The group stage of Champions League 2009-10 is over and now its time for the knockout stages. The teams for the knockout stage are finalized by a draw. This is done by dividing the 16 qualified teams in two pots. The first pot will consist the top team from each of the eight groups and the second pot will consist the runners up teams from each group. All the teams will be place in an alphabetical order in their pots as follows;

Pot 1

Arsenal
Chelsea
Man Utd
Bordeaux
Fiorentina
Barcelona
Real Madrid
Sevilla

Pot 2

Lyon
Olympiacos
Bayern Munich
VfB Stuttgart
Milan
Inter
Porto
CSKA Moscow

A random team from pot 1 will be pitted against a random team from pot 2 which will be finalized by a draw. The draw is scheduled on 18th Dec 2009. All the big teams are looking in great shape to qualify for the quarter finals as there were not many upsets in this year’s group stage apart from Liverpool. So all teams are hoping for a weaker team to play against in the knock out stage.

Current champions Barcelona could bid an early good bye to this year’s contest if they are defeated at Camp Nou by Jose Mourinho’s Inter Milan, alongside Rubin Kazan needs to win over Dynamo Kiev in Russia. Samuel Eto’o will return to his old club and would want to make sure that he helps Inter in all possible ways to defeat Barcelona.

Bayern Munich see themselves in a similar situation as Liverpool. A win over Israeli club Maccabi Haifa in Munich tonight would be pointless if Juventus manage to defeat Bordeaux in France tonight.