Steve McManaman has said Liverpool’s Champions League group stage draw is ‘possibly the most difficult’ of the British teams - and picked their clashes with Rangers as fixtures to look forward to.
Jurgen Klopp’s side learned of their group stages opponents on Thursday night after the draw in Istanbul - the host city of the final and the first in Turkey since the famous night in 2005. They will face Dutch champions Ajax as well as Napoli and Rangers in Group A.
Reds fans will have been relieved to avoid the likes of Real Madrid, Bayern Munich or Paris Saint-Germain from the top-seeded pot and will meet a regular European opponent in the Italian outfit Napoli. But a meeting with Giovanni van Bronckhorst's Rangers will be the first between the two in European competition - and McManaman has backed the clash between the two British outfits as the pick of a ‘difficult’ group stage campaign.
