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The Champions League draw is set to take place today, and Arsenal will find out their opponents for eight league-phase games over the coming months. This is the first edition of the new format of the Champions League, with revamped rules and structures meaning that instead of a traditional group stage, a “Swiss format” with a giant league table of all 36 teams will be implemented. Teams will be drawn using AI instead of a traditional draw, and they will be ranked into four separate pots based on their UEFA coefficient. There will be eight matches instead of six, meaning that Mikel Arteta will …

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