The draw for the 1st knockout round (Round of 16) of the UEFA Champions League took place at the House of European Football in Nyon, Switzerland, today at 12:00 CET (I liveblogged the event on Soccerlens). And boy oh boy, are there some good games comin’ up.
As far as Italian teams go, Inter, Juventus, and Roma didn’t exactly pick the easiest games of the lot. Quite the opposite in fact. And to make matters worse, lady luck bad luck gave them the scourge of Italian teams in the last decade, namely… Premier League clubs!
I’ll make a more elaborate analysis later in the day, but for now here are the draw results.
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2008/09 UEFA Champions League
Round of 16
to be played 24/25 February & 10/11 March
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Chelsea | Juventus |  |
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Villarreal | Panathinaikos |  |
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Sporting | Bayern Munich |  |
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Atl. Madrid | Porto |  |
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Lyon | Barcelona |  |
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Real Madrid | Liverpool |  |
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Arsenal | Roma |  |
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Inter Milan | Man Utd |  |
Tags: Arsenal, Atletico Madrid, Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Chelsea, Inter Milan, Juventus, Liverpool, Lyon, Manchester United, Panathinaikos, Porto, Real Madrid, Roma, Sporting, UEFA Champions League, Villarreal
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C’mon Bayern. Show the world the Deutsche Fussball
given the blues form in europe this season i dont think we can survive in this ko phase
Despite a lot of the talk going on I don’t believe for a minute that any of the English teams, Barca, Real or Inter would choose to face each other at this stage. Why would you want to run the risk of elimination compared with facing (say) Atletico, Sporting, Porto, Lyon etc.?
Some funny choices in the article though. Roma would prefer Real to Atletico?
And why all the Least Wanted slots for Liverpool? Wait and see what difference it makes if they are still in contention in the PL with all the pressure that brings!
these are my predictions:
A. juventus to qualify.
B. villarreal to qualify.
C. bayern munich to qualfy.
D. atletico madrid to qualify.
E. barcelona to qualfy.
F. liverpool to qualify.
G. roma to qualify.
H. inter milan to qualify.
but the finals will be liverpool vs barcelona.
i will bet my last coin on liverpool to lift the cup again.
Really ohene? I’ll gladly take your last coin!
Very balanced predictions. Kudos.
predictions for these ties should be fun, the results not so much.
hahaha…inter vs man utd…champions are going out early it seems
Very cryptic Ahmed…meaning??
I think he means this time, Man Utd is running a serious risk of not making it past the first playoff round.
Then again, Inter have made an habit of disappointing in Europe, so…
I mean that there are a lot of potential finals being played in these playoffs, and we’re going to see some big teams go out very early.
Of course United will wipe the floor with Inter, that’s the last game I’m concerned with.
Whao! a suprised one.Come next year a tough and interesting match is will be seen.But at Rome in the final FCBarcelona will be the champion(amen)
united must be shaking in the nickers u have a coach who has butcherd uniteds midfield chelski and fc porto and far as arsenal oh god either arsenal will hit or miss roma will drop back and wait like always arsenal to expose there back four and make menez look like the second coming of franck ribery this is where technique composure and tactics are valued the most not brute stength or speed chelsea juventus barely beat FC Cluj last game london was about to begin a riot….this the only thing that matters now fellas the big european crown!! lets go to the war as in the movie gladiator…gladiators i salute u!!
dude lvrpool suuuuuuuuuuuucccccccccckkkkkkkkkk big time
neday wud bet on ne1 othr dan dose suckrs.
i couldnt even read half that paragraph (guy 1 above). Might as well have written blahblahblah 30 times.
It looks we might actually get an entertaining knockout this year, instead of English domination. I could easily see a semi-final of 1 Italy, 1 Spain, 1 England, 1 Germany/Portugal. Bayern won the lottery that and got Lisbon which every 1 seed wanted. Let’s hope we don’t choke on the christmas present.