The finals of this season’s UEFA Champions League is but to be performed, with Inter Milan set to tackle PSG later this weekend in Munich.
Even because the world awaits for a brand new European champion to be topped, the draw for the subsequent season’s competitors is already beginning to take form.
Two Premier League opponents for Actual Madrid
Based on , As a result of construction of subsequent season’s Champions League, Actual Madrid are assured to face two English groups within the league section.
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This can be a direct results of each the expanded format and the variety of Premier League golf equipment concerned.
England can have six groups within the competitors – Manchester Metropolis, Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea, , Newcastle United, and Tottenham (Europa League winners).
UEFA guidelines forestall groups from the identical nation being drawn in opposition to one another within the group stage, and in addition restrict golf equipment to a most of two opponents from anybody nation.
Actual Madrid will face two PL groups within the UCL league section. (Picture by FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP through Getty Pictures)
To fulfill each situations, the six non-English groups in Pot 1 – together with Actual Madrid – should every play two Premier League golf equipment.
This setup might power Actual Madrid into harder matchups than ordinary. As an alternative of drawing from a broader mixture of lower-seeded European sides, the Merengues might need to face lower-pot PL groups like Tottenham (Pot 3) or Newcastle (Pot 4), bypassing theoretically simpler choices resembling Olympiacos or Bodo/Glimt.
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Whereas Premier League golf equipment is not going to be affected by the restriction, non-English Pot 1 groups like Actual Madrid bear the brunt of the system.
Within the present season, Actual Madrid confronted only one English membership (Liverpool) within the league section however had been eradicated by Arsenal on the quarter-final stage. Subsequent time, although, they are going to face two groups from the Premier League within the group stage.
The draw for the group stage takes place on Thursday, August 28.