Those that will advance in bold:
Group A: Manchester United - Shakhtar Donetsk - Bayer Leverkusen - Real Sociedad- obvious picks
Group B: Real Madrid - Juventus - Galatasaray - Kopenhagen- it's hard to conceive that Juventus won't advance, but Galatasaray could be surprising.
Group C: Benfica - PSG - Olympiacos - Anderlecht-- I could see Benfica completely flopping to let Anderlecht or Olympiacos in.
Group D: Bayern Munich - CSKA Moscow - Man City - Viktoria Plzen - if pellegrini is real, he'll be able to survive this group. then again if he was real he wouldn't have lost so early in the league.
Group E: Chelsea - FC Schalke 04 - FC Basel - Steaua- lucky chelsea get an extremely weak group
Group F: Arsenal - Marseille - Dortmund - Napoli - I like napoli, but Higuain is slightly to massively overrated. Basically, there is no reason to think Higuain is world class-- yet. if he steps up then Napoli will likely advance over arsenal, but Higuain has a lot to prove and I'm not just saying this as a jilted arsenal fan that is mad because he didn't sign for us. I've said this on IRC before it was clear that he wouldn't sign for us. This group will decided by who can win 2 games against marseille and who drops points to them. I wouldn't be that surprised if Dortmund doesn't make it.
Group G: Porto - Atletico Madrid - Zenit - Austria Wien - atletico madrid should have an easy time in this group.
Group H: Barcelona - AC Milan - Ajax - Celtic- obvious picks though this is absolutely the 2nd toughest group
