Draw for the Champions League starts at 18:00 CET / 13:00 EST These are the Pots for this year's group stage: Pot 1: Real Madrid (ESP, holders), Bayern München (GER), Juventus (ITA) Benfica (POR), Chelsea (ENG), Shakhtar Donetsk (UKR), Monaco (FRA), Spartak Moskva (RUS) Pot 2: Barcelona (ESP), Atlético Madrid (ESP), Paris Saint-Germain (FRA), Borussia Dortmund (GER), Sevilla (ESP), Manchester City (ENG), Porto (POR), Manchester United (ENG) Pot 3: Napoli (ITA), Tottenham Hotspur (ENG), Basel (SUI), Olympiacos (GRE), Anderlecht (BEL), Liverpool (ENG), Roma (ITA), Beşiktaş (TUR) Pot 4: Celtic (SCO), CSKA Moskva (RUS), Sporting CP (POR), APOEL (CYP), Feyenoord (NED), Maribor (SVN), Qarabağ (AZE), RB Leipzig (GER)
First Pot is drawn Group A - Benfica Group B - Bayern Group C - Chelsea Group D - Juventus Group E - Spartak Group F - Shakhtar Group G - Monaco Group H - Real Madrid
Pot Two is Drawn Group A - Benfica, Manchester United Group B - Bayern, Paris Saint-Germain Group C - Chelsea, Atletico Group D - Juventus, Barcelona Group E - Spartak, Sevilla Group F - Shakhtar, Manchester City Group G - Monaco, Porto Group H - Real Madrid, Dortmund I swear if we get Real and Dortmund again lol
Pot Three Group A - Benfica, Manchester United, Basel Group B - Bayern, Paris Saint-Germain, Anderlecht Group C - Chelsea, Atletico, Roma Group D - Juventus, Barcelona, Olympiacos Group E - Spartak, Sevilla, Liverpool Group F - Shakhtar, Manchester City, Naploli Group G - Monaco, Porto, Besiktas Group H - Real Madrid, Dortmund, Tottenham Group E please
Pot Four Group A - Benfica, Manchester United, Basel, CSKA Group B - Bayern, Paris Saint-Germain, Anderlecht, Celtic Group C - Chelsea, Atletico, Roma, Qarabag Group D - Juventus, Barcelona, Olympiacos, Sporting Group E - Spartak, Sevilla, Liverpool, Maribor Group F - Shakhtar, Manchester City, Naploli, Feyenoord Group G - Monaco, Porto, Besiktas, Leipzig Group H - Real Madrid, Dortmund, Tottenham, Apoel E is a joke lol
Can't have too many expectations, we have 2 major tournament favourites in our group. All we can ask is that the players put on a good performance and lets have some entertaining games. And we can definitely fight for 3rd place. Potentially we could go far in Europa League and gets some much needed coefficient points.
Gonna be rough, but maybe we pull an upset or two and have a chance at advancing. Don't really want to see anyone leave with this kind of draw, but if we do sell Adrien, William or both we need a few more signings with some class.
You're right, Maybe we should send emails to league officials, bribe refs, and fix the league so we can be tri-corrupt-campeao and get seeded for the CL. What a concept.
Here you go. MD1 Tue 12 Sept (A) Olympiakos MD2 Wed 27 Sept (H) Barcelona MD3 Wed 18 Oct (A) Juventus MD4 Tue 31 Oct (H) Juventus MD5 Wed 22 Nov (H) Olympiakos MD6 Tue 5 Dec (A) Barcelona
First game will pretty much set the tone. Playing away in Greece is not easy but if we effectively play the counter like vs. Steaua we can win. By the time we face Barcelona in Camp Nou we'll pretty much know our fate so we can play that match with little pressure. BTW some familiar matchups happening. Last time we were in Barcelona's group in CL they won the trophy. In fact in every recent participation in CL we've had a trophy winner in our group so we're good luck Also Andre Martins (ex-Sporting) now plays for Olympiakos. And of course Mathieu will face his old team.