Champions League draw live: Arsenal face PSG, Man City play Barcelona, Leicester handed dream group
Follow the latest from Monaco as the Champions League group stage is drawn
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Your support makes all the difference.The draw for the group stage of the Champions League took place in Monaco on Thursday afternoon with Arsenal, Leicester City, Manchester City and Tottenham discovering who they will face in Europe this season. Follow the latest here.
- The Champions League group stage draw took place in Monaco
- Manchester City face difficult group as Pep Guardiola returns to Barcelona
- Borussia Monchengladbach and Celtic make up Group C
- Arsenal in Group A along with PSG, Basel and Ludogorets
- Premier League champions Leicester handed dream draw with Porto, Brugge and FC Copenhagen
- Spurs return to Champions League to take on CSKA Moscow, Bayer Leverkusen and Monaco
Draw:
Group A: Paris Saint-Germain, Arsenal, Basel, Ludogorets
Group B: Benfica, Napoli, Dinamo Kiev, Besiktas
Group C: Barcelona, Manchester City, Borussia Monchengladbach, Celtic
Group D: Bayern Munich, Atletico Madrid, PSV Eindhoven, Rostov
Group E: CSKA Moscow, Bayer Leverkusen, Tottenham, Monaco
Group F: Real Madrid, Borussia Dortmund, Sporting Lisbon, Legia Warsaw
Group G: Leicester, Porto, Club Brugge, FC Copenhagen
Group H: Juventus, Sevilla, Lyon, Dinamo Zagreb
Follow the live draw below...
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Toby Alderweireld was in bullish mood this week, backing his Tottenham comrades to take the Champions League by storm this season.
Spurs will, of course, learn their fate in the group stage draw in just under an hour, with Real Madrid, Barcelona and Bayern Munich all potentially lying in wait.
"We're looking forward to it. We're very excited to play in the Champions League and I think it will be the next step for the young team we have," Alderweireld said.
"I think after training we'll watch the draw together, like every draw - the Europa League before and now the Champions League.
"Pot one is only the best teams so obviously we're going to draw at least one good team - and in the Champions League they're all good teams so it will be fun and good to show ourselves and to compare ourselves with the big teams."
The ceremony gets underway with Uefa head of communications and media Pedro Pinto joined by host Anne Laure-Bonnet, who immediately ramps up the cringe factor by taking a selfie with Bale, Griezmann and Ronald, along with women's nominees Nadine Angerer, Lena Goessling and Lotta Schelin. Urgh.
That leads us straight into montage No 1, which is simply a highlights package from last season's competition accompanied by two opera singers who have been whaling away for the best part of five minutes not. As Chapions League draws go, this is possibly the worst we've seen for some time. All we want is the draw!
With the draw done and dusted, the Uefa European player of the year will be crowned for both the men and women. Up first is the women, with Ada Hederberg, Amandine Henry and Dzsenifer Marozsán on the shortlist. But the can only be one winner...
The winner of the Uefa Women's European Player of the Year is... Ada Hederberg!
Lyon's Ada Hederberg wins the women's European Player of the Year award
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