Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo will come up towards one another on this season’s Champions League after Barcelona and Juventus have been positioned in the identical group in Thursday’s draw. The 2 heavyweights have been drawn in Group G together with Dynamo Kiev of Ukraine, with the fourth staff nonetheless to be decided. Messi and Ronaldo will resume the rivalry they developed when the Portuguese celebrity was at Actual Madrid. Between them they’ve received 11 of the final 12 Ballons d’Or.
In the meantime, overwhelmed 2020 finalists Paris Saint-Germain can have an opportunity for revenge towards Manchester United, who ousted the French membership within the final 16 two seasons in the past.
PSG may even come up towards RB Leipzig in Group H. The perimeters met in final season’s semi-finals in Lisbon in August, with Paris successful Three-Zero earlier than dropping to Bayern Munich of their first ever remaining look.
English Premier League champions Liverpool, who received the Champions League in 2019, will face Ajax in addition to Atalanta in Group D.
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Holders Bayern will face Atletico Madrid and also will have a brief journey throughout the border to Austria to tackle Salzburg in Group A.
The group stage begins on October 20, and all six rounds of video games will probably be crammed into eight weeks in a schedule that’s much more packed than ordinary due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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