2023-06-27 19:35:39
Magdeburg, current European champion, and the Hungarian Veszprem of ex-Barcelona Ludovic Fàbregas They are Barça’s most prominent rivals in the group stage of the next Champions League, whose draw was held this Tuesday in Vienna (Austria). They have also been framed with Barça in Group B, GOG (Denmark), Orlen Wisla Plock (Poland), Montpellier (France), Porto (Portugal) and Celje (Slovenia).
Therefore, Carlos Ortega’s team will face each other again, twice, with its black beast, the Magdeburg, who has defeated him in the last two Super Globe finals and recently eliminated him (39-40) in the penalty shootout of the last Champions League semifinal held in Cologne. In this group stage, the Catalans will meet again with the pivot Ludovic Fàbregas, after the Frenchman, one of the fundamental pillars of the Catalan team in recent years, announced his signing for Vezsprem.
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“Last year it seemed that we had the strongest group and in the end two from each group made it to the Final Four,” said Ortega. The coach from Malaga maintains that they will face each other “to very important rivals, like Magdeburgo, Veszprem and even Montpellier”, and that the trips to Porto and Celje “will also be especially complicated”. “We will have to see the calendar and go game by game. We will fight for the first places, although it will not be easy at all”, added the Barça coach.
The draw has established the two groups that will make up the first sentence of the Champions League, although the schedule is yet to be determined. The first two classified in the group will go directly to the quarterfinals, avoiding the round of 16 match, which will be played by the teams classified from third to sixth
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