There are unequivocal signs that summer is running out. The cities recover people, the gyms are filled with good purposes and the Champions League raffle is celebrated , which is that convention of ties that is celebrated every year in Monaco and from which invariably always leaves a group of death. Your rival, of course, has always had more luck. This year Barcelona will be the only Spanish representative in the first hype, as champion of La Liga. Real Madrid and Atlético de Madrid , which a year ago were in the hype number 1 as Champions of Champions and Europa League , wait in the second, and Valencia starts from the third.

Liverpool presides over the first hype as champion of the Champions League. The networks retain the same block with which they conquered Europe and will be the biggest threat to the other three Spanish teams. The rest of the series will be the champion of the Europa League, Chelsea, and the champions of the six leagues with the highest UEFA coefficient: Barcelona, ​​Manchester City, Juventus of Turin, Bayern Munich, PSG and Zenit

For the Catalans, today begins their fight to frighten the traumas left by the debacles in Rome and Liverpool . Although sometimes it seems that the exceptional - winning the Champions League - has become a daily requirement, it is not the wait - only since 2015 - but those two falls that explains the fixation to recover Neymar in a pharaonic front. They are the other rival to avoid the first hype with Manchester City of Guardiola , which continues in its challenge of transferring its dominance in the Premier to Europe. The only respites from the first hype will be Zenit and Chelsea , which could not be reinforced by UEFA's sanction.

This year the coconuts of the second bass drum are Spanish. Real Madrid and Atlético are two of the four teams with the highest UEFA coefficient (the sum of their results in European competition of the last five seasons), but the distribution of places to the champions relegates them to the second drawer. The biggest threat to Barcelona and Valencia of this hype will be Tottenham , finalist of the last edition, although Borussia Dortmund, Naples or Shakhtar Donetsk will not be great relief.

In normal conditions, Valencia would be one of the dangers of the third hype, but after a summer full of turbulence and after being eliminated last year on the fifth day, Marcelino's have doubts to solve. For what may happen, the most feared is the Inter Antonio Conte . The Nerazzurri have spent more than 150 million this summer in search of that rebirth that resists so much.

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