It's at noon EDT. Anybody have a list of teams in each of the 4 pots? I'm guessing the top seeds would be Barca, Liverpool, Man Utd, Sevilla, Bayern, Arsenal, Milan, Chelsea. Which means the following are non-#1 seeds you really want to avoid: Real Madrid, Inter Milan, Juventus and Atletico Madrid.
Pot 1 Barcelona, Liverpool, Arsenal, Man Utd, Chelsea, AC Milan, Sevilla, Bayern Munich Pot 2 Lyon, Inter, Real M., CSKA Moscow, Porto, AZ Alkmaar, Juventus, Rangers Pot 3 Olympiakos Piraeus, Marseille, Dinamo Kiev, Stuttgart, Fiorentina, Atlentico Madrid, Bordeaux, Besiktas Pot 4 Wolfsburg, Standard Liege, Maccabi Haifa, FC Zurich, Rubin Kazan, Unirea Urziceni, APOEL Nicosia, Debrecen
hmmm... Potential group of death: Chelsea Inter Milan/Juventus Atletico Madrid Wolfsburg Potential weakest group: Sevilla Glasgow Rangers Beşiktaş Unirea Urziceni
I agree with you in the potential group of death but i would make a change in the potential weakest group putting AC Milan, cause I believe that Sevilla is better than Milan without Kaka, Ancelotti etc
Here is my mock draw. Group A Barcelona AZ Marseille APOEL Group B Sevilla Inter Bordeaux FC Zurich Group C Manchester United Juventus Atletico Madrid Maccabi Haifa Group D AC Milan Rangers Stuttgart Debrecan Group E Chelsea CSKA Moscow Olympiacos Standard Liege Group F Bayern Munich FC Porto Fiorentina Ruben Kazan Group G Arsenal Lyon Besiktas Unirea Urziceni Group H Liverpool Real Madrid Dynamo Kyiv Wolfsburg
No one answered the topic creators question.. What time Eastern is the draw, so I wake up at night knowing rather than just waking up for sh1ts and giggles.
Thanks guys. think it might be on setanta here in canada as well. i'll be watching online anyways.. i'll be rooting for maccabi haifa as well as liverpool..
For those who dont have TV-access... here's gamecast type coverage: http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/football/multiplex/31483.html
You can watch it on UEFA.com, but their servers suck badly...it's hardly watchable with all the lag and buffering going on... Anyway, I think Wolfsburg is by far the strongest team in pot 4, so they have a good chance of being in a group of death.
If Wolfsburg get drawn in either D or F, that will make for an interesting group. G and H look the weakest so far with 3 pots completed.
Group F seems to be the hardest one if you ask me. Rubin might be an unknown, but Russian teams are never easy to beat, especially at home.
Yes Group F is the group of death. What an excellent draw it was! . Eto'o vs Barca, Zlatan vs. Inter and Kaka vs Milan. It's gonna be a fantastic season.
PREDICTIONS Group A 1. Juventus 2. Bayern Munich 3. Bordeaux 4. Maccabi Haifa Group B 1. Manchester United 2. Wolfsburg 3. CSKA Moscow 4. Besiktas Group C 1. Real Madrid 2. AC Milan 3. Marseille 4. FC Zurich Group D 1. Chelsea 2. Atletico Madrid 3. FC Porto 4. APOEL Group E 1. Lyon 2. Liverpool 3. Fiorentina 4. Debrecan Group F 1. Barcelona 2. Inter Milan 3. Dynamo Kiev 4. Ruben Kazan Group G 1. Sevilla 2. Rangers 3. Stuttgart 4. Unirea Group H 1. Arsenal 2. Olympiacos 3. AZ Alkmaar 4. Standard Liege