Champions League Groups for season 2013-14

The much awaited Champions League group draw was held in Monaco and Arsenal are the side which had the worst draw as they were drawn in the group of death. Arsenal who qualified after going through an extra qualifier to get to the groups stages will be very unhappy as they have been drawn with last years finalized Borussia Dortmund and upcoming Napoli who have made some good signings after selling their prized asset Edison Cavani. They also play France's Marseille who arent bad either. The other english teams have a easier draw as Chelsea play Germany's Schalke , Switzerland's Basel and Steaua Bucharest. Chelsea and Schalke are favorites to go through to the next round.


Group A: Manchester United, Shakhtar Donetsk, Bayer Leverkusen, Real Sociedad.

Group B: Real Madrid, Juventus, Galatasaray, FC Copenhagen.

Group C: PSG, Benfica, Olympiakos, Anderlecht.

Group D: Bayern Munich, CSKA Moscow, Manchester City, FC Viktoria Plzen.

Champions League group draw tonight for 2013-14

Tonight the Champions League draw will be held in Monaco where 32 European teams will be divided into 8 groups with each group consisting of four teams. The teams are seeded according to performance in all European competitions over a five-year period, where the best teams go in the first pot and the worst seeded going to the fourth pot.

 Arsenal as always had to go through a qualifier to reach the group stages, but they have qualified for the champions league group stages for the 16th consecutive time. They had to play Fenebache from Turkey over two legs and they won the tie comfortably, but the qualifier was of no use as Fenebache were suspended from Europe after being found guilty of match fixing. Similarly Celtic the Scottish champions had to play two qualifier ties to get to the group stages and they managed a aggregate 3-2 win from the skins of their teeth defeating Shakhtar Karangandy of Kazakhstan.

Bayern Munich or Borussia Dortmund Who will win the Champions League 2013

Champions League 2013 winners Bayern Munich or Borussia Dortmund?

Its a all German final in the finals of the Champions League 2013. Both teams have been favorites through out the competition with Bayern Munich being the firm favorites to win the final.

The match is at the Wembley Stadium in London tonight Saturday 25th may 2013 at 18:45pm GMT.
The match is at 12:15am IST(Indian Standard Time) on 26th May 2013 in India.
It will be telecasted in India on Ten Action and Ten Sports channels in India.

Bayern Munich will be under more pressure to perform better and win the trophy as they have failed to win the last two finals after being favorites in both the finals. They lost to Inter Milan in 2010 and then they lost last years finals to Chelsea.

Bayern Munich thrash poor Barcelona 7-0 over two legs of Champions League Semifinals

After Bayern Munich had won the home leg 4-0 Barcelona had to score 4 goals without conceding a goal to have any chance to progress to the Finals of the Champions League.

Bayern Munish rested a few key players who had a booking and could have missed the finals if they were booked in the second leg. Barcelona had Lionel Messi on the bench and it looked like he might be injured.
It was going to be a uphill task for Barcelona to overturn the tie but they had hope as they have score 4 goals at home in more than 50 games over the last 3 years or so. But against a strong Bayern team who themselves had scored 5 or more goals in their last league game were favorites to go through

The Great Escape : Borussia Dortmund survive late onslaught by Real Madrid to reach the Finals of Champions League

Borussia Dortmund reached the finals of Champions League by the skin of their teeth when they managed to win on aggregate by one goal after they had got a 3 goals lead from home to Santiago Bernabau.
It finished 4-3 in favor of Dormund who conceded 2 goals in the last 10 mins to almost snatch defeat from the hand of victory.

After conceding a away goal Dortmund started the game cautiously whereas Real Madrid were on the attack from the first whistle. It almost paid off inside two minute when Higuain was through on goal but denied by the goalkeeper. Another 2 chances fell to Real inside the first 15 minutes when Ronaldo could not beat the goalkeeper and Ozil fired wide.

Manchester United And Robin Van Persie Dampen Arsenal's Champions League chances

After wining the English Premier League last week at Aston Villa courtesy of a Robin Van Persie hatrick Arsenal had a good chance to get all three points against Manchester United to get their Champions League pursuit on track.
With pictures of almost all the Manchester United player parting up till early morning after their win on Monday night their would have been a hangover of winning the league and it was visible in the first half against Arsenal.

Evra was just asleep when Rosicky put a ball through for Theo Walcott, Walcott was slightly offside but the assistant said play on and Walcott put the ball in the goal past David deGea.

Robert Lewandowski scores four goals to help Borussia Dortmund trash Real Madrid

It was a big game for Borussia Dormund at home to play Real Madrid in the Semi-finals of the Champions League and boy did they turn up all guns blazing making a mockery of the Real Madrid defense.
Robert Lewandowski was exceptional and scored four goals in a game to match a feat that only four others have done including the current world class Lionel Messi. Dortmund were the better team for the most of the game and the scoreline could have been worse as some referee decisions and fine save from the Madrid goalie helped Madrid from conceding more than four goals.
It was a game where two tacktically similar playing teams with fast and quick counter attacking style were playing each. And the better defensive team won with only one mistake by Matt Hummels which could have derailed their night.

Hardworking Bayern Munich hammer Barcelona in Champions league Semi-final

If you did not see last nights match maybe because you live in Europe and live somewhere else where the match schedule for the Champions League Semifinal clash between  Bayern Munich and Barcelona is not time friendly as you need to get sleep to go for work the next morning then you will be in for a shock to hear that Bayern Munich thrashed Spanish runaway leaders Barcelona 4 to nothing.

Both teams are comfortably leading their respective leagues with margins in double figure for the second placed teams. So if you expected a epic Semifinal clash maybe you were disappointed to see a fully one sided clash where Barcelona did have 63 % of the possession but the German champions made light work of Barcelona and humiliated them by scoring 4 goals without a response from Barcelona even after have less than 40% possession in the match.

Race for Champions League wide open

The race for the right to play in the footballs elite competition "Champions League" for next season is wide open with three teams playing for the all important 3rd and 4th league postion in the English Premier League.
Chelsea Looked to be the favorites to clinch their place but they have somewhat faltered in recent games to give hope to Arsenal and Spurs.
Arsenal Scrapped through versus a resilent 10 men Fulham when Arsenal could have won the game easily but they almost drew the game with Fulham Playing good football and almost managing to clinch a draw.
With Arsenal scrapping through with a win ,Tottenham Hotspurs had to win the aganist the defending champions to keep them in the hunt for Champions League position.
It started horribly for Spurs when they consided inside 15 minutes with Carlos Tevez managing to avoid challenges from Vertongen and picking up Miller.
Miller ran on the byline to put in a good cross, which was calmly put in the back of the net by Samir Nasri.

Cannibal Suarez rescues a point for Liverpool and makes the battle for Champions League places wide open

Cannibal Suarez rescues a point for liverpool with the last kick of the game.

Chelsea were robbed off two points at the death by a Luis Suarez goal. Not before he had a crazy game where he assisted in a goal for Sturrigde before giving a way a penalty and the bitting.. Yes bitting Ivanovic .
Suarez is known as "Cannibal of Ajax" in holland as he was banned in holland when he was playing for Ajax.
He bit a player while playing a game for Ajax and was given a 8 match ban for that incident.

The game was full of incidents with carragher fortunate to be on the pitch as was sturrigde for poor tackling and aggressive behavior on the pitch.
Shelvy was also lucky to escape with a yellow card when he tackled oscar.