Champions League curse strikes again
Date published: 28 August 2015
MANCHESTER City’s Champions League curse has returned to haunt them with last season’s finalists Juventus and Europa League winners Seville both in their group for the competition.
City, who have suffered tough draws in the last four seasons of the Champions League, are in Group ‘D’, the other team being Bundesliga side Borussia Monchengladbach.
Manchester United’s return to the competition after last year’s absence shouldn’t trouble manager Louis van Gaal too much, with the opponents in Group ‘B’ being PSV Eindhoven, CSKA Moscow and German side Wolfsburg.
City’s football administration head Brian Marwood admitted the club seemed to experience bad luck in Champions League draws.
He said: “It’s the best 32 clubs in Europe so you have to expect there will be some tough games in there and we do always seem to draw very difficult groups, but it is what it is, we have to deal with it and we’ll hopefully progress.”
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