Champions League Group Stage Draw

Peyton Manning

Thursday @ 5pm. Discussion here.

As a United fan, its great to see that we could get a group of

United
Bayern Munich
Juventus
Marseille.

Would love that.

Mr. Presentable

You couldn't. Juventus will be second seeded.

Peyton Manning

I see Schalke lost. My apologies.

delija_sever029

Archimedes wrote: »

Thursday @ 5pm. Discussion here.

As a United fan, its great to see that we could get a group of

United
Bayern Munich
Juventus
Marseille.

Would love that.

As United fan i would wish we get easiest possible group,not hardest....

eirebhoy

There's me waiting until after the Liverpool match to post this thread.

If Liverpool win...

[B]Pot 1                                  Pot 2[/B]                          
[B]------------------------ ---           ------------------------ --- [/B]
Chelsea                  Eng           Bayern München           Ger 
Liverpool                Eng           PSV Eindhoven            Ned 
Barcelona                Esp           Villarreal               Esp 
Arsenal                  Eng           AS Roma                  Ita 
Manchester United        Eng           FC Porto                 Por 
Olympique Lyon           Fra           Werder Bremen            Ger 
Internazionale           Ita           Sporting Lisbon          Por 
Real Madrid              Esp           Juventus                 Ita 

[B]Pot 3                                  Pot 4[/B]
[B]------------------------ ---           ------------------------ --- [/B]
Marseille                Fra           Shakhtar Donetsk         Ukr 
Zenit St. Petersburg     Rus           Fiorentina               Ita 
Steaua Bucharest         Rom           Atlético Madrid          Esp 
Panathinaikos            Gre           Dinamo Kiev              Ukr 
Bordeaux                 Fra           CFR Cluj                 Rom 
Celtic                   Sco           AaB Aalborg              Den 
FC Basel                 Sui           BATE Borisov             Bls 
Fenerbahçe               Tur           Anorthosis Famagusta     Cyp

If Liverpool don't win... Standard Liege go into Pot 4, Shakhtar into Pot 3, Marseille into Pot 2, Bayern into Pot 1.

Draw at 5pm tomorrow on Sky Sport News, Setanta and Eurosport.

delija_sever029

Tommorow? I think you are wrong,its on friday

S.M.B.

The following would do nicely...

Manchester United
Sporting Lisbon
Basel
AaB Aalborg

Bubs101

With Fiorentina and Athletico seeded 4th there's the potential for some real groups of death

eirebhoy

delija_sever029 wrote: »

Tommorow? I think you are wrong,its on friday

Tomorrow.

Mushy

Bubs101 wrote: »

With Fiorentina and Athletico seeded 4th there's the potential for some real groups of death

And even then Dinamo Kiev wouldnt be a nice place to travel to.

eZe^

I think it will be a very exciting CL ... lots of 2nd & 3rd & 4th teams are very very good (villarreal,Atletico,Fiorentina..etc ) IMHO it will a remarkable CL season. One of the strongest CL's I have ever seen...

Big banana skins in pot 4 in the form of Atletico/ Fiorentina.

SantryRed

For the neutral I'd love to see a group of

Arsenal
Bayern Munich
Zenit
Athletico.

Would be a great group for football.

delija_sever029

eirebhoy wrote: »

Tomorrow.

Ok,didnt know,it was usually on friday:)

eirebhoy

For Celtic I'd be hoping for

Real Madrid
Sporting Lisbon
Aalborg

eZe^

eirebhoy wrote: »

For Celtic I'd be hoping for

Real Madrid

Really? They are by far favourites for La Liga this season, and have expanded their squad so they can finally challenge for Europe properly...


Although, I'd love to see something like;

Manchester Utd
Bayern Munich
Fenerbahce
Atletico Madrid


Fenerbahce have only strengthened their side quite alot with the acquisition of Guiza from Mallorca.

eirebhoy

eZe^ wrote: »

Really? They are by far favourites for La Liga this season, and have expanded their squad so they can finally challenge for Europe properly...

I just wanna draw Madrid for the glamour factor. Celtic have played most of the rest in recent years. Plus if the draw was too easy Celtic would fck it up.

delija_sever029

eZe^ wrote: »

Fenerbahce have only strengthened their side quite alot with the acquisition of Guiza from Mallorca.

They suck....

eZe^

delija_sever029 wrote: »

They suck....

Yes, judge them just on the qualifiers... Im sure you think Liverpool suck too ya?


If Fenerbahce get a nice enough group, they will cause upsets, just you watch.

delija_sever029

eZe^ wrote: »

Yes, judge them just on the qualifiers... Im sure you think Liverpool suck too ya?


If Fenerbahce get a nice enough group, they will cause upsets, just you watch.

I hope i am wrong,Rangers sucked against Red Star also last year,they kept playing same all the season,at the end that brought them good result,fenerbahce looked awesome last year,thats why i expected more from them in these 2 legs,they didnt show anything good,hope that was only in this qualifications


And Liverpool always suck to me;)

PHB

I want a tough group. As tough as possible. Realistically, theres no reason why we can't beat any of the 3rd and 4th seeds, and tough draws get you to winning the CL. Easy draws always see you go out at the semis. United last year had pretty much the hardest possible draw they could get at every point yet came through. The same happened in 99.

I'd take

United
Bayern
Zenit
Atletico

Not least because Fergie signs players after seeing them play against us, and I'd like Aguero to be against us.

If I wanted an easy draw, I'd go with

United
Lisbon
Bordeax
Anorthosis Famagusta

Mr Alan

emmmm Roma?

PHB

Roma with Barca. Arsenal or Liverpool with Chelsea. I'd happily have taken Arsenal or Liverpool, we hockied them both last season, Liverpool twice. Roma were the same. Barca were the 2nd best team in the tourney by some distance imo, and a much tougher semi final draw than Chelsea.

Mr Alan

you hockied us in that one nil win at Anfield where you scored from a set piece? and we had most of the possession? and that was your only chance in the match?

Liverpool and Arsenal are far better teams than roma.

oobydooby

Save it for the 13th there boys...

Some real quality in all the pots there. Don't really mind who we get (Liverpool fan) as we made such a mess of last year's "easy" grouping. Looking forward to seeing some of these teams which I know little about. Realistically though the top seeds should make up the last 16. Hope Celtic draw an English team.

eirebhoy

oobydooby wrote: »

Hope Celtic draw an English team.

They all should beat Celtic on their home turf and I think Chelsea, Arsenal and Man Utd would also dominate the game at Celtic park. I think Celtic could do Liverpool at Celtic park but I'd still rather not draw an English team.

Mr Alan

i really hope we get Celtic, i think if we reach any sort of form, we'd wipe the floor with ye home and away. too hard working and too well organised when we're on form in Europe for yous, atmosphere wouldnt bother us up there either, sure its only copied our own!

us reaching any form doesnt look likely at the minute though

ROCKMAN

It woud be nice to have soft run in the group stages while the others are facing hard games which will/could effect league performances, so love to see these groups.

MAN UTD
PSV EINDHOVEN
FC BASEL
AaB AALBORG


LIVERPOOL
BAYERN
MARSIELLE
FIORENTINA

CHELSEA
JUVENTUS
MARSEILLE
ATLETICO MADRID

ARSENAL
VILLAREAL
ZENIT St PETERSBURG
DINAMO KIEV

Bubs101

As long as Chelsea and Juve avoid each other I'll be happy enough. Never been in the situation where my two teams have played each other and I don't particularly want to be

delija_sever029

Is it draw on eurosport at 5?

monkey9

Mr Alan wrote: »

you hockied us in that one nil win at Anfield where you scored from a set piece? and we had most of the possession? and that was your only chance in the match?

Liverpool and Arsenal are far better teams than roma.

That was the season before, Al. Last season Utd won one nil with a jammy Tevez goal!

Nalz

monkey9 wrote: »

That was the season before, Al. Last season Utd won one nil with a jammy Tevez goal!

wasnt that a set piece too?

mike65

Oh the awards are being handed out Gold Stars all round.

GK of the year is Petr Cech (booo-urns)

Mike.

LuckyLloyd

Which thread is better? Should we have a vote? :pac:

darkskol

just start already!!!

zAbbo

Someone give the live updates on whats happening

Tusky

Just started. I'll update as they are drawn.



Group A

Chelsea
Roma
Bordeaux
Cluj

Group B

Inter Milan
Werder Breman
Anorthosis
Panathinaikos

Group C

Barcelona
Sporting Lisbon
FC Basel
Shaktar Denesk

Group D

Liverpool
PSV Eindhoven
Marseille
A.Madrid

Group E

Manchester United
Villarreal
Celtic
Aalborg

Group F

Lyon
Bayern Munich
Steaua Bucharest
Fiorintina

Group G

Arsenal
Porto
Fenerbahce
D.Kiev

Group H

Real Madrid
Juventus
Zenit
Bate

whatawaster

why do certain teams only have 3 possible groups to go into? This makes no sense

delija_sever029

Is this Tevez?:D

zAbbo

whatawaster wrote: »

why do certain teams only have 3 possible groups to go into? This makes no sense

Cunty protection

Smegball

Ferdinand to win defender surely!

darkskol

And club defender of the year is.........terry

whatawaster

zAbbo wrote: »

Cunty protection

but Lyon were only able to go into 4 out of 6 available groups and there are no other French teams. They are making this up as they go along

delija_sever029

Terry...oh come on....

Tusky

John Terry. What the feck.

Chong

ABSOLUTE COK JOHN TERRY MY HOLE!!!

LuckyLloyd

Was always going to be Terry to be fair.

Mr.Nice Guy

John Terry? Sympathy vote.

Bobalicious93

lol they do realise United were the best team in the CL last year don't they? why are they giving all of the awards to Chelski?

Smegball

Terry! Duble-u tee efff!!!!
Slip up by UEFA surely :P

Chong

So sitting on the pitch bawling your eyes out like a girl wins you a sympathy vote for Defender of the year.

delija_sever029

They probably agreed to give him some trophey to make him stop crying....