The UEFA held the pairings this afternoon at its headquarters in Nyon (Switzerland). from the eighth Champions Leaguein which it is Real Madridthe king of Europe with his 14 titles, will play against Leipzig i football club Barcelona against Napoli, with spectacular Inter-Atlético and Real Sociedad challenging PSG.

Other matches will be played against Porto s Arsenal from Mikel Arteta, to PSV Eindhoven with Borussia Dortmund, to Lazio s Bayern Munich and in Copenhagen with the last champion, the Manchester City.

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Spanish football was the most represented with four clubsthe four qualified for the round of 16 as group winners, which will make them the visitors in a tie game. The first matches will be on February 13 and 14 and 20 and 21 and those of return in March, 5th and 6th and 12th and 13th.

Real Madrid will again face Leipzig, who they faced last year in the group stage, with the Whites winning 2-0 at home and losing 3-2 in Germany.

Emilio Butragueño, director of the Institutional Relations Department Real Madrid, remembered after the draw that his team is in a “great moment” only blighted by injuries, the latest suffered by David Alaba, rupturing the cruciate ligament in his knee in the 4-1 win over Villarreal on Sunday.

Champions of Italy and Spain last year, Naples and Barcelona had an irregular start to the season. The Italian club fired Rudi Garcia at the end of November and replaced him with Walter Mazzarri in an attempt to change course.

and Barcelona, return to the round of 16 after two years of shipwreck in the group stage, he lives the depression of the game and the results.

“You have to go one day at a time, one day you are good and the next day you are bad. There is a lot left until this game and we will think about it when the time comes. Now we have to think about Wednesday (Liga against Almeria), stop at Christmas and come back full force when we come back,” said Deco, Barca’s sporting director, about the crisis.

IN a delicate moment in the premiere -three games in a row without a win-, Pep Guardiola’s City will continue their title defense against Copenhagen. The Danish club has returned to this stage since 2011, and a year ago they already crossed paths with Manchester in their group.

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He Bayern Munich, six-time champion, was paired with Lazio, against the one that already won in this same round of 16 in the 2020/21 season, with 1-4 in Rome and 2-1 in Munich.

As the first in the group, the German team will play the second leg on its home ground just like Arsenal Mikel Artete, who leads the English league again and who will have to to visit Portoeliminated last year by Inter Milan and second in Barcelona’s group, just ahead of them on goal difference.

PSV Eindhoven and Borussia Dortmund The second indecision, between two teams whose only meetings date back more than twenty years, will be resolved in the first group stage of the 2002/03 season. The Germans then won (1-3) in Eindhoven, and drew (1-1) in Dortmund.

The Serie A leader led by the spectacular Lautaro Martínez and the current European runner-up, Between It was one of the ‘spooks’ of the second drum and it fell on Atlético de Madrid.

The red and white team with star Antoine Griezmann made a remarkable start, returning to the round of 16 of the Champions League as a leader for the first time since the 2016-2017 season.

The Real Sociedad, sensation in Europe With an attractive and effective game, he will face Kylian Mbappé and Luis Enrique as the leaders of the project at Paris Saint-Germain that seeks to finally bring Orejona to the French capital.

PSG is in the round of 12 for the 12th time in a row, with the warning that they have been eliminated in this round in the last two seasons.

Final The Champions League will be played at Wembley Stadium in London, June 1. (D)