Defending champions Real Madrid had a ‘nice’ draw for the 2022/23 Champions League group stage, pairing them with RB Leipzig, Shakhtar Donetsk and Celtic, while two of this summer’s big transfers, Robert Lewandowski and Erling Haaland, took their pick. former teams will meet .
The ‘innocent hands’, the Turk Hamil Altintop, former player of teams such as Bayern Munich and Real Madrid and ambassador of the final at the Ataturk in Istanbul, and the Ivorian Yaya Touré, formerly of Monaco, Barcelona and City, ensured a hard draw for the Barça team, coupled with the German champions, Inter Milan and Viktoria Plzen, and even a great duel between PSG and Juventus.
It will be another edition of the ‘Champions’ due to the dispute over the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, as deputy general secretary Giorgio Marchetti admits. This group stage will be concentrated between September and early November.
Real Madrid will face them at the start of their quest for their 15th crown against RB Leipzig, who have started their season in the Bundesliga very negatively. However, Domenico Tedesco’s team in Europe has grown in the seasons where he has competed in the top league, especially in the 2019-20 season when he reached the semi-finals.
Group F is completed by Shakhtar Donetsk, who will play their matches in Poland because of the war and who in recent years have become a regular rival to Real Madrid, and Scottish Celtic, a historic (champion in 1967) who has not yet finished the finding the natural when he competes in the ‘Champions’ and the one he hasn’t seen since 1980.
Poland’s Lewandowski, Barcelona’s star reinforcement, will once again meet his immediate past, Bayern Munich, a team that has taken the benchmark of the azulgrana. In fact, the 8-2 of three seasons ago in Portugal still stings.
Both teams will face tough opposition from Inter Milan, last year’s victim to Liverpool in the round of 16, who are once again battling to claim protatonism. Czech Viktoria Plzen, who defeated HJK, Sheriff Tiraspol and Qarabag in the previous rounds, completes the series who doesn’t want to be a stoner.
Norwegian Haaland, who left Borussia Dortmund to join Manchester City, will also feature his former team in two very special duels.
It will be the center of attention in the matches between the two within an equally difficult group, with a Sevilla hoping that this edition, in which they do not start as favourites, will be able to deliver their maximum performance and reach the knockout rounds, and with a Copenhagen surviving Trabzonspor’s push on the previous round.
PSG stands for a new European course that is increasingly forced to win the title. With the continuity of Kylian Mbappe along with Leo Messi, Neymar and his company, and Christophe Galtie as the new coach, the project hopes to become a reality once and for all.
Before that, they face Juventus in Group H in other of the star duels of this stage, the ambitious and dangerous Benfica (fourth finalist last year) and the ‘rookie’ Maccabi Haifa, who left Olympiacos behind in the previous rounds. Apollon Limassol and Red Star.
Like the previous edition, Atlético de Madrid will face Porto from Portugal, which always faces strong resistance, Bayer Leverkusen, which started the campaign in Germany with three defeats, and Bruges, where young Barcelona youth player Ferrán Jutglá .
Liverpool, current number two, have a group, A, at least uneasy with Ajax and their daring football, Napoli and their competitiveness and Rangers, who return to the Champions League more than a decade later after beating PSV Eindhoven in illusion.
Milan and Chelsea share preference in Group E with the approval of Salzburg and Dinamo Zagreb, who ended the dream of surprising Norwegian Bodo Glimt.
Group D, led by Eintracht Frankfurt as the last winner of the Europa League, completes the roster, which will feature rivals Antonio Conte’s reinforced Tottenham and two teams announcing a fight such as Sporting Lisbon and Olympique Marseille.
Source: El heraldo
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