Champions League Group Stages Announced.

By: The Offside | August 26th, 2010

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Your 2010/11 UEFA Champions League groups are …

Group A: Inter, Werder Bremen, Tottenham Hotspur, FC Twente

Group B: Lyon, Benfica, Schalke, Hapoel Tel Aviv

Group C: Manchester United, Valencia, Rangers, Bursaspor

Group D: Barcelona, Panathinaikos, Copenhagen, FC Rubin Kazan

Group E: Bayern Munich, Roma, FC Basel, CFR Cluj

Group F: Chelsea, Marseille, Spartak Moscow, MSK Zilina

Group G: AC Milan, Real Madrid, Ajax, Auxerre

Group H: Arsenal, Shakhtar Donetsk, SC Braga, FK Partizan

Or, if you prefer it in visual style…

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A cursory view tells that Groups A & G are the most difficult from a depth perspective, with the latter inspiring thousands of glory days YouTube compilations from the moment of Ajax’s draw (20 titles between the three). There don’t appear to be any high-profile returns, unless you count Eduardo returning to Arsenal with Shakhtar and Kaka returning to Milan once again. Seems UEFA really dropped the ball on the narratives here today.

It all seems to be a normal, mundane tournament drawing. How dare they?

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Kboss

Mourinho to Milan is a semi-return, as is Drogba to Marseille. Interestingly, Bremen's Ronaldo/Balotelli-style douchebag Marko Arnautovic has also played for Twente and Inter, all in Group A...
Martin

Huntelaar's return to Ajax and Madrid is somewhat high-profile as well. He should try to engineer a transfer to Auxerre and just make Group G a six-match testimonial round.
OffsideSarah

Milan and Real Madrid get "group of death" 2 years in a row.Though,should be entertaining after their matches last year..
OffsideSarah

And another French team gets dragged in along with them! How does the EPL keep escaping this?
Matteo [ASR]

As usual, EPL teams get the 'easiest' draws... And Barcelona has it easy as well.