Bass drum 2 very hard
The other three Spaniards (Barça, Atlético and Sevilla) will wait in pot 2 to come out as well as possible from the crossover against the top seeds. There is a very big difference between taking on Bayern, PSG or City and taking on the others. Madrid will not be able to play against the teams in the League, so it is certain that a rival will come out of the other five in the pot: Liverpool, Chelsea, Tottenham, Juventus and RB Leipzig. Needless to say, a pairing with the reds would be spectacular in the repeat, just a few months later, of the final in Paris. Dangers. As always, the real difficulty of the groups will be marked by the pairings against the teams from pots 3 and 4. In the first there are important dangers in the Italian teams (Inter and Napoli) and Dortmud, mainly. They are accompanied in the hype by Salzburg, Shakhtar, Benfica, Sporting de Portugal and Leverkusen. None of them can be classified as simple.
Watch out for Marseille
Regarding the four, the great threat lies in Marseille, second in the French league and European champion in its day, which can definitively entangle a group in case the combination of the previous pots is bad. The others are weaker, a priori, although they hide the discomfort of having to make long and unappetizing trips such as to Israel with the Maccabi or the Czech Republic with the Viktoria Plzen. After the group stage, the round of 16 draw will take place on 7 November in Nyon. The Spanish teams want to be fully in it, although to do so they must first solve a league of just two months that today begins its path. The goal is located in the grand final on June 10 at the Ataturk Stadium in the Turkish capital. The die is cast. That of the champion, Madrid, and especially that of the rest, who see how the king of the competition lengthens his tyranny over and over again.