Champions League draw: Liverpool’s group and fixtures – in full

With two errors from Loris Karius the difference between Champions League glory and heartbreak for Liverpool last term, Jurgen Klopp and co will have their sights set firmly on the greatest prize that European football has to offer this season.

That said, having dropped down into Pot 3 for the Champions League group stage draw after Benfica beat PAOK in qualifying on Wednesday evening – this owing to Uefa’s coefficient system – many speculated that Liverpool could end up in a ‘group of death’ before the draw was announced.

As it turns out, they were right. Liverpool may have been a whisker away from winning the competition in May, but they will have to pass several stern tests if they are going to get through the group at the expense of these teams.

Group C in full

Paris Saint-Germain

Napoli

Liverpool

Red Star Belgrade

Fixture schedule

18/19 September: Group stage, matchday one
2/3 October: Group stage, matchday two
23/24 October: Group stage, matchday three
6/7 November: Group stage, matchday four
27/28 November: Group stage, matchday five
11/12 December: Group stage, matchday six

(More information TBC)

The opponents

With Neymar, Kylian Mbappe and Edinson Cavani smashing goalscoring records in the group stage last season, PSG need no introduction. Winners of a domestic quadruple last term with 108 Ligue 1 goals to their name, watching their attack go up against Liverpool’s will be genuinely exhilarating.

Napoli were rated as one of the best sides in Europe last season, despite going out of the Champions League early and then ceding the Serie A title to Juventus late on. Now managed by Carlo Ancelloti rather than Maurizio Sarri, they have a canny European operator at the helm. Red Star Belgrade, meanwhile, are an unremarkable but hardy team.

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