Premier League winners Leicester City were handed a seemingly favourable draw for their competition debut and will play Group G opponents Porto, Club Brugge and FC Copenhagen.
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Elderson Echiejile’s AS Monaco will tackle CSKA Moscow, Tottenham Hotspur and German giants Bayer Leverkusen in Group E.
Five-time winners Bayern Munich will play past year s beaten finalists Atletico Madrid in Group D, which also features PSV Eindhoven and Russian first timers Rostov.
The weird situation in which it pays more money to finish bottom of the Premier League than win the Champions League will be addressed. Guardiola will seek revenge this time after his former club Bayern Munich lost to the Catalans in 2014-15 season.
Some have suggested the Blues have once again been given a “Group of Death” scenario – but he says everyone at the club is pleased, even though they recognise the difficulty of the task they face.
And with three goals to his name so far, he is feeling good about his return to Manchester after Celtic were paired with City, Barcelona and Borussia Monchengladbach.
Rogic has started the season in fine form at Celtic Park, netting two goals in the League Cup as well as the opener in the first leg of their UCL play-off triumph.
In Group A, Alex Iwobi’s Arsenal will come up against Ligue 1 champions, Paris Saint-Germain, FC Basel and Ludogorets as they participate in the Champions League for the 19th year in a row.
The Europa League winners will now also enter the competition in the group stage rather than needing to go through a round of qualifying.
Manchester City will be their first home game of the group, and they’ll finish the group stages away to City on December 6.
“With the history of all the clubs we could have been drawn against, it was always going to be an interesting draw”, said Foxes director of football Jon Rudkin.
It was a long and arduous process that saw Europe’s top clubs threaten to form a breakaway Super League.
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Spurs, who reached the quarter-finals in 2010-11 with wins over both Milan clubs, have avoided the European heavyweights despite being drawn in pot three.
