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well it's always an exciting day isn't it for fans of the likes of Manchester City Liverpool Arsenal Aston Villa and Celtic yeah it is the draw for the new look champions league and that takes place at 5:00 p.m. today because of the new complex format UEFA will use a computer to do the draw for the first time yeah it is estimated that an old-fashioned manual draw would take 4 hours and require up to 1,000 balls to complete so UEA are using a computer instead and they're confident that the new software is safe from the threat of a Cyber attack feel like we've just been transported into like 2064 very futuristic isn't it anyway I didn't think we were talking about cyber attacks no anyway under the the new so-called Swiss model format there there'll be one League of 36 teams which will be split into four pots of nine for the draw great okay well clubs are going to be drawn manually from each pot before the computer then takes over and selects their eight League fixtures yeah stay with us right good luck floydy teams are placed in four pots according to their seeding each team will face two teams from each pot one at home and one away overall teams will play eight different opponents with four games at home and four away so you play four teams at home four away the software stops teams from playing Rivals from their own country except kept in highly unusual circumstances whatever those are and clubs will only play a maximum of two clubs from any one country so any other country if you're English you only play Two Italian clubs or two Spanish clubs sort of thing let's have a look at pop one shall we here it's got the top seeds in It Real Madrid the holders of course Bayern Munich Barcelona all feature alongside Premier League sides Liverpool and Manchester City and others uh Arsenal are in pot two with Juventus and AC Milan jabbi alonso's by lusen also feature alongside the team that beat them in the Europa League final at Atlanta some good teams in pot two as well well let's see who's in pot three shall we amongst them Brendan Rogers Celtic also Aris slot's former team f they're in there as well and Aston Villa are in pot four they are the fourth English side in the competition so they might have quite a tough draw Villa when you look at the other sides in pot one pot two and even pot three

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