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Win the Champions League is the greatest goal – not to say obsession – of the Paris Saint-Germain for the next season, that’s why they have formed a real Dream team with the arrivals of Lionel Messi and Sergio Ramos, who join a team that already had Neymar, Kylian Mbappé and Keylor Navas. To walk on that road to the Orejona there is good news as far as the bass drums for groups it means.
PSG will avoid Barcelona, Real Madrid and Juventus
Last season was crazy in Europe, not just because of the coronavirus pandemic and closed-door games. In three of the five most powerful leagues there were surprise champions like Atlético de Madrid in Spain, Lille in France and Inter Milan in Italy, relegating heavyweights like PSG, Juventus, Barcelona and Real Madrid.
That supposes that the four mentioned clubs were together in Pot 2, so they will not be able to face each other in the Group Stage of the Champions League, thus depriving us of a possible Messi’s reunion with Barça, to reissue his old rivalry with the Merengues or to run into his “nemesis”, Cristiano Ronaldo.
Of course, although they all go in the same peloton, among the league champions who will be in the Pot 1 yes there are three powerful like the current king of the competition, Chelsea, as well as Bayern Munich and Manchester City, which are possible rivals for all of those mentioned.
How are the drums of the Champions?
It is important that you know that some qualifying keys are still being played for the 2021-2022 edition of the Champions, so at the moment 26 of the 32 teams that will participate are defined.
- Pot 1: Chelsea, Manchester City, Bayern Munich, Atlético de Madrid, Villarreal, Lille, Inter Milan and Sporting Lisbon.
- Pot 2: PSG, Real Madrid, Barcelona, Juventus, Liverpool, Manchester United, Sevilla and Borussia Dortmund.
- Pot 3: FC Porto, AFC Ajax, Atalanta, RB Leipzig, Zenit and three clubs to be defined.
- Pot 4: AC Milan, Wolfsburg, Club Brugge and five clubs to be defined.
- Besiktas (Turkey) and Dynamo Kiev (Ukraine) already have a place in UCL, but they wait to know in what hype.
- Pending series that give ticket to Champions: Benfica-PSV, Malmö-Ludogorets, Young Boys-Ferencvaros, AS Monaco-Shakhtar, RB Salzburg-Brondby, Sheriff-Dinamo Zagreb.
When is the Champions League group draw?
Once all the qualifiers are known after the preliminary phase, the ceremony of the Champions League group draw will be held on 26 of August in Istanbul, Turkey.
Sweepstakes rules
- Eight groups are drawn with four clubs each.
- It is forbidden to have two clubs from the same federation in a group, for this reason Atlético de Madrid and Barcelona cannot be together, for example.
- Reciprocal visit matches in the Group Stage, with the first two places in each sector advancing to the Round of 16.