UCL Draw Thread

[Hutcho 8,443]

Who remembers what happened last time Chelsea made it out of the group stage?? :eyebrows:

Yeah. When we get out of the group stages it means we mean business. If we are not feeling it we won't qualify and just win europa lol.

[Hutcho 8,443]

Us juve and dortmund would be a bit of big one.

But easy as possible. Get through then let the games begin (queue bane youtube clip)...

[Jype 6,398]

Could we be in danger of dropping down to pot 2 if we have another poor CL campaign? lets be honest 11/12 aside we haven't done anything of any note in the CL since Hiddink was around.

Not really. Our coefficient is third highest after Barcelona and Bayern so even if we finished last in our group and got the minimum amount of points available we'd still have a coefficient of around 120 minimum and at the moment a score like that would still get us comfortably in the top 6. Finishing third in the group and going a long way in the Europa League can actually be better for the coefficient than say reaching the QFs or even the Semis in the Champions League. For example we got 30 points for last season's European campaign while Benfica, the other CL drop-out and EL finalist, got 28 points but teams like Barcelona and Real Madrid only got around 27-29 points for getting knocked out in the CL Semi-finals.

[We Hate Scouse 10,326]

This use to be my favourite time of year. Waiting for the draws to come out whilst sitting on flight comparison websites and book nice and cheap ASAP. Hope we get Ajax and some stinking Eastern European team for the fans

[Manuf 1,448]

This use to be my favourite time of year. Waiting for the draws to come out whilst sitting on flight comparison websites and book nice and cheap ASAP. Hope we get Ajax and some stinking Eastern European team for the fans

oh mate, if legia won that tie and got to group stages, and somehow they drew Chelsea that would make me life as i'm going to college to our capitol in September so I could get on the same sector with you bloody islanders.

[Kojo 4,676]

Last season everyone was complaining about boring groups, then everyone was excited that we got Juve and Shaktar last season.

Look how that turned out.

I'm hoping for the easiest group possible so we can focus on other competitions aswell.

[ulsterchelsea 3,221]

l dont fancy our chances but never know.

[bushman 2,043]

Personally, CL to me means the highest club competition in the world. The cream of the crop plays here.

Therefore, I always watch Chelsea or other top teams if possible.

No matter whom Chelsea play against this year, they must come out of their respective group.

The way I see it, to reach semifinal stage for Chelsea would be a success, I feel.

Currently, there are a bit stronger teams in CL than Chelsea. Hopefully, Chelsea will do well & I will see some exciting games.

[NishC300 1,865]

Hope we get a completely crap group so we qualify early and get a chance to play our youngsters.

[CHOULO19 24,332]

Anything but Juve again, please!

[meetdoscar 335]

I think guardiola has weakened bayerns effectiveness by playing with only one DM instead of two like jupp heynckes used to play. For me this is the advantage we have because our attacking trio will always cause problems for any team playing one DM especially. I think our chances look better now than under heynckes considering their DM is either bastian or thiago who are not really DM's

[Sovieticus 743]

Anything but Juve again, please!

Shakhtar !