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"Champion's League Draw"

GROUP A

1. Bayern Munich
2. Juventus
3. Club Bruges
4. Rapid Vienna

GROUP B

1. Arsenal
2. Ajax
3. Sparta Prague
4. FC Thun

GROUP C

1. Barcelona
2. Panathinaikos
3. Werder Bremen
4. Udinese

GROUP D

1. Man United
2. Villareal
3. Lille
4. Benfica

GROUP E

1. AC Milan
2. PSV Eindhoven
3. Schalke
4. Fenerbache

GROUP F

1. Real Madrid
2. Lyon
3. Olympiakos
4. Rosenbourg

GROUP G

1. Liverpool
2. Chelsea
3. Anderlecht
4. Real Betis

GROUP H

1. Inter Milan
2. Porto
3. Rangers
4. Bratislavia

"GOOD LUCK!!!" is, sadly, the best wishes I feel I can send any Rangers fans out there, but I've just noticed that, along with Liverpool-Chelsea, Milan and PSV - the other two semi-finalists from last year - have been drawn in their own group also!

Time to start scratching...

Surprise, surprise - here comes Diego Forlan to kick us in the teeth! :P

;)

Group G's gonna be a real cracker though, right from week one. Once again, I'm a little sceptical of the 'draws' here, but only really in this group - after all Liverpool went through to get here and all. I understand they were exempt from same-country rulings also.

Then again, I haven't seen much to note from Anderlecht or Real Betis in recent seasons, so we could see both sides going through.

I'd really LOVE to see Arsenal struggle though. Ajax haven't been bad in the qualifiers while Sparta Prague are always up for these big games - as they were against us a while back. :D

Gattuso was also fixing his boot at one point.

Anyway: [URL]http://skysports.planetfootball.com/transfernews.asp?type=article&id=301747[/URL]

Look at the Betis coach. His head is abnormally large and shiny. It's bound to be a chest of football knowledge...

Tactic 1: Use Joaquin
Tactic 2: Hope they foul Joaquin and use Assuncao for a free-kick
Tactci 3: Use Joaquin

You also missed in the build up to Liverpool's second goal against Milan the ball was played in the box and the lino raised his flag for offside only for the ref not to see it, Milan cleared the ball and Pool scored straight from it

Yep, what munn said. No chance Liverpool will win again unless they...attack....

But that's not in the bumper book of Rafa-football. He's a football eskimo. 100's of words for 'defence' but not one for attack.

Dringo wrote:
> Liverpool were not "lucky" last year, Benitez, as useless as
> he "can" be, is brilliant in Europe.

Yeah, "weren't lucky"

Del Piero had a goal wrongly chopped off for offside.
Luis Garcia didn't actualy SCORE agaisnt Chelsea.
Shevchenko had a goal wrongly chopped off for offside.

"Weren't lucky" indeed.

My predictions:

Group A: Bayern and Jve
Group B: Arsenal and Ajax
Group C: Barca and Werder Bremen
Group D: Man Utd and Villareal
Group E: AC Milan and PSV
Group F: Real and Lyon
Group G: Chelsea and Liverpool
Group H: Inter and Porto

down wrote:
> It's a fix!
>
> Rangers vs Artmedia.
>
> What a joke

I knew it was going to happen before the draw even started.
I could feel it in my bones.

My Predictions

Group A - Bayern + Juve
Group B - Arsenal + Ajax
Group C - Barca + Panathinaikos
Group D - Man United + Villareal
Group E - Milan + Schalke 04
Group F - Madrid + Olympiakos
Group G - Money Bags + Betis
Group H - Inter + Porto


Winners of whole thing - Man United after Parky takes a 4 week hiatus in the mountains of Korea and channels the art of Shoalin Soccer taking us to victory.

He's not "brilliant", his "tactical" strategy is to "defend" for 180 minutes and hope for a "lucky" goal.

He'll do it even more this time, because he knows Reina is good at saving penalties. Yep, I'm going to go ahead and say it, if we get through he'll play for penalties.