Qualify for the groups or from the groups ?
Because if we don't pass the qualifications it will be the surprise of the last 10 years.
Both, its esp difficult to qualify from the groups and it all depends on our good luck for the CL qualifiers, we rarely have had any good luck and Uefa still hadnt got the chance to punish us for the scandal. I feel that we are going to pay some tribute for Moggiopoli in Europe as well...
The team we'll get in the qualifications will be a champ of Norway, Sweden, Croatia, Denmark, Poland etc.
And even if we find ourselves in the 3rd pot we can still get a group that will look like this, for example
1. Lyon
2. Sporting
3. Juventus
4. Steaua
But it's very important if we're in pot 2 because that way only the holders will be a top team, while teams from pot 3 and pot 4 will be easily beatable.
The worst situation we can find ourselves in is if we're in pot 3 and we get this group
1. Barcelona/Manchester/Liverpool/Chelsea/Arsenal
2. Real Madrid/Bayern
3. Juve
4. Some french team...Nancy, as things stand right now
We can be optimistic and hope for a favorable seed, but the facts are, that
we are not buying CL material players, some of our champions will retire, we might change our coach and start all over again, from the beginning,
our teamwork still sux, every team we might face will be a champion, or runner up.
We generally dont get along with knock outs and cup type of competitions.
The CL qualifiers happen too early and we wont have the chance for quick fixes, even if we qualify, we always struggle where we shouldnt, now we have more reasons to struggle as never before, our only chance is determination,
but if we change some core players and the coach, our team wont deliver.
Realistically it doesnt look good, actually, it never looked that bad before!