[football] Champions League draw
Group A
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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