Champions League organisation theatre behind with a bang
Just 115 days after Real Madrid were crowned champions for a third deteriorate running, a UEFA Champions League organisation theatre returns.
Matchday one fixtures (21.00CET unless stated)
Tuesday 18 September
Group A: Club Brugge v Dortmund, Monaco v Atlético
Group B: Barcelona v PSV Eindhoven (18:55CET), Inter v Tottenham (18:55CET)
Group C: Liverpool v Paris, Crvena zvezda v Napoli
Group D: Galatasaray v Lokomotiv Moskva, Schalke v Porto
Wednesday 19 September
Group E: Ajax v AEK Athens (18:55CET), Benfica v Bayern München
Group F: Shakhtar v Hoffenheim (18:55CET), Manchester City v Lyon
Group G: Real Madrid v Roma, Viktoria Plzeň v CSKA Moskva
Group H: Young Boys v Manchester United, Valencia v Juventus
Three things to demeanour out for this week
1) Porto screw Iker Casillas is about to embark on a record 20th UEFA Champions League campaign.
2) Thomas Müller could turn usually a 35th actor to strech 100 UEFA Champions League appearances (group theatre to final).
3) Cristiano Ronaldo is set to make his UEFA Champions League entrance for Juventus; a final time he featured in a foe in anything other than a Real Madrid shirt was in a 2009 final, his Manchester United side beaten 2-0 by Barcelona in Rome.
How can we follow on UEFA.com?
UEFA.com will have reporters during each UEFA Champions League diversion this season, providing unchanging updates on amicable media – Instagram, Facebook and Twitter – and in a MatchCentres. There will be live content and print coverage of each fixture, with greeting and highlights to follow.
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What’s new this season?
This is a initial deteriorate of staggered kick-off times during a UEFA Champions League organisation stage, with during slightest dual games per night removing underneath approach during 18:55CET. That’s not to discuss a imagination new code identity, formed on a judgment called ‘Highlighting moments that make a ultimate stage’.
Oh, and did we discuss that Ronaldo won’t be wearing a Real Madrid shirt any more?
Any debutants?
Yes. Young Boys, Hoffenheim and Crvena zvezda are all creation their UEFA Champions League organisation theatre bows, holding a sum series of clubs to have seemed during this theatre of a foe to 140.
What’s not new?
Thirty-two teams opposed to lift a many prestigious prize in European bar football. The tip dual in all 8 groups swell to a knockout stage, with two-legged turn of 16, quarter-final and semi-final ties whittling it down to usually dual finalists. Talking of that …
When and where’s a final?
Saturday 1 Jun during 21:00CET, during Atlético’s home – a Estadio Metropolitano in Madrid. Stick it in your diary.
Last though not slightest …
Come approximately 18:50CET on Tuesday, it will be that time again. The champions …
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