Some cracking ties here.
Europe’s biggest club competition is about to resume as Real Madrid look to defend the trophy that they won following their dramatic penalty shootout win against rivals Atletico Madrid. While Irish champions Dundalk were knocked-out at the last stage of qualifying by Legia Warsaw, there’s plenty of English representation with Man City, Arsenal, Spurs and champions Leicester City all taking part.
Pep Guardiola will be making a return to the club where he won two Champions League’s before moving onto Bayern Munich as his City side have to stop Messi, Suarez and Neymar. Yep, good luck with that.
Elsewhere, there’s a repeat of last year’s incredible semi-final as Atletico Madrid play Bayern Munich and the holders Real Madrid will face a tough task when they travel to Germany to take on Borussia Dortmund -memories of that famous match when Lewandowski scored four come to mind.
Leicester City fans must be quietly confident of their chances of progressing past the groups while Tottenham supporters will also fancy their chances.
Brendan Rodgers’ Celtic face a nightmare draw of Barcelona, Man City, Borussia Monchengladbach.
Here’s the draw in full.
Group A: PSG, Arsenal, Basel, Ludogorets,
Group B: Benfica, Napoli, Dynamo Kiev, Besiktas
Group C: Barcelona, Man City, Borussia Monchengladbach, Celtic
Group D: Bayern Munich, Atletico Madrid, PSV, FC Rostov
Group E: CSKA Moscow, Bayer Leverkusen, Spurs, Monaco
Group F: Real Madrid, Borussia Dortmund, Sporting Lisbon, Legia Warsaw
Group G: Leicester City, Porto, Club Brugge, FC Copenhagen.
Group H: Juventus, Sevilla, Lyon, Dinamo Zagreb
The matches get underway on 13/14 September.
