{"id":378989,"date":"2025-08-28T00:40:29","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T00:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/378989\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T00:40:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T00:40:29","slug":"champions-league-liverpools-possible-league-phase-opponents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/378989\/","title":{"rendered":"Champions League: Liverpool&#8217;s possible league-phase opponents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Reds will discover their matchups in the 36-team opening section of the competition proper during Thursday&#8217;s draw in Monaco.<\/p>\n<p>Based on seeding, clubs have been split into four pots and will be assigned two teams from each, facing one at home and one away.<\/p>\n<p>Arne Slot&#8217;s men, who will be in pot one, cannot meet a fellow Premier League club and more than two sides from the same country, in principle.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Possible opponents<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pot one: <\/strong>Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund, Internazionale, Paris Saint-Germain, Real Madrid.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pot two: <\/strong>Atalanta, Atletico Madrid, Bayer Leverkusen, Benfica, Club Brugge, Eintracht Frankfurt, Juventus, Villarreal.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pot three: <\/strong>Ajax, Bodo\/Glimt, Marseille, Napoli, Olympiacos, PSV Eindhoven, Slavia Prague, Sporting CP.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pot four: <\/strong>AS Monaco, Athletic Club, FC Copenhagen, Galatasaray, Kairat Almaty, Pafos, Qarabag, Union SG.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Reds will discover their matchups in the 36-team opening section of the competition proper during Thursday&#8217;s draw&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1050,748,393,1051,4884,1039,1046,1041,1052,1054,1053,763,1045,1044,1040,1049,12,1144,1042,1047,712,1043,16,15,1048,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-378989","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-alisson","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-firmino","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-homepage","14":"tag-klopp","15":"tag-lfc","16":"tag-lfc-news","17":"tag-lfctv","18":"tag-lfctv-go","19":"tag-liverpool-fc","20":"tag-liverpool-fc-match","21":"tag-liverpool-fc-news","22":"tag-liverpool-football-club","23":"tag-mane","24":"tag-news","25":"tag-northern-ireland","26":"tag-reds","27":"tag-salah","28":"tag-scotland","29":"tag-the-reds","30":"tag-uk","31":"tag-united-kingdom","32":"tag-van-dijk","33":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115103611135938297","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}