PARIS.- The current champion real Madrid It will be measured with its neighbors Atlético de Madrid In the round of 16 of the Champions Leagueaccording to the raffle held this Friday in Nyon (Switzerland), which led to other high duels.
Thus, there will also be another tie between teams from the same country, the Bayern Munich–Bayer Leverkusen From Germany, although one of the star clashes will face Liverpool, leader of the Premier League, with the Paris SG, leader of the French Ligue 1.
The raffle, with the former Brazilian striker of Bayern, Giovane Elber, as an innocent hand, was Clemente with the Barcelona, who will seek the pass to the rooms against the Portuguese Benfica, a rival who defeated Lisbon in the Liguilla phase in a spectacular game (5-4). The return will take place at the Lluís Companys Olympic Stadium in Barcelona.
Two teams also with serious aspirations to go far, Arsenal and Inter Milan, will face two Dutch clubs, PSV Eindhoven and Feyenoord, respectively. From the duel between the ‘gunners’ and the PSV will be the rival of Real Madrid or Atlético de Madrid in rooms.
The ‘Nerazzurri’ -Ronies of the destination- will face the opponent who comes from eliminating their neighbors from AC Milan. It will be the first time since 2005/2006 with two teams from the Netherlands in the eighths.
The runner -up of the last edition, Borussia Dortmund, will be measured with the French Lille and one of the surprises at this point in the competition, the Belgian witches, with the Aston Villa de Unai Emery.
New Real Madrid-Atlético chapter
The duel between the two main teams in the capital of Spain, which also fight for the title of the League, will remember the 2014 and 2016 finals, which took the white team.
Real Madrid and ‘Colchoneros’ also saw the faces in the semifinals of the highest European competition in the 2016-2017 season, with victory again for Real Madrid.
Carlo Ancelotti’s men arrive at that tie after leaving Manchester City brightness in the Play-Off, a round that saved the team led by Diego Simeone, classified directly to the eighth thanks to his fifth place in the regular league of 36 teams.
“Partidazo, departure and we are prepared, there is a great rival,” Simeone valued Laconically, who preferred to focus on the next league commitment of his team against Valencia.
A duel of maximum rivalry will also be lived in Bayern-Bayer. The Bavarian giant, despite being the leader of the Bundesliga, suffered to eliminate the Scottish Celtic in the play-off (2-1 in the first leg, and 1-1 ‘in extremis’ in Munich), while the men of Xabi Alonso were sixth in the single group league and are the current champions of Germany.
The tie, the first between Bayern and Bayer in European competition, is very open, after both teams recently tie in the Bundesliga.
The first leg will take place on March 4 and 5, with the return a week later.
The final is scheduled for May 31 at the Allianz Arena in Munich.
The picture configuration could lead to possible semifinal duels between Liverpool and Arsenal or Real Madrid by Kylian Mbappé against the PSG, former team of the French star, but there is still much for that.
