Armandolas wrote:Manchester City – Barcelona
Olympiakos - Manchester United
Milan - Atlético Madrid
Bayer Leverkusen - Paris Saint-Germain
Galatasaray - Chelsea
Schalke - Real Madrid
Zenit - Borussia Dortmund
Arsenal - Bayern
Here is the chance for city to prove something in europe. Wow that is a big clash.
Easy life for Utd even if they dont have a top notch 11. Real also should go through with ease.
PSG , Chelsea and Bayern have tough matches but they should go through
Many people dont believe in Zenit but it will be a very close decision against Dortmund. Same as Milan vs Atl.Madrid
I really don't know what leverkussen is worth these days... great results and such an unknown roster for me..
just looking, Palop as a keeper, Spahic in defense both used to play for sevilla... and that's it! i know none of them! the eam I know the leastout of those last 16. Hard to make an opinion about this draw, sounds like a trap.
I think that the atletico will spank milan sooo hard.... this club has always been very good in cups, and this year they are stronger than ever. they are tied on the first place with barcelona. They will not only pass, they will humiliate milan.
anyways, I'd say barça, united, Atletico, PSG, Chelsea, real, dortmund and bayer.
"Betiko u cant deny, France was placed in pot 2, wich would make their life very hard and suddenly they changed the rules of draw and placed them in pot 4 making it 9 teams and pot 2 7 teams? that was weird"
if there was a conspircy in france's favour, why would we have drawn the group of spain, clearly the toughest being the current double european champion + world champion (probably the best national team ever for that) in a group of 5 instead of 6 like everyone which is clearly penalizing for your fifa ranking? FIFA decided to conveniently stop the rankings 1 month before the playoff draws to qualify to the WC and we ended seeded in pot 2 instead of pot 1 because of that. Ukraine took our spot by... 1 point! the french federation made a demand because we had to play less games that counted than our rivals and they also closed the ranking with 2-3 weeks of anticipation.
Also, wat about the ballon d'or? Ribery was quite clearly going to win it; and at the last minute when cristiano ronaldo scored 4 goals to qualify portugal vs sweden they decided to give it another 2 weeks, to make sure the people that didn't vote could vote for ronaldo after what happened. ronaldo took advantage of the stuff that blatter said about him vs messi, and blatter made everything to show that he was not against the portuguese by changing the voting rule of the ballon d'or in the last minute.
Regarding, the pot thing; it was quite unclear how they would deal with the 9 european teams that had to be 8. this has been handled very sloppyly, just like the rest. to favour france? possibly I don't know. that kind of manouvre could happen, I don't know. Just like platini's influence when it was decided that france would host the eurocup 2016 probably weighted somewhere. I could imagine such things, but to manipulate a draw in front of the cameras, with extra little papers ect, that would be way too outrageous and that would make way too much dammage for their institution (fifa).
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