2011-12 UEFA CL: Chelsea are European Champions

USA · Post #141 » by **USA** » Thu Aug 25, 2011 4:41 pm

Barca and Milan should sail thru.

Group A looks the toughest.

Madrid always seem to draw Lyon.

Post #142 » by **5DOM** » Thu Aug 25, 2011 4:42 pm

Bayern
City

Inter
Lille

United
Benfica

Madrid
Lyon

Chelsea
Leverkusen

Dortmund
Arsenal

Porto
Shakhtar

Barca
Milan

Post #143 » by **Slava** » Thu Aug 25, 2011 4:44 pm

Only downer is we could play City in the first knock out stage or do they draw across A-D vs E-H for knock out rounds?

Post #144 » by **5DOM** » Thu Aug 25, 2011 4:45 pm

Pretty sure clubs from the same country can't face each other until after the first KO round.

Foye · Post #145 » by **Foye** » Thu Aug 25, 2011 4:48 pm

Munich's group is pretty hard. But it could've been worse. City is obviously a very strong opponent. Villareal and Napoli are opponents you've gotta beat if you want to come far in the Championsleague.

Dortmund got a pretty good group with Arsenal, Marseille and Olympiakos. Even finishing 1st isn't out of question.

Leverkusen's group is solid as well. Chelsea is good, Valencia beatable and Genk should be beatable as well.

Ill · Post #146 » by **Ill** » Thu Aug 25, 2011 4:51 pm

City's definitely going to be put to the test here. I'm okay with Chelsea's draw.

Post #147 » by **magik9113** » Thu Aug 25, 2011 5:13 pm

City
Bayern

Inter
Lille

Man Utd
Benfica

Real
Lyon

Chelsae
Leverkusen

Arsenal
Dortmund

Porto
Zenit

Barca
Milan

MitchellUK · Post #148 » by **MitchellUK** » Thu Aug 25, 2011 5:19 pm

Man Utd got a comfortable draw. All the other English teams have tricky (at best) groups. When Genk, Dortmund and Napoli are your fourth seeds, you know you may be in for a tough time. Still think they should all advance, but I don't see Arsenal, City or Chelsea having the luxury of rotating their squads and playing fringe guys the way Man Utd should be able to.

Post #149 » by **5DOM** » Thu Aug 25, 2011 5:26 pm

City can rotate their squads. On paper, they can bench half their starters and still beat most semi-decent PL sides (or Villareal and Napoli).

Anyway this is how much Porto has to travel

and United will be playing at

lol

edit: their game will actually most likely be played at a UEFA-certified stadium in the capital

Point forward · Post #150 » by **Point forward** » Thu Aug 25, 2011 8:04 pm

There are no "easy" groups anymore. Remember this?

JUST scraped through... only to get drubbed by your worst enemy :wink:

Don Draper · Post #151 » by **Don Draper** » Thu Aug 25, 2011 9:43 pm

And of course United and Barca get the easiest draws...

I actually think think City will roll over their group.

Post #152 » by **LittleOzzy** » Fri Aug 26, 2011 8:42 pm

Foye · Post #153 » by **Foye** » Sun Sep 4, 2011 6:05 pm

Lol Chelsea can't nominate Lukaku for their CL-squad because they don't have 5 home-grown players otherwise. You pay 20 mil. for a player and then you can't even use him in the CL. Haha, I gotta laugh so hard.

Sucks for Lukaku, though.

Post #154 » by **LittleOzzy** » Tue Sep 13, 2011 1:31 am

First match day of the group stage is coming up on the 13th and 14th.

EdMar_Davis · Post #155 » by **EdMar_Davis** » Tue Sep 13, 2011 2:39 am

Don Draper wrote:And of course United and Barca get the easiest draws...

I actually think think City will roll over their group.

Isn't that always the case? Man U always has the easiest opponents.

I don't think City will roll over anything, Munich are on an even better streak than them and Ribery is on a mission this year. If Gomez keeps scoring those easy chances, City has no chance against them.

Post #156 » by **5DOM** » Tue Sep 13, 2011 3:02 am

Foye wrote:Lol Chelsea can't nominate Lukaku for their CL-squad because they don't have 5 home-grown players otherwise. You pay 20 mil. for a player and then you can't even use him in the CL. Haha, I gotta laugh so hard.

Sucks for Lukaku, though.

We have more than enough strikers available with Drogba, Torres, Anelka and Sturridge all able to play that position. Lukaku himself doesn't expect to play much this year. But what sucks is the exclusion of Bertrand who's the only natural LB we have other than Cole. If Cole gets injured, it's Ferreira at LB....

AdamTheGreek · Post #157 » by **AdamTheGreek** » Tue Sep 13, 2011 3:04 pm

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ImJ9FtrIH8[/youtube]
Going to be watching this on a stream and Arsenal-Dortmund at the same time. Our group will be very interesting.

IronChef · Post #158 » by **IronChef** » Tue Sep 13, 2011 3:20 pm

EdMar_Davis wrote:
Don Draper wrote:And of course United and Barca get the easiest draws...

I actually think think City will roll over their group.

Isn't that always the case? Man U always has the easiest opponents.

I don't think City will roll over anything, Munich are on an even better streak than them and Ribery is on a mission this year. If Gomez keeps scoring those easy chances, City has no chance against them.

City has no chance? They're easily the favourites in that group, imo. They won't roll over Munich, but they're a better team, and will most likely win.

IronChef · Post #159 » by **IronChef** » Tue Sep 13, 2011 3:42 pm

Arsenals hardest group stage fixture today away at Dortmund. Ramsey and Rosicky both out, but Song and Gervinho both back. Wenger still banned. Hopefully get a result, but it's a tough game. I guess we're looking at a Song-Frimpong-Arteta midfield, with Benayoun the only real option off the bench. Coquelin didn't travel with the team, so hopefully Song and Frimpong can refrain from being red carded today.

J-Mezzy · Post #160 » by **J-Mezzy** » Tue Sep 13, 2011 6:12 pm

any good streams to watch some champions league games today?