Group A: Porto, Dynamo Kiev, Paris St Germain, Dinamo Zagreb. Group B: Arsenal, Schalke, Olympiakos, Montpellier. Group C: AC Milan, Zenit St Petersburg, Anderlecht, Malaga. Group D: Real Madrid, Manchester City, Ajax, Borussia Dortmund. Group E: Chelsea, Shakhtar Donetsk, Juventus, FC Nordsjaelland. Group F: Bayern Munich, Valencia, Lille, BATE Borisov. Group G: Barcelona, Benfica, Spartak Moscow, Celtic. Group H: Manchester United, Braga, Galatasaray, CFR Cluj.
What an easy group for you lot! Galatasary away the only troublesome game imo. We should qalify with Juve but ours isn't that easy with Shakhtar in our group.... Poor Citeh!
I think Chelsea will make it through, with Juve being our only real competition for top spot. Man Utd and Arsenal should steamroll their groups. City......LOL
Our group's not as easy as it looks imo. All long trips for the away games, and none of the opponents likely to lie down and die. Braga and Galatasaray away are always tough, so we'll have to be solid at home to be safe. Arsenal look to have the easiest group, whilst City and Chelsea will both have to be at their best to progress. Juve's coefficient has been artificially deflated by Calciopoli and they are probably the toughest of the third seeds, with Shaktar having a decent record in recent years. Real will top City's group, and they should get second with Dortmund weaker this season, but it could be a very tight battle for second place in that group, like City vs Napoli was last year.
I'm not sure Dortmund are that much weaker to be honest, Kagawa will definitely be a big loss for them but Reus is an excellent replacement, the only other notable loss is Barrios and he's been a bit part player since Lewandowski forced his way into the starting lineup. They were poor last season in Europe but I'm sure they won't be that bad again, I wish we had tried to get a few more of their players to be honest, Bender and Hummels would of been nice, maybe even Subotic.
