2007/08 UEFA CL Draw

Originally Posted by Tony29.

Unless Milan gets Valencia or Sevilla, you'll 100% win the first place in your group. Even if you get one of the 2 Spanish teams you'll still be favorites for the first place, but they may make your life harder.

You'll certainly qualify, no matter who you get, but since you're my rivals in serie A i'd like you to have a harder job in CL and i wish you get Valencia and one of the Germans from pot 3

i am praying for sevilla in our group. The stronger the teams in the group, the better. AC Milan always struggle against those smaller teams. And sevilla play nice footie so its going to be one heck of a game.

Originally Posted by almilan

Think the logical thing would be to classify both Seville & AEK as second seeds as in such tragic circumstances exceptions should and I think will be made.

As predicted Seville & AEK both 2nd seeds. Taken from http://www.uefa.com/competitions/ucl...id=576667.html


07/08 UEFA Champions League
Group stage draw - 18.00CET, Thursday
POT 1
Team Pairing
AC Milan (ITA, holders) A
FC Barcelona (ESP) B
Liverpool FC (ENG) C
FC Internazionale Milano (ITA) A
Arsenal FC (ENG) D
Real Madrid CF (ESP) B
Chelsea FC (ENG) D
Manchester United FC (ENG) C




POT 2
Team Pairing
Valencia CF (ESP) E
Olympique Lyonnais (FRA) F
FC Porto (POR)
Sevilla FC (ESP) / AEK Athens FC (GRE) E/M
PSV Eindhoven (NED)
AS Roma (ITA) G
SL Benfica (POR) H
Werder Bremen (GER) I




POT 3
Team Pairing
Celtic FC (SCO) J
FC Schalke 04 (GER)
VfB Stuttgart (GER) I
FC Steaua Bucureşti (ROU)
PFC CSKA Moskva (RUS)
Sporting Clube de Portugal (POR) H
S.S. Lazio (ITA) G
Olympique de Marseille (FRA) F




POT 4
Team Pairing
Rangers FC (SCO) J
FC Shakhtar Donetsk (UKR) K
Beşiktaş JK (TUR) L
Olympiacos CFP (GRE) M
FC Dynamo Kyiv (UKR) K
Fenerbahçe SK (TUR) L
SK Slavia Praha (CZE)
Rosenborg BK (NOR)



Easiest group in my opinion

Milan
PSV
Marseille
Rosenborg



Toughest group

Milan
Valencia
CSKA Moskva
Shakhtar Donetsk

For me it would be Sevilla, Schalke & Fenerbahce as the toughest group to get.
Easiest would be AEK, Steau, & Rosenborg

I wouldn't mind facing Benfica. I saw them against FC Copenhagen yesterday and they didn't impress. Copenhagen managed to produce 5 really big opportunities in the 1st half but failed to benefit from them.

In my humble opinion, several clubs from #3 are much better than Benfica.

I hope we end up with a tough group because its going to make us pull our socks up.

Yep this is it, that's our group

Originally Posted by slicknick

I'm wishing for


AC Milan
Werder Bremen
Steaua
Rosenborg...

Whoever, whoever...

We are aiming for a title again, we shouldnt worry who will we play!
others should be praying not to get Milan.

The easiest group it would be with Benfica, Steaua, Rangers

but i think we will be drawn with
Porto, Sttutgart/Schalke, Besiktas/Fener

Milan, Porto, Schalke, Glasqow Rangers a prediction


But i think the easiest is Slavia Prague and Olympiakos

Originally Posted by Tony29.

Unless Milan gets Valencia or Sevilla, you'll 100% win the first place in your group. Even if you get one of the 2 Spanish teams you'll still be favorites for the first place, but they may make your life harder.

You'll certainly qualify, no matter who you get, but since you're my rivals in serie A i'd like you to have a harder job in CL and i wish you get Valencia and one of the Germans from pot 3

Sorry Tony but even the toughest is not enough fpr Milan . We will pass first....

Slavia Prague eliminated Ajax in the 3rd Q round so i'm not sure that it will be so easy to play against them
Better to play against Steaua
2 easy wins... sure thing

Originally Posted by sorenpind

I wouldn't mind facing Benfica. I saw them against FC Copenhagen yesterday and they didn't impress. Copenhagen managed to produce 5 really big opportunities in the 1st half but failed to benefit from them.

In my humble opinion, several clubs from #3 are much better than Benfica.

Yes, Benfica are far from the team they were in the last 2 years. They lost their best player Simao and also Anderson (the CD, not the one from ManU) and Karagounis are not with them anymore. On the other hand they brought far too many new players and it will take them some time before they start producing good results.
But they are still a technical team and Milan is usually struggling against the technical teams that hold possession.

Nevertheless, they are much better choice than most of the teams in pot2

Lyon did lose Tiago, Abidal, Alou Diarra, Cacapa and Malouda, they lost Cris due injury and they certainly won't be the power from last year but they are still the best French team and they've added the Lille duo (Keita-Bodmer) that made problems to Milan last year.
Juninho, Kallstrom, Baros, Fred, Benzema, Reveillere, Govou, Grosso, Ben Arfa etc... Lyon is still a very good team and imo, stronger than Benfica

Valencia and Sevilla are well known.
Valencia are strong in every position and they have CL experience which imo makes them the strongest team in pot 2 :
Canizares or Hildebrand at the goal, Albiol, Marchena, Alexis, Helguera, Miguel in defense, Albelda, Vicente, Baraja, Joaquin, Silva, Angulo in midfield, David Villa, Morientes, Zigic in attack ..... very strong team.
It will look so natural if they find themselves in the group with their old friends Inter...and beat them twice

You know Sevilla and you'll meet them tomorrow, i won't talk about them.

Porto ..... they look a bit weaker than last year. They lost Anderson (Manchester United), Pepe (Real Madrid), Vitor Baia retired and their regular from the last years, Ricardo Costa went to Werder.
They brought a bunch of young and talented players, some of whom will certianly make their name known in the following years, but we'll have to wait and see how will it work for them this year.
Helder Postiga, Ricardo Quaresma and Lucho Gonzalez are the stars of this team.

Roma can not be in the same group with Milan

PSV Eindhoven
They did make a lot of problems to Milan in the past but i doubt this team of PSV can be a problem this year.
Cocu left the team and they still have some famous football players (Kone, Farfan, Perez, Simons, Kromkamp) but i don't see them as a threat to Milan

Werder Bremen
Without Frings and Borowski they struggle a lot. I don't know when they will be back but i think they are expected to be ready from October.
It's still a respectable team, with Diego, Naldo, Carlos Alberto, Pasanen, Baumann, Owomoyela, Rosenberg, Mertesacker etc.

Our group

Milan,
PSV,
Celtic,
Fenerbache

That would be a funny coincedence!

The draw will be live on Eurosport

Milan
Valencia CF FC
Schalke 04 \ VfB Stuttgart
Fenerbahçe SK
I would love to c Milan in a group like this tough and strong