My group was virtually the same as your's! Just with Benfica, instead of Bayern! I think we could win our group.
I like that group even more - a Benfica, Sevilla, Spurs et al group would be one I'd be very confident about.
@Spurs7891 - That's true. I think it's because of the way we qualified - last time, we did it in true movie fashion. We lost to Pompey in the FA Cup semi, everyone thought our season was over (I was in Switzerland at the time, and it absolutely ruined me to the point where I shut myself in my hotel room for a day and missed all sorts of deadlines as a result
). After all, we had to face Arsenal (who we hadn't beaten in the league in donkey's years), Chelsea (who were spanking teams left, right and centre under Ancelotti), United and City in the final stretch of games.
But we did it. We rose, like a phoenix from the flames, and refused to let a great season fizzle away into nothing. We beat Arsenal with Rose's wonder goal, Bale's early second-half sucker-punch and then Gomes' wonder saves as they laid siege to our goal (including a fantastic fingertip save to stop a header from dear old Sol). We beat Chelsea, and we deserved to do so. We went up to City and simply outplayed them, with Ledley, Daws, Gomes, Hudd, Modders, Bale, Lennon, Crouch, Defoe and co. all playing the part of memorable heroes. And we got into the CL for the first time.
This time, we were pretty much guaranteed a spot in the CL after about the 34th or 35th gameweek. And, rather than climbing up towards a goal worth reaching, we sort of slid miserably down towards it as a consolation prize after crumbling at the end and letting the dual dreams of winning the title and finishing above Arsenal slip out of our reach. That colours perceptions, I think.
