That's all folks. Pleasure tapping away with you. Be merry, and enjoy the Champions League when it starts again. If anyone has counted the days to tick off before City-Barca, feel free to share.

Just a bad night at Napoli, but in some ways up to a point not that different to the win in Dortmund. Not brilliant in the first hour and the focus was defensive resilience, then... In Dortmund Ramsey scored on the break at BVB got rattled. In Naples Higuain scored a great goal, and then Arsenal got rattled. Fine margins. Don't disagree that it is costly. The draw bears that out. Dortmund, group winners will be chuffed to have Zenit.

Decent draw for PSG. Last season they beat Valencia at the same stage and then went out to Barcelona only on away goals. Intrigued to see if they can take that next step in their development by overcoming other favourites later in the competition (assuming they beat Leverkusen).

Good food for thought. Maybe they will pick different strategies for home and away leg. The pair of Aguero-Negredo is scintillating, but an interesting argument for more bodies in the interests of ball possession in midfield against Barca. If it's one up front, Negredo looks hard to drop even though Aguero is lethal. Nice problem to have if City go that way.

Mainly because their opponents in Europe were quite feeble, and perhaps a bit more scared of United than has become the case in the Premier League more recently with the fear factor less present.

Schalke are a fraction below the best in Germany. They do miss Huntelaar, who should be back in the New Year. Still expect Real to be too strong though.

Galatasaray have not been fabulous this season, and Drogba and Sneijder tend to play in flashes and bursts rather than consistently. They do have that knack for being extra inspired by the big games, though.

Also, I think it's possible Galatasaray will try to strengthen in January.

Man United historically get the biggest TV audiences irrespective of opponent. But this will be a great test of that theory. Also need to see which games are on the Tuesdays/Wednesdays.

All about the first leg. Then the psychology of being able to win in Munich (albeit when Bayern found it hard to find their usual intensity as they felt like they had qualified) can be useful.

It's very hard to prioritise. The best thing they can do is strengthen the squad as much as is humanly possible in January (hard though it is) to try to cope better with a sequence of big games.

Wenger won't focus on the FA Cup any more than usual - he will try to figure out how best to play a slightly mixed/rotated team for the cup if he can get away with it in a north London derby. He won't think of admitting defeat against Bayern before they play, even if they are heavy favourites.

Suarez? Still don't understand why Arsenal didn't go back and test Liverpool with a bigger more serious bid in the summer. They just accepted Liverpool's stance and gave up. £50 million-ish, maybe a bit more, at the time when Suarez was moody and banned, and Liverpool were not entirely sure how to play it, might have worked. Hardly likely now.

He might think about it, but I don't think he would dare. Like most managers, they can't help but go a bit weak at the knees when it comes to the Champions League. I realise Arsenal weren't challenging for the title at the time, but even after losing 4-0 at San Siro Wenger fired them up to go full pelt in the second leg.

Definitely unhelpful for Arsenal that the game at Allianz Arena comes just before a run of league games away to Tottenham, Chelsea then home to Man City.

If Bayern do manage to retain the trophy, as a sign of dominance, they will be the first team to do so since AC Milan of 1989/1990. It's clearly unbelievably tough to defend this title. Some very good teams have tried and not managed it.

Good question. Both improved. Arsenal probably needed more improving than Bayern though.

No reason why they can't aim very high. The question people will ask is how they might fare against the very best. They won away to Real Madrid this season, which gives us a clue they may not be easily intimidated. Says a lot that it would be a surprise if AC Milan cause them problems.

Yes. Bayern are, as Wenger likes to call it, a "super-favourite" so by definition if Arsenal can somehow knock them out they will earn extra status (although the squad still looks like it will be a huge challenge to maintain a big push in Premier League and Champions League simultaneously).

They definitely have enough verve and excitement (and an intriguing manager) to capture the imagination outside their own country. Atletico have proved by winning Europa League and then annihilating their CL group while sustaining a challenge at the top of La Liga that they feel the wind is behind them. In Courtois they have a brilliant keeper, in Diego Costa they have a fearsome centre forward, they are resilient defensively and vibrant going forward. What's not to like?

Forgetting Negredo and Messi there. There's a ridiculous amount of attacking talent in this tie. The playmakers aren't bad either.

As I think I mentioned further up, it's probably Mitroglou and Saviola who can do the most damage. One thing that's helpful is Olympiacos seem to be running away with their domestic league so juggling shouldn't be too much of an issue.

We can expect some Drogba tears, and one of those non celebrations if he scores (...) but overall a decent draw for Chelsea. Presumably snow in Istanbul can't be an issue again, can it?

Good luck with that one... Enjoy the game anyway. Many people would pay very handsomely to be there.

Slow down! Barca very capable of scoring away goals in Manchester, too. Hard to predict tactics for second leg before the first leg result in these knock outs. Both teams have a fine chance.

Hmm. They have to make a better fist of the first leg, that's for sure. It was a weird second leg which ultimately helped Arsenal to regroup more than they would have anticipated, but I don't think Bayern will be too uncomfortable with the fact Arsenal won there last season as they played as if they felt the tie was won. Arsenal must avoid defeat in the home leg.

Good question. Presumably City might be slightly more so only as they have not been in this situation as a club before. Barca are obviously very used to these pressures.

I found Bayern v Dortmund riveting enough... Too early to pick a best final but I wouldn't mind seeing what Atletico can do. They are pretty exciting.

I'm not sure Bayern would have felt massively differently about having Chelsea, City or United. Either way it's a tough draw but Bayern will think of themselves as favourites. The interesting thing compared to last season is that Arsenal seem to be much improved. You could argue that Bayern are improved too, though.

Simeone should be thrilled. Milan have been desperately unimpressive quite a lot this season. It was only a spurious penalty converted by Balotelli in the first game at Ajax (in stoppage time) which helped them to qualify. Kaka being back helps, and Balotelli can be inspired, but overall this is not a vintage Milan. They play tonight, but are currently 25 points off the top of Serie A and in the bottom half of the table.

Why not? Aguero and Negredo v Neymar and Messi, who should be back by then, is tantalising.

The two players most capable of making an impression are the striker Mitroglou, who is scoring very regularly, and Saviola, a player who arrived last summer and is still capable of maverick playmaking moments. Both could unpick United's defence, but Olympiacos might have a few issues of their own at the other end.