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Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi will face each other for the first time in the Champions League organizational level.
Messi’s Barcelona was taken out of the group of second-place organizations on Thursday in the organization where Ronaldo’s Juventus were already more sensible than the most sensible. The organization then ended through Dynamo Kyiv and Ferencvaros.
Ronaldo, 35, and Messi, 33, had a nine-year-old rivalry in the Spanish league when Portuguese star Real Madrid, however, may never face off as early in the Champions League as clubs in the same country. are separated in the draw.
They met in the 2009 final, when Messi scored as Barcelona beat Ronaldo’s Manchester United 2-0.
Juventus and Barcelona teamed up at the organization level of the 2017–18 season, Ronaldo’s last in Madrid when he helped Real win a fourth Champions League name in five seasons. Messi scored twice in a 3-0 home win over Juventus, before a 0-0 draw in Italy.
The stellar clash of superstars still left room for intriguing draws in all seven groups.
Defending champions Bayern Munich teamed up through Atletico Madrid, Salzburg and Lokomotiv Moscow.
Paris Saint-Germain, runner-up last season, has discovered Manchester United, which they lost in the eighth round of 2019, and Leipzig, who were defeated in this year’s semi-finals. Newcomer Istanbul Basaksehir is also part of this group. .
Liverpool, the 2019 champion, is an organization of organisations known for playing open-attack football: Ajax, Atalanta and Midtjylland of Denmark, a Champions League debutant.
Liverpool, a six-time European champion and four-time champion Ajax have faced each other once before in the competition in 1966. Ajax eliminated Liverpool at the circular moment of the European Cup after a 5–1 first leg win in Amsterdam.
The 13-time record champion Real Madrid leads an organization with European history, adding Shakhtar Donetsk, Inter Milan and Borussia Monchengladbach.
Sevilla and Chelsea, winners of the last two Europa League titles, will face two newcomers to the Champions League, Krasnodar and Rennes.
Manchester City, for their first title, was seeded at one point in an organization with two former winners, Porto and Marseille, plus Olympiakos.
Zenit st. Petersburg, the most sensible seed as champion of the Russian league, will be measured to Borussia Dortmund, Lazio and Club Bruges.
UEFA will publish a full schedule of matches on Friday. The level of organization will begin on October 20 and run until December 9.
Matches may be delayed until January 28, if postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.