Zilina also emerged as a powerhouse in the Slovak First Division after 2000, winning the domestic league five times and finishing second three times.
Since 2000, Zilina has competed in the Champions League and UEFA Cup qualifying rounds in consecutive years. It was not until the 2008-09 season that they achieved a breakthrough and reached the UEFA Cup group stage historically. In 4 games, they lost 1-2 at home to Hamburg and 0-1 away. Ajax drew 0-0 with Slavia Prague at home and defeated Aston Villa 2-1 away from home.
This season, the team defeated the Maltese team Baikkara and the Bulgarian team Ledislovic in the Champions League qualifying round, and eliminated Sparta Prague in the play-offs, achieving positive results.
The total value of Zilina's first team is a mere 4.2 million euros, and the coach Pavel Happal has close to zero experience in European competitions.
As both "super newcomers", Zilina's overall strength is not even as good as last season's Apur and Dibicini. In the 2008-09 season, Anrokosas was able to qualify for the Champions League group stage entirely because of Prati. The east wind of Nigeria’s new policy.
However, just as Apur's results are not shameful, the strong "mystery" will be Zilina's biggest weapon in the group stage.
With Ancelotti's character, he is determined not to fight an unprepared battle.
Although the opponent is a new Champions League team and the total value of the entire team is not even as good as an ordinary Chelsea player, he will take it seriously.
After the players rested for two days, the assistant coach was asked to lead all the players to watch the Zilina game video. This level of attention made many players not very adaptable. Some even complained that it was just a small team, so casual Just one kick and you won't win.
However, Xiao Yu, who has been training actively, suddenly took leave this Sunday.
His dearest "wife" Elena has returned from South America.
After just picking up Elena, Xiao Yu did not take her directly back to the villa in a hurry. Instead, he accompanied her to the Elf Agency's office in London.
Here, Dapeng has been working hard for many days and nights. Zahavi’s network is indeed strong, but they cannot borrow it directly. What they can do now is to discover more players, and then let Zahavi give priority to selection. , and then divided into.
During this trip to South America, Elena's results were not ideal. In addition to Neymar, Casemiro, Dybala and Alisson whom she found during her last trip to South America, Elena only found Vinnie this time. Hughes is only ten years old and has already signed with Flamengo's youth academy.
Although Elena had said that she could take him to Europe for free, his father did not agree. They were from a poor family and did not believe that pie in the sky would fall. They still wanted to let the little bear gain a foothold in flamenco first. Think about traveling to Europe again.
Regarding this matter, Elena couldn't force it, but fortunately, his father agreed to sign an agency contract with Elf Agency, but the contract had a note that any transactions related to Vinicius before the age of 16, Elf The company takes no money.
This seems to be detrimental to Elf Company, but there are really very few players under the age of 16 who have truly landed in a wealthy club. Even the Little Bear in his previous life only came to Real Madrid at the age of 18.
As for Jesus, Lautaro Martinez, Romero, Luis Dias and other players around 00 that Xiao Yu wrote about, Elena couldn't find them at all.
Xiao Yu also comforted Elena and said that it was great to find Neymar and the others. The focus of the subsequent work should be on Europe. At present, there are really only more players born in the 90s in Europe.
In fact, Xiao Yu also had an idea in his mind. Although he didn't like the country of Xiaoli and Bangzi in his previous life, some of their players still admired him. For example, he saw the "Asia's No. 1 Brother" Son Heung-min in his previous life on the bench.
Xiao Yu also mentioned Sun Xingmin in Hamburg to Elena, saying that his future achievements must be very good, and he could be considered to sign him and then move to the Premier League.
Since knowing the secret of Elena's "student master", Xiao Yu has also told her more about his "predictions" about various players. Elena also fully believes it, just like this time she asked Abramovich to package and sign. Toni Kroos, De Bruyne, Azpilicueta, Van Dijk and Wang Chu.
Elena has signed agent contracts with them one after another, and earned her first pot of gold in the transfer market.
Now that Son Heung-min has been thought of, Harry Kane and Richarlison should also be included, as well as Portugal's new generation B Fee, B Seat, Ruben Dias, and Felix. In his previous life, he was known as the most popular player after Melo. Mbappe and Harland, and Bellingham of the European Chinese team, these can all be taken in advance.
Because many of these players have not registered yet, Xiao Yu did not find any data in the system mall and could only make a rough guess based on his memories from previous lives.
Also because I am most familiar with Real Madrid, I have written about Rodrigo, Camavinga, Joan Armene and the like.
Of course, after being separated for many days, the two people naturally had to make up for the lack of passion in so many days. The two people who were communicating with the players suddenly said goodbye to Dapeng with a look in their eyes. With the roar of the M7 engine, they Returned to the villa prepared by Abu.
A farewell is better than a wedding. That night, the singing in the villa went from as clear as an oriole to as loud as a march...
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Zilina is more than 1,300 kilometers away from London in a straight line. All members of Chelsea flew to Zilina by special plane one day in advance on Monday.
Some adjustments have also been made to the lineup. Except for Lampard who is recovering from injury, Ashley Cole, Paul Ferreira and Drogba are not on the team list.
This also fully frees up space for newcomers. All eight new players who joined Chelsea during this summer transfer window, including Wang Chu, are on the list.
The pre-match training also attracted a large number of media reporters.
After the training, Ancelotti also attended the press conference with Xiao Yu.
During the press conference, Ancelotti expressed concern about the injuries of Terry and Essien, and also told Zilina head coach Pavel Happal that if he wants to use flagrant foul tactics, Chelsea will also Adopt tougher tactics.
Harpal also stated in the press conference that they will go all out and complete the game with their own hard work and persistence, and will not resort to dirty tricks.
A reporter even asked Xiao Yu:
"Ajax, your original team, is in Group G with Real Madrid, AC Milan and Auxerre in this year's Champions League group stage. What do you think of Ajax's prospects of qualifying?"
