This Tuesday will see the 2009/2010 Champions League campaign kicks off. The 4 representatives of the EPL were drawn in to relatively easy groups, managing to avoid super powers such as Real Madrid, Bayern Munich or Inter Milan. No wonder that anything but topping their groups will be a huge surprise.
According to Betfair, the Premier League teams are between the favourites to win this year’s Champions League, but the Spanish giants – Barcelona and Real Madrid were marked as clear favourites with better odds to finish as winners: 5.3 and 6 respectively.
But let’s leave May 2010 aside and focus on this Tuesday and Wednesday. The first week sees Liverpool host Hungarian champions Debrecen, in what should be an easy win for them, while at the same time Arsenal travel to Liege, to face Standard Liege and Manchester United will play against Besiktas in Turkey. Both are tricky away matches, but both Arsenal and United should record wins.
Carlo Ancelloti said last week that Chelsea's main target is the Champions League, and he thinks that his team is finally up for the challenge. Chelsea begin their campaign against Porto on Tuesday without Didier Drogba and Jose Bosingwa, suspended for their semi-finals show of last year. Porto, just like Chelsea, enjoy a great start for the season and it looks that the new striker Radamel Falcao Garcia fills the gap Lisandro Lopez left.
It could go either way on Tuesday; let me know your thoughts:
2 comments:
Chelsea all the way this year!
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