Women’s Champions League 2023-24: group stage analysis and predictions

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The defending champions, Barcelona, got a kind-looking draw but a Chelsea side desperate for success face a trickier assignment

Left to right: Chelsea’s Sam Kerr, Barcelona’s Lucy Bronze with the Women’s Champions League trophy, and Georgia Stanway of Bayern Munich.Left to right: Chelsea’s Sam Kerr, Barcelona’s Lucy Bronze with the Women’s Champions League trophy, and Georgia Stanway of Bayern Munich.There is a lot of familiarity between these teams, this being almost a rerun of last season’s Group D, where Barcelona were drawn against Bayern Munich, Rosengård and Benfica. The draw has been even kinder tothis time.

Of the automatically qualified teams, Lyon will be the happiest with their draw, the French champions having been matched with arguably the weakest team from each pot in the Czech champions, Slavia Prague, the Austrian champions, St Pölten, and the Norwegian champions, Brann. There is a familiar face at Brann for fans of the Women’s Super League, with the former Manchester United assistant manager Martin Ho the head coach.

 

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