After being eliminated from the group stage of the Champions for the first time in 21 years, FC Barcelona will go on to play the Europa League joining a playoff that makes the round of round of 32 against the second classified of the group stage of this competition. The first classified go directly to the round of 16.
Upon arriving from another competition, Barça did not come out as seeded, so in the draw next Monday you are already sure that must play the second leg of the tie away from the Camp Nou.
The seeds will be the teams that finished second. At the moment, to this day, only Glasgow Rangers have secured this place. Barça cannot face Spanish teams in this tie, So neither Betis -another that has the second place assured- nor Real Sociedad -if it succeeds- could be rivals of Xavi’s.
In the absence of the group stage being decided on Thursday lhe other possible Barça rivals would be: Rangers (Group A), PSV (Group B), Leicester, Naples or Spartak (Group C), Eintracht or Olympiacos (Group D), Galatasaray or Lazio (Group E), Red Star, Braga o Midtjyland (Group F) and Dinamo de Zagreb o Genk (Group H).