Manchester City, which failed to reach deus ex in the Champions League group stage, can only devote itself to the Europa League, and the first-class Blue Moon has also attracted much media attention. But what I didn't expect was that the draw of fate brought bad luck to Manchester City. The second-class Porto was drawn first, followed by the first-class Manchester City, so the most gimmicky battle of the Europa League 32 16 was born, and the European upstart PK defended the championship, which was really interesting.
After the lottery results came out, the British media also felt that Manchester City's signings were very poor, and even directly used Balotelli's famous saying "Why is it always Manchester City?" Marwood, the head of Manchester City, also expressed his views on the result of the draw at the first time. The senior official also thinks this is incredible. He said, "Is this amazing? Isn't it? We were in the deadliest group in the Champions League group stage, so we were very disappointed that we failed to advance to the knockout stage of the Champions League. Now we have won the defending champion Porto of the Europa League. This has to be said to be a big war. We will do our best to deal with this opponent. Coach Mancini says the goal is to win the Europa League.
Although the Champions League was eliminated, Marwood believes that Manchester City has more experience in the Europa League than the Champions League. "We didn't participate in the Europa League qualifiers and group matches, but we had such experience in the past. There are many competitions in the Europa League. Even now, it takes nine games to win the final championship, and Manchester City has the ability in this respect. I believe the club can beat Porto until the end. "
Even if we pass Porto, Manchester City's next opponents will be the winners of Warsaw, Leguia and Lisbon, and Portugal is stronger than poland ball. Therefore, Manchester City is afraid of continuous obstacles from Portuguese teams. Marwood said: "Now the draw is over, so we will put it aside. We need to focus on Porto. It will be two games. We will have many games in the next three months, which will make us very excited. We will not think about the opponents behind us for the time being. "
Manchester City met the defending champion, but the old enemy Manchester United (Weibo data) was not so lucky. Their opponent was the Dutch powerhouse Ajax. Arsenal (Weibo data) and Chelsea (Weibo data), the top two players in the Champions League, were also drawn. They met Milan and Napoli in Serie A (Weibo topic).