The Champions League has reached the round-of-16 stage after the play-offs concluded on Friday evening with Actual Madrid, PSV Eindhoven, Paris St-Germain and Borussia Dortmund all reserving their place within the draw.
The 4 victors from the two-legged ties will be part of Feyenoord, Membership Brugge, Bayern Munich and Benfica because the eight unseeded groups who will now tackle these seeds who completed the Swiss-format league within the prime eight positions.
Reigning champions Madrid made mild work of Manchester Metropolis by placing three targets previous Pep Guardiola’s facet for the second match in a row, .
PSG have been maybe essentially the most emphatic winners of the evening although, dispatching fellow Ligue 1 facet Brest 7-0 to clinch a 10-0 mixture victory, with Dortmund’s goalless draw seeing off Sporting 3-0 and PSV needing additional time to remove Italian giants Juventus – a 3-1 victory overturning a first-leg deficit and securing a 4-3 mixture win.
When is the Champions League last-16 draw?
The draw for the last-16 spherical takes place in Nyon, Switzerland, on Friday, February 21. It is going to begin at 11am UK time and will likely be live-streamed on Uefa.com and broadcast on TNT Sport 1.
Who’s within the final 16?
Groups who completed the brand new Swiss-format league part between first and eighth have been seeded and robotically by means of to the final 16, with the unseeded groups between ninth and twenty fourth then taking part in off to affix them.
Following the completion of the play-off spherical, now Uefa will draw which one of many two groups in every bracket will play the play-off winners.
The seeded workforce will, in precept, play the return leg at house. Potential opponents are additionally pre-defined by pairings of groups’ closing league positions that was determined at finish of the league part final month.
League part prime eight (seeded, ordered by league part place)
1. Liverpool2. Barcelona3. Arsenal4. Inter Milan5. Atletico6. Leverkusen7. Lille8. Aston Villa
Knockout part play-off winners (unseeded, ordered by league part place)
10. B. Dortmund11. Actual Madrid12. Bayern München14. PSV15. Paris Saint-Germain16. Benfica19. Feyenoord24. Membership Brugge
Who can Liverpool face?
Liverpool, Arsenal and Aston Villa completed within the prime eight so progressed immediately into the final 16. The Merseyside membership’s prime spot and top-seed standing arms them a tie in opposition to both PSG or Benfica after they defeated Brest and Monaco 10-0 and 4-3 respectively. Liverpool may even play their second leg of the spherical of 16 tie at house, and the workforce that they don’t draw will as an alternative face Barcelona.
Who can Arsenal face?
Arsenal’s third-place end means they face both PSV or Feyenoord.
Who can Aston Villa face?
Villa’s eighth-place slot arms them both Dortmund or Membership Brugge.
What occurs to the groups who’re knocked out?
There isn’t a buffer of the Europa League like years passed by. These groups who misplaced the play-offs joins all these groups who completed twenty fifth or beneath in European elimination. The Europa League and Europa Convention League are additionally utilizing the Swiss mannequin format.
When is the last-16 spherical?
First legs will likely be performed on March 4-5, with the return leg the next week on March 11-12.
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