Today was the draw for the Group Stage. Group A Internazionale Werder Bremen Tottenham Twente Group B Lyon Benfica Schalke 04 Hapoel Tel Aviv Group C Manchester United Valencia Rangers Bursaspor Group D Barcelona Panathinaikos Copenhagen Rubin Kazan
Group E Bayern Munich Roma Basel CFR Cluj Group F Chelsea Marseille Spartak Moscow Žilina Group G AC Milan Real Madrid Ajax Auxerre Group H Arsenal Shakhtar Donetsk Braga Partizan First matchday is September 14-15. So what do you guys think? Who will make it out of the groups? Any surprises?
Inter and Tottenham in group A Lyon and Benfica in B United and Rangers in C Barca and Kazan in D Bayern and Roma in E Chelsea and Marseille in F Madrid and Milan in G Arsenal and Braga in H
I'd go with that except I think it will be Man Utd and Valancia from Group C and Arsenal and Shakhtar from Group H. As much as I want Tottenham to go through with Inter, they will do well to finish ahead of Werder Bremen.
Group B is full of mediocre teams. Absolutely looking forward to Group G ripper games! Happy with United's draw, not fussed by Valencia to be honest. Good to see a Serbian team in there, tough draw for them.
Group A : Internazionale and Werder Bremen Group B : Lyon and Benfica Group C : Man U and Valencia Group D : Barcelona and Rubin Kazan Group E : Bayern Munich and Roma Group F : Chelsea and Marseille Group G : AC Milan and Real Madrid Group H : Arsenal and Partizan I am not too familiar with all the teams, so some of these are just guesses really, like Partizan(?). After hearing the line ups for Barcelona, Internazionale and Real Madrid, I almost want to say these will be the teams to beat for this league. I am well excited for this league!!
Partizan are the champions of Serbia (as much as I hate to say it since I support Red Star Belgrade, the rivals of Partizan) I really hope they do well for the sake of Serbian football. But I don't see Partizan advancing to be honest, their main thing will be to finish second and I can see Shakhtar doing that with Arsenal taking first. But then again, Arsenal tends to choke.
Looking at the group Partizan have a good chance in going through to the knock out stages. Arsenal are the main threat for top of that table
