BARÇA ALREADY KNOWS ALL ITS POSSIBLE RIVALS
Date, time, classified teams... Everything about the draw for the Champions quarterfinals
Atlético de Madrid and Borussia Dortmund certified this Wednesday their presence in the Champions League quarter-final draw this Friday. Along with them will be Barça, Madrid, PSG, Bayern, City and Arsenal
FC Barcelona, Real Madrid, Manchester City, Paris Saint-Germain, Bayern of Munich, Arsenal, Athletic of Madrid and Borussia Dortmund will be the eight teams that are this next Friday in the draw of quarter-finals of the UEFA Champions League. Rojiblancos And 'borussers' have been the last in taking out his note for the next round, taking down the ones of the Cholo Simeone in the batch of penaltis to the Inter of Milan (1-0 and 2-1), and the Germans to the PSV Eindhoven (1-1 and 2-0).
They go to be one of the best chambers of the last decade to level of teams, since all the favourites have classified . The draw will celebrate , as it is usual, in the House of the European Football of Nyon (Switzerland), and will be this Friday 15 March to the 12:00 (Spanish hour). From then dirimirán all the crosses, that aim to be spectacular by the name and the quality of all the clubs that have happened of eighth.
It fits to stand out that from fourth no longer there is any type of conditioning and all can play against all. Therefore, the groups of a same country will be able to confront between them and would not be descabellado think in a Classical between Barça and Madrid. The culés, that now are grown after deleting to the Naples, go to have with almost total probability a crossing complicated and the only rival to 'priori' inferior seems the Borussia Dortmund.
Dates of the chambers, the 'semis' and the final of Champions
Also it is necessary to signal that, as it already has occurred these last seasons, the possible crosses of semifinals will know also in this draw. The pictures will remain established and all the teams will know his way to be able to arrive to the final of Wembley. This can do that all was even more thrilling, if the two sides of the picture have a similar difficulty, but also could subtract him emotion to the 'semis' if the best teams joint in a same side.
After the draw will know which day plays each eliminatory, but already know the dates in which they will contest the chambers in general. The 9 and 10 April will play the gone, whereas a week afterwards, the 16 and 17 of the same month, will close the round with the four turns. Later, the gone of semifinals will play on 30 April and on 1 May, whereas the turns will be the and 7 and on 8 May. Finally, the big final will be on 1 June in the mythical stadium of Wembley, that is where wants to be the FC Barcelona.
Like this they were the eighth of final of Champions
After these eighth of final has gone back to remain clear that the City is the big favourite to win again the League of Champions. The ones of Pep Guardiola surpassed with extreme ease to the Copenaghe (6-2 in global) and are definitely the rival to beat. The PSG of Luis Enrique, in spite of all the wrap that there is by the course of Kylian Mbappé, also showed his big level to the 'arrasar' (global of 4-1) to the Real Sociedad in Donosti with the 'turtle' as big star.
On the other hand, Bayern and Barça also finish winning with ease in the turn (3-0 and 3-1, respectively), but in the gone the Bavarians lost (1-0) and the culés, in spite of being better, empataron (1-1), leaving doubts the two. In spite of this, the feelings after the eighth of the two are good and see with capacity to arrive far in this Champions, especially if the draw smiles them and avoid to the City.
Real Madrid and Arsenal are the 'big' that more doubts have left in the eighth. The whites won in the gone with Lunin of star to the Leipzig with a lot of lesionados (0-1), but in the turn suffered a lot of and even feared by the eliminatory sometime (1-1). The 'gunners', by his part, fell in Port wine (1-0) complicating the pass and in the turn had to go to the penaltis (1-0) to happen thanks to the stops of David Rayto in the batch.
Finally, this Wednesday have certified his pass to fourth the Athletic and the Dortmund. The colchoneros were badly in the gone, where fell 1-0, but in the turn have been better that the Inter and have finish winning in penaltis, with Oblak of star, showing character all the team. Loss German, by his part, after empatar in the gone have undone of a PSV that in the second part brushed the goal in a pair of occasions, but that at the end finish losing in front of a Borussia that has dangerous players, but to the that is missing him goal and greater aggressiveness in defence.