Champions League draw: Manchester United face tough group stage – live! – The Guardian

Pot two: Barcelona, Atlético Madrid, Manchester City, Manchester United, Shakhtar Donetsk, Borussia Dortmund, Chelsea, Ajax.

Somebody will be dumped into a hellishly difficult group, frequently known as “the Slavia Prague”. There will be an unusual group with four middling groups of really similar capability.

Thirty-two groups in 4 pots, redirected into eight groups through the medium of plastic mini footballs in salad bowls. At least one extremely gifted former footballer will have difficulty opening said mini-balls.

Pot 3: Dynamo Kyiv, Red Bull Salzburg, RB Leipzig, Internazionale, Olympiakos, Lazio, Krasnodar, Atalanta.

Pot one: Bayern Munich, Sevilla, Real Madrid, Liverpool, Juventus, PSG, Zenit, Porto.

Pot four: Lokomotiv Moscow, Marseille, Club Brugge, Borussia Mönchengladbach, Istanbul Basaksehir, FC Midtjylland, Rennes, Ferencvaros.