Last 16.

Manchester United, Bayern Munich, Juventus, Borussia Dortmund, Schalke, Paris Saint-Germain or Malaga

when is the draw?

personally id prefer shalke. avoid the other German teams just now. folk on talksport saying Malaga will be the easier draw as even though they are flying in europe and in the league they are massively in debt and will sell in january

 

What an atmosphere there would be if we got Dortmund, both grounds would be rocking. I want the best opportunity to go through though and I think that's with Malaga or Schalke.

I'm just buzzing that we have actually made it to the last 16.

 

United.

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OK, due to the fact that teams from the same country can't draw each other in the last 16, we have the following stats:
PSG's opponent will be drawn from a pool of 7 teams,
Shalke's opponent will be drawn from a pool of 7 teams,
Bor. Dortmund's opponent will be drawn from a pool of 7 Teams,
Bayern Munich's opponent will be drawn from a pool of 7 teams.
Juventus' opponent will be drawn from a pool of 6 teams,
Manchester United's opponent will be drawn from a pool of 6 teams.
Malaga's opponent will be drawn from a pool of 5 teams,

So before the draw takes place, we have the shortest odds of being drawn against Malaga, (5/1) followed by Man u & Juve, (6/1) followed by the rest. (7/1)

Of course, as soon as the draw takes place and names start coming out the hat, the odd's change again. Here's the draw I fancy:

PSG - Galatasaray
Shalke - Valencia
Malaga - Celtic
Bor. Dortmund - Porto
Bayern Munich - AC Milan
Juventus - Real Madrid
Barcelona - Arsenal
Manchester United - Shathner Donetsk​

 

3am mountain time north america. just got in. thanks celtic for making a night to remember.

 

Man U will do for me.

In a two legged set up, with the way we lined up v Barca we can take on anyone. Over the two games v Barca it would have went to extra time if it was a straight knockout tie.

PSG would be good too, Paris in the Spring.

 

One thing I'm happy about going into the last 16....

We haven't failed to score an away goal this year.

Barcelona, Lisbon, Moscow, Helsinborg, Helsinki... doesn't matter where we go. We're a threat.

 

Neville is a surprisingly good pundit, even if hey doesn't express his views quite as well as the more silver-tongued amongst them. A breath of fresh air.

 

AC Milan: Abbiati, Abate, Bonera, Mexes, De Sciglio, De Jong, Nocerino, Boateng, Montolivo, El Sharaawy, Pazzini = £28.5million

Arsenal: Szeceszny, Sagna, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Vermaelen, Arteta, Wilshere, Cazorla, Podolski, Walcott, Giroud = £92million

Barcelona: Valdes, Alves, Puyol, Pique, Alba, Busquets, Xavi, Iniesta, Pedro, Messi, Sanchez = £72million

Bayern Munich: Neuer, Lahm, Dante, Badstuber, Boateng, Schweinsteiger, Kroos, Robben, Muller, Ribery, Gomez = £104million

Celtic: Forster, Lustig, Ambrose, Wilson, Izaguirre, Wanyama, Brown, Ledley, Commons, Samaras, Hooper = £12.5million

Dortmund: Weidenfeller, Pizczek, Hummels, Subotic, Schmelzer, Blaszczykowski, Gundogan, Kehl, Gotze, Reus, Lewandowski = £34millon

Galatasaray: Muslera, Kaya, Ujfalusi, Nonkeu, Eboue, Altintop, Melo, Inan, Colak, Yilmaz, Bulut = £24million

Juventus: Buffon, Barzagli, Bonucci, Chiellini, Lichsteiner, Vidal, Pirlo, Marchisio, Asamoah, Giovinco, Vucinic = £83million

Malaga: Caballero, Gamez, Weligton, Demichelis, Eliseu, Camacho, Toulalan, Isco, Joaquin, Saviola, Portillo = £20million

Man Utd: De Gea, Rafael, Ferdinand, Vidic, Evra, Fletcher, Carrick, Valencia, Nani, Rooney, Van Persie = £160million

Porto: Helton, Danilo, Maicon, Otamendi, Sandro, Fernando, Lucho, Moutinho, Varela, Rodriguez, Martinez = £44million

PSG: Sirigu, Jallet, Alex, Thiago Silva, Maxwell, Matuidi, Verratti, Pastore, Menez, Lavezzi, Ibrahimovic = £143million

Real Madrid: Casillas, Arbeloa, Pepe, Ramos, Coentrao, Alonso, Khedira, Di Maria, Ozil, Ronaldo, Benzema = £238million

Schalke: Unnerstall, Uchida, Howedes, Papadopolous, Fuchs, Jones, Holtby, Neustadter, Draxler, Farfan, Huntelaar = £28million

Shakhtar: Pyatov, Srna, Chygrynskiy, Rakitskiy, Rat, Fernandinho, Mykhitaryan, Douglas Costa, Teixeira, Willian, Adriano = £54million

Valencia: Alves, Pereira, Rami, Ruiz, Cissokho, Gago, Banega, Feghouli, Costa, Jonas, Soldado = £54million

We have by far the cheapest team in the Last 16, shows what an achievement it was to get there.

Especially as we overcame:

Benfica: Artur, Pereira, Garay, Luisao, Melgarejo, Matic, Perez, Aimar, Salvio, Rodrigo, Cardozo = £45million

Spartak: Dikan, Insaurralde, Suchy, Pereja, Makeyev, Carioca, Kallstrom, Kombarov, McGeady, Ari, Emenike = £39million

 

And Samaras has scored in every one of them.

It is vital he doesn't get injured between now and February.

 

Would like Malaga or United

 

judging by some of the other club forums aka malaga and juventus, we're the team everybody wants which is ok because it can be an advantage to be the underdogs. Just a shame that we have to play at home first

 

Dunno why, but I think our best hope of going a stage further is Malaga. They've been brilliant in the Champions League so far but I just think we stand the best chance against them, United aren't at top form but in 2/3 months time they could be. Plus, United are very experienced and always seem to win when they do play *. Suppose this is the stage where we just take anyone and give it our best go, going to be very difficult but we can do it

 

I would a strike a note of caution to those that say because we beat Barcelona, we can beat anyone.

Barcelona don't cross the ball or use the wide areas to great effect, simple as that. They don't even cross the ball at corners. They try to pass the ball through the middle with quick one-twos and with the occasional '*' over the top for late runners. Lenny sussed that out and we stifled it and nicked the game with a good set-piece and a defensive error from them.

The likes of Dortmund however, will pass the ball for fun, but can also mix it up and break down the flanks, with the full-backs overlapping at lightning pace, as they showed against Man City.

I really think they are the team to beat.

 

Man U 0-0 Celtic
Celtic 2-0 Man U


How does seeding for the round after the last 16?

 

There is no seeding from the q/f onwards, nor national protection.

 

If you can keep a clean sheet at home then anything can happen, as devlin has said we are always good for at least 1 goal away from home.

It's about still being in the game going into the second leg.

 

Celtic 2 Man U 1
Man U 2 Celtic 1

Celtic 3 Malaga 1
Malaga 2 Celtic 1

 

says how much an achievement it is for us.

we all wanted to be here, so lets not be too picky. ideally, i'd like to avoid Bayern, Dortmund and Juventus.

 

Will the 1st leg definitely be at Parkhead?