Overview: This is the group for Jorge Mendes, the Portuguese super-agent who moves players from Benfica to Zenit — like Ezequiel Garay this summer — and helps Monaco with its recruitment, too. Whether Radamel Falcao and, indeed, Joao Moutinho will be Monaco players when these games kick off is in Mendes' hands. Monaco, after last summer's spending spree, has become a selling club now, and it's Bayer Leverkusen, who bought Josip Drmic and the highly-rated playmaker Hakan Calhanoglu this summer, who could threaten Andre Villas-Boas’s hopes of reaching the knockout phase.
The big question: Will Villas Boas get the redemption he craves in this competition and earn a Round of 16 tie against Chelsea so he can beat Jose Mourinho and Roman Abramovich?
Tip to progress: Benfica, Bayer Leverkusen
