Champions League draw

[Craig_H]

Should have started this thread a couple of days ago, it was obvious we'd be in it

Anyway, it's at the odd time of 4:30pm tomorrow, rather than the usual 11:30am but here's the lineups.

POT A
Manchester United
Chelsea
Arsenal
LIVERPOOL
Internazionale
Real Madrid
Barcelona
Olympique Lyonnais

POT B
Bayern Munchen
PSV Eindhoven
Villarreal CF
AS Roma
FC Porto
Werder Bremen
Sporting Lisbon
Juventus

POT C
Zenit St Petersburg
Steaua Bucharest
Panathinaikos
Girondins de Bordeaux
Celtic
FC Basle
Fenerbahce
Olympique de Marseille

POT D
Shakhtar Donetsk
ACF Fiorentina
Club Atletico de Madrid
Dynamo Kiev
CFR Cluj
Aalborg Boldspilklub
Anorthosis Famagusta FC
BATE Borisov



Some real ****ters in pot D, whoever ends up with Atletico Madrid or Fiorentina are unlucky. Would rather avoid Juventus, Villarreal and Bayern Munich from Pot A and Zenit & Fenerbahce from Pot C

Best scenario:
LFC
PSV
Basle
Cluj

Worst:
LFC
Bayern Munich
Zenit
Atletico Madrid

[Bari]

Bring on Atletico & Aguero. Bring on the worst group. I've not yet seen those big clubs play at Anfield, most of the rest I have.

I thought the draws on Friday?

[Craig_H]

I'd only want Atletico if the Anfield experience leads El Kun to decide he wants to come to Liverpool

[Bari]

I'd only want Atletico if the Anfield experience leads El Kun to decide he wants to come to Liverpool

[MrMichael]

PSV from pot B please, though anyone apart from Bayern or Juve would be ok.

From Pot C I'd just want us to avoid Zenit, wouldn't mind getting Celtic actually - at least the travelling wouldn't be too bad and those games would have real atmosphere.

Pot D's a crazily mixed bag, any group which ends up with Athletico, Fiorentina or even Kiev in could be pretty hard, while the rest are properly random. ManU are bound to get someone like Famagusta

[Icon]

You have to beat the best to win the CL - bring on whoever!

[ronanm]

Would like Bayern - we have not played them in years!

[Nicey]

Champions Lg Draw

This is how the 32 teams have been divided for the draw:

Pot 1

Manchester United FC (ENG, holders)
Chelsea FC (ENG)
Liverpool FC (ENG)
FC Barcelona (ESP)
Arsenal FC (ENG)
Olympique Lyonnais (FRA)
FC Internazionale Milano (ITA)
Real Madrid CF (ESP)

Pot 2

FC Bayern München (GER)
PSV Eindhoven (NED)
Villarreal CF (ESP)
AS Roma (ITA)
FC Porto (POR)
Werder Bremen (GER)
Sporting Clube de Portugal (POR)
Juventus (ITA)

Pot 3

Olympique de Marseille (FRA)
FC Zenit St. Petersburg (RUS)
FC Steaua BucureÅŸti (ROU)
Panathinaikos FC (GRE)
FC Girondins de Bordeaux (FRA)
Celtic FC (SCO)
FC Basel 1893 (SUI)
Fenerbahçe SK (TUR)

Pot 4

FC Shakhtar Donetsk (UKR)
ACF Fiorentina (ITA)
Club Atlético de Madrid (ESP)
FC Dynamo Kyiv (UKR)
CFR 1907 Cluj (ROU)
Aalborg BK (DEN)
Anorthosis Famagusta FC (CYP)
FC BATE Borisov (BLR)

They will be paired with one side from each of pots two, three and four when the draw takes place in Monaco's Grimaldi Forum from 5pm UK time this evening.

What draw would you like to see ?

[Nicey]

Ideal

Liverpool FC
AS Roma
FC Steaua Bucurea
Anorthosis Famagusta FC

Nightmare

Liverpool FC
FC Bayern München
Olympique de Marseille
Club Atlético de Madrid

Still I think teams will be looking to avoid us more than we them

[jakle]

My guess is :-

Liverpool
Bayern Munich
Bordeaux
Athletico Madrid.

Pot 4 has a few no names in it which will most likely be grouped with Man Utd, Chelsea, Madrid and Inter.

[Nicey]

Jesus lets hope not

[Reece]

I'd take Porto, Basel (we owe them) and FC BATE Borisov.

[Darkon]

Bayern Roma and Juve are teams to avoid in the draw, besides them we have the quality to go through as a certain nr. 1 in the group...

Hopefully we will avoid them, and not get fiorentina or atl mad. from the 4th seeding, as they are the though teams to beat.

[JohnDoe]

Very unbalanced pots.

Can really go either way. We could get a piss easy draw or a very tough one.

Pot 2 are all good teams, but Bayern and Juventus I'd like to avoid. PSV and Bremen are the weakest of the lot.

Pot 3 is tricky. You've got Zenit, Marseille and Fenerbahçe who are all tough and then you've got Steaua and Basel which should be much easier.

But Pot 4 is the worst. You either get a no mark team, or Atletico/Fiorentina/Shakhtar/Dinamo, who are better than some teams on Pot 2.

[jakle]

We seem to perform better in this comp when the matches are harder so i stick by my earlier group guess.