After seeing off Vitoria Guimaraes in the first round on Thursday night, the Blues now find themselves in the hat for Tuesday's group-stage draw in Geneva (11am).

There are 40 teams left in this stage of the competition and they will be allocated into eight groups of five teams.

In a convoluted system only UEFA could think up, Pompey will play two teams in the group at home and the other two away.

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The top three clubs will then proceed to the last 32, where they will be joined by the eight teams dropping out of the Champions League.

The intriguing part of Tuesday's draw, though, comes from who the Blues could meet next.

Teams are allocated to one of five pots based on their UEFA rankings – Pompey are in pot 4 – and the draw consists of one team from each pot being placed into each group.

Clubs cannot, however, be drawn with sides from their own country.

>>> Burton's Banter - Pompey defeat the anti-football. Click here to read our blog.

Looking at pot 1, therefore, means Harry Redknapp's men are guaranteed to play one of Benfica, CSKA Moscow, Hamburg, AC Milan, Seville, Valencia, Schalke 04.

And pot 2 will pit them against either Ajax, Stuttgart, Olympiacos, Deportivo La Coruna, Club Brugge, Spartak Moscow. Paris Saint-Germain or Heerenveen.

So get ready Blue Army – the European adventure has only just begun...


WHO'S NEXT?

POT 1
Benfica, CSKA Moscow, Hamburg, AC Milan, Seville, Valencia, Schalke 04, Spurs.

POT 2
Ajax, Stuttgart, Olympiacos, Deportivo, Club Brugge, Spartak Moscow, PSG, Heerenveen.

POT 3
Rosenburg, Udinese, Feyenoord, Braga, Slavia Prague, Manchester City, Galatasaray, Sampdoria.

POT 4
POMPEY, Hertha Berlin, Partizan Belgrade, Nancy, Aston Villa, Racing Santander, Copenhagen, Dinamo Zagreb.

POT 5
Saint Etienne, Wolfsburg, Standard Liege, Twente (Holland), NEC (Holland), Metalist Kharkiv (Ukraine), Lech Poznan (Poland), Zilina (Slovakia)

>>> Also see: Burton's Banter - Pompey defeat the anti-football. Click here to read our blog.

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