{"id":224,"date":"2016-08-25T17:15:56","date_gmt":"2016-08-25T17:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/?p=224"},"modified":"2016-08-25T17:39:15","modified_gmt":"2016-08-25T17:39:15","slug":"arsenal-draw-psg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2016\/08\/25\/arsenal-draw-psg\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal Draw Paris Saint-Germain, Basel, Ludogorets"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Arsenal Draw Paris Saint-Germain, Basel, Ludogorets<\/h2>\n<p>Arsenal have drawn very well for this season&#8217;s installment of Champions League football. Slotted in Group A,\u00a0Arsenal are joined by Paris Saint-Germain, Basel and Ludogorets.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We\u2019ve been drawn against Paris Saint-Germain, Basel and Ludogorets in Group A of the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChampionsLeague\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@ChampionsLeague<\/a>. More soon\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jCZDbOEeUE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/jCZDbOEeUE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Arsenal FC (@Arsenal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Arsenal\/status\/768852690579361798\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 25, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>Paris Saint-Germain<\/h2>\n<p>While PSG are a massive club with an equally impressive payroll, Arsenal must be somewhat relieved at avoiding Barcelona, Real Madrid and Bayern Munich. PSG are beatable, and with a healthy squad, there is every opportunity to finish atop the group for the Gunners.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Arsenal are drawn against PSG for just the 2nd time ever. Their last meeting was the Cup Winners Cup in 1994. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/afc?src=hash\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#afc<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xcRWdgyQ5Z\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/xcRWdgyQ5Z<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 afcstuff (@afcstuff) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/afcstuff\/status\/768855928787566592\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 25, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Basel<\/h2>\n<p>It will be interesting to note that the Xhaka brothers will be opponents for Arsenal&#8217;s home leg and trip to Basel to play the Swiss side.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p>\nXhaka brothers will be opponents again <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/afc?src=hash\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#afc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Taulant Xhaka plays for Basel <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UCLdraw?src=hash\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#UCLdraw<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wWglkaBk4w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/wWglkaBk4w<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Arsenal Latest (@ArsenalsNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ArsenalsNews\/status\/768859289125396484\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 25, 2016<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Ludogorets<\/h2>\n<p>This will be Arsenal&#8217;s first time playing the Bulgarian side Ludogorets, which is a 2700-mile roundtrip from North London. It is also about one-eighth the size of The Emirates.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p>\nArsenal fans planning away trips: the ground capacity at Ludogorets is 8,808 &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Telegraph Football (@TeleFootball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TeleFootball\/status\/768854193901821954\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 25, 2016<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here are the rest of the results:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Group A: Paris St-Germain, Arsenal, Basel, Ludogorets<\/p>\n<p>Group B: Benfica, Napoli, Dynamo Kyiv, Besiktas<\/p>\n<p>Group C: Barcelona, Manchester City, Borussia M\u00f6nchengladbach, Celtic<\/p>\n<p>Group D: Bayern Munich, Atletico Madrid, PSV Eindhoven, FC Rostov<\/p>\n<p>Group E: CSKA Moscow, Bayer Leverkusen, Tottenham Hotspur, Monaco<\/p>\n<p>Group F: Real Madrid, Borussia Dortmund, Sporting Lisbon, Legia Warsaw<\/p>\n<p>Group G: Leicester, Porto, Club Brugge, FC Copenhagen<\/p>\n<p>Group H: Juventus, Sevilla, Lyon, Dinamo Zagreb<\/p>\n<p>Main image credit:<\/p>\n<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/592635550\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 66.666667% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/592635550?et=sb6x6OfpQhRa2FXIWE6dtg&amp;viewMoreLink=on&amp;sig=xobjsFYM_TyOwJ2n1VHrUewel4Na_xtv19hwCwARGvk=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal Draw Paris Saint-Germain, Basel, Ludogorets Arsenal have drawn very well for this season&#8217;s installment of Champions League football. Slotted in Group A,\u00a0Arsenal are joined by Paris Saint-Germain, Basel and Ludogorets. We\u2019ve been drawn against Paris Saint-Germain, Basel and Ludogorets in Group A of the @ChampionsLeague. More soon\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/jCZDbOEeUE \u2014 Arsenal FC (@Arsenal) August 25, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30,8],"tags":[32738,86,84],"class_list":["post-224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-arsenal","tag-arsenal-fixtures","tag-champions-league","tag-paris-saint-germain"],"modified_by":"Michael Kovacs, ADMIN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}