After a mostly impressive, occasionally comical qualifying win over Hoffenheim, Jürgen Klopp's Liverpool side have been rewarded with a relatively
gentle draw for the group stage.
At least we don't have the worry of the Qualifiers and we can just look forward to
the draw for the Group Stages.
Further, places in
the draw for the group stage are allocated not on the basis of whether a club happens to have won a title the previous season, but on their UEFA coefficient, a rolling points average based on a team's performance in all European competitions over the last five years.
Group & Schedule Confirmed: On 26th November,
the draw for the group stages took place in Russia and two groups of four teams were formed.
England and Wales cricket board (ECB) will announced the venues and the final fixture list by december 2016 and the tickets for Champions Trophy will go on sale after
the draw for the group stages has been made.
Qualified Teams: Australia, India, South Africa, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, England, Bangladesh and Pakistan has qualified for the next edition and
the draws for group stage will be made in december 2016.
In
the draw for the group stages of the 16/17 Europa League conducted today, Ligue 1 had two representatives in AS Saint - Etienne and OGC Nice.
So,
the draw for the group stages in 2017/18 has been made and Manchester United from Pot 2 were handed Lisbon - based Benfica in Portugal, Switzerland's FC Basel and a familiar foe from Russia, CSKA Moscow.
The draw for the group stage brought together two heavyweights of European football and they did not disappoint in a pulsating contest.