The draw celebrated this Monday 14 December in the House of the European Football of Nyon (Switzerland) has determined all the pairings for the eighth of final of the UEFA Champions League 2020-2021. A draw to the that the FC Barcelona arrived after having competed in the phase of groups to Juventus (first of group), Dynamo of Kiev and Ferencvaros, obtaining 15 points with 5 victories and falling estrepitosamente in front of the Juve in the Camp Nou (0-3).

It was as it was, now they arrive the eliminatory direct and to the FC Barcelona will touch him increase the concentration and the performance to advance of round. The rival in eighth of final will be the PSG, an always dangerous team and very offensive, with Neymar Jr and Mbappé like big stars. The French have happened like first of group after the RB Leipzig, and the Barcelona of Koeman will have to leave the skin if it wishes to advance to chambers.

It fits to stand out that to the Barcelona picture could have him touched also the Bayern Munich, Chelsea, the Borussia Dortmund, the Liverpool or the Manchester City. The bad fortune has offered to the PSG like next rival, by what can say that the team of Koeman will have a very complicated rival before trying access to the quarter-finals of the Champions League 2020-21.

The UEFA has done official the programming of the eighth of final, that already advanced does some months. The commitments of gone of eighth of final will contest the days 16, 17, 23 and 24 February, whereas the parties of turn will be the 9, 10, 16 and 17 March. When they only remain eight teams in the career by the title sorteará the final picture and the chambers, semis and final will remain totally defined so much in crosses as in calendar.

The FC Barcelona will play the gone in the Camp Nou and the turn in the Park of The Princes, when having preference the Parisians by the fact to having happened to the following round like first of group. The Barça, in this sense, will confront to an atypical situation in which it will have to offer a 'plus' to survive. The Barça followed attentively a draw that, without place to doubts, has left big parties between the best clubs of the European continent.

The staff of Koeman, in spite of the difficulty of the rival, is more motivated that never to follow advancing in the European tournament. The PSG will be a big stone of touch for discernir if this Barça aspires truly to the Champions, further that it was not to his best level of the last seasons. The ones of Thomas Tuchel have reached the eighth of final of the Champions remaining by in front of the Leipzig in his respective group, and deleting to the Manchester United.

Hard draw for the FC Barcelona

The FC Barcelona paid expensive the fact of have not achieved to protect the first square of his group that kept during five days. In this way, the rival of the culés had to go out of a bass drum that carried the ballots of the Bayern Munich, the Manchester City, the Liverpool, the Borussia Dortmund, Paris Saint-Germain and Chelsea, opponents much more complicated that those that had available, for example, a Real Madrid that yes attained to remain first.

The dates stood out of the Champions 2020-21​

Phase of eliminatory

  • Eighth of final: 16-17-23-24 February (parties of gone) / 9-10-16-17 March (parties of turn)
  • Quarter-finals: 6, 7, 13 and 14 April
  • Semifinals: 27 April and 5 May
  • Final: 29 May: (Istanbul)