The inaugural Champions League knockout play-offs are virtually over and the last-16 draw awaits.
When is the Champions League last-16 draw?
The Champions League last-16 draw takes place on Friday February 21 at 11am – comply with the draw reside on the Sky Sports activities digital platforms.
The groups who completed within the high eight of the competitors’s new league part desk robotically certified for the final 16. They’re Liverpool, Barcelona, Arsenal, Inter Milan, Atletico Madrid, Bayer Leverkusen, Lille and Aston Villa.
They are going to be joined by the eight winners of the knockout play-offs. 4 groups have been confirmed following Tuesday evening’s matches: Bayern Munich, Benfica, Membership Brugge and Feyenoord.
From the knockout play-offs onwards the match is a bracket with potential opponents within the final 16, quarter-finals and semi-finals pre-defined by pairings that are decided by groups’ ultimate league positions.
There will even be a draw for the quarter-finals and semi-finals to resolve which staff will host the primary leg and which staff will host the return leg.
Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah celebrates with team-mates Darwin Nunez and Curtis Jones after scoring towards Lille within the Champions League
Liverpool (1st seed)
Spherical of 16: vs PSG (fifteenth), Benfica (sixteenth), or Brest (18th).
Arsenal (third seed)
Spherical of 16: vs PSV (14th), Feyenoord (nineteenth) or Juventus (twentieth).
Aston Villa (eighth seed)
Spherical of 16: vs Borussia Dortmund (tenth), Sporting (twenty third) or Membership Brugge (twenty fourth).
Manchester Metropolis (twenty second seed)
Knockout play-offs: vs Actual Madrid (twelfth).
Spherical of 16: vs Atletico Madrid (fifth) or Bayer Leverkusen (sixth).
First legs
Feb 11: Brest 0-3 PSG
Feb 11: Juventus 2-1 PSV Eindhoven
Feb 11: Man Metropolis 2-3 Actual Madrid
Feb 11: Sporting Lisbon 0-3 Borussia Dortmund
Feb 12: Membership Brugge 2-1 Atalanta (5.45pm)
Feb 12: Celtic 1-2 Bayern Munich (8pm)
Feb 12: Feyenoord 1-0 AC Milan (8pm)
Feb 12: Monaco 0-1 Benfica (8pm)
Second legs
Feb 18: AC Milan 1-1 Feyenoord (agg 1-2)
Feb 18: Atalanta 1-3 Membership Brugge (agg 2-5)
Feb 18: Bayern Munich 1-1 Celtic (agg 3-2)
Feb 18: Benfica 3-3 Monaco (agg 4-3)
Feb 19: Borussia Dortmund vs Sporting Lisbon (5.45pm)
Feb 19: PSG vs Brest (8pm)
Feb 19: PSV Eindhoven vs Juventus (8pm)
Feb 19: Actual Madrid vs Man Metropolis (8pm)
Liverpool’s Conor Bradley (left) tackles Actual Madrid’s Kylian Mbappe
How does the Champions League last-16 draw work?
The highest eight golf equipment are paired primarily based on their positions on the finish of the league part to type 4 seeded pairs: 1st and 2nd, third and 4th, fifth and sixth, seventh and eighth.
The golf equipment in every seeded pair are drawn into one among two positions within the spherical of 16 towards the related winner of the knockout part play-offs, whose place was decided by the knockout part play-off draw.
4 bowls are ready for the draw, with the balls containing the names of every pair of seeded groups positioned within the corresponding marked bowls in line with the league rankings.
The draw allocates the aspect of the bracket for all of the seeded groups, beginning with the groups ranked seventh and eighth and ending with the groups 1st and 2nd.
One ball is taken from the bowl containing the 2 related ranked groups and is opened to show the staff. The primary staff drawn from this bowl is positioned of their reserved spot on the bracket The opposite seeded staff of the pairing is then drawn and displayed, and allotted within the corresponding reserved spot on the blue aspect of the bracket.
- Final 16: March 4/5 and March 11/12
- Quarter-finals: April 8/9 and April 15/16
- Semi-finals: April 29/30 and Could 6/7
- Remaining: Could 31 at Bayern Munich’s Allianz Enviornment
