Champions League Draw

If you have more of a life than we do and you weren’t watching the Champions League draw on your computer as it happened, than you can re-live the magical hour that was by reading Deadly Musings’ liveblog of the event.

As thrilling as watching names being drawn out of a bin can be, we are actually quite excited by the Champions League draw this year. For the third straight year we get to see Chelsea and Barcelona meet up in the group stages and we think that this will finally be the year where Jose Mourinho loses it and strangles Frank Rijkaard. Unfortunately, everybody’s most favorite wonderful loveable team from Bulgaria, Levski Sofia, is also in that group so the team we would actually want to win has no shot in hell of advancing to the knockout round.

There are, of course, some other intriguing matchups. Manchester United and Celtic are both paired together with Benefica likely to send one of them home early. Liverpool gets stuck with PSV Eindhoven and the always tricky team from Turkey, Galatasaray. AC Milan gets a relatively easy group that should help the Italian club pad its depleted bank account some more. And Real Madrid’s glamour boys should have tons of fun visiting Bucharest and Kiev in the winter.

Here’s how the groups shape up:

Group A: Barcelona, Chelsea, Werder Bremen, Levski Sofia
Group B: Inter, Bayern Munich, Sporting Lisbon, Spartak Moscow
Group C: Liverpool, PSV, Bordeaux, Galatasaray
Group D: Valencia, Roma, Olympiakos, Shakhtar Donetsk
Group E: Real Madrid, Lyon, Steaua Bucharest, Dynamo Kiev
Group F: Manchester United, Celtic, Benfica, FC Kobenhavn
Group G: Arsenal, Porto, CSKA Moscow, Hamburg SV
Group H: Milan, Lille, AEK Athens, Anderlecht

Go ahead. Live on the edge and predict the winner of each group. We’re going with:

Group A: Barcelona
Group B: Inter
Group C: PSV Eindhoven
Group D: Valencia
Group E: Real Madrid
Group F: Benefica
Group G: Arsenal
Group H: Milan

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