Since Sevilla often takes the wild card of the Europa League winner to rub the Champions League games, it is natural that La Liga often has five teams competing in the Champions League. This season is like this, and this season's La Liga teams have been extremely ferocious in the Champions League, with Real Madrid, Barcelona, Atletico Madrid, and Real Sociedad all advancing to the round of 16, and they are all group winners. Although Sevilla are a bit of a drag at the bottom of the group, it can't hide the strength of the La Liga team. In the past, everyone was more impressed that Premier League teams often showed their huge cards in the last 16 of the Champions League, but this time, it was the turn of La Liga.
In extreme cases, it is possible for all 4 La Liga teams to advance to the quarterfinals, and even after the quarterfinals, if the draw results are fluctuating enough, La Liga teams can even win the semi-finals?
Far from it. Let's get back to reality and take a look at the current quarter-final matchups. Although the La Liga team has a strong momentum, it will also be neutralized by fate. Although the results of the draw were not arranged, it has to be said that it was too much of a coincidence. The four La Liga teams, since they are all group winners, their potential opponents are naturally the seven group runners in addition to the same group teams, and it is incredible that the four La Liga teams actually won the four stronger group runners-up.
Let's put it this way, if we rank the second teams in the 8 groups according to their strength, then the 4 teams in La Liga are actually drawn from No. 1 to No. 4, and the weaker No. 5 to No. 8 actually slipped away from their fingertips during the draw and were drawn away by the first teams in other groups.
In fact, before the draw, the 8 group winners must have their own wishful thinking, as well as their favorite opponents. You can think about it, among the 8 group winners, there are 4 La Liga teams, accounting for half, and these 4 teams have not even drawn a big package, this probability, is it very low? Moreover, they also took away the 4 most tricky opponents, is this probability lower than lower?
Obviously, for the eight group winners, the ideal opponent for the round of 16 is Copenhagen, followed by Porto and PSV Eindhoven, all three of which are not from the top five leagues, and the strength is indeed slightly weaker. In addition, it is Lazio. Lazio took advantage of Milan's multi-front battle last season to win the Serie A runners-up. But judging by their performances this season, their quality is still limited. So Bayern's draw is also very good.
Copenhagen, Porto, Eindhoven, Lazio, the coveted opponents of the 4 top teams, all failed to get along with the 4 La Liga teams, you can calculate, what is the probability of this happening?
Let's take another look at the opponents of the 4 teams in La Liga in reality. Needless to say, Inter Milan and Grand Paris, the second in the group, Wang Zhan. Distressed Atletico and Real Sociedad for two months. Let's look at the situation of Real Madrid and Barcelona. Real Madrid's opponent is RB Leipzig, although the strength of Red Bull is not up to the top, but after all, it is a banner of the Bundesliga in the Champions League in recent years, and it also hit Bayern 3:0 in the German Super Cup at the beginning of the season, which is not something that ordinary strong teams can do. Therefore, although RB Leipzig is not as good as Real Madrid, it is definitely worth being wary of, and they have the ability to cause upsets.
Barcelona's opponents, Napoli, were last season's Serie A champions. Although Napoli was double-killed by Real Madrid in the group stage, it scored 4 goals against Real Madrid in two legs, can Barcelona withstand such an attack? So in this matchup, on the surface, Barcelona is free to advance, but in fact, it is possible for either side to eliminate whoever is eliminated, and Barcelona only has a slight advantage at most.
It can only be said that the draw for the round of 16 of the Champions League is too unfriendly to the La Liga team, maybe fate wants to suppress the arrogance of the La Liga team, after all, if there is a league team in the quarterfinals, there will be a lot less to watch. Considering the results of such a draw, my personal prediction is that at least one La Liga team will not be able to reach the quarterfinals.