This Thursday 25 August will celebrate the draw of the phase of groups of the UEFA Champions League 2016-17 in the Forum Grimaldi of Monaco, where will remain configured from the 18.00 hours (Spanish hour) the 32 teams that will conform the tournament, classified in eight groups.
To fault that they contest this Wednesday the meetings of turn of the previous phase of the Champions League, the four bass drums are practically defined so that it make the draw in the next hours.
Giving by done the classification of the Manchester City of Pep Guardiola -won to the Steaua of Bucharest by 0-5 in the gone-, could say that so only are missing for concretising a square in the third bass drum and four more in the bass drum 4.
Including to the Manchester City, to continuation are how are the four bass drums, on the eve of a draw in which possibly it go back to have controversial in relation to the supposed "hot balls" that favour to determinate teams in the draws UEFA, something revealed by the ex president Joseph Blatter does some months in a magazine conceded to "The Nation".
Like this they are for now the bass drums:
BASS DRUM 1
- Real Madrid
- FC Barcelona
- Leicester City
- Bayern Munich
- Juventus
- Benfica
- PSG
- CSKA Moscow
BASS DRUM 2
- Athletic of Madrid
- Borussia Dortmund
- Arsenal
- Manchester City
- Seville
- Port wine
- Naples
- Bayer Leverkusen
BASS DRUM 3*
- Basilea
- Tottenham
- Dinamo Kiev
- Lyon
- PSV Eindhoven
- Sporting Lisbon
- Witches
*The candidates to occupy the square that lacking are eAjax, Network Bull Salzburg, Borussia M'Glabach and Celtic.
BASS DRUM 4*
- Monaco
- Besiktas
- Legia Warsaw
- Ludogorets
- APOEL/Copenhagen (play this Wednesday)
*The candidates are the Rostov, Young Boys and Dinamo of Zagreb.