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"Champions League Draw"

Real Madrid v Juventus
Porto v Internazionale
Barcelona v Chelsea
Werder Bremen v Lyon
Liverpool v Bayer Leverkusen
PSV Eindhoven v Monaco
Manchester United v Milan
Bayern Munich v Arsenal


Some great ties in there, especially Chelski V Barcelona.

Yet, United's reserves beat Arsenals reserves quite comprehensively in the Carling Cup.

The beauty about football is that noone has the right to win, they have to earn it and any given team can win on the night depending on their hunger and desire to beat the opposing team.

Betcha Chelsea's or Arsenal's reserve team could've taken Fenerbache.

And Liverpool's, of course. Who can contend with the might of David Raven and Zak Whitbread at the back, with the surging runs of Darren Potter from midfield and the trickery of Stevie Warnock down the left?

Not Spurs, anyway.

Lol Lakers. Just cos United are going out. :D

AfroJoe wrote:
> Yeah, of course Lyon are a poor team... but I'm interested, what does
> that make Man United seeing as they finished below Lyon in the
> groups?


It makes them a team who fielded a reserve team in the last match which meant we finished below Lyon. Now hush.

Vampyr wrote:
> as a united and inter fan, i am pleased, especially if milan keep up
> their poor form

Ahahahahahahha what?

Milan are on poor form?
That's why they beat Fiorentina 6-0 and are 2nd in the Serie A?

You are joking, right?

Réal, eh?

Excellent.

lalakersrule wrote:
> Werder Bremen v Lyon
> Liverpool v Bayer Leverkusen
> PSV Eindhoven v Monaco
>
> 3 poor teams will be going through into the next round

Yeah, of course Lyon are a poor team... but I'm interested, what does that make Man United seeing as they finished below Lyon in the groups?

Plus Monaco are last year's Champions League finalists, Leverkusen didn't lose to Real Madrid in both matches, and Werder Bremen are the current Bundesliga champions. All are strong sides.

No team in this draw is poor, and although those matches aren't of as high quality as the likes of Chelsea-Barcelona and Real Madrid-Juventus, they're still going to see good teams progress.


Plus, Juve will take Real. Easily.

AbsoluT Neó wrote:
horses.

I just hope van Nistelrooy is back soon!

looks as though rooney will be the only fit striker this weekend!

Ah United v Milan, unknown territory for both teams

it'll be interesting....

but hey bring it on.

Anyone would have been a tough tie in this round so it doesn't really matter. It might actually be better getting one of the bigger teams than one of the dark horses.

or†ega wrote:

> What poor form? They are undefeated in 12 league games, and have only
> lost 2 games all season in all comps!

united way to rationalise losses in advance