Barcelona group in the Champions League 23/24

FC Barcelona will join group C of the Champions Leagueand and will clash against Bayern Munich from Germany, Inter Milan and Viktoria Plzen from the Czech Republic. A very difficult task for the Catalan squad, since in the last edition they were eliminated from the contest at this stage and they are obliged to wash their faces in front of their fans.

Barcelona group in Champions League

The rival that everyone wants to avoid in the Champions League

Present in pot 2, Real Madrid is the rival that many teams, like defending champion Manchester City, will want to avoid in the Champions League group stage draw, which will take place on Thursday in Monaco (4:00 p.m. GMT).

On the way to Wembley, the venue for the final, the teams from pot 1 may fall against the whites, who with their record of 14 Champions League wins, represent the biggest danger in pot 2.

City, Sevilla (winner of the Europa League) and six national champions (FC Barcelona, ​​Naples, Bayern Munich, Paris SG, Benfica and Feyenoord), should also be wary of Inter Milan, finalist of the last edition and other great teams from the second hype: Manchester United, Atlético de Madrid, RB Leipzig, Porto, Borussia Dortmund and Arsenal.

Even despite having lost Karim Benzema, heading to Saudi Arabia, and accumulating numerous injuries (Vinicius, Thibaut Courtois, Eder Militao), Real Madrid always has the status of favourites.

Carlo Ancelotti’s team is relying on its star signing, the young English prodigy Jude Bellingham, 20, who has already scored four goals in three league games.

For his part, the winner of the European Super Cup against Sevilla and defending champion Manchester City, has strengthened this market with the Croatians Josko Gvardiol and Mateo Kovacic, as well as the Belgian winger Jérémy Doku.

The triplet champion last season could meet again in the group stage with Inter Milan, the team that the ‘citizens’ beat in the Champions League final last June, in Istanbul (1-0).

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The Nerazzurri club has strengthened with the return of the Chilean Alexis Sánchez after a season in Marseille, as well as the French attacker Marcus Thuram. Another Frenchman, Benjamin Pavard, could close the arrival of him to the Lombard team in the next few hours.

The presence in the same group of Paris SG and Real Madrid will also be possible, an increasingly repeated confrontation in the Champions League and which could be a nod to the soap opera between the two clubs over the signing of Kylian Mbappé, regularly linked to Real Madrid in recent years.

The French attacker, separated during the summer and reintegrated into the first team, has returned in style to Paris SG, with a double last weekend in Ligue 1 against Lens (3-1), the other French representative in the Champions League, in pot 4.

The Parisians, finalists in 2020, no longer have Lionel Messi or Neymar, but they hope to shine with Mbappé and new signings such as Ousmane Dembélé and Marco Asensio.

Bayern Munich, meanwhile, have signed English center forward Harry Kane for 100 million euros (about $110 million). The best scorer of the English team (58 goals) hopes to finally win a title after years of drought at Tottenham. Kane has landed on the right foot in Germany and has already scored three goals. The Bavarian club could face Inter again in the group stage, as happened last year.

In Naples, Victor Osimhen is also in form, with three goals in two games in Serie A, and the Italian team, who reached the quarterfinals last year, will look to continue progressing.

Winner of the Europa League for the seventh time at the end of May, Sevilla hopes to rediscover its best version in Europe after a catastrophic start to the season. The Andalusians have lost their first three games in the Spanish championship and are last.

In the rest of the pots, the teams to follow will be AC ​​Milan, seven times champion of the tournament, and Lazio (pot 3), and Newcastle (pot 4), bought by the Saudi sovereign wealth fund in 2021 and back in the League. champions for the first time since 2002-2003, in the Alan Shearer years.

The main condition of the draw is that no two teams from the same country will be able to coincide in the same group.