On the evening of December 13, Beijing time, fans all over the world would have witnessed a fair and just dialogue on the top sixteen of the Champions League on this night, but they did not think that UEFA would smash the script written for great benefits this time. At 19:00 Beijing time, the original draw ceremony began, after the end of this draw, fans all over the world exploded, because the last group of duels was Manchester United against Paris Saint-Germain, following last year's Champions League group stage, C Ronaldo and Messi will usher in a double pride duel, and it is a life-and-death showdown!
However, the fans did not get excited for too long, UEFA was exposed by the "Independent" reporter to the lottery "fake", Manchester United's signing was not even put in the glass pool of Atletico opponents, and video evidence was also posted. In this way, the double arrogance drama code was directly smashed, and UEFA was forced to announce a draw error and re-draw at 22:00 Beijing time on December 13. It is reported that this time the draw was strongly promoted by Atletico who drew Bayern, and Atletico's sworn enemy Real Madrid applied to UEFA to only re-draw the lottery after Real Madrid, because when Real Madrid drew Benfica, there was no problem in the draw. Now that everything has been torn down and started again, Real Madrid may not only lose Benfica, a relatively weak opponent, but also face a strong opponent like Paris Saint-Germain.
Because the previous Real Madrid president Florentino vigorously pushed the European Super League to offend UEFA, Real Madrid's application was of course rejected, and then UEFA did draw the strongest potential opponent for them - Paris Saint-Germain. In this way, the two giants will usher in a life-and-death showdown, in a sense, which will be an early preview of a potential Champions League final. At the same time, this set of duels is also quite interesting, Ramos, Navas, Ashraf, Di Maria returned to the Bernabeu, Messi once again launched a knockout duel with Real Madrid, Real Madrid inspected Mbappe in advance... So many points of view, no less than Manchester United vs. Paris, UEFA is really shrewd to the bone, at the same time, this is also a disguised revenge against La Liga giants Real Madrid.
In fact, this is not the first time that Real Madrid has signed like this, in the 2015/16 season and the 2016/17 season, Real Madrid's top sixteen consecutive Roma and Napoli two major Serie A giants, in the 2017/18 season, Real Madrid also met Paris Saint-Germain's round of sixteen, followed by Juventus, Bayern Munich and Liverpool, which can be said to be full of gold. In the 2019/20 season, Real Madrid directly encountered Manchester City, the biggest favourite in the Champions League, and finally lost. Now, Real Madrid has once again encountered a strong opponent, in fact, combined with the previous experience, it is not surprising and there is no need to be afraid.
On the other hand, the First League group "bears" who withdrew from the previous European Super League farce were almost equal to being guaranteed in this Champions League draw. In the first draw, Chelsea drew almost the weakest Lille, Liverpool drew Red Bull Salzburg, Manchester City drew Villarreal, except for Manchester United, who were sacrificed for commercial interests, each of them won steadily. In the second draw, the Premier League was also not bad, Chelsea continued to draw Lille, becoming the biggest winner, Manchester City's opponents were replaced by Villarreal to Portuguese sports, Liverpool was slightly worse, drawing serie A giants Inter Milan, but considering that their rotation line-up can also eliminate AC Milan, who is not losing to Inter, this is also not a big problem for them.
Similarly, counting the top sixteen draws in the past few seasons, the Premier League has always been the profitable side, especially Manchester City, the signing luck is almost no worse, they have always been the envy of other teams. In the 2020/21 season, Manchester City's opponent was Borussia Monchengladbach, the 2019/20 season was slightly worse, drawing Real Madrid, but that was the weakest Real Madrid in a decade, in the 2018/19 season, Schalke 04 was drawn as their opponent, in the 2017/18 season, the opponent of the Blue Moon was Basel, whose name many fans had not even heard of, and in the 2016/17 season, UEFA drew Monaco to them, and the result was a package of explosives, and Monaco led by Mbappe eliminated them...
This time, UEFA's outrageous operation can be said to be a clear box operation, but even if Real Madrid is dissatisfied, how can UEFA take a hand to cover the sky? Perhaps Real Madrid president Florentino has more reasons to plan the Stillborn European Premier League.