Champions League quarter-final draw: Enzo’s Chelsea vs Real Madrid, Julián’s City vs Bayern and other great matches

real Madrid AND Chelsea they will meet again like last season in the quarter-finals of Champions Leaguein which Manchester City AND Bayern Monaco they will face each other in the hardest duel; Milan AND Naples will be the protagonist of the Italian draw and Benfica AND Inter in Milan They’ll fix the other intersection.

If this stage is passed, Real Madrid will continue to defend the title against the winner of Manchester City-Bayern in the semifinals, in which the same as the quarterfinals and unlike last year will have to play the second leg away from the Santiago Bernabéudetermining factor for the attainment of the fourteenth in Paris.

the hands of the Turk Amit Altintop and the Dutch Patrick Kluivert were in charge of the UEFA draw at their headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland. One-way matches are announced for Tuesday 11 April and Wednesday 12 April, with rematches to be played the following week: Tuesday 18 April and Wednesday 19 April.

Great matches in the quarterfinals

Real Madrid and Chelsea is a crossover that took place last season and also the previous one, when the English became the last team to defeat the Madrileños and won their second title after defeating City.

Real Madrid pulled that plug last year and on one of their magical nights at the Bernabéu they came back from a match in which they missed the two-goal lead taken by London but managed to qualify for the semi-finals after extra time with a goal from Karim Benzema.

Now, and with the best version they show in “Champions”, Carlo Ancelotti’s men reach the quarter-finals after eliminating Liverpool, in the reunion of both teams after the last final, with a sensational 2-5 at Anfield and the minimum 1- 0 win two days ago at home.

Enzo Fernández’s Chelsea, champions in 2011-12 and 2020-21, clings to the Champions League in a season in which it seemed precluded, but now they qualify for the quarterfinals thanks to the 2-0 success over Dortmund in the round of 16 played in London (2-1 aggregate).

Chelsea have overcome eight of their previous eleven quarter-finals in this competition and their visit to the Bernabéu will be the first for Portuguese Joao Félix as a player in Graham Potter’s squad and a new reunion for Croatian Mateo Kovacic with who was his public for four seasons through 2019.

The quarter-finals will have a stellar duel between Manchester City and Bayern Munich, probably the two clubs that everyone else wanted to avoid and chasing a title the British have never won, compared to the six times the Germans have, most recently in 2020.

The five goals that the Norwegian Erling Haaland endorsed three days ago by Leipzig (7-0 and 8-1 overall), to certify their passage to the quarter-finals, have increased the estimate that the team of Pep Guardiola this season. A year after he was on the brink of playing in his second final when they were knocked out by Real Madrid, he has amassed five wins and three defeats.

Haaland is the youngest and fastest player to reach 30 goals in the “Champions” and challenges Julian Nagelsmann’s eleven, who reached the quarterfinals after beating PSG (3-0 on aggregate), greeted a year later in the quarterfinals against Villarreal.

The Italians and Otamendi’s Benfica for the final

Milan and Napoli will play an Italian duel, which could be repeated in the semifinals if Inter beat Portuguese Benfica in the other confrontation.

The Milanese of Stephen Pioli They returned to the quarter-finals eleven years later, having capitalized on a 1-0 win at the stadium against Tottenham in the round of 16 first leg and a 0-0 defeat in London. Runners-up in the group stage, in which they coincided with Chelsea, now surpass the disappointment of a year ago, when the Rossoneri were last.

Napoli, for its part, wants to extend its historic season. From the management of the Italian league, will play the quarterfinals of the “Champions” for the first time., after eliminating the German Eintracht (0-2 and 3-0), winners of the last Europa League, and finishing first in the group stage, ahead of Liverpool, Ajax and Rangers. Neapolitan painting reaches this point as the great ‘blanket’ due to its spectacular performance.

The quarter-finals will be completed with the Benfica-Inter duel, the only one that has changed the order in which the balls are drawn so that Inter and Milan do not coincide at home. This is the first time since 2006 that the two Milanese clubs have reached the quarter-finals.

The Italians of Simone Inzaghi They hadn’t reached this stage since 2011 and they do so after beating Porto to a draw and solving with the goal that lukaku He scored in the first leg at his home stadium. They have kept five clean sheets in five of their last seven ‘Champions’ duels so far.

Benfica led by German Roger Schmidt they eliminated Bruges in the round of 16, with a 7-1 draw (0-2 and 5-1), and after a brilliant group stage, in which they beat PSG, Juventus and Maccabi Haifa. He is undefeated, with six wins and two draws.