Chelsea, Liverpool, Spurs draw big name clubs in Champions League group stage

Ste McGovern 29/08/2019 Champions League, Premier League 0

The four English teams in this season’s UEFA Champions League have discovered who they will be facing in the group stages following today’s draw.

Bayern Munich will make their way to London after being paired with Tottenham Hotspur, while reigning champions Liverpool will be reunited with Napoli after meeting at the same stage last season.

Spurs will also face tricky tests against Olympiakos and Red Star Belgrade, who defeated Jurgen Klopp’s side last season, but they are in an eminently qualifiable group if last year’s runners-up regain the form of previous campaigns. Liverpool will also face Genk and Salzburg, Naby Keita’s former team, in what they will fancy as a favourable draw.

In contrast Chelsea have been handed a relatively tough draw, with the west London outfit taking on last year’s surprise package Ajax, as well as Valencia and Lille.

Manchester City will be the happiest of the English clubs, having drawn Shakhtar Donetsk, Dinamo Zagreb and Atalanta. The eastern European sides have previous experience of this competition, while the Italian club are appearing for the first time, but are an exciting team that will challenge strongly for qualification to the knockout stages. Even so, the Premier League champions will be very confident of topping that group.

The Champions League group stage draw for 2019/20:

Group A

PSG
Real Madrid
Club Brugge
Galatasaray

Group B

Bayern Munich
Tottenham
Olympiakos
Red Star Belgrade

Group C

Man City
Shakhtar Donetsk
Dinamo Zagreb
Atalanta

Group D

Juventus
Atletico Madrid
Bayer Leverkusen
Lokomotiv Moscow

Group E

Liverpool
Napoli
Salzburg
Genk

Group F

Barcelona
Borussia Dortmund
Inter Milan
Slavia Prague

Group G

Zenit
Benfica
Lyon
RB Leipzig

Group H

Chelsea
Ajax
Valencia
Lille

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