Arsenal, like Liverpool, will have to endure a home-and-away contest in order to be in included in the Champions League group stages, and with the likes of Atletico Madrid and Galatasaray as possible opponents, it is fully understandable that the Frenchman is apprehensive.
"There are quite a few teams we would like to avoid," he admitted to told Arsenal TV. "That is why it is better not to look at it. We will just take who we get.
"We just have to improve now, to use the two tournaments we play to get physically stronger and better, then we will play who we get."
What follows is the full list of names in the draw:
SEEDED TEAMS: Liverpool; Barcelona; Arsenal; Schalke; Juventus; Rangers/Kaunas; Marseille; Steaua Bucharest; Panathinaikos/Dinamo Tbilisi; IFK Gothenburg/Basle; Olympiacos; Fenerbahce/MTK Hungaria; Shakhtar Donetsk; Anderlecht/BATE; Fiorentina; Spartak Moscow.
UNSEEDED TEAMS: Atletico Madrid; Sheriff Tiraspol/Sparta Prague; Drogheda/Dynamo Kiev; Levski Sofia; Slavia Prague; Galatasaray; Inter Baku/Partizan Belgrade; Vitoria Guimaraes; Domzale/Dinamo Zagreb; Beitar Jerusalem/Wisla Krakow; Standard Liege; Twente Enschede; Tampere/Artmedia Bratislava; Aalborg/Modrica; Brann/Ventspils; Anorthosis Famagusta/Rapid Vienna
"There are quite a few teams we would like to avoid," he admitted to told Arsenal TV. "That is why it is better not to look at it. We will just take who we get.
"We just have to improve now, to use the two tournaments we play to get physically stronger and better, then we will play who we get."
What follows is the full list of names in the draw:
SEEDED TEAMS: Liverpool; Barcelona; Arsenal; Schalke; Juventus; Rangers/Kaunas; Marseille; Steaua Bucharest; Panathinaikos/Dinamo Tbilisi; IFK Gothenburg/Basle; Olympiacos; Fenerbahce/MTK Hungaria; Shakhtar Donetsk; Anderlecht/BATE; Fiorentina; Spartak Moscow.
UNSEEDED TEAMS: Atletico Madrid; Sheriff Tiraspol/Sparta Prague; Drogheda/Dynamo Kiev; Levski Sofia; Slavia Prague; Galatasaray; Inter Baku/Partizan Belgrade; Vitoria Guimaraes; Domzale/Dinamo Zagreb; Beitar Jerusalem/Wisla Krakow; Standard Liege; Twente Enschede; Tampere/Artmedia Bratislava; Aalborg/Modrica; Brann/Ventspils; Anorthosis Famagusta/Rapid Vienna
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