A quick glance at the eight Champions League groups indicate that three were won by German clubs, indicating the strength of the Bundesliga at the moment, but although Shalke topped their group ahead of Arsenal, they are toiling in seventh place domestically and sacked manager, Hubb Stevens, this week. Bayern Munich are nine points clear at the top with Borussia Dortmund third.
Shalke would be an excellent draw.
Paris Saint-Germain were flooded with cash this year and despite a slow start are no top of Ligue 1. We met their manager, Carlo Ancelotti at the same stage of the tournament six years ago when Gordon Strachan took Milan to extra time. We came close to progressing and perhaps would have had the referee awarded Celtic a late penalty for handball. Milan got the breaks against Celtic and went on to win the tournament.
Ancelotti knows he would face a stiff test if drawn against Celtic.
Juventus are Italian champions and sei seven points clear at the top of Serie A. They eliminated the tournament holders in the last round and are a formidable opponent.
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Malaga are fourth in La Liga behind Barca, Atletico and Real Madrid. They are clearly not in the class of Barcelona but any team within five points of Real in that league are clearly formidable. Malaga breezed their Champions League group but a draw against un-fancied Celtic might present them with a few interesting challenges.
Manchester United are top of the English league and hot favourites to retain the title. Games against English opposition tend to be hyped by the UK media but for fans lack the sophistication of a ‘foreign’ opponent. They would present a difficult challenge without the sense of adventure others would provide.
Shalke or Malaga would be ideal but Paris in the springtime would be nice.
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shakhtar v dortmund
Bummer. No trip to Turin – they are scumbags.
Bring on Juventus!
Juve, formidable opposition but they were mouthing off they wanted us, so lets see how that pans out.
bring it on
HH
Happy with Juve.
Good record against the Italians.
Shaktar vs Dortmund
PLEASE LET MAN U GET REAL
Wemberley wemberley
We’re the famous glasgow Celtic and we’re going to wemberley
well we got a 50/50 chance
come on you bhoys in green
jam67
We took four off them last time!!!
cv
milan v barca
Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire
10:41 on 20 December, 2012
kevj,
aye yer right
who do you fancy in the draw and why
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Cheers m8.
I fancy B.Dortmund.
I think that they’ll get a false sense of security if they get us.
Neil can do what MO’N and WGS did when these big guns came to CP and make the players feel – 10 feet tall.
It’s the CP factor which will swing it our way I think.
Also…the NFL learning-curve away from home seems to be almost complete now when you look at the performances of his young team in last seasons – Europa Lg and the Spartak Moscow away and of course, the performance in the Nou Camp.
But, I still think we should look to get it on with ANYONE without fear.
Only saying.
Hail Hail
bye bye Arsenal. I wonder if ITV will tweet that?
Stay safe and together if you are going to Juve
Real v Man U
Manure v real
Real v Man U
good
Good draw……..cannot wait….!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YA DANCER
Get that roon you Taggart
real v man u
is the draw identical to the practice draw yesterday
Could be within Starry’s pocket money that trip…
valencia v psg
Fabulous draw. We owe Juventus one
Bye bye to Arsenal + Man Utd
Why did AC Milan have to play Barca?
Why could they not get Man U or PSG?
Bye Bye EPL teams
Diddy league team in with a shout
We got Juve in the mock up last night as well. At less it’s been a few years since we last played them.
malaga v porto
In the eufa dry run yesterday we got Juve and arsenal got bayern, it almost looks like a fix, surely not.
Just when we thought we wouldn’t be playing a team with a string of financial irregularities this season……
Craiginho
We’ve beat them before and we’ll beat them again CSC
Who have Man City and Chelsea drawn?
kevj..,
aye yea know better :oD))))
who do you fancy in the quareters:o)
Need to dash, but a very intersesting draw.
if we get past Juve, it is not unrealistic to beat PSG/Valencia/Arsenal/Shaktar…
BELIEVE KTF
setting free the bears
10:50 on
20 December, 2012
Why did AC Milan have to play Barca?
Why could they not get Man U or PSG?
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Because they weren’t runners up
Great to be in it,NL on SS News soon.
Sftb, ignore that.
Do we fancy Schalke or Galatasaray in qtrs ???
Call me a dreamer but it could possible that we could be the last team from Britain in the quarter finals if we beat Juventus and Arsenal & Man U get knocked out, which is a real possibility with that draw…Dear Santa..make it so!
HH
Bring on February
all 8 ties exactly the same as yesterday’s rehearsal
fix?
Galatasaray v Schalke
Celtic v Juventus
Arsenal v Bayern Munich
Shakhtar Donetsk v Borussia Dortmund
AC Milan v Barcelona
Real Madrid v Manchester United
Valencia v Paris St Germain
Porto v Malaga