Champions League - Group Draw

[Tooting Gull]

I'll never understand some people's attitude to the Champions League.

They get all angry that it is elitist and self-perpetuating, then when you do get some new teams involved like this season you hear 'it's a just bunch of no-hopers'. Make your minds up.

 

[John Boy]

Anyone know when/what time the Europa Cup draw is?

 

[ATFC Seagull]

Anyone know when/what time the Europa Cup draw is?

Tommorow at 1pm I believe, as the qualifiers are on tonight. Its the one that counts...

 

[Springal]

Sky Sports | Media | Video | Champions League Draw

for anyone that wants to watch it!

 

[The Large One]

What's wrong with one great big open draw, rather than this gerrymandered 'pot 1' bollocks?

 

[John Boy]

Tommorow at 1pm I believe, as the qualifiers are on tonight. Its the one that counts...

Was hoping it would be early afternoon

 

[sten_super]

What's wrong with one great big open draw, rather than this gerrymandered 'pot 1' bollocks?

But TLO, then there's a risk that the biggest team wouldn't make it through to the latter stages of the competition. We can't introduce any element of chance into this money making machine, don't be ridiculous!

 

[Simster]

I'll never understand some people's attitude to the Champions League.

They get all angry that it is elitist and self-perpetuating, then when you do get some new teams involved like this season you hear 'it's a just bunch of no-hopers'. Make your minds up.

That's not the issue I have with it. My issue is that the first round is dull. In every single group, we will be able to predict the top 2 qualifiers and the chances are that you won't get more than one qualifier wrong. Dull. The problem with this format is that the chance of an upset is reduced still further.

i.e. In a home/away one-off tie, some team from Albania gets a fluky equaliser away to a big team and they might only need a 0-0 at home to get through. Nowadays, they might just get that 0-0 but if they're well beaten as expected in all the other games, then they still won't qualify and that effort goes unrewarded.

 

[The Large One]

But TLO, then there's a risk that the biggest team wouldn't make it through to the latter stages of the competition. We can't introduce any element of chance into this money making machine, don't be ridiculous!

f*** 'em.

 

[Gully]

Man Utd and Rangers in the same group would be interesting...wonder if the southern leg of the fixture might be made home fans only...Rangers would probably be as welcome in Manchester as the proverbial pork chop at a barmitzvah!

 

[Smithy]

The draw is about to take place on SSN

 

[Basil Fawlty]

Liverpool are first drawn out.

 

[crodonilson]

The draw is about to take place on SSN

Or follow it here...

The Champions!!

 

[crodonilson]

Here come the 2nd seeds........

:yahoo:

 

[Garry Nelson's Left Foot]

English teams have been lucky so far. Avoided Real and Inter.

 

[ATFC Seagull]

Shouldn't all these players be training rather than on a jolly in Monaco?

 

[Gully]

The draw looks pretty friendly for Arsenal so far with AZ and Olympiakos.

 

[Cantona's Flying Dropkick]

Full Champions League Groups:
Group A: Bayern Munich, Juventus, Bordeaux, Maccabi Haifa
Group B: MANCHESTER UNITED, CSKA Moscow, Besiktas, Wolfsburg
Group C: AC Milan, Real Madrid, Marseille, FC Zurich
Group D: CHELSEA, FC Porto, Atletico Madrid, APOEL
Group E: LIVERPOOL, Lyon, Fiorentina, Debrecen
Group F: FC Barcelona, Inter Milan, Dinamo Kiev, FC Rubin Kazan
Group G: Sevilla, RANGERS, Stuttgart, Unirea
Group H: ARSENAL, AZ Alkmaar, Olympiakos, Standard


Liverpool, Man Utd & Arsenal all seem to have easy groups

 

[ATFC Seagull]

Full Champions League Groups:
Group A: Bayern Munich, Juventus, Bordeaux, Maccabi Haifa
Group B: MANCHESTER UNITED, CSKA Moscow, Besiktas, Wolfsburg
Group C: AC Milan, Real Madrid, Marseille, FC Zurich
Group D: CHELSEA, FC Porto, Atletico Madrid, APOEL
Group E: LIVERPOOL, Lyon, Fiorentina, Debrecen
Group F: FC Barcelona, Inter Milan, Dinamo Kiev, FC Rubin Kazan
Group G: Sevilla, RANGERS, Stuttgart, Unirea
Group H: ARSENAL, AZ Alkmaar, Olympiakos, Standard


Liverpool, Man Utd & Arsenal all seem to have easy groups

Not sure about Liverpool. Reckon Rangers have got as nice a group as they could have hoped for really.