As we know, the 1-0 win over Besiktas last night put us into the group stages of the Champions League for the 17th successive season.
The draw takes place later this afternoon at UEFA HQ when the bald man will say a lot of stuff and there’ll be some video montages and a great European player like Jan Koller will come out and meddle with his balls.
Anyway, Arsenal are seeded in Pot 1, and the rest of the pots are as follows. Obviously we can’t draw any teams from England, who are marked in red.
The groups consist of a team from each one of the pots.
Pot 1 Real Madrid, Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Chelsea, Benfica, Atletico Madrid, Arsenal, Porto
Pot 2 Schalke, Borussia Dortmund, Juventus, Paris Saint-Germain, Shakhtar Donetsk, Basel, Zenit St Petersburg, Manchester City
Pot 3 Olympiakos, CSKA Moscow, Ajax, Liverpool, Sporting Lisbon, Galatasaray, Athletic Bilbao, Bayer Leverkeusen
Pot 4 Anderlecht, Roma, APOEL, BATE Borisov, Maribor, Monaco, PFC Ludogorets Razgrad, Malmö FF
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We’re going with Juventus, Galatasaray and Monaco – yes, we’re making the ridiculous assumption that we won’t face Olympiakos again.
Make your predictions in the comments below. Anyone who gets it right wins a prize*
*Please note: prize is not real. Please allow 28 days for non-delivery of the prize.
My prediction, Arsenal, Spurs, Spurs and Spurs. The usual easy group stage!
Lol in yer dreams. Me predicts that we will thus face-
Basel
Leverkusen
Malmo
The amount of ridiculous puns we would face with them three…
Spurs in champions league? Nonsense…
Zenit (return of Arshavin), Galatasaray (return of Eboue), Roma (return of Gervinho)
BATE ( return of Master Bate)
Sounds like a reunion of the cast of The Walking Dead of sorts 😉
LOL great comment
People are thumbing this down?????? It must be the fall…
If anyone should return, it should be Dennis and Ajax!
It’s Arsenal we’re talking about, so my prediction would be Arsenal, Paris Saint-Germain, Athletic Bilbao and Roma. You can count on Chelsea getting Basel, Olympiakos and BATE Borisov!
Seriously though, I hope for the first time in a while, we get a relatively easy group and top the group. Every single time we’ve finished second, we’ve faced a tough team, second game away…
Well, Basel beat them twice last year, so I’d like to see that again (I’m Swiss and even though I dislike Basel, I dislike the rich club even more)
I’d love to have Schalke, Bilbao and Anderlecht to minimize travel disctractions.
Basel bat Chelsea because of Salah. that’s the only reason they bought him
We’ve gotten absolute gifts of groups in the last few years bar last year
Still, I wouldn’t mind a tough group to be honest. We can beat any team from pot 2-4, and last season’s group matches were amazing, especially the win at Dortmund and the thrashing of Napoli at home.
I’d prefer an easy group, but I’ll take a couple of magical Champions League nights down at the pub.
Oh, and as a Norwegian gooner, I wouldn’t mind taking a trip across the border to play Malmö!
I honestly look at all of those teams and think there arent really any easy games.
Just some slightly less tough than others.
Besides possibly Ludograts.
After Ludo’s fairy tale win yesterday (a defender in goal saves 2 pens and scores his own!) I can’t root against them. Good on you, Bulgarians.
Arsenal, Borussia Dortmund, Olympiakos, Roma
Replace Olympiakos with Galatasaray. The group of death. Of all Gooners.
Relieved we don’t have Marseille again. Boring games.
Typical group: Marseille, Olympiakos and Porto. And then Barcelona in the last 16. Every fucking time.
Bonus: replace Barcelona with Bayern or the “flavour-of-the-moment”-team
So Real Madrid this time around
Shakhtar Donetsk, Bayer Leverkeusen, Malmö
I would prefer to stay well clear of Leverkusen this year. Roger Schmidt their new manager has put a spring in their step and they are not to be underestimated.
Do you really want to go to Ukraine now?
Shakhtar won’t be playing their games in Donetsk.
Want: Basel, Ajax, Anderlecht,
Who we will probably get: Paris Saint-Germain, Athletic Bilbao, Monaco,
Just realised PSG and Monaco can’t be drawn together is Roma instead.
PSG, Bilbao and Anderlecht 🙂
Arsenal , schalke , Ajax and Roma, ….. That would be an interesting group
Zenit, Ajax and APOEL (please please please!)…
How many times have we won the pot 1 trophy?
there is a 28 days non-delivery of the pot 1 trophy after the 28 days non-delivery of the top 4 trophy
28 weeks later all hell breaks loose
Quite fancy an away day in Amsterdam this season.
Quite fancy seeing Bergkamp at The Emirates too!
My prediction: Arsenal, PSG, Ajax, BATE Borisov.
Borussia, Sporting Lisbon, Maribor
I hope we get Ludogorets so I can go and watch Arsenal for the first time in my life 🙂 If u haven’t heard yet – go look what happened between Steaua and Ludogorets last night
You done well, Moti.
Borussia Dortmund, Ajax, Roma
Arsnal,schalke,monaco,olympkos
Basel, Ajex, Monaco
Basel, Olympiakos, PFC Ludogorets Razgrad.
I’m suing if my prize is delivered within 28 days.
Arsenal, Juventus, Bilbao, Monaco .. can’t get more difficult than that
Zenit, Ajax, Roma
The hardest possible draw
I think I’d like to go to watch us play in Basel, Amsterdam and Cyprus… Holiday time!
Arsenal, Juventus, Galatasaray, Monaco
Arsenal
Schalke
Olympiacos
Maribor
Tottenham is still shite.
Arsenal – schalke – Athletic bilbao – Roma
I am extremely proud of the fighting spirit the boys showed.Well done to all of them.Well done AW.They have to continue giving 100% in all games starting from the first minute not the last 10 minutes.come on you gunersssssssssssssss
Isn’t Donetsk a war zone?
Borussia Bilbao Bate
Would like Basel, Bate, &Bilbao (coz I live in Spain & could drive there). As for the other2 should be relatively easy.COYG
Fancy meeting bergkamp at ajax..
Shakhtar Donetsk, Galatasaray, Maribor
arsenal,borrusia dortmund,galatasaray,as monaco!!!! as easy as it comes since we are arsenal
Borussia dortmund, galatasaray and roma
Arsenal, PSG, Leverkusun, Roma. Seems to be the worst possible.
Seeing that we’re unlucky with draws (drew Southampton in CoC) I’m expecting Arsenal to be in the Group of Death.
Arsenal
PSG
Ajax
Roma
Arsenal, PSG, Athletic Bilbao. Roma
What’s the story if we get drawn with Shakhtar Donetsk? Neutral venue for away tie?
Flamini will just use his death stare to put an end to all the tomfoolery while we’re out there
PSG, CSKA, APOEL
Hope we get Dortmund, Lisbon, and Monaco. Then Arsene won’t hesitate in buying Reus, Carvalho and Falcao to give us just a little bit of advantage over them.
PSG, Sporting and Malmo fellas
Made a graphic looking at how tough our draw could possibly get. http://t.co/r9FkOYZfhs
Shakhtar Donetsk, CSKA Moscow, PFC Ludogorets Razgrad … the away trips will be long, freezing cold and downright demoralizing ..
We will get out of any group I think, we normally do. It’s about time we had a bit of luck.
Dortmund, Bilbao and Monaco
PSG, Atletic Bilbao and APOEL
Basel, Ajax and Malmo
Still buzzing about last nights result. COYG!
I’d love to see Malmö in the same group. Would be awesome for us Scandinavian Gooners!
Plus, you know, we would destroy them 😉
Anything but a trip to Russia.
Well its Aresenal and UEFA will fuck us over in the worst way possible. They will bend all rules and give is Real Madrid, Bayern Munich and Barcalona.
Oi! I used to love Jan Koller. Rosicky and Koller together at BVB was just brilliant!
PSG, Sporting, Roma. The first two to screw up our transfer business and the last just to make things more difficult.