Benfica Lisbon and Dynamo Kiev are also waiting for Barca. Alaba and Real face Inter Milan.
ÖFB young team player Yusuf Demir can look forward to a duel with Bayern Munich in the Champions League. FC Barcelona were drawn into Group E with the German series champions at the draw in Istanbul on Thursday, plus Benfica Lisbon and Dynamo Kiev. David Alaba meets Inter Milan and two underdogs with Real Madrid. In groups A and B, top clubs are among themselves.
In group A, the German runner-up RB Leipzig with the ÖFB legionaries Marcel Sabitzer and Konrad Laimer, the English champions Manchester City and the starting group from Paris Saint-Germain with Lionel Messi, Neymar and Kylian Mbappe were drawn. ManCity and Paris SG met in the semifinals last season, the English won 2-1 and 2-0. The fourth club is Club Bruges. Group B includes four former European Cup winners: Atletico Madrid, Liverpool, FC Porto and AC Milan.
Data from SofaScore.
Memories of the 8: 2
Bayern are looking forward to seeing FC Barcelona again, whom they defeated 8-2 in the quarter-finals on the way to triumph in 2020 at the final tournament in Lisbon. “We want to create the group and also be first. We have big goals in the Champions League,” said Bayern sports director Hasan Salihamidzic. “Barcelona lost Lionel Messi. They are of course a different team without Messi. But they have good players in their ranks. It will be a nice duel,” said Salihamidzic.
Alaba, who has moved from Bayern to Madrid, is playing against Italian champions Inter Milan, with whom Valentino Lazaro is currently under contract. The other opponents in Group D are Shakhtar Donetsk and Sherrif Tiraspol. Defending champions Chelsea face Juventus Turin and outsiders Zenit St. Petersburg and Malmö FF in Group H.
The group stage with 32 teams in eight groups begins on 14./15. September and ends on 7./8. December. The first two finishers advance to the knockout round. The final will take place in St. Petersburg on May 28, 2022.
