With the preliminary knockout round done tonight, the 32 teams that will participate in the competition are known (except for Sevilla/AEK, a game that was postponed due to Puerta's death). Here are the seeds for tomorrow's draw at Monaco:
1st seeds:
AC Milan (Ita)
Barcelona (Esp)
Liverpool (Ing)
Inter Milão (Ita)
Arsenal (Ing)
Real Madrid (Esp)
Manchester United (Ing)
Chelsea (Ing)
2nd seeds:
Valência (Esp)
Lyon (Fra)
FC Porto (POR)
Sevilha (Esp) ou AEK Atenas (Gre)
PSV Eindhoven (Hol)
AS Roma (Ita)
Benfica (POR)
Werder Bremen (Ale)
It would be fine with me, as long as we swapped places with Benfica :p
chesco
I just watched the celtic vs spartak moscow game there
What a match, one of the best I've seen in years. Had everything you could wish from a game of football.
Can't wait for the european matches to come back to glasgow - they brighten up what otherwise would be such a dull season.
Hoping to get a draw similar to last year which by all accounts was fairly easy. I'll be booking up for one of the away games anyway (hoping our pot 1 team is real madrid).
Out of all the other teams i'd be stoked with
Inter milan
PSV
Celtic
Besiktas
Intuition
It's my favourite time of the year!
The Darklord
quote:
Group F
Real Madrid
Benfica
Steaua
Olympiakos
I wouldn't mind much if we indeed got into a group like this... That Benfica-Real would generate a hell of an income. Plus, we could manage to survive 'till the 2nd stage ;)
sleepydragon
GROUP A:
Liverpool (England)
Porto (Portugal)
Olympique Marseille (France)
Besiktas (Turkey)
GROUP B:
Chelsea (England)
Valencia (Spain)
Schalke 04 (Germany)
Rosenborg (Norway)
GROUP C:
Real Madrid (Spain)
Werder Bremen (Germany)
Lazio (Italy)
Olympiakos (Greece)
GROUP D:
AC Milan (Italy)
Benfica (Portugal)
Celtic (Scotland)
Shakhtar Donetsk (Ukraine)
GROUP E:
Barcelona (Spain)
Olympique Lyon (France)
VfB Stuttgart (Germany)
Rangers (Scotland)
GROUP F:
Manchester United (England)
AS Roma (Italy)
Sporting Lisbon (Portugal)
Dynamo Kiev (Ukraine)
GROUP G:
Inter Milan (Italy)
PSV Eindhoven (Netherlands)
CSKA Moscow (Russia)
Fenerbahce (Turkey)
GROUP H:
Arsenal (England)
Sevilla (Spain) or AEK Athens (Greece)
Steaua Bucharest (Romania)
Slavia Prague (Czech Republic)
Ian
I would really cream myself if Valencia & Schalke knocked Chelskum out.
chesco
This draw in sucks.
Yet again we play ac milan. thats three competitions in a row we've faced them now. The other two teams are both teams we've faced before as well. I wanted somewhere new to go to, as it is I think I'll just dingy the away trips as I've already been to milan twice and i've no interest in going to the ukraine or lisbon.
Shaktar is definately one of the teams I wanted to avoid from pot 4, I think they've spent something like €40 million this transfer window which embarrases us by a long way.
I reckon we could take maximum points from our home ties, but it's always on the road that celtic struggle.
King Ecnal
Arsenal got super lucky, WTF!?!?!...
would LOVE to see them not make it out of the group stages...
nchs09
quote:
Originally posted by Intuition
It's my favourite time of the year!
yes a agreat time of the year, i hate that ing song though. perhaps because i have been hearing it since foreverrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
The Darklord
quote:
Originally posted by chesco
Shaktar is definately one of the teams I wanted to avoid from pot 4, I think they've spent something like €40 million this transfer window which embarrases us by a long way.
Same here. Meh... let's see if we can manage to even get to the UEFA Cup slot.
Intuition
quote:
Originally posted by nchs09
yes a agreat time of the year, i hate that ing song though. perhaps because i have been hearing it since foreverrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Pshhh, you have to learn to love it. I still get goosebumps every time I hear it before a game is about to start.
P.S. SUPERCOPA TONIGHT!
noikeee
GROUP A:
Liverpool (England)
Porto (Portugal)
Olympique Marseille (France)
Besiktas (Turkey)
Okay group for us, Liverpool is out of our league and should win the group, Marseille has some good players but appears to be playing poor right now, and Besiktas was one of the best picks from the last pot. However all of these 3 teams have absolutely mental fans, which could make our away trips very hard. I predict that we'll go through but with lots of difficulties.
GROUP B:
Chelsea (England)
Valencia (Spain)
Schalke 04 (Germany)
Rosenborg (Norway)
Rosenborg is gonna get raped 6 times, lol. Schalke is under-rated but I don't think they can handle Chelsea, maybe they can put a challenge to Valencia but I doubt it.
GROUP C:
Real Madrid (Spain)
Werder Bremen (Germany)
Lazio (Italy)
Olympiakos (Greece)
Average group, Real should go through without problems, Bremen would be slight favourites IMO vs Lazio who are only now starting to recover from several years. I don't know how good Olympiakos are nowadays, most likely absolutely useless away from home.
GROUP D:
AC Milan (Italy)
Benfica (Portugal)
Celtic (Scotland)
Shakhtar Donetsk (Ukraine)
Interesting one, Benfica wasn't exactly lucky but they still have a good chance to qualify. Milan are the favs but any of these could surprise, I can see a tight battle for 2nd place coming up.
GROUP E:
Barcelona (Spain)
Olympique Lyon (France)
VfB Stuttgart (Germany)
Rangers (Scotland)
This might just be the strongest group, while Barça and Lyon are by far the biggest names (considering their success of the last couple years), Stuttgart are the current german champions, I could see them take Lyon by surprise. Rangers fans are probably crying in a corner right now, but they're not an useless team.
GROUP F:
Manchester United (England)
AS Roma (Italy)
Sporting Lisbon (Portugal)
Dynamo Kiev (Ukraine)
Haha, Sporting was massively unlucky here. Man Utd will go through no matter what, Roma should do as well, and they surely want to revenge the 7-1 thrashing of last year. Dinamo Kiev aren't at all what they've used to be, Sporting are favourites to take the UEFA Cup spot.
GROUP G:
Inter Milan (Italy)
PSV Eindhoven (Netherlands)
CSKA Moscow (Russia)
Fenerbahce (Turkey)
I can smell a super Fenerbahçe coming from nowhere and surprising everyone. Inter might be out of their league, but they should be able to annoy PSV, despite the very good recent record of PSV in the Champions League. CSKA aren't bad.
GROUP H:
Arsenal (England)
Sevilla (Spain) or AEK Athens (Greece)
Steaua Bucharest (Romania)
Slavia Prague (Czech Republic)
Steaua and Slavia? LOL! Assuming Sevilla will knock AEK out (which is very very likely), this group is decided from the beggining, except for a natural catastrophe.
