A football battle between Real Madrid and Manchester City in the Champions League quarter-finals | sports

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3/15/2024–|Last updated: 3/15/202403:36 PM (Mecca time)

Today, Friday, the draw for the quarter-finals and semi-finals of the Champions League was held at the headquarters of the European Football Association (UEFA) in the Swiss city of Nyon.

The draw for the quarter-finals drawn by Nigerian John Obi Mikel, the retired English star of Chelsea, resulted in the following matches:

  • Arsenal, England x Bayern Munich, Germany.
  • Atletico Madrid of Spain x Borussia Dortmund of Germany.
  • Real Madrid of Spain x Manchester City of England.
  • Paris Saint-Germain of France x Barcelona of Spain.

Date of the quarter-final matches

The first leg of the quarter-finals will be held on the ninth and tenth of next April at the stadiums of Arsenal, Atletico, Real Madrid and Saint-Germain, while the return round will take place a week later at the stadiums of Bayern, Dortmund, Manchester City and Barcelona.

Semi-final draw

As for the semi-final draw, the winner of the Atletico and Dortmund match was pitted against the winner of the Saint-Germain and Barcelona match, while the winner of Arsenal and Bayern played the winner of the Real Madrid and Manchester City match.

Date of the semi-final matches

The first leg of the semi-final will be held on April 30 and May 1, with the return round being held a week later as well.

The ancient Wembley Stadium in the British capital, London, will host the final match of the continental championship on the first of next June.

A renewed confrontation

This is the third consecutive edition of the Champions League in which Real Madrid meets Manchester City (the defending champion), after they previously met in the semi-finals in the past two seasons.

In the 2021-2022 season, Real Madrid decided the confrontation in its favor after winning 6-5 over the “Citizens” in the aggregate of the two matches of the first leg and the return match in the golden square of the competition, before making its way towards crowning the title for the 14th time in its history after its victory.
They beat Liverpool 1-0 in the final, strengthening their record as the club with the most wins in the tournament.

Last season, City was able to take revenge on Real Madrid, after winning 5-1 over the Royal team in the aggregate of the two-legged matches, before lifting the championship cup for the first time in its history, after defeating the Italian Inter Milan with a clean goal in the final.

On the other hand, this is the first confrontation in which Barcelona, ​​the winner of the title 5 times, will meet with Saint-Germain in the Champions League since their match in the 16-final of the 2020-2021 season, when the French team won 4-0 in the first leg in Spain, then they tied 1-1 in the return. In Paris.

The fans still remember the historic “remontada” that Barcelona carried out in the 2016-2017 season, when it overturned its 4-4 loss to the French capital club in the first leg in the French capital, to an amazing 6-1 victory in the return match.

Bayern, which has 6 titles in the tournament, returns to face Arsenal in the tournament after an absence of 7 years, as the last meeting between them dates back to the 16-final of the 2016-2017 season, when the German team won the first leg 5-1 in its stadium, before repeating the match.
He won with the same result in the return match in the British capital, London.

For its part, Borussia Dortmund, winner of the tournament in 1997, will meet Atletico Madrid in their third encounter in the Champions League.

The two teams previously met in the group stage of the tournament in the 1996-1997 season, where Dortmund won with a clean goal at Atletico Stadium, which won the return match 2-1 at the German team’s stadium.

The two teams also played in the same round for the 2018-2019 season, where Dortmund won 4-0 at Signal Iduna Park, before Atletico won with 2-0 in the return match that took place in the Spanish capital.

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