Champions League Draw

[Craig_H]

The confirmed lineup:

Pot 1

Barcelona (ESP)
Liverpool (ENG)
Chelsea (ENG)
Manchester United (ENG)
AC Milan (ITA)
Arsenal (ENG)
Sevilla (ESP)
Bayern Munich (GER)

Pot 2

Olympique Lyon (FRA)
Internazionale (ITA)
Real Madrid (ESP)
CSKA Moscow (RUS)
FC Porto (POR)
AZ Alkmaar (NED)
Juventus (ITA)
Glasgow Rangers (SCO)

Pot 3

Olympiakos (GRE)
Olympique Marseille (FRA)
Dinamo Kiev (UKR)
VfB Stuttgart (GER)
Fiorentina (ITA)
Atletico Madrid (ESP)
Girondins Bordeaux (FRA)
Besiktas (TUR)

Pot 4

VfL Wolfsburg (GER)
Standard Liege (BEL)
Maccabi Haifa (ISR)
FC Zurich (SUI)
Rubin Kazan (RUS)
Unirea Urziceni (ROM)
APOEL (CYP)
Debrecen (HUN)

How Rangers are in pot 2, i'll never know

Ideal draw would be something like this:

Liverpool
Rangers
Bordeaux
FC Zurich (slightly easier away trip than Cyprus)

Worst:
Liverpool
Real Madrid
Fiorentina
Wolfsburg/Liege

[Liverpel]

Pot 1 Club Coefficent
1 FC Barcelona (ESP, holders) 121.853
2 Chelsea FC (ENG) 118.899
3 Liverpool FC (ENG) 118.899
4 Manchester United FC (ENG) 111.899
5 AC Milan (ITA) 110.996
6 Arsenal FC (ENG) 106.899
7 Sevilla FC (ESP) 100.853
8 FC Bayern München (GER) 98.339

Pot 2 Club Coefficent
9 Olympique Lyonnais (FRA) 91.033
10 FC Internazionale Milano (ITA) 87.582
11 Real Madrid CF (ESP) 78.853
12 PFC CSKA Moskva (RUS) 71.525
13 FC Porto (POR) 68.292
14 AZ Alkmaar (NED) 64.826
15 Juventus (ITA) 63.582
16 Rangers FC (SCO) 56.575

Pot 3 Club Coefficent
17 Olympiacos FC (GRE) 52.633
18 Olympique de Marseille (FRA) 48.033
19 FC Dynamo Kyiv (UKR) 46.370
20 VfB Stuttgart (GER) 45.339
21 ACF Fiorentina (ITA) 42.582
22 Club Atlético de Madrid (ESP) 41.853
23 FC Girondins de Bordeaux (FRA) 40.033
24 Beşiktaş JK (TUR) 32.445

Pot 4 Club Coefficent
25 VfL Wolfsburg (GER) 21.339
26 R. Standard de Liège (BEL) 21.065
27 Maccabi Haifa FC (ISR) 17.050
28 FC Zürich (SUI) 14.050
29 FC Rubin Kazan (RUS) 9.525
30 AFC Unirea Urziceni (ROU) 8.781
31 APOEL FC (CYP) 4.016
32 Debreceni VSC (HUN) 1.633

[Craig_H]

I appreciate a well-executed, artistic dive. Hats off Eduardo.

[Marky]

I appreciate a well-executed, artistic dive. Hats off Eduardo.

You probably didnt watch the match anyway, being bored with football and all that.

[Craig_H]

You probably didnt watch the match anyway, being bored with football and all that.

Didnt you not wanna leave your 'bird' and were only popping on for a sec...about an hour ago?

[Ben_Itez]

Ideal draw would be something like this:

Liverpool
Rangers
Bordeaux
FC Zurich (slightly easier away trip than Cyprus)

Worst:
Liverpool
Real Madrid
Fiorentina
Wolfsburg/Liege

You just know the Mancs will get the ideal draw and we'll get something like the worst.

Cant believe Rangers are in Pot 2 either....just goes to show if you take the UEFA cup seriously it can really help you if you get into the CL, look at Sevilla.

[Baracus]

I'd take this one

Liverpool
Rangers or AZ A
Bordeaux or Besiktas
Anyone other then the Russian and German Team

Give the Mancs

R. Madrid
O'M
Wolfsburg

[Nicey]

Just realised Real aren't even in the 1st pot.

I reckon for the 1st time in a long time, we'll get an easy group, and Utd will get a tough one, with the likes of Real or Inter in there group.

Dont count on it

[Finnish_Red]

Eduardo is a horrible cheating ****.

I always thought he was a class player.

He's now officially a grade A gob****e.

Chances of Wenger seeing the dive: next to zero.

Wenger

[Shaggy]

Haha what a total cock you are, Wenger...

"I do not want a penalty which is not a penalty, but I do not go as far to say Eduardo dived," said Wenger.

"From outside I must say it looked a penalty, but having seen it again on television, it doesn't look to be a penalty.

"But I must still say that we were likely always to score the first goal because Eduardo had a great chance before the penalty and we always looked in control of the game.

"I believe really that it was not a penalty but I am also not sure that the keeper didn't touch him with his right knee, having seen it again.

"He went down, for what reason I do not know. But I do not think he would have complained if the penalty was not given.

"Is it acceptable? I never asked in my life any guy to dive to win a penalty but sometimes the players go down because there is no other way to escape the tackling of the keeper. Sometimes they dive."

Wenger recalled the painful Champions League defeat against Liverpool in 2008 when he said: "We got a penalty two years ago in the quarter-final of the Champions League at Liverpool that made the difference when Ryan Babel dived, nobody ever apologised to us, it was a blatant dive and nobody spoke about it."

[MrsB]

He went down, for what reason I do not know.

[cadmium]

i think we'll get Real

[the rev leeroy brown]

i think we'll get Real

i HOPE we get real.

[Craig_H]

I dont want Real. They'll be pretty good this year. And done the Bernabeu last season.

Bring on Inter, i wanna go to the San Siro.

[red g]

lets break with tradition and get an easy draw.........you know Scum will draw rangers though dont want them travelling to far.