The Champions League draw isn't that far away now. On the 25th of August, we'll know who we've got to face in the group stages.

The question is, what would be your ideal group for Milan? To make it a bit easier, here are the 32 seeded teams that are expected to qualify for the group stages. To make up a group, a team from each 'pot' must be chosen.

Pot 1
Liverpool (TH)
Real Madrid
AC Milan
FC Barcelona
Manchester United
Internazionale
Bayern München
Arsenal

Pot 2
FC Porto
Juventus
PSV Eindhoven
Olympique Lyon
Panathinaikos
Chelsea
Villarreal
Sporting CP Lisbon

Pot 3
AS Monaco
Ajax
Club Brugge
Anderlecht
Olympiakos Piraeus
Schalke '04
Sparta Praha
Lille OSC

Pot 4
Glasgow Rangers
Werder Bremen
Lokomotiv Moscow
Benfica
Rosenborg BK
Fenerbahçe
FC Thun
FC Petrzalka

In my opinion, the best group we could get is...

AC Milan
Panathinaikos
Lille OSC
FC Petrzalka

Potenially, we could be drawn the following...

AC Milan
Chelsea
Monaco
Benfica

Share your opinions!

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cheers mike ... where do you get this info from?? but now Panathinaikos is standing on a thin line bcoz they lost to Wisla Cockroach ... 3 - 1 .... Champions League is definitely the best football competition ... the first group is ok ... but the second one could be tough and competitive ...

Plz no Greek team

You know , I prefer the Hardest group. Milan always plays better against Top teams.

I know Milan will win something this year

25th August the day I receive my GCSE results !!!

About the draw I have a feeling we are going to have a difficult group again however we came through the group stages comfortably enough last year.

25th of august thats just the day i was thinking about

* the day of my dentist appointment
* the day i get The OC season 2
* 1 day befor my chicks bday
* the day of cl draw

so its a pretty good day for me on 25th hahaha plenty of exciting things happening

but yeah anyways get back on topic milan i think they will get an easy group this time around but if they dont they still get threw.

AC MILAN
panathinaikos
sparta praha
fc perrzalka

I dont know i think whatever group we get we will do good in because i mean just look at our team

Well, I think the thing with the Champions League is that having a good team just gets you a seat at the table! There are a handful of teams who can beat anyone on their day, and I think luck plays a big part.

The main reason I'm hoping for an easy CL group is to ensure qualification early, so we can focus fully on the Scudetto. As we found last season, it's extremely hard to play catch up with a team like Juve who can grind out results against anyone

The draw is today at 3pm GMT (4pm CET)

I share your view, but how I wish we get Liverpoo Not possible at this stage though.

Group E for Milan...

We find out our opponents in a second

PSV!

The groups so far..

GROUP A
Bayern Munich
Juventus
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GROUP B
ARSENAL
Ajax
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GROUP C
Barcelona
Panathinaikos
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GROUP D
MAN UTD
Villarreal
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GROUP E
AC Milan
PSV Eindhoven
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GROUP F
Real Madrid
Lyon
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GROUP G
LIVERPOOL
Chelsea
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GROUP H
Inter Milan
Porto
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Milan
PSV
Schalke

So far..

GROUP A
Bayern Munich
Juventus
Club Brugge
Rapid Vienna

GROUP B
ARSENAL
Ajax
Sparta Prague
Thun

GROUP C
Barcelona
Panathinaikos
Werder Bremen
Udinese

GROUP D
MAN UTD
Villarreal
Lille
Benfica

GROUP E
AC Milan
PSV Eindhoven
Schalke
Fenerbahçe

GROUP F
Real Madrid
Lyon
Olympiakos
Rosenborg

GROUP G
LIVERPOOL
CHELSEA
Anderlecht
Real Betis

GROUP H
Inter Milan
Porto
RANGERS
Artmedia Bratislava

There we go!

On a side note, Kaka won best Midfielder for 2004/05

Alright group, I guess. Not thrilled, but it could have been worse. There really isn't a "Group of Death" so to speak, but Group G looks like a lot of fun.

Congrats to Kaka!

on first view our group look easy to pass but
psv, schalke and fener very equal teams
fener is maybe rank down but they are always dangerous at home

i hope tha after 4 games we'll be in round 2

and this year there is no gruop of death

Is Shevchenko gonna win anything this year? come on ... he's been consistent for quite a long time but still no awards (except Golden Ball) ... he deserves a World Player this year ...

So we got PSV again And we travel to Istanbul. Could be tricky but I expect us to qualify easily and hopefully concentrate on Seria A before the wniter brake.