What kind of opponents! RB Leipzig has to play against Messi’s new club PSG and Manchester City in the Champions League. FC Bayern, on the other hand, can breathe a sigh of relief. Just like BVB and even the premier class returnees VfL Wolfsburg.
FC Bayern can look forward to FC Barcelona without Lionel Messi, runners-up RB Leipzig will get it in the Champions League with Messi’s new club Paris Saint-Germain and also with the star squad from Manchester City – then possibly with Cristiano Ronaldo – to do. The third opponent of a group that was memorable even before the first encounters was Club Brugge from Belgium.
For Munich, the other opponents in Group E are Benfica Lisbon and Dynamo Kiev. “We want to create the group and also be first. We have big goals in the Champions League,” said sports director Hasan Salihamidzic, commenting on the lots.
BVB: “We can’t complain”
Borussia Dortmund could have been hit much harder. But now BVB will meet Sporting Lisbon, Ajax Amsterdam and Besiktas Istanbul in Group C. “We can’t complain, it’s a very balanced group. We have a good chance of making it to the round of 16 once more,” said managing director Hans-Joachim Watzke.
VfL Wolfsburg will compete in Group G against French champions OSC Lille, FC Sevilla and RB Salzburg, as the draw on Thursday in Istanbul by former Chelsea professionals Branislav Ivanovic and Michael Essien revealed. Their ex-club, defending champion Chelsea FC, will play against Juventus Turin, Zenit St. Petersburg and Malmö FF.
Is there a clash between Messi and Ronaldo?
Everything is outshone by Group A, where the giants Ronaldo and Messi could also meet again. Ronaldo’s agent is said to be working on a move from Juventus Turin to the already top-class Citizens, Messi is no longer playing for FC Barcelona after 21 years, but is leading the PSG world selection from this summer with one goal: triumph in the premier class.
This is what all 32 teams want, which are initially divided into eight groups of four. The final will take place on May 28, 2022 in St. Petersburg, Russia. It starts with the group games on 14./15. September. The group stage ends on 7/8. December, then it goes into the knockout rounds.
We are looking for the successor to the “Blues”
Last season, Chelsea won the title in the British final against Manchester City in Porto. Thomas Tuchel had continued a German tradition as the new coach of the Blues: in the two years before that, German coaches had already won the Champions League in Hansi Flick with FC Bayern (2020) and Jürgen Klopp with FC Liverpool (2019).
Last season, FC Bayern failed to Paris Saint-Germain and Borussia Dortmund to Manchester City in the quarter-finals. RB Leipzig did not survive the round of 16 against Liverpool, in the same round Borussia Mönchengladbach failed to Manchester City as BVB later.
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