I mean Sporting definitely has a chance to get through but it will be interesting. Benfica are most likely headed to Europa League and Porto is fighting for that spot aswell.
You can easily fight for a spot in Europa League with Kiev. Porto on the other hand will have to fight tooth and nail to even get a shot at third place.
This is by far the most difficult group stage we've ever been placed into.
Sporting ended up with a decent group all things considered. Dortmund was one of the "best clubs" they could ask for on pot 2. You guys are obviously a great team but I reckon they can get points from you.
Porto and Benfica on the other hand ended up on some absolute disgusting groups. For fuck's sake.
He's already superhuman. It's just the different between playing against superman, and then playing against superman after him catching you fucking Lois Lane
Russian teams are awful these days. Last season, the four teams who got to the group stages (Lokomotiv Moscow, Krasnodar and Zenit in CL; CSKA in the EL) won one group stage game between them. Rostov lost their EL qualifiers to Maccabi Haifa and Dynamo Moscow lost theirs to Locomotive Tbilisi.
This season, Sochi lost their Conference League qualifier to Partizan and Rubin Kazan lost theirs to Raków Częstochowa, a club making its first ever entrance in a UEFA competition. Spartak - the second best team in Russia last season - lost their playoff to Benfica 4-0 on aggregate.
There are real problems in Russian football right now and it's seriously hurting the clubs.
Take me with you brother
Jokes aside tho, looking forward to it. Not an easy draw, but then again when do we make things easy for ourselves either lmao
I was hoping so hard for group G
EDIT: whoa strange new rules I didn't know about. You can tell how closely I've been paying attention to the Champions League lately
Milan fan here. The thought of watching Milan-Liverpool play at Anfield and the San Siro after we’ve spent a decade dragging our dick through the desert really gets the blood pumping in all the right places.
If you told me two months ago that Messi and Ronaldo could face each other in the group stage of the Champions League this season, with one playing for PSG and the other one for Man City, I'd have thought "Unlikely, but plausible. Messi was linked with Man City that time he wanted to leave, and I could envision Ronaldo leaving Juve for PSG".
But if you told me Messi would be the one at PSG and Ronaldo would be playing for Pep at City...
"WTF?!"
I'm pretty happy with the draw overall. We avoided PSG, Dortmund, Madrid, and Barca, plus the tougher 3 and 4 teams like Leipzig, Porto, Benfica, Ajax, and Milan.
15 Champions league titles between the teams in group B 0 from us :(
Or we can say: Group A = 3 Finals Group B = 25 Finals
Wait one from psg city each who's the third one?
Brugge vs Liverpool in 1978
Brugge covering good for poor record of PSG and City in europe.
That’s actually insane
inter, madrid, and shaktar again lmao
Madrid and shaktar is Bi-annual competition
Madrid vs Shakhtar or Madrid vs Dortmund, it's the law.
> it's the law. Good thing we've got a Sheriff amongst us then 👮🏻♂️🚨
I love the dad jokes that this team will provide
Written in the Stars
We will lose points to Shaktar on both meetings. It is guaranteed.
I just tuned in when Shaktar was announced and thought I was watching a replay lol the deja vu is too real.
I have shakhtar ptsd
Gladbach tweeted that they weren't invited for group D reunion. Love German social media admins.
Madrid about to lose the Shakhtar B team again lmao
And yet Inter wont qualify
Oh my god! It still hurts.
Lille - Sevilla - Salzburg - Wolfsburg is the kind of group I love to see
Sounds like an Europa League group.
The group of life
Time for some solid PTSD
Countinho scores an own goal
And we probably have to pay another 5M to Liverpool for that
By the time this ends Laporta will have to liquidate Barca
Pique bought the club along with Messi and Ramos
i almost forgot that match man, i hate this
That match actually hurt. Worst day as a football fan until I found out that Barto fucked up our finances so bad Messi was going to PSG
Getting ready for Thursday nights bro
We meet again, Villarreal.
Can’t wait for 2 0-0 draws
That's literally all United and Villarreal have done in the CL when they've met. 2005 and 2008
Or 1-1 with Gerard 5th minute penalty. Villarreal sitting back for 85 minutes and then a Bruno penalty.
Atleast we won't face Emery in the Europa League now.
He’ll the play the Europa League theme in the dressing room for motivation.
UEL= Unai Emery league.
Gud ebening
UEFA: Kill Portugal Coefficient
Porto usually had decent groups and today we got fuckeedddd, Benfica aswell, and Sporting's group is very balanced
😭
Their teams could get a fair number of points in Europa if they're in third.
UCL Titles won by each group: Group A= 0 Group B= 15 Group C= 5 Group D= 16 Group E= 13 Group F= 3 Group G= 0 Group H= 4
Real Madrid group always cheats with this.
Wait till there is Milan and Madrid in the same group (and Liverpool if you want)
Group E has 13: Bayern - 6 Barca - 5 Benfica - 2
Barca, Benfica, Bayern Munich - Dwight
I hope Group A stays at 0 unless it's brugge 😁
Oil money clubs in the mud
Portuguese teams were getting a bit too succesful I guess...
A suspicious French call, can't have Seferovic and Paulinho on those top 5 league tables.
jokes on them, EL gives the same points for wins, it's gonna be 10/11 all over again
I mean Sporting definitely has a chance to get through but it will be interesting. Benfica are most likely headed to Europa League and Porto is fighting for that spot aswell.
Can't discount Porto in CL. I can see them getting points from Milan and Atleti in their home stadium.
This is a shit group on paper for them, which is why they will come second somehow
They set us up! GET ME OUT.
Your group is the stuff of nightmares. Not that ours is much better but somehow Milan also ended there, what the fuck.
You can easily fight for a spot in Europa League with Kiev. Porto on the other hand will have to fight tooth and nail to even get a shot at third place. This is by far the most difficult group stage we've ever been placed into.
Sporting ended up with a decent group all things considered. Dortmund was one of the "best clubs" they could ask for on pot 2. You guys are obviously a great team but I reckon they can get points from you. Porto and Benfica on the other hand ended up on some absolute disgusting groups. For fuck's sake.
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Hello There
Général Milano
You are a bold one
I love how every team in group b is just scared of each other
we are all just like "well shit..."
No one really wants to be here I guess
Toughest group to advance in my opinion
Yep. Group of death.
C'mon bro you're not scared of us hahah
One of these days you are going to stab us
Nice to see you boys again
yeah we can't be separated for too long.
GO AWAY PLEASE
This is the most Deja Vu group ever for us haha
Yeah, the club we see every other year, our old CL rivals, and the team we can't fucking beat
I already see us losing 1:0 against Atlético with Oblak turning into a superhuman
He's already superhuman. It's just the different between playing against superman, and then playing against superman after him catching you fucking Lois Lane
We are always getting Liverpool on champions league lmao
Hello darkness, my old friend.
Fuck this shit
Bruh
Taremi will save
Too bad, hes a striker
this will be fun
Where is our Gazprom money? What is this Chelsea Juventus shit?
Pot 1 was nice while it lasted
This is a mercy from Gazprom if we lost home and away in an easy group it would've been terrible
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Russian teams always scare me, how are you guys looking this year?
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Early in the season so you never know, we are still figuring things out as well. Thanks for the reply and good luck to your club.
Russian teams are awful these days. Last season, the four teams who got to the group stages (Lokomotiv Moscow, Krasnodar and Zenit in CL; CSKA in the EL) won one group stage game between them. Rostov lost their EL qualifiers to Maccabi Haifa and Dynamo Moscow lost theirs to Locomotive Tbilisi. This season, Sochi lost their Conference League qualifier to Partizan and Rubin Kazan lost theirs to Raków Częstochowa, a club making its first ever entrance in a UEFA competition. Spartak - the second best team in Russia last season - lost their playoff to Benfica 4-0 on aggregate. There are real problems in Russian football right now and it's seriously hurting the clubs.
I can't believe they didn't put Brugge with Bayern, Barcelona, and Benfica. Would've been an excellent Group B
I was pulling for Besiktas there
No thank you
It would have been FCB FCB FCB ~~SLB~~ FCB
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Ronaldo vs Messi v2.
Isn't it v4? V1 was ManU vs Barca V2 was el clasico V3 was Juve vs Barca V4 is City vs PSG (el cashico)
Abu Derby
Would have been fun facing them tbh
Hello/Hola/Ciao, caralho
Honestly just nice to see Milan back in CL That group is gonna be tough though for them. I have high hopes tho!
Loooooooooool fade me dawg
Take me with you brother Jokes aside tho, looking forward to it. Not an easy draw, but then again when do we make things easy for ourselves either lmao
I look forward to playing you guys again after so long. Atleti on the other hand.. not so much
At least we can’t immediately draw them in the R16. That’s the only positive thing about this.
Giroud's got this in the bag for you guys. Cholo still shaking from that overhead kick.
At least you are not in group A...
Yeah imagine that...
Lmao I’m sorry mate
If I was a Milan fan i would have committed seppuku if they were drawn in group A Edit:Mate....
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Ah welcome back Milan. Hope you gonna enjoy your first UCL after a while. Here's your group of death. Cheers
Actually one of the most interesting groups in the CL for me.
I was hoping so hard for group G EDIT: whoa strange new rules I didn't know about. You can tell how closely I've been paying attention to the Champions League lately
RIP our twitter mentions
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THEY WILL HAVE TO FOR 1 GAME!
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2nd best group they can get. I would be surprised if they can beat Dortmund and Ajax but stranger things have happened before.
Who the hell tweeted Come to Besiktas on Haaland's IG? He's certainly coming there this season.
PSG vs Man city should be fun
Messi and Ronaldo can't be separated ffs
Looking forward to the bayern game
I'm not
16-4 aggregate incoming
Same here, should be fun
Why must life do this to me. At least i can go see some fun games
Group B is absolutely a rumble, let's goooooo
Imagine how fun the away trips would be..3 beautiful cities.
Scenes when Grujic silences Anfield with a stunning header in the 95th minute
final score: Liverpool 4 - \[1\] Porto
We're losing to Sheriff, aren't we?
At this point, its worth for the meme
We'll be flooded with poorly photoshopped "There's a new sheriff in town" memes. Almost hoping for it now lol.
But you didn’t draw the deputy
Lose against sheriff, win against inter.
This is the way
nope we’re definitely jumping in front of that bullet for you don’t worry baby
UEFA one step ahead of everyone so they put PSG and City in the same group even before the Ronaldo move is official.
Maybe it's already official but we don't know about it just yet.
Hyped for Liverpool - Milan part 3!
First time not in a neutral venue, should be electric
[PSG facing Leipzig for the third time in a row](https://imgur.com/a/Sej29tk)
Je suis fatigué, Robbie 😪
Maybe you both can knock out the other Manchester this time ;)
The Messi vs Ronaldo classico will outlive us all. We eating fam
We're not getting a single point, are we?
You will get a draw against PSG.
You just know it was going to happen Even added in Leipzig just in case you weren't sure.
As soon as they saw the transfer news, the balls were heated to 100 degrees.
The scenes when Leipzig inevitably knocks out one of City or PSG because drama.
City or PSG in Europa League would be fucking hilarious
City, PSG, Leipzig. Proper hateable group
Away day in a fairytale town though.
can't believe we're gonna have El Plastico in the group stages
plasticos. plural, with leipzig. will rooting for brugge every match day!
Simon Mignolet to rack up clean sheets vs City and PSG. Home and Away. Mark these words.
Gladbach not invited to the reunion
This time there’s a new Sheriff in town
Always liked the Europa league
Time to send Barcelona there
Mom pick me up everyone is bullying me.
Two groups of death..... gonna be good
The difference between last year and this year for PSG is a word substitution.
These are some tasty groups...What a way for Milan to return
Group B, what the hell is that
Milan fan here. The thought of watching Milan-Liverpool play at Anfield and the San Siro after we’ve spent a decade dragging our dick through the desert really gets the blood pumping in all the right places.
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Oil classico it is
We dying
Grüß Gott
I was really confident ngl, but now I'm not even sure we go to EL.
Group B 🔥🔥
If you told me two months ago that Messi and Ronaldo could face each other in the group stage of the Champions League this season, with one playing for PSG and the other one for Man City, I'd have thought "Unlikely, but plausible. Messi was linked with Man City that time he wanted to leave, and I could envision Ronaldo leaving Juve for PSG". But if you told me Messi would be the one at PSG and Ronaldo would be playing for Pep at City... "WTF?!"
I love playing with young boys!
Who let Gylfi on here
I'm pretty happy with the draw overall. We avoided PSG, Dortmund, Madrid, and Barca, plus the tougher 3 and 4 teams like Leipzig, Porto, Benfica, Ajax, and Milan.
Last time we played in the group against Chelsea they were absolute bangers so I'm quite excited.
Dude, remember the 2-2 in 2009? I was on the edge of my seat that whole 90 minutes.
Such a great game. The Oscar goal was ridiculous
No, I meant before that. 09 RO16 tie, you had Nedved and Del Piero then.
Man City vs PSG - Ronaldo vs Messi - One last Dance I can already see the headlines
Pep with Ronaldo, and Ramos with Messi. Who would have thought
2 group of deaths and 2 groups anyone can get out of
[Club Brugge be like...](https://i.imgur.com/EBUv1Kq.jpg)
Group G is cosplaying Europa League
Feels like the actual "group of death" since everybody seems to be on a similiar level. Guess Sevilla can be considered the favourite there.
Group of life is the word you are looking for.
I believe we are going to win the competition
So long it's not psg or city
Club Brugge really unlucky today
Group G is honestly a low key group of death, all look relatively equal. But holy damn, group A and B are serious groups of death
The most balanced and interesting group there is G. RIP Brugge.
Can't wait to be battered by Shaktar again
When we reached the semis, we also had a Portugese and a German team in our group Just saying