Chapter 419: Christmas champion spell

In the fifth round of the UEFA Champions League group stage this week, the qualifying situation of many groups has become clear.
　　 In this group of Liverpool, Liverpool secured the first place in the group with 13 points ahead of time after winning at home. At the same time, Wolfsburg also secured the second place with 9 points after successfully winning CSKA Moscow away.
Therefore, in the last round of the group stage, the match between Liverpool and Wolfsburg has become irrelevant. The biggest suspense of this group is to see who Eindhoven and CSKA Moscow can grab the third place in the group, so as to participate in Europe. League knockout.
　　Whether it is against the Dutch League or the Russian Super League, the Europa League knockout is an important way for them to win European points.
　　 The other three teams in the Premier League and the Champions League, Chelsea beat Maccabi Tel Aviv 4-0 in the away game, which is their rare victory this season.
　　 Although this big victory failed to help Chelsea qualify early, it was considered a good opportunity for them.
　　 In the last round of the UEFA Champions League group stage, Chelsea only need to draw at home to qualify, and they will definitely get the first place in the group after winning.
　　 As for the Blue Moon Manchester City, who had already qualified in the last round, they played a bit disappointing again.
　　 Manchester City have already qualified ahead of schedule. They are going to challenge Juventus in the away game this round. They only need to tie in the away game and they can continue to hold down the old woman and prepare for their final round of winning the group first.
　　 But Manchester City lost 0:1 away to Juventus and was overtaken by the opponent for points. At the same time, the opponent completed a double kill in the group stage.
　　 In this case, although Manchester City still has a chance to win the group first in the last round, they can only wait for Juventus to make a mistake.
　　Liverpool and Manchester City should be the two strongest teams in the Premier League this season. If Manchester City can't get the first place in the group, then most of them will encounter strong opponents in the Champions League round of 16 and the road to promotion will immediately become difficult.
　　 Liverpool, Manchester City, and Chelsea are all in a good situation in qualifying for the Champions League, but Arsenal is still not optimistic.
　　 Although Arsenal beat Dinamo Zagreb 3-0 at home this round, Bayern was also very helpful and beat Olympiacos 4-0 at home.
　　 But at present Arsenal are still three points behind Olympiacos. In the final round of the group stage, Arsenal must go to an away game to defeat the Greek team, and the winning score cannot be too small, otherwise it is not enough.
　　 In the first round of the match, Arsenal lost to Olympiacos 2:3 at home.
　　 So in the last round to go away, Arsenal will have to win at least a 3:2, or a bigger score, so that Arsenal can successfully qualify.
　　 If only one win 1:0 or 2:1 in the final round, Arsenal will still be eliminated due to the disadvantage of the win-loss relationship.
　　 The Champions League group stage has been in five rounds. In the latest Champions League scorer list, Lee Chenglong still occupies the top spot. He continues to rank first in the Champions League scorer list with 9 goals.
　　 Behind Lee Chenglong, Cristiano Ronaldo scored 7 goals.
　　 It seems that this season's Champions League golden boot battle, basically depends on Lee Chenglong and Ronaldo.
　　 This round of the Champions League Messi finally recovered from injury, and in Barcelona's home game 6:1 victory over Rome, Messi scored twice.
　　 But up to now, these two goals are Messi’s only two goals in the Champions League this season. Although there are still a lot of games to come, Messi is indeed far behind Lee Chenglong and Ronaldo.
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　　, the 14th round of the Premier League, Liverpool vs. Swan Hayswansea at home.
　　 The Welsh team is now in 15th place in the Premier League standings, a standard relegation team.
　　 At Anfield Stadium, although Liverpool suffered a bit of offensive setbacks, they eventually won the game without risk.
　　 In the 68th minute of the second half, Yumian Langjun Firmino broke into the opponent's penalty area and made a point. Lee Chenglong made a point and Liverpool won the game 1:0 at home.
　　 After winning the Swan Sea at home, Liverpool took this opportunity to open up some of the points difference with the team behind, because this round of the Premier League has many draws.
　　 Tottenham and Chelsea’s London derby ended up in a 0:0 boring.
　　 The game between Leicester City and Manchester United ended in a 1:1 draw.
　　 In addition, Arsenal played a 1:1 draw with the relegation team Norwich in the away game.
　　 In this round of the Premier League, apart from Liverpool, only Manchester City won the Premier League. They defeated the Saints Southampton 3:1 at home.
　　 So in the latest Premier League standings, Liverpool's points came to 35 points, followed by Manchester City and Leicester City are 29 points, Arsenal 26 points, Manchester United and Tottenham 25 points.
　　 At present, the difference between Liverpool and the second place is six points, which gives Liverpool a chance to win the Premier League Christmas championship this season.
　　 In the history of the Premier League, most of the Christmas championships eventually won the league championship that season.
　　 For Liverpool, the Christmas championship is more like a spell.
　　 The Red Army had won the Premier League Christmas championship three times before, but in the end the team failed to win the league championship that year.
　　 This season, it was the first Christmas championship for Liverpool in the Premier League era, but in the end the team only ranked fourth in the Premier League, and Manchester United won the Premier League championship that year.
　　 This season, Liverpool won the Premier League Christmas Championship again, but the final champion was Manchester United.
　　 In the season, Liverpool won the Premier League Christmas championship last time, and the team missed another good opportunity. The final championship was won by Manchester City.
　　 Three Christmas championships and failed to win three times. This is indeed like a spell for Liverpool, and it is well known.
In fact, in the history of the Premier League, there are not many teams that won the Christmas championship but failed to win the championship, including Newcastle United, Aston Villa, Leeds United and other Premier League teams ~EbookFREE.me~ and Manchester United. Well-known Premier League giants like Arsenal, and even teams like Norwich have won the Premier League Christmas championship. They did it in the first year of the Premier League.
But although these teams, Manchester United and Arsenal have missed opportunities, they have won the Premier League championship, and the overall influence of other teams is not as good as Liverpool. In addition, Liverpool has missed three opportunities, which is indeed the most missed. That’s why Liverpool’s Christmas Championship spell is really well-known.
　　 It is also worth mentioning that the last two Premier League Christmas champions but failed to win the championship were all arranged by Liverpool, which is indeed a bit of a loss.
　　 Nowadays, Liverpool is getting closer and closer to the Christmas championship, and the British media have begun to hype Liverpool's Christmas championship spell.
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　　 In Asia this weekend, the two rounds of the AFC Champions League final this season are all over.
　　 The Chinese Super League team Guangzhou Evergrande defeated the UAE team Dubai Ahli 1-0 with a total score of two rounds in the final and successfully won the AFC Champions League this season.
　　 After 2013, Guangzhou Evergrande won the AFC Champions again.
　　 Two championships in three years, it is indeed relatively strong.
　　 With the decision of the AFC Champions League, the teams participating in this year's Club World Cup are also completely determined.
　　 As the Champions League champion, Liverpool will directly advance to the semi-finals of the Club World Cup. The opponent in the semi-finals will be the winner between the Asian champion and the North American champion, that is, the winner between Guangzhou Evergrande and Mexico America.
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