The Champions League group
stage draw in Monaco yesterday put several clubs facing difficult task,
some resume their rivalries again and others were rewarded with weaker
opponents until the knock-out rounds. Perhaps Manchester United, Chelsea and
PSG were lucky to have weaker clubs in their groups or no bigger club names in
Europe. And here’s the full grouping of the 32 clubs divided into eight groups
of four.
GROUP A: Manchester United,
Shakhtar Donetsk, Bayer Leverkusen, Real Sociedad
GROUP B: Real Madrid, Juventus, Galatasaray, FC Copenhagen
GROUP C: Benfica, Paris
Saint-Germain, Olympiacos, Anderlecht
GROUP D: Bayern Munich, CSKA
Moscow, Manchester City, Viktoria Plzen
GROUP E: Chelsea, Schalke, FC
Basel, Steaua Bucharest
GROUP F: Arsenal, Marseille,
Borussia Dortmund, Napoli
GROUP G: Porto, Atletico Madrid,
Zenit Saint Petersburg, Austria Vienna
GROUP H: Barcelona, AC Milan, Ajax, Celtic
Manchester City has avoided and
escaped another “group of death” year and probably this time under Pellegrini
they will finally reach beyond the knockout stage. While the nine-time European
champion Real Madrid has been paired with Serie A current champions Juventus.
Then Barca, Milan and Celtic have resumed their rivalries in an intriguing
group and ManU, Chelsea and perhaps PSG too are lucky enough to have a weaker
side clubs in their respective groups. And the worst group who faces a
difficult task ahead is Arsenal who joined with last season’s finalist Dortmund
and the strengthened Italian side Napoli.
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