One year after the 4 out of 4 of French clubs, with the qualifications of LOSC, PSG, AS Monaco and Stade Brestois for the direct elimination phase of the Champions League, three representatives of Ligue 1 will try their luck this season in the most beautiful of European competitions. The OGC Nice, 4th in the championship, failed to get out of the qualifications to join PSG, now holding the title of the C1, as well as OM and ASM.
Beaten 2-0 in the Riviera lands last week, the Aiglons of Franck Haise could not face the Eagles of Benfica by losing 2-0 in Lisbon on Tuesday evening. Portuguese training rose to LDC dams to challenge Fenerbahçe. Beaten 2-1 in Rotterdam, the formation of José Mourinho capsized his stamboulic audience by winning 5-2, thanks to goals from Jhon Duran, Fred, Youssef En-Nesyri and Anderson Talisca.
To finish in the first 24 in the general classification, Marseillais and Monegasques will have to take the maximum point against the teams of hats 3 and 4 of the draw of the Champions League. It is obvious. And we hold the seven posters of the dams. In addition to Benfica-Fenerbahçe, the second shock between non-champions will oppose the Brugge club of the playmaker Hans Vanaken and the Rangers of the Belgian striker Cyriel Dessers.
A Central Asian club for OM or Monaco?
The five double confrontations of the national champions table are Ferencvaros-Qarabag, red star of Belgrade-Pafos, Bodo/Glim-Sturm Graz, Celtic- Kaïrat Almaty and Basel-Fc Copenhague. The two surprises thus come from the qualifications of the Pafos Cypriots, who released the Dynamo kyiv (2-0 on the return), and especially the Kaïrat Almaty, Kazakh club in the middle of Central Asia, which eliminated the Slovan Bratislava on penalties.
The dams of the dams will be played on August 19, 20, 26 and 27 and the draw for the first phase of the Champions League is thus scheduled on August 28. Each club will face two teams from each of the four hats, which can offer Real Madrid, Manchester City, Bayern, Liverpool, Inter, Chelsea, Barça, Arsenal, Atlético de Madrid and Napoli at the three French clubs, with the possibility of facing two clubs from the same country! It will even be necessary to avoid Bilbao and Newcastle in the last hat of the draw…
