Villas-Boas wants to avoid AC Milan

Andre Villas-Boas wants Chelsea to avoid Italian giants AC Milan in Friday's draw for the last 16 of the UEFA Champions League.

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The
Chelsea boss will be anxiously hoping to pick up one of the easier
opponents when the draw, made at UEFA's Nyon headquarters, is conducted.

He said: 'There are, of course, a lot of top teams also in those runners-up spot.''

One team with seven European titles [AC Milan] and, for sure, those will be the ones to try to avoid.'

Other
teams Villas-Boas hopes to swerve includes the dangerous Napoli, who
qualified at the expense of Manchester City, and Lyon, while Basle stand
out as the dream draw - although they were responsible for Manchester
United's exit.

Chelsea can also draw Marseille, Zenit St
Petersburg and CSKA Moscow, and the latter two could present a challenge
due to the freezing temperatures in Russia in February and March.

Villas-Boas,
whose Porto side played CSKA and Spartak Moscow in the Europa League
knockout stages last season, said: 'It happened to me last year in Porto
twice and I have no problem with it.'

The synthetic pitch is also always difficult at CSKA but it's something that we think our players can handle.'

Zenit is a different story, a natural pitch. Of course, it's very, very cold.'

Villas-Boas added: 'Any team from now on is extremely difficult.

'What we wanted to try to do is win the trophy but it gets pretty difficult now.'

Arsenal
join Chelsea in the seeded part of the draw after finishing top of
their group, thus avoiding the prospect of drawing fellow pool winners
such as Barcelona, Real Madrid, Bayern Munich and Inter Milan.

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While
Chelsea cannot play Bayer Leverkusen due to them being from the same
group, Arsenal can, but will avoid Marseilles for the same reason