Have completed all the playoffs games this dawn. With eight teams that have already passed the 32 teams completed the competition participants terelit in continental Europe. And the draw will be made in Nyon, Switzerland, Thursday (26 / 8) evening.
As usual there will be eight groups that filled out by four teams, which each team were taken from four different pots. Four pots that shows the status of the first until the fourth seed, calculated from the coefficients of the 32 clubs in a tournament appearance in Europe during the last five seasons.
Defending champion Inter Milan as the right course at the top of the first pot, after last season occupies only the second pot. Meanwhile Liverpool's place in the first pot, which this season playing in the Europa League, was taken over Olympique Lyon.
Groups can directly create hell if you see the composition of seed, where Madrid as the record holder for most Champions League trophies still in the second pot, and you meet one of the giants in the group stage. This is the aftermath of their poor performance in last five seasons that always stuck in the round of 16 large.
The most interesting if the lottery will bring Madrid to Inter in one group. This means that Mourinho did not take long to directly deal with the club he carried won the treble last season's winner.
Or it could be Madrid to meet Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal, AC Milan and Bayern Munich. Of course it would be an interesting game instead?
Do not forget the black horse was also kind of Benfica, Roma, Valencia, Tottenham Hotspur or Lyon that might make a surprise in this group stage. Winner and runner-up in Group A through H will be headed to the big 16 while ranking third in the 32 major competing Europa League. Matchday I will begin September 14 to 15.
In this group stage clubs from one country will not meet in person and valid until the half perdelapanfinal. It was only in the country quarterfinal protection was lifted to allow the occurrence of a meeting between the clubs from the same country.
Following the distribution of seed based on the coefficient of the last five years:
Pot 1: Inter Milan, Barcelona, Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal, Bayern Munich, AC Milan, Olympique Lyon
Pot 2: Werder Bremen, Real Madrid, AS Roma, Shakhtar Donetsk, Benfica, Valencia, Olympique Marseille, Panathinaikos
Pot 3: Tottenham Hotspur, Glasgow Rangers, Ajax, Schalke, FC Basel, SC Braga, Kobenhavn, Spartak Moscow
Pot 4: Hapoel Tel-Aviv, FC Twente, Rubin Kazan, Auxerre, CFR Cluj, Partizan Belgrade, Zilina, Bursaspor
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