Could be worse, we could be Spurs!

Manchester City director of football Txiki Begiristain is thankful his team got off more lightly than Premier League counterparts Tottenham in Thursday's Champions League draw.

Spurs face a daunting task having been drawn alongside title holders Real Madrid and Borussia Dortmund, with Cypriot side APOEL seemingly making up the numbers in Group H.

City have regularly tangled with European heavyweights in the round-robin stage since their competition debut in 2011-12, but they will be favourites to progress from a Group F containing Shakhtar Donetsk, Napoli and Feyenoord.

Brazil international Fernandinho is set for a reunion with Shakhtar, who he left to join City in 2013, while Pep Guardiola pitting his coaching wits against Napoli's Maurizio Sarri will make for two mouth-watering clashes.

Begiristain believes the group is not without its pitfalls but concedes things could have been worse.

"Of course, I think it is very difficult to go [to face Shakhtar] as they are always building good team. They sign good players from South America," the former Barcelona director told BT Sport.

"In the rest of the group, Napoli now are, for me, the best footballing team in Italy. We saw that against Nice in the play-off round so we have to be careful.

"Also, Feyenoord play good football so I don't know if I am happy or not.

"There are worse draws. If I was Tottenham I would be more worried."

Here we go, Blues!

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