Champions League 2016/17

[Liam_SWFC]

When's the draw?

Thursday evening, Celtic likely to go in as a 4th seed.

 

[Dirk]

Congratulations to Celtic for reaching the CL Group stages. But hey, this was close, hadn't thought they would get such problems against this side in the 2nd leg. Anyway no one talks about it later how close it was in the end, they've done it and that's all that counts. Celtic for sure in Pot4

 

[yellow]

Dundalk's goal last night was spectacular. Don't think there's a keeper in the world that would have saved it!

https://twitter.com/btsportfootball/status/768163934855626752

 

[Stevencc]

https://twitter.com/btsportfootball/status/768553151251226625

Hart handled that well.

I did like his "pigs do fly" comment, though.

 

[Christian Slater]

https://twitter.com/btsportfootball/status/768553151251226625

Hart handled that well.

I did like his "pigs do fly" comment, though.

Makes a change.

 

[JimJams]

Pots for 17.00 draw:

Pot 1: Real Madrid (ESP, holders), Barcelona (ESP), Leicester City (ENG), Bayern München (GER), Juventus (ITA), Benfica (POR), Paris Saint-Germain (FRA), CSKA Moskva (RUS)

Pot 2: Atlético Madrid (ESP), Borussia Dortmund (GER), Arsenal (ENG), Manchester City (ENG), Sevilla (ESP), Porto (POR), Napoli (ITA), Bayer Leverkusen (GER)

Pot 3: Basel (SUI), Tottenham Hotspur (ENG), Dynamo Kyiv (UKR), Lyon (FRA), PSV Eindhoven (NED), Sporting CP (POR), Club Brugge (BEL), Mönchengladbach (GER)

Pot 4: Celtic (SCO), Monaco (FRA), Beşiktaş (TUR), Legia Warszawa (POL), Dinamo Zagreb (CRO), Ludogorets Razgrad (BUL), København (DEN), Rostov (RUS)

 

[JimJams]

Would like to avoid Dortmund and Atletico and as a pot 4 side, Monaco and Besiktas. Other than that, piece of piss.

Ideally Sevilla or Leverkusen, PSV and Ludo.
But we'll get Madrid, Sporting and Monaco.

 

[Christian Slater]

Not much prestige in the competition this year.

 

[JimJams]

How dare thee.

 

[Stevencc]

So Manchester City are the biggest spenders in the whole competition this season and now they've got Pep - surely they've got to actually do something of note in Europe this time?

 

[Stevencc]

Rush fucked it right up!

 

[JimJams]

Group G for us. How exciting, couldn't have hoped for a better letter.

 

[JimJams]

God the exchanges are painful.

 

[JimJams]

Porto.

Happy.

 

[JimJams]

Pep v Barca

 

[Stevencc]

In before Silkyman cries "FIXED DRAW".

 

[epic73]

Group G looks easy, no world class teams in there except maybe Leicester.

 

[epic73]

British guy doing the groups (Lineker?) seems to be having a bit of trouble opening the balls.

 

[JimJams]

Rush - Welsh.

 

[Stevencc]

Well he's certainly not RUSHING to OPEN THESE BALLS.

He's making a mess of it.

 

[JimJams]

WHAT A GROUP!

Spurs will be buzzing too.

 

[epic73]

Rush - Welsh.

I'm not English, don't hate me.

 

[JimJams]

Epic - Probably Welsh

 

[JimJams]

Group B looks pretty open.

 

[epic73]

Epic - Probably Welsh

Not AberWales, so no.

 

[Libertadores FC]

While I'm happy with the group we got, it's definitely far from a "guaranteed" progression. While no world beaters, Benfica, Kyiv and Besiktas are not easy teams. If we had Celtic I would have had us going through but getting Besiktas at the end really has me in some doubts. I still expect us to go through but top of the group is there for the taking. Literally anyone can beat anyone in this group.

 

[epic73]

While I'm happy with the group we got, it's definitely far from a "guaranteed" progression. While no world beaters, Benfica, Kyiv and Besiktas are not easy teams. If we had Celtic I would have had us going through but getting Besiktas at the end really has me in some doubts. I still expect us to go through but top of the group is there for the taking. Literally anyone can beat anyone in this group.

You'll get through.

 

[silkyman]

Ouch.

Arsenal and Leicester have won the lottery there. Celtic might be a laugh and City beat MonkeyGladRags in both games last time. Barca? Piece of piss.

Ian Rush was like a three year old learning the alphabet... After fumbling the ball open he seemed really excited that he knew what the letter was.

 

[mistermagic]

Arsenal, Basel and Ludogorets for us. Piece of piss this. Will win 6 out of 6. Boring but at least we'll finish top.

Quite fancy going to Tottenham/Monaco or Brugge/Leicester if any of those are in November/December.

 

[Dirk]

British guy doing the groups (Lineker?) seems to be having a bit of trouble opening the balls.

Rush - Welsh.

He said british guy, so no fault but it shows clearly his young age not knowing legendary Reds goalscorer Ian Rush. It seemed Ian was a bit nervous. OK, he was famous for netting the ball not opening it

So, Bayern against Atletico again and Gladbach again in the same group as Man City. This is a cracker group and I think Gladbach will end up #3 a progress from last season. They are still new in the CL so this would be okay.

Leverkusen vs Tottenham, interesting.