What do you think about the draw, colleagues?
https://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/draws/2027/2002239/It seems like this year there isn't a single top team with a difficult schedule (like PSG had last year), but there are some teams with easier games than others, for example, Real Madrid:
Inter (home), Arsenal (away), PSV (home), Roma (away), Leipzig (home), Shakhtar (away), LASK (home), AEK Athens (away).
Liverpool have a similar schedule, so Mbappe and whoever is the Liverpool scorer could already score 15 goals in the group stage haha.
Separately, i can note huge luck: LASK, Viking and Sabah will play with the most famous teams, the fans will be happy.
I haven't analyzed draw for each teams, but I think that every season we have something similar - some big clubs get very easy draw, while some others don't have that much luck and even may have problems to reach next round.
According to FMD
https://x.com/fmeetsdata/status/2093043400677154954Sabah (surprise, surprise), City (not sure why) and Lens got most difficult draw, while Real, Stuttgart and Inter got easiest one.
And yeah, fans of these smaller clubs can be happy as they will see some best clubs playing against them. Some may prefer easier draw, but with easier draw they still wouldn't have much chances to achieve something.
Lens and Sabah were in Pot 4 - what's the point of even mentioning them if they mathematically can't get an easy draw? And to describe City's draw as much tougher than Real Madrid and Inter's is also nonsense. Overall, his post reads like rage bait, which is unsurprising, since he's trying to lure readers to his website with "deeper analysis."
By the way, it’s surprising that we don’t see the Real - City game, but as always, we should expect this pair in the playoffs, I can’t even remember a season when they didn’t meet lol.
