Liverpool to discover Champions League fate tonight

Liverpool will discover who they’ll face in this season’s Champions League when the draw takes place in Monaco at 5pm this evening.

After finishing fourth in the Premier League last season, the Reds earned automatic qualification to the 2018/19 season of the tournament and will be seeded in pot three for tonight’s draw.

Play-off matches for the competition ended on Wednesday evening, finalising the placings for the 32 teams in the tournament.

Reds fans had clung to the slim hope that Benfica would be beaten by PAOK in last night’s playoff match, pushing them into pot three and giving Liverpool the chance to square up to more favourable opponents. However, a horrendous goalkeeping mistake by PAOK goalkeeper Alexandros Paschalakis swung the game in Benfica’s favour and condemned Liverpool to pot three for the draw.

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PORTO, PORTUGAL – Wednesday, February 14, 2018: Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah celebrates scoring the second goal during the UEFA Champions League Round of 16 1st leg match between FC Porto and Liverpool FC on Valentine’s Day at the Estádio do Dragão. (Pic by David Rawcliffe/Propaganda)

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Liverpool cannot meet a fellow English club at this stage, but will find themselves grouped with one team from each of the following pots:

Pot one

Real Madrid

Atletico Madrid

Barcelona

Bayern Munich

Juventus

Paris Saint-Germain

Lokomotiv Moscow

Pot two

Borussia Dortmund

FC Porto

Shakhtar Donetsk

Benfica

Napoli

AS Roma

Pot four

Viktoria Plzen

Club Brugge

Galatasaray

Young Boys

Inter Milan

Hoffenheim

Crvena zvezda

AEK Athens

Liverpool came agonisingly close to winning last season’s Champions League and will hope for another good run in the competition this season.

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