It was decided that a number of seniors will be present in the European League, starting from the playoffs this season, after some of them were bid farewell to the Champions League.
The Champions League draw was not kind to Barcelona, as the Catalan club with its contract in recent years, Bayern Munich, along with the Italian league runners-up, Inter Milan, and the Czech Viktoria Plzen, fell into a group called the “group of death” by the press at the time.
Barcelona’s participation in the European League last year was miserable, as it was eliminated from the competition from the quarter-finals against Eintracht Frankfurt, after a 1-1 draw in Germany and a 2-3 defeat at Camp Nou in a match that witnessed the scandal of the Catalan fans selling their tickets to German fans.
Now, Xavi has announced that Barcelona’s new goal after bidding farewell to the Champions League is to be champions of the European League, but in order to achieve this end, the two blocs will have a long and difficult path, with the presence of a constellation of exceptional clubs in the tournament, both from the participants from the group stage. , Or relegated from the Champions League, such as Barca.
There is a possibility that Barcelona could fall in the way of Manchester United, which includes Portuguese legend Cristiano Ronaldo, if the latter fails to top his group.
What is the European League Supplement System?
The clubs that ranked second in the European League groups will meet with the clubs relegated from the European Champions League, with the first leg match being on the stadium of the clubs coming from “With the Ears”.
The system prevents two teams from the same country from meeting in the annex.
Who are the potential opponents of Barcelona in the European League?
The second seat in any of the eight groups of the European League has not been decided, and from the first group, Arsenal can fall to the runners-up or PSV Eindhoven, and this will be determined after the final round matches on Thursday
There are many big clubs that may be present in second place, such as Roma of Italy led by Jose Mourinho, Rennes of France or Fenerbahce of Turkey, Union Berlin of Germany or Sporting Braga of Portugal.
[Manchester United]
The biggest name that threatens Barcelona remains Manchester United, the English club, if it fails to beat Real Sociedad away in the last round, will be a potential opponent for the Blaugrana.
There is also Italy’s Lazio, Sturmgraz or Dutch Feyenoord, with a three-way competition for the second seat in the last group between Serbian Red Star, France’s Monaco, Turkey’s Trabzon, Germany’s Freiburg or the qualifiers from Nantes or Karabagh.