29 August 2024 at 19:20 More giant games in the Champions League – Haaland meets PSG Manchester City was drawn as the first team in the Champions League draw in Monaco. Erling Braut Haaland’s team will, among other things, face Paris Saint-Germain away. For the first time, the Champions League will be played as a league instead of a group stage, and thus each team will face eight different opponents. The 36 clubs were seeded at four levels, and all will face two teams from each level – one away and one at home. All 36 teams end up in one league, instead of the well-known group stage with eight pools with four teams in each. The teams that finish in 1st to 8th place in the league go directly to the round of 16. The teams from 9th to 24th place end up in a play-off for eight places in the round of 16, where teams from 9th to 16th place meet teams from 17th to 24th place. The teams from 25th to 36th place are eliminated from the tournament and do not get a place in the Europa League either. In Thursday’s draw, the European Football Association (Uefa) also introduced a new “supercomputer” that did the drawing. This is not the end of the classic bowls and balls, but the computer calculates who each team will face according to instructions from the person who has drawn the team. Norwegian duels City got Inter (h), PSG (b), Bruges (h), Juventus (b), Feyenoord (h), Sporting (b), Sparta Praha (h) and Slovan Bratislava (b). This means, among other things, that Haaland can meet both Hugo Vetlesen (Bruges) and Markus Solbakken (Sparta Prague) in the league phase. Reigning champions Real Madrid were naturally also at the top seeding level. The Spanish giants will face Borussia Dortmund (h), Liverpool (b), Milan (h), Atalanta (b), Salzburg (h), Lille (b), Stuttgart (h) and Brest (b). Martin Ødegaard and Arsenal await PSG (h), Inter (b), Shakhtar Donetsk (h), Atalanta (b), Dinamo Zagreb (h), Sporting (b), Monaco (h) and Girona (b). Bodø/Glimt went out with a narrow margin for Røde Stjerne in the last qualifying round. The Serbs will face, among others, Barcelona and Inter. More big games Among other goodies are Liverpool’s away games against Antonio Nusa and RB Leipzig, Barcelona – Bayern Munich and Liverpool – Real Madrid. Uefa states that the schedule with dates and match times will be announced on Saturday.
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