Real Madrid to face Man City in Champions League quarterfinals
Kylian Mbappé's path to a first Champions League title with Paris Saint-Germain in his farewell season there will next go through Barcelona
PTI
Nyon (Switzerland), 15 March
Real Madrid and Manchester City
will meet in a heavyweight Champions League quarterfinal between the past two
winners and the only two teams to win all eight games in this season's
competition. Madrid will host the first leg on 9 or 10 April and the return
will be the week after in Manchester.
Kylian Mbappé's path to a first
Champions League title with Paris Saint-Germain in his farewell season there
will next go through Barcelona. PSG hosts the first leg.
Arsenal was drawn to play the first
leg at home against Bayern Munich, whose star striker Harry Kane will go back
to north London after leaving the Gunners' archrival Tottenham this offseason. Atletico
Madrid was paired with Borussia Dortmund in the other game.
UEFA also made the draw for the
semifinals which ensured Mbappé and PSG cannot meet Real Madrid — the team he
is expected to join in the summer — until the final. That draw arguably put the
four strongest teams in the same half.
The winner between Real Madrid and
Man City will be away in the first leg against Arsenal or Bayern. Atletico or
Dortmund will host the first leg against PSG or Barcelona.
There was a familiar and powerful
look to the draw. It featured five European champions — who have combined to
win 27 of the previous 68 titles — and three beaten finalists: Arsenal,
Atletico and PSG. The semifinals are played between 30 April and 8 May. The
final is on 1 June at Wembley Stadium in London.
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