Real Madrid and PSG face English tests in quarterfinals – Real Madrid and Kylian Mbappé’s long-time former club, Paris Saint-Germain, are set to meet in the Champions League semifinal, but two English clubs are in the way.
Tuesday will be the opening leg of Madrid’s quarterfinal match against Arsenal, and Mbappé will be in attendance. April 16th is the day of the return match.
Playing home to Aston Villa on Wednesday, PSG are hot off their French league championship success under coach Luis Enrique.
Thanks to the new Champions League structure, which uses a seeded knockout bracket similar to tennis that continues all the way to the final, those four teams ended up in the same part of the draw.
Madrid had captured six of the previous eleven Champions Leagues, and that was before they signed Mbappé this season after his contract with Paris expired. Real Madrid and PSG face English tests in quarterfinals
Even though they have never won the European championship and only made it to a final once in the seven years with Mbappé, PSG appeared to be the better team throughout the round of 16, thrashing Liverpool—the likely English winner.
Three domestic league champions and a struggling eighth-place team make up the bottom half of this draw.
When Inter Milan visit Bayern Munich on Tuesday, it will be at the same venue as the May 31 final.
Borussia Dortmund, who may have to win the Champions League to secure a spot in the next one, will face Barcelona at home on Wednesday with heavy favorites.
Barcelona’s pursuit
With Mbappé’s PSG, Chelsea, City, as well as Liverpool in the final, Real Madrid’s to a record extending sixteenth Champions League trophy is as treacherous as the epic sequence of comeback victories in 2022. Real Madrid and PSG face English tests in quarterfinals
Now that Man City along with Atletico Madrid have been eliminated, coach Carlo Ancelotti has foil Arsenal & Mikel Arteta’s last prize hopes.
The French national team and the defender Antonio Rüdiger, who netted the game-winning penalty in the shootout victory over Atletico, were both given the all-clear by UEFA on Friday to compete in London. Their excessive celebration-related one-game penalties were postponed for one year to serve as probationary periods.
In Paris, two of Europe’s hottest teams, PSG and Aston Villa, will meet for a match that is full of personal history for both clubs.
PSG has the best record of any quarterfinal team since January, when they finished 15th in the league’s playoff phase. Since then, they have won 16 of their 17 games in all competitions. Unfortunately, they lost the first leg of the round of 16 match at the Parc des Princes by a score of 1-0 against Liverpool, despite being the superior team. Real Madrid and PSG face English tests in quarterfinals
For coach Unai Emery, Villa had won seven games in a row heading into their first match at the present level of the championship in 42 years.
Rematch in the end
Inter defeated Bayern during the 2010 final thanks to two goals scored by Diego Milito, who enabled coach Jose Mourinho’s squad clinch a trophy treble.
More recently, in 2023, Inter also reached the final, where they narrowly lost to Manchester City by a score of 1-0.
Bayern qualified for the group stage two years ago by defeating Inter 2-0 on both home and away, but they were eliminated in the quarterfinals against Man City.
European Football Championship
United and Tottenham, who are now experiencing their worst Premier League seasons in recent history, have the Europa League as their final opportunity to win a trophy and secure a spot in the Champions League.
Tottenham will host Eintracht Frankfurt, the Europa League champions from 2022, in Thursday’s first game of the quarterfinals, while Manchester United will travel to Lyon.
On May 21, the Athletic Bilbao stadium will host the final, which Rangers, who were beaten in the final in 2022, will be hosting.
In Norway’s domestic offseason, which begins in March and continues through November, Bodo/Glimt made it past two rounds of elimination. Bodo/Glimt is presently hosting Lazio at 67 degrees latitude, making it one of the northernest soccer arenas in the world.
