At 7:00 p.m. Beijing time on December 13, the draw ceremony ended in this season's Champions League round of 16, Paris Saint-Germain drew manchester United, messi and C Ronaldo met for two consecutive seasons. In addition, Bayern Munich drew Atletico Madrid, chelsea, Juventus and Liverpool all drew big gift packages and advanced steadily.
In the previous group stage, Manchester City, Liverpool, Ajax, Real Madrid, Bayern Munich, Manchester United, Lille and Juventus won the first place in their respective groups, listed as seeded teams, with the advantage of the schedule of paris Saint-Germain, Atletico Madrid, Sporting Portugal, Inter Milan, Benfica, Villarreal, Salzburg and Chelsea, which were listed as non-seeded teams.
Barcelona, Borussia Dortmund and Porto, which have won the Champions League, eventually finished third in the group and could only participate in the Europa League knockout play-offs.
From the perspective of the top 16 teams, Bayern, Liverpool, Real Madrid, Manchester City and other teams are the closest to the strength and are the favorite teams to win the championship. Bayern, Liverpool and Ajax are only 3 teams that have won all of the group stages, of course, Ajax will rise again, there is still a lot of difficulty.
Chelsea and Paris Saint-Germain, who are second in the group, will have a high probability of drawing champions, especially Paris Saint-Germain, whose potential opponents choose 1 out of 6, all of which have won the Champions League, and Messi has ushered in a new challenge.
In addition, there are also a small number of "big package" teams, namely Benfica, Salzburg, Portugal Sports, the overall strength is several grades different from those giants.
One of the rules that has changed in the knockout stages of the Champions League this season is the elimination of away goals. If the two sides are tied over two legs, there will be a 30-minute overtime match, or it will be difficult to divide the winner and loser, and finally there will be a penalty shootout.
This draw continues the two principles of avoidance in the same group and avoidance by the same association team, so Chelsea will not meet Liverpool, Manchester City and Manchester United, and Paris Saint-Germain will not meet Manchester City. The final draw result is as follows:
Bayern Munich vs Atletico Madrid
Juventus vs Sport portugal
Real Madrid vs Benfica
Ajax vs Inter Milan
Manchester United vs Paris Saint-Germain
Manchester City vs Villarreal
Lille vs Chelsea
Liverpool vs Salzburg
Champions League Knockout Quarter-final Fixtures:
First leg: 16/17/23/24 February 2022
Next meeting: March 9/10/16/17, 2022
This season's Champions League final will be played in St. Petersburg and is scheduled to take place on May 29, 2022 Beijing time.