On Saturday afternoon, Chelsea took the lead in challenging Birmingham away.

Although the ball possession rate of the game was as high as 63%, Birmingham had a bus throughout the game, leaving Chelsea helpless in the first 80 minutes. Zheng Zhi, Lampard and Joe Cole took turns to test Birmingham's goalkeeper with long shots, but they all returned in vain.

It was not until the 88th minute that Zheng Zhi sent the ball to Drogba's head through a corner kick attack. Drogba's head-shaking one of his lions knocked on Birmingham's goal. In the end, Chelsea won Birmingham 1-0 away game, and the league started with two consecutive victories.

One of the competitors, Manchester United, also got a good start, with Manchester United defeating the newly promoted Manovic 2-1 at home. Smith assisted Berlon to score, and since then he scored his first Premier League goal since joining Manchester United.

Liverpool, where Fan Zhiyi is located, defeated Manchester City 2:1 and temporarily climbed to third place in the standings. However, Fan Zhiyi still had no chance to play in this game and sat on the bench for 90 minutes.

And Li Yin was very sad.

Borgkamp, ​​Reyes, Loneberg and Pire each scored one goal, while Henry contributed two assists, and Arsenal defeated Everton 4-1 at Goodison Park Stadium.

After two rounds of the Premier League, Chelsea ranked first, Arsenal was second, Liverpool was third, and Manchester United, with one win and one loss, was temporarily wandering in the middle and lower reaches.

At this time, Manchester United broke out in a scandal. A call girl who charges £45 per hour revealed to the British Sun yesterday that the magical boy of England, Rooney, had slept with her...

Then the headlines this weekend were slaughtered by Rooney's news.

Ferguson, who was already short of soldiers, was really a big shot. He ran to Monaco in shame, which was temporarily avoiding the limelight.

However, after coming to Monaco, he still had to face the crazy pursuit and siege of English journalists.

Ferguson had to stand up and express his support for Rooney, "Didn't you ever been when you were young?"

"What kind of shit is this?"

Well, Ferguson is on Rooney's side.

Mourinho happened to be nearby, and he was also asked about Rooney's opinion. Mourinho said: "My players will not have such a problem," he said.

"Zheng Zhi is a role model for everyone."

The proud Mourinho was mocking Ferguson.

Then the two sat together again while drawing lots, but neither took the initiative to speak to each other.

Wenger, not far away, sat next to AC Milan coach Ancelotti with a smile and chatted.

"Your team's Kaka is really good."

“Have you ever considered selling him?”

When Ancelotti heard this, he immediately replied happily:

"Henry of your team is also good, would you consider it?"

Wenger was choked and smiled awkwardly: "You can think about Van Persie."

“Or Borgkamp.”

Ancelotti nodded thoughtfully, "Then you can consider Ambrosini or Costakuta?"

Wenger:...

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The qualifiers for the 0405 season of the European Champions League were settled. In addition to the disappointing elimination of Benfica, coached by Trapatoni, all the strong teams passed, which made UEFA happy and filled the fans with joy. After all, no one wants to see any elite team missing the top event of the European club.

At this Champions League, UEFA modified the classification methods of seeds and teams of various levels, from the original method determined based on the ranking of the leagues in UEFA to the club's points in the European arena in the past five seasons and the overall UEFA score of the league in UEFA.

According to this new ranking method, the four Spanish teams were all selected as the first-class seed teams with the overall points advantage of La Liga and the excellent performance of their respective clubs in the European arena. Only Inter Milan appeared in the first level of the four Serie A teams. Among the third level, there are also veteran teams such as Ajax and Leverkusen.

Lottery division situation:

First grade

Real Madrid, Inter Milan, Porto, Barcelona, ​​Manchester United, Bayern Munich, La Coruña, Arsenal;

Second level

AC Milan, Liverpool, Juventus, Porto, Roma, Lyon, Chelsea, Panasinacos;

The third level

Eindhoven, Leverkusen, Celtics, Sparta Prague, Monaco, Anderlecht, Ajax, Paris Saint-Germain;

Fourth level

Rosenberg, Dynamo Kiev, Olympiacos, Werder Bremen, Fenerbahce, Donetsk miners, Maccabi, Tel Aviv, and Locomotive Moscow.

At 16:00 local time in Monaco, the draw ceremony of the Champions League group stage was held in Monte Carlo.

Three groups appeared in Serie A and La Liga teams, AC Milan and Barcelona were divided into the same group, Inter Milan encountered Valencia, while Real Madrid was in the same group as Roma.

The four Premier League teams are lucky and their groupings are ideal. Manchester United, Arsenal and Chelsea are in the groups without any opponents from the four major leagues.

The specific results are as follows:

Group A: La Coruna, Liverpool, Monaco, Olympiacos.

Group B: Real Madrid, Roma, Leverkusen, Dynamo Kiev.

Group C: Bayern, Juventus, Ajax, Tel Aviv Maccabi.

Group D: Manchester United, Lyon, Sparta Prague, Fenerbahce.

Group E: Arsenal, Panasinaikos, Eindhoven, Rosenberg.

Group F: Barcelona, ​​AC Milan, Celtics, Donetsk miners.

Group G: Inter Milan, Valencia, Anderlecht, Bremen.

Group H: Porto, Chelsea, Paris Saint-Germain, CSKA Moscow.

"The signing is good." Mourinho was very satisfied with the opponents drawn by Chelsea, including Porto, Paris Saint-Germain and CSKA Moscow. No matter how you calculate it, Chelsea can easily stand out.

Ferguson next to him finally spoke, "We are okay, too."

Manchester United draws Lyon, Sparta Prague and Fenerbahce, which looks better than Chelsea's luck.

Wenger, not far away, was also smiling happily. Arsenal's signing was also quite cool, Panasinaikos, Eindhoven and Rosenberg. If Arsenal can't get first place in the group, he will jump into the Thames.

In general, the lottery draw was a happy one...

But an accident happened soon, because Chelsea vs. CSKA Moscow, the former is controlled by Russian rich man Abu, and the latter is at least suspected because Abu is the largest shareholder of Siberian Petroleum, the sponsor of CSKA.

UEFA immediately realized the problem and immediately launched a further investigation into whether Abu is also the controlling shareholder of CSKA Moscow. UEFA News Chief William Gaillard said: "We usually conduct rough checks on all clubs to determine that no one has 51% of the equity in two or more clubs at the same time, and if we think there is a problem, a more comprehensive review will be conducted."

He further explained: "Once the investigation results show that Abu also has a controlling stake in the CSKA Moscow, he must make a choice of two, with one of the clubs continuing to stay and one club out of the Champions League."

In response to the UEFA investigation, Chelsea club responded immediately, claiming that UEFA and other Champions League teams did not need to worry about the relationship between Abram and CSKA. Press Officer Simon Greenberg stated: "Mr. Abramowitz is Chelsea's boss. He is only one of the many shareholders of Siberian Petroleum, which has a jersey sponsorship contract with CSKA Moscow. Mr. Abramowitz does not have shares in the club and does not have any direct interests."

UEFA is not buying Chelsea’s argument. Although it would be a bit of a struggle to find out the details of the relationship between CSKA and Abu, Gaillard insisted that if there is any doubt, one of Chelsea or CSKA must be eliminated from the Champions League group stage. "Our rules are very clear. Once someone finds that they own more than 51% of the two clubs at the same time, the two teams cannot compete at the same time."

The media has long reported that CSKA Chairman Yevgeny Ginal has a very unusual relationship with Abu. Although Abu is no longer the boss of Siberian Oil Company, he is still one of the major shareholders of the fifth largest oil company in Russia. There are even rumors that he is still the largest shareholder. The company obtained the naming rights of CSKA Club to 2006 for US$18 million, and in March this year, it signed a three-year jersey sponsorship contract with the club for a period of up to US$54 million. During this period, Abu also went to the arena to watch two CSKA games at the invitation of Ginal. In recent years, CSKA has continuously broken the record of transfer fee expenditure in the Russian league, and the media believes that this is Abu's behind the scenes.

Since the first round of the UEFA Champions League group stage will start on September 14, Chelsea will face CSKA at Stamford Bridge on October 20 and go to Moscow to play the second round on November 2. There is not much time left for UEFA lawyers. They must find out as soon as possible whether Abramovich owns shares in CSKA Club in Moscow and is a major shareholder...

However, Chelsea believe that none of this is a problem, as long as Abraham has money, the problem can be solved.

Spinach Company also announced the odds of winning this season's Champions League.

Among the several popular teams to win the championship, Arsenal, which has made great progress in the Premier League, ranks first. Their unbeaten record and outstanding state in the British arena are daunting, but considering that he has never reached the semi-finals in the European Champions League in the past, it is somewhat surprising that Arsenal is so optimistic.

The second place is defending champion Barcelona. Although Barcelona won the championship last season was not very convincing, their team is indeed quite strong.

The veteran European overlord Real Madrid ranks third. After introducing several excellent defenders in the new season, Real Madrid's lineup is becoming more balanced. Argentine Samuel will return in this week's Champions League after missing the first two rounds of La Liga due to injury, which also gives Real Madrid greater confidence to compete in Europe.

After spending half of the team's lineup, all of the semi-finals last season were still very optimistic, and their odds of winning the championship were closely followed by Real Madrid;

AC Milan and Manchester United are also favorites to win the championship, but they are not as powerful as the previous four teams...

Although Chelsea is not the biggest favorite, Mourinho said domineeringly in an interview with The Times after returning to London City:

"It's time for our turn to rule Europe!"

"Although many people are upset."
Chapter completed!