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Spurs go to Bayern’s group. Ugh.

 

Barcelona-Dortmund is gonna be tasty

 

Man City with an easy draw? Shocking!

 

Group D and F look rough

 

Pleased with Liverpool’s group

 

Alright, Bayern was a tough draw but I like our chances to get out of groups.

 

We finally got a relatively easy looking group draw, that is quite a welcome change from recent history.

 

PSG, Real Madrid
Bayern, Spurs
City, Shakhtar
Juventus, Atletico
Liverpool, Salzburg
Barca, Dortmund
Zenit, Lyon
Ajax, Chelsea

Pretty much all the favorites for me

 

Group H could be fun. Feel like that's the most balanced of them anyway. Almost anyone could beat anyone there.

 

Gonna get tickets to Chelsea - Ajax!!! Won't be supporting Chelsea though lol.

 

What’s the best way to buy tickets for PL games? I’m trying to go to London in January and wanna go to a spurs game obviously.

 

Group G seems to be a bit underpowered compared to all the other groups and City look to have really had a stroke of luck there.

 

City have always stumbled following an easy group. Better to be tested in the forgiving group stage, imo then have your first big test be a knockout against like Barcelona or Juventus.

 

Liverpool's group not much harder IMO. Hoping Atalanta will be able to humble City in one of the games!

 

Don't know too much about buying tickets, but I'd say being a member of the Spurs official website is a 100% necessity. Some tickets don't even come on general sale to non-members!

 

I feel like you are right on with that. I tried to go back and look through the groups but it is hard to remember the quality of some of the teams in those groups from farther back.

 

City do have a fair bit of travelling to do. I think we might see a lot of rotation from Guardiola in the group stages.

Very pleased with our group. Not too much travelling and we should have the quality to comfortably get through. The overall priority has to be the league this season so that group is certainly helpful for managing the load/travelling compared to what we could have got.

 

Luis Enrique’s 9 year old daughter just passed away from bone cancer.

 

That's fucking horrible. RIP Xana.

 

Honestly don't see Chelsea progressing ahead of Lyon/Ajax.

 

Barcelona have refused to meet PSG’s offer. So hopefully that’s that. Neymar as a player is fantastic, but all the extra isn’t worth it...especially if Griez comes through.

 

Feck sake a trip to Astana of all places

 

Some interesting groups in Europa this year.

In terms of UK based teams, I can see Celtic struggling against Rennes and Lazio to be honest, and Cluj is a long way to travel.

Arsenal have Frankfurt which is a tough draw but realistically we should beat Liege and Vitoria and it's nice to not have much travel involved.

Wolves group is legit tough, with Besiktas always a hard place to go, and Braga a better team than people think. I don't know much about Bratislava other than having been there.

United have a stupidly easy group they should walk, but Astana and Belgrade means a lot of travel.

 

They were actually asking Poch in his presser if he was going to quit his job after this week. I hate the English media.