Ranking best games of Champions League league phase: Barca vs. PSG at the top; Liverpool vs. Real a huge one

The 144 League phase matches of the Champions League have been unveiled, a dizzying Odyssey throughout Europe that will only end in January, when 24 of the 36 teams continue in the competition. Next the draw Was a often dizzying experience, Kaka broke the big button and a series of names that are thrown in the bottom left of the screen. Chelsea to have Benfica At home, right? Is that good?

Struggle to keep up. It doesn’t matter, we are here to guide you while we are waiting for a complete schedule on Saturday. Which games are those you can’t afford to miss between September and January? Here are our eight top choices:

1. Barcelona vs. Paris Saint-Germain: The Champions League final that we all wanted (at least, everyone who was not an interfan) should still be a collision of the best two teams in Europe. They must form a fascinating contrast, the power of PSG to dominate the possession against a Barcelona side that will press them as aggressively as every elite opponent. Then there are the individual battles between opponents, Lamine Yamal and Raphinha in particular Achraf Hakimi and Nuno Mendes. This will certainly be the game of the competition phase … and is perhaps a prelude to the final.

2. Liverpool vs. Real Madrid: Welcome Home Trent. Well, probably not. It is difficult to imagine that Trent Alexander-Arnold gets a hot reception on his rapid return to Anfield, a competition that also gives Xabi Alonso an idea of ​​what the other option could have been if he had been held in Bayer Leverkusen for another year. By the time this game comes, will he let his Madrid side hum such as a unit? If not, do they run the risk of being brushed aside as they were when these two met in the competition phase of last season?

3. Napoli vs. Manchester City: Another for Reunion fans while Kevin De Bruyne visits his former employers. This game would be exactly that spicy enough, but every match that places Antonio Conte against Pep Guardiola is usually a cash register. It will also serve as a useful indicator of how competitive the Italian champions can be. It is not surprising that Napoli did not seem like the team they were at Khvicha kvaratskhelia On the left in the middle season, and a combination of how many minutes De Bruyne can offer plus noa long probably does not connect that gap.

4. Paphos vs. Bavaria Munich: A good Champions League match this, with one of the biggest names of European football against a team of which no one had heard 10 years ago. And rightly, Pafos FC was only founded ten years ago after the merger of two local teams. They are in the hard way in the competition phase, eliminate Maccabi Tel Aviv” Dynamo Kyiv and Crvena Zvezda and use a few familiar faces: David Luiz, Ken SemaMAVAV ORSIC. They couldn’t do it, right?

5. Kairat Almaty vs. Real Madrid: They couldn’t do it, right? Kairat Almaty, the most easterly team that ever plays in the Champions League, will be the halfway point of Real Madrid’s 8,000 Mile Miles Midweek Odyssey and will hope to get the most out of the four -hour time difference and the very different circumstances that the biggest club in the world will find in the world, but that can be a minnow. When they organized Sheriff Tiraspol.

6. Arsenal vs. Olympiacos: Ok, so this may not be as full with superstars as Barcelona against PSG, but if there is a European game that guarantees drama, it is this one. Think that David Ospina is a corner in his own net, Olivier Giroud’s hat trick to guarantee the qualification for the knockouts, the dramatic Europa League knockout that ended with Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang’s bicycle kick and what was perhaps the first incident of Covid-19 in the English. These games are more often or not wild.

7. Galatasaray vs. Atletico Madrid: If there is a team that quietly has a number of difficult competitions, it is Atletico Madrid, who rarely made the competition of the competition phase easy under the old system or the new. Going to Rams Park should be an almighty test of their defense, especially if Leroy Sane And Victor Osimhen have found some synchronicity in attack. Galatasaray has the appearance of dark horses for a deep run in this competition, defeated Athleti and Europe can feel forced to take them very seriously.

8. Borussia Dortmund vs. Juventus: We end with a good European game, a game that could no longer be 90s coded if you saw it to do the Poznan at the Oasis Reunion performances, completely under the spell of even more Vapid Rock. Today’s teams are probably not suitable for striking the boots of Lars Ricken and Alessandro del Piero, but the presence of this game on the schemes gives you an excuse for wallowing in nostalgia.