Champions League draw live: quarter-finals and semi-finals

This Friday, starting at 12:00 p.m., Real Madrid will find out the path they will have to follow if they want to qualify for the 2022-2023 Champions League final. and decide to reissue the title at the Atatürk Olympic Stadium in Istanbul next June 10. The maximum continental competition will be drawn at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon (Switzerland) in the last two rounds of crossovers, the quarter-finals, which will take place on 11/12 April (first match) and 18/19 April (second match)And also semi-final, scheduled for 9./10. May and 16/17 Mayand the current champion hopes to at least manage to avoid one of the two strongest rival theorists in the next one.

He the prize draw will be clean and without any extraordinary conditions, and gathers eight survivors from this Champions League, six of which are European champions, including the three most successful ones such as Real Madrid (14), AC Milan (7) and Bayern (6). There are three other winners in the hype, such as Milan’s Inter (3), Chelsea (2) and Benfica (2), while only Manchester City and Naples, which also opens the quarterfinals, do not know what it means to win ‘Orejon’.

Madrid will certainly prefer to avoid a duel with City or with Bayern, who seem to lead the list of main candidates together with him. The leader of the Premier is in a great moment and has Erling Haaland, the author of five goals in the 7-0 with which he got out of Leipzig in the round of 16, for a new attempt to win the Champions League, from which he separated a year after Carlo Ancelotti in the memorable semifinal.

For his part, he BayernDespite the loss of Robert Lewandowski, he is back on the shortlist and not only is he unbeaten as English champions, but he is the only one of the eight who can boast of winning all eight games, with France’s PSG confirmed to be omitted. A clash with Real Madrid, who they haven’t faced since their semi-final defeat in 2017-2018, would revive one of continental football’s great classics.

From there, the next step of preferences consists of Chelsea The English, a team that is not exactly the best, but dangerous like Napoli, one of the sensations of the Old Continent and that holds the Scudetto in its hands. If they match the Brits, they would do so for the third season in a row, the second in a row in the quarter-finals, where they suffered last year’s passage, and if they do so against Luciano Spalletti’s team, they would do so six years after eliminating the Partenopean team in the round of 16 and with the ‘morbidity’ of a reunion with Ancelotti, who was fired from an Italian club that has a powerful offensive arsenal with Jvicha Kvaratskhelia, Victor Osimhena and Hirving Lozano and is in the quarter-finals for the first time in its history.

He Naples is the main benchmark for Italian football, which is the main protagonist in this round with as many as three representatives, thanks to the classifications of two teams from Milan, both theoretically more affordable for the 14-time champion. In that sense, Betweena staunch rival from the 1980s in the UEFA Cup, seems to have more potential, while Milan would have the addition of a knockout stage reunion more than 30 years later and the special touch of ‘Carletto’, a ‘Rossonero’ legend as a player and as a coach.

Finally, the list of possible rivals completes Benfica, an advanced team like Napoli who have already shown their competitive level by beating PSG and Juventus in the first group stage, with a threat above Gonçal Ramos and Rafa Silva. The ‘incarnated’ side have not met a madridista in the top competition since the 1960s when they beat them 5-3 in the 1962 final and were eliminated in the quarter-finals of the 1964-65 season. with a 5-1 victory in Lisbon.