Liverpool face holders Real Madrid on Champions League return

Liverpool will look Champions League holders Real Madrid connected their return to nan title pursuing nan tie for nan new-look format.

Manchester City and Arsenal some play Paris St-Germain successful their fixtures, while Aston Villa return connected Scottish champions Celtic.

Each squad plays 8 fixtures successful nan 'league phase', pinch this year's men's tourney seeing a extremist change, including nan extremity of a group stage.

The high-tech tie took spot successful Monaco connected Thursday, pinch Portugal guardant Cristiano Ronaldo pressing nan all-important fastener to make a machine algorithm find nan fixtures.

A Uefa video shown earlier nan tie utilized stars from crossed nan crippled showing their disorder astatine nan caller format, earlier erstwhile Swedish prima Zlatan Ibrahimovic praised it for "more football" successful a comical relationship pinch Uefa president Aleksander Ceferin.

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