Newcastle cop ‘super group of death’... and a dream result for Man City: Champions League Draw
Manchester United will face Bayern Munich and Harry Kane in this season’s Champions League while Friday’s group stage draw also placed Paris Saint-Germain and Newcastle United together.
Bayern and United will be favourites to advance from Group A, which also includes FC Copenhagen and Galatasaray, the Turkish champions.
The ties between the Bundesliga champions and the Old Trafford club will evoke memories of the most famous meeting between the sides, in the 1999 Champions League final won 2-1 by United after a remarkable late comeback.
England captain Kane, who recently moved to Germany from Tottenham Hotspur, tweeted a picture of the finalised groups on Thursday, saying: “Can’t wait for this.”
“It’ll be fascinating to see Harry Kane back in the UK,” former Manchester United midfielder Owen Hargreaves said on TNT Sports.
“I’m sure they [Manchester United] would have loved to have had him but he probably cost a little bit too much.”
Group F looks to be the toughest of all with Saudi-owned Newcastle facing AC Milan and Borussia Dortmund as well as Qatar-backed PSG.
Newcastle are appearing in the Champions League for the first time in 20 years and their lack of recent pedigree in Europe’s elite club competition meant they were left lurking dangerously among the sides in pot four for the draw.
“It’s a super group of death, three great teams – PSG, Dortmund, the yellow wall, and AC Milan,” Newcastle chief executive Darren Eales said.
Having held on to Kylian Mbappe, French champions PSG will be expected to advance to the last 16 but Newcastle will hope to finish ahead of Dortmund and a Milan team that got to the semi-finals last season.
“It’s an extremely tough group, we can’t hide from that, but hey, we take it,” Dortmund
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