Arsenal handed Barcelona draw, Chelsea get PSG…again

But the big game is, once again, Arsenal against Barcelona, and that old story of how Arsenal beat a club who have long had the upper hand over them, on and off the pitch. “I’m convinced the fans will enjoy the football”, he said after the draw. They then won their final game away from home and that could well give them the push they needed.

“We were hoping for a good draw-it’s probably the team most fans would want to avoid”, Miles said, per Jack Gaughan at the Daily Mail.

“Barca are used to playing under pressure in every sense”.

“We’re sitting top of the Premier League, come February-March we’ll have some players back and it would be great to take them on with our full-strength side”.

There is also a familiar feel about the Chelsea versus PSG tie.

He said on the club website: ” I think it will be tougher this season than previous year.

Bayern ambassador Franz Beckenbauer, speaking at the draw, said his club’s clash with Juentus would be “a mouthwatering tie”.

Emilio Butragueño, Real Madrid’s director of institutional relations: “It’s a special competition and we all know what it means and what a source of motivation it is”.

“We know what can happen if you have ten poor minutes on a European night”.

They also lost the 2006 final to them and know they face a mammoth battle to stop Barca superstars Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez and Neymar running riot. “They have a similar football philosophy to ours, they like to attack and to have the ball”.

“It is a very good rival, but we can dream about going to the quarterfinals like we did past year”, he added.

Manchester City, which has had its own bad luck with Champions League group stage draws, caught a break in drawing Dynamo Kyiv, the runner-up to Chelsea in Group G.

Gent, in their first participation in the competition, are to take on Germany’s VfL Wolfsburg.

First legs to be played February 16/17 and 23/24.Second legs to be played March 8/9 and 15/16.

Manchester City have been gifted a far easier tie however, with the Sky Blues set to do battle with Ukrainian side Dynamo Kyiv. Holders Sevilla, who also exited the Champions League last week, play Norwegians Molde.

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