Match Day Thread CHAMPION LEAGUE DRAW TOMORROW.

Here we go again.

Champions League seedings
Pot 1

• Liverpool
• Chelsea
• Barcelona
• Bayern Munich
• Juventus
• Manchester City
• Paris Saint-Germain
• Zenit

Pot 2 (unconfirmed)

• Real Madrid
• Atletico Madrid
• Borussia Dortmund
• Napoli
• Shakhtar Donetsk
• Tottenham
• Ajax
• Benfica

Pot 3 (unconfirmed)
t 3 (unconfirmed)

• Lyon
• Bayer Leverkusen
• Salzburg
• Olympiacos
• Club Brugge
• Valencia
• Inter Milan
• Dinamo Zagreb

Pot 4 (unconfirmed)

• Lokomotiv Moscow
• Genk
• Galatasaray
• RB Leipzig
• Slavia Prague
• Red Star Belgrade
• Atalanta
• Lille

Key dates

• Match day one: 17/18 September
• Match day two: 1/2 October
• Match day three: 22/23 October
• Match day four: 5/6 November
• Match day five: 26/27 November
• Match day six: 10/11 December

• Last 16 draw: 16 December
• Round of 16 first leg: 18/19 and 25/26 February
• Round of 16 second leg: 10/11 and 17/18 March

• Quarter-final and semi-final draw: 20 March
• Quarter-final first leg: 7/8 April
• Quarter-final second leg: 14/15 April

• Semi-final first leg: 28/29 April
• Semi-final second leg: 5/6 May
• • Final: 30 May
  Champions League winners betting odds via Betfair | UK users only | Subject to change
  • Manchester City: 7/2
  • Barcelona: 5/1
  • Liverpool: 6/1
  • Juventus: 15/2
  • Real Madrid: 15/2
  • Paris Saint-Germain: 9/1
  • Bayern Munich: 11/1
  • Atletico Madrid: 16/1
  • Tottenham: 18/1
  • Chelsea: 33/1
  • Dortmund: 33/1
  • Napoli: 33/1
  • Inter Milan: 40/1

 

Imagine getting Real Madrid, Inter and Red Bull.

We'd ****ing smash em.

 

• Manchester City: 7/2
• Barcelona: 5/1
• Liverpool: 6/1
• WE CAN, ...CAN WIN THIS AGAIN! !.

 

I'd be happy with that group

 

It's a joke the EL winners get pot 1... especially as Chelsea are so ****e.

 

I agree. No disrespect to Chelsea, but they were in the EL because they weren't good enough for the CL.
Spuds are in Pot 2, despite being beaten finalists. Seems daft to me.

 

Liverpool's possible Champions League opponents confirmed
Liverpool's potential opponents in the 2019-20 Champions League group stage have now been confirmed.


As reigning European Cup holders, the Reds are in Pot 1 for Thursday’s draw in Monaco along with Chelsea, Barcelona, Manchester City, Juventus, Bayern Munich, Paris Saint-Germain and Zenit St Petersburg.

They will be placed in a section with one team from each of the other three pots, listed below.

Jürgen Klopp’s men cannot face a fellow Premier League side at this stage of the competition, so will not be drawn with Tottenham Hotspur from Pot 2.

The first round of group-stage matches will take place on September 17/18 and the phase will conclude on December 10/11.

Pot 2
Real Madrid
Atletico Madrid
Borussia Dortmund
Napoli
Shakhtar Donetsk
Ajax
Benfica

Pot 3

Lyon
Bayer Leverkusen
Salzburg
Olympiacos
Club Brugge
Valencia
Internazionale
Dinamo Zagreb

Pot 4

Lokomotiv Moscow
Genk
Galatasaray
RB Leipzig
Slavia Prague
Red Star Belgrade
Atalanta
Lille
https://www.liverpoolfc.com/news/fi...possible-champions-league-opponents-confirmed

 

What time do all these clubs get nervous in the hope they avoid Liverpool?

 

Jurgen Klopp doubts Liverpool's Champions League credentials
"I don't see us, the English teams, dominating," says Liverpool boss
https://www.skysports.com/football/...oubts-liverpools-champions-league-credentials

 

UEFA Champions League group stage draw
Monaco -Thursday 29 August 2019, 17:00- your local time

 

I always like to play teams we haven't played in a while. Ajax or Benfica would be nice, then Salzburg, Zagreb or Brugge. From pot 4 Atalanta, Lille, Genk or Leipzig

 

I fancy us meeting Real Madrid in the group stage. We have a point to prove.

 

Always exciting draw this one. Looking forward to some big games again this year

 

Really? I don't think anyone seriously believes Madrid can compete with us.

 

We're the team that people want to avoid - that sounds crazy but it's true.

 

Two finals in a row, current champions. I would like to think we will be there or there abouts again this season. Not too fussed with who we get, would rather avoid eastern European teams and that's about it.

 

Certainly we cannot draw Arsenal or Manchester United.

 

Unfortunately!

 

Champions League & Europa League: Fans send Uefa tickets and travel plan
Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool and Tottenham fans are calling for Uefa to change how it manages the Champions League and Europa League finals.

Problems last season saw fans struggle with travel arrangements and with getting tickets for the Madrid and Baku finals.

Liverpool and Tottenham fans received allocations of under half the capacity of the Wanda Metropolitano Stadium.

Chelsea and Arsenal had around 5,000 fans at Baku's Olympic Stadium.

Uefa has reiterated the difficulties in the planning involved in organising ticket sales and travel for fans.

It said it was "impossible to predict" the teams in the final because venues are chosen two years in advance.

The six-point plan
A joint statement released on Wednesday by the supporters' trusts for Arsenal, Chelsea, Tottenham and Liverpool asks for:

Allocation - 80% of tickets to be made available to the two competing finalists, with the remaining 20% for sponsors, the football family, key stakeholders and a small general sale.

Capacity - Only stadiums with large capacities to be selected, to ensure maximum ticket availability (60,000 or greater for the Europa League final, 75,000 for the Champions League final).

Affordability - A stretch pricing policy allowing choice for fans.

Accessibility - The highest standards of accessibility for people with disabilities.

Infrastructure - The location to be a city with excellent transport links, including the capacity to deal with additional charter flights, good rail links to nearby cities and airports and bed-space capacity to deal with the number of visitors.

Equality - The host to abide by a human-rights and equality policy that ensures no discrimination or denial of right of entry.

Problems faced by fans
Liverpool and Tottenham fans were allocated 33,286 of the 68,000 tickets for the Champions League final in Madrid.

The remaining tickets for the Wanda Metropolitano Stadium went to the local organising committee, Uefa, national associations, commercial partners, broadcasters and corporate hospitality packages.

For the Europa League final taround 5,000 home-based supporters from Chelsea and Arsenal followed their clubs to Baku, with the Blues sending almost half their allocation back unsold.


'I sympathise a lot' with fans travelling to finals - Jurgen Klopp
Fans were put off by the lack of direct flights as well as price hikes in hotels and the cost of the tickets.

Speaking in June, Uefa said "recent experience" with finals in "comparable venues" meant "the number of finalists' supporters requesting tickets for a Uefa Europa League final can vary greatly from club to club".

The 2020 Champions League final will be held at the Olympic Stadium in Istanbul - famous for Liverpool's comeback victory in 2005 - while Stadion Energa Gdansk in Poland will host this season's Europa League final.

The decision for the 2021 finals will be made on 24 September, with Allianz Arena in Munich and Krestovsky Stadium in St Petersburg bidding for the Champions League final.

Boris Paichadze Dinamo Arena in Tbilisi and Seville's Estadio Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan are in the running for the Europa League final

• https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/49494096