Wednesday 22nd June 2005 ANFIELD ONLINE NEWS
REDS CONFIRMED AS TOP ENGLISH SIDE
Parry's thoughtsIt's disappointing because we made it clear we wanted him to stay. There's no question about that. He's made it pretty clear now...
Liverpool, the newly crowned Champions of Europe, have been confirmed by UEFA as the top English side in the competition and as such will be placed in the top seeds should they surmount the three qualifying rounds and enter the group stage of the Champions League.
Here they could face any of the second seeded group sides, such as Chelsea or even lowly Everton, who would potentially be the lowest ranking side should they even manage to qualify for the competition.
Top group: 1 Real Madrid 131.326, 2 Barcelona 117.326, 3 AC Milan 121.191, 4 Liverpool 115.864***, 5 Manchester United 110.864*, 6 Inter Milan 101.191*, 7 Bayern Munich 97.166, 8 Arsenal 93.864.
Second group: 9 Porto 93.739, 10 Juventus 93.191, 11 PSV Eindhoven 84.145, 12 Chelsea 68.864, 13 Lyon 81.324, 14 Olympiacos 46.715, 15 Schalke 04 44.166, 16 Sparta Prague 43.223.
Parry interview 1607RICK PARRY: It's disappointing. Personally it's disappointing because we really did make it clear that we wanted Steven to say, there's no question about that. It's the ups and downs of football...
Third group: 17 Lille 41.324, 18 Benfica 36.739, 19 Fenerbahce 23.872, 20 Panathinaikos 70.715*, 21 Celtic 63.476**, 22 Villarreal 58.326*, 23 Sporting Lisbon 55.739*, 24 Monaco 53.324*.
Fourth group: 25 Ajax 52.145*, Bruges 50.476*, 27 Anderlecht 47.476**, 28 Rangers 40.476*, 29 Dynamo Kiev 40.200**, 30 Werder Bremen 40.166*, 31 Lokomotiv Moscow 38.469**, 32 Rosenborg 36.665*.
Others: 42 Everton 20.864*.
* = must play one qualifying round. ** = must play two qualifying rounds. *** = must play three qualifying rounds.
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