The two teams that competed in the quarter-finals last season, namely Benfica and Inter, will be in group D for this season's Champions League. Both will be accompanied by Salzburg and Real Sociedad, who are also newcomers this season. If we look at the competition in Group D, it is very likely that Inter will win the group and for the runners up it will be a battle for the other 3 teams. I'm not underestimating Benfica but Real Sociedad and Salzburg were also quite competent in domestic league competition last season so anything can still happen. It seems that group D will also be quite a surprising group and in my opinion the ones who will qualify for the next round are Inter and Real Sociedad.
Agree with you, it seems that Inter and Real Sociedad will try to attract attention, especially Real Sociedad whose existence cannot be underestimated. They can still show strong competition, especially in the UCL. Real Sociedad will be motivated. At least if you qualify as runner-up, that is quite an ordinary achievement. Benfica and RB Salzburg are also clearly clubs that are difficult to predict how Benfica and Inter will always be regular UCL clubs. However, for this season I tried to choose Inter and Real Sociedad as the favorite clubs in Group D.
Sociedad is new comer this season that's why UEFA was putting them into pot 4 and i think they were a bit lucky because after drawing results Sociedad was not into hell group and the most favourite on group D indeed Inter Milan and Benfica because last season Inter Milan is the finalist and Benfica had good achievement because they can able advances to quarterfinal and almost made a history but unfortunately they lose from Inter Milan and eleminated
Sociedad has hard task to qualified because their opponents had more experience than them even Salzburg also cannot be underestimate moreover Sociedad performance at their domestic league still not stable and i know this is too early but the competitions for group D is only belongs to Inter Milan and Benfica which mean most likely these teams will be qualified to the next round