[football] Champions League draw
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BARCELONA Chelsea Werder Bremen Levski Sofia Group B INTER MILAN Bayern Munich Sporting Lisbon Spartak Moscow Group C LIVERPOOL PSV Eindhoven Bordeaux Galatasaray Group D VALENCIA Roma Olympiakos Shakhtar Donetsk Group E REAL MADRID Lyon Steaua Bucharest Dynamo Kiev Group F MANCHESTER UNITED Celtic Benfica FC Copenhagen Group G ARSENAL Porto CSKA Moscow Hamburg Group H AC MILAN Lille AEK Athens Anderlecht (Top seeds in CAPITALS) A fairly boring draw this year. No groups of death, a few tricky ones for the second seeds but all of the top seeds should qualify comfortably. Aside from Chelsea vs Barca lolz, all of the English teams should finish top of their groups. Liverpool will probably beat PSV, Man U have an easy group and Arsenal should beat Porto over two legs. The various second seeds should also cope fine - Lyon, for example, won't have any problems with Steaua Bucharest or Dynamo Kiev given their previous European showings, although picking who'll join AC Milan in qualifying from Group H is a lottery. Likewise Porto may struggle with CSKA Moscow and Hamburg. |
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Liverpool have a potentially tricky group. And considering arsenals record in russia its pretty arrogant of you to pencil 3 points in from cska without a second thought |
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Liverpool should qualify easily enough, the only problem is we play much better against the good teams then the poorer, we end up making the "easy" games harder then they really are :(
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The individual matches are good as always, as you'd expect most Champions League football to be. Yes, Barca/Chelsea will be a good encounter but I'd far rather see it in the knock-out stages instead, likewise Lyon/Real Madrid. I don't see Liverpool having too many problems. Galatasaray are only just back in the Champions League after a few years absence while Bordeaux hardly strike fear into anyone's heart. PSV will be a tricky fixture but not one I believe Liverpool need to fear. As for Arsenal, can you really blame me for supporting my own team? As with Porto, I think that we'll get the job done over the two legs, just like we did against Real and Juventus last year. |
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i am a liverpool fan and i think theyll struggle. I think theyll get through but itll be no cakewalk. PSV are always a tough test - the french league has really come on recently - and how many teams go to Turkey and win?
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while liverpool will prob struggle in that group i am still confident they will get through
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hoho
PSV - Liverpool in my backgarden this year! hope i can get tickets. already managed to get tickets for a poulegame of Schalke 04 in UEFA cup, but this will be good too. :) and i will support Celtic this season because Jantje Vennegoor. :up: |
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3.4 million apparentally in the end it was Koen.
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btw, if twente wouldn't have lost from random shit team x last night, we'd have played against newcastle in the first round of the UEFA cup. newcastle - twente, how ubercool would that have been... :crymeariver: |
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you underestimate werder bremen, i think they may have the potential to cause an upset
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Yeah, that really sucks. The only decent German team gets in the group with two superpowers.
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of all the groups i wouldnt say that PSV have it easy, as going to turkey is always a nightmare
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As usual i'm worried by the group Celtic have got.
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Anderlecht will do crap as usual I think, last year they only managed to get 3 points, the year before that they couldn't even manage a draw.
Now they're in what can be described as the easiest group and least interesting. Another year of shame for belgian footbal :( |
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