LIVE – Champions League draw: we know the dates for PSG-Bayern

UEFA have unveiled the full Champions League Round of 16 schedule.

First leg matches

-February 14: AC Milan-Tottenham and PSG-Bayern
-February 15: Bruges-Benfica and Dortmund-Chelsea
-February 21: Liverpool-Real and Frankfurt-Naples
-February 22: Leipzig-Manchester City and Inter-Porto

Return matches

-7 March: Benfica-Bruges and Chelsea-Dortmund
-March 8: Tottenham-AC Milan and Bayern-PSG
– March 14: Manchester City-Leipzig and Porto-Inter
– March 15: Real-Liverpool and Naples-Frankfurt

UEFA has unveiled the precise schedule for the knockout stages of the Champions League. PSG will host Bayern Munich in the first leg on Tuesday February 14 at the Parc des Princes. The second leg will take place at the Allianz Arena on Wednesday March 8.

Just after the draw, Thomas Müller reacted on social networks, as the reunion with PSG.

“Hello Paris, once again. Two great teams with great players. Unfortunately, one of them will not be able to go to the next round. This time, no goodbye. I have great respect for Paris, this will be a great duel. See you next year,” commented the Bayern player.

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The draw takes place here, Nantes, Rennes and Monaco are concerned on the French side.

Can we consider reinforcements in the transfer window? “The World Cup conditions a lot of our studies on the transfer window”, explains Luis Campos, who mentions in particular possible injuries during the weeks of absence of the players. “We are ready for whatever may happen in the World Cup afterwards, if necessary go to the winter transfer window.”

“When I saw the studies of certain mathematicians, I understood that it was a high probability, I had spoken about it with a few players after the match in Turin, explains Luis Campos, at the microphone of RMC Sport. It will be two great games between two very big teams in European football. We are very confident and positive. We can play two great games to reach the quarter-finals. For us, it’s a great opportunity to show Europe a good show. and to the world that we are the best team in the world. We have a great coach, great players, we play well.”

With a World Cup and a transfer window in the middle, it is therefore difficult to draw definitive lessons.

“It’s a very nice poster, explains “Polo Breitner”, a specialist in German football well known to After listeners. Let’s not forget that PSG has been a bit of Bayern’s pet peeve in recent years. It’s still not a good draw to face PSG, even if the form of the moment is on Bayern’s side. At the moment T, this Bayern is difficult to take for PSG, but we’ll see in February.”

In a strong group, with in particular Barça which fell by the wayside and Inter which finished second.

but beware, Bayern is not necessarily the ogre that PSG faced in the 2020 Champions League final, with a 1-0 defeat in the final. Lewandowski’s departure has yet to be fully replaced.

And Inter-Porto, sacred draw.

Big piece for Kolo Muani’s team.

It was the best draw for PSG which has just taken off. Shame.

Another big cador avoided for PSG.

This is the second poster and not the most prestigious.

The first poster: Leipzig-Manchester City!

PSG will play the first leg at home and the return away (knowing that the away goal rule is no longer applied).

He is the one who oversees the draws. And so he to whom we owed the huge fiasco of the draw of the 8th last year: remember, we had to redo the draw and PSG, which had first drawn Manchester united, found itself facing Real Madrid, for the result that we know.

There will be Hamit Altintop and Andrei Archavine. But for now, time for the presentation of the teams, which you know: there will be PSG, but in a dangerous second place, and no OM, after a last cruel group match.

And of course live commentary on the RMC Sport website and app.

The seeded ones: Bayern, Benfica, Chelsea, Manchester City, Napoli, Porto, Real Madrid, Tottenham

Non-seeds: PSG, Club Brugge, Borussia Dortmund, Frankfurt, Inter, Leipzig, Liverpool and AC Milan.

PSG will necessarily face a seeded team, the odds depend a lot on the other teams: a team cannot face a team from its country or a team from its group stage: therefore, PSG cannot face Benfica. This rule also greatly limits the opponents for the English and German clubs, which are present in force for these eighths, while there is only one Spanish club.

Three French clubs are concerned, because they finished second in their Europa League group, they are Rennes, Monaco and Nantes and they will be heavy since they will be opposed to the teams who finished third in their Ligue des champions. The draw will take place at 1 p.m.

Pot 1 (second in Europa League group) : Manchester United, Midtjylland, Monaco, NantesPSV, reindeerAS Roma, Union Berlin

Pot 2 (Champions League group third) : Ajax, FC Barcelona, ​​Juventus, Leverkusen, Salzburg, Sevilla, Shakhtar Donetsk, Sporting

Luis Campos will represent PSG this afternoon for the draw for the knockout stages of the Champions League.

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According to the account specializing in probabilities @MisterChip, Bayern Munich are the team on which PSG are most likely to fall in the round of 16 (18.1%). Next come Naples (17%), City and Tottenham (14.2%) then Chelsea (13.9%). Real Madrid (11.3%) and Porto (11.2%) are the two teams that PSG are least likely to meet in 8th.

Note that Bayern Munich has a 39.8% chance of crossing paths with Liverpool, which somewhat weighs the probability of having a PSG-Bayern, a remake of the 2020 final, in the round of 16 in a few weeks. .

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Since the last format change of the Champions League, with the return to a single group stage (in 2003-2004), there have been nineteen finals. Of the thirty-eight finalist teams, twenty-nine had finished first in their group and nine were second. A notable difference, which confirms the handicap of PSG for the upcoming deadlines.

But Christophe Galtier’s players can still keep hope alive by noting that among the nine finalists who finished second in their group, six finally won their trophy (Porto in 2004, Inter in 2010, Liverpool in 2005 and 19, the Real Madrid in 2017 and 2018). Knowing that two finals were even played between second groups, in 2010 (Inter-Bayern, 2-0) and 2019 (Liverpool-Tottenham, 2-0).

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The sixteen teams qualified for the round of 16 are divided into two groups. That of the top seeds, who finished first in their group (Bayern, Benfica, Chelsea, Manchester City, Naples, Porto, Real Madrid, Tottenham). PSG are in the unseeded pot and will not be able to face Club Brugge, Borussia Dortmund, Frankfurt, Inter, Leipzig, Liverpool and AC Milan.

In accordance with UEFA regulations, the seeded teams will receive in the second leg. Clubs from the same nation cannot play against each other, just like two teams that were placed in the same group.

>> All you need to know about the rules of the draw

If they can’t fall on Benfica, Marquinhos’ teammates can fall on Manchester City and Bayern Munich, who are among the teams to avoid. Defending champion and record holder of coronations in the competition (14), Real Madrid is necessarily a team to avoid. Especially since the merengue club has not weakened since its triumph at the Stade de France last spring.

li looks like a tough opponent. Since the start of the season, Luciano Spalletti’s men have been developing attractive and spectacular football. In a favorable scenario, PSG can also hope to fall on Chelsea, Tottenham or Porto. Even if these three teams are not lacking in quality, they seem a notch below the others.

>> The recap of the best and worst draws for Paris

For Rolland Courbis and Jérôme Rothen, Tottenham would be the most affordable team currently in hat 1.

The draw for the knockout stages of the Champions League will take place in Nyon, Switzerland, at UEFA headquarters, from noon. We will know who will stand in the way of PSG on the way to the quarter-finals. Christophe Galtier’s players now find themselves in the second hat, and will probably have to face a European cador in February 2023. In the game of odds, it is Bayern Munich that the Parisians have the best chance of drawing. The reason ? The Bavarian club cannot face one of the three other German clubs – Dortmund, Leipzig and Frankfurt – nor Inter Milan already crossed in the pool, all in the second hat. “Anyway, if we want to go far, we will have to beat big teams,” nuanced Galtier after the victory in Turin, claiming to wait “serenely” for the draw for the round of 16.