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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That's all from our coverage of the Champions League draw, and what a draw it was for Leicester City and Tottenham. Spurs will be relatively confident of progressing to the last-16 while Leicester will be delighted with Group G - and fans also have a trip to Lisbon and Brugge to look forward to!
But for Arsenal and Manchester City, it could have gone better. City will face Barcelona once again, having played them twice in Europe over the past three seasons, while Arsenal face a difficult trip to Paris against last season's quarter-finalists Paris Saint-Germain, while taking on Basel is no easy task these days.
Thanks for joining us for the Champions League group stage draw, and catch up with all the reaction on our sport page here.
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