With a new format, the Champions League draw will be different to the eight-groups-of-four setup from recent years
Indeed, Paul, with a sprinkling of Numberwang and a structure built around Alan Partridge’s Soccermeter.
Ceferin then confronts the key protagonist – oh look, it’s Zlatan Ibrahimovic! And he’s here to tell us that actually, this new Swiss-style set up is “what the fans want”. “You might even call it a Super League,” he adds, partially redeeming this whole exercise., who is here in person to collect the prize for the Champions League’s all-time top scorer.
Once the name of the team is displayed, the automated software randomly draws eight opponents for this team, two from each pot , including, for each opponent, whether they are played at home or away. The order of allocation of opponents starts with pot 1 , followed by the other pots in descending order.
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