8/25/11

Arsenal in Champions League group with Marseille, Olympiacos FC and Borussia Dortmund!

Arsenal was drawned into group F with Marseille, Olympiacos FC and Borussia Dortmund. The last team in the group is still jet to be drawen.

Arsenal qualified after 3-1 victory on aggregate against Udinese. Arsene Wenger says that the firsth priority was to qualify to Champions League, but now he says that it is no doubt that they will have as goal to win the group and come through to the final rounds.

Marseille was drawen from pot 2, and was a good draw for Arsenal. Marseille finished second place last year in ligue 1. Arsenal should be aware of there striker Loic Remy, he scored impressive 17 goals inn 33 games in the league.

Olympiacos FC won the greech league last year an by that qualified to Champions League.

The last team that was drawen into the group was Borussia Dortmund, the german champions. A team we did not want to draw, but that is not an excuse to not win the group! Dortmund played some fantastic football last season, and prowed that they can play good matches also against tough opponents. For example did they beat Bayer Munich in both matches last year, and impressive 3-1 away against them.

Arsenal representative, club secretary, David Milles said that Arsenal is very satisfied with the group they draw. He also says that they never played Marseille in a tournament, and only one time in the last 15 years played the two other teams.

Champions league draws today

Today will the Champions league draw be drawen. It will be exitating to see who the worlds top clubs will meet in the group stage. The 32 qualified teams have been Divided into four pots based on the few last years Performance in europe. Ond from each pots will be drawen together and anke a group.

The biggest teams are of course in pot 1, but Ac Milan is in pot 2 and Manchester City is in pot 3! So all teams in pot Ine will hope not drawing this team in there groups.

Here Are the four groups:

Pot 1:
Manchester united
Chelsea
Barcelona
Bayer Munich
Real Madrid
Arsenal
Inter
Porto

Pot 2:
Ac Milan
Benfica
Valencia
Villeareal
Olympicos Lyonnais
Shaktar Donetsk
CSKA Moskva
Marseille

Pot3:
Manchester City
Lilles
Ajax
Bayer Leverkusen
Olympiakos
FC Basel
Zenit St.petersburg
Bare borisov

Pot 4:
Borussia Dortmund
Napoli
Dynamo Zagreb
APOEL Nicosia
Trabzonspor
RTC Genk
Viktoria plzen
Otelul galati