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Manchester Citys new coach Pep Guardiola will be heading back to Barcelona after the Premier League club was pitted against his former team in the Champions League draw on Thursday.Guardiola, who also spent most of his playing career at the Catalan club, steered Barcelona to two Champions League titles as well as a number of other trophies during his time as coach from 2008-12.The two teams play each other on Oct. 19 in Barcelona and Nov. 1 in Manchester.Borussia Moenchengladbach and Celtic complete Group C.Cristiano Ronaldo also returns to his first club as holder Real Madrid has been drawn against Sporting Lisbon. Borussia Dortmund and Legia Warsaw are also in Group F.Surprise Premier League champion Leicester faces Porto, Brugge and FC Copenhagen in its first time in Europes premier competition.The eight four-team groups begin play on Sept. 13-14.---Group A:Paris Saint-Germain and Arsenal will be favorites to progress but Basel boasts a fearsome record against English clubs in European competition.Neither team has ever won the European Cup but PSG reached the quarterfinals in the last four seasons. However, it is now without Swedish star Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who moved to Manchester United in the offseason.Arsenal was eliminated in the round of 16 in the last six seasons.Since 2011, Basel has helped eliminate Manchester United and Liverpool from the Champions League, as well as knocking Tottenham out of the Europa League.Ludogorets is playing in the group stages for only the second time in the Bulgarian clubs history, having reached the same stage two years ago.---Group B:Napoli will be hoping for better luck than the last time they reached the group stages.In 2013/14, Napoli became the first -- and so far only -- team to fail to progress after picking up 12 points, losing out to Dortmund and Arsenal in a three-way head-to-head.It should have an easier time this campaign, as it has been pitted against Benfica, Dynamo Kiev and Besiktas.---Group C:While Guardiola will be highly familiar with Barcelona, many of Citys players will also know the Catalan club well.Barcelona beat City at the last-16 stage in 2014 and 2015, while goalkeeper Claudio Bravo has just completed a move from the Spanish champion to Guardiolas new side.Its good for Pep because he knows Borussia very well from his time at Bayern and Barcelona as well so we will see, Citys Director of Football Txiki Begiristain said.He had been back to Barca before with Bayern Munich so its not the first time hes been returned to the Camp Nou. Barcelona will start as favorites for the group but that is nothing new, they are a fantastic side.City also played Moenchengladbach in the group stage last year en route to the semifinals.Celtic will be hoping for a repeat of the 2012-13 season when it managed a shock 2-1 home win over Barcelona 2-1 in the group stage.---Group D:Bayern Munich will be out for revenge when it faces Atletico Madrid after losing to the Spanish side on away goals in last seasons semifinals.In May, Atletico lost the final on penalties to Real Madrid -- finishing runner-up to its bitter rival for the second time in three years.Contrasting sides in PSV Eindhoven and Rostov make up the group.PSV has played regularly in European competition since the 1970s, while it is Russian side Rostovs maiden appearance in the European Cup.---Group E:A group where anyone could win it or finish bottom.None of the teams have ever won the competition although Leverkusen and Monaco have both reached the final -- in 2002 and 2004 respectively.Tottenham last played in the Champions League in 2010-11, reaching the quarterfinals, while CSKA Moscow made a group stage exit in 2013-14.---Group F:Matches between Real Madrid and Borussia Dortmund are swift becoming classics.Madrid beat Dortmund in the quarterfinals in 2014, avenging its semifinal defeat the previous campaign.No team has successfully defended the Champions League since its inception in 1992 but Madrid forward Gareth Bale hopes his side can become the first to do so, with the final being staged in his home city of Cardiff.It would be amazing to experience a Champions League final in Cardiff, Bale said. It is obviously a difficult group but it always is in the Champions League. We fancy our chances to get through but we know there are going to be some difficult games.Meanwhile, as well as providing a former player in Ronaldo, Sporting had more players than any other club in Portugals Euro 2016-winning squad -- Rui Patricio, Joao Mario, William Carvalho and Adrien Silva.Legia Warsaw completes the group, becoming Polands first team in the Champions League proper in 20 years.---Group G:Apart from two-time winner Porto, Group G is devoid of Champions League pedigree.Leicester, which was in the third tier of English football in 2009, is making its debut in the competition.Copenhagen reached the last 16 in 2010/11, one of only four previous times it has made it into the Champions League proper, while Brugge has also had only sporadic appearances in the group stages.---Group H:Juventus and Sevilla face each other in the group stages for the second successive season.Juventus beat Sevilla 2-0 at home but lost 1-0 in Spain, which meant it finished second in the group and faced Bayern Munich in the last 16 rather than Dinamo Kiev. The Turin side lost after extra time in the second leg in Germany.We missed an opportunity at Sevilla last year, Juventus coach Massimiliano Allegri wrote on Twitter. It will be a red-hot atmosphere in Lyon and Zagreb: we need to be focused, we know our aim.Sevilla was eliminated from the Champions League and went on to win the Europa League for the third season in a row.Lyon completes the group along with Dinamo Zagreb, which established one of the worst records in a group stage campaign, having lost all six games with a goal difference of minus 19 in 2011. Kyrie Irving Shoes Wholesale . Dukurs winning time was 1 minute, 45.76 seconds, a quarter-second better than Russias Alexander Tretiakov. Lativas Tomass Dukurs was third, 1.41 seconds off the pace. Jon Montgomery of Eckville, Alta. Kyrie 2 Blue . MORITZ, Switzerland -- Fog prevented downhill racers from getting their Olympic dress rehearsal. http://www.kyrieirvingshoescheap.com/cheap-kyrie-4-shoes-a/kyrie-4-confetti.html . 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LAS VEGAS -- The New England Patriots (the 5-2 Super Bowl favorites) and Minnesota Vikings (the last undefeated team) remained Nos. 1-2 in the NFL Vegas Rankings this week, but the big news was the Pittsburgh Steelers dropping from No. 3 to a tie for 10th.Pittsburgh lost 30-15 at Miami and Ben Roethlisberger went to the locker room but came back to finish the game. He had surgery Monday to repair a torn meniscus and its unclear how much time hes going to miss. Landry Jones will start in his place.ESPNs Football Power Index (FPI) only lowered the Steelers rating by 2 points. Erin Rynning and I lowered them by a lot more and the average came out to a 4-point decrease.Heres a look at the teams making the biggest mooves up and down the rankings, and then well look for some Week 7 value plays (12-6 ATS so far this season) using this weeks power ratings:Note: The NFL Vegas Rankings are compiled by taking the average of the power ratings of ESPN Chalk handicappers, including Erin Rynning, yours truly and ESPNs Football Power Index, and are used to compare two teams as if they were to meet on a neutral field (after which most teams get 2.dddddddddddd5 points for home-field advantage) and can be used to compare to the current point spread.Movin on upThe biggest increase in Week 6 came from two teams ' ' '