Friday, November 22, 2024

Arsenal handed tough UCL draw

Arsenal have drawn Marseille, Borussia Dortmund and Napoli in Group F of the 2013/14 Champions League.

Arsenal’s coefficient, calculated by measuring a club’s results in Europe over the previous five seasons, saw us seeded sixth in pot one alongside holders Bayern Munich, Real Madrid, Inter Milan, Barcelona, Porto and English duo Manchester United and Chelsea.

It should in theory have given us a shot at an ‘easier’ group, but given the way things have panned out this summer it’s hardly surprising we’ve been lumbered with a daunting, albeit glamorous, round of fixtures which is basically that of 2011/12…but on steroids.

In fairness, given UEFA is run by that horrid verruca Platini, Arseblog News is actually surprised we didn’t get a draw in which we were forced to play Barcelona six times in a row.

Anyway, we digress…the tournament, which we’ve worked bloody hard to get into, begins on 17/18 September.

It’s worth reminding ourselves that Sp*rs aren’t in it.

Fixtures to follow…

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Nando's Chicken

Oh hi group of death. Come on in, have some tea, make yourself at home.

Remember the invincibles because we aren't good anymore

Napoli and Dortmund are going to hard matches. marseille should be easy enough. Reckon we’ll come through if we draw away and win at home

In theory that would work but when do we ever make life easy for ourselves?

goonerdal

Well……it’s that time of the year again isn’t it?

Who did 5pur2 get? muhahahaha!

hunter13

FUCK THE TOTTENHAM

otters for Wenger

We’re in the group with the other cool clubs … Bay of Naples … South of France … North Rhine-Westphalia …

Woo us.

brad

Holy fuck I’m excited to watch this season’s champions league. All of the team definitely are beatable and we have beaten them before as well, just a few signing and we are in.

clegooner

Something about your comment worries me. Can’t seem to put my finger on it…

New Guy

I wish I could like your comment 50 times. I laughed out loud.

leftpinky

the signing part? I hear Arteta coming back soon, LANS!

Buy None Get Two Free

I would have faith in the current squad to compete for the PL title, if that was all they were competing for. But it’s not! We’re supposed to be competing for multiple trophies and given these teams in our CL group this year, it’s probably going to go down to the last game meaning there will be no chance to rotate and rest our best players. “The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.” Has the Board and Wenger pulled a Keyser Soze on the fans and fooled us all into thinking there was… Read more »

bunga bunga

bet you feel a bit of a twat now eh

Dave

All the other teams in the group has best atmosphere in europe. Very exciting away travel.

Arsenal Rising

For fuck sake!!! You know if Higuain was french wenger would of signed him. I know he was born in france but he ain’t fully french. Yea sperms ain’t in it but they will be next year! And in our place!

goonerdal

wtf?

Gutbukkit Deffrolla

No taking it easy in the group stage this year. That could be good for us in the long run.

Why not

I hint sarcasm. But I welcome this group with open arms. This is the Champions league the prize pony of elite football. You want to compete and win it you have to beat teams like these across the competition.

Arsenal might benefit from having hard games to deal with early. Get their level up and keep it there. Acid Test for the competitive level of the Squad. We beat Munich at their place. So we can do it.

Time to get behind the team and see what happens

FransDude

we are doomed…

🙁

DoctorSatan

Fuck.

Micko

At least all the new signings will help…god help us!

Neil

Now I know one trophy that the Gunners definitely won’t be bringing home this season….. :’-(

ramsey_ox

like they do it every year. C’mon don’t fool yourself.

Juice

Relax… we have some exciting LANS coming in over next 2 months… Arteta, Podolski, Vermaelen, Ox..

If we can get one more average player for free we gonna have so many players by Christmass we can win them all.

Martin

Ugh.

Nick

Why? It’s not like we were gonna win the competetion… Atleast not this year with this weak squad (compared to wenger’s others…) So let’s shut up n enjoy some real football!

BTW we go through it fine then all people talkin Arsenal not a big club anymore will shut the fuck up! #COMEONYOUGUYS !! 😀

VCC

Tough but doable.

goonerdal

Arsene ” We will do it.. we will get into the knockout stages…i believe that will be like a trophy”

DoctorSatan

With this group, I’ll consider it a trophy.

docciavelli

Word is, Napoli joined Group F on a Free.

Vnet

I don’t know why.. but I want to like this more than once.

New Guy

No, that was us. Napoli was happy to pay the market rate.

Wozfe

Meanwhile, Chelsea have joined group E on a one-year deal for an undisclosed fee believed to be somewhere in the region of £20 million.

Arteta's perfect hair

OUCH!

Typical that higuain would play against us!

Sajit

The moment Arsene is going to regret Higuain.

Gutbukkit Deffrolla

Yeah, when he gets carried off after Flamini has welcomed him back to the Emirates Arsene will really regret not protecting poor Higuain from his sad fate.

THEEEO

Love it, will be some great games in there

Alan Sunderland's Afro

Love it, this is what the CL is all about. Both scared and excited at the same time.

Much better than playing Dynamo Ajzjsjeheryhfhd on a Thursday night.

AP

Whats with so many Dynamos all around. Any Carburetors as well?

trt

What’s with so many Uniteds all around?

Jagger

The players will also love it. A chance to show the world that Arsenal is still a juggernaut in Europe. A chance to dispel murmurings of Dortmund being miles ahead of us.

GHunner

To be the best you have to beat the best. COYG!!!

Casper

Right on. I don’t know why we, myself included, freak out on the draw. It would be remarkable luck to make it to the semis without facing some seriously good clubs. You have to eventually win a big game. Better we knock one out via the group, one less we have to face in the end.

AFCEdwards

This is being celebrated on Le Grove. Seriously, why does that place exist?

RobM

Easy. So that utter wank-hammers have some place to go where they won’t bother the rest of us.

goonerdal

More importantly whu do you keep going there?

Arsecrew

Because all of us are not “Arsenelickers”.

NorthBankLife

Sigh. There’s still hope with this transfer window. Lets hope that the light at the end of the tunnel isn’t a train.

Xxxrob

Nice Metallica reference!

mik

finally an interesting group!
tired of olympiacos and such.

shitbird

This! They’ll all be good games, no boring trips to Eastern Europe. The only annoying thing is we’ll have to listen to people bitch about not getting Higuain for three more months.

Daft Aider

That’s a good draw, some very nice games

Arsene's Waterbottle

It’s not the best of draws but certainly not impossible.

The Arsemaster

It was always going to happen

BPGF

Can’t see us getting out of that group, still we will be able to concentrate on the league, or … the cups

neutral

do you mean the Europa league? I’d take that trophy over none at all.

DoctorSatan

Spurs aren’t in it, yes, but if we don’t give our very good squad some much needed support, we will be out by December if we are lucky.

ABCDEFG

Higuain Hauting!

Parmeet

Group of death for Marseille, Dortmund and Napoli.

Rad Carrot

That’s not that bad, guys. We can beat all of them, and it’s France, Germany and Italy – we’re not fucking tramping around to fucking Turkey or Russia, at least.

Still, anyone else think it’s funny the group acronym can spell D.A.M.N.? No? Just me?

so unfunny

yeh….just you.

James Abalawiaye

Yes, but it is not just him that has done your mother.

Sweaty Testicles/Scrotum

Epic burn…

Nick

I cant believe your stupidity level! 😐

kaius

not your first inappropriate mention of a family member… easy fella!

Adam Richards

We have the weekend to buy Napoli’s and Borussia Dortmund’s best players to make it a little easier.

Oh yeah, woops, tried that one already……….

Stone

I think you are confusing a Bender for a Bender here, we tried to buy the one who plays for Bayern Leverkusen.

Adam Richards

Fair point well made sir. Wanted to gloss over that to make a point.

Anyway, challenging and exciting group on paper. Can’t wait for the games no matter who’ve we’ve tried or not tried to sign from.

GeeFive

Well, we DO have a Bendtner. He’ll do, right?…eh….errr…..Bwahahahahaha!!! Sorry, tried to do it with a straight face.

New Guy

Unless he means Gundogan…which would be awesome but those rumours neve seemed remotely credible.

jack jack jack

Bring ’em on I say. We’re going to have to beat great teams to win the bloody thing anyway. Champions League nights are the fucking best and personally I can’t wait.

Doublegun

EUROPA LEAGUE!!! EUROPA LEAGUE!!!

Nando's Chicken

Oh yeh, 3rd gets Europa League! woooo shitty thursday matches are a possibility!

Adam Richards

Knowing Arsenal, top two or fourth.

And I’d rather it that way after talking down Chelsea’s last European trophy. The one before I’d take however.

goonerdal

Abit unfair on us seeing as Sp*rs landed easy teams like Dinamo tribilsi ET ALL…….oh right right

Muhahaha

BillyBatts

Had to be Napoli! If Higuain’s face has healed up by then I’m putting money on a hattrick.

Gar14

Or we’ll realise that maybe he’s not worth 33 million after all…

(I still like Higuain)

Nick

Yeah, any player we fail to land -and theres a lot o them- arent worth their price tags. We had 70 m for fucks sake! and well we have like 80+ now, uh! Lets build another stadiuum!!! 😀

pedro

It doesn’t as long as we succeed.

gbxn

Well i am happy for such a group. No easy games. I think we perform better against teams like these but to be fair any of them can qualify…Even Marsielle.

Abc

That’s great group, some interesting matches to come up. But its nearly same group as it was in 2011/12 season only to napoli being in the group instead of Olympiakos. Guess we would draw them if they were allocated in pot 4. lol
Hopefully that will force Wenger to make some quality signings!

seriousspy

The competition hasn’t even started and we’re already screwed. At least we will be in the running for the Europa League Cup *Not even remotely funny*…

weedwacker

Seriously. We are in a good group that will go down to the wire and we will see some great teams playing at the Emirates. What do you want? This is winnable .

Redondante

What an opportunity for the players to prove themselves. Time for Ramsey and Wilshere to become world stars.

Le_Dooner

Fantastic draw for Arsenal. The competition is about excitement and playing the best. In this group we have all of that. Rather play Dortmund then another drab tie against Olympiacos!

muchadoaboutnot

Yeah, the target is to make good CL money anyway. Wenger must be happy with the draw.

AFCEdwards

You get more money for going further in the draw, the flaws in your logic.

pedro

we need a miracle, a big big miracle

Gar14

Pedro from Le Grove perhaps??

GeeFive

I don’t see a ‘Wenger out” or a “Wenger sucks” or a “Wenger’s past it”, or a “here’s a list of players we should sign that is the equivalent of about 500 million”, so I’m guessing it’s a different Pedro…..

Richie Waweru

Hahaha very hard to care about a competition you don’t have a snowball chance in hell of winning. Let’s just enjoy the ride.

Edu's fake passport

Isn’t that every trophy for Arsenal?

goonerdal

Lol if we get in three or four signings and this is me being generous we will be out earliest december……

docciavelli

Could’ve been worse–PSG instead of Marseille would’ve been death on a cracker. But Dortmund and Napoli will be rough, particularly if Higuain scores.

TJ

We are the arsenal, we fear noone!

clegooner

Really? He’s not that scary:
http://goo.gl/lAQCiL

weedwacker

Wow
We will be good enough to get through this group. for the football fans among us class opposition marque ties.
COYG

Yankee Gooner

Completely doable; time to dust the silverware cabinet.

Trez

We might as well focus on the epl…40% chance of us advancing…

A Yank

It’s like every bad thing that’s happened is doubling down back on us.

MLK

This is just disappointing. I was so happy when we drew Marseille. Now we end up in this bloody group and with our injury record and general lack of squad depth it’s not hard to believe we could end up in the Europa League. Anyways, lets go Gunners, make this group our bitch and top this shit.

muchadoaboutnot

Nice. This should get Wenger to finally sign UCL signature players in the next couple of days.

Roswelch

Gawd damn it, this is all Rambos fault. We all know that he angers the gods whenever he scores. Damn it, the gawds must be appeased a sacrifice must be made. Off with AVB’s head!

irfan shahzaib

arsenal is the best team of all and hope for top place in the group,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,………..

Mr. Donkey

Thursday nights, Channel 5.

The Truth.

You’ve already been doing that for a couple of weeks.

laudgunner

confirmed. Wenger to bid for Suarez again after the Champions league draw

BringBackSeama

Christ,

Well look at it this way.. we go on a tremendous run and everyone thinks Arsenal are doing really well and we are all happy

Or if we don’t qualify

We ‘hopefully’ finish third and get the opportunity to put Sp*rs out of the Europa League having already stopped them getting into the Champions League.

Well, silver lining and all…

ninjagooner

Arsenal vs. Dortmund will be a tasty affair!

Micko

Brown pants affair you mean 🙁

James vagaBond

Squeaky Bum affair you mean

deano

Man that’s a tough one. Fancy us to see Marseille off and hell I fancy us to pip Napoli. Dortmund going to be the team to beat. On the plus side guys I think there are going to be some cracking matches.

kelleo

durtmund wnt be easy to beat even at home but napoli n masiele wnt be too dificult. i see us qualifying

Pax

Hell of a way to end a 16 year Champions League run. Years from now we’ll look back and say “Damn, we got crushed that last year because we barely squeaked in and probably deserved it.” and hastily change the topic to avoid mentioning a certain former manager’s name, probably to our club’s chances of cracking the top 4 and what year we’ll finish above the Scum again.

Limp Bar

Can someone explain to me why Leverkusen were put straight into group A? Why wasn’t there a chance that we could draw them?

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