Celta have done well to qualify for the last 16 in their first Champs League season. It took a late goal winning their last match away to AC Milan in the last match of the group. Admittedly, that was against a weakened Milan side (they had already won the group and half of them were on a plane to Japan), and Celta required Bruges to beat Ajax to send them through, but nonetheless they did only lose one match (1-0 away to Ajax) and drew 3 (see uefa.com), which ain't bad in that group. Celta are currently languishing near the bottom of La Liga.

One shouldn't be too confident of course, everyone's going to be fairly strong at this stage. But let's be honest, this is a pretty good draw.

As far as we can tell, Arsenal have never played Celta Vigo. We did let them have Nelson Vivas (for a year) and Silvinho, though. Silvinho's still there. Other players you may have heard of include Russian midfielder Alexander Mostovoi, Argentine keeper Cavallero, and a Brazilian midfielder called Edu. Contrary to what I wrote (in a bit of a rush) immediately after the draw, Benni McCarthy is not with them any more, they swapped him for former Villa man Savo Milosevic in the summer.

The draw in full:

Stuttgart            vs  Chelsea
Porto                vs  Man Utd
Real Sociedad        vs  Olympique Lyonnais
Celta Vigo           vs  Arsenal
Bayern Munich        vs  Real Madrid
Sparta Prague        vs  Milan
Deportivo La Coruna  vs  Juventus
Lokomotiv Moscow     vs  Monaco