Figured it'd be nice to start a fresh thread for the upcoming CL tournament. Details were shared a couple of days ago by UEFA about this season's tournament. https://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/news/0261-106335962c10-b277239a781a-1000--group-stage-draw/ When and where is the draw? The 2020/21 UEFA Champions League group stage draw takes place from 18:00 CET on Thursday 1 October at the House of European Football in Nyon, Switzerland. Who is involved in the draw? ESP (4): Real Madrid, Barcelona, Atlético de Madrid, Sevilla ENG (4): Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United, Chelsea ITA (4): Juventus, Inter, Atalanta, Lazio GER (4): Bayern, Dortmund, RB Leipzig, Mönchengladbach FRA (3): Paris Saint-Germain, Marseille, Rennes RUS (2): Zenit, Lokomotiv Moskva POR (1): Porto BEL (1): Club Brugge UKR (1): Shakhtar Donetsk TUR (1): İstanbul Başakşehir NED (1): Ajax What are the draw pots? Pot 1 Bayern (GER, UEFA Champions League holders) Sevilla (ESP, UEFA Europa League holders) Real Madrid (ESP) Liverpool (ENG) Juventus (ITA) Paris (FRA) Zenit (RUS) Porto (POR) Pots 2 Barcelona (ESP) coefficient 128.000 Atlético de Madrid (ESP) 127.000 Manchester City (ENG) 116.000 Manchester United (ENG) 100.000 Shakhtar Donetsk (UKR) 85.000 Dortmund (GER) 85.000 Chelsea (ENG) 83.000 Ajax (NED) 69.500 Pot 3 or 4 RB Leipzig (GER) 49.000 Inter (ITA) 44.000 Lazio (ITA) 41.000 Atalanta (ITA) 35.500 Lokomotiv Moskva (RUS) 33.000 Marseille (FRA) 31.000 Club Brugge (BEL) 28.500 Mönchengladbach (GER) 26.000 İstanbul Başakşehir (TUR) 21.500 Rennes (FRA) 14.000 Six further teams will qualify via the play-offs. Match dates Matchday 1: 20/21 October Matchday 2: 27/28 October Matchday 3: 3/4 November Matchday 4: 24/25 November Matchday 5: 1/2 December Matchday 6: 8/9 December
I want to avoid Bayern, and that cholo Simeone defence. Other than that, let's go. But ofcourse I want the easy teams if we can get it, I still not confident with Pirlo. Go go Juve!
Full CL pots for today's draw POT 1 Bayern Sevilla Real Madrid Liverpool Juventus Paris Zenit Porto POT 2 Barcelona Atlético Man. City Man. United Shakhtar Donetsk Dortmund Chelsea Ajax POT 3 Dynamo Kyiv* Salzburg* Leipzig Internazionale Olympiacos* Lazio Krasnodar* Atalanta POT 4 Lokomotiv Moskva Marseille Club Brugge Mönchengladbach İstanbul Başakşehir Midtjylland* Rennes Ferencváros* *Qualified via playoff
First games start on October 20th. In the US, ever game will be live on CBS All Access, which is $9.99 a month, plus access to all the other tv/movies they have on it. They will also be airing games live on CBS Sports Network, which can be found on your cable/satellite/ott Group A Bayern Munich Atletico Madrid Salzburg Lokomotiv Moscow Group B Real Madrid Shaktar Donetsk Inter Milan Borussia Mochengladbach Group C Porto Manchester City Olympiacos Marseille Group D Liverpool Ajax Atalanta Midtylland Group E Sevilla Chelsea Krasnodar Rennes Group F Zenit St. Petersburg Borussia Dortmund Lazio Clube Brugge Group G Juventus Barcelona Dynamo Kyiv Ferencvaros Group H PSG Manchester United RB Leipzig Istanbul Basaksehir
The best teams in Pot 3 are italian so luckily we'll not be paired with any of those. Pot 2 has some insane teams so this is going to be a tough CL
Semi-finalists RB Leipzig wants a word... That would have made things interesting if they were drawn with us.
Not the toughest, not the easiest but definitely doable. The only real question mark left is seeing how Pirlo handles the coaching
Not a bad draw, it will be difficult to top the group. The good news is that Barca are also in a bit of a transition period, Messi v Ronaldo chapter IV.
City and Chelseas essentially got Byes into the knockouts. Lazio with the best draw of Italian teams.
It is funny, Lazio received the most favorable draw out of all Italian teams but I don't expect them to go through. Historically, within the last decade, there is no secret that they don't try particularly hard in europe. Plus they hardly strengthened their squad to rotate in Serie A. With that being said, I hope they go through.
If we cannot beat a team that lost 8-2 to Bayern Munich and the lost a lot of key players via a transfer season, then we are in big trouble.
That was under Sarri, and I must say that under Sarri we were in a lot a lot of trouble. We were terrible, and the team was in shambles. I believe that the squad has greatly improved under Pirlo, but we will have to see. With that said, Lyon is not a team to be underestimated though. I mean they did beat Man City and only lost 3-0 to Bayern.
Agreed, but the same can be said of Barca getting rid of Setien and adding Koemen and a couple players. If we lose to Barca, I don't think the world will be over or indicates how terrible our team is. Barca is still a great team with probably the best player the game as ever seen.
Juve's roster for the CL Group Stages (no Khedira) 1 Szczesny 3 Chiellini 4 de Ligt 5 Arthur 7 Ronaldo 8 Ramsey 9 Morata 10 Dybala 12 Alex Sandro 13 Danilo 14 McKennie 16 Cuadrado 19 Bonucci 22 Chiesa 25 Rabiot 28 Demiral 30 Bentancur 31 Pinsoglio 33 Bernardeschi 38 Frabotta 39 Portanova 44 Kulusevski 77 Buffon