Leicester City can emulate Nottingham Forest in Europe: Danny Drinkwater

Confident that it already has what it takes to repeat as champion, Madrid bypassed high-profile signings after clinching its 11th European trophy a year ago, limiting its moves to players not in the starting lineup entering the new season.

Having tasted success with Porto and Inter Milan, where Mourinho completed victories over English opposition en route to Champions League glory, the two-time victor believes he has the answer to the woe. Who have you got picked for the Champions League campaign?

JUVENTUS: “Will they win the Champions League?”

Mourinho and United get down to work in the Europa League on Thursday when they play against Dutch giants Feyenoord in an away match.

He added that he had first-hand experience of the problems facing smaller federations, coming from a country where professional players earn from 1,000 and 4,000 euros a month – a drop in the ocean compared to wages in England and Spain. Can Diego Simeone really sustain Atletico’s sensationally intense competitiveness, and will Carlo Ancelotti improve Bayern Munich to actually win the competition, or is there a danger of a post-Guardiola drop-off?

The defending champions and their talisman Cristiano Ronaldo will start their campaign against Sporting Lisbon, the club that sold Ronaldo when he was still an awkward teenager.

The second game will put face to face Leverkusen and CSKA Moscow. If the 16 teams to go through seem easier to predict than usual, some of the challenges for those crucial top spots are quite charged. Center back Bjorn Engels has scored 10 goals in 50 appearances for Brugge and can serve up some damage offensively from the back. Tonight, I will choose who is in the first XI. “I told him that I would nutmeg him during the game!”. Playing in the Champions League is a stamp of glory in itself.

Club Brugge are the only Belgian club ever to have reached the European Cup final, losing 1-0 to Liverpool at Wembley in 1978.

Legia Warsaw vs Borussia Dortmund at Stadion Wojska Polskiego.

“We want to get back in the form we were in when we won the title last season”. “They beat Ajax easily”.

The club ended up being one of English football’s biggest spenders in the summer transfer window, breaking its transfer record twice to sign strikers Ahmed Musa, then Islam Slimani. Lyon, who went as far as the semifinals in 2010, lost all three home group stage games last season. No longer is it always won by the best teams in their own countries, let alone the best team on the continent.

Manchester City could either shock the football community by being an awe-inspiring team, or one that is extremely poor in this year’s competition, but we think the former is more likely. “We’ve started well and I hope we can continue to do well”. “This is the kind of Juventus side we need for the Champions League, but we have our feet firmly on the ground”, said Higuain after his goal-scoring debut. Both of those defeats were against Bayern Munich.