Champions League: (UPDATE) Barcelona to meet Stuttgart in knock-out stage
(UPDATE)
Time-tables confirmed. The first match of the tie between VfB Stuttgart and FC Barcelona will be at the Mercedes Benz Stadium on February 23, with the return leg on March 17, 2010 at the Camp Nou. Both matches are scheduled to start at 20.45hrs CET.
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FC Barcelona is paired with Germany Bundesliga side VFB Stuttgart in today’s UEFA Champions League Round-0f-16 draw held in Nyon, Switzerland.
For reference, Stuttgart is currently not having a good season in the German League, placed 15th in the 18 teams league, managing to win only two matches after 16 rounds, scoring a total of 13 goals and letting in 22.
In the Champions League, Stuttgart managed to secure Group G runners-up spot after defeating Romanian club FC Unirea Urziceni 3-1 in their final matchday clash. Against Spanish opposition in the group, Sevilla, the German team lost 1-3 at home and drawn 1-1 at the Ramon Pizjuan in Seville. The team’s record in the tournament so far is 2 wins (Rangers 0-2 and 3-1 Unirea) and 3 draws, managing to register a total of 9 goals for and 7 against.
Here’s the full result of the draw with group runners-up mentioned first:
VfB Stuttgart (GER) v FC Barcelona (ESP)
Olympiacos FC (GRE) v FC Girondins de Bordeaux (FRA)
FC Internazionale Milano (ITA) v Chelsea FC (ENG)
FC Bayern München (GER) v ACF Fiorentina (ITA)
PFC CSKA Moskva (RUS) v Sevilla FC (ESP)
Olympique Lyonnais (FRA) v Real Madrid CF (ESP)
FC Porto (POR) v Arsenal FC (ENG)
AC Milan (ITA) v Manchester United FC (ENG)
The first legs of the first knockout round will be played on 16/17 and 23/24 February 2010, while the second legs will be played on 9/10 and 16/17 March. Group winners will play the second leg at home.
In the next stage, the Quarter-finals, the eight winners from the Round-of-16 are again drawn into four pairs of home-and-away matches. Starting from this round, the draw is made regardless of association or previous group status.
The 2010 UEFA Champions League Final is scheduled to be played at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium in Madrid on May 22, 2010.
Ohhh…come one couldn't they give us someone stronger:))))joking:)))…nice draw, hope for the best:).
Visca el Barca!!!
WOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW OOOH
YAAAAAAAA THIS IS GREAT NEWS 
HlebToYourFace!!!!
We will finish them
finally the luck is on our side
Stuttgart – Barcelona
Olympiacos – Girondins Olympiacos – Bordeaux
Inter – Chelsea
Bayern Múnich – Fiorentina
CSKA Moscow – Sevilla
Ol. Lyon – Real Madrid
Oporto – Arsenal
Milan – Manchester United
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I wanted a more attractive enemy.
If we want to win the Cup we need to beat everyone anyway.
The further Barca can get in the tourney, without playing the other favorites the better! The team can focus more on la liga. Games vs Chelsea Man u drains the team! Visca el Barca!
Yeah, after Sevilla in the Cup this is great news
Interesting. Chelsea and Inter, Man U and AC Milan should both be good games. Unless Inter fall apart.
No TV broadcast here, the match is not the sort to be telecast ahead of the english team games
It's gonna be on net broadcasting:).
totally! but wat do u want? Barca agnst a tough team on tv or Barca agnst an easier team on ur laptop?
True. I'm on my desktop too, nice net
YES!
Easy win for us
hmmm… really? i hope you are right… stay humble though.
THANK YOU UEFA!!!!!!!!!!!!! I knew it, after such a terrible group uefa had to give us an easy ride!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Good news, and at least 2 favorits will be eliminated! (Inter – Chelsea, ManU – Milan)
I hope Lyon make the suprise of the 1/8 finals by kicking Real out!
which team can meet barca in 1/4 Final????
Ummmm, we have played round of 16 yet, dont get ahead of yourself, you should know better!!!
The draw for the 1/4- and 1/2-Final is after the 1/8 Final.
don't want to get complacent as all CL games are hard, but this looks favourable for us, lets hope inter and ac take out the top EPL teams, and COME ON lyon!
Hehee guys relax, why is everyone saying we've got the easiest opposition, well i don't agree, who thought rubin kazan could shock us, the minnows as other teams are referred to are always motivated to play against teams like us, let us all be cautiously optimistic, and i strongly believe we will sail through, i also pray Milan eliminates Man u and Chelsea gets kicked out. If God doesn't answer my prayers, then He surely knows why, at least i hope Hleb plays well against us although they must exit.
+1 on the Rubin angle. Any park the bus + counter attacking team can harm us. Even Atalante scored againts us thanks to some woeful defending. We have to be very careful.
Hleb is coming back to barca!!!! I so hope we snuk in a " you cant play against us" clause, becuz he could come back to bite us, just look what morientes did to madrid 5 years ago, and that was the last time they past round of 16!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I don't want to predict anything here but it is a good draw for us.
Who are our possible opponents in the quarter finals?
The 8 winners will be drawn in pairs for the 1/4. After that, they are no more draws.
Wait , that means , there will be new match draws once the round of 16 is over right ? completely random im guessing ?
yea
i remember 2 years ago we played against schalke 04 in the quarter. we tought it will be easy but were struggling against them and only managed a 1-0 win (Bojan goal) and 0-0 at home. so we are warned and take every oppenent serious altough we must have a self-confidence in a healthy way.
I think we had alot of injuries this period though.
truely amazing
And tht was the time I liked Bojan
The second match was 1-0 with Touré's goal, and it was a very easy game as I remember.
yes.. it was 1-0 at camp nou
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This is a perfect draw, they are not the team to park the bus like Rubin, and are in sort of a crisis whole season.
They are in the knock-out stages for a reason, so we should definitely not underestimate them.
+1 on that.
yea and that reason being rangers and unriea are even worse.. that was the group of life they were in.
Hey Anurag
Don't worry TenSports will telecast Barca match.
Because this year UEFA is doing some really weired match days. Its spread over 4 weeks (8 days instead of usual 4)
Barca's 1st leg is on 23 Feb and only other match that day is Olympiacos FC – FC Bordeaux
2nd leg on 17 March and same and only other match being Olympiacos FC – FC Bordeaux
Hey, thanks for the good news, mate
Still, you should never underestimate anyone…
I mean, yes it is a great draw compared to what we could have gotten, but don't be too sure of advancing yet. A lot can change until February, and I'm quite sure Stuttgart will be better by then. They've also recently changed their coach and started to show some positive performances.
Lets not be too happy before even the ball is kicked. Yes on paper Barca are favorites… but a german side on their day can really put up a stiff and physical defense. Remember how Chelsea stifled our attack? Now Stuttgart are nowhere near Chelsea in quality obviously(they are barely fighting relegation now), BUT they are capable of putting up a decent 90 mins and getting a 0-0 in the first leg. That kind of scoreline in Germany (0-0) can make it really tricky at Camp Nou in the second leg. So lets be humble… and hope that we can grab 2 away goals (our away form hasnt been great this year… so grabbing 2 would be great).
Its obvious Stuttgart will park the bus and try to hit us on the break. Even Hleb admitted so in a public interview!
We have had problems this season breaking buses. Altough I am happy with the draw.. i would still not take a win for granted. We have to be at our best.. anything less and even stuttgart can surprise us.
What’s important to us is that we have avoided such ‘heavy-weights’ such as Bayern, AC Milan or having to travel to freeze important bits off in Moscow. Our rivals will be VfB Stuttgart, the new home of when-did-he-leave-I-didn’t-even-miss-him former barcelonista Aleksander Hleb…
Come on Barca, let's make history..
Vamos Barca!
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I think with the stuttgart draw, we have to time to rest, relax and find our rythm. Parking the bus will not be a problem for us anymore as we have Ibra. With eto we didnt have that option. We spent 40m to break such "buses". This doesnt make ibra better than eto or vice versa .. this just gives us more options