Champions League Third Round Winners and Group Draw Thread

~Rebel~

Well 1 of my 2 calls has come true anyway so far. Marseille to Liverpool - The return of Cisse! Knew it as soon as i read Cisse's interview weeks ago saying he'd love to come back and tease anfield.

Daysha

Rangers and the two Ukrainian clubs would be the ones to avoid here

Mr Alan

wouldnt mind getting Rangers tbh

gucci

Archimedes wrote:

The team is drawn, then the group is drawn - its not in aplphabetical order....

cheers

Mr Alan

Kaka - Best Player In The World By A County Mile

So Good In Fact That Every Word In This Post Should Start With A Capital Letter.

Peyton Manning

Rangers get Barcelona!

Trippie

I think rangers are fcuked to be honest

Peyton Manning

Manchester Utd
AS Roma
Sporting
Dynamo Kiev

Daysha

Uniteds group just got a whole lot worse...

Peyton Manning

Liverpool get Besiktas - tough away leg there.

mike65

Liverpool
Porto
Marseille
Besiktas

Mike.

Nunu

Group A: Liverpool, Porto, Marseille, Besiktas

Group B: Chelsea, Valencia, Schalke, Rosenborg

Group C: Real Madrid, Bremen, Lazio, *******kos

Group D: Milan, Benfica, Celtic, Shaktar Donetsk

Group E: Barcelona, Lyon, Stuttgart, Rangers

Group F: Man Utd, Roma, Sporting, Dynamo Kiev

Group G: Inter, PSV, CSKA Moscow, Fenerbache

Group H: Arsenal, Sevile/AEK, Steaua, Slavia Prague

leninbenjamin

bastard, you beat me to it.

somano

FULL DRAW

Group A
LIVERPOOL
Porto
Marseille
Besiktas


Group B
CHELSEA
Valencia
Schalke 04
Rosenborg


Group C
REAL MADRID
Werder Bremen
Lazio
*******kos


Group D
AC MILAN
Benfica
Celtic
Shakhtar Donetsk


Group E
BARCELONA
Lyon
Stuttgart
Rangers


Group F
MANCHESTER UNITED
Roma
Sporting Lisbon
Dynamo Kiev


Group G
INTER MILAN
PSV Eindhoven
CSKA Moscow
Fenerbache


Group H
ARSENAL
Sevilla/AEK Athens
Steau Bucharest
Slavia Prague

Peyton Manning

All of the English teams except Liverpool have tricky ties...

Man Utd - Roma
Chelsea - Valencia
Arsenal - Sevilla (probably)

Pepe LeFrits

Group H should be a nice stroll for Arsenal and Sevilla.

weemcd

why is *******cos censored?

/edit mcd?

Raskolnikov

The gap between England/Spain/Italy over the rest of the countries seems to be widening. Looking at the draw, I would expect to see four English, four Spanish and four Italian clubs progress.

andrew1977

Trippie wrote:

I think rangers are fcuked to be honest

Rangers will finish bottom of that group i reckon , a good hiding in spain for them awaits

Celtic will struggle also to get out of their group

PHB

I'm happy with the group, at least a strong enough 2nd seed to get some tough mathes going.

No real groups of death to be honest, a pretty fair draw, mostly due to the seedings being quite good this time.

somano

weemcd wrote:

why is *******cos censored?

/edit mcd?

MCD ban - theatre by same name in Dame Street !;)

TwoShedsJackson

Arsenal have the easiest group anyway. Rangers are fu<ked. Liverpool should have a relatively straightforward progress. Chelsea could be slightly tricky. United with the jammy easy group as usual.

Daysha

A: Nothing major for Liverpool, them and Porto should stroll through it.

B: Tough enough to Chelsea, it couldve been a lot worse if they didnt get Rosenborg. Them and Valencia

C: One of the toughest groups. All four have a good shout. I'll go for Real and Lazio.

If they didnt get Shakhtar, Celtic wouldve been delighted. It'll be tough but I'll say they'll still do it with AC

E: Very tough group. Probably the group of the death. Barca and Lyon here.

F: If theres ever a time for Utd to start performing away from home, its here. Ronaldo and Nani have to travel to their old club, we'll see a repeat of the quarter final last year with Roma (and the possibility of more crowd trouble) and then theres the prospect of Ukraine in the winter. They should still qualify with Roma, but itll be very tough

G: Inter and PSV should do it, but they travel to Russia and Turkey!

H: Arsenal are sorted, by far got the best draw of the 6 British clubs. Them and Sevilla

smemon

all spicey away fixtures for Utd..

Roma will need to get the crowd control sorted out.. on the pitch roma will be out for revenge following the 7-1 slaughtering at OT. Guaranteed to be a highly charged match. Looking forward to it, although not for the Utd fans going over :cool:

Nani and Ronaldo return to sporting, plus Utd have the whole academy/link thing going on so could get nasty depending how they react to ronaldo/nani..

Dynamo kiev never as easy place to go, bloody annoying fans too with all there airhorns, can get very hostile..

utd have an atrocious record away in europe and looking at the above, it's going to stay that way

Shouldn't have any problems at home though.. 9 points.

eirebhoy

Happy with drawing Benfica but that's about it. Milan will have Ronaldo eligible this time. Shakhtar destroyed Celtic a couple of years ago. Glad they sold Tymoschuk and Elano but they got Lucarelli.

Raskolnikov

My predictions.

Group A
LIVERPOOL
Porto
Marseille
Besiktas


Group B
CHELSEA
Valencia
Schalke 04
Rosenborg


Group C
REAL MADRID
Werder Bremen
Lazio
*******kos


Group D
AC MILAN
Benfica
Celtic
Shakhtar Donetsk


Group E
BARCELONA
Lyon
Stuttgart
Rangers


Group F
MANCHESTER UNITED
Roma
Sporting Lisbon
Dynamo Kiev


Group G
INTER MILAN
PSV Eindhoven
CSKA Moscow
Fenerbache


Group H
ARSENAL
Sevilla/AEK Athens
Steau Bucharest
Slavia Prague

PHB

Tipping Lyon to go out, ballsy

mike65

Lyon are crap under Alain 'Reggie' Perrin so far. I think Werder Bremen are second seeds on merit, should get through though that group is very tight

Mike.

Fwaggle

Ah crap

Was hoping we would be drawn in Liverpools group, but noooo we had to get Barca and Lyon.

Damnit - ah well, will just have to try and get tickets for the home games and hope for a miracle.

Raskolnikov

mike65 wrote:

Lyon are crap under Alain 'Reggie' Perrin so far. I think Werder Bremen are second seeds on merit, should get through though that group is very tight

Mike.

Exactly. It's all gotten a bit Vladamir Romanov over at Lyon with the chairman making signings rather than the manager. Also, they've lost Abidal, Malouda and Tiago, all key players for them.

They do have Karim Benzema though, he's a local lad with lots of talent and desire to win. They'll be talking about him in the same vein as Ribery this time next year.

Mr. Presentable

Raskolnikov wrote:

Inter Historically, they have always been poor in Europe

European Cup
Champions (2): 1963–64, 1964–65
Runners-up (2): 1966–67, 1971–72

UEFA Cup
Champions (3): 1990–91, 1993–94, 1997–98
Runners-up (1): 1996–97

Recently, yes, historically, no.

Nunu

Nunu wrote:

Group A: Liverpool, Porto, Marseille, Besiktas

Group B: Chelsea, Valencia, Schalke, Rosenborg

Group C: Real Madrid, Bremen, Lazio, *******kos

Group D: Milan, Benfica, Celtic, Shaktar Donetsk

Group E: Barcelona, Lyon, Stuttgart, Rangers

Group F: Man Utd, Roma, Sporting, Dynamo Kiev

Group G: Inter, PSV, CSKA Moscow, Fenerbache

Group H: Arsenal, Sevile/AEK, Steaua, Slavia Prague

Matchday 1 18th/19th Sept

Tue: Porto v Liverpool, Chelsea v Rosenborg, Shaktar v Celtic, Marseilles v Besiktas, Schalke v Valencia, Madrid v Bremen, *******kos v Lazio, Milan v Benfica.

Wed: Sporting v Utd, Arsenal v Seville/Aek, Rangers v Stuttgart, Barca v Lyon, Roma v Kiev, PSV v CSKA, Fenerbache v Inter, Slavia v Steaua.


Matchday 2 2nd/3rd Oct

Tue: Utd v Roma, Steaua v Arsenal, Lyon v Rangers, Stuttgart v Barca, Kiev v Sporting, Inter v PSV, CSKA v Fenerbache, Seville/AEK v Slavia.

Wed: Liverpool v Marseille, Valencia v Chelsea, Celtic v Milan, Besiktas v Porto, Rosenborg v Schalke, Lazio v Madrid, Bremen v *******kos, Benfica v Shaktar.


Matchday 3 23rd/24th Oct

Tue: Kiev v Utd, Arsenal v Slavia, Rangers v Barca, Stuttgart v Lyon, Roma v Sporting, CSKA v Inter, PSV v Fenerbache, Seville/AEK v Steaua.

Wed: Besiktas v Liverpool, Chelsea v Schalke, Benfica v Celtic, Marseilles v Porto, Rosenborg v Valencia, Bremen v Lazio, Madrid v *******kos, Milan v Shaktar.


Matchday 4 6th/7th Nov

Tue: Liverpool v Besiktas, Schalke v Chelsea, Celtic v Benfica, Porto v Marseilles, Valencia v Rosenborg, Lazio v Bremen, *******kos v Madrid, Shaktar v Milan.

Wed: Utd v Kiev, Slavia v Arsenal, Barca v Rangers, Lyon v Stuttgart, Sporting v Roma, Inter v CSKA, Fenerbache v PSV, Steaua v Seville/AEK.


Matchday 5 27th/28th Nov

Tue: Utd v Sporting, Seville/Aek v Arsenal, Stuttgart v Rangers, Lyon v Barca, Kiev v Roma, CSKA v PSV, Inter v Fenerbache, Steaua v Slavia.

Wed: Liverpool v Porto, Rosenborg v Chelsea, Celtic v Shaktar, Besiktas v Marseilles, Valencia v Schalke, Breman v Madrid, Lazio v *******kos, Benfica v Milan.


Matchday 6 11th/12th Dec (Group D - 4th Dec)

Tue: Marseilles v Liverpool, Valencia v Chelsea, Milan v Celtic, Shaktar v Benfica, Porto v Besiktas, Schalke v Rosenborg, Madrid v Lazio, *******kos v Bremen.

Wed: Roma v Utd, Arsenal v Steaua, Lyon v Rangers, Barca v Stuttgart, Sporting v Kiev, PSV v Inter, Fenerbache v CSKA, Slavia v Seville/AEK.

eirebhoy

Why do Group D play their last game on the 4th? That's 3 games in 6 days for Celtic.

Nunu

eirebhoy wrote:

Why do Group D play their last game on the 4th? That's 3 games in 6 days for Celtic.

Milans participation in the World Club Championship...both group games have to be played simultaneously for obvious reasons.

eZe^

Group A: Liverpool, Porto.

Group B: Valencia, Chelsea.

Group C: Real Madrid, Lazio.

Group Milan, Benfica.

Group E: Barcelona, Stuttgart.

Group F: Man Utd, Roma.

Group G: Inter, PSV.

Group H: Seville, Arsenal.