Arsenal has not participated in the Champions League for seven years and has therefore missed out on the group stage draw for a significant period of time, well, that ended today.
The draw for this season’s Champions League has now been made in Monaco and what an interesting draw it has proved to be for the Gunners.
Arsenal was drawn in Group B and this is the group in full
Sevilla
Arsenal
PSV Eindhoven
Lens
The exact match dates and locations will be announced at a later date.
That is certainly an interesting draw and to some degree, a tricky one for Arsenal. However, you have to think that Mikel Arteta will navigate the lads into the next stage of the competition.
Let us know in the comments below what you think about the draw and what are Arsenal’s chances of progressing to the knockout stages.
At least their is a chance arsenal will progress from this group unless Arteta does is usually unnecessary tinkering.
Interesting draw and potentially quite tricky. If MA has this squad settled sooner than later we might have a good chance of progressing. But that group is capable of an upset if we don’t start scoring more goals and stop conceding sloppy goals too.
This is the simplest group j think
No, City get the easiest group as usual..
It will be a hell of a ride for Newcastle in group F
Paris Saint Germain
Borusia Dortmund
AC Milan
Newcastle
” To some degree , a tricky draw for Arsenal.”
Pray what degree is THAT then MARTIN?
ZERO DEGREE PERHAPS?!
ITS A RELATIVE DODDLE AND YOU KNOW IT, JUST AS WE ALL DO.
A good a draw as Arsenal would have wished. Servilla, along with Feyenord and Benfica, were the seeded teams I prayed we meet. And I got my wish.
So, yes, COYG111
But one has to be weary of PSV. Remember we were in the same group with them in last year’s Europa League, and they beat Arsenal.
Good draw, one of the best we could have gotten. PSV beat us last season only since we played a second-tier team. With our first team, we should easily win, and against Lens as well. Sevilla is tougher but not so bad considering the alternatives, and would be a good practice for the next round. I was afraid of a group-of-death scenario that would have stretched us badly.
There’s no easy groups but there are easier groups than others.
With all respect to the other teams, if we can’t get out this group we have no business being in the UCL.
A good draw.
There is a chance to progress, but Arteta must be in his senses throughout the group stages.
It’s a “tricky draw” in the respect that we have quite often let some so called “easy teams” beat us (home and away), so we’ll need to take nothing for granted.
OT. Nketiah has been called up to Southgate’s England squad. well done Eddie.👏
Jax, Can ypou please explain to we “simpletons” how it is that what we did in the past in seasons gone by , with different players, has ANY RELEVANCE WHATSOEVER to what may or may not happen in this years CL group?!
This plain wrong and uneducated theory, is often foolishly aired by lesser thinking minds on here and elsewhere Please understand that the past ,in football, as in so many other things in team sport. has NO relevance whatsoever to what willhappen now.
Yes, sometimes the past does repeat, but that is only because it was going to happen now anyway and NOT BECAUSE it happened before. DUH!!
And could “you please explain” what it is that makes you such an unpleasant, provocative, puffed up turd? Stay off my case you miserable old fart.
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I suppose I should be thankful that he didn’t wave his English degree at me😜
Hit a nerve with the truth I see!
Arsenal usually don’t have problem in the Ucl group stage 1st rd matches. But it is in the knock out matches they usually have problem in the competition by getting knocked out from it. Thus, failed to advance to the final match to attempt to win the comptetition . But once against Barcelona when the reached the final but lost.
So therefore, I will not show any concerns until the Gunners are in the knock out stages of the competition. But Arteta’s Arsenal team may break the jinks this season. Which had been hunting Arsenal in the past stopping them from winning the Ucl title in their history. And hopefully and prayerfully. The Gunners will win it this season unfailingly.
MA should look for the assistance of Wenger,otherwise this competition will overwhelme him
Would that be the Wenger that, in managing teams in the CL for over 20 years, could only manage to get to 1 Final ? Also don’t forget, that in his first 2 years with us in the CL, he failed to get to the KO stage.
A good group, but I was hoping to get Union Berlin instead of Lens.
Should get out the group, but not expecting much after that as Arsenal are rubbish in Europe!
Jen, you’re right. For all of the years we’ve been playing in European competitions, we truly do have a terrible record.
Couldn’t really have chosen a better draw, easy travel for both players and fans.
Nice draw and should qualify comfortably out of the group.
I do believe Arsenal should be making it out of that group as the winners but I also see what you mean by could be tricky. If we underestimate thinking this should be a breeze against Seville and PSV they could be a banana skin to fall upon. Full concentration and our old dynamic play returning should see us through though