Newcastle United will plunge back into the Champions League at the deep stop in opposition to the former champions of AC Milan and Borussia Dortmund and the French billionaires led by Kylian Mbappe at Paris Saint-Germain.
The draw heralds a thrilling return to Europe’s elite right after an absence of much more than 20 decades, with Eddie Howe’s group and the Geordie trustworthy established for three of the most legendary venues in environment football.
The atmosphere promises to be off the scale in all six ties. Not the very least on Tyneside, the place the prospect of these games is certain to rekindle memories of their glorious European nights of the earlier, like Tino Aspilla’s hat-trick in 1997 to topple a Barcelona group that includes Rivaldo, Luis Figo and Luis Enrique, the most current PSG boss.
St James’ Park pulsated then and will do so yet again when the Champions League starts on September 19.
Newcastle’s past flavor of this competition came versus Bayer Leverkusen in February 2003, when Alan Shearer grabbed a different hat-trick but a 3-1 victory in the now-defunct second team stage was not plenty of to progress.
Newcastle were handed a tricky endeavor on their return to the Champions League in Group F
Eddie Howe’s facet will have to uncover a way past final year’s semi-finallists AC Milan, French titans PSG and German giants Borussia Dortmund
4 Premier League sides showcased in the Champions League team stage draw on Thursday
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They unsuccessful to make it as a result of the qualifiers in 2003-04, beaten by Partizan Belgrade – and the genuine reward for last season’s achievement, finishing fourth in the Leading League, is a very little additional tangible when these ties are marked into the diaries.
At a look, it appears to be as difficult as any of the 8 drawn on Thursday in Monaco by Joe Cole and Eric Abidal, though Howe may well quietly fancy his probability of springing surprises as the outsiders in Team F.
Milan, with some acquainted former Leading League gamers in their ranks which include England internationals Fikayo Tomori and Ruben Loftus-Cheek, only just squeezed earlier Tottenham past period, Dortmund have misplaced Jude Bellingham and PSG are in flux as soon as once again, with Neymar and Lionel Messi absent.
Howe also has Sandro Tonali, signed by Newcastle from Milan for £55million, for inside know-how on the Italians, who finished fourth in Serie A.
Bellingham’s first Champions League marketing campaign with True Madrid pits him from Italian champions Napoli, Braga and debutants Union Berlin.
Manchester United will come up versus Harry Kane’s Bayern Munich in Group A. The repeat of the 1999 remaining is a mouth-watering prospect, although the two will be expecting to qualify from a team also involving FC Copenhagen and Wilf Zaha’s Galatasaray.
United’s fixture versus Galatasaray in Istanbul will stir up memories of the notorious “Welcome to Hell” contest, 30 years back in October.
Arsenal will be relieved to have prevented Kane and Bayern. The England captain created a behavior of scoring in opposition to them for Tottenham and the German champions scarred them with a 10-2 aggregate defeat on their last overall look in the Champions League.
The Leading League’s four-strong contingent learned their fates at the Monaco ceremony
For Pep Guardiola’s Treble-winners it is another clash with RB Leipzig on the cards
It has been a long six a long time because. They ended up a fixture underneath Arsene Wenger but Mikel Arteta’s staff return in what seems to be mild trend right after a 6-year absence.
Group B is small on mileage and, with PSV, Lens and Europa League winners Sevilla, none of the common heavyweights.
Team G will keep couple fears for holders Manchester Town. They will be up after much more towards Leipzig, who they thrashed 7- at the Etihad Stadium in March on the way to lifting the trophy for the 1st time, Crvena Zvezda (Crimson Star) of Serbia and Younger Boys of Switzerland.
Erling Haaland, who scored five in the romp versus Leipzig, was named men’s player of the year for 2022/23 at the UEFA ceremony. Sarina Wiegman won women’s mentor of the calendar year, and committed the award to the Spain players who conquer her England aspect in the Earth Cup remaining, previous month.
Mikel Arteta’s Arsenal experience a straight-forward group versus Sevilla, PSV Eindhoven and Lens
Erik 10 Hag and Manchester United have been drawn in Team A from Bayern Munich
Harry Kane (proper) faces a really swift return to England when his Bayern Munich take on United