Villarreal, Celtic and Aalborg BK are the other teams that make up our Champions League group, giving us a great away day north of the border again.
Villarreal – 2nd seed
Giuseppe Rossi and former Gooner, Pascal Cygan, are members of the Villarreal team we are set to face. Their highest scorer last season was Turkish forward, Nihat Kahveci, with 18 goals, Rossi coming in second with 11.
They failed to make it past the group stages last season, finishing 2nd in the league behind Real Madrid and ahead of Barcelona.
Celtic – 3rd seed
Celtic beat us in our last meeting, following a superb freekick from Shunsuke Nakamura. Louis Saha had the opportunity to level the score with a last minute penalty, but failed. United’s qualification to the next round suddenly became a lot more murky, with Celtic guaranteeing their place that evening.
Celtic manager, former red Gordan Strachan, won the league with them last season, finishing 3 points ahead of Rangers, and reached the group stages of the Champions League.
Aalborg BK – 4th seed
AaB are the current Danish champions, finishing ahead of FC Midtjylland (the team that beat City in the recent UEFA Cup qualifier).
They also featured in Spurs’ group in last season’s UEFA Cup and after going in 2-0 up at half time, lost 3-2 to the London club.
The other groups are:
Group A
Chelsea, Roma, Bordeaux, CFR Cluj
Group B
Inter Milan, Werder Bremen, Panathanaikos, Anorthosis Famagusta
Group C
Barcelona, Sporting Lisbon, Basel, Shaktar Donetsk
Group D
Liverpool, PSV Eindhoven, Marseille, Atletico Madrid
Group F
Lyon, Bayern Munich, Steaua Bucharest, Fiorentina
Group G
Arsenal, FC Porto, Fenerbahce, Dynamo Kiev
Group H
Real Madrid, Juventus, Zenit St Petersburg, FC BATE Borisov.
Group H should be fairly tasty!
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very insightful look at Aalborg
Celtic as ever will turn it on a home and it depends on their away form how this group will pan out
when do we travel to spain ?
Could’ve had an easier draw (like Chelsea) but I think we should still top this one comfortably.
Groups H and F look interesting. Arsenal and Chelsea get their yearly free passes on to the next rounds. We have good reason to be cautious in our away fixtures, but I don’t think Villareal are the team they were two or three seasons ago.
wow the dippers are gonna be in for a rough ride! and after needing ET to qualify proper…i can’t wait =))
fuck…we got away trips to arsenal n citeh preceded by away trips to celtic and villareal respectively
tre,
i wouldn’t say arsenal has it in the bag. porto and fenerbahce can give them a run for their money.
I’m dying 2see liverfools ñ arsenalz do in there groupz.lol
Celtic and villareal will be v tough away games.
We should win the group but we will drop points
fuckin dips scrape thorugh then get an easy group….as for the rent boys…..is that group a free pass from uefa…..fucking rigged ala those joke awards there team got