UEFA Champions/Europa League Quarter-Final Draw [18th March 2016]

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Champions League, 11:00

The quarter-final pairings are determined by an open draw in which no teams are seeded and clubs from the same national association can be drawn against each other. The side drawn first will play the first leg at home.


Wolfsburg v Real Madrid
Bayern Munich v Benfica
Barcelona v Atletico Madrid
Paris St-Germain v Manchester City

Road to Milan

Games will be played on 5/6 & 12/13 April

Semi-finals: Draw 15 April, matches 26/27 April & 3/4 May
Final: Saturday 28 May, San Siro



Europa League, 12:00

The quarter-final pairings are determined by an open draw in which no teams are seeded and clubs from the same national association can be drawn against each other. The side drawn first will play the first leg at home.


Sporting Braga v Shakhtar Donetsk
Villarreal v Sparta Prague
Athletic Bilbao v Sevilla
Borussia Dortmund v Liverpool


Road to Basel

Games will be played on 7 and 14 April

Semi-finals: draw 15 April, matches 28 April and 5 May
Final: Wednesday 18 May, St. Jakob-Park, Basel


Coverage

Sky Sports News, EuroSport, BBC Football, UEFA.com
http://www.uefa.com/
 
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Wolfsburg (Germany) v Real Madrid (Spain)

Bayern Munich (Germany) v Benfica (Portugal)

Barcelona (Spain) v Atletico Madrid (Spain)

Paris St-Germain (France) v Manchester City (England)
 
Sporting Braga (Portugal) v Shakhtar Donetsk (Ukraine)

Villarreal (Spain) v Sparta Prague (Czech Republic)

Athletic Bilbao (Spain) v Sevilla (Spain)

Borussia Dortmund (Germany) v Liverpool (England)
 
Well on the plus side, if we can turnover Dortmund and end up winning the cup, nobody can say we didn't deserve to win it. I'd rather face and beat the tougher teams than just get easier teams all the way through a cup.
 
Tombstone said:
Well on the plus side, if we can turnover Dortmund and end up winning the cup, nobody can say we didn't deserve to win it. I'd rather face and beat the tougher teams than just get easier teams all the way through a cup.
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You won't. Dortmund are far superior.
 
Derek W said:
You won't. Dortmund are far superior.
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Football isn't as cut and dry as that, if it was, the likes of Djimi Traore and Igor Biscan wouldn't have got a European Cup winners medal for coming back from 3-0 down at half time against AC Milan.

In football, as in most sports...and as Leicester have shown, anything is possible.
 
Would have rather avoided them and crossed my fingers that somebody knocked them out somewhere down the line but it should be a great tie and I think we stand a better chance against them over 2 legs than had we faced them in the final.
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You won't. Dortmund are far superior.
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Dortmund are a very good side and most likely the best side in the competition but **** me, they're not Barca. People forget they finished 2nd in their Europa League group, losing against Krasnador and PAOK.

They're not much better (if better at all) than Man City for example and we've played them 3 times, comfortably winning twice and losing the other on pens.
 
Tombstone said:
Football isn't as cut and dry as that, if it was, the likes of Djimi Traore and Igor Biscan wouldn't have got a European Cup winners medal for coming back from 3-0 down at half time against AC Milan.

In football, as in most sports...and as Leicester have shown, anything is possible.
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BaZ87 said:
Would have rather avoided them and crossed my fingers that somebody knocked them out somewhere down the line but it should be a great tie and I think we stand a better chance against them over 2 legs than had we faced them in the final.


Dortmund are a very good side and most likely the best side in the competition but **** me, they're not Barca. People forget they finished 2nd in their Europa League group, losing against Krasnador and PAOK.

They're not much better (if better at all) than Man City for example and we've played them 3 times, comfortably winning twice and losing the other on pens.
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These are funny comments as I've been reading the various Premier League topics week by week, even the sacking topic touched on it. Several people are writing off the Premier League as being poor this year because Leicester are top, combined with Chelsea being poor, Man City being average, Man U no where near the races. Even Spurs being second has raised this issue.

Disregarding the Spurs Dortmund game as Poch 'couldn't be arsed' and would rather concentrate on the league. Dortmund on average this season has scored 3 at home, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang up to that match scored something like 32 goals from 35 games combined with Marco Reus and Henrikh Mkhitaryan chipping in with goals Mingolet is going to have some task keeping that net empty over the two legs. Various commentators are saying that Thomas Tuchel has improved on what Klopp had achieved in terms of style of play so far this season. The same can be said for Klopp but after Rodgers that's hardly surprising. Tuchel has inherited a decent squad while Klopp has got an average squad so for this season as I said, Liverpool won't stand a chance against Dortmund.

Plus Sturridge will be due an injury before those ties are played anyway and Liverpool will have to rely on Origi and Benteke for goals :p
 
If only football was that simple. Krasnador and PAOK proved it isn't though - the invincible Dortmund side managed just 2nd in their group.
 
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