Much less impressive than Luis Enrique's PSG, brilliant winner of the last Champions League, OM and AS Monaco, also qualified for the most beautiful European competitions, will have a lot to do to get out of the first phase. The full point of points against the “small” teams will be essential … The three Ligue 1 clubs will be fixed on all their possible opponents in a week, since the matches go to the C1 dams began this Tuesday.
Three posters were on the program and the shock of the day opposed the Rangers to the Bruges club. The Ibrox Stadium was very quickly showered. The second in Belgium (behind the Saint-Gilloise Union) opened the scoring in the 3rd minute thanks to a lob of Romeo Vermant. The Bruges of Hans Vanaken led 3-0 from the 20th minute, but the Glasgow formation revived the suspense thanks to the Brazilian Danilo Pereira (50th). They are in a position of strength before the round return across the quiévrain.
The other two Tuesday matches opposed national champions and we may hold the two surprises of the season. Qarabag won 3-1 on the Ferencvaros field, led by Robbie Keane. In the event of qualification (as in his first in 2017-2018), the Azerbaijani champion would offer a very distant trip to Bakou, for four C1 teams. The Qarabag captain is French! It is Abdellah Zoubir, an attacking midfielder who shone with RC Lens in Ligue 2 from 2016 to 2018.
Direction Azerbaijan or Cyprus for OM?
The PAFOS FC probably doesn't tell you anything. This Cypriot club, created in 2014 and champion for the first time last May, could qualify for its very first Champions League in its history. Pafos won 2-1 in the lair of the Belgrade red star of former Toulousain Shavy Babicka (Nemanja Radonjic was absent). Return match next week on the island of the east of the Mediterranean, more specifically in Limassol.
On Wednesday, the large poster of the round trips opposes Benfica, a fall of the OGC Nice during the previous round, at the Fenerbahçe led by José Mourinho. The Stambouliote club is led by Milan Skriniar, Alexander Djiku, Fred, Youssef En-Nesyri and Jhon Duran! The meeting will be broadcast live on Canal+. Bodo/Glim-Sturm Graz, Celtic-Kairat Almaty and FC Basel-Copenhagen are also on the program. PSG, OM and Monaco will be fixed during the Thursday 28 draw.
