[🔵 UCL - average strength of schedule]
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☠️ Hardest draw:
🇦🇿 Sabah
🏴 Man City
🇫🇷 Lens
⛅️ Easiest draw:
🇩🇪 Stuttgart
🇮🇹 Inter
🇪🇸 Real Madrid
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Despite Tough Draws: LASK with Statistically Easy CL Opponents
Although the Linzers have to play against Real and Liverpool, among others, they have been statistically lucky.
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Furthermore, the Linzers will face Sporting, Porto, Fenerbahce, Bodö/Glimt, AEK Athens and Slovan Bratislava. Statistically, the Austrian double winner has had considerable luck with the draw.
According to the website "Football meets Data", the Upper Austrians have the fifth-easiest opponents of all Champions League participants. The assessment is based on the ELO ranking of all participants.
Stuttgart Easiest, Sabeh Hardest
VfB Stuttgart consequently has the easiest draw. This is followed by Inter Milan, Real Madrid, Shakhtar Donetsk, and LASK.
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Sabeh from Azerbaijan, however, has the toughest draw. However, Manchester City and RC Lens, with Austrian international Samson Baidoo, also had considerable bad luck with the draw.