Chelsea - Real Madrid, the shock of the quarter-finals

Posted in: 03/18/2022 – 13:01Modified : 03/18/2022 – 16:07

The draw for the 2021-2022 UEFA Champions League quarter-finals was held on Friday, March 18th in the Swiss city of Nyon, at the UEFA headquarters. The big poster will oppose Chelsea, the defending champion, Real Madrid, the thirteen-time winner of the competition. The double confrontation between Manchester City Pep Guardiola and Atletico Madrid Diego Simeone will also be very popular. In the European League, Lyon has an appointment with West Ham.

The eight clubs that were victorious in the Champions League knockout rounds have been fixed. The quarter-final matches of the 2021-2022 edition will be held on April 5 and 6 for the first leg matches, and April 12 and 13 for the return matches. They will have a strong English (three teams in the Premier League) and Spanish (three teams from La Liga).

Mikael Silvestre, former defender Vice-Champion of the 2006 World Cup with France and the 2008 Champions League winner with Manchester United, is into the draw.

For the second year in a row, Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi will not participate in this double meeting after the elimination of Manchester United against Villarreal and Paris Saint-Germain against Real Madrid. But even without the Portuguese and the Argentine, the show should be there in the spring.

Very attractive Chelsea – Real Madrid

The first decal repaired during checkout is luxurious. Chelsea, the defending champions and the only club to win their two matches in the previous round against Lille, will face C1’s greatest specialist: Real Madrid, who has been crowned 13 times. A match in the form of a new reunion for Thibaut Courtois and Eden Hazard, former Blues executives, and Mateo Kovacic, former Merengue. And it will also be an opportunity for the Spanish club to avenge Chelsea, who toppled him last season in the semi-finals.

Manchester City, who reached the unfortunate final in May 2021, will face Atletico Madrid. An expected confrontation between two well-known coaches, Pep Guardiola at Citizen and Diego Simeone at Colchonero.

Villarreal, the Spanish club that sank Juventus this week, sees a ghoul standing in its way: Bayern Munich, the six-times European champions and the 7-1 win over Salzburg on March 8 in the round of 16.

Finally, it will see the last quarter-final between the Portuguese from Benfica against the Englishman from Liverpool.

In addition, the draw for the semi-finals was also made: the winner of Chelsea – Real Madrid will meet with Manchester City – Atletico Madrid, and the winner of Benfica – Liverpool will meet the counterpart of Villarreal – Bayern.

Quarter-final table:

Chelsea (England) – Real Madrid (Spain)
Manchester City (England) – Atlético Madrid (Spain)
Villarreal (Spain) – Bayern Munich (Germany)
Benfica (Portugal) – Liverpool (England)

Lyon vs West Ham in the Europa League

The Europa League quarter-final draw was also held in Nyon with former Spain goalkeeper Andres Palop as a special guest. Olympique Lyonnais, the last French club still in the running and Porto’s top scorer, inherited the English side West Ham that ousted Sevilla. An interesting poster for Eintracht Frankfurt, the only club among these quarter-finalists that actually won this competition in 1980 (it was called the UEFA Cup): FC Barcelona is waiting for it.

Qualified without a play After Spartak Moscow were excluded as part of the sanctions imposed on Russia after the invasion of Ukraine, RB Leipzig will play Atalanta Bergamo. Finally, he will face the Portuguese from Braga, the Scottish Rangers. The first matches are scheduled for April 7, and the return matches are scheduled for April 14.

In the semi-finals, the winner from Leipzig-Bergamo will face Braga-Rangers, while the winner from West Ham-Lyon will face Frankfurt-Barcelona.

Quarter-final table:

Leipzig (Germany) – Atalanta Bergamo (Italy)
Eintracht Frankfurt (Germany) – Barcelona (Spain)
West Ham (England) – Olympique Lyonnais (France)
Braga (Portugal) – Rangers (Scotland)

Marseille vs PAOK Thessaloniki in the UEFA Europa League Conference

Qualified after two wins over Basel in the Round of 16, Olympique de Marseille witnessed an old acquaintance during the draw for the new European League Conference quarter-finals: its former captain Loric Cana, in charge of drawing the balls. The former Albanian midfielder did not have a strong hand with the Fujians. Jorge Sampaoli’s men will face the Greeks at PAOK Thessaloniki.

The first matches are scheduled for April 7, and the return matches are scheduled for April 14.

The winner of the Leicester-Eindhoven match will find the Bodo/Glimt-Roma match in the semi-finals. The other semi-final will be opposed by the winner of Rotterdam-Prague over Marseille-Thessaloniki.

Quarter-final table: