Champions League Draw
A very good draw as far as Portuguese clubs are concerned! It was quite nice seeing Porto in as a first seed. Shakhtar Donetsk and Zenit are both tricky teams and the away leg must suck travel wise but knock on wood Porto should still be in a good spot to claim one of the top two places in the group. Benfica as usual is the case faces up with Manchester United but the good news is the fact that Basel and Otelul Galati round up the group. Benfica should be head and shoulders above those two. Both Man United and Benfica should be happy with that group.
Bring grouped third it was a safe guess to say Manchester City was going to be in the group of death. Should be some interesting battles between Bayern Munich, Villaareal, Manchester City and Napoli.
Group A:
Bayern Munich, Villarreal, Manchester City, Napoli
Group B:
Inter Milan, CSKA Moscow, Lille, Trabzonspor
Group C:
Manchester United, Benfica, Basel, Otelul Galati
Group D:
Real Madrid, Lyon, Ajax, Dinamo Zagreb
Group E:
Chelsea, Valencia, Bayer Leverkusen, Genk
Group F:
Arsenal, Marseille, Olympiakos, Borussia Dortmund
Group G:
Porto, Shakhtar Donetsk, Zenit St Petersburg, APOEL Nicosia
Group H:
Barcelona, AC Milan, BATE Borisov, Viktoria Plzen