Ranking of teams in order of favorable :
1 - Galatasaray - travelling to Turkey not as intimidating as it used to be, weather in Istanbul not bad compared to other citites. They play very close games but I think we can expose them quite easily. Their coach Fatih Terim is very experienced though.
2 - FC Porto - they have 2 exciting attackers from Columbia : Rodríguez and Martinez. Experience in the midfield with : Lucho Gonzalez and Joao Moutinho. We played them in Euro super cup at the start of last season and beat them 2-0.
3 - AC Milan - Pose a threat as their forwards : El Sharaway, Bojan, Robinho, Pato, Pazzini can all offer something different. They got a bit younger in the midfield but Ambrosini and De Jong offer alot of experience. Defense is a bit suspect led by Mexes.
4 - Arsenal - A team we have beat over the last 5 years but I'm putting them as one of the danger teams since they retooled their forward and midfield a little bit. Their defense is very sloppy so we can score against them but their mid is a bit different now with Cazorla and Arteta pulling the strings. Attack wise Podolski was brought in who is a good player and is very versitile. Giroud the big target man also brought in can give us alot of problems with his ariel game being so good.
5 - Shakhtar Donestk - Coming out of the group with Chelsea and Juventus is very impressive. They almost won the group which would of been astounding. Lucescu is a very wily coach and has tons of Brazilians in the squad who play a run and gun style. Temperatures being 0 or below in March will also make this the worst possible place to visit.
