PSG, Ajax and Apoel, rivals of the Barcelona in the phase of groups

The FC Barcelona will confront to the Paris Saint-Germain, to the Ajax of Amsterdam and to the APOEL Nikosea, in the phase of groups of the League of Champions, sorteada this Thursday in the afternoon in Monaco. Placed in the group F, the group of Luis Enrique has seen like his ballot went out to the little to begin the draw. Minutes later, the luck crossed the way of the Barcelona with the ones of the PSG (bass drum 2), the Ajax (bass drum 3) and the APOEL of Cypriot Nikosea (bass drum 4).

The FC Barcelona will begin his career in the UEFA Champions League home in front of the APOEL Nikosea the Wednesday 17 September after it remained confirmed the calendar of parties after the draw of the phase of group. The Tuesday 30 September will visit Paris to confront to the PSG and will close the first turn the Tuesday 21 October against the Ajax in the Camp Nou. The Wednesday 5 November the Barcelona will confront to the Ajax in the Amsterdam Sand; the Tuesday 25 November to the APOEL in Cyprus and, finally will close the first phase in the Camp Nou against the PSG, the Wednesday 10 December.

The Paris Saint-Germain, led by the Swedish Zlatan Ibrahimovic, will be the rival theorist to beat by the Barça in the fight by the leadership of the group F of the League of Champions. The French champion, that trains Laurent Blanc, has his rows with other players of level like Thiago Silva, David Luiz, Matuidi and Lavezzi, others of Barcelona past like Thiago Motta and Maxwell and some another that sounded with strength to reinforce the defence of the Barça like Marquinhos.

It will be the second duel in the last three seasons between the PSG and the Barça, that confronted in the quarter-finals of 2013 in which the Barcelona achieved the classification thanks to the double value of the goals in contrary field. In the four parties contested, the balance is desfavorable to the Barça with three ties and a French victory.

Three ties, a defeat and a victory is the balance of the parties that have confronted to both teams in European competition. French victory (2-1 in Paris the chambers of Champions of the season 1994/94), a tie (1-1 in the Camp Nou, in the gone), Barcelona triumph (1-0 in the final of the Recopa of 1997), tie 2-2 in the party of gone and the 1-1 of the Camp Nou. Apart from these official commitments, both teams saw the faces does two summers, in a friendly party played in the Park of the Princes. The result was 2-2.

And every year that happens and thanks to the injection of the petrodólares, the PSG is turning into one of the teams with more potential of the European football and approaches increasingly to the biggest clubs of the continent with a solid block that has won the two last leagues of his country.

The Ajax of Amsterdam, champion of Holland the last four consecutive seasons and trained by the ex Barcelona Frank of Boer, is a group with more past that present in the European football and that has not happened of the phase of groups in the last four editions. Between the most stood out players finds the international defence Dutch Daley Blind in a block that keeps the vertebral column of the past season. The year happened the Ajax fell 4-0 in front of the Barcelona in the Camp Nou, but imposed 2-1 to the Catalans in Ámsterdam.

Finally, the Apoel Nikosea seems the cenicienta of the group although it does two seasons arrived until the quarter-finals, where remained deleted in front of the Real Madrid. In his rows finds the goalkeeper Urko Pardo, formed in the quarry of the Barça, in an unpublished duel up to now.