Real Madrid to play Manchester City in standout clash of Champions League knockout playoffs

Real Madrid To Play Manchester City In Standout Clash Of Champions League Knockout Playoffs

Spain's former player Thiago Alcantara shows a ticket of Real Madrid during the UEFA Champions League knockout phase play-off draw, at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, Friday. AP-Yonhap

Spain’s former participant Thiago Alcantara reveals a ticket of Actual Madrid throughout the UEFA Champions League knockout section play-off draw, on the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, Friday. AP-Yonhap

Actual Madrid will play Manchester Metropolis within the Champions League knockout playoffs spherical in a standout conflict of the previous two title winners after the draw was made Friday.

Man Metropolis, the 2023 champion, will host the primary leg on Feb. 11 or 12 and the return recreation in Madrid is on Feb. 18 or 19. Madrid gained a record-extending fifteenth European title final season.

The winner over two legs advances to the spherical of 16 to face both Atletico Madrid or Bayer Leverkusen, who positioned within the high eight of the brand new 36-team league standings that ended Wednesday.

Groups that completed from Nos. 9 to 24 within the standings dropped into the two-leg knockout playoffs. Madrid positioned eleventh and Man Metropolis barely certified in twenty second, after rallying to beat Membership Brugge 3-1 in a must-win recreation.

By ending in twenty second Man Metropolis knew it must face No. 11 Madrid or No. 12 Bayern Munich within the playoffs. Munich was drawn as an alternative to face Twenty first-place Celtic.

Seedings determined by the 36-team standings means Madrid and Man Metropolis already know the winner of their two-leg blockbuster can be drawn then to face No. 5 Atletico or No. 6 Leverkusen. UEFA makes the spherical of 16 pairings on Feb. 21.

The tennis-style knockout bracket within the contemporary competitors format additionally now permits groups from the identical nation to face one another earlier than the quarterfinals. That was not attainable for the previous 20 years when the spherical of 16 opened the knockout section.

That left Paris Saint-German to be drawn Friday to face French rival Brest, which it additionally performs in a Ligue 1 recreation Saturday. Monaco was left to face Benfica.

Nationwide derby video games between Italian and Dutch sides have been averted as a result of AC Milan was paired with Feyenoord, earlier than Juventus was drawn to face PSV Eindhoven.

Concluding the matches, Membership Brugge play Atalanta and Sporting Lisbon face Borussia Dortmund.

Groups awaiting them within the spherical of 16 in March are Liverpool, Barcelona, Arsenal, Inter Milan, Atletico, Leverkusen, Lille and Aston Villa. (AP)

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