Manchester Metropolis to face Actual Madrid in Champions League playoff; switch information: soccer – dwell | Premier League

Clearly I initially mentioned groups would progress from the playoffs into the quarter-finals, which isn’t a factor. They’ll go into the spherical of 16.

A date for the diary: The draw to find out the spherical of 16 and with it the rest of the knockout rounds might be held on 21 February.

The Champions League attract full!

It’s Actual Madrid v Manchester Metropolis! And Bayern v Celtic

OK, that is taking place! The primary ties:

Paris Saint-Germain v Brest
Benfica v Monaco
The winners of those ties play Liverpool or Barcelona within the spherical of 16

PSV Eindhoven v Juventus
Milan v Feyenoord
The winners of those ties will play both Arsenal or Internazionale

I don’t need to short-change you, however I’m not going to hassle with the remainder of the silver/blue enterprise. I’ll be again once they begin finishing ties.

The primary draw has been made! And it has sensationally thrown Brugge into the silver facet, and Sporting within the blue.

Of their infinite knowledge Uefa are going to attract all of the unseeded groups adopted by all of the seeded groups. In different phrases, they’ll draw half of all of the ties adopted by the opposite half of all of the ties, that means it’ll be some time earlier than any precise pairings are confirmed.

Uefa are nonetheless preambling. I’ve realized that one facet of the draw might be silver and the opposite facet might be blue.

Uefa are going massive on the preambles right here, so I’ve obtained time to remind you of the fundamental guidelines. There are eight seeded groups and eight unseeded groups. The 2 seeded groups with the very best league end might be drawn towards the 2 unseeded groups with the bottom league end and so forth, till everybody’s paired up. So Atalanta will play Sporting or Brugge, and Borussia Dortmund will play the opposite one, whereas PSG will play Monaco or Brest and Benfica will get the opposite one. You possibly can play groups from your personal nation, and groups you performed within the group. Bought it? Nice.

Seeded groups
9. Atalanta
10. Borussia Dortmund
11. Actual Madrid
12. Bayern Munich
13. Milan
14. PSV Eindhoven
15. Paris Saint-Germain
16. Benfica

Unseeded groups
17. Monaco
18. Brest
19. Feyenoord
20. Juventus
21. Celtic
22. Manchester Metropolis
23. Sporting CP
24. Membership Brugge

Right here’s the ultimate Champions League group stage megatable:

Brace your self for the Champions League draw, which begins in just some minutes. At this time’s attracts might be broadcast dwell within the UK by TNT Sports activities and on their YouTube channel, right here:

And here’s a wholesome dollop of additional switch gossip:

Right here’s extra on the way forward for Evan Ferguson, with Chelsea becoming a member of a six-way race for his companies as we go into the ultimate weekend of the switch window:

The Brighton supervisor, Fabian Hurzeler, has mentioned that the rationale he has been limiting the enjoying time of the membership’s document signing, Georginio Rutter, is that he has “points along with his muscle tissues” which means “now we have to guard his well being”.

Rutter has performed solely two full video games since signing for the membership from Leeds for £40m final August, and has performed greater than 45 minutes solely as soon as since Christmas, towards Norwich within the FA Cup.

“There have been some small points along with his muscle tissues and due to this fact we additionally want to guard his well being,” Hurzeler mentioned forward of Saturday’s journey to Nottingham Forest. “I do know that it isn’t all the time comprehensible why we select the beginning XI, however there are such a lot of issues occurring.

“The principle factor for me is that I’m answerable for the individual behind the participant, to guard him and defend his well being. It’s not solely a call about efficiency, particularly when younger gamers get injured.”

Chelsea be part of race for Brighton’s Evan Ferguson

Champions League and Europa League attracts might be taking place over the subsequent couple of hours: the Champions League goes first, at 12pm CET/11am GMT, with the Europa League an hour later.

In brief the groups that completed between ninth and sixteenth in each league phases might be seeded, and those who completed between seventeenth and Twenty fourth might be unseeded. In every pairing the unseeded crew will, until there’s a great motive to not, play the second leg at residence. Up to now, so easy.

Past that, and so as to add a bonus degree of complication, sides have been paired for the draw. So the ninth and Tenth-placed groups can solely play both the twenty third or the Twenty fourth-placed groups, and so forth till fifteenth and sixteenth play seventeenth and 18th.

Then within the spherical of 16 the groups that progressed immediately from the group in first and second place will face the winners of these fifteenth/sixteenth/seventeenth/18th playoffs and so forth from there, till the groups that completed seventh and eighth play the winners of the ninth/Tenth/twenty third/Twenty fourth playoffs. In every of those pairs, one will go into the highest half of the draw and one into the underside.

All clear? Good.

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