Sevilla will play against Arsenal, PSV Eindhoven and Lens
Real Sociedad will face Benfica, Inter and Salzburg
This Thursday, at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco, at 6:00 p.m., the group draw for the Champions League for its edition of the 2023-24 season. A raffle in which they participate five Spanish teams distributed in three of the four pots. Sevilla, as Europa League champion, and Barcelona, as League champion, were in the first hype. Real Madrid and Atlético appeared in the second, while Real Sociedad was in the fourth.
The Real society returns to the Champions League ten years after his last participation, in the 2013-14 season with Jagoba Arrasate on the bench, when they faced Manchester United, Bayer Leverkusen and Shakhtar Donetsk and failed to win a game. Fate could bring the people from San Sebastian face off against the English and the Ukrainians, but not the Germans, because the team led by Xabi Alonso has not qualified for the Champions League in this edition despite the good track record it has had with the tolosorra on the bench.
Sevilla, meanwhile, has participated eight times in the Champions League group stage in recent years, His greatest achievement being the pass to the quarterfinals in the 2017-18 season. Mendilibar’s men arrive after selling their skin at a high price in the final of the European Super Cup in Athens against City, with whom they lost on penalties.