The group that I'm worried about is Group E, which I call "The Group of Death". Which features Barcelona, the team I am still taking to win this group but it will have it's hands full with the other competition. Others include, Olympique Lyonnais a.k.a. Lyon for short which has won the French Division 1 Title the past 7 years!!! Stuttgart, the winner of the German Bundesliga and Glasgow Rangers, runners up in the Scottish Premier League, 2nd to Celtic...heh.
And my opinion on Celtic is this, they have a great chance of advancing from Group D, if they can BEAT Benifca. A.C. Milan will be the group leader which means the last spot will be up for grabs. Benfica is a very good offensive team that will not stop from attacking and Shakhtar Donetsk, um.....maybe next year?... :D.
The follow is how I think the groups will play out... :)
*UEFA Champions Cup
**UEFA Cup
Group A
*Liverpool
*Porto
**Marseille
Besiktas
Group B
*Chelsea
*Schalke 04
**Valencia
Rosenborg
Group C
*Real Madrid
*Lazio
**Olympiakos
Werder Bremen
Group D
*AC Milan
*Celtic
**Benfica
Shakhtar Donetsk
Group E
*Barcelona
*Lyon
**Rangers
Stuttgart
Group F
*Manchester United
*Roma
**Sporting Lisbon
Dynamo Kiev
Group G
*Inter Milan
*PSV Eindhoven
**CSKA Moscow
Fenerbahce
Group H...I will wait for the winner of the Sevilla/AEK Athens game until making a prediction.
Arsenal
Sevilla/AEK Athens
Steau Bucharest
Slavia Prague
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10/24/2007 UEFA Champions League: Celtic @ Benfica
That looks like the date to circle on your Calendar if you are a Celtic Fan then. This is th first game with Benfica, on the road. If they show well here it will go a long way to deciding things.
Very informative post Jeebus, I feel I know better what to watch for as the tourney commences.
Looks like Rangers got a bum wrap, boohoo poor them ;)
TomC
By the way, if I got this right Benfica is a Portugese Club and Shakhtar Donetsk is Ukranian, right?
TomC
Right on Tom
Hopefully Celtic can pull off the win...but a first game tie won't be too bad
As far as the other teams that I have advancing go, I really believe that either Barcelona or Chelsea can take the Championship but with some hard trouble.
Lyon is always a favorite to go deep into the tourney, with key players and there high chemistry.
Arsenal, a team from the English Premier League, have Tomáš Rosický and Denílson to name a few comtributors.
And you can never count out Real Madrid, the team with a star studded line up that can take on any national team. But the lack of chemistry can come back to haunt them like the previous seasons.
As for my dark horse for the tourney, any Italian League Team, considering an Italian team has been in 3 of the past 5 Finals
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