Last night Midtjylland, Red Bull Salzburg and Krasnodar were the final 3 qualifiers for this seasons Champions League group stages. Today sees the draw.
Pot one: Bayern, Sevilla, Real Madrid, Liverpool, Juventus, Paris Saint-Germain, Zenit Saint Petersburg, Porto.
Pot two: Barcelona, Atlético Madrid, Manchester City, Manchester United, Shakhtar Donetsk, Borussia Dortmund, Chelsea, Ajax.
Pot three: Dynamo Kyiv, Red Bull Salzburg, RB Leipzig, Internazionale, Olympiakos, Lazio, Krasnodar, Atalanta.
Pot four: Lokomotiv Moscow, Marseille, Club Brugge, Borussia Mönchengladbach, Istanbul Basaksehir, FC Midtjylland, Rennes, Ferencvaros.
As always, there is a rule that says teams from the same country cannot play each other.
For Liverpool there are only 5 options from Pot 2 :
Barcelona, Atletico Madrid, Dortmund, Shakthar and Ajax.
Because there are 2 Spanish teams in Pot 1 the odds Liverpool will draw either Barca or Atletico are slightly shortened.
For the same reason it seems very likely an English team in pot 2 will draw a Spanish side, with Real Madrid and Sevilla in pot 1. Porto and Zenit are arguably the ones to hope for.
Pot 3 is interesting. RB Leipzig got to the semi finals by beating Spurs and Atletico, and although they have lost key man Werner, they will be seen as a tough opponent. Equally, Atalanta have quickly built a reputation for being a very good side and got to the quarters last time out.
Fellow Italians Inter will surely draw Manchester United, considering they have Young, Alexis and Lukaku. They have they ability to give anyone a game. Lazio are the 3rd Italians in pot 3, while Salzburg proved a dangerous team this time last year at Anfield - albeit with Haaland and Minamito in their ranks.
Pot 4 doesn't look to have too much quality in it. French sides Marseilles and Rennes and Borussia Monchengladbach could be seen as the best sides.
Draw is about 4pm live on BT Sport 1.
Champions League Draw
posted on 1/10/20
Last seasons Europa group..
AZ Alkmaar
Partisan Belgrade
Astana
Yeah, please can we have Bayern, Inter and Marseille.
posted on 1/10/20
pot 3 is the pot to look at not pot 2.
in the end the "seeded" teams need to get 1st or 2nd and go form there
you don't want a group of death
Pot three: RB Leipzig, Internazionale, Lazio, Atalanta.
Pot four: Borussia Mönchengladbach, Rennes
Pot 4 shoudn't be a big worry to anyone. Its reall about avoiding inter and leipzig for me.
posted on 1/10/20
comment by Neo (U9135)
posted 2 hours, 1 minute ago
Shaktar, Krasnodar and Mittyland please.
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Get Barca or Atletico in groups than play them in knockouts is my preference. We have shown previously that you can qualify while being in cruise control.
posted on 1/10/20
Hope we get one of the big guns and 2 poorer sides.
Real, Salzburg and Midtjylland would be the dream.
Some tough looking sides in pot 3 & 4 though.
posted on 1/10/20
comment by Robb Pacino (U22311)
posted 1 hour, 4 minutes ago
Want 3 tough teams. As we ain’t winning the CL so we might as well have some fun teams to play against rather than the boring types we usually come up against in the Europa.
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Worse teams than our current side have won the CL.
It’s unlikely but far from impossible.
posted on 1/10/20
comment by Robb Pacino (U22311)
posted 1 hour, 6 minutes ago
Last seasons Europa group..
AZ Alkmaar
Partisan Belgrade
Astana
Yeah, please can we have Bayern, Inter and Marseille.
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posted on 1/10/20
Liverpool's best case scenario imo.
Shakhtar, Krasnodar, Ferencvarosi.
Worst case would be:
Atletico, Inter, Monchengladbach.
One of the groups will definitely be the former but have Porto in it.
posted on 1/10/20
comment by JustYourAverageFan (U21016)
posted 3 minutes ago
Liverpool's best case scenario imo.
Shakhtar, Krasnodar, Ferencvarosi.
Worst case would be:
Atletico, Inter, Monchengladbach.
One of the groups will definitely be the former but have Porto in it.
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City most likely will get that easy group with Zenit and Kiev instead of Shaktar
posted on 1/10/20
Everyone will fear us...don't care who we get
posted on 1/10/20
comment by (K̇ash) I'm the Mané - PL Champione (U1108)
posted 3 hours, 14 minutes ago
comment by Neo (U9135)
posted 2 hours, 1 minute ago
Shaktar, Krasnodar and Mittyland please.
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Get Barca or Atletico in groups than play them in knockouts is my preference. We have shown previously that you can qualify while being in cruise control.
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true, but that only gets you to QF.
I don't care who we get out of pot 2, its all about pot 3 for me.
I would however REALLY like with the fixtures we have to avoid long flights to odd places that take no care of corona. We will be really exposed