Avoiding the Drop

This week, while you’re planning to visit family (or, worse, planning for them to arrive), you’ll probably find yourself at some point wondering what it was you forgot to do. At “Avoiding the Drop”, our public service to you is to help make sure that “remember to set the DVR for Champions League matches” isn’t that thing. Times and matches are up after the jump.

DAY #1 (11/24/09)

Fiorentina vs. Lyon: FSC (11/24/09, 2:45 PM EST)
Rubin Kazan vs. Dynamo Kiev: DirecTV (11/24/09, 2:45 PM EST), FSC (11/25/09, 1:00 AM EST)
Arsenal vs. Standard Liege: DirecTV (11/24/09, 2:45 PM EST), FSC (11/24/09, 9:00 PM EST)
Barcelona vs. Inter Milan: Fox Sports en Español/FSN (11/24/09, 2:45 PM EST), FSC (11/24/09, 7:00 PM EST)
Debrecen vs. Liverpool: Setanta (11/24/09, 2:45 PM EST), FSC (11/24/09, 5:00 PM EST)
Rangers vs. VfB Stuttgart: DirecTV (11/24/09, 2:45 PM EST)
Unirea Urziceni vs. Sevilla: DirecTV (11/24/09, 2:45 PM EST)
AZ Alkmaar vs. Olympiacos: DirecTV (11/24/09, 2:45 PM EST)

DAY #2 (11/25/09)

AC Milan vs. Marseille: FSC (11/25/09, 2:45 PM EST)
Manchester United vs. Besiktas: Setanta (11/25/09, 2:45 PM EST), FSC (11/25/09, 7:00 PM EST)
FC Porto vs. Chelsea: DirecTV (11/25/09, 2:45 PM EST), FSC (11/26/09, 5:00 PM EST)
Bordeaux vs. Juventus: DirecTV (11/25/09, 2:45 PM EST), FSC (11/26/09, 1:00 AM EST)
Real Madrid vs. FC Zurich: Fox Sports en Español (11/25/09, 2:45 PM EST), FSC (11/25/09, 5:00 PM EST)
APOEL vs. Atletico Madrid: DirecTV (11/25/09, 2:45 PM EST)
CSKA Moscow vs. Wolfsburg: DirecTV (11/25/09, 2:45 PM EST)
Bayern Munich vs. Maccabi Haifa: DirecTV (11/25/09, 2:45 PM EST)

As always, this is pretty much stolen straight from Fox Soccer’s downloadable TV schedule (.pdf). Once again, Fox seems to have gotten it right; the games not being shown, for the most part, don’t particularly matter.

If I had to pick, I’d say that Barcelona vs. Inter is probably the biggest one of the week, followed closely by Fiorentina vs. Lyon and Bordeaux vs. Juventus. The English teams, for the most part, aren’t playing in particularly interesting games.