Friday, 30 August 2013

Football Fans Get Ready For Champions League..!!

With English Premier League, getting in the color of its own, Champions League is not also far behind to woo the fans.With all the playoff games finished on Wednesday, the groups have been alloted to all the teams.In some of the last playoff games, AC Milan beat PSV 3-0, to get to the group stages for 17th time.Kevin-Prince Boateng scored with a rasping shot from outside the area inside the opening 10 minutes. He scored his 2nd goal in the 77th minute after Mario Balotelli scored the 2nd goal of the game for the 7-time European champions who won 3-0 for 4-1 aggregate triumph. Real Sociedad defeated Lyon 2-0, Carlos Vela scored the both goals as the team dominated at home against French side Lyon.They won 4-0 on aggregate.

   

With all these wins, the playoffs just ended but then started the main thing, "The Draw" of the teams to play in the Group Stage.Barcelona will again face 7-time winner AC Milan in the Champions League whereas Bayern Munich is in the group which include Manchester City.Dortmund is in one of the toughest groups of the tournament alongside Arsenal, Napoli & Marseille. This is how Groups look like for  "Champions League":

GROUP A:  Manchester United, Shakhtar Donetsk, Real Sociedad, Bayer Leverkusen.

GROUP B:  Real Madrid, Juventus, Galatasaray, Copenhagen.

GROUP C:  Benfica, PSG, Olympiakos, Anderlecht.

GROUP D:  Bayern Munich, CSKA Moscow, Manchester City, Viktoria Plzen.

GROUP E:  Chelsea, Schalke, Basel, Steaua Bucharest.

GROUP F:  Arsenal, Marseille, Borussia Dortmund, Napoli.

GROUP G:  FC Porto, Atletico Madrid, Zenit St Petersburg, Austria Vienna.

GROUP H:  Barcelona, AC Milan, Ajax, Celtic.




Well, these are interesting draws with all winner teams, lets see what happens in Group Stage. The First Group Games will take place on 17th & 18th September.

What do you think of these draws?? Who is your favourite for this year's Champions League? Do tell me your views..!!  :)

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