champions league draw

[cambo]

can i have this group please?

bayern

rangers

bordeaux

and anyone from pot 4 thats not rubin kazan or wolfsburg

thank you

[TheChipPrince]

Bayern would be over the moon with that!  

Rangers the weakest 2nd seeds?

Perhaps Alkmar or CSKA

[cambo]

yeah were deff weakest from pot 2. gutted tbh wanted to stay in pot 3 and have a chance of getting madrid /porto/ inter for a gd away game to go to

[mckelinho]

Dont know if defo the weakest. Agree thats it is between us AZ and CSKA. Would have liked pot 3 and hope to get Madrid but we now have a great chance of the knock out stages.

Bayern/Sevilla

Bordeaux

FC Zurich please

[Boba Fett]

I really want to get Bayern because theyre off to a terrible start in the league and Van Gaal is under pressure already.  Plus if we get them then we automatically avoid Wolfsburg in Pot 4 who I think are the main team to avoid.

[ZZZZZZZROPE]

haha ill take that, think weve got a good shot!

[Boba Fett]

Im not too unhappy with our group.  The Romanian mob will hopefully be a bunch of diddys but other than that total unknowns.  Of all the pot 1 teams Id have said going by form Bayern were the worst and Id want them 1st but Bayern could still turn it on.  Sevilla are probably the next weakest team in the pot.  Dunno if we will get a result away to them but I dont see why we cant snatch a draw.  At home I famcy our chances against them and we played Stuttgart 2 years ago in the group stages and beat them at home then narrowly lost away.

If we can pick up the points in our home games and beat the Romanians away I think we have a great chance of going through.

Chelsea got a tough group imo, Man Utd should cruise through their group and I can see Arsenal with maximum points from 4 games and playing the kids in the last 2, its the weakest group I can remember.

[AndrewT]

If they'd put the British teams in a room and said - 'you pick the groups' this is pretty much what they'd have come up with.

The three monster 2nd seeds get put in the three groups that don't have any British team in, plus Rangers get one of the weakest top seeds.

[Scottish Dave]

Group A - Bayern Munich, Juventus, Bordeaux, Maccabi Haifi
Group B - Manchester United, CSKA Moscow, Besiktas, Wolfsburg
Group C - A.C. Milan, Real Madrid, Marseille, Zurich
Group D - Chelsea, Porto, Atletico Madrid, APOEL Nicosia
Group E - Liverpool, Lyon, Fiorentina, Debreceni
Group F - Barcelona, Inter Milan, Dynamo Kyiv, Rubin Kazan
Group G - Sevilla, Rangers, Stuttgart, Urziceni
Group H - Arsenal, AZ Alkmaar, Olympiacos, Standard Liege


Please, please let Eto'o score a Hat Trick into Barca, to show them they have made the biggest blunder in offloading him!

Im not actually looking forward to any of these games involving British teams, i like Man Utd v Barca and Real v Chelsea etc etc, but this years draw have not produced any mouth watering tie's apart from AC v Madrid and Barca v Inter

Rangers should easily qualify into Last 16 with that group, as should all 4 English.

[Boba Fett]

I think Liverpool V Lyon and Chelsea V Athletico look tasty

[Ironside]

some really weak teams in this years draw must make celtic missing out even more disapointing though the draw for them was a bitch

[Karabiner]

I think that Barca have the toughest job from all of the top seeds.

Very happy with the gooner's draw and as Andrew says all of the EPL team's seem to have done well.

[Josedinho]

Im not actually looking forward to any of these games involving British teams, i like Man Utd v Barca and Real v Chelsea etc etc, but this years draw have not produced any mouth watering tie's apart from AC v Madrid and Barca v Inter

It's the first round ffs all the big teams are meant to be kept apart, i don't know what else you were hoping for.
Ibra and Eto'o returning to old clubs aswell as Kaka going back to AC is pretty good for the first round.

[Maxriddles]

Happy with Rangers draw in the Champions League but I always worry about being up against some Eastern European team I cannot pronounce.

[henrik777]

If they'd put the British teams in a room and said - 'you pick the groups' this is pretty much what they'd have come up with.

The three monster 2nd seeds get put in the three groups that don't have any British team in, plus Rangers get one of the weakest top seeds.

Given the strength and financial clout of the English clubs along with the seedings you would expect the 4 clubs to qualify whoever they got.

Arsenal got a stonking group surpsrisingly 7/19 to win the group. I doubt that'll last long.

Man Utd got another good group and are 4/7 to win it which is also unlikely to last.

Liverpool are in a much harder group and 8/11 isn't appealing since they are in poor form and Lyon have spent 3rd biggest this summer.

Chelsea are to win their group and 8/13 again i would put much on it with 2 decent teams in the group.

Rangers must be in dreamland with their group and might not be a shoe in to qualify but they have a good shot if the squad holds up. (note to Tony lets give them a kicking on the 4th)

Sandy