Didn't see that happening, i mean i cant remember the last time we drew one of the favourites and/or a team who ended up in the final... I heard uefa are going to change the rules and be done with it so we can have all the top teams in our group each year! Still its nice to see Man U having a tough group again...
GROUP A Paris(FRA) Real Madrid(ESP) Shakhtar Donetsk(UKR) Malmö(SWE) GROUP B PSV(NED) please log in to view this image Man. United(ENG) CSKA Moskva(RUS) Wolfsburg(GER) GROUP C Benfica(POR) Atlético(ESP) Galatasaray(TUR) Astana(KAZ) GROUP D Juventus(ITA) please log in to view this image Man. City(ENG) Sevilla(ESP) Mönchengladbach(GER) GROUP E Barcelona(ESP) Leverkusen(GER) Roma(ITA) BATE(BLR) GROUP F Bayern(GER) please log in to view this image Arsenal(ENG) Olympiacos(GRE) Dinamo Zagreb(CRO) GROUP G please log in to view this image Chelsea(ENG) Porto(POR) Dynamo Kyiv(UKR) M. Tel-Aviv(ISR) GROUP H Zenit(RUS) Valencia(ESP) Lyon(FRA) Gent(BEL)
Looking at those groups and who's likely to finish 1st and 2nd, it's going to be very important to top the group.
What a **** draw, just playing two teams we have faced so many times over the past few years, boring as ****.
What about ****ing Olympiacos? We play those ****ers every other year and we always play the away tie in our final group game and no doubt we will send out our second team there and lose.
please log in to view this image Its even set up for us to play them away on the last game when qualification has been clinched FFS
Playing Munich back-back can make this group stage very tricky, because let's say we don't do so good in those 2 games, it makes our last 2 games, including the away game to Olympiakos, very very important. Basically, we need 6 points from our first 2 games. If we can get 7 from our first 3, then we can say we have one foot through the door into the next stage.
We should be beating Zagreb away, their essentially like a UCL playoff team, think we even beat them once in a UCL qualifier, and Olympiakos at home, well the same we should be beating them at home, as we usually do.
I dont think you need to worry about getting through to the knockouts. What you really need to do this time is top the group. It's a good point about those back to back games against Bayern. There is a plus point - if you come away with 4 pts from those, you'll have gone a long way achieve top spot.