Royal Antwerp and Young Boys complete pot 4 where Royal will go

The group stage of the Champions League 23-24 is about to begin. Increasing. After completing the previous ones this Wednesday, the maximum continental competition already knows its 32 participants in this edition. La Real already knows its 31 opponents for raising the orejona at Wembley, on June 1. It’s a big dream to still be August, which is why the San Sebastian club is looking at the drums, for now, ahead of the draw that will be held this Thursday at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco, starting at 6:00 pm, where the royalist entity will be part of pot 4. It is more likely, therefore, that it has a very tight group, but not strictly safe.

Wednesday night gave the last three participants of this edition, which became PSV, after going down to Rangers, Copenhagen, after defeating the Polish surprise Rakow, and Royal Antwerp, which eliminated AEK Athens. The first two will complete pot 3 tomorrow, so txuri urdin is a possible opponent in the group stage. In addition, the Danish team sends the Young Boys, who were classified yesterday, to the last drum, where they will join the Belgian Antwerp, in addition to those confirmed yesterday Galatasaray, Celtic, Lens, Union Berlin, Newcastle and Real Sociedad . Those seven teams, along with the rest of the Spaniards, are the only ones that avoid the Imanols, because you cannot face teams from your league or those from the same hype. That means they have 21 possible rivals, in principle. From reigning champion Manchester City to PSV, the last to qualify, who went through Milan, Dortmund, PSG, Benfica or Feyenoord. During the draw, other possible rivals may be eliminated. If City are in group A, Arsenal, for example, cannot go there and therefore cannot face Real if txuri urdin falls into that group. There are also conditions in terms of cities and schedules. City and United will not be matched in the same group block (AD or EH), as they share match days throughout the group stage.