[Irvin_007]

The draw is today at 17.00UK Time:

Pot 1

FC Barcelona (CAMPIONS!!)
Liverpool
Chelsea
ManUtd
AC Milano
Arsenal
Sevilla
Bayern Munich

Pot 2

Lyon
Inter Milano
Real Madrid
CSKA Moscow
FC Porto
AZ Alkmaar
Juventus
Rangers

Pot 3

Olympiakos
Marsellie
Dinamo Kiev
VfB Stuttgart
Fiorentina
Atletico Madrid
Bordeaux
Besiktas

Pot 4

VfL Wolfsburg
Standard Liege
Maccabi Hafia
FC Zurich
Rubin Kazan
Unirea Urziceni
APOEL Nicosia
Debrecen


wow ... so many teams I've never seen before.

[Irvin_007]

we've drawn Inter and Kiev ... Madrid is in the same group as AC Milano ... Bayern and Juve together ... the English teams with an easy pass so far.

[zakhaev]

game against inter will be very interesting, i think chelsea have by far got the worst group.

[Impeh!]

eto

[yusuf423]

wtf is with arsenal always gettting and easy ass draw.

barca vs eto will be siccccc but our draw sucks cause of the traveling to russia and ukraine

if madrid can beat milan

seville will easily qualify from their group

[LaFuriaBlaugrana]

This s*it is so rigged. Anyway it's not a hard draw, Madrid on the other hand got a pretty deadly group...same with Fiorentina.

[Irvin_007]

the groups are as follows:

Group A

Bayern Munich
Juventus
Bordeaux
Maccabi Haifa

Group B

Manchester United
CSKA Moskow
Besiktas
VfL Wolfsburg

Group C

AC Milan
Real Madrid
Marseille
FC Zurich

Group D

Chelsea
FC Porto
Atletico Madrid
APOEL

Group E

Liverpool
Lyon
Fiorentina
Debreceni

Group F

FC Barcelona
Inter Milan
Dynamo Kiev
FC Rubin Kazan

Group G

FC Sevilla
Rangers
VfB Stuttgart
Unirea Urziceni

Group H

Arsenal
AZ Alkmaar
Olympiakos
Standard Liege

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breakdown: we get to play Mourinho and Inter twice, and travel to Kiew and Kazan (which is in the Russian province of Tatarstan) during the tail end of fall/middle of winter ... fucking great.

no one said that our title defense would be easy, but the bar has been set for us with RMadrid's massive outlay and this very tough CL draw.

[Irvin_007]

16 Sep -- Internazionale v FCB
29 Sep -- FCB v Dynamo Kiev
20 Oct -- FCB v Rubin Kazan
04 Nov -- Rubin Kazan v FCB
24 Nov -- FCB v Internazionale
09 Dec -- Dynamo Kiev v FCB


OMG ... November in Russia, December in Kiev ... lovely. hopefully we can have the group wrapped up by that Dec trip.

[chucka]

Going to be freezing for our guys lol

Also for me Liverpool have a HARD group with both Lyon and Fiorentina, also Chelsea have a bit of a hard group

But seriusly Man U's group, i mean c'mon.

[JAMAIN]

What a draw!!!

BARCA VS. INTER

Ibra vs. Eto is going to be phenomenal. Put your money where your mouth is then. Oh man, I can't wait. This match up is from the heavans.
Interesting to see the respect and appluase both these guys get in the San Siro and the Nou Camp. Who will score and who will have the greatest influence on the outcome. Its going to be fantastic.

Pep vs. Mourinho is also going to be an awesome sub-plot. Guardiola is the true 'special one' now with the treble in his first year.
I wonder what Mourinho's opinion on him is. I wonder if Mourinho's continued obsession with Barca will continue. I wonder if Pep will get down and dirty with him. The mind games is going to be fun to watch.

Alves vs. Maicon is also another intriguing match up - there are variables everywhere in this.

ps. Milan vs. Madrid

I am not going to shy away from cheering Ronaldinho at the Bernabue.
Remember who called you ugly?
I hope he scores a hat-trik and shoves another football in Perez's galacticco face.

[Cal-FCB]

Very interesting. Although the Inter ganes should be intriguing I still fancy us to get through them comfortably given Inter's dreadful form in Europe. Also the rest of our group is fairly poor so hoprefully we'll have a minimum of 6 points from our first 3 games, if not more. Some brilliant other groups, like Chelsea's, Liverpool's and Milan's. Can't wait though, should provide some awesome games.