Chapter 691: Champions League grouping

Many people think that Gao Zheng's words were intended to irritate Barcelona. After all, the out-of-string sounds of the words are personally audible.
But this time, in the face of Gao Zheng's active provocation, Barcelona did not say anything. Even Pique didn't stand up and say anything.
A reporter asked him what he thought of Gao Zeng's words, and his answer was: "It is indeed not revenge."
This surprised the reporters-when will Peake be so honest.
Is it really being defeated in the Super Bowl?
But more often, no matter what the reporter asks, Pique doesn't speak, so no one knows exactly what Peek thought.
But to say that Pique really doesn't care about vengeance, everyone will never believe it. He must be holding his heart to wait for Barcelona to win the game before talking.
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In fact, the match between Atletico Madrid and Barcelona is followed by the first round of the Champions League group stage, but Simone does not plan to rotate in this game, even if Atlético Madrid’s first UEFA Champions League group stage is to challenge Galatasa away. mine.
It is really more important to the league with Barcelona.
In the Champions League, Atlético Madrid was assigned to Group C this season. As a seed team, they were separated into a group with Galatasaray, Benfica and Astana.
In terms of the strength of the same team, there are basically no opponents who can threaten Atletico Madrid.
But that doesn't mean that Atletico Madrid's UEFA Champions League group stage will be easier this season.
Mainly because it is not easy to play away.
It's not to say how good opponents can play at home, mainly because they are too far away.
Except that Benfica is nearby, both Galatasaray and Astana must be expeditioned.
Galatasaray is far enough away. It has reached the border between Europe and Asia, and Astana is farther away.
Friends who are familiar with European football may be unfamiliar with this name. In fact, this team is indeed a new face in the Champions League.
This is a Kazakhstan team.
As we all know, Kazakhstan is an Asian country, but why can their team participate in the Champions League? Because the Kazakhstan Football Association joined UEFA, not AFC.
Before the collapse of the Soviet Union, there was no Kazakhstan. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, most of the territory is in Asia-many people may think that Kazakhstan is naturally an Asian country, but it is not. Kazakhstan has two provinces with a population of about 1 million people living in geographical Europe. Geographically, Europe traditionally refers to the continent west of the long line of the Ural Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian Sea, the Caucasus Mountains, the Black Sea, the Bosphorus, the Marla Sea, and the Dardanelles Strait. Is counted as Asia.
And Kazakhstan happens to have two provinces-Western Kazakhstan and Atyrau Region across the Ural River, so Kazakhstan, like Turkey and Russia, are countries with territories in Asia and Europe. But perhaps because most of the country is in Asia, they joined the AFC automatically after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
However, for a country with no foundation in AFC, Kazakhstan has no one in the AFC dynasty, so it is often bullied. Originally they thought that by virtue of their victory, they would not go sideways in Asian football, at least the World Cup qualifying was not a problem-the reason why they did not choose UEFA, I am afraid that it is too difficult to go to UEFA to play the World Cup. Unexpectedly, in the Asian region, they also failed to qualify for the second consecutive World Cup.
At the same time, they are in conflict with the AFC. After all, the AFC has long been dominated by West Asian football. For the past fifty years, the AFC chairman has been an agent of the local tyrants. Only Zhang Jilong of China has served as the chairman for two years.
The contradictory fuse was the 1995 Asian Club. A club in Saudi Arabia refused to go to Kazakhstan because of the cold weather. It stands to reason that in this case, the Saudi Arabian club should be punished, but the AFC controlled by Western Asian football not only did not punish the Saudi Arabian team that refused to participate, but also awarded the game a 0:0 tie.
This incident caused great dissatisfaction in Kazakhstan and later withdrew from the AFC.
As for joining UEFA, for Kazakhstan football, the Russian Football Association, which is also affiliated with the Soviet Union, provides them with support and assistance, and the support and subsidies provided by UEFA are also different from AFC. In addition, often playing together with European strong teams is also of great benefit to the improvement of Kazakhstan football.
So Kazakhstan has joined the UEFA family since 2002.
It's just that although they have been in UEFA for so long, they have participated in the Champions League for the first time.
Because before Kazakhstan's team strength is too weak, even qualifying can not break through.
This time, Astana, the representative team of Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan, eliminated the Slovenian champion Maribor in the qualifying match, then eliminated the Finnish champion Helsinki and reached the play-offs. In the play-offs, their opponent was the Cyprus League champion Greeks who also played in the Champions League last season.
In the end, Astana eliminated the opponent with a total score of 2:1 and reached the Champions League. Created the history of Kazakhstan football.
This team will also be Atletico Madrid's opponent in the UEFA Champions League group stage.
Astana is more than 5,700 kilometers away from Madrid. It takes seven hours to fly by plane. This is a huge test for Atletico Madrid at the western end of Europe.
This may also be the furthest away trip in the Champions League-unless the professional team in Vladivostok on the easternmost side of Russia also scored in the Champions League... but that’s unlikely, the team’s The strength is too weak.
Considering such an away trip, for Atletico Madrid, even if the opponent is weak, I am afraid the game is not easy to play.
Besides the distance, the weather is also a very important factor.
Because according to the schedule, Atletico Madrid's away challenge to Astana was on November 3, when the capital of Kazakhstan had entered the winter. Astana is the second stunned capital city in the world, second only to Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia. In winter, the minimum temperature can reach minus 40 degrees.
Even if November 3 is not a deep winter, it will not reach forty degrees below zero, but twenty degrees below zero will also cause great trouble for Atletico Madrid...
Fortunately, Atletico Madrid do not need to consider this issue, they only need to consider the game against Barcelona.
Maybe Barcelona is much cuter than the road away more than 5,700 kilometers away.
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