Ajax almost certainly in pot 3 to draw Champions League – AD.nl

By: Bart van Dooijeweert
26-8-14 – 13:59

belongs again ‘group of death’ to options

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It must be very strange walk Ajax should not be in Pot 3 end up in the draw for the group stage of the Champions League, the day after tomorrow in Monaco. Only a miracle can still ensure that the team of coach Frank de Boer in pot 2 arrives.

Only Arsenal, FC Porto, Zenit St. Petersburg and Bayer Leverkusen will not qualify for the group stage, there is for Ajax a space in 2 This pot is very unlikely. Leverkusen won last week away game against Copenhagen already 2-3. Zenit and Porto triumphed visiting Standard Liege and Lille (both 0-1) and Arsenal played in Turkey 0-0 with Besiktas. Tonight and tomorrow are the returns.

Pool of Death
In previous seasons, Ajax was invariably in the third pot, which resulted several times in a classification of the ‘ group of death ‘(eg Real Madrid, Borussia Dortmund and Manchester City, or with FC Barcelona, ​​AC Milan and Celtic).

Such horror draw belongs once again to the possibilities, for example Bayern Munich , Paris Saint-Germain and AS Roma and Real Madrid, Manchester City and AS Monaco as opponents. Ajax can probably not drawn against teams like Napoli, Liverpool and Sporting Portugal as they also are in pot 3.

Possible potin sharing group stage Champions League
Pot 1: Real Madrid, FC Barcelona, ​​Bayern Munich, Chelsea, Benfica, Atletico Madrid, Arsenal (*), FC Porto (*)
Pot. 2: Schalke 04, Borussia Dortmund, Juventus, Paris Saint Germain, Shakhtar Donetsk, FC Basel FC Zenit (*) Manchester City
Pot. 3: Bayer Leverkusen (*), Olympiakos Piraeus, CSKA Moscow, Ajax, Napoli (*), Liverpool, Sporting, Galatasaray <. br /> Pot 4: Anderlecht, Red Bull Salzburg (*), AS Roma, Steaua Bucharest (*), APOEL (*), Celtic (*), BATE Borisov (*) AS Monaco .

* = still active in the playoffs.