Champions League 2013/14

Messi's suit is certainly an improvement on the bizarre polka dot mess he wore at the FIFA World Player Awards ceremony last year.

Man U and Chelsea's groups are progressable, but probably not as easy as they look. Celtic will probably finish last, Arsenal face a struggle and Man City could go either-way, though it'd be a bit much if they repeated last year's antics.

Shola

18 years ago

7 years ago

2,708

29 Aug 2013 17:25:03

Arsenal's group looks excellently balanced on paper.

Interesting regarding Manchester United. They are the best team in he group, but Leverkusen and Real Sociedad will be very dangerous if they play to their potential.

Jonas

20 years ago

6 years ago

1,380

29 Aug 2013 17:50:15

By om4ever | On 29 August 2013 - 18:53 PM

Bullshit, they don't get easier draws than ManU or Arsenal.

Ahh, okay... maybe not back in 2007-2008 then, when we held you guys to a draw at Stamford Bridge and got Mourinho sacked.

om4ever

19 years ago

10 years ago

213

29 Aug 2013 17:58:40

If that's your team's greatest achievement in the competition, it's kinda sad.

VP.

15 years ago

4 weeks ago

25,280

29 Aug 2013 18:15:50

By om4ever | On 29 August 2013 - 18:58 PM

If that's your team's greatest achievement in the competition, it's kinda sad.

Well unlike you he only has one team to choose from. Though back in the days when Chelsea could only dream of being in such a competition Rosenborg were quite a side in Europe.

Jonas

20 years ago

6 years ago

1,380

29 Aug 2013 18:23:32

^ What VP said.

There was a time when Chelsea played the likes of Norwegian sides such as Tromsø, Vålerenga and Viking, whilst we were playing Champions League football picking up wins against sides like AC Milan, Real Madrid, Borussia Dortmund etc.

Leaf

18 years ago

1 year ago

21

29 Aug 2013 18:30:40

If Steaua buys a good striker they can get the second place.

BR.

19 years ago

4 years ago

1,896

29 Aug 2013 19:05:40

Milan-Barcelona again, even I'm bored of that by now! God knows how they both feel.

City surely won't mess this one up - expect them to finish 2nd. United and Chelsea both should be fine and I'd expect both to finish top, although United will have to be careful in a couple of their games as Shola said.

Arsenal must have thought they'd got lucky when Marseille came out from pot 2 but it couldn't have been any worse from pots 3 and 4. Will be tough but wouldn't write them off.

.verse

14 years ago

2 years ago

871

30 Aug 2013 00:38:03

NIce to see a good draw for Chelsea for a change. Not so keen on Juve's one though, should snag second place however it will be tough.

Poe

20 years ago

1 week ago

3,676

30 Aug 2013 00:56:31

I think Arsenal will progress.

Wes Brown

20 years ago

5 months ago

1,101

31 Aug 2013 13:05:07

By Furia Ceca | On 30 August 2013 - 01:38 AM

NIce to see a good draw for Chelsea for a change. Not so keen on Juve's one though, should snag second place however it will be tough.

Last years was semi difficult but you should've got out of a group with Juve, Shakhtar and Nordsjaelland.

Before that you've had Leverkusen, Valencia and Genk and the year before that Marseille, Spartak Moscow and Zilina...

Telegram Sam

18 years ago

8 months ago

5,083

31 Aug 2013 14:03:17

By Poe | On 30 August 2013 - 01:56 AM

I think Arsenal will progress.

I'm not too fussed either way if I'm honest. If we dropped down into the Europa League we might actually be in with a shout of winning it. We haven't a chance in the Champions League and progressing just to get knocked out in the last sixteen isn't particularly fun.

Eric Portapotty

17 years ago

6 months ago

3,327

Premium

31 Aug 2013 15:17:00

By Telegram Sam | On 31 August 2013 - 22:03 PM

I'm not too fussed either way if I'm honest. If we dropped down into the Europa League we might actually be in with a shout of winning it. We haven't a chance in the Champions League and progressing just to get knocked out in the last sixteen isn't particularly fun.

I'd prefer we didn't really, there's a reason why Italian clubs don't give a shit about the Europa League, apart from it being the poor man's Champions League.

Considering our squad it'd be a tad too much to expect them to realistically challenge on so many fronts, and it could derail our chase for the CL places.