With the Champions League qualifiers almost coming to an end, we can say that we know 80-90% of the qualified teams. Or atleast we can gossip about it
These are the play offs:
Champions Path
Maccabi Haifa - BSC Young Boys
Royal Antwerp - Dinamo Zagreb / AEK Athens
Rakow - FC Copenhagen
Molde - Galatasaray
Here's what the seeding pots might look like. This is just based on squad value, coefficient etc. it's still possible that some smaller teams in the plays off could cause an "upset".
Pot 1
Manchester City
Sevilla
Barcelona
Napoli
Bayern Munich
Paris Saint-Germain
Benfica
Feyenoord
Pot 2
Real Madrid
Manchester United
Inter Milan
Borussia Dortmund
Atlético Madrid
RB Leipzig
FC Porto
Arsenal
Pot 3
Shakhtar Donetsk
Red Bull Salzburg
Milan
SC Braga
PSV Eindhoven
Lazio
Red Star Belgrade
FC Copenhagen
Pot 4
BSC Young Boys
Real Sociedad
Galatasaray SK
Celtic
Newcastle United
Union Berlin
Antwerp FC
RC Lens
Which draw would benefit Barca the most? My pick would be:
Barcelona
Porto
Red Star Belgrade
BSC Young Boys
Nightmare group would be:
Barcelona
Arsenal / RB Leipzig
Milan
RC Lens / Newcastle
Best draw for Real Madrid:
Bayern Munich
Real Madrid
Milan
Newcastle United
Or put Man. City there instead of Bayern and Lens instead of Newcastle
Think this Barca team will struggle against the extremely lively unit of Newcastle. They are pretty tough to play against. Tonali has already fitted in perfectly. Howe is good.
Barcelona
ManU so we can take revenge for last season.
Braga because I can’t remember playing them so something new is always welcome.
Antwerp* Also something new and I could probably go watch the game live.
There is a good chance that they won’t make it so Celtic from pot 4 would be great too.
Would have some nice games and a relatively easy enough group to win it if Xavi doesn’t fuck up.