Battle of Britain as United draw Valencia, Rangers & Bursaspor

United have been drawn with Valencia, Rangers and Bursaspor in the Champions League group C. It’s not a terrible group and we could have done a lot more travelling but last time I did a post like this I celebrated the fact we got Bayern Munich and we ended up going out.

It will be interesting to see how Valencia fare without Villa & Silva although Banega, Joaquin and especially Juan Mata should ensure this is competitive.

Rangers will be an interesting game England vs Scotland again as well as Sir Alex going head to head with an old assistant in Walter Smith. Rangers return to Manchester will worry the Greater Manchester police force following the havoc they caused in 2008 but purely in terms of football it’s a comfortable tie.

Bursaspor are an unknown quantity. I am unaware of any of their players off head although a google shows Ergic plays for them a name I remember from our games with Basel (Ruud Van Nistelrooy scored one of the greatest goals I’ve ever seen against them). Turkey is always a tricky trip and a long one too and having won their league last season they can’t be too bad.

Over all not too bad, I’m quite pleased and confident we will not only qualify but win the group but as I learned last season with Bayern Munich nothing is certain.

Tue 14 Sep Rangers H,

Wed 29 Sep Valencia A,

Wed 20 Oct Bursaspor H,

Tue 2 Nov Bursaspor A,

Wed 24 Nov Rangers A

Tue 7 Dec Valencia H

Rangers at home before Liverpool = big bonus!