Se defined the playoffs crosses of the Champions League And there will be an early final, with the clash between the powerful real Madrid and Manchester City.
After the raffle held on Friday, the prevailing champion Madrid and the English team ended up citing for the fifth time in the last six editions of the Maximum European Club Tournament.
“This already seems like a derby, four years in a row facing Madrid,” said City Guardiola coach.
The tie will start in Manchester on February 11 or 12 and the second leg will be on February 18 or 19 at the Santiago Bernabéu stadium in Madrid. The meringues were proclaimed champions last season, expanding their titles record to 15.
The crossing winner will access the round of 16 to face Atlético de Madrid or Bayer Leverkusen, which were classified among the top eight under the new 36 -team league format that ended Wednesday.
The teams that ended from 9 to 24 position in the classification went to the playoffs. Madrid was 11th, while the City advanced with suffering-like 22nd-after tracing to win 3-1 to Belgium witches on the last date.
At the end of 22nd, the City knew that it would have to face Madrid (11) or Bayern Munich (12) in the playoffs. Bayern will be measured against Celtic de Glasgow (21).
“Both Bayern and Madrid were very hard and hopefully we can arrive at a good time with the first leg and the return in Madrid,” said Guardiola.
The winner will see them in the eighths against Atlético directed by Diego Simeone or the Leverkusen of Xabi Alonso in March.
UEFA will raffle the matches of the Round on February 21.
The new format – with tennis -style elimination box – now allows equipment from the same country to face the quarterfinals. This was not possible during the last two decades when the eighth round opened the direct elimination phase.
This caused Paris Saint-German to end up measuring his French rival Brest, which he will also face on Saturday at Ligue 1 on Saturday. For its part, Monaco will play against Benfica.
No national crosses were completed between Italian and Dutch teams. AC Milan will play against Feyenoord and Juventus will face PSV Eindhoven.
The other series are witches-Atalanta and Sporting Lisbon-Borussia Dortmund.
The teams that await them in the eighth round in March are Liverpool, Barcelona, Arsenal, Inter Milan, Atlético, Leverkusen, Lille and Aston Villa.
Thus were the 16th crosses of the Champions League
- Brest vs. PSG
- Benfica vs. Monaco
- Juventus vs. PSV
- Bruges vs. Atalanta
- Sporting de Lisbon vs. Borussia Dortmund
- Celtic vs. Bayern Munich
- Real Madrid vs. Manchester City
- Feyenoord vs. Milan
What are the teams already classified to the round of 16 of the Champions League?
- Liverpool
- Barcelona
- Arsenal
- Inter
- Atlético Madrid
- Bayer Leverkusen
- Lille
- Aston Villa
Source: Ambito
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