Update: UEFA officially announced that the lottery will be re-drawn at 10pm!
On 13 December, the UEFA Champions League quarter-final draw ceremony took place at UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland. Paris Saint-Germain meets Manchester United, and the showdown between Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo detonates football; La Liga champions Atletico Madrid become the most "unfortunate" team, meeting the title-winning favourite Bayern. However, there are serious problems in the UEFA draw, and Atletico have sought explanations and solutions from UEFA.
According to the Champions League lottery principle, 8 seeded teams meet 8 unseeded teams, and teams in the same group in the group stage will not meet in the 1/8 finals. However, during the lottery process, there was a big oolong:
In the group 2 matchup, Villarreal (the unseeded team) was drawn, and then UEFA pulled out Manchester United (the seeded team). Villarreal and Manchester United are the same group in the group stage and according to the rules, the two teams cannot meet. UEFA mistakenly "arranged" the 2 teams together, which is one of the oolongs.
After this farce, Arshavin re-drew the draw, this time to Manchester City, which means that the villarreal vs Manchester City showdown appears.
In the group 3 showdown, UEFA draws Atletico and Champions League ambassador Arshavin draws Bayern! This is the second of the two: after Manchester United were mistakenly drawn, the UEFA secretary-general said that Atletico's potential opponents had ruled out Manchester United because Manchester United had been pulled out.
In other words, Atletico's potential opponents should have been Ajax, Bayern, Juve, Manchester City, Manchester United, Lille, but UEFA artificially excluded Manchester United.
The world-renowned Champions League draw actually appeared 2 times super oolong, which made people cry and laugh! ESPN revealed that representatives of Atletico clubs have negotiated with UEFA for the results of the draw. UEFA is also urgently discussing whether the result of this draw is valid. In the coming hours, there will be a clear statement.
Soon, Atletico officially issued a statement: "In response to the mistakes in the Champions League draw, we have communicated with UEFA and are seeking explanations and solutions. "This is an official protest by Atletico.
According to espn, COPE radio and other media news, a number of clubs expressed dissatisfaction, UEFA may re-draw! Then, ESPN reporters revealed that UEFA was "close to agreeing to re-draw the lottery". After all, the four giants of Atletico Madrid, Manchester United, Bayern and Paris Saint-Germain have all been drawn because of UEFA's mistakes.