Manchester
City manager Pep Guardiola will return to former club Barcelona in the
Champions League after the two sides were drawn in the same group.
The
Citizens, who comfortably saw off Steaua Bucuresti to advance into the
competition proper, will also face Borussia Monchengladbach and Celtic as part
of their tricky Group C schedule.
Arsenal face
double-headers against French moneybags Paris Saint-Germain, Basel and
qualifiers Ludogorets Razgrad, meanwhile, and North London rivals Tottenham
Hotspur must battle past CSKA Moscow, Bayer Leverkusen and AS Monaco.
Premier
League champions Leicester City formed part of the group-stage draw for the
first time in their history, and as top seeds they have what appears to be a
favourable run as they take on Porto, Club Brugge and Copenhagen.
Elsewhere,
holders Real Madrid and Borussia Dortmund were drawn alongside each other in
Group F, with Cristiano Ronaldo also facing a return to one of his former sides
in Sporting Lisbon.
Champions League group-stage draw in full:
Group A: PSG,
Arsenal, Basel, Ludogorets Razgrad
Group B:
Benfica, Napoli, Dynamo Kiev, Besiktas
Group C:
Barcelona, Manchester City, Borussia Monchengladbach, Celtic
Group D:
Bayern Munich, Atletico Madrid, PSV Eindhoven, FC Rostov
Group E: CSKA
Moscow, Bayer Leverkusen, Tottenham Hotspur, Monaco
Group F: Real
Madrid, Borussia Dortmund, Sporting Lisbon, Legia Warsaw
Group G:
Leicester City, Porto, Club Brugge, FC Copenhagen
Group H:
Juventus, Sevilla, Lyon, Dinamo Zagreb
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