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What today’s email is all about:

• The UEFA Champions League draw ⚽️

• CR7 and Messi both performs 🐐

• Mbappe is back. Nunez saves the day. A 16-year-old shines for Barca.

• Transfer News: Laporte 🇪🇸

• Memes 😂

UEFA Champions League Draw

On Thursday the 31st of August at 18:00 (CET) the UEFA Champions League Group Stage draw will take place in Monaco.

These 26 teams have already secured their spots in the draw:

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 : Arsenal, Manchester City, Manchester United, Newcastle
🇪🇸 : Atlético, Barcelona, Real Madrid, Real Sociedad, Sevilla
🇩🇪 : Bayern, Dortmund, Leipzig, Union Berlin
🇮🇹 : Inter, Lazio, Milan, Napoli
🇫🇷 : Lens, Paris
🇵🇹 : Benfica, Porto
🇳🇱 : Feyenoord
🇦🇹 : Salzburg
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 : Celtic
🇷🇸 : Crvena Zvezda
🇺🇦 : Shakhtar Donetsk

The winners of the following play-off matches (29 & 30 August) will join these teams:

• Young Boys 🇨🇭 vs Maccabi Haifa 🇮🇱

• Galatasaray 🇹🇷 vs Molde 🇳🇴

• Panathinaikos 🇬🇷 vs Braga 🇵🇹

• AEK Athens 🇬🇷 vs Antwerp 🇧🇪

• Copenhagen 🇩🇰 vs Raków 🇵🇱

• PSV 🇳🇱 vs Rangers 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

But wait, there’s more…

The 2022/23 UEFA Men's Player of the Year, UEFA Women's Player of the Year, UEFA Men's Coach of the Year and UEFA Women's Coach of the Year awards will also be presented during the group stage draw ceremony.

The draw will be streamed live on UEFA.com.

Another big weekend for the GOATS

Messi came off the bench to score in his MLS debut as Inter Miami beat New York Red Bulls 2-0.

This was Inter Miami’s 9th consecutive win since the arrival of Lionel Messi. How long will the winning streak continue?

Elsewhere, Cristiano Ronaldo was on fire and scored his 63rd career hat-trick and first of the season as Al-Nassr cruised to a 5-0 victory against Al-Fateh. Watch the goals below.

What Else Happened:

It’s the 77th minute, Liverpool are 1-0 down against Newcastle with 1 less player after Van Dijk’s early red card. On subs Darwin Nunez to save the day.

Mbappe celebrated his first start of the season with PSG by scoring 2 goals. This brings his career total of goal involvements (goals + assists) to 400! And he’s only 24 years old.

4 goals in 3 games for Jude Bellingham. Has Real Madrid found their new talisman in the young English Midfielder?

16-year-old Lamine Yamal inspires Barcelona to victory in seven-goal thriller against Villarreal.

Defensive boost for CR7’s Al-Nassr

With the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo and Sadio Mané heading the attack, Al Nassr is bound to score many goals. The club from Riyadh has since upgraded their defensive line with the signing of Aymeric Laporte from Manchester City.

Bayern plays Musical Chairs with Goalkeepers

Bayern Munich brought in Yann Sommer in January 2023 but the Swiss international only played 19 matches before signing for Inter Milan last month. With Neuer still out with injury and only expected back in late September, Bayern have acquired the services of Israel’s Daniel Peretz.

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