Draw starts at 5pm BST (6pm CET)
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What’s the dream draw here for the Premier League teams? Inter and Atlético from pot one perhaps? Club Brugge and Betis from two, Lille and Feyenoord from three? Lask and Viking from four? And the nightmare? PSG, Barcelona, Dortmund, Sporting, Napoli, Galatasaray, Como, Lens maybe? To be fair, the pots do seem to be well structured – so there’s not a huge range between the best- and worst-case scenarios. And given English teams snagged five of the top eight places last year, it’s not unreasonable to suggest that the Premier League quintet are the ones the rest will want to avoid.
The draw is pretty straightforward. Each team is allocated eight opponents, with four home games and four away games. Two opponents are taken from each seeding pot and teams cannot meet a team from their own country.
