Champions League Draw: 5 out of 8!

Earlier this week, I posted the eight match-ups that I would love to see and it looks like UEFA did their best to accommodate my wishes. Of the eight I wanted to see, I will have the opportunity to watch five of them, and they are all intriguing match-ups.

Among the premier games, Inter will play Manchester United, Real Madrid v. Liverpool, Chelsea v. Juventus and Arsenal will play Roma. Barcelona will take on Lyon, Sporting v. Bayern, Atletico v. Porto and finally Villareal v. Panathinaikos.

Lots of story lines and lots of what should be entertaining games. It was nice to see some new matchups (thankfully not another Barca/Chelsea) and the most interesting matchups seems to be Chelsea v Juventus.

Teams listed first in the image will play home the first game (25/25th of February) and away in the second leg (10/11th of March). Predictions will be posted soon.

The UEFA Cup Round of 32 draw was also today and turned out as follows:

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	Home leg	Away leg
Paris Saint-Germain	1	Wolfsburg	18/19 Feb	26 Feb
Copenhagen	2	Manchester City	18/19 Feb	26 Feb
NEC	3	Hamburg	18/19 Feb	26 Feb
Sampdoria	4	Metalist Kharkiv	18/19 Feb	26 Feb
Braga	5	Standard Liège	18/19 Feb	26 Feb
Aston Villa	6	CSKA Moscow	18/19 Feb	26 Feb
Lech Poznań	7	Udinese	18/19 Feb	26 Feb
Olympiacos	8	Saint-Étienne	18/19 Feb	26 Feb
Fiorentina	9	Ajax	18/19 Feb	26 Feb
Aalborg BK	10	Deportivo	18/19 Feb	26 Feb
Werder Bremen	11	Milan	18/19 Feb	26 Feb
Bordeaux	12	Galatasaray	18/19 Feb	26 Feb
Dynamo Kyiv	13	Valencia	18/19 Feb	26 Feb
Zenit St. Petersburg	14	Stuttgart	18/19 Feb	26 Feb
Marseille	15	Twente	18/19 Feb	26 Feb
Shakhtar Donetsk	16	Tottenham Hotspur	18/19 Feb	26 Feb