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Draw for the Round of 16 will be held tomorrow, teams from the same group/country cannot be drawn against each other.
Winners: A: Arsenal (ENG) B: Napoli (ITA) C: Barcelona (SPA) D: Atletico Madrid (SPA) E: Monaco (FRA) F: Dortmund (GER) G: Leicester (ENG) H: Juventus (ITA)
Runners Up: A: Paris (FRA) B: Benfica (POR) C: Manchester City (ENG) D: Bayern (GER) E: Leverkusen (GER) F: Real Madrid (SPA) G: Porto (POR) H: Sevilla (SPA)
What are you hoping for?
I really hope Barcelona/Arsenal will not draw Bayern/Real Madrid this early in the knock-out stage.
Arsenal - Leverkusen Napoli - Sevilla Barcelona - Porto
Atletico Madrid - Manchester City
Monaco - Bayern Dortmund - Paris
Leicester - Real Madrid Juventus - Benfica
Real Madrid vs Leicester City
Porto vs Napoli Bayern Munich vs Arsenal
Manchester City vs Juventus
PSG vs Borussia Dortmund
Sevilla vs Monaco (Toss Up)
Benfica vs Barcelona
Leverkusen vs Atletico Madrid
2017-18 Group draw is tomorrow. Will be a little light on the flare so to speak.
Arsenal hasn't qualified for the first time in what, 10 or 15 years for the group stage?? Qarabag won their playoff leg, first time for an Azerbaijan team making it. Olyimpiakos Pireaus out of Greece made the group stage for the 8th year in a row.
Monchengladbach, Wolfsburg & Leverkusen all had bad to terrible years in Bundesliga last year and won't be in the champs league replaced by Leipzig who got auto promotion to the group stage, and Hoffenheim who lost the playoff to Liverpool to drop to the Europa League.
Napoli had to win the qualifying leg against Nice to join Roma & Juve in the group stage.
The 3 main teams in La Liga (Barcelona, Real & Atletico) all qualified but Barca has taken a step back with the Neymar transfer to PSG, and I believe Ronaldo will still be suspended for the first group game Ronaldo plays.
My 3 favorites for this year: Juventus, PSG & Bayern Munich.
Juventus with the goalkeeping of Buffon and the defense can be a threat to beat anyone. Likewise, with the star talent Bayern has with Lewandowski, Tomas Muller, Neur in net and with the addition of James Rodriguez (though the latter 2 are currently out injured) from Real they can beat anyone as well. I went with PSG over Real for my final selection. Sure Ronaldo can score a ton of goals, but I like the attack of PSG with Neymar & Cavani over Real with Benzema, Bale & Modric.
Paris St.-Germain got a strong chance this year of winning the trophy. Cavani, Neymar and Mbappe are in formidable form. Juventus is going down the drain with awful form of Buffon. Messi and Ronaldo can still spark one more time for trophy. My semifinals lineup Barcelona, Real Madrid, Athletico Madrid and Paris St germain.
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