UEFA Champions League 2015/16

[Lineker]

Just now, stokeriño said:

...Why are Watford loaning players to Champions League sides? :/

Christ knows. They do have an option to buy him for six million euro, though.

[Kaney]

1 hour ago, Kaney said:

Quietly optimistic. We should win fairly easily cos Olympiakos aren't a great team but Arsenal like making it hard for themselves. Please just don't injure Ozil and ill be happy.

 

Oh no it'll be Giroud getting injured instead I see.

[FLiam]

That was excellent from Campbell.

GIROUD!

[Kaney]

HE'S NOT INJURED, HE'S NOT INJURED AT ALL!

[Lineker]

2-0 Chelsea. Willian.

[stokeriño]

WILLIAN SCORES A GOAL THAT WASN'T A FREEKICK!!!

 

[Kaney]

Penalty! Giroud hat trick!

[Szumi]

And Giroud's hat trick/penalty puts Arsenal through!

[FLiam]

I absolutely love that man.

I feel so much happier for him after spending so much time at home games surrounded by people who constantly get on his back. His goal scoring record speaks for itself, I still don't understand the stick he gets.

[stokeriño]

Two English teams qualified on the same night and it broke the forum.  

Most of the teams we could face in the second pot are familiar opposition from the past few years, except for PSV and Gent. If we can just not getting PS-fucking-G for a third year in a row then that would be something. 

[stokeriño]

The draw is imminent! But why should I care? I know that Chelsea are going to get PSG. Again.

Alternatively we will draw Roma, then Benfica, then Barcelona, then Bayern Munich. VICTORY ASSURED.  

[stokeriño]

Gent v Wolfsburg

Roma v Real Madrid

Paris Saint-Germain v Chelsea (GOD DAMN IT EVERY TIME DIE DIE DIE)

Arsenal v Barcelona

Juventus v Bayern Munich

PSV Eindhoven v Atletico Madrid

Benfica v Zenit St. Petersburg

Dynamo Kyiv v Manchester City

[The Lusophone]

PSG vs Chelsea

[Lineker]

Superb draw.

[stokeriño]

On the plus side (given that English teams absolutely have to out-perform Italian teams this year to retain our 4th CL spot), Roma and Juve have got suitably bastardish ties with Real Madrid and Bayern.

[Baddar]

Some great ties there. I had no idea Gent had gone through. 

[FLiam]

A typically predictable draw for both ourselves and Chelsea.

Looking forward to having our injured players back () and give them a proper game though.

Discussing the game on BT, I bored of this myth now of "Arsenal cannot defend". We have shown it loads over the past 2 seasons that we can play a tactical game and beat a big side with a clean sheet. Not that we will against Barcelona, but we get written off all the time for reasons that don't necessarily haunt this team as much as it did previous ones.

[DavidMarrio]

Good draw. I'm glad the perceived weaker teams have avoided the big clubs as it should make for some interesting quarter finals. 

Arsenal and Chelsea are going to struggle and City will have problems away in the Ukraine. 

[stokeriño]

Dynamo aren't too intimidating. We drew in Ukraine but played well enough to win that it could easily have been 2-0 or 3-0.

[Kaney]

Oh hi Barca it's been a while!