At 19:00 Beijing time this evening, that is, half an hour before the broadcast of the "World Football" program that the majority of Chinese fans like to watch, or in other words, at the time when the fans are eating dinner, a big event will happen in European football, and the champions league top 16 draw ceremony will be held at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.
The 16 teams are seeded (1st of 8 groups, Manchester City, Liverpool, Aja, Real Madrid, Bayern, Manchester United, Lille, Juve) and non-seeded teams (2nd of 8 groups, Paris, Atletico, Sporting Portugal, Inter, Benfica, Huang Qian, Salzburg and Chelsea). Since the three giants of Paris, Atletico and Inter are all unseeded teams, there will inevitably be a matchup between the giants in the quarter-finals.
Because the Champions League round of 16 draw follows the principle of avoidance and avoidance of the same group, and the second place is to touch the first place, so messi's Paris will not have the opportunity to meet the four big fat meats of Huang Qian, Portugal Sport, Benfica and Salzburg. On the contrary, C Ronaldo's Manchester United group No. 1, in addition to not being able to touch the same group of Huang Qian, the other 3 teams have the opportunity to meet, to know that Portugal Sports, Benfica are C Ronaldo's home team, C Ronaldo should be more relaxed to play.
The Champions League Round of 16 comes from the top five leagues (12 teams) and the other major leagues (4 teams). Among them, the Premier League has become a big winner, 4 participating teams have all passed (Chelsea, Manchester United, Liverpool, Manchester City), La Liga except Barca, Sevy all promoted (Real Madrid, Atletico, Villarreal), Serie A is Inter and Juve jointly qualified, Bundesliga and Ligue 1 overlord Bayern Paris, also entered the next round without suspense. Lille, who has been mediocre in Ligue 1 this season, is actually no. 1 in the Champions League group.
Fans need to be reminded that the Champions League 16-in-8 knockout match will be scheduled for late February and early March next year, which is still a familiar home-and-away game system. However, the "away goal" rule will be abolished, and if the two sides are tied in the aggregate score between home and away, then the first and second half will be directly played for a total of 30 minutes of overtime; if the extra time is still difficult to win or lose, it will be directly kicked to decide. This change in rules can also be regarded as keeping pace with the times, after all, the current European epidemic prevention situation is still very severe, and the Champions League knockout match will of course weaken the home advantage as much as possible, which is conducive to avoiding more fans watching the game on the spot.
In last season's Champions League quarter-finals, Paris eliminated Bayern with an away goal advantage. Will Bayern and Paris greater meet in the Champions League knockout rounds for three consecutive seasons? If the two teams meet again tonight, Levan will directly PK with Messi. Lewan, who lost the Ballon d'Or to Messi, must have wanted to beat Messi in the Champions League.
Of course, what fans are most looking forward to is messi meeting C Ronaldo! The possibility of Merrow meeting is also as likely as Messi to meet Levan, if the Champions League knockout match, Mero can meet, it must be the most beautiful scenery in world football! Isn't that the case?