Chapter 87: Hell-level mission

　　 When Dundee United played against Twente at home, the Celtics, another European team from Scotland, also went to Italy away to challenge Udinese.
　　 If the Celtics want to qualify from this season's Europa League group stage, they must beat Udinese away.
　　 But at the end of the 90-minute game, the scoreboard was 1:1.
　　 The Celtics failed to defeat Udinese and were eliminated from the Europa League. Dundee United became the only seed in the Super League, the only team that made it to the knockout stage of the European War.
　　 "The Hell-level Mission of Dundee United", the next morning, "Pioneer Sports" gave such a report on the front page.
"This season's European group stage has all ended, Dundee United has reached the knockout stage, which is a surprise for us. After all, before the start of the group stage, everyone did not expect high from them, just like at the beginning The same is true when assigning them European war points. As long as they can get a little more European war points than Zurich in the Swiss league, Dundee United will complete the task."
　　 "The Celtics were eliminated, this is an unexpected and unreasonable result."
"Being assigned to a group of death, indeed everyone knows that the Celtics will have a considerable chance of being eliminated. But as the dominant team in the Scottish League, the Celtics must be eliminated from this group. , Earn enough European war points for the league."
　　 "So, this is an unexpected and unreasonable result."
"Before the start of this season, we had a very weak lead in the European Championship points in the Swiss League. At that time, we felt that it should be very easy to continue to suppress the opponent in the European Championship after the start of the new season. One is relatively simple. Mission."
　　 "Because we have the Rangers and Celtics two competitive teams, and the Swiss league has only one Basel."
"But at the end of the European qualifiers, Hartz and the Rangers were eliminated. The Swiss League also had Basel in the Champions League. At that time, we turned to think that although it was a bit difficult, it was still not small to overwhelm the opponent. Opportunity, so the difficulty of the task increased and it became a difficult level."
　　 "Just like the respective tasks assigned to the two teams at the time, each team gets a little more European war points than the other, which is just enough."
　　 "But now that the European war group matches are all over, the task difficulty has risen to level."
　　 "The Celtics are very'smart'. They took away the simple task belonging to Dundee United because they happened to get a little more European war points than Zurich, Switzerland."
"The Celtics scored 1 win, 3 draws and 2 losses in the Europa League group stage. According to the regulations, they can get 5 points in the European war. Zurich won the game even after being eliminated early in the final round. The result is 1 win, 2 draws and 3 losses, and got 4 European points."
"The Celtics took away the simple task and left a hell-level task for Dundee United. Because if the Premier League wants to keep the two Champions League qualifications, Dundee United must do more than Basel. A little European war points."
　　" Dundee United's score in the Europa League group stage was 4 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss, and can get 9 European points."
"As for Basel, they participated in the Champions League group stage and had 4 bonus points. The group stage score was 3 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss, and 8 points. In addition, they entered the UEFA Champions League knockout round and got 5 bonus points. "
　　 "So far, Basel has scored 17 European points, Dundee United has one point more than them, that is, in the Europa League knockout round, Dundee United still needs to score 9 points."
　　 "To do a simple calculation, Dundee United doubled their opponents to advance in the 32nd and 16th Europa League, plus a point of automatic reward for promotion to the quarterfinals, just enough."
　　 "This is still when Basel was knocked out in the Champions League round of 16 and can't get any more points."
"And even if Basel is very'cooperating' and doesn't score points, Dundee United may not be able to double-kill opponents in every round of the series. If there is a loss and promotion in the middle, it is likely that the quarterfinals are not enough. Dundee United must reach the semifinals to meet the conditions."
　　 "For Dundee United, this is indeed a hell-level task, an almost impossible task..."
　　 Lee Chenglong also read this report. The current task of Dundee United is indeed a bit difficult, but it is not without a chance.
　　 But the Champions League scored a knockout, and the points are almost as good as reaching the semi-finals in the Europa League. The gap is really big.
　　 No wonder some teams have been in the top sixteen of the Champions League every year, but they have always been very high in the European Championship. They have basically long been the first-tier teams in the Champions League.
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　　 With the end of the Europa League group stage, the Europa League knockout draw will follow.
　　 On Friday, December 16, the draw for the UEFA knockout round began at UEFA headquarters in Nyon.
　　 Dundee United's chairman Eddie Thompson took the management to go personally, this time Peter Houston did not follow, after all, he has to prepare for the weekend league soon.
　　 So the Dundee United team and members of the coaching staff watched the draw in the club.
　　The first 16 draw is definitely the more concerned UEFA Champions League round.
　　 Soon, the results of the Champions League round of 16 came out, and there was a two-strong matchup.
　　 Premier League Arsenal vs. Serie A AC Milan, Premier League Chelsea vs. Serie A Naples, there is a clear British-Italian confrontation.
　　 "Does UEFA want to destroy the Premier League?" assistant Toby Harrison couldn't help muttering.
　　 As far as the result of the draw alone is concerned, there is indeed such a suspicion.
　　 The Manchester City Bears had already been eliminated, and the two remaining Premier League teams happened to have drawn strong opponents.
You must know that Chelsea and Arsenal both advanced to the top 16 in their group. Among the eight groups that have advanced to the top 16 this season, only AC Milan and Naples are strong teams, and the other groups are ranked second. The second is basically cannon fodder.
　　 Under such circumstances, the two Premier League teams just happened to draw the two strongest groups second. You said there is nothing tricky who believes it?
　　 Anyway, Platini can't understand the Premier League is not a day or two.
　　Platini believes that the Premier League relies on a lot of money and always spends a lot of money to buy and buy, which not only disrupts the market order, but also destroys the foundation of football's youth training, so it must be vigorously rectified.
　　 But Li Chenglong felt that it might be because the money did not belong to UEFA, and Platini wanted "reasonable operation", which made him look upset.
　　 Football youth training is not much different from growing food.
　　 Everyone used to grow food honestly, and just manage their own fields.
　　 Now that some people have money and no longer grow food, they are starting to spend high prices on food to eat.
　　This will indeed cause food prices to rise, but those who have been growing food will definitely try their best to diversify. After all, food prices are high and selling food can also make a lot of money.
　　 Is it because someone spends a lot of money to buy food, will everyone starve to death together in the future?
　　 is really a crime.
　　 It is worth mentioning that in the Champions League round of 16 draw, Switzerland's Basel drew Bundesliga giants Bayern, it is really very likely to be directly doubled out.
　　 "Okay, well, we are finally here, I hope to draw Manchester United directly." The Europa League knockout draw is about to begin, and Vardy is making himself again.
　　 "In the first round, we couldn't draw Manchester United." Peter Houston simply made the rules for him.
　　 The European Union’s 32nd round draw is the same as the Champions League, letting the group first match the group second.
　　 And the eight teams that dropped from the Champions League group stage~EbookFREE.me~ The four teams with higher points in the Champions League group stage are automatically assigned as the group first, and the four teams with lower points are automatically assigned as the second in the group.
　　 Although Manchester United have fallen, their points in the Champions League group stage are not low, and they will automatically enter the group first side with Dundee United. At least the two teams will not meet in the top 32.
　　 Soon, the draw result came out, Dundee United won the Romanian overlord Bucharest Stars.
　　 The result of this draw is actually pretty good. Although the Star team is the Romanian hegemon and once won the Champions League, it is the hegemon of the Eastern European minor league after all. Today's combat effectiveness is not necessarily strong.
　　 But Dundee United is not good at the result of the draw in the top 16.
　　 The current Europa League draw is drawn from the top 32 and the top 16 at one time. After the top 8 is decided, it will be drawn again with the top 8 of the Champions League.
　　 According to the result of the draw, the winner of Dundee United and the Bucharest Star will be the winner between the victory of the Bundesliga Schalke 04 and the Czech League Pilsen in the round of 16.
　　Schalke 04 is a strong team in the Bundesliga. The basic problem of defeating Pilsen is not a big problem. If Dundee United passes the top 32, there is a high probability that it will meet Schalke 04 in the top 16.
　　 You must know that Schalke 04 is currently one of the favorites to win the UEFA Champions League. Dundee United met in the round of 16. It is definitely not a good thing.
　　 After the Europa League’s top 32 came out, the European gambling company gave the championship favorites, Manchester United, Manchester City, Atletico Madrid, Valencia ranked top four, and Schalke 04 ranked fifth.
　　 Dundee United, tied for 18th place with several other teams.
　　 This is because Dundee United won the first place in the group before, and with the current domestic league results very good, it won such a position, otherwise the ranking may be lower.