This Thursday is the big date, the most awaited, every year, draw for the Champions League. For the big teams, a dream starts here with its destination being the mythical Wembley stadium, which will be the scene of the final on June 1, 2024.
Everyone’s goal is to get the Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City, current champion after winning the first Champions League in its history, as well as a historic relay. But this Thursday afternoon there will be great outsiders, giants who will miss this edition of the king of clubs tournament at a European level.
Starting with Premier, they are not the Liverpool (European champion on 6 occasions, 1977, 1978, 1981, 1984, 2005, 2019, the most, equal to Bayernafter 2:00 pm real Madrid and 7 o’clock Milan), he Chelsea (with 2 Champions in their showcases, the ones in 2012 and 2021) or the Tottenham (runner-up in 2018-19). The ‘reds’ will play in the Europa League, while the ‘blues’ and the ‘Spurs’ are left out of the Eurotournaments.
In Italy, Juventus is also outside of Europe. Deduction of points for falsification of accounts relegated the Turin team to Conference League and the UEFA sanction leaves him in Europe, although in return he is free to play in the next Champions League (2023-24) if he qualifies. The ‘vecchia signora’ were continental champions in 1985 and 1996 and, most recently, lost in the finals in 2015 and 2017.
Another great absent classic in the Champions League that the group will be drawn this Thursday is the ajaxwhich has 4 on his record (1971, 1972, 1973, 1995) and could only be the third in the last Eredivisie.
Source: La Verdad
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