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The Portuguese title champion FC Porto, who starts as seed, meets his rivals this Thursday in the group stage of the Champions League in football.
In the draw scheduled for Nyon, Switzerland, at 4 in the afternoon, the only Portuguese representative in the competition already knows that he will not face Bayern Munich, Sevilla, Real Madrid, Liverpool, Juventus, Paris Saint-Germain and Zenit, the other members of Pot 1. where “dragons” are included.
The most dangerous rivals for the ‘blues and white’ are in Pot 2, where FC Barcelona, Atlético de Madrid, Manchester City, Manchester United, Borussia Dortmund and Chelsea “live”, along with Shakhtar Donetsk and Ajax, these would be the most good options for FC Porto.
In pot 3, Sérgio Conceição’s team would like to avoid the “beans” like Leipzig, Atalanta, Inter Milan and Lazio, preferring Dynamo Kiev, Olympiacos, Salzburg and Krasnodar, the “executioner” of the Porto players in the third 2019 qualifying round. / 20.
As for Pot 4, there are still some quality teams left, such as Rennes, current leaders of “Ligue 1”, and Marseille, led by former Porto coach André Villas-Boas, or Borussia Mönchengladbach. The other teams are Lokomotiv Moscow, Club Brugge, Basaksehir, Midtjylland and Ferencvaros.
FC Porto, who missed last year’s edition, will make their 24th appearance in the group stage, as will European champions Bayern Munich. Better, only the two “giants” Spanish, Real Madrid and FC Barcelona, which go to 25.
Given the covid-19 pandemic, which delayed the start of the competition, the “Champions” group stage will only start on October 20, and everything will be decided in eight weeks: three consecutive, two interregnum and three more. of “explosion”.
The dates are October 20 and 21 (first day), October 27 and 28 (Monday), November 3 and 4 (third), November 24 and 25 (Wednesday), December 1 and 2 (Thursday) and 8 and December 9 (Friday and last).
Regarding the format, no changes. The group stage consists of eight groups of four teams, the first two go to the round of 16 – the first, with the second leg at home, faces the second – and the third to be relegated to the league. Europe. The fourth classified is out.
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