They remain few days so that it finish the pre-season and go back again the official competitions, and after some months without football, Europe goes recovering again the aroma of the Champions. The maximum competition of the continent already lives his first rounds of classification, but in hardly a pair of weeks will produce the draw of the phase of groups.
Specifically, the day 24 August, in the headquarters of the UEFA in Nyon, will celebrate the usual distribution of the best teams of the world of face to the final phase of the competition. The change of format has taken down to the Barça and to the Athletic of the bass drum of the favourites, in which yes it will be the Real Madrid like champion of the past edition of the tournament and also of LaLiga.
Rivals like the Bayern, Chelsea, the Juventus or the Monaco could cross with the Barcelona, that have his eyes put in the final that on 26 May 2018 will contest in the Olympic Stadium of Kiev, in which it will be the first time in the history that the decisive meeting contest in Ukrainian floor.
Reválida European
After two years of reverses and of the successes of the rival maximum in the Champions League, the Barça faces this course like a season to go back to be big in Europe. Of the hand of Ernesto Valverde, the Catalans trust to do a good paper in a competition in which they have suffered painful falls in the recent past.