Giants await Euro fate

Residents of Milan and Rome are nervously awaiting the Champions League draw which takes place at 5pm on Thursday afternoon in Monaco.

Lazio ensured that the peninsula’s full complement of four sides made it to the Group stage with a 3-1 away win against Romanian champions Dinamo Bucharest on Tuesday.

No two sides from the same country can meet in this round, but Shakhtar Donetsk’s Cristiano Lucarelli may well be returning to his homeland.

Milan and Inter are top seeds, Roma are in the second pot and Lazio are in the third seeding bracket.

The seedings in full:

Pot One; Milan, Barcelona, Liverpool, Inter, Arsenal, Real Madrid, Chelsea, Manchester United

Pot Two: Valencia, Lyon, Porto, Sevilla / AEK Athens, PSV, Roma, Benfica, Werder Bremen

Pot Three: Celtic, Schalke, Stuttgart, Steaua Bucharest, CSKA Moscow, Sporting Lisbon, Lazio, Marseille

Pot Four: Rangers, Shakhtar Donetsk, Besiktas, Olympiakos, Dynamo Kiev, Fenerbahce, Slavia Prague, Rosenborg

Hopefully we won't get a really tough group, we usually aren't so hot in the group stages.

I think ours will be something like this:

Milan
Werder
Marseille
Rangers

btw anyone knows of a stream for the draw I don't think Eurosport are going to be broadcasting it

as i said in the CL threas, I bet on Werder, Marseille and Fenerbahce

group d and maldini as the best defender this year

Kaka best Attacker
Seedorf best Mildfider
Maldini best defender

Best defender: Paolo Maldini
Best Midfielder: Clarence Seedorf
Best Forward: Kaka´
Best player of the season: Kaka´



and we´re the best team of the world

GROUP D

AC Milan
Benfica
Celtic FC
Shakhtar Donetsk

Do you have any good pics of draw ?

Great to see our players getting rewarded individually for their awesome work last season.

We have an interesting draw. Not the toughest but not exactly the easiest. In my mind of all the Pot 2 teams Benfica is probably one of the weakest that we could have gotten. Pot 3 Celtic was one of the better teams. Pot 3 is just a bunch of small teams that barely squeezed through.

Benfica has technique and ability. They have Rui Costa, Nuno Gomez. An interesting defensive line-up with Nelson down the flanks and Lusiao in the middle. Were stronger but they could cause problems for us.

Celtic- We played pretty evenly with them last season. Luckily that Kaka goal in overtime saw us through. They will bring that physical play to us. We are superior in every way but they could cause us trouble. I was in Prague when I saw the second match up and I was the only Milan fan in there.

Donestk- We will brush aside with no problem.