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Liverpool are making the closest journey than any other English team during the group stage of the Champions League. Followed by Manchester United, Chelsea and Manchester City.
The 2020/2021 Champions League group draw took place on Thursday (1/10/2020) at WIB night. The 32 best teams in Europe are classified into eight different groups.
Liverpool, as Premier League champions, join in Group D with Ajax Amsterdam, Atalanta and FC Midtjylland. Meanwhile, Manchester City filled Group C with FC Porto, Olympiakos and Olympique de Marseille.
Manchester United are included in Group H with Paris Saint-Germain, RB Leipzig and Istanbul Basaksehir. Chelsea are also in Group E and will face Seville, Krasnodar and Rennes.
Among the four English teams competing in the group stage of the Champions League, Liverpool is the club that has made the closest trip. Launching Daily mailThe Reds’ furthest game was played when they headed for Atalanta’s headquarters in Bergamo, 1,611 km from Merseyside.
The journey from Liverpool to two other cities, Amsterdam and Midtjylland, is considered close, that is, up to 539 km and 863 km. Total Sadio Mane et al will cover a distance of 2,997 km during the group round of the Champions League.
Chelsea must feel the furthest trip to a place. Frank Lampard’s squad will play an away game at the Krasnodar headquarters in southern Russia, 2,947km away from London, or almost close to Liverpool’s total route in the group stage.
MU also feels a long journey when they have to meet Istanbul Basaksehir in Turkey. The clubhouse reportedly interested in Mesut Oezil is 2,699 km from Manchester.
There is also the furthest trip from City, when they visited Olympiacos in Greece, at a distance of 2,623 km from Manchester. However, Pep Guardiola’s team has covered the furthest total of up to 5,085km when added to their away games in Porto (1,450km) and Marseille (1,012km).
