CL group H: Barca-Milan-Ajax-Celtic

Annoying group. Celtic awaiting us with a double decker bus. Milan unbeatable in San Siro (Barca haven't scored a single goal in the last 2 knockout rounds there).

We scored 3 last year in group phase in San Siro.

Celtic is the most annoying opponent, defensive, and they try to give it all again against Barcelona, and rest their lol league before and after the matches.

Ajax is opponent that I actually look forward to meet, I think it fits very well for Barca.

I have really low expectations about CL this season. We are one step away (Pique injury) from a really bad season, and two steps away from catastrophe (+ Masche injury). Puyol and Adriano can't be counted as they are injured every second game. Who are we left then? Bartra and Song as CB in CL??? There are great chances will not pass the group stages with such line up.

Easy group. It will be fun to watch though.

Ajax play a style that suits us, Celtic parked the bus last year but they are now weaker imo (no Wanyama) and Milan are not better than last year.

Milan and Celtic gonna give us problems, thats pretty much a fact.

You think Allegri hasnt learnt the best ways for his team to compete with ours?

Barcelona have played (17) official games vs ACMilan, (10) vs Celtic and (0) vs Ajax!

We'll finish the group 1st, but it won't be easy especially away against Milan and Celtic!

The Away game against Milan will be 3-4 days before the Clasico at Camp Nou!

I think all teams are contenders here. Most critical games for Barça are going to be Celtic matches though.

Ajax would struggle against Barcelona, given the difference in talent and the fact that they will be playing a more open game than the rest of the teams (and even if they don't that means they won't be playing to their strengths).

I expect Milan matches to be as tough as the couple of matches against Atlético. The backbone of their team is pretty much the same as last year but with Balotelli they will be stronger in attacks.

I think as far as groups are concerned this is a pretty tough one - but still expect us to come in first. Celtic and Milan are hard teams, Ajax shouldn't be too much of a problem.

The one positive is that we won't be travelling to eastern europe this time

Hawky wrote:Easy group. It will be fun to watch though.

Ajax play a style that suits us, Celtic parked the bus last year but they are now weaker imo (no Wanyama) and Milan are not better than last year.

Well now they have Mario Balotelli .

Khaled wrote:

Damn that schedule sucks. Gonna be interesting to see how we handle it. Going to be a real test for Tata and Neymar

I expect our group

1 - Barça
2. Milan
3. Celtic
4. Ajax

We will not struggle so long as Tata rotates xavi / pique and messi.

those three cannot get injured..

i don consider Milan a threat .... i watched them in a game this season. that might not be enough to judge but they seemed to me not better than last season...and also don think even parking bus, they have the defensive ability to stop Messi and Neymar. i might be wrong though.
i consider Ajax to make upset and move along with us to next stage...

I really don’t see how we won’t top this group.
As troublesome as Milan and Celtic can be I can’t think of a way that they will win more points than us.
Only question is our shape when going to the 16 stage