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1667819747Liverpool come out with three possible opponents Real Madrid, Bayern Munich and Porto.Jurgen Klopp’s men are drawn against… Real Madrid! Michael Jones7 November 2022 11:151667819683Club Brugge are the next runners-up team to be drawn. Porto are ineligible to play them.Who will get the Belgian team? Club Brugge vs Benfica is the second tie.Michael Jones7 November 2022 11:141667819600RB Leipzig are the first team out of the pot. Only Bayern Munich and Real Madrid cannot be drawn against them.Leipzig will play… Manchester City!Michael Jones7 November 2022 11:131667819482The group runners-up will play the first legs of the round of 16 at home so they’ll be drawn out first followed by the eligible group winners. Michael Jones7 November 2022 11:111667819376Of course one of Marchetti’s other roles is to introduce the former players who will be helping to draw the balls. Former Bayern Munich and Real Madrid midfielder Hamit Altintop is introduced onto the stage. Michael Jones7 November 2022 11:091667819211Here’s Giorgio Marchetti! Uefa’s Deputy General Secretary is the face of these draws and he comes out onto the stage to recap the group stages after a video showing a recap of the group stages.Michael Jones7 November 2022 11:061667818848The draw ceremony is about to get going in Switzerland. Here’s a reminder of the two pots:Seeded: Bayern Munich, Benfica, Chelsea, Manchester City, Napoli, Porto, Real Madrid, Tottenham.Unseeded: AC Milan, Borussia Dortmund, Club Bruges, Eintracht Frankfurt, Inter Milan, Leipzig, Liverpool, Paris St-Germain.Teams cannot face a side they played in the group stages nor another team from their home country. Michael Jones7 November 2022 11:001667818664Michael Jones7 November 2022 10:571667818364Antonio Conte reiterated his calls for time and patience at Tottenham after admitting they were far off from winning a trophy following Sunday’s home defeat to Liverpool.The Italian celebrated a year in charge at Spurs last week and has made big progress during his 12 months, taking over a club in the Europa Conference League and guiding them in the knock-out stage of the Champions League.Tottenham’s style of play still draws detractors but they remain fourth in the table despite three losses from their last four Premier League fixtures.Conte has repeatedly talked down their chances of competing for the title and called on fans to trust the process after they booed the team off at half-time of the 2-1 defeat to Liverpool.The Spurs boss has faced injury issues with Son Heung-min, Dejan Kulusevski, Richarlison and Lucas Moura this seasonMichael Jones7 November 2022 10:521667818064The soundtrack is blander, biting criticisms replaced by forgettable musings, the sense of a self-destructive manager blowing his empire up has gone, with quiet, vague notions of progress in vogue instead, but in a sense Chelsea have not been transformed by regime change.At least one problem remains the same. They do not score enough goals. Not under Thomas Tuchel and not under Graham Potter either. Compile a league table over the last four rounds of fixtures and Chelsea are the lowest scorers: two goals in four games leaves them behind even Wolves. A meagre haul of two points in four games is why they will not spend the World Cup in the top four. A derby defeat to Arsenal was an exercise in attacking impotence: just five shots, with only one on target, a mere eight touches for Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, an expected goals total of 0.28, their lowest in the top flight for over a year. There was a bland bluntness to Chelsea.A beguiling trait of Chelsea over the last two decades is how the characteristics could remain as the manager changed. Potter got the new-manager bump that Tuchel experienced; that most of their predecessors did, too. For years, Chelsea were resourceful, redoubtable winners, no matter who was in charge. They were a byword for pragmatism. Now, whoever is in the dugout, they struggle to be prolific enough.Potter is entitled to talk of being at the start of a ‘process’, but part of the rationale for his recruitment was that if he was given superior players he could get the goals that eluded BrightonMichael Jones7 November 2022 10:47

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