Guardiola looks to move away from frustration against Real Madrid dynasty

The missed penalty in the Parc des Princes by a

who, seven years later, intended to be European champion again

and his friend

.

's Chelsea believed in another surprise success without

's European gift

.

And, above all, without knowing how to protect himself against

(top scorer in the last Champions League with 15 goals) in a Bernabéu that would fall on him.

Pep Guardiola's frustration in Chamartín when seeing how

, the soccer player with the child's shin guards for whom the bigwigs of Abu Dhabi agreed to pay 117 million euros, the goal with which he would have reformulated history escaped him by an inch.

Or Courtois's nine saves against troubled Liverpool in the Saint-Denis final.

That was the night that

confirmed the low value of premature judgments in football and forever became part of the white imaginary.

Real Madrid have won five of the last nine editions of the Champions League.

Aspirants seek remedies and answers.

It will be the Atatürk Olympic Stadium in Istanbul -precisely where Rafa Benítez's Liverpool obtained their particular miracle in their comeback against Milan- that will host the next Champions League final on June 10, 2023.

.

A league that will include 32 teams (26 with direct access and the six playoff winners) and that will subject the players, and with the leagues just started, to a high level of stress due to the proximity of the World Cup in Qatar ( November 20-December 18).

Thus, in just eight weeks the entire group stage will be resolved, with just three of theoretical respite (then it will be the teams that appear).

The first day, in fact, this season is brought forward to September 6-7, with the last games of the league being played on November 1-2.

The round of 16 draw will be resolved by UEFA on November 7.

Haaland, without World Cup

Who will not have to play the Champions League with an eye on the World Cup will be, precisely, one of the great entertainers this course of the tournament:

.

The striker, who could not take Norway to Qatar and who last season saw Borussia Dortmund go out at the first breath both in the Champions League (third group) and in the Europa League (eliminated in the preliminary round against Rangers) , must be the masterpiece with which Pep Guardiola squares the work in his seventh season on the Manchester City bench and finally wins a Champions League away from Barcelona.

For now, Haaland has already scored three goals in his first three Premier League games, as well as hinting at his connection to

and show that the Santpedor coach needed a footballer to finish off his ideology.

Meanwhile, Guardiola will try to find a fit for an anchor like

or wind up the young

(22 years old), a former River striker.

For now, City will not have to do with Real Madrid, their latest nightmare, which comes from winning the League and the Champions League.

Both are framed in the first pot with the rest of the national champions (Bayern, PSG, Milan, Porto, Ajax and the Europa League champion, Eintracht).

These themselves may be rivals of the other three Spanish teams in the running (Barcelona, ​​Atlético and Sevilla).

's team , remodeled at the stroke of a lever, could run into Guardiola and measure

's goalscoring expectations

with those of Haaland.

Or even suffer a painful reunion with Messi a year after Joan Laporta closed the door on his renewal.

And now that the Barça president is toying with the possibility of reinstating the Argentine once he concludes his contract with PSG next summer.

's Bayern

, without Lewandowski but with the addition of former

and Dutch central defender

, have won their first three Bundesliga games with a scandalous record of 15 goals for and one against.

Post-Abramovich Chelsea

The dangers will be found by Real Madrid in the second pot, where they will not be able to cross paths with the Spanish for now, but with Liverpool, whose attack should revitalize the volcanic Darwin Núñez (75 million).

Or with the post-Abramovich Chelsea, where the American investor

paid 65 million for

, 56 in

or 38 in

(waiting to also sign Barça

).

Juventus, who have not won Serie A in the last two seasons, await in that same second hype between doubts (the recurrent injuries of their brand new additions,

and

, worry) and the feeling that the striker

needs a tall companion

insists with the Barcelona player

.

and

's Tottenham

, or Lepizig, which has repatriated

, they also wait on that second step.

The dangers of hype three are multiple.

There are two Italians (Inter and Napoli), two Germans (Dortmund and Leverkusen) or two Portuguese (Benfica and Sporting).

While in the last pot Olympique de Marseille stands out, second in the last Ligue 1 and that this course has the Chilean

as a melancholy reference.

POT 1

:

, Manchester City, Bayern, PSG, Milan, Porto, Ajax and Eintracht Frankfurt.

PUMP 2

:

, ​​Liverpool,

,

, Chelsea, Tottenham, Juventus and Leipzig.

POT 3

: B. Dortmund, Salzburg, Shakhtar, Inter, Napoli, Benfica, Sporting Portugal, Bayer Leverkusen.

POT 4

: O. Marseille, Bruges, Celtic, Viktoria Plzen, Maccabi Haifa, Dinamo Zagreb, Copenhagen, Rangers.

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