final Champions League fixture was released on Thursday night with a current reigning Champions Real Madrid being paired with both Liverpool and boria DM and gentlemen welcome to Monaco and the first ever League phase draw of the new UEFA Champions League this year the draw is a little bit different of course because of the new format we'll have Gigi pulling out the balls from pot one uh and then the following ones and Cristiano will be pressing the button with the beautiful Champions League logo on there that will prompt the computer to at opponents automatically the UFA also presented a new form that will see each team playing eight games in initial phase the number of teams were also increased to 36 from the traditional 32 offering a bigger in the more lucrative Champions League the top eight in the stunting in January go directed round off 16 in March teams ranked in 9th to 24th go into The Knockout playoffs in February the bottom 12 will beim