was naturally calm, and there was not even a business to be discussed below.

Then Pinto announced that the best European defender Maldini came on stage to receive the award. There was applause at the scene, and everyone dedicated their admiration to Maldini. This was not how great Maldini is now, but that his spirit of perseverance until now touched everyone.

After the award ceremony with tears in his eyes, Maldini drew lots for the second-tier team with legendary goalkeeper Dasayev.

The first team to be drawn from the second level is the recent Champions League dark horse Eindhoven, who entered the G group where their nationality is Milan. The second team of La Liga Valencia was drawn, and the Bats were drawn together with last season's quarter-final opponent Chelsea in Group B. Bremen was drawn third, and they fought with Real Madrid in Group C. The winners of Sevilla and Athens AEK entered Group H, and Arsenal was the seed team of this group. Lyon was in Group E with Barcelona, ​​and Benfica and AC Milan will compete in Group D. Roma was drawn, and they entered Group F where Manchester United was located. The last second-level team Porto entered Group A and will fight with Liverpool.

After the second-level team draws the lottery, the scene is not so calm. Many giant teams are complaining about their opponents, and a few teams who have drawn good draws remain calm.

Liverpool's opponent is Porto. It can only be said that this is a mid-range and top draw. Porto has rich experience in European competitions, good results, and has won the Champions League championship. It is a difficult opponent, but compared with Liverpool, it is still a little worse than Liverpool's strength and foundation.

The third-level draw guest was the best midfielder in Europe last season, Liverpool midfielder Gerald, and then Gerald and legendary goalkeeper Dasayev drew for the third-level team.
Chapter completed!